Tonight, stephen welcomes anthony scaramucci, bob odenkirk and musical guest Liam Gallagher, 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 how are ya cheers and applause thank you, joe thank you so much lewis please have a seat. Thanks so much. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your shows Stephen Colbert. piano riff its good to be with you. Thank you so much for being here. Boy, what a terrible weekend. Yeah. White supremacists from around the country carrying shields, clubs, body armor, and automatic weaponry descended on charlottesville, virginia to hold a rally called, unite the right. The rally was a clear attempt to spark violence, and it did. One of these White Supremacists drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters killing one young woman, heather heyer, and injuring 20 more. In addition, two Virginia State troopers, who were monitoring the rally from the air, were killed when their helicopter crashed. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. It is difficult how heartbreaking it is to see this happening in our country. But heres one thing thats not hard to express nazis are bad. The k. K. K. . Not a fan cheers and applause that wasnt hard. That actually was easy. I enjoyed saying it. laughter but on saturday, when the nation looked to our president to rebuke these hate groups, all he said was this we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides. Stephen many sides . audience reacts mr. President , this is terrorism, not your order at k. F. C. laughter id like the ten piece bucket with potato wedges, fries, mashed potatoes, you know what . Many sides. Many sides. cheers and applause coleslaw. piano riff how can you possibly say you condemn this in the strongest possible terms when you dont even name the groups responsible or say what they did . I strongly condemn youknowwho, about youknowwhat, and arent we all nazis if you think about it . laughter ive seen angrier yelp reviews and, believe me, they werent afraid to use the word nazi when describing how long their jalapeno poppers took. Heres the problem. This is the nut of whats most disturbing about this is that the president came out after a tragedy and, after he made his statement, reasonable people could not tell if was condemning the nazis. And its not like trump is a shrinking violet. Hes known for criticizing things. If only the president was as mad about neonazis murdering people in the streets as hes been about hillary clinton, the new york times, cnn, joe scarborough, kristen stewart, the cast of hamilton, diet coke, nordstrom not selling his daughters clothes, arnold schwarzenegger, mayor of london sadiq khan, me, the state of new hampshire, gold star families, Penn Jillettes las vegas show, the movie django unchained, meryl streep, and lady ghostbusters. laughter cheers and applause i dont understand. I just dont understand and while he wouldnt name the perpetrators, trump was very quick to say whos not to blame. Its been going on for a long time in our country. Not donald trump, not barack obama. Its been going on for a long, long time. Stephen yeah, obama and i both share some responsibility here, i mean, i embraced alt right racists, obama is black, we both contributed to the problem in our own way. Well, after the president blew the easiest condemnation of all time, trump took criticism from many sides, many sides. laughter applause piano riff many sides, i, i cheers and applause but he did get praise from one group neonazis. One prominent white power website wrote, trump comments were good. He didnt attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us. He said that we need to study why people are so angry and implied that there was hate on both sides he said he loves us all. Careful, guys. He says he loves you now, but one day hes gonna leave you for younger nazis. cheers and applause piano riff stephen thank you, jon. Thank you. Jon he might come around stephen of course, naysies arent the only ones praising donald trump. So was the klan. Like former k. K. K. Grand wizard and current taxidermy lizard, david duke. laughter seen here being racially superior. laughter thank you, jon. cheers and applause duke was at hateapalooza, and said this we are determined to take our country back, were going to fulfill the promises of donald trump, and thats what we believed in, thats why we voted for donald trump. Stephen so the klan voted for donald trump. Thats right. I remember they wore those special make America Great again hats. laughter cheers and applause i certainly hope were applauding for hats. laughter faced with this p. R. Clustermunch, on sunday, the white house released this the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and, of course, that includes White Supremacists, k. K. K. , neonazi, and all extremist groups. Okay. Finally, someone willing to stand up, but we dont know who that person was because it was an unidentified white house spokesperson. laughter why unidentified . Look, of course, we dont support the nazis or the k. K. K. Youre not going to use my name are you . laughter i could get in trouble. laughter and heres the thing. Some people didnt need their antinazi statements explained later. Like the mayor of charlottesville, who called the rally a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance. Which coincidentally was also the theme of Steve Bannons senior prom. laughter applause under the sea. Jon under the sea. cheers and applause piano riff stephen also, you might recall that, on friday, the White Supremacists held a to havewielding march only holding ticky torches. How lame. Thats like villagers coming after frankenstein