weather for you then. have a good night! captioning sponsored by cbs >> president trump welcomed the clemson tigers to the white house to celebrate the college football team's national championship. what was on the menu? fast food. mcdonald's among the restaurants of choice. much of the white house cooking staff is on furlough because of the ongoing shutdown. >> i put together some really impressive deals. but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing. a big and tasty for just a dollar? how do you do it? what's your secret? >> volume! now i have a few questions for you. are you a russian agent? why did you conceal the notes of your private meeting with putin? are you selling out the country for personal gain? why are you pulling out of nato?

why have at least 16 of your associates met with russians? why did you lie about the trump tower meeting? how much time do we have? i haven't even gotten to the pee-pee tape yet? wait, why did you make this face when you saw putin in paris? >> i'm going to jail. >> yup. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, hamberder helper. plus, stephen welcomes senator kirsten gillibrand and m. night shyamalan featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) woooo! hello! hey! right there. perfect. perfect. thank you, everybody.

please, have a seat. it's a nice group of people. what a lovely, lovely group of people. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is-- what are we looking at 25 days? it's day 25 of the government shutdown. which is great news for everyone whose new year's resolution was "lawless anarchy." of course, the shutdown has been hard on government employees, particularly the president. his popularity has taken a nosedive. even the super-republican-leaning rasmussen poll shows trump with his lowest approval rating in a year. he's cratering. by the time the election rolls around, he could lose to the ticket of "chlamydia/ted cruz" 2020. ( laughter ). >> stephen: oh, snap! >> stephen: that's soy nice of him. that's so generous. i can't believe cruze gave the vp spot to chlamydia.

on the other hand, speaker nancy pelosi is now more popular in gallup polls than she has been in a decade. in this keeps going-- ( cheers and applause ). >> yeah. if this keeps going, who knows? she may even get her own podium. and the shutdown could go on for a long time. here's what trump said to farmers yesterday. >> when it comes to keeping the american people safe, i will never, ever back down. >> stephen: "never, ever. no matter how long your airplanes go uninspected, no matter how much tainted beef makes it into school lunches, no matter how many human fingers end up in your cans of tuna, i will keep you safe." ( laughter ) but at least one good thing has come out of the government shutdown: a giant pile of hamburgers! because last night, trump hosted the n.c.a.a. football champion clemson tigers and served them.welli'll let him tell you himself. >> we have pizzas.

we have 300 hamburgers. many, many french fries-- all of our favorite foods. ( laughter ) >> stephen: here's the thing-- i don't mean to body shame anyone, but the president just said one of his favorite foods is 300 hamburgers. ( laughter ) but this hamburger feast wasn't just a gift for the clemson players. it was a gift for all of us, because it gave us this incredible photograph. look at that. ( cheers and applause ) that's-- says it all. it says it all. just look at poor abraham lincoln in that painting in the background. if lincoln were alive, i think he'd want to use that ceremonial noose. trump trump explained how this lavish feast came to be. >> so, i had a choice: do we

have no food for you because we had a shutdown, or do we give you some little quick salads that the first lady will make, along with the second lady. they'll make some salads. and i said, you guys aren't into salads. >> stephen: "you guys are precision athletes. you need to fuel your big machines with performance nuggets and vitamin cheese. it's how i got my golf body." ( laughter ) and we weren't the only ones who thought this was funny. listen to what one of the clemson players said upon walking into the room. >> i thought it was a joke. ( laughter ) >> stephen: yeah. yeah. >> jon: i would think so, too. >> stephen: yeah, we all thought it was a joke. then election night came around. by the way, in all the footage we looked at, we saw zero evidence of any drinks. "ah, gee, mr. president, thanks for having me over to dry swallow a huge lump of room- temperature filet-o-fish."

