Youre wearing lavender and Peach Blossom perfume. No, sir. I think thats the glade plugin youre smelling. laughter ah, yes, freshness all day. Still hunting President Trump . Do you know him . I do. We were golfing buddies once. We ate our caddy, turned him into a taco bowl with a nice diet coke. Pfpfpfpfpf. Doctor, what can you tell me about the president . You already have the answers. What is his nature . What does he do, this man you seek . Hes hes an idiot who says the first thing that comes to mind. No, that is incidental. Quid pro quo, clarice. Tell me your worst memory of the election. One night, on a tuesday, donald trump won the presidency, and then i heard a strange noise. It sounded like a scream, like some kind of screaming. What did you do . I crept into the living room. The tv was on. I was so scared. So scared. Msnbc, the anchors, they were crying. They were crying. laughter thank you, clarice. Now its your turn, doctor, quid pro quo. What evidence do you have on donald trump so far . The 12 indictments against manafort and gates. Michael flynn pleading guilty. Kremlin intermediaries reaching out to the trump campaign. The meeting between donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer. The messages between donald trump jr. And wikileaks. Trump calling on russia to find clintons missing emails. Wait, what . Seriously. You have all that already . What do you need me for . I want to come in there with you. laughter you know i eat people, right . Its kind of my thing. Yeah, but it seems safer in there than it does out here. laughter very well. Can i eat your kidney . I got two. I dont see why not. Okay, great, ill fire up the grill its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, truflt of trump vrls intelligence. Plus, stephen welcomes jodie foster with a special appearance by tom hanks. And run the jewels featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hey stephen thank you very much. Thank you hey, everybody please, youre very kind. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Very nice, very nice group of people. Happy friday, everybody. Doesnt it feel great . cheers and applause getting so close. Getting close to the end of the year. And everybodys working on their resolutions. Mine is for america to knuckle down and make pick our own president next time. cheers and applause donald trump donald trump donald trump continues to deny any russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, the Washington Post published a massive article yesterday, and we learned that in january trumps advisers begged him to accept the findings of the Intelligence Community about russian interference. As one aide remembers, this was part of the normalization process. There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president. Good luck. laughter if you can get him to accept that russia hacked the election, see if you can get him to accept who won the civil war. laughter jon oh oh stephen im not sure. Im not sure. But trump is far from standard. Hes one of a kind. Though, i will say, eric does look kind of like a failed clone, maybe someone spilled a little bleach in the petri dish. After trump was told his own cabinet members had already backed the intelligence report, trump shot back, so what . admitting that the kremlin had hacked Democratic Party emails, he said, was a trap. And Mitch Mcconnell agreed. Its a trap laughter applause stephen yeah. Got to. Got to. He looks good i gotta say, he looks good. Jon he looks good. Stephen i dont know. He got a tan somewhere along the line. And nearly a year into his presidency, trump has never convened a cabinetlevel meeting on russian interference or what to do about it though, he and Michael Flynn did get together to shop for thank you cards. Ive got one right here. Thank you for putin me in office. cheers and applause thats nice. Thats very nice. The post article also claims that privately, Vladimir Putin is thrilled. For one, its estimated that the whole plan cost less than 500,000 to execute. That is nothing to him. Putin is reportedly the richest man in the world. He spends more than that on chest wax and nipple sharpeners. laughter , of course, he can kill you with his nipple. Dont dont dont think thats not true. Of course, there may be a reason trump doesnt care about preserving our democracy. Its that he doesnt know how to vote. See last month in new york, here in the city, we had an election for mayor, and the president voted absentee, but his ballot did not count because he got his own birthday wrong. I cant remember when i was born. I demand that i release my longform birth certificate. I think i was born in kenya. Thats what im hearing. People are telling me. Its got to be. cheers and applause i i got i dont i i i no idea if that has anything to do with that. Now, heres the thing, trump was born on june 14, 1946, but his ballot application lists hissing about the as july. So he made himself a full month younger. Watch out, ladies seriously, watch out. Hes a monster. Dont go near him. Hell grab you. cheers and applause but heres the crazy thing trump isnt the