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reese witherspoon. adam rippon. and musical guests ben harper and charlie musselwhite. 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 ) >> stephen: woooo! thank you very much. hey! ♪ what's up please, have a seat, everybody. please, have a seat. sit, sit, sit! welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. i'm so haep-- i'm so happy you could join us out there. but i'm especially happy that these people could join us in here, after mushing their sled dogs through the midtown tundra to join us here at the ed

sullivan igloo! truly the heroes. truly the heroes. most valuable players out there tonight. new york is gripped by a blizzard tonight. everywhere you looked, new york kids were making snowmen instead of their usual garbage bag men. stay safe out there, everybody-- especially donald trump, because there's a whole other storm... ( cheers and applause ) that's headed his way. jim. >> porn star stormy daniels suing president trump. >> stephen: okay. i know we're getting numb to the trump presidency. it's a natural defense mechanism. but let those words sink in for a second-- "a porn star is suing the president." ( laughter ) we haven't seen anything like this since the famous headline, "dewey boinks truman." ( laughter ) the woman in question here,

again, is porn star-- and i'm going to guess future chief of staff-- stormy daniels. she's proven. she's proven. ( applause ) she's proven she can handle the staff. now miss daniels received $130,000 right before the election to keep their affair a secret. i don't know why. if i were her, i'd keep that secret for free. ( laughter ) now daniels is suing donald trump over the confidentiality agreement, alleging that it is invalid, because while both she and trump's attorney signed it, trump himself never did. so this is the thing trump thought was too sketchy to put his name on. ( laughter ) what about trump university, or don jr.? ( laughter ) ( applause ) trump's lawyer-- ( cheers and applause ). >> jon: whoa! >> stephen: that's not good.

>> jon: nelo! >> stephen: i wouldn't. trump's lawyer could have just formed trump's signature. all he'd need is a seismograph. but as juicy as this lawsuit is, and it is juicy, it hints at something even juicier, because it mentions that daniels is in possession of "confidential information" that includes "certain still images and/or text messages" from trump. i think we can all guess what these still images are. cbs will not permit me to say the colloquial term, so let's just call them, "penis portraits." ( laughter ) ( applause ) we may not-- ( applause ) and we may not have to wait for stormy daniels. i'm pretty sure don jr.'s just going to tweet them out. "way to go, dad's penis! i came out of that." ( laughter ) you know how babies are made,

right? i don't want to break any news right now. and we haven't even gotten to my favorite part about the lawsuit, favorite part about the lawsuit, which is that the confidentiality agreement refers to trump as david dennison, while referring to daniels as peggy peterson. odd names, but it makes sense when you see the rest of the document, because those names are actually abbreviated in the lawsuit as two of trump's favorite things: double d.s and p.p. allegedly. allegedly, jon, we don't know. >> jon: we don't know, though. >> stephen: now, it turns out, using campaign funds to pay off your porn star mistress could be a violation of campaign finance law. but enter trump lawyer and man doing a self-prostate exam, michael cohen. referred to as trump's "fixer." yeah, that's the kind of fixer you want. "i see you've got a problem here, boss. if you want, i could make it go away... for about a year, and then come roaring back to bite you in the ass!"

and cohen did try to make it go away, claiming last month, "in a private transaction in 2016, i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to ms. stephanie clifford." stephanie clifford, of course, is stormy daniels' real name. she changed it so she would not big red porn star. i have though books. >> jon: you have those books? you who, now they're ruined. >> stephen: i had the collection. i didn't have that one, but i had the rest of the collection. cohen continued, "neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with ms. clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly." "reimbursed"? this isn't cab fare or a coffee order. "don, don't worry about this one. you get the next porn star." ( laughter ) now, cohen has denied the affair ever happened but explained the payment this way, "just because

