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loom.com. Welcome,
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welcome, one and all to
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the Late Show. I'm your
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host Stephen Colbert. It is...
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Today marks officially the
1:13
100th day of the
1:15
Trump presidency and...
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And the whole the whole 100-day
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thing started back in
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1933, right? When
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FDR's extraordinary productivity
1:28
set a first 100-day
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standard... against which all
1:33
future presidents would be
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measured. And I think
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it's appropriate to compare
1:39
him to FDR because Trump
1:41
is well on his way
1:44
to bringing back polio. So
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in 100 days, how would
1:48
the American people grade Donald
1:50
Trump? According to a new poll,
1:53
while only 23% would give him
1:55
an A, 45% would give him
1:57
an F. The
2:05
remaining 32% want to kick him
2:07
right in the D Yeah, and
2:09
it's not it's not just this
2:11
poll even Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street
2:14
Journal is piling on saying that
2:16
when Trump has a popular policy
2:18
He still goes way too
2:21
far writing the White House
2:23
motto seems to be that
2:25
if something is worth doing
2:27
it's worth doing too much
2:30
Which certainly that's also the
2:32
motto of pizza huts meat
2:34
lover's pizza Six meats? Six
2:37
meats on every slice? I
2:39
can't even name six meats.
2:41
Pork, beef, chicken, panda. And
2:43
of course, man, the
2:46
most dangerous topping.
2:48
One place Trump
2:50
is incredibly unpopular
2:53
is up in
2:55
Canada, which, uh, yesterday
2:57
gave him their
2:59
lowest letter grade
3:01
ZED. As opposed to
3:03
their highest grade,
3:05
A plus. And
3:08
Canadians absolutely proved
3:10
yesterday when they
3:12
went to the
3:14
polls and elected Liberal
3:16
Prime Minister Mark Kearney.
3:19
Who, who, Mark Kearney,
3:22
who ran on an anti-
3:24
Trump platform. You take that
3:26
Trump. That's what happens when
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you mess with a country
3:31
whose national pastime is bar
3:33
fight on ice They make
3:36
up later, right? They make
3:38
up later. Yeah, this was
3:41
a shocking turnaround for the
3:43
Liberal Party just a few
3:46
months back. They were 20
3:48
points behind the Conservatives then
3:50
in January Trump came into
3:53
office and By the way
3:55
that line right there also
3:57
your cardiograph after eating poutine
4:00
In his victory speech,
4:03
Carnegie went after Trump's
4:05
threats to Canadian sovereignty,
4:08
hammer and hockey stick. President
4:10
Trump is trying to break
4:13
us so that America can
4:15
own us. That will never,
4:17
that will never ever happen.
4:19
That will never ever happen.
4:21
Come at me, bro. Let
4:23
me introduce you to my
4:25
two friends. Quiet and
4:28
reasonable. Come on. Let's
4:30
go. You want to go, bro?
4:32
You want to... If
4:34
Carnie's victory, Canadians
4:36
rejected his younger,
4:38
much trumpier opponent, Pierre
4:41
Pualievra, which must be
4:43
a relief for Trump,
4:45
because now he never has
4:47
to try to say that
4:49
guy's name. I will make
4:52
Canada our 51th precious, 51state,
4:54
as I told their governor,
4:56
Pierre... Pauli won a
4:58
doodle all the day. Pauli
5:01
won a cracker. And a
5:03
long game, Pauli. Yesterday, Trump
5:05
hosted the Super Bowl champion
5:07
Philadelphia Eagles. It's
5:10
a traditional event to
5:12
bring the championship team.
5:14
Only one thing was missing
5:16
this time. The team. Because
5:19
less than half of the
5:21
53-man roster attended. That's kind
5:23
of embarrassing for the president.
5:26
It's right up there, yeah.
5:28
So 20, is it? 28,
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27, 25? It's right up
5:33
there when Lyndon Johnson honored
5:35
the Jackson Two. Marlon and
5:38
Tito agreed to show up.