only member of his family who doesnt know how to vote because melania, ivanka, and jareds Mayoral Election votes also did not count because melania incorrectly wrote in her address. Under county, the first lady wrote in u. S. A. Rather than new york. She then failed to sign the inner envelope not to mention what she put on the outer evelope. laughter applause like those notes you get in chinese toys. And ivanka did not mail her ballot until election day. Im sure theyll get it in time, because i dont know how mail works. I made no attempt to do an impression of her, none at all. As for jared kushner, he failed to even bother to send his in. Its too bad. It might have been his last chance, because they dont let you vote from prison. cheers and applause do that . I dont think they do. Jon i dont think they do. Stephen of course, the holidays are upon us, ladies and gentlemen, and one of my favorite parts is christmas movies, whether is christmas movies, whether its miracle on 34th street, or a christmas story, or Martin Scorseses shutter island. They never explicitly say it doesnt take place during christmas. And in recent years, theres been a slew of new christmas cinema. Im talking about the romantic tv movies put out by lifetime and hallmark with titles like hitched for the holidays, 12 dates of christmas, a princess for christmas, a bride for christmas, and a boyfriend for christmas. If you watch them all in a row, you might need a lobotomy for christmas. laughter but you have to be careful with your binge because netflix had a viral tweet about their own film, writing, to the 53 people whove watched a christmas prince every day for the past 18 days who hurt you . laughter they they thats that is thats funny because they watch everything we do. But i mean, i get it. It would be crazy for someone to watch a christmas prince every day. I mean, how many times do you need to see the story of amber, a careeroriented Young Journalist who travels to the european nation of aldovia and goes undercover as a tutor for the royal familys young daughter, only to find herself falling in love with the misunderstood and sensitive prince who she loves for who he is, unlike that ambitious lady sofia. And, oh, my god, its makeover time and amber looks so gorgeous in her ball gown, but of course shes wearing sneakers underneath because shes still a little bit rock n roll. And then the christmas prince finds out shes really a journalist, and she gets caught up in aldovias bitter succession scandal, which is the story of the century. But she cant use the christmas prince to further her career, and its, like, will she choose her job or the christmas prince or can she have it all . cheers and applause my heart is racing. You cant youd have to be crazy to be obsessed with that. 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I watch most of it on my fon. Thats what people do these days. Stephen i like that because its smaller and looks like i lost weight. A lot of people i mean, weve been watching you in the public eye since you were the coppertone baby . I was at three. Stephen at three years old. I was. Well, i just did the commercial in the 60s and there you know, the advertisement with the little girl im not a billboard. Just in case you were wondering. Stephen all right. Im just the television baby. Stephen just the television baby. Okay, well, could have gotten it. laughter but weve been watching you for, you know, in various forms on various media for 50 years. The movie that a lot of people know you from, best got to know you was silence of the lambs which was made in 1991. Yup. Stephen applause stephen when is the last you watched that movie . Ah, i guess it was a couple of years ago. My sons hadnt seen it. They were having some kind of celebration, and they they had a 35millimeter print in a beautiful old theater so we all saw it in the real theater. Stephen had they not seen it because you didnt want them to see this movie or they didnt want to see the movie . They were too young. My older one, i think, had snuck in, was able to see it, but my little one stephen because its really scary. I guess it is. I guess so. laughter thats what people say. Stephen yeah. I dont see it. But, yes. Stephen you dont see the scary part. No. Stephen at no point. Because of just because you were in it and you saw how it was made and you were like, no, i get him in the end. Yeah, its kind of like that. Stephen we all know youre going to get him in the end and we all think its scary, right . Its interesting because theres less violence and blood and all that other kind of stuff than you see normally these days but it gets you. Stephen Hannibal Lecter does cut a mans face off and wear it as his own face. Its not exactly disney. laughter Anthony Hopkins, of course, is Hannibal Lecter, a wonderful performance. Was he was he intimidating on set . Was he, like, kind of method, always sort of in his creepy character . Well, he scared me to death mostly because he i i did the first part movie without him there. So i had never really met him. I had only met him around a table and we were never