something isn't true doesn't mean that it can't cause you harm or damage. i will always protect mr. trump." he has got to be the greatest wingman of all time. in fact, just today, michael cohen put that promise into a music video. ♪ lean on me when you bang a porn star ♪ and i'll pay her off you can keep bangin' on ♪ >> stephen: that always gets me. that gets me. it hits me right here. ( applause ) beautiful, beautiful. >> jon: poignant. >> stephen: bill withers would be so happy. >> jon: bill would love that. >> stephen: then monday, we learned that cohen's payment to stormy daniels was reported as suspicious by his bank. i don't know why. the memo line of the check specifically said, "not hush money for porn star." ( laughter ) now, one of the reasons the payment was suspicious is that just days before, cohen created an entirely new company to make the payment, called essential

consultants, llc. "yeah, i'd like to open a new account. central consultants llc. we are consultants focusing on essential... we're paying off a porn star." but the bombshell news is that "after mr. trump's victory, mr. cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to miss clifford." well, mr. cohen, maybe now you'll sympathize with stormy daniels, because donald trump has screwed you both. ( cheers and applause ) yesterday-- ( applause ). >> stephen: yes! we have a healthy, healthy sex-positive audience here tonight. ( laughter ) yesterday-- yesterday? yesterday was primary day in texas, and the democrats are pumped. dem turnout topped one million in a midterm primary for the first time since 2002, and amon

( cheers and applause ) amongst-- the winners was democrat beto o'rourke, who is now set to take on republican senator ted cruz. now, you may not have heard of beto o'rourke, but no candidate gets voters more excited than "not ted cruz." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and i hear not ted cruz-- i hear not ted cruz is not strong this year. and texas might be feeling the beto-mentum, because so far this year, o'rourke outraised ted cruz by $1.5 million. and that has gotten ted cruz serious about this race, so serious, he release aid novelty song. yeah, they don't call him "weird ted cruz" for nothing. they call him that because he's weird. well, i've stalled long enough and i hate my ears, so let's listen to it.

>> stephen: well, that was unlikable, not good, and i don't like it. ( laughter ) really makes you think of ted cruz. now, let's break it down for a second. the song goes after o'rourke for his name, "beto," which is a latino nickname for robert. but, as chris cuomo pointed out, ted cruz shouldn't be going after people for changing their name. >> the ad-- you go after beto for his name. beto is, obviously, a nickname. why? you know, look, your name is raphael. you know, you go by ted. your middle name is edward. that's an anglicized version of it. he went the other way and has a more ethnic version of his name. why go after him?

you both are doing the same thing. >> in terms of the jingle, some of it is just have a sense of humor. >> stephen: "some of it is just have a since of humor. the rest of it is just awful." but the biggest crime of this song isn't the hypocrisy or the lyrics. it's in that first line: ♪ if you're going to run in texas you can't be a liberal, man ♪ 'cause liberal thought is not the spirit of a lone star man ♪ >> stephen: you can't rhyme "man" with "man," you monster! ( laughter ) ( applause ) what are you doing? have you no shame. >> jon: he should have said "land" or something. >> stephen: have you no shame! there are so many options! bran and dan sailed a catamaran to turkmenistan. in fact, i wrote a song with some advice for the cruz campaign. hit it, jon!

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: northern lights. it's like the northern lights up there. hey, everybody, welcome back to the show! ladies and gentlemen, i'm awfully excited. you're in for a treat. my first guest is an oscar and emmy award winner and one of hollywood's leading voices for female empowerment. she now stars in "a wrinkle in time." >> call me mrs. what'sit? who. >> what can i do with you, mrs. whatsit? >> you're six. >> come on, what do you know about harmless? >> have i ever been wrong? >> one of these days you might be charles wallace. >> oh, i highly doubt that. he's one of the greatest minds in recent history. he's prodigious.

