Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180121:07:02:00
He began the show upbeat. >> you don't need to chant my name. america doesn't have dictators -- yet. >> here you have a guy, a host ready to tell a certain number of jokes that he expects are going to come out in the way he wants. and instead the show starts to turn. >> bill carter is the author of "the war for late night." >> so he's like in between. he doesn't know which way to go. >> when trump wins a state, it will turn bright orange. >> colbert tried to keep the jokes coming as the race got closer and closer. >> this one is a nail-biter, and a passport-grabber. >> then political experts g...