1 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:03,870 >> IT IS ELECTION DAY WITH CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF 2 00:00:03,937 --> 00:00:07,974 CONGRESS UP FOR GRABS IN ONE OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL MIDTERMS 3 00:00:08,041 --> 00:00:09,175 IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 4 00:00:09,242 --> 00:00:10,944 >> IT COULD BE DAYS, PERHAPS EVEN LONGER, BEFORE WE KNOW THE 5 00:00:11,010 --> 00:00:11,745 FINAL MIDTERM RESULTS. 6 00:00:11,811 --> 00:00:13,380 >> BE PATIENT ON ELECTION NIGHT. 7 00:00:13,446 --> 00:00:15,448 YOU MAY NOT KNOW FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. 8 00:00:22,021 --> 00:00:24,691 GRAHAM DIED ALONE. 9 00:01:26,986 --> 00:01:32,459 >> Announcer: IT'S "THE LATE SHOW LIVE WITH STEPHEN COLBERT." 10 00:01:32,525 --> 00:01:39,999 TONIGHT: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ELECTION. 11 00:01:40,066 --> 00:01:45,472 PLUS, STEPHEN WELCOMES LIVE: JOHN DICKERSON 12 00:01:45,538 --> 00:01:48,975 AND MIKE BIRBIGLIA FEATURING LIVE LOUIS CATO AND 13 00:01:49,042 --> 00:01:51,644 THE LATE SHOW BAND. 14 00:01:51,711 --> 00:01:55,148 AND NOW LIVE FROM THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER IN NEW YORK 15 00:01:55,215 --> 00:01:57,116 CITY, IT'S STEPHEN COLBERT! 16 00:01:57,183 --> 00:01:59,185 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 17 00:02:11,231 --> 00:02:14,567 ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: WE GOT TO DO A 18 00:02:14,634 --> 00:02:16,569 LITTLE BIT OF THAT RIGHT THERE. 19 00:02:16,636 --> 00:02:18,805 HAVE A GOOD SHOW. 20 00:02:18,872 --> 00:02:19,339 HAPPY TUESDAY. 21 00:02:19,405 --> 00:02:22,642 HAPPY LIVE, EVERYBODY. 22 00:02:22,709 --> 00:02:23,042 HELLO! 23 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:27,947 HELLO FRIENDS. 24 00:02:28,014 --> 00:02:29,449 BEAUTIFUL. 25 00:02:29,516 --> 00:02:30,650 BEAUTIFUL. 26 00:02:30,717 --> 00:02:32,118 UP THERE, DOWN HERE. 27 00:02:32,185 --> 00:02:38,258 ♪ ♪ ♪ THANK YOU. 28 00:02:38,324 --> 00:02:39,926 YOU TOUCHED ME. 29 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:44,964 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) THANKS, EVERYBODY! 30 00:02:45,031 --> 00:02:47,867 HERE WE GO. 31 00:02:47,934 --> 00:02:51,671 HERE WE GO. 32 00:02:51,738 --> 00:02:52,038 YOU ALL RIGHT? 33 00:02:52,105 --> 00:02:52,372 ALL RIGHT. 34 00:02:52,438 --> 00:02:53,640 THANK YOU. 35 00:02:53,706 --> 00:02:56,209 PLEASE, HAVE A SEAT, EVERYBODY. 36 00:02:56,276 --> 00:02:58,278 YOU'RE TOO KIND. 37 00:02:58,344 --> 00:02:59,078 PLEASE. 38 00:02:59,145 --> 00:03:02,415 WELCOME, WELCOMES TO "THE LATE SHOW." 39 00:03:02,482 --> 00:03:04,417 I AM YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT. 40 00:03:04,484 --> 00:03:08,788 AND WE HERE JOIN YOU FROM THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER WITH ALL THESE 41 00:03:08,855 --> 00:03:10,390 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 42 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:10,890 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 43 00:03:10,957 --> 00:03:11,291 WE ARE LIVE. 44 00:03:11,357 --> 00:03:12,058 LOOK AT THAT. 45 00:03:12,125 --> 00:03:14,227 WE ARE LIVE RIGHT THERE. 46 00:03:14,294 --> 00:03:16,396 IT'S OUR LIVE ELECTION SHOW. 47 00:03:16,462 --> 00:03:20,066 AND BECAUSE THESE DAYS IT OFTEN FEELS LIKE OUR POLITICS ARE IN 48 00:03:20,133 --> 00:03:26,673 THE UPSIDE DOWN, WE'RE CALLING TONIGHT "STRANGER MIDTERMS: 49 00:03:26,739 --> 00:03:27,006 2022." 50 00:03:27,073 --> 00:03:31,878 ♪ ♪ ♪ 51 00:03:42,455 --> 00:03:44,090 THOUGH-- ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) 52 00:03:44,157 --> 00:03:46,326 WE'RE RUNNING UP THAT HILL. 53 00:03:46,392 --> 00:03:47,827 >> Louis: OH, YEAH! 54 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:50,163 >> Stephen: WE'RE RUNNING UP THAT HILL TONIGHT. 55 00:03:50,229 --> 00:03:53,032 THOUGH THE G.O.P. IS PICKING UP SEATS IN THE HOUSE, SO FAR IT 56 00:03:53,099 --> 00:03:55,034 DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A RED WAVE. 57 00:03:55,101 --> 00:03:55,868 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 58 00:03:55,935 --> 00:03:59,372 PERHAPS-- PERHAPS-- TOO EARLY TO TELL. 59 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:03,443 PERHAPS A PINK TRICKLE. 