holding scented candles. Ugh, sandlewood vanilla bad laughter and the company that makes tiki torches released a statement saying, quote tiki brand is not associated in any way with the events that took place in charlottesville and are deeply saddened and disappointed. Our products are designed to enhance backyard gatherings and to help family and friends connect with each other at home in their yard. cheers and applause applause yes, give it up give it up i gotta say, its pretty troubling when a backyard decoration comes out swinging stronger against nazis than the president. cheers and applause piano riff your move, lawn flamingos. laughter so, faced with getting morally dunked on by pretty much everybody, today, they dug a trench, lowered the bar into it, and the president slithered over it, and somehow found the courage to read a statement clearly written by somebody else racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the k. K. K. , neonazis, White Supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Reporter was that so hard . Why did that take two days . How do you feel about nazis . Gimme 48 hours to get back to you. laughter and trump tried to heal a news cycle by reminding us what we all have in common. We all salute the same great flag. Stephen no, we dont. laughter ive seen their flags. They cant agree on which one to salute. laughter cheers and applause okay . Dont mix us up. piano riff he didnt answer any questions there, but later he was pressed on the issue by Cnns Jim Acosta mr. President , can you could explain why you did not condemn those hate groups by name over the weekend . Theyve been condemned. They have been condemned. Why are we not having a press Conference Today . You said on friday wed have a press conference. We had a press conference. We just had a press conference. Can we ask you some more questions about that sir . It doesnt bother me at all. I like real news. Not fake news. Youre fake news. audience reacts stephen see how fast you condemned cnn, right off the top of your head with no script. Next time, like that, but with nazis. cheers and applause thats simple. He can do it. Hes very good at it. cheers and applause and heres another thing i dont like about nazis. A lot of these guys showed up to the rally wearing their uniform of khakis and white polo shirts. Because nothing strikes more fear in the hearts of your enemies than cosplaying as the assistant manager of a pool supply company. laughter piano riff look, nazis, you dont get turn khakis and white polo shirts into the official uniform of racism. Whats going to happen to guys who actually dress like that . People like me and jake from state farm . laughter do i have to throw out all my polo shirts now . Well, two can play at that game. If you get to ruin khakis and polo shirts, i say red baseball caps mean youre an asshole. cheers and applause got a great show for you tonight. Ill sit down with the mooch stick around cheers and applause band playing dude, you were right, these wait. What . The gold fish, man you said i should buy some. No i said you should buy gold fish, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 25,000. Ooohh. Are there really. . 25,000 of them . Yeah. Want more changes to win . Go to palottery. Com and enter your nonwinning tickets for the gold fish secondchance drawing with 10,000 prizes. band playing cheers and applause Stephen Jon Batiste and stay human, everybody i love it thats fantastic cheers and applause thank you, jon. Please, have a seat, everybody ladies and gentlemen, my first guest is the shortest tenured Communications Director in white house history. Please welcome anthony scaramucci. cheers and applause band playing anthony, come on out audience booing ill pretend those mooches and not boos, stephen. Stephen well find out later. laughter thanks for being here. Great to be here. Stephen is it . I took a list of all your comedy writers, my kill list, theyre in the back, i wrote them all down. Stephen youre comeedcally threatening to kill people who work for me . Im not allowed to joke anymore, ive learned that. laughter stephen listen, i just want to start crosstalk no, you dont get to stop my show. I stop my show. piano riff cheers and applause heres the thing, i want you to know just for the record, this is on the record, this is being recorded right now. Thank you. Stephen thats a microphone youre wearing right now. Okay. So i said no gotcha questions, but im going to lead with one. Go ahead. laughter wont be the first one. Stephen nazis, good or bad . Super bad, we know that, super bad. Stephen why do you think the president of the United States who you called the most media savvy person of our times, would shank a softball like that so hard when he should have just come out there and condemned the people who were there to start violence . Well, i think theres a couple of issues there. He said the all sides thing. Many sides. He should have been way harsher on that. I said that. Stephen how . He should have condemned white sprem simple and White Supremacy and neonazis. I dont want to blame or point fingers at the president. Stephen hes responsible cheers and applause i think, listen, it was late. Im not going to say it wasnt, but he did go to the white house today and make a statement which you just said, it was very declarative against it. Stephen the president prepared remarks saturday and today. Today he stuck to the script. Saturday, he went offscript with his many sides, many sides, aves an adlib in the moment. Which one do you think he meant . The one written down or the one he just comes up in the moment. It has been super rough on me and him but