but i see what's happening here: the mueller investigation is closing in, and the shutdown is tanking trump's poll numbers. if this pile of burgers is just his way of distracting us, i i want to say i'm totally into it. but why stop there? i want to see a monster truck tearing ass through the rose garden. the reflecting pool filled with ranch dressing. or see trump flip over the liberty bell and use it as a giant k.f.c. bucket. ( laughter ). >> jon: degradation. complete degradation. >> stephen: that looks good. ( cheers and applause ) oh. so you'd think this whole thing couldn't be any less dignified, right? well, apparently, you forgot donald trump has a twitter account, because this morning he tweeted: "great being with the national champion clemson tigers

last night at the white house. because of the shutdown, i served them massive amounts of fast food-- i paid. over 1,000 hamberders, etc." ( laughter ) ( applause ) yes. hamberders hamberders, et cetera. that's right, in addition to hamberders, there were chorken nerglets, fronch firs, felayshofitch and, of course, pizzazz. but those football players are lucky they didn't get borscht >> jon: woooo! >> stephen: you see-- you see where i'm going with this. because we keep learning more and more details of trump's close ties to moscow. for instance, after the president fired james comey, the f.b.i. began aat ich makes se everything trump does is counter to intelligence. ( laughter )

then on sunday? ( cheers and applause ) thank you. >> jon: complete degradation. >> stephen: then on sunday, we found out that trump has done everything possible to hide details of his meetings with vladimir putin. and after one meeting, he even took possession of the notes of his own interpreter. luckily, kept his own notes. see, there's trump and putin. and, apparently, that pile of cheeseburgers is called "friendship mountain." ( laughter ) fun fact: we wrote that joke yesterday morning, hours before the president posed in front of an actual mountain of hamberders. ( cheers and applause ) we're prophets! we're prophets! then, we learned that last year, trump discussed pulling the u.s. from nato. and i'll tell you all about that in my newest segment: "trumpnato."

( cheers and applause ) trump nato. destroying nato has been a long-time goal of russia. in fact, a former nato supreme allied commander says, "even discussing the idea of leaving nato, let alone actually doing it, would be the gift of the century for putin." oh, yeah, it's on putin's amazon wishlist, along with "not shirts" and "western ukraine." ( laughter ) in fact, the idea of leaving nato is so crazy that when trump first brought it up, senior administration officials were unsure if he were serious. yeah, maybe trump is a traitor undermining democracy, or maybe the whole thing is a bit, "how do you like my treasonous president character? i'm going for the 11:30 slot on comedy central. my catchphrase is: whatchu talkin' 'bout, mueller?" ( laughter ) can't sustain that for more than

a week. then, there's big changes in store for iowa congressman and man who would like beale street better if it couldn't talk, steve king. oian here tonight. last week, i told you about steve king's interview with "the new york times" where he said; "'white nationalist,' 'white supremacist,' 'western civilization'-- how did that language become offensive?" it's one of those zen questions, like, "what is the sound of one hand slapping steve king?" king got a lot of heat for the comment, and it wasn't just because he was standing next to that cross. >> audience: oooooh! >> stephen: and last night, g.o.p. leadership announced that king had been removed from his committee assignments over his white supremacy remark. it's the least they could do ( applause )

it's-- it's literally the least they could do. and king's troubles might not be over. reportedly, further moves, including censuring, have not been ruled out by minority leader, kevin mccarthy. king responded, "ah, you lost me at minority.'" i applaud-- i applaud the republican effort, but why now? did they miss it when king said all of this? >> we need to build a wall. we could also electrify this wire on the border. we do that with livestock all the time. they weigh 130 pounds and have calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. i'd like to see an america that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same. >> stephen: so steve king wants to return to a simpler time when the average american family looked like this. we've got a great show for you tonight. senator kirsten gillibrand is here, and she's going to say something important. but when we come back, fun-size news. stick around!