60 00:04:03,509 --> 00:04:05,011 THEY SHOULD REALLY HAVE THAT CHECKED OUT. 61 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:06,946 ( LAUGHTER ) YOU'RE ALL GOING TO WANT TO STAY 62 00:04:07,013 --> 00:04:10,216 WITH US FOR THE NEXT HOUR, BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE 63 00:04:10,283 --> 00:04:12,318 UP-TO-THE-MINUTE ELECTION RESULTS, AND UP-TO-THE-MINUTE 64 00:04:12,385 --> 00:04:14,921 ELECTION DENIALS. 65 00:04:14,988 --> 00:04:20,360 IN FACT, WE HAVE PREPARED THREE RESULTS GRAPHICS TONIGHT-- 66 00:04:20,426 --> 00:04:22,929 WINNER, LOSER, AND LOSER YELLING THAT THEY WON, JUST ASK THEIR 67 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:24,664 FRIEND HOLDING A PILLOW. 68 00:04:24,731 --> 00:04:25,765 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 69 00:04:25,832 --> 00:04:33,406 BECAUSE THE THING IS-- REPUBLICAN ELECTION DENIERS OUT 70 00:04:33,473 --> 00:04:37,844 THERE ARE ON BALLOTS IN 48 OF THE 50 STATES TONIGHT, MAKING UP 71 00:04:37,910 --> 00:04:40,613 A MAJORITY OF THIS YEAR'S G.O.P. 72 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:41,781 NOMINEES. 73 00:04:41,848 --> 00:04:43,650 AND IF ANY OF THEM ARE ELECTED TO CONGRESS, THAT'S GOING TO 74 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:47,420 MAKE THE NEXT INSURRECTION REAL AWKWARD. 75 00:04:47,487 --> 00:04:49,622 ( LAUGHTER ) HANG MYSELF! 76 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:51,391 HANG MYSELF! 77 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:55,995 NOW ALL NIGHT, ALL NIGHT LONG, THESE ELECTION NUMBERS ARE GOING 78 00:04:56,062 --> 00:04:59,666 TO BE POURING IN, AND I KNOW YOU EXPECT UP-TO-THE-MINUTE ANALYSIS 79 00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:02,235 FROM COMEDY SHOWS. 80 00:05:02,301 --> 00:05:05,271 BUT, IF HALF THE COUNTRY DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF MATH, IT 81 00:05:05,338 --> 00:05:08,508 DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHERE WE GET THE NUMBERS FROM. 82 00:05:08,574 --> 00:05:12,578 SO, PLEASE WELCOME "THE LATE SHOW"'S" SENIOR ELECTION ANALYST 83 00:05:12,645 --> 00:05:18,951 LIVE FROM THE CBS MIDTERMS PROJECTION COUP COOP. 84 00:05:19,018 --> 00:05:20,653 STEVE CLUCKNACKI. 85 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:20,920 STEVE. 86 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:21,754 STEVE. 87 00:05:21,821 --> 00:05:23,056 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN THE COOP. 88 00:05:23,122 --> 00:05:27,493 STEVE, YOU HAVE BEEN KEEPING A SHARP EYE AND AN EVEN SHARPER 89 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,928 BEAK ON TONIGHT'S RESULTS. 90 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:30,930 WHAT FRIENDS OF TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING OUT THERE? 91 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:35,968 OKAY, HE'S WANDERING AROUND GEORGIA, COULD MEAN A HIGH RURAL 92 00:05:36,035 --> 00:05:36,936 TURNOUT. 93 00:05:37,003 --> 00:05:38,604 COULD MEAN HE SAW A DELICIOUS GRUB OVER THERE. 94 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:39,706 THANK YOU, STEVE. 95 00:05:39,772 --> 00:05:47,180 WE'LL BE CHECKING IN ALL NIGHT ON YOUR IM-PECK-ABLE AND 96 00:05:47,246 --> 00:05:48,848 EGG-CELLENT ANALYSIS. 97 00:05:48,915 --> 00:05:49,449 I'M SORRY. 98 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:50,283 I'M SORRY, NO. 99 00:05:50,349 --> 00:05:55,621 ( APPLAUSE ) I'M SORRY, STEVE. 100 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:57,457 THAT WAS INSENSITIVE. 101 00:05:57,523 --> 00:05:58,424 THOSE ARE YOUR CHILDREN. 102 00:05:58,491 --> 00:06:00,460 ( LAUGHTER ) NOW, ONE OF THE BIGGEST RACES 103 00:06:00,526 --> 00:06:04,530 THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN WATCHING IS IN GEORGIA BETWEEN ELIZABETH 104 00:06:04,597 --> 00:06:09,502 RAPHAELWARNOCK AND HERSCHEL WAL. 105 00:06:09,569 --> 00:06:12,138 AND RIGHT NOW THEY ARE NECK AND ALMOST ENTIRELY NECK. 106 00:06:12,205 --> 00:06:14,807 IT IS SO TIGHT, IT'S STILL TIGHT? 