5:40
The president spoke to the
5:43
ones who showed and tried
5:45
to talk about the team's
5:48
legacy. Two years ago, the
5:50
Eagles came in credit
5:52
for us to football
5:55
immortality. Yes. They did
5:57
come incredibly close. Reminds
6:03
me of that iconic
6:05
commercial. The English
6:08
is wrong. Moving overseas.
6:10
So people are alive
6:12
in the 70s. So... Moving
6:14
overseas, yesterday, a
6:16
massive power outage
6:19
in Spain and
6:21
Portugal left thousands
6:23
stranded and millions
6:25
stranded and millions
6:27
without light. What
6:30
will millions of
6:32
Spaniards do without light? My
6:34
guess? Thanks. Luckily, the power's
6:36
back on now, but the
6:39
outage took down the entire
6:41
electrical grid of Spain and
6:43
Portugal. As Spain's prime minister
6:46
put it, we have never
6:48
had a complete collapse of
6:51
the system. Yeah, in Spain,
6:53
they usually just get four
6:55
or five smaller collapses for
6:58
the table. Really? No.
7:01
Absolutely not. No.
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Speaking of blackouts,
7:07
Pete Hexeth.
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Last month. Last
7:12
month the defense secretary shared specific
7:14
times and coordinates of US attack
7:17
on Huthi rebels in Yemen on
7:19
the non-secure app signal in a
7:21
chat that included Atlantic editor Jeffrey
7:23
Goldberg Then we found out that
7:25
he had shared the Huthi attack
7:27
details and a second signal chat
7:29
that included his wife and his
7:31
brother and brought his wife to meetings
7:34
with foreign military officials Where
7:36
sensitive information was discussed and all
7:38
this Lucy goosey with the hootie
7:40
Has led has did what he
7:42
does best appear on Fox News. Jim?
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Do you think there's a lot of
7:47
people don't want you there and there's
7:49
some type of steep, deep state forces
7:51
that want to make sure you don't
7:53
stay there? They've come after me
7:55
from day one, just like they've
7:57
come after President Trump. a
8:00
lot of people come to Washington and
8:02
they just play the game and it's you
8:04
punch their ticket and get along to go
8:06
along and you know start doing meet
8:08
the press and and go into the
8:10
council on foreign relations and spending time
8:12
with all the new cocktail sipping crowd
8:14
that's not why I'm here no that's not why
8:16
I'm here Brian I'm not here with the
8:19
new cocktail sipping crowd to go along
8:21
to the face the nation on the foreign
8:23
relations I'm not here to do that I'm
8:25
here to do shots alone and text
8:27
war plans Brian Give me your number, I'll
8:30
send you some hilarious pictures of
8:32
me, dry hump and a cruise missile. I
8:34
can, I, I can, I, I'll, I'll, I'll cop
8:36
in my life on it. Hexeth knows his
8:38
real job is to yell about stuff
8:40
on TV, which is why he is
8:42
keeping our war fighters battle ready
8:45
by ordering a makeup installed in
8:47
the Pentagon. Oh, that's right, before
8:49
you blow up, you out of glow up.
8:51
It's not the first time hair and
8:53
makeup were necessary to lead our
8:56
troops. Hexeth
9:04
looks fantastic in a thong. He's
9:07
not the only dummy at the
9:09
Pentagon, so is Trump's Secretary
9:11
of the Navy, and last
9:13
face you see before you're
9:15
shoved in the trunk of
9:17
a Pontiac. John Phelan, Phelan,
9:19
visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial
9:21
last week, but he made
9:23
a little whoopsie when he posted
9:25
about it on social media, saying
9:28
he was there to honor those
9:30
who died during Pearl Harbor on
9:32
June 7th. 1941. Now, fans of
9:34
knowing stuff may recall
9:36
that the actual date
9:39
of the Pearl Harbor
9:41
sneak attack was December
9:43
7th, 1941, but it's
9:45
an easy mistake. I mean,
9:48
who can forget the words
9:50
of FDR? December 7th, 1941,
9:53
a date that will live
9:55
in June, evidently.