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( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon batiste and stay human, everybody! ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: oh, boy. oh, jon. big show tonight, jon. >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: very exciting. >> jon: oh, yes. >> stephen: in just a minute, in just a minute, we're going to have senator kirsten gillibrand out here. >> jon: amazing. she might have something to say tonight. >> stephen: what did you say? >> jon: she might have something to say. >> stephen: she might. i don't know.

people say she might have something to say. i have no idea. >> jon: no idea at all. >> stephen: i wish i was home right now at 11:35 so i could know what she is going to say. she better say something because there are, like, 21 members of the press backstage waiting to find out what she's going to say. anyway, hope it's good. you know, folks, i tend to focus on the big, meaty stories. but once in a while, i like to take the smaller, fattier stories and grind them up into smoky news links for my segment: ( cheers and applause ) love it! love it! they love "meanwhile!"." meanwhile, america's cheese surplus has reached a record high of 1.4 billion pounds. 'm proud to be an amer aleast os chee

now, you're thinking, "1.4 billion pounds? can i get that figure in cubic yards?" yes, you can: it's 900,000 cubic yards! apparently, enough cheese to wrap around the u.s. capitol. you know, too often we forget the hard work done at the federal department of cheese geometry. the reason america's so backed up in the dairy department is because several years ago, "the pace of milk production began to exceed the rates of consumption." and "suppliers turn that extra milk into cheese because it is less perishable." look, if the dairy industry wants us to handle all that extra milk, the oreo industry really needs to up it's game, because i am not-- i-- i'm going to tell you right now, i am not wrapping my double-stuffs in kraft singles. wait! maybe i am. meanwhile, in other cheese-related news, "costco has sold out of their 27-pound bucket of mac and cheese with a 20-year shelf life."

that's right, costco sells mac and cheese with a longer life span than anyone who eats it. ( laughter ) the actual name of the product is the "chef's banquet macaroni and cheese storage bucket." because who wants to go to a banquet without buckets? the success of the banquet bucket is inspiring some exciting new food items like the "kirkland signature vat of tuna," and the "america's choice nacho dumpster." meanwhile, with pot being legalized in so many states, w ( cheers and applause ) those guys need the nacho dumpster. we are seeing increasing reports of "marijuana's popularity among seniors," and "older people are now the fastest-growing group of cannabis users." ( cheers and applause ) so, now, at thanksgiving,

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! welcome back. to "the late show," the great show. folks, since 2007, my next guest has served the great state of new york in both the house and the senate. please welcome back to "the late show," senator kirsten gillibrand. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ( cheers ) madam. thanks for being here. nice to see you again. well, there's opinion a lot of speculation as to why hir here tonight, and i just wanted to point out to everybody, what could she possibly have to talk about? she was here in november. i mean, november, take out the

hol days, you were basically here last week. so i'm just curious, do you have anything you would like to announce? >> yes. ( laughter ) >> stephen: and what would that be, madam? >> i'm nielg an exploratory committee for president of the united states. tonight. >> stephen: tonight. ( cheers and applause ) okay, well, thank you for telling everybody here. thank you very much. i'm honored that you're here. why do you want to be president of the united states? >> well, i'm going to run for president of the united states because as a young mom, i'm going to fight for other people's kids as hard as i would fight for my own, which is why i believe that health care should be a right and not a privilege. ( cheers and applause ) it's why i believe -- >> stephen: i'll write that down. >> ...we should have better public schools for our kids, because it shouldn't matter what block you grow up on.

and i believe that anybody who wants to work hard enough should be able to get whatever job training they need to earn their way into the middle class. but you never going to accomplish any of these things if you don't take on the systems of power that make all of that impossible, which is taking on institutional racism. it's taking on the corruption and greed in washington. taking on-- ( cheers and applause ) the special interest that write legislation in the dead of night. and i know that i have the compassion, the courage, and the fearless determination to get that done. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: you're running-- officially, it's exploratory committee, right. >> yes. >> stephen: how often does the exploratory commit explore and come back and go, "yeah, don't