107 00:06:14,874 --> 00:06:16,776 IS IT STILL A TIGHT RACE? 108 00:06:16,843 --> 00:06:21,614 IT IS SO TIGHT THIS RACE COULD BE DECIDED BY A MARGIN OF ERROR 109 00:06:21,681 --> 00:06:23,916 PLUS OR MINUS HERSCHEL WALKER'S SECRET CHILDREN. 110 00:06:23,983 --> 00:06:24,751 AND-- THIS IS TRUE? 111 00:06:24,817 --> 00:06:27,086 I'M TOLD WE DO HAVE SOME RESULTS. 112 00:06:27,153 --> 00:06:31,424 HERE IN NEW YORK, IN A SHOCKER, THE SENATE RACE HAS BEEN CALLED 113 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:34,160 FOR MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. 114 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:40,099 ( APPLAUSE ) AND OUT OF RESPECT FOR HIS 115 00:06:40,166 --> 00:06:43,736 OPPONENT'S POLITICAL DEMISE, SCHUMER WILL BE WEARING HIS 116 00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:46,305 GLASSES AT HALF-MAST. 117 00:06:46,372 --> 00:06:47,940 ( LAUGHTER ) HE'S A GENTLEMAN. 118 00:06:48,007 --> 00:06:52,779 IN THE FLORIDA GOVERNOR'S RACE, DEMOCRAT CHARLIE CRIST HAS BEEN 119 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:58,217 DEFEATED BY MAGA WANNA-BE AND 2024 HOPEFUL RON DeSANTIS 120 00:06:58,284 --> 00:07:01,521 ( BOOING ) AND NOW IN ACCORDANCE WITH 121 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:05,925 FLORIDA LAW, CHARLIE CRIST WILL BE FLOWN TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 122 00:07:05,992 --> 00:07:07,160 STAYING IN FLORIDA? 123 00:07:07,226 --> 00:07:09,929 STAYING IN FLORIDA IN THE SENATE RACE, IT LOOKS LIKE REPUBLICAN 124 00:07:09,996 --> 00:07:16,102 MARCO RUBIO HAS DEFEATED DEMOCRATIC RISING STAR VAL 125 00:07:16,169 --> 00:07:17,336 DEMINGS. 126 00:07:17,403 --> 00:07:20,306 DEMINGS WAS ON THE SHORT LIST TO BE BIDEN'S RUNNING MATE WHILE 127 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:23,075 RUBIO IS ON THE SHORT LIST FOR BEING SHORT. 128 00:07:23,142 --> 00:07:30,683 UP IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU HAS BEEN 129 00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:33,553 ELECTED GOVERNOR. 130 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:35,688 IN THE OTHER ONE OF-- WHICHEVER THOSE STATES 131 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:39,358 IT IS, VERMONT, THE SENATE RACE HAS WRAPPED UP, AND DEMOCRAT 132 00:07:39,425 --> 00:07:42,995 PETER WELCH IS THE WINNER. 133 00:07:43,062 --> 00:07:45,731 ( APPLAUSE ) AT 75, AT 75 YEARS OLD, WELCH IS 134 00:07:45,798 --> 00:07:50,436 THE OLDEST PERSON EVER ELECTED TO A FIRST TERM AS U.S. SENATOR. 135 00:07:50,503 --> 00:07:53,306 HOWEVER, AT 75, HE WILL ALSO BE ONE OF THE YOUNGEST MEMBERS OF 136 00:07:53,372 --> 00:07:55,441 THE SENATE. 137 00:07:55,508 --> 00:08:02,081 OVER IN INDIANA, INCUMBENT G.O.P. SENATOR TODD YOUNG HAS 138 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:05,051 WON REELECTION WITHOUT THE 45th PRESIDENT ENDORSEMENT 139 00:08:05,117 --> 00:08:08,754 MAKING HIM ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REPUBLICANS TO HAVE 140 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:11,424 ZERO SUPPORT FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT. 141 00:08:11,490 --> 00:08:12,692 THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL? 142 00:08:12,758 --> 00:08:13,526 ERIC. 143 00:08:13,593 --> 00:08:14,727 ( LAUGHTER ) NOW, HERE'S THE THING. 144 00:08:14,794 --> 00:08:17,129 IN MIDTERMS, THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT ON THE BALLOT TONIGHT, SO 145 00:08:17,196 --> 00:08:19,565 WE'RE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND THE 146 00:08:19,632 --> 00:08:20,800 SENATE. 147 00:08:20,867 --> 00:08:24,303 THE REPUBLICANS ONLY NEED A NET GAIN OF ONE SEAT IN THE SENATE 148 00:08:24,370 --> 00:08:25,972 AND FIVE SEATS IN THE HOUSE. 149 00:08:26,038 --> 00:08:28,875 DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT HERE'S WHAT WE DO 150 00:08:28,941 --> 00:08:33,212 KNOW: THERE ARE TWO POSSIBLE OUTCOMES TONIGHT. 