9:57
I'm high, mother truckers!
10:00
Hey, he said that, right? He
10:02
said that, right? He said that.
10:04
He actually... But maybe it was
10:06
a typo, maybe it was an
10:08
auto correct, or maybe he
10:11
doesn't know when Pearl Harbor
10:13
happened, because he did it
10:15
again, posting a short while later
10:17
about the fateful day of June
10:20
7th, 1941. It's like the famous
10:22
saying goes, full me once, shame
10:24
on you, full me twice, full
10:27
me twice, hey! What was the
10:29
date of 9-11? But I
10:31
guess we shouldn't be surprised
10:33
that Phelan is bad
10:36
at this because unlike
10:38
previous naval secretaries, he
10:41
has zero military experience,
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10:46
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uh... Some strangers with candy.
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Wow, even, yeah, strangers with
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candy. Yeah, strangers with
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candy. Yeah, strangers with candy. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, exactly. And, uh, but
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even though I've known you for,
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gosh, that's 25 plus years now,
12:58
we did that together. I still
13:01
don't know you that well. It's
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part of the allure I
13:05
suppose. Yeah. Part of the
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you know Hollywood Starmaker machine.
13:09
Right. You have to reserve
13:12
a little something back so
13:14
people can project their fantasies
13:16
on to you. Totally. As the host
13:19
of a show I really like to
13:21
get to know my guest. Don't meet
13:23
your heroes. That's right. I haven't. But
13:26
the... The thing is, is that I
13:28
really like to know my guess, because
13:30
I respect them so much, you know?
13:33
And we here at the show have
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found a way to really get to
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the heart of somebody very quickly with
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a series of ergonomically designed bunker buster
13:42
questions we call them. That penetrate right
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heart so the world can see the real
13:49
you. Are you, Will Farrell, let it to
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be fully known? Absolutely. Will
13:57
Farrell first question. Yes.
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best sandwich? The
14:01
best sandwich. What is the
14:04
best sandwich? Oh, that's
14:06
easy. I'll probably go
14:08
with the classic. Salami
14:10
and grapefruit on rye.
14:13
With a light sheen of mayonnaise.
14:15
Oh, that's nice. That's nice.
14:17
So you get the spicy.
14:20
You got the spicy. You
14:22
got the spicy. You got
14:24
the fatty. You got the
14:27
citrus. Yeah. And the mayonnaise.
14:29
Fantastic. Either way. Okay. Open
14:31
face? You can't ruin it.
14:33
It comes? Pre-ruined. There you
14:36
go. What was your first
14:38
concert that you attended? Roddy
14:41
Rich. Who's Roddy Rich? Who's
14:43
Roddy Rich? Who's Roddy Rich?
14:45
Just a hip-hop guy about
14:47
five years ago? You're my first
14:50
concert. Wow, okay. Yeah, good. But
14:52
do I know any of his...
14:54
Would I know any of his
14:56
stuff? No. Okay,
15:00
what is the
15:03
scariest animal?
15:05
The scariest
15:07
animal? Yeah.
15:09
You know what
15:12
the scariest animal
15:14
is? Yeah. The
15:16
penguin. Yeah. Yeah,
15:18
because... You know the
15:21
old phrase, don't
15:23
turn your back
15:25
on a penguin.
15:29
Yeah, it does get it.
15:31
It usually gets a
15:33
whoa a light whoa Have you
15:36
ever asked anyone for
15:38
their autograph? I've
15:40
only asked one person
15:43
Vladimir Putin
15:45
And did he get did
15:48
he was in a rush. She was
15:50
not signing that day He was not
15:52
shy. Well, he's got to appreciate the
15:54
fans though. He did. That sends a
15:56
bad image to the fans because eventually
15:58
they'll turn on you. Like, I so
16:01
appreciate it, but I'm in a
16:03
rush. Oh, wow. Uh-huh. Well,
16:05
what do you think happens
16:07
when we die? Oh, what
16:10
do I think? What do I
16:12
know happens? I'll take that
16:14
too. What happens when we
16:16
die? We turn into trees.