and worse, we can't take any credits for his talents. it's how he used them that counts. >> stephen: please welcome reese witherspoon! ♪ ♪ ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) >> wow! hi! >> stephen: hey, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me! i've never been here! ( cheers and applause ) so great. >> stephen: welcome to new york. i'm sorry about the storm. >> oh, no! it's great! >> stephen: oh, really? >> i love the snow. >> stephen: you do? you grew up in the south. you're okay with snow. >> yeah! i grew up in nashville, but i don't get to see snow that often. i went out, i went out in my bath robe. i was like, "this is great!" >> stephen: you went out why your bath robe? >> yeah, because my hotel has a

balcony gr . >> stephen: i thought you meant went out on 5th avenue. >> i might. give me 20 years. >> stephen: i heard you saw bruce last night. >> i sue bruce springsteen, you all. ( cheers and applause ) i saw him on broadway. he has this show. it's a spoken word he talks about how he wrote songs like "born to run" and "thunder road." i had never seen a bruce concert before. and people were in the audience going, "bruce." and i said, "okay." oprah said to me it was transformational this show. when oprah says something is transformational, can you imagine the level that has to be on. literally, within 15 minutes i was a sobbing puddle of human tears on the ground. it's amazing. he talks about his dad, his mom. he talked about his mom! and then he talked about how

tenderly his grandmother had cared for him. and i-- i just lost it. i know, i'm like a little... it was a lot, you guys. ( cheers and applause ) and then-- he was amazing. and then i went backstage because i thought it would be polite to say, "thank you so much." but i literally couldn't form words. i was like, "the thing... when you said... telling people's... stories... is the service... you pay for living." i started to cry so hard. he said, "oh, my god." and he hugged me. he and his wife were hugging me, and i said, "i'll put it in a all right." and i literally walked out the door. >> stephen: i would do the same thing. i would do the same thing. would you like me to take that for you. >> thank you. >> stephen: we had lady o. we had oprah on last night. >> i know. >> stephen: she's wonderful. she talked some smack about you, though? >> what! >> stephen: she has a phobia about gum, evidently, and she

pointed out that you were just smacking gum all over the set. >> what! >> stephen: for "a wrinkle in time." >> she was talking trash? >> stephen: that he was trash talking you? >> out on the streets? about me! >> stephen: yeah, she was, she was. just shy of the dozens with oprah. >> what! >> stephen: yes. do you chew gum on set? because that's her accusation. >> well, yeah! but i didn't know you're not allowed to chew gum. >> stephen: evidently, you're never allowed to chew gum around oprah. >> i didn't know that. >> stephen: obama doesn't even do it around oprah. no, obama won't do it. >> like, nobody gave me the oprah rules. so she walked into the hair-makeup trailer the first day and i was playing music. i had sam cooke playing. and i was like, "hey! come in here, girl." and i heard from her assistant three days later, "oprah likes silence in the trailer. and i was like, "oh, shoot!" and then one day i walked on the set and i was like-- i was chewing gum because i had, like, coffee breath or something. and i was like, hey, what's up,

oprah? are you excited about this scene?" and she was like, "are you chewing gum?" and i was like, "yeah." and she was like, "no one choose gum around me." like, nobody gave me the rules! >> stephen: i think it's in the constitution that you can't chew gum around oprah? >> really! she doesn't care though, when i do it now, though, right? >> stephen: no... she was fine with it. she was fine. watch last night's show. you'll see. >> oh, god. okay. >> stephen: i want to talk about you about "time's up." you were one of the organizers. leader-- would leader be the right word? >> i'm one of the hundreds of women that got together. what "time's up" is, is a movement to create safety and equity in the workplace. ( cheers and applause ) so, yeah. so i think, you know, a few months ago, there was some stuff happening in hollywood. i don't know if you heard. some women are being harassed, sexually harassed on movies and

television shows. and a bun of really amazing women across our industry and got together and just said, "we have to do something about this." >> stephen: really quickly, though. >> yeah. >> stephen: a few days before the golden globes i hadn't heard of "time's up," and when the golden globes rolled around everybody knew what "time's up" was which wearing the pins. what are you doing to keep the momentum going? what's next for "time's up?" >> a lot of it is reaching out to women from all industrys. we had representatives from the farm workers union, the restaurant workers' union. it's important people know this is industry-wide. it's every industry, and we started a legal defense fund. and we raised $20 million in 10 days. ( cheers and applause ) yeah. to help-- ♪ ♪ yeah! thanks! so people can still contribute to that fund. and what that fund does is help people find lawyers and get good legal advice for on-the-job