151 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:35,281 EITHER THE DEMOCRATS WILL GET MORE VOTES AND KEEP THE 152 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:39,852 CONGRESS, OR THE DEMOCRATS WILL GET MORE VOTES, LOSE THE 153 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:40,653 CONGRESS. 154 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,257 THAT'S THE WAY OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS? 155 00:08:44,323 --> 00:08:46,259 ( LAUGHTER ) CHANCES LOOK ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR 156 00:08:46,325 --> 00:08:51,397 REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AS 538 GIVES THEM AN 84% CHANCE OF 157 00:08:51,464 --> 00:08:52,498 TAKING CONTROL. 158 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:55,368 NOW, TO ARRIVE AT THAT REPUBLICAN ADVENTURE, POLLSTERS 159 00:08:55,434 --> 00:08:59,672 ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT THE ONE I LIKED ANSWERED IS, 160 00:08:59,739 --> 00:09:01,207 "HAS ANYONE HEARD OF JANUARY 6? 161 00:09:01,274 --> 00:09:03,976 REMEMBER WHEN THE FOLKS WHO GOT ELECTED TODAY SUPPORTED A 162 00:09:04,043 --> 00:09:06,545 VIOLENT ATTACK ON OUR GOVERNMENT? 163 00:09:06,612 --> 00:09:10,983 DID PEOPLE FORGET THE ZIP TIES, THE SHAMAN WITH THE HORNS, THE 164 00:09:11,050 --> 00:09:14,053 BEATINGUCH OF THE COPS, THE CALLS TO HANG THE VICE 165 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:14,553 PRESIDENT. 166 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:17,623 DID I MISS ANYTHING? 167 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:18,424 >> POO-POO. 168 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:20,126 >> Stephen: THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 169 00:09:20,192 --> 00:09:23,429 IF THE DEMOCRATS LOSE THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI WILL BE REPLACE 170 00:09:23,496 --> 00:09:26,499 BIDE KEVIN McCARTHY, A GUY WHO IS ON TAPE AFTER JANUARY 6, 171 00:09:26,565 --> 00:09:29,735 ASKING FOR THE EX-PRESIDENT TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE, BUT 172 00:09:29,802 --> 00:09:32,838 INSTEAD, THREE WEEKS LATER, HE REMOVED HIS OWN BALLS AND HAND 173 00:09:32,905 --> 00:09:35,608 DELIVERED THEM TO MAR-A-LAGO. 174 00:09:35,675 --> 00:09:39,011 IF McCARTHY IS ELECTED SPEAKER, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS 175 00:09:39,078 --> 00:09:43,316 ON HIS PARTY'S AGENDA IS REVENGE ON THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE. 176 00:09:43,382 --> 00:09:46,652 THEY PLAN TO SUBPOENA MEMBERS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE, 177 00:09:46,719 --> 00:09:49,355 PARTICULARLY LIZ CHENEY. 178 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:53,359 HEY, G.O.P., I KNOW YOU'RE FEELING CONFIDENT, BUT ARE YOU 179 00:09:53,426 --> 00:09:56,028 SURE YOU WANT TO MESS WITH THE CHENEYS? 180 00:09:56,095 --> 00:09:58,564 ( LAUGHTER ) IF YOU MESS WITH THE LIZ, YOU 181 00:09:58,631 --> 00:10:02,501 MAY AWAKEN THE DICK. 182 00:10:02,568 --> 00:10:04,904 ( LAUGHTER ) REMEMBER THE SHOTGUN TO THE 183 00:10:04,971 --> 00:10:05,638 FACE? 184 00:10:05,705 --> 00:10:09,241 THAT'S HOW HE TREATS HIS FRIENDS. 185 00:10:09,308 --> 00:10:13,212 LONG HAS HE SLUMBERED, AND OH, HOW HE HUNGERS. 186 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,482 YOU WON'T HEAR HIM COMING BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE A 187 00:10:16,549 --> 00:10:19,952 HEARTBEAT. 188 00:10:20,019 --> 00:10:22,722 ( LAUGHTER ) G.O.P. ALSO PLANS TO MOVE-- 189 00:10:22,788 --> 00:10:26,125 ( APPLAUSE ) ALSO PLANS TO MOVE THIS COUNTRY 190 00:10:26,192 --> 00:10:26,692 FORWARD. 191 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:30,596 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 192 00:10:30,663 --> 00:10:34,166 BY INVESTIGATING THE FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALS OF HUNTER BIDEN. 193 00:10:34,233 --> 00:10:36,969 I KNEW WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE ELECTED PRESIDENT HUNTER BIDEN 194 00:10:37,036 --> 00:10:40,039 ( CLUCKING ) THAT SOUND MEANS WE HAVE AN 195 00:10:40,106 --> 00:10:43,009 UPDATE FROM THE CBS MIDTERMS PROJECTION COOP. 196 00:10:43,075 --> 00:10:43,976 WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE? 197 00:10:44,043 --> 00:10:45,111 THERE'S STEVE CLUCKNACKI. 