16:19
Oh. Yeah. That's very sweet.
16:21
Yeah. That's very sweet. And
16:24
we spread our branches.
16:26
And does it, like, does there any
16:28
kind of karmic aspect of this, like the
16:30
type of person we were, turns into
16:32
the type of tree we were, are we
16:35
gonna be? It doesn't necessarily
16:37
correlate, but I do know this, you're
16:39
stuck as a tree. For eternity. Once
16:41
you become the tree, that's it.
16:43
Yeah. Now you're going to experience a
16:46
lot of things, you're going to, you
16:48
know, witness, you know, and you'll be
16:50
around, you'll be contributing
16:52
to the world, the planet. Oxygen?
16:55
Oxygen? Okay.
16:57
But you're a
16:59
tree. That's it? And
17:02
you know this? How?
17:04
I just know it.
17:07
Favorite action movie? Uh,
17:09
sense and
17:11
sensibility. Yeah.
17:13
Sure. You know, the
17:16
horses. The rain.
17:18
The rain. The
17:20
rain. The carrying.
17:22
The swing of
17:25
doors. Yeah, sure.
17:27
The loud exclamations
17:29
of fancy words.
17:31
Window or aisle?
17:33
I'm a window, because
17:36
I like a little
17:39
privacy, and I like
17:42
to look out of
17:44
the window at all
17:46
the dead people.
17:48
The trees. The
17:52
trees. Look out over
17:54
the trees. Favorite smell.
17:57
Favorite smell. Jockstrap.
18:03
Least's favorite smell? Newborn
18:05
baby's head. earliest memory.
18:07
I was four years
18:09
old and I attempted
18:11
to rob a liquor
18:13
store with my hand
18:15
in a paper bag
18:17
as if it were
18:19
a gun. Oh wow.
18:22
And? I made off
18:24
with 36 dollars. You
18:26
only get one song
18:28
to listen to you
18:30
for the rest of
18:32
your life. Okay, it
18:34
doesn't mean like you
18:36
have to listen to
18:38
it continually, but when
18:40
you go to listen
18:42
to music, this is
18:44
what you hear. What
18:46
is the song? For
18:49
the rest of my
18:51
life. Is it like
18:53
playing in my head
18:55
or is it just...
18:57
No, you go to
18:59
turn on the music,
19:01
that's what you get.
19:03
Uh, Rick Asley, never
19:05
gonna give you up.
19:07
Never gonna run around
19:09
and hurt you. Never
19:11
going to say goodbye.
19:13
Never going to say
19:16
goodbye. Never going to
19:18
tell a lie and
19:20
hurt you. Desert using
19:22
this. We've been together
19:24
for so long. I
19:27
want to tell you
19:29
what I'm leaving. Try
19:31
to make you understand.
19:33
Never going to give
19:35
you up. Never going
19:37
to let you down.
19:39
Never going to run
19:41
around and desert you.
19:43
Never going to let
19:45
you cry. Never going
19:47
to say goodbye. Never
19:49
going to hurt you.
19:57
We can bear for that,
19:59
right? It's just about to
20:01
ask. What's that gonna run
20:04
us? Yeah. What's that little
20:06
joke there? Mr. Clownman over
20:09
here gonna cost me. 30,000?
20:11
80? That's one. You're good
20:13
for it? That's nothing. Come
20:16
on. CBS? Come on. What
20:18
number am I thinking of?
20:21
You wanna say it at
20:23
the count of three? Nope.
20:27
What number are
20:29
you thinking of
20:31
right now? What
20:34
number am I
20:36
thinking of right
20:38
now? What number?
20:40
One thousand two
20:42
hundred and eighty
20:45
four. No. Well,
20:47
Farrell, describe the
20:49
rest of your
20:51
life in five
20:53
words. Oh. Fear
20:56
of penguins. Congratulations, Will. You're
20:59
known. Yes. Will Farrell, everybody's.
21:01
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