harassment suits soap this is bringing the people, you know-- >> stephen: and where would people go if they wanted to find out about the fund or give to the fund? >> they can go to the national women's law center. it's organized out of washington, d.c. and 500 lawyers across the country are there to help you if you have any questions. so it's been great. >> stephen: well, this isn't the first time you've made something happen. you are, of course, a famous actress and producer. but you're almost as famous at this pointa someone who made the opportunities happen for herself and the people she wanted to work with. you've taken the bull by the horns in hollywood. i remember "wild" was a project. you said, "i'm just going to get this made." was that a turning point for you? >> yeah. >> stephen: in terms of i'm going to create the opportunities for myself and people i want to work with. >> i kept reading really crummy scripts and i thought i don't want to do these crummy movies. and i decided instead of complaining about it, i would make my own movies. so i did. ( applause ) yeah. i mean twasn't that easy!

i'm making it sound really easy. >> stephen: you made it sound-- exactly. >> it was hard work, but i thought, you know, i want little girls to grow up and see women in more complex roles in different ways, and not just be, like, the wife and girlfriend of the superhero because women are more than that. and people deserve to see women with all their complexity. so i was really excited. i did "wild" and i did a movie called "gone girl." yeah, i produced that movie. >> stephen: and then, of course,. >> "big little lies." we just did "big little lies" last year. ( applause ) yeah. and then wearing season two in a week. >> stephen: and i understand meryl streep is in season two. >> yes! meryl streep is doing season two! >> stephen: that's really exciting. yes. >> i'm so excite gld and she-- she plays-- i forgot what alexander's character's name is. >> yeah, she plays... yeah, nicole kid man's husband was this guy named perry, and he met an untimely end.

and meryl streep place plaiz his mother. >> stephen: and she wants to know what happened. >> and she wants to know what happened, and she doesn't believe any of us. so she comes back and it's amazing. we had rehearsals last week and i was like, "i cannot believe i'm sitting across from meryl streep and i'm saying, like, human words to her, and she's saying human words back to me." it was amazing. >> stephen: i have this feeling when i talk with her i'm not having to act with her. i'm afraid in the middle of a scene i would go (bleep) it's meryl streep. >> it's really fun. i'm excited. >> stephen: we have to take a break but we'll be back with more reese witherspoon. don't go anywhere! they say, "summer bodies are but they never said how.

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tweeted: and adam, the shrinking violate that he is wrote back: ( applause ) >> oh, my god! >> stephen: he's the next guest tonight. and i'm sure he would like to meet you. would you like to meet him? >> oh, my gosh, so very much. >> stephen: adam, can you come on out? adam rippon, everybody, olympic bronze medalist. >> oh, god! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: there gu! >> i can't believe it. >> stephen: please, have a seat. >> oh! i'm so... >> this is great.

>> this is meant to be. >> this is so good. >> this is the relationship the world's been waiting for. >> stephen: yes. okay, guys, quick, first impressions of each other. anything? feelings? >> you go first. >> you smell really good. >> thank you. >.>> you're more handsome in person than even on the ice. >> i can share something with you guy s. >> stephen: i hope you will. >> i promised the sound guy, brian-- he's so sweet-- i promised i wouldn't take this off-- can you hold this, dear. >> oh! >> okay, i really needed this today, meeting reese. because before i got out here my life was, like, in shamble displz oh, away. >> because-- yeah. before i got out here, i was getting dressed, and i wanted to, like, look my best for you. and i lost a button. and, like, i'm -- >> stephen: wow. wow. >> and i'm so-- like, i'm embarrassed, but i'm not.