198 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:50,750 JOINED BY HIS COLLEAGUE, JOHN CHICKEN A LA KING. 199 00:10:50,816 --> 00:10:51,951 WHAT ARE YOU SEEING FELLAS? 200 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:55,454 OH, NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE MY COLLEAGUES HAD A LITTLE ACCIDENT 201 00:10:55,521 --> 00:10:57,523 OFF THE COAST OF OREGON. 202 00:10:57,590 --> 00:11:00,760 A BIT OF A VOTE DUMP, SHALL WE SAY? 203 00:11:00,826 --> 00:11:05,331 JIM, CAN WE GET OUR HEAD STATISTICIAN, ROBIN FEARBURG TO 204 00:11:05,398 --> 00:11:08,100 GO IN THERE AND CLEAN UP THE MAP? 205 00:11:08,167 --> 00:11:09,735 YOU'RE DOING IMPORTANT WORK, ROBERT. 206 00:11:09,802 --> 00:11:14,707 ARE YOU-- ARE YOU ENJOYING WIPING UP CHICKEN POOP WHILE YOU 207 00:11:14,774 --> 00:11:16,208 WAIT FOR THE RESULTS TO COME IN? 208 00:11:16,275 --> 00:11:19,178 >> I USED TO WORK AT CNN. 209 00:11:19,245 --> 00:11:20,312 ( LAUGHTER ). 210 00:11:20,379 --> 00:11:22,214 >> Stepen: ONE RACE THAT MIGHT TEST OUR PATIENCE TONIGHT 211 00:11:22,281 --> 00:11:25,785 IS THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE RACE, WHICH PITS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 212 00:11:25,851 --> 00:11:30,623 JOHN FETTERMAN, SEEN HERE ABOUT TO SWAT A SATELLITE OUT OF LOWGH 213 00:11:30,689 --> 00:11:34,293 ORBIT AGAINST G.O.P. CANDIDATE AND REALTOR WHO NEVER SAID THERE 214 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,263 WASN'T A MURDER IN THIS HOUSE, DR. MEMET OZ. 215 00:11:37,329 --> 00:11:40,032 NOW, HERE'S THE THING, IN PENNSYLVANIA, THEY'RE NOT 216 00:11:40,099 --> 00:11:43,069 ALLOWED TO PROCESS MAIL-IN BALLOTS BEFORE ELECTION DAY. 217 00:11:43,135 --> 00:11:46,539 SO IT COULD BE SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE WE HAVE RESULTS. 218 00:11:46,605 --> 00:11:49,875 IF NO WINNER HAS BEEN DECLARED BY THE TIME THE NEW SENATE IS 219 00:11:49,942 --> 00:11:53,712 SWORN IN, THE VACANT SEATING THEN BE OCCUPIED BY SENATOR 220 00:11:53,779 --> 00:11:54,647 GRITTY. 221 00:11:54,713 --> 00:11:56,615 ( LAUGHTER ) AND I'M BEING TOLD-- IS THIS 222 00:11:56,682 --> 00:11:59,652 TRUE-- WE HAVE MORE RESULTS OUT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. 223 00:11:59,718 --> 00:12:02,922 JIM, CAN WE GET THE GEORGIA GRAPHIC UP THERE? 224 00:12:02,988 --> 00:12:06,292 ( LAUGHTER ) THAT APPEARS TO BE A BUNCH OF 225 00:12:06,358 --> 00:12:07,927 GRUBS AND A WARM NEST OF HAY. 226 00:12:07,993 --> 00:12:10,629 THAT'S NOT THE GRAPHIC I WAS COUNTING ON. 227 00:12:10,696 --> 00:12:13,466 JIM, WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CONTROL ROOM? 228 00:12:13,532 --> 00:12:15,267 JIM ( CLUCKING ) 229 00:12:15,334 --> 00:12:16,268 JIM, WHAT'S HAPPENING? 230 00:12:16,335 --> 00:12:19,738 OKAY, IT APPEARS THE CHICKENS HAVE SEIZED POWER. 231 00:12:19,805 --> 00:12:20,906 JIM, DON'T PANIC. 232 00:12:20,973 --> 00:12:24,443 I WILL SEND IN AN EXTRACTION TEAM WITH A FRY DADDY AND SOME 233 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:25,578 BUFFALO SAUCE. 234 00:12:25,644 --> 00:12:28,013 IN THE MEANTIME, WE'VE GOT A GREAT SHOW FOR YOU TONIGHT. 235 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,917 MY GUESTS ARE CBS NEWS ANCHOR JOHN DICKERSON. 236 00:12:31,984 --> 00:12:34,053 AND COMEDIAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA. 237 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,524 WHEN WE COME BACK, MORE ELECTION RESULTS. 238 00:12:38,591 --> 00:12:39,925 RIGHT OVER THERE. 239 00:12:39,992 --> 00:12:41,994 REAL ONES. 240 00:13:07,987 --> 00:13:09,955 ANYTHING ELSE COMING IN? 241 00:13:10,022 --> 00:13:10,523 HEY, EVERYBODY! 242 00:13:10,589 --> 00:13:17,463 GIVE IT UP FOR THE BAND! 243 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:19,798 JOE TAYLOR AND THE LATE SHOW BAND. 244 00:13:19,865 --> 00:13:20,766 JOE, I LIKE YOU. 245 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:23,102 I LIKE YOU OUT FRONT THERE. 246 00:13:23,169 --> 00:13:23,636 THAT'S VERY NICE. 247 00:13:23,702 --> 00:13:24,770 >> REALLY. 