humming red square my best buddy lives there through the night keeps my duty just right how much does that sloppy steve bannon wave lucky me and brave announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight trump and the art of the immigration deal. Plus stephen welcomes james franco, lena waite and musical guest anderson east, 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 band playing please have a seat youre too kind ladies and gentlemen welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause thank you congratulations to the alabama crimson tide, who, last night, beat the georgia bulldogs to win the College Football championship. Its the best thing to happen to alabama since not electing roy moore. cheers and applause good for you thats two in a row thats two in a row laughter but the big story wasnt the game itself, it was one special ticketholder donald trump. He was on everyones mind before the game, including the players bleep trump laughter cheers and applause stephen i know that seems inappropriate, but, in that players defense, he was just quoting rex tillerson. laughter speaking of our president today, President Trump held a bipartisan meeting on Immigration Reform, focused mainly on reforming our policy of having immigrants. The stakes are high. If the two sides cant find a compromise, the federal government is going to shut down on january 20 or as historians call it, one year too late. laughter now, this meeting was today. Doesnt mean this afternoon right . cheers and applause they had the meeting this afternoon and they did it in kind of an exceptional way. Hadnt seen this before. They held an open meeting and let cameras in for the negotiations. They dont let cameras into the bachelor fantasy suite when theyre engaging in bipartisan negotiations. I mean sex. laughter trump seemed confident that a bipartisan Immigration Solution was possible. Having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital. It should be a bipartisan bill. A bill of love. Stephen and you know what they say, if you love someone, kick them out of the country. laughter if they come back to you, build a wall so they cant get in. But heres the thing last week, trump gave his price for an immigration deal. He wants to end the green card lottery, family immigration, and hes demanding 18 billion for the initial phase of his Mexican Border wall. Wait, no, you said mexico would pay for the wall. It was your thing. You chanted it. Now youve forgotten it . Thats like bon jovi forgetting bad name. By the way, mr. President , you give love a bad name. laughter piano riff applause these people dont. These people know how to love. laughter but, this weekend, trump clarified. Yeah, i believe that mexico will pay for the wall. I have a very Good Relationship with mexico. As you know, were negotiating nafta, well see how that goes. Yes. But mexico will pay in some form, mexico will pay for the wall. Stephen yes, mexico will pay for the wall, in some form. Im thinking free guac on your birthday. laughter okay . Thats got to add up. Thats got to add up. Its like 50 cents for extra guac. It adds up. And in this meeting, trump delivered a strong message of leadership somebody else fix it. You folks are going to have to come up with a solution, and, if you do, i will sign that solution. My positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with. Stephen ive always firmly believed whatever the people im in the same room with tell me to believe. My brain is made of tofu. It absorbs the flavor of whatever you throw at it. Okay . cheers and applause sosoy, sin ginger, dash of racism, were good. laughter applause heres the thing both democrats and republicans agree that a path to citizenship should be created for dreamers. The problem is republicans dont want to pass daca without the wall, and democrats do. And, for a brief moment, the president briefly agreed with the democrats. What about a clean daca bill now with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive Immigration Reform . I have no problem i think thats basically what dick is saying. We will come up with daca. We will do daca and start on the phase two, which would be comprehensive. I think a lot of people would like to see that. But i think we have to do daca first. Mr. President , you need to be clear. What senator feinstein is talking about, we dont want to be back here two years later. You have to have security, as the secretary would tell you. Thats what she is saying. No, i think she is saying something different. Stephen i agree with Dianne Feinstein because i heard her speaking last. Whats that . Kevins talking now . Okay, i agree with kevin. Although, technically, i want to point out im now the last person who spoke, so i agree with myself. Good meeting. Cheeseburger time, bye bye. cheers and applause piano riff and while republicans wont approve daca unless it comes with funding for the border wall, trump demonstrated his master negotiator skills by saying, what if it was less wall . That doesnt mean 2,000 miles of wall because you just dont need that because of nature. Because of mountains and rivers and lots of other things. There are large areas where you dont need a wall because you have a mountain and you have a river. You have a violent river, and you dont need it. Stephen we all remember the chant from Trump Campaign rallies. Build the wall unless the local terrain provides sufficient enough protection and can act as a natural wall proxy maga cheers and applause really long, really long acronym but really good. laughter and trump made it clear that he has congress back, even if an immigration compromise is unpopular. If we do this properly, daca, youre not so far away from comprehensive Immigration Reform. And if you want to take it that further step, i will take the heat. I dont care. I dont care. I will take all the heat you want to give me. And i will take the heat both off the democrats and the republicans. My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way. Stephen then ive got great news, sir. Youre in hot water with robert mueller. laughter cheers and applause thats why you look parboiled. Hes the frog. laughter speaking of which, one of the questions of the russia investigation has been the Senate Testimony of fusion g. P. S. , the Opposition Research firm that compiled the infamous steele dossier of allegations against trump. Its got a lot of stuff in it. Pee pee tape. Fusions founder testified to the senate back in august, and hes repeatedly asked for it to be made public, but thats been blocked by iowa senator and man who gives out religious pamphlets for halloween, chuck grassley. Well, today, senator Dianne Feinstein said, screw it, im 84. Here it is. laughter the testimony was released as a 312 page pdf, and, just like everyone else, i quickly downloaded it and searched for the word pee pee. Nothin. Also tried tinkle, urine, and asparagus. Nothing. Got skunked. Well have more on the story tomorrow as it trickles out. laughter meanwhile, back to the russia probe headed by special counsel and man who was just asked how the investigation is going robert mueller. We could be headed to an historic moment because, according to multiple sources, special Counsel Robert Mueller has informed lawyers for President Trump that he may seek an interview with the president. Thats not going to be easy. Thats why muellers going undercover at fox and friends. laughter we have a great show for you tonight james franco is here but when we come back, oprah stick around cheers and applause band playing singing riblets, tenders singing tenders, riblets singing riblets, tenders. singing thennnnnn riblets singing its applebees singing all you can eat singing with mountains oof french friiiies. singing 12. 