( laughter ) do you know what i mean? totally. >> yeah. >> but you know what? it's good if you just put a necklace over it. then nobody will notice. >> yeah, but here's the thing, it's sort of, like, a pocket now. ( laughter ) so... >> stephen: uh-huh. >> i needed this. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah, you did. and you know what? >> i got it. >> yeah. the universe heard you. >> they did. >> and here we are. >> stephen: adam, can i ask, when did you first fall in love with reese? what was it that first charmed you? >> well, i think when i watched "legally blond." ( cheers and applause ) that was it. that's when i fell in love. and you're so beautiful in person. >> oh, thank you. >> i was talking to stephen. >> oh! ( laughter )

>> stephen: lovely to meet you. you can go! >> gorgeous. >> well, thank you. >> stephen: when was the first time you saw adam, what was your first impression. >> yes, tell me. >> do you know what, truth-- 1, 2, 3, truth. i was working out with my trainer and he said, "you have seen adam? he's amazing. he's awesome. he's so outspoken." and i started reading his tweets. there was one, "to all my haters who say that i'm failing. i have failed. i have failed. i have gotten up. i learned from my mistakes, and now i'm a glam-a-zon bitch, ready for the runway. not that i memorized it or anything. >> that's verbatim. >> or committed it to memory or made it, like, my screen saver. >> stephen: you are a skater. you are a great actress. i would like to see if there's something the two of you have in common here. one of the things i enjoy about

watching ice skaters is when they fall down, they will act like they meant to do that. they never show-- they never show any distress or anything like that. but it must actually kind of kill you when you fall down on the ice. >> do you have to, like, work on that face in the mirror? >> that face is sort of, like, my natural face. >> okay. >> stephen: all right. >> but when i fall down, i usually pretend like it never happened. >> stephen: i can show-- would you look into-- would you mind trying this. adam, look into camera three. you've just fallen down and you're just acting like it didn't happen. >> okay. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> that is good! >> stephen: now, i don't want to put you on the spot, reese, i don't want to put you on the spot, but you're a great actress. would you-- would you give a shot at-- you're an ice skater. you've just fallen down and it didn't affect you in any way. camera three.

>> you have to say "action." >> stephen: okay. ( laughter ) >> stephen: okay, okay. ifts-- okay, that's how you get (bleep) done. all right. all right, ready, and... action. wow, wow. can i try one? >> yes. >> yeah! >> stephen: i can try one? >> yes. >> stephen: and you'll say "action?" you'll say "action?" i'll go to camera one here. >> and action! >> stephen: why! reese witherspoon and adam rippon, everybody! "a wrinkle in time" opens this friday. we'll be right back with more adam rippon. don't go away! ♪ last night took a l, but tonight i bounce back. ♪

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( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome back everybody, to "the late show"" already in progress. folks, my continuing guest is a figure skater who not only won the olympic bronze at the winter games, but also won the hearts of millions. please re-welcome adam rippon. ( cheers and applause ) thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> stephen: good to see you. >> i it's good to see you, too. >> stephen: that was heavy seeing reese, wasn't it. >> i'm going to put this here. >> stephen: oh, this old thing? i just pick it up when i have nothing else to wear. >> yeah. obviously, i don't. >> stephen: obviously, me, too. one of my butons went, and-- >> wait, stop it! >> stephen: are you kidding? i'm absolutely kidding! i just opened it. >> oh, all right. >> stephen: i just don't want

to be out-bellied. now you are an olympic medalist. >> yes. >> stephen: and a hero to many because-- >> i keep-- this is so embarrassing. >> stephen: not at all. >> stephen: if i had a belly like that, i would never wear a shirt. >> okay. >> stephen: the outfits that y'all wear when you're out there skating, you wore, like, a mesh number. >> i did. >> stephen: totally see-through. it's got to be cold, right? >> yeah, but i go out and, every time i have a competition, i have a great friend who designs all my costumes. so every time i go to him, i say, "you know what?" his name is braden. i say, "braden, do whatever you want." he's super creative. i just want to look shute. ( laughter ) >> stephen: you think he got there? you think he got there this year? >> oh, yeah, it was, like, totally see-through. >> stephen: yeah. >> that's my brand, steve glen less is more. ( cheers and applause ) less is more. >> yeah, less is more.