248 00:13:24,837 --> 00:13:27,039 >> Stephen: YEAH, I LIKE THE DRUMS DOWN FRONT LIKE THAT. 249 00:13:27,106 --> 00:13:28,340 THAT'S REALLY NICE. 250 00:13:28,407 --> 00:13:33,078 YOU'VE BEEN HIDING YOUR LIGHT UNDER A BUSHEL. 251 00:13:33,145 --> 00:13:35,648 WE HAVE GREAT GUESTS COMING UP HERE TONIGHT. 252 00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:39,485 DEAR FRIEND, AMAZING POLITICAL ANALYST AND CBS ANCHOR JOHN 253 00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:41,453 DICKERSON WILL BE OUT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT 254 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,888 WHAT'S HAPPENING TONIGHT. 255 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:44,089 FANTASTIC ANALYSIS. 256 00:13:44,156 --> 00:13:47,026 AND THE FANTASTIC COMEDIAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA IS GOING TO BE OUT 257 00:13:47,092 --> 00:13:48,260 AFTER THAT TONIGHT. 258 00:13:48,327 --> 00:13:50,629 ( APPLAUSE ) I'M WAITING FOR HIS ANALYSIS. 259 00:13:50,696 --> 00:13:53,933 AND I'M BEING TOLD-- IS THIS TRUE-- WE'VE GOT SOME NEW-- WE 260 00:13:53,999 --> 00:13:56,001 HAVE NEW RESULTS. 261 00:13:56,068 --> 00:13:57,269 THESE JUST CAME IN. 262 00:13:57,336 --> 00:13:59,905 THESE ARE ACTUAL THINGS ON CARDS, SO YOU KNOW THEY'RE REAL. 263 00:13:59,972 --> 00:14:03,475 ( LAUGHTER ) THIS IS-- DO WE GO WITH NEW YORK 264 00:14:03,542 --> 00:14:04,243 FIRST? 265 00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:05,444 DO WE HAVE THE GRAPHICS FOR THAT. 266 00:14:05,511 --> 00:14:09,181 NEW YORK, WE'RE JUST GETTING WORD DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT CATHY 267 00:14:09,248 --> 00:14:13,919 HOCHUL HAS DEFEATED MAGA CANDIDATE LEE ZELDIN TO REMAIN 268 00:14:13,986 --> 00:14:15,087 GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. 269 00:14:15,154 --> 00:14:18,157 THIS MARKS THE HISTORIC FIRST TIME NEW YORK HAS EVER HAD A 270 00:14:18,224 --> 00:14:20,226 FEMALE GOVERNOR ON PURPOSE. 271 00:14:22,428 --> 00:14:23,896 YEAH, THERE YOU GO. 272 00:14:23,963 --> 00:14:26,532 ALL RIGHT, PENNSYLVANIA. 273 00:14:26,599 --> 00:14:27,967 THIS IS A BIG ONE? 274 00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:32,204 PENNSYLVANIA WE SAW A HEATED MATCH BETWEEN DEMOCRAT JOSH 275 00:14:32,271 --> 00:14:42,948 SHAPIRO AND FAR-RIGHT NUT JOB CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST OMAR DG 276 00:14:43,015 --> 00:14:44,083 MASTRIANO. 277 00:14:44,149 --> 00:14:46,452 TONIGHT, HE'S ONCE AGAIN HONORING CONFEDERATE HISTORY BY 278 00:14:46,518 --> 00:14:47,786 LOSING IN PENNSYLVANIA. 279 00:14:47,853 --> 00:14:51,557 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 280 00:14:51,624 --> 00:14:55,694 REMEMBER GETTYSBURG! 281 00:14:55,761 --> 00:15:00,432 AND THEN DOWN IN NORTH CAROLINA, THIS WAS EXPECTED, IN NORTH 282 00:15:00,499 --> 00:15:06,338 CAROLINA SENATE RACE WE GOT WORD REPUBLICAN TED BUDD HAS BEATEN 283 00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:09,675 CHERI BEASLEY WHICH IS TOO BAD FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. 284 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:13,312 ONE WAS I WAS REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HEADLINE, "CHERI 285 00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:15,748 BEASLEY SMOKES BUDD." 286 00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:17,583 THERE'S ALSO EXCITING NEWS-- IS THIS NEW? 287 00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:19,618 WE HAVE THE RESULTS ON THIS? 288 00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:23,389 EXCITING NEWS OUT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE RACE, DEMOCRAT 289 00:15:23,455 --> 00:15:30,763 MAGGIE HASAN HAS DEFEATED UL ULTRAMAGA DON BOLDUC. 290 00:15:30,829 --> 00:15:34,900 BOLDUC WAS AN ELECTION DENIER, AND FITTINGLY HIS BIT BID FOR 291 00:15:34,967 --> 00:15:36,468 THE SENATE HAS BEEN DENIED. 292 00:15:36,535 --> 00:15:43,008 WE'RE GETTING RESULTS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA RACE, HENRY McMASTER 293 00:15:43,075 --> 00:15:45,377 DEFEATED CHALLENGER JOE CUNNINGHAM. 