99. singing all you can eat. singing at applebees. Its ok that everyone ignores me while i drive. Its fine. Because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months im accident free. And i dont share it with mom right, mom . Righttt. Safe driving bonus checks. Only from allstate. Switching to allstate is worth it. I am, um, very sorry. 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You guys sound good tonight real good. cheers and applause love to hear you sing. Thats nice. singing stephen this just in, hours ago when we did this show after explosive revelations of criticism of the president in the book fire and fury, steve bannon has been forced to step down from his post as executive chairman of breitbart news. cheers and applause yes. Yes. applause bannon, seen here in happier days . laughter has lost his white house position, his billionaire benefactor, his base, and now his job. It just proves what ive always said criticizing donald trump is not good for your career. laughter meanwhile, its day two of the oprah 2020 campaign. laughter when will she choose a running mate . Does she even need to run . Or does she just say the white house is one of her favorite things and move in . laughter Everyone Wants to know what oprah is thinking. And we got an inside scoop today from oprahs bestie and my threelegged race partner at the cbs company picnic, gayle king. Here she is talking about an oprah president ial bid on cbs this morning, this morning. Gayle has even said she would bet her firstborn child that oprah would never run. So gayle . Stop talking, jan. St stop it, jan. Stephen uhoh gayle. Looks like your son belongs to jan now. laughter everyone knows cbs works on rumplestiltskin rules. So, gayle didnt say oprah was running. But she didnt say oprah wasnt not thinking about not, maybe, yes, running. Or something. I absolutely dont think that her position has changed. I dont. You know, i was up talking to her very late last night. I do think shes intrigued by the idea. She loves this country and would like to be of service in some way, but i dont think that shes actively considering it. For the record im not trying to be cute here or be mysterious, but i do think its a very intriguing thing that she had never considered. No matter what happens, i will be at cbs this morning. Thats not what you said earlier. laughter stephen put a cork in it norah do you want to be friends with oprahs chief of staff or not . I cant believe Norah Odonnell violated gayles trust like that i just want to say, gayle, i would never betray you like that. Jon thats not what you said earlier. Stephen put a cork in it jon of course, all of this talk about oprah was sparked by her stirring speech at the Golden Globes on sunday, after which she got a wave of support on twitter. Including from first daughter and robot greeter at a japanese airport, ivanka trump. Last night, ivanka tweeted just saw at oprahs empowering and inspiring speech at last nights goldenglobes. Lets all come together, women and men, and say timesup united. And dont forget to pick up your rose gold times up bracelet at ivankatrump. Com promo code you go girl. laughter applause we made up some of that. Jon you make up any of that . Stephen we made up a little bit of that. applause now, ivanka didnt get around to tweeting this until the night after the Golden Globes. I mean, shes way too busy to livetweet tv while its happening. Its not like shes the president. laughter and ivankas tweeting in support of someone who would run against her own father. Its the most surprising endorsement since churchill. We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing fields, but one thing you cant beat is german engineering buy mercedesbenz laughter stephen gary is so good in that. Jon yeah. Stephen stephen one person who has no doubts about how donald trump would do against oprah is donald trump. Can you beat oprah by the way . Yeah, ill beat o oprah would be a lot of fun. Stephen yeah, it would be fun watching two billionaire tv stars wrestle for control of our nuclear arsenal. You know. 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Please welcome james franco. cheers and applause band playing hey welcome back thanks, brother. Stephen good to see you again. Good to see you. Stephen im so happy for you. Thank you. Stephen im so happy for you. When i heard that you were going to make this movie i didnt know what to think. Did anybody know what to think when you proposed doing this movie . I read the book first and the story behind the movie is incredible. If you knew that, but stephen still a bold choice to remake essentially parts of the worst movie ever made and showing us how it got it was a bold choice. Seth rogen said, i cant believe were making this movie. Stephen thats really good. I had some practice. Stephen congratulations on the golden globe. Well deserved. cheers and applause thank you. Stephen i saw it. What i love about it is, yeah, its one of the worst movies ever made. The room. Stephen what i love is its like a valentine to what is essentially beautiful about the need to create and to have your work validated, to be seen and known. Yeah, i mean, essentially what i saw is what youre talking about where yes its bold to make a movie about a bad thing at the center, but underneath that, its the same story as any artist, you know. He has the tommy wiseau had the passion of everyone, you know. He had the same feelings, the same dreams that we had, you know, and its just that the filter it kind of came out there made it weird but stephen right. But the story we wanted to tell was the story of his passion. Stephen when he gets up at the premiere and he says, my movie is my life, you know laughter is that what he said . This is my movie. This is my life. Be cool. Of it. This is my movie. This is my life. You know what i mean . Yes. In a weird way the disaster of it is my movie my life because i had the same dreams, we had the same heros. James dean. I played james dean. Stephen you won a golden globe for playing james dean. Yes. Stephen and you won a golden globe for playing a guy who wanted to be james dean. Thats right. Stephen you should stop now. This is it. Full circle. I brought him up on stage and after that, all that and he kept saying destiny james. Destiny. Stephen well, when you want, you did invite him up on stage and then you checked him into the boards when he tried to go for the mic. You actually dropped it like an atomic elbow on him. Why . Why .