>> stephen: you're the first openly gay american olympic medalist. and there was a little controversy with you and mike pence. >> yeah. >> stephen: you know, he said he wanted to meet you. you said, i don't want to meet you." did that get in your head? idistracting when you're about o perform, execute your moves? >> when i'm training i usually turn down going to the movies with my friends, going to dinner, going out. and just-- i want to stay focused. so i was thinking that, like, a phone call with the vice president might be, like, more distracting than, like, going to, like, olive garden. ( laughter ) so i was, like, "i don't think this is the right time." >> stephen: and pence doesn't come with unlimited bred sticks, either. >> no! or soup and salad for $5. and so... ( laughter ) i thought that it would be best that i focus on what my job was

at that point in time. and that was going to the olympics. that was helping my team get a medal. that was skating as well as i could expiches able to do that. and now that it's all over, if that opportunity is still out there, i would take that call. >> stephen: oh, that's nice. that's nice. >> i know, i'm pretty nice. ( laughter ). >> stephen: can i ask you what it's like being out on the ice? like many people, i love watching the ice skating. when you're coming up-- and you're coming backwards on the ice and about to do your triple whatever-- flipety-flop, flying camel. what's going through your mind? are you thinking at all, or is it all pure muscle memory? >> when it was all going on, everybody was tweeting all of these leslie jones reactions. and i remember-- this is completely true-- i remember going into one of my triple axles -- or flipety-flops, as they are called me. i went into one of them, and i said, "fifall on this, leslie

jones is going to be screaming at her television." and i actually used that as motivation. that's 100% factual. i thought of leslie jones. >> stephen: so you're thinking of leslie jones. did you thrand? >> of course, i did. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: so she deserves a little taste of that. >> she does. but, you know, like, with everything going oi remember there are so many moments before i skated where i was like, "okay, i'm going to fall on everything." oh, like, "i think i have diarrhea." and you work so -- >> stephen: we call those the flipety-flops. >> yes, yeah. i'm not a doctor, but that's what i've heard, too. but, you know, you work so hard for those moments that you just put all of those doubts behind you and for me, i always just repeated, like, one key word. and it was like, you know, "jump," or "go faster." and i kept it really simple for myself. >> stephen: if you don't land it-- as i said, we already

practiced the "i don't care" pace or "that was perfect" face. in the long program you have the opportunity to make up that jump in the second half. the announcers gyllenhaal like, "okay, he doubled that triple. he's got to throw a triple and another double in the second half." where do you find the time? how do you find the mental acute? how do you find room to throw something like in like that because it's so tightly choreographed? >> in practice you prepare for those mistakes you might have. it's sort of like -- >> stephen: how do you prepare, do you purposefully-- >> well, you know, just do your run-through over and over and over. and you get prepared for anything. and it's sort of like if you come to do this show, and you put on your favorite shirt, and the button falls off when you're about to meet the love of your life and soulmate, reese witherspoon... do you know where i'm going with this? ( laughter ). >> stephen: yeah, and your shirt is-- has got a button missing. >> yes. and so it's sort of like the

show must go on dispp no matter what you do, like i know that, like, i've got a cute stomach. ( laughter ) and so i just rock it. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: i would-- i wish i could say that before i come out to do every show. "i know i've got a cute stomach. everything's going to be okay." >> it will be fine. >> stephen: it will be fine. it was fine. >> it was. >> stephen: i think that went very well. >> i wasn't going to bring it up. >> stephen: yeah. >> but it went very well. >> stephen: adam, congratulations. thank you so much for being here. ( cheers and applause ) that's beautiful. adam rippon, everybody. we'll be right back with a performance by ben harper and charlie musselwhite. stick around! we love, with those but does psoriasis ever get in the way?

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i found the one ♪ now, if you're gonna gamble may as well be on love ♪ may have had some before but now you can't get enough ♪ before it's all said and done i found the one ♪ well, i found myself in trouble found myself waiting in line ♪ found so many ways

of just wasting my time ♪ no more races to run i found the one ♪ so now, now i follow my heart wherever the road ends ♪ most people you see every day you'll never, never see them again ♪ come rain come sun i found the one ♪ found the one found the one ♪ found the one ( cheers and applause )

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