294 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:47,613 CUNNINGHAM BEGAN TO SUSPECT HE MIGHT LOSE WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE 295 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,115 WAS A DEMOCRAT RUNNING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 296 00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:52,885 WE ALSO HAVE RESULTS FROM THE ARKNSAS GOVERNOR'S RACE, WHICH 297 00:15:52,951 --> 00:15:57,990 HAS BEEN CALLED FOR FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY SARAH 298 00:15:58,057 --> 00:15:59,258 HUCKABEE SANDERS ( BOO ) 299 00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:03,495 BY THAT SOUND I'M GUESSING THAT YOU MIGHT REMEMBER HER FROM HER 300 00:16:03,562 --> 00:16:07,666 HIT COLLECTION, "PODIUM LIES, MORE PODIUM LIES, AND NOW THAT'S 301 00:16:07,733 --> 00:16:10,302 WHAT I CALL PODIUM LIES." 302 00:16:10,369 --> 00:16:15,374 THE COLORADO GOVERNOR'S RACE GOES TO INCUMBENT JARED POLIS, 303 00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:19,478 WHO EARLIER THIS YEAR, EARLIER THIS YEAR, SIGNED AN EXCLUSIVE 304 00:16:19,545 --> 00:16:22,247 ORDER PROTECTING MARIJUANA USERS' RIGHTS. 305 00:16:22,314 --> 00:16:29,188 SO HIS VICTORY WAS SECURED DUE TO HIGH VOTER TURNOUT 306 00:16:29,254 --> 00:16:30,689 ( RIM SHOT ) THANK YOU, JOE. 307 00:16:30,756 --> 00:16:32,825 IT HITS HARDER THE CLOSER YOU GET. 308 00:16:32,891 --> 00:16:36,929 STAYING IN COLORADO, I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT DEMOCRAT MICHAEL 309 00:16:36,995 --> 00:16:42,000 BENNET HAS SECURED AN EASY VICTORY. 310 00:16:42,067 --> 00:16:43,736 THIS IS SEEN AS AN EARLY BELLWETHER FOR DEMOCRATS. 311 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,605 AND I'M HAPPY FOR MICHAEL BENNET. 312 00:16:46,672 --> 00:16:49,475 MY ONLY REGRET IS HE IS NOT INTERESTING ENOUGH TO WRITE A 313 00:16:49,541 --> 00:16:50,175 JOKE ABOUT. 314 00:16:50,242 --> 00:16:53,145 AND WE'VE HAD HIM ON THIS SHOW. 315 00:16:53,212 --> 00:16:55,247 AND I REMEMBER NOTHING. 316 00:16:55,314 --> 00:16:59,585 AND I JUST SHOWED HIS PHOTO, AND I'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN HIS FACE. 317 00:16:59,651 --> 00:17:02,154 ( LAUGHTER ) CONGRATULATIONS. 318 00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:05,457 WE HAVE-- WE HAVE SOME RESULTS-- IS THIS MARYLAND? 319 00:17:05,524 --> 00:17:08,594 WE HAVE RESULTS FROM THE MARYLAND GOVERNOR'S RACE WHERE 320 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:16,068 DEMOCRAT WES MOORE HAS DEFEATED DAN COX, MAKING MOORE THE FIRST 321 00:17:16,135 --> 00:17:17,936 BLACK GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND. 322 00:17:18,003 --> 00:17:22,241 ( APPLAUSE ) WES MOORE, PREVIOUSLY BEST KNOWN 323 00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:26,378 AS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "THE OTHER WES MOORE," HE NOW MOVES 324 00:17:26,445 --> 00:17:27,613 TO THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION. 325 00:17:27,679 --> 00:17:28,547 CONGRATULATIONS TO WES MOORE. 326 00:17:28,614 --> 00:17:30,149 OR THE OTHER WES MOORE. 327 00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:32,084 IT'S TOO EARLY TO TELL. 328 00:17:32,151 --> 00:17:36,488 APPARENTLY, VOTERS DID NOT RESPOND TO HIS OPPONENT DAN 329 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:41,460 COX'S CHESAPEAKE BAY SEAFOOD CAMPAIGN EVENT-- "COX HAS 330 00:17:41,527 --> 00:17:42,828 CRABS." 331 00:17:42,895 --> 00:17:47,366 OUT-- OUT IN SOUTH DAKOTA, GOVERNORS RACE HAS BEEN CALLED 332 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:51,603 FOR REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT KRISTI NOME. 333 00:17:51,670 --> 00:17:54,506 THE RESULT IS NO SURPRISE, THEY'RE KNOWN FOR THREE THINGS, 334 00:17:54,573 --> 00:17:57,609 BEING A RED STATE, MOUNT RUSHMORE AND ONLY BEING FAMOUS 335 00:17:57,676 --> 00:17:59,311 FOR THOSE FIRST TWO THINGS. 336 00:17:59,378 --> 00:18:02,581 OUT IN ILLINOIS, WE'RE GETTING NEWS THAT THERE WILL BE A SECOND 337 00:18:02,648 --> 00:18:05,751 TERM FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER. 338 00:18:05,818 --> 00:18:10,923 ( APPLAUSE ) PRITZ KERR ALSO CONTINUES TO BE 339 00:18:10,989 --> 00:18:15,828 THE POLITICIAN WHOSE NAME MOST SOUNDS LIKE A WINE COOLER. 