he is a compassionate person. I audience reacts thats my opinion. Stephen dont boo him for being the messenger. What is the evidence of that . Well, i mean, listen, its coo super tough job. He made a step to give up what was a luxurious lifestyle stephen who cares . Really . Were supposed to feel bad for a guy who gave up his billionaire lifestyle to be the most powerful person in the world . It was touch and go, though. Stephen what was touch and go . Well, i think when he started his campaign, it was unclear whether he was going to win. Stephen thats for everybody, everybody was unclear. I understand. Stephen, its a huge sacrifice to do with stuff. You may not agree. Stephen one thing you dont get to do is complain about it. I havent heard him complain about it. Stephen he has. He said, its a very hard job. He said, i could have had my previous lifestyle but thats him wearing his heart on his sleeve, though, thats him expressing himself. Thats his i think president obama, Michelle Obama also expressed you know, its a fish bowl, its a difficult job. Stephen sure. I think president bush said the same thing. Its not like its not a difficult job. Stephen getting back being the Communications Director is a difficult job. laughter stephen my original question was youre a guy who said he hits freethrows with a top coat. Ive seen him doing that, yeah. Stephen saying condemning White Supremacists and neonazis is a one inch putt. Why do you think he choked . Its a counterintuitive thing with him as relates to the media. The media expects him to do something, he sometimes does the exact opposite. Stephen youre saying he does some of that stephen to do the opposite of what was expected of him . Some of that worked during the campaign. Stephen hes now the president. I understand, but mes also going to see his base, hes flown to ohio andther places. Stephen youre saying his base is nazis . Of course not. Lets be fair to him today, he condemned the nazis today. Does he order his spine on amazon prime . Why did it take so long . cheers and applause piano riff thats a good line, and i said yesterday that he should have been tougher on it. The problem is im probably the only person that would come from the Trump Administration or formerly from the Trump Administration, i dont know if he will come and sit here and answer the question but only he can answer the question. I said yesterday and maintain hes got to be tougher on that stuff if he wants his legislative agenda to pass. He has to move in a more moderate direction, he has to appeal to more independents and moderates who possibly voted for him to help him ascend to the presidency. Stephen whats it like in the white house . Small. Stephen i have been in the building. Yeah. Stephen what i mean is, what is it like . From the outside, it looks like a dumpster fire. laughter what is it like cheers and applause you have rumors of infighting and there is chaos in there. What was it like for the ten days you were in there . Did you get a sense of the chaos . Well, listen, i mean, its a tough place. There was a lot of infighting. You know, the front stabber was backstabbing, i think you said that two weeks ago. I have a tendency to be very open and honest with people. What happens is people dont do that. They go behind each others backs, leak things to the press and say nasty things to each other to destabilize them or to influence the president s judgment of them, so, whatever you think about me, i was pretty open about how i felt about people laughter very open stephen very open. And i tell you the way a good culture works, ive run two reasonably successful of organizations, you have to have some level of decor and it didnt go that way. Stephen this is you holding your thumbs in your belt like a gun slinger, and this is reince priebus. Yeah. Stephen what is going on . Were you brought in just to get rid of him . I dont want to say it that way is that and sean spicer . I dont want to say it that way. Stephen would you say it was part of your job . I would say stephen say itrlike the mooch. Well, all right, so stephen give me some mooch. So the mooch of long island would say theres no love lost there. Look at the picture. Stephen yeah. That was caught by a wall street journal photographer, which was a great interview with the wall street journal. The weird thing about my relationship with reince is we were pretty good friends when i was a political donor writing checks to the r. N. C. But once i was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial. Stephen you thought he was one of the leakers. I did. Stephen hes gone, right . Whos leaking now . Is it steve bannon . Well, ive said that. Stephen say it now. Listen, i have been pretty open about that. Stephen is steve bannon a leaker . He got caught on tape saying that. Stephen is he going to be gone in a week . If it was up to me he would be gone but its not up to me. Stephen you said hes trying to suck his own bleep . cheers and applause are you allowed to say that . Stephen they said it was cool. They said i could say it tonight. Mom, im sorry i said that. Although he autographed a cartoon for you so im bringing that home. Stephen heres the deal. Are you telling yo telling us tu never even tried . laughter cheers and applause as an adult male it does not pass the smell test. Eddy murphy said if you could do that he would never leave the house. No, im not capable of doing that. Stephen no one said he succeeded. No, hes not capable of it either. Maybe hes doing hot yoga in there. Stephen well be back with more anthony scaramucci. Stick around. Advil liquigels minis. 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