able to talk and having heard him do a rehearsal, i just never wanted to talk to him again. laughter and they had these this glass partition between lecter and clarice. Stephen sure. So they had to screw him in to his cell block on the very first day, so i never got to talk to him. And we did the very first scene without being able to speak to each other, and he really scared me again. So then i was just was like we never spoke to each other during the shoot, really. Stephen and when you see him now . Well, the last day of shooting, i was eating a tuna fish sandwich which is the part i remember and he said eye said, well, you know, you scared me. And he said, you scared me laughter . Stephen why did you scare him . Do you want . I dont know. Im not sure. Im not sure. Maybe thats a little telling of Anthony Hopkin s. Stephen he may be afraid of West Virginia accents. Stephen as someone who grew up in the south, that accent is spot on. Is it. Stephen its exactly right. You must have gotten kudos for that, right . I guess so. Character is a full thing its the little sweater, big hair. Stephen i have to write that down, little sweater. laughter so youve been making movies for over 50 years. Do movies still wow you . Youre a director yourself now. Youve been an actor for many years or do you look at the movie and go, i know how they made that. No, im especially wowed by actors. I dont know how they do it. Every time i do a movie as a director and my actors come forward and they just bring so much to the table. Im always just im in awe of what they do, and then i forget that i do that, too. Stephen funny you should say that, because i had a chance to meet Anthony Hopkins in los angeles this fall for just a moment. We talked for maybe 10 minutes. And i immediately asked him about how he start offside. And he told me about doing the lion in winter which was his first movie with peter otoole and Katharine Hepburn. And the very first scene, Katharine Hepburn said, do you want advice about how to act . And she gave him advice about how to work on camera. Do you do that . Do you work with someone who has never been on camera before and say, this is how you have to do it. I work with people all the time who had never been on camera. I never went to juilliard. I feel like i dont have any credentials as an actress. laughter . Stephen only work. Yeah thats it. I sort of learned on the job. And i have my own way of doing things. And i you know, sometimes my advice is like, you know, make sure you sit down because if you stand up for too long, your feet are going to hurt. laughter thats really all i have to contribute. Stephen welcome to my master class. Pretty much. Stephen youre a private person, which is a good thing, you know, if youre in the pb eye to keep your person life private. But if you dont mind me getting a little peek in there. What do you do for fun . Whats jodie foster doing for fun . What do i do for fun . I really like football. Stephen really . Which is strange. Im almost embarrass. Stephen what position do you play . Ah. I try not to play. I do you know, i have a bunch of nerf ball they say throw around. Stephen who is your team . Green bay. Not having a great year. Stephen do you have a relationship to green bay . I think thats a little too personally, actually. laughter i really love the cheeseheads. I like to wear those. Stephen sure, who doesnt . And, you know, i like fantasy. I like the fantasy. I like all the alerts in my pocket, i like strategizing. Stephen do you play fantasy football . Yes. I didnt play this year. Theres a lot going on in politics and there are only so many anxieties and emergencies i can handle. So i was dedicating myself to applause . Stephen and football was your way away from that. Yeah, so i just wanted to have this this year football is second and, you know, trumplandia is first. Stephen you went to a school where you had to learn french when you were younger, didnt you . Yes. Stephen was that sacred heart. It was in los angeles. Stephen thats fancy. Do you keep it up . I do. I have friends who live there, and my nieces and 97 use live there, so i speak french with them. I mean, theres not much you can do in los angeles speaking french unless you run into french people. Maybe when im playing football all by myself i speaking french . Stephen have you seen translations of your movies into french and gone, thats not what its like at all . I actually dubbed my movies in french most of my life. Stephen you do your own how do you say silence of the lams in french . speaking french . Stephen its not as scary. Sound like a delicious dish. Tonight, we have the silence of the lams. The lamb is very quiet because it is dead. But so delicious. applause weve got to take a little break but well be right back with more jodie foster. Stick around, everybody. Nosy neighbor with a keen sense of smell. Glad bag, full of trash. What happens next . Nothing. Only glad has febreze to neutralize odors for 5 days. Guaranteed. Even the most perceptive noses wont notice the trash. Be happy. Its glad. 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