run?" is it a formality, the exploratory committee or you are running, right? >> well, it's an important first step, but it's one i'm taking because i am going to run. is it-- is it-- ( applause ). >> stephen: sure. right now is a very interesting time to be announcing your candidacy for president because the crisis going on in the white house right now and the shutdown of the government makes-- things couldn't get worse. how about that? you know, a change is as good of a vacation. we talk about it on the show a lot here, the world's on fire. can we all agree that the world's on fire. >> yeah. >> stephen: and now can we debate whether that part of it or this part of it should be on fire? >> right. >> stephen: and america right now is interveeg for new fire chiefs, because the present fire chief likes to play with matches. ( laughter ) what is the first thing you would do on day one in office? >> well, the first thing i would

do is restore what's been lost. the integrity and the compassion of this country. i would bring people together to start getting things done. if you want to get health care done, you have to bring democrats and republicans to the table on the shared values of this country. we all love our children. and so if you want to get things done, you have to bring people together, find that common ground, and get it done. but you have to start by restoring what's been lost, restoring our leadership in the world. addressing things like global climate change. and being that beacon-- ( applause ) and being that beacon of light and hope in the world. today is martin luther king jr.'s birthday, and he said-- ( applause ) he said only lights can drive out darkness. and all of us are called to be that light right now. ( applause ). >> stephen: well, all of those things that you named, all of those things are worthy goals, big challenges.

let's talk about the present challenge right now. the government is shut down, day 25 of the government shutdown. if you were the president and you were at these loggerheads with congress and the government was shut down, how would you end this moment? >> well, first of all, we have 800,000 people who did not get a paycheck. there are families all across america right now that are worried about not making their rent, not paying their mortgage, not having the money to heat their home or buy food for their kids or buy their prescription medicine. so what he has done is absolutely outrageous. so what i would do differently is bring people together and talk about why i care and why the issue i am fighting for is so important, bring people behind you based on what it is you want to change and why. that's what we did to pass the 9/11 health bill. when we had our first responders they came to washington over and over again to be heard. i amplified their voices. that's why we passed the bill unanimously twice. >> stephen: would you back

down-- if you were trump at this point, would you back down? his poll numbers are dropping. the democrats are getting more support. he's being blamed for the shutdown. is the strong oast thing he could do would be to lose right now for the country? >> he's created the problem himself. he's created this crise himself. and he shouldn't be be having a temper tantrum because he can't get what he wants. what he should be doing is speaking to the democrats and republicans in congress of what his vision is for immigration reform. shutting down the government is hurting people. right now he's doing it because he wants his way. if you are going to be doing something like, that you better be fighting for other people, not for yourself. ( applause ) >> stephen: i and everybody likes the idea of bringing people together for shared values. what are those shared values?

do you think that's a-- let's take the senate. let's take the democratic members of the senate, and the republican members of the senate. what are the things that would force them to come snght because, certainly, we are in a moment of crisis, and they're not coming together. how do you get people to come to the table when-- both their constituencies will vote them out of office if they budge an inch. how do you move the needle that's been nailed in place. >> i don't think that's true. i think if you start by listen ago this is what i do -- >> stephen: are you calling me a liar? >> no, no, no, no. i'm listening. >> stephen: wow, look at that. ( laughter ). >> so what do you sustart by listening. you hear what that person wants to accomplish. you can find common ground, which is what i've done in the last 12 years i've been in public service. you find common ground -- >> stephen: you worked across the aisle. >> yes, it's how we passed the 9/11 health bill. what do we have in common? we want strong national

security? then why would you get rid of your sharpshooters and language experts and people in mission critical areas just because of who they love. so the common ground was we all want strong military readiness. and from there, you can say let's not discriminate from people based on who they love. and that's how you bring the seven republicans we needed to the table. you can always find common bill on anything. i have a bipartisan bill with nearly every member of the me and ted cruz wrote a.te bill togethseer which ultimately was passed unanimously, me and ted cruz. >> stephen: you and ted cruz. >> so you just have to -- >> stephen: >> stephen: thank you. >> you're welcome. >> stephen: thank you for being in something so much you were willing to talk to ted cruz. now, real quick, you like to swear. everybody knows you like to swear. we've talked about this before. are you going to not swear on the campaign trail? because it's very stressful.

>> i'm going to definitely try. >> stephen: okay. ( laughter ) what's the word you'll miss the most? >> "duck." ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: schmuck. okay, well, listen, as i said, i've run for president twice, actually. i know how difficult it can be. i hope itoes better for you than it did for me. so we have some campaign gifts for you here, things you'll need. in iowa, just wave this around everywhere gu. we have a whole one here. we have-- in the basket here, we have a baby for you to hold and kiss, because i understand your children are to bo ho now. >> yes,hey are. i'll put it-- >> no, it needs to be burped. >> stephen: okay. >> i burp the baby. >> stephen: we have a piece of granite for new hampshire. we have mustard-based barbecue for south carolina. we have-- and this is the most

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, welcome back! my next guest is an oscar-nominated writer and director you know from "the sixth sense," "the village," and "split." his latest film is "glass."

>> today is your coming out party. least you know what to wear. hsn your room, david. there's only the door left. it's metal. you can't get through it because people's bones break against metal, and you're nothing special. a lot of people are going to die, oversear, if you don't get through that door. >> stephen: please welcome, m. night shyamalan! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, nice to meet

you. thanks for being here. >> what a beautiful place. >> stephen: isn't it lovely? >> it's like a church. >> stephen: we spruced it up a little bit. last night we had james mcavoy on the show. she's in "split," he stars in "glass." he plays 20 different characters in your new movie. he says he played 23 but you cu. >> i cut three of them out. e> stephen: becaus hey weren't good good? >> no the movie was three and a half hours long and i had to trim it up a little bit before you guys saw it. >> stephen: that can't be easy-- that can't be easy to play 20 characters. how did you come upon him? how did you know that's the guy? >> well i have this theory about the way things work. like the more specific that we things, that comes back tot th you.ink ab and -- >> stephen: what do you mean? what do you mean? >> like the universe, it puts it out-- i don't want to get too crazy. >> stephen: go crazy, baby, it's after midnight. >> most of us just put blurry

out and blurry comes back and there's no sense of agency at any time. when you're writing, you're hiemp specific and i write this guy with 2004 personalities and he has to be this animalistic person and this child and this woman and you're thinking about this specific person. who could possibly play this part? and it's a very, very hard part to play. and i go to comic-con for a promotion of another movie. and james mcavoy walks up to me and says hello. and i go, "hey." and his head is shaved, and it's growing back from "x-men," and it's, like, this long. and he's talking to me and he's so sweet. and i'm talking to him and i'm like this is giet. and he should look exactly like this. we should do not makeup, no nothing, and he should perform all the personalities. he turned out to be versed in this disorder that we're talking about. and, literally, when you see this movie, and if you've seen "split," he's the only human being out of seven billion people that could have played this part. and he walked up to me at

comic-con to play a comic book character. i mean, it was just-- it's amazing. >> stephen: the universe came to your help. >> i perceived these things. you can say he's an actor, you're a director, but i never met him. he walked up, he became available, he wasn't available, and all those things happened. >> stephen: i completely agree, i think sometimes the universe cludes t colose to hel. >> i knew you were going to make fun of me. >> stephen: not at all. >> i poured my heart out. >> stephen: i 100% agree. what is it like to reunite with the cast from "unbreakable." how many years was "unbreakable"? >> it was 19 years ago. it was a long time. i never thought i would finish tactually. but i owe bruce willis and sam jackson ton. they're my big brothers. you know, you can be an artist and do something worthwhile, but someone has to give you their imprimatur, someone has to protect you, and those two guys did it. i have no career without those two guys, and to get a chance

now when i'm older and they're in a certain place is just to honor them. it's just a big deal. tonight is the premiere and very emotional about it all. >> stephen: congratulations. >> thanks. ( applause ) >> stephen: you're i know a prominent hollywood director. you're not a hollywood guy pup live in philadelphia, i understand. >> i live in philadelphia. >> ( applause ). >> stephen: good for you. >> east coast! >> stephen: is your family from there? >> we're all from india. >> stephen: okay. well, i'm from ireland if that's where we're going. >> i was born in india. >> stephen: how did the family go from india to philadelphia? >> my dad, when he decided to come to america-- first of all, he wanted to come to america and it was literally the american dream. he was like, "i want to have the american dream and i want to go to philadelphia where the constitution and everything, where, you know, the independence, th liberty bell, that was his thing, he wanted to go directly to the source of dream. >> stephen: wow.

( applause ) family of doctors, i understand? >> everybody's a doctor. the whole family. >> stephen: how did they feel about you going into the circus? because show business is just-- what is that? >> yeah, it's-- yeah, i mean, it would have been the equivalent of if i said i wanted to start a goth rock band or something. it had that much currency. all my uncles and aunts ar aunte doctors. my parents are doctors. >> stephen: so were they disappointed? >> yes. and how indians show that is just silence. seats like-- my dad was watching a hockey game, and i said, "dad, i applied to n.y.u. film school. i got in. it's a scholarship. and i'm going to go." and he didn't even look at me. he just kept watching the game. and i was lining okay. >> stephen: wow. then you have to grow a pair to make your own choices, then. >> i would have said the same thing if i was him. that's insane. >> stephen: how about now? how about now? >> now it's totally different. my dad doesn't buy a pack of gum

without giving his cred card so they see his last name. and ther they're like, "are you...?" >> stephen: so nice to meet you. >> a pleasure. >> stephen: "glass" opens in theaters this friday. m. night shyamalan, everybody! we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) when you shop with us, you know how to score.

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody, welcome back to "the late show." look, i hope everybody out there enjoyed their commercial break. you know, my favorite thing about commercials is how they pay for this show. ( laughter ) but my other favorite thing is how often celebrities will be used to endorse things for no apparent reason. like morgan freeman for mountain dew. or jeff goldblum for jeep. or kanye west for donald trump. ( laughter ) and with so many surprising endorsements out there, it's time for the another edition

of the late show's: "celebrity spokesmania." ( cheers and applause ) they love it. first up on "celebrity spokesmania," a new product from n.b.a. superstar, and man about to eat a basketball in a single bite, shaquille o'neal. shaq is no stranger to celebrity endorsements, having appeared in ads for gold bond, icy hot, taco bell, buick, at&t, comcast, american express, oreos, ring security, vitamin water, fruity pebbles, carnival cruises, and what is either a commercial for the general insurance or a very low-budget remake of "space jam." ( laughter ) but, apparently, there were still products shaq had not yet endorsed. because he recently launched a new big and tall clothing line for j.c. penney to provide professional-looking attire for guys his size, which is

great news if you are thanos going on a job interview. ( laughter ) of course, shaq's not the only celebrity releasing a new product. it's the perfect gift for the millennial of course, shaq's not the only celebrity releasing a new product. so is rapper and troll doll your stoner in your life who happens to be a retired grandpa. malone's second line of crocs was released last month and n te which is the fastest anyone in crocs has ever done anything. well that does it for this edition of "celebrity spokes-mania." we'll be back after these definitely real and not at all fake celebrity-filled messages.

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late show." tune in tomorrow when my guest will be jake gyllenhall. now stick around for james corden. good night! >> stephen: trumpnato. ( laughter ) no, it's a tornado of trump about trump wanting to not be in nato. even though he's in the nato. he's in the-- the trumpnato is made of trump. i love it. ( laughter ) i love it. i love it, guys. we're back. ( laughter )

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