340 00:18:15,894 --> 00:18:16,929 BARTENDER I'LL TAKE A J.B. 341 00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:20,032 PRITZKER WITH JUST A LITTLE EXTRA PRITZ. 342 00:18:20,098 --> 00:18:27,005 ON THE WEST COAST THE POLLS HAVE BARELY CLOSED AND GAVIN NEWSOME 343 00:18:27,072 --> 00:18:28,874 HAS WON REELECTION. 344 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:30,676 ( APPLAUSE ). 345 00:18:30,742 --> 00:18:34,446 NEWSOME'S ULTIMATE VICTORY IS LIKELY TO BE A LANDSLIDE, WHICH 346 00:18:34,513 --> 00:18:37,816 SINCE THIS IS CALIFORNIA WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AN EARTHQUAKE AND 347 00:18:37,883 --> 00:18:39,017 WILDFIRE. 348 00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:41,920 ALASKA HASN'T EVEN CLOSED YET, BUT BECAUSE I LIKE THIS JOKE, 349 00:18:41,987 --> 00:18:52,030 I'M GOING TO SAY LISA MURKOWSKI HAS BEAT SHELLEY CHIBAKA. 350 00:18:52,097 --> 00:18:55,400 I BELIEVE WE HAVE HER CONCESSION SPEECH. 351 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:57,469 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH CBS NEWS ANCHOR, JOHN DICKERSON. 352 00:19:19,958 --> 00:19:28,901 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY! 353 00:19:28,967 --> 00:19:30,402 I HAVE ONE MORE RESULT HERE. 354 00:19:30,469 --> 00:19:31,603 THIS IS CONNECTICUT. 355 00:19:31,670 --> 00:19:36,341 IN THE RACE FOR CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT NED 356 00:19:36,408 --> 00:19:40,312 LAMONT HAS DEFEATED REPUBLICAN ROBERT STEFANOWSKI. 357 00:19:40,379 --> 00:19:44,283 ALTHOUGH THE RACE IS STILL A COMPLETE TOSS-UP WHEN IT COMES 358 00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:48,186 TO GUESSING WHICH ONE IS WHICH. 359 00:19:48,253 --> 00:19:53,525 >> Stephen: FOLKS, A MAN WHO WILL KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT, 360 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:54,860 MY FIRST GUEST IS CBS NEWS' CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST, AND 361 00:19:54,927 --> 00:19:58,196 ANCHOR OF "CBS NEWS PRIME TIME WITH JOHN DICKERSON." 362 00:19:58,263 --> 00:20:01,233 PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW," JOHN DICKERSON. 363 00:20:01,300 --> 00:20:01,867 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 364 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:03,835 ( APPLAUSE ) HELLO, JOHN! 365 00:20:18,350 --> 00:20:21,486 >> Stephen: NOW, YOU'VE SEEN ALL THE BREAKING-- BREAKING 366 00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:22,888 RACES WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT. 367 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:25,791 IS THERE SOMETHING-- BEFORE WE START, IS THERE SOMETHING YOU 368 00:20:25,857 --> 00:20:27,759 CAN BREAK RIGHT NOW. 369 00:20:27,826 --> 00:20:32,331 >> OUR PRODUCER SENT ME ARIZONA CBS IDENTIFIES ARIZONA GOVERNOR 370 00:20:32,397 --> 00:20:36,568 AND SENATE, BOTH AS LEAN DEMOCRAT AT THIS MOMENT. 371 00:20:36,635 --> 00:20:38,604 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: OKAY. 372 00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:42,007 >> SO THAT'S BEFORE-- I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST A 373 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:44,242 PROGNOSTICATION, BUT, OF COURSING, THOSE, YOU KNOW, THE 374 00:20:44,309 --> 00:20:48,246 ARIZONA SENATE RACE IS ONE DEMOCRATS CENTER TO HOLD IF THEY 375 00:20:48,313 --> 00:20:49,848 WANT TO STAY IN THE CONTROL OF THE SENATE. 376 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:53,118 AND OBVIOUSLY IN IN ARIZONA, YOU HAVE KARI LAKE ON THE REPUBLICAN 377 00:20:53,185 --> 00:20:56,054 SIDE WHO IS A THOROUGH ELECTION DENIER. 378 00:20:56,121 --> 00:20:58,757 >> Stephen: AND HAS SAID SHE WILL ACCEPT THE RESULTS IF SHE 379 00:20:58,824 --> 00:20:59,091 WINS. 380 00:20:59,157 --> 00:21:00,192 >> RIGHT. 381 00:21:00,258 --> 00:21:03,395 AND YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTION TENIER, FINCHAM, RUNNING FOR 382 00:21:03,462 --> 00:21:07,666 STOS, WHO SAID A VERSION OF THE SAME THING. 383 00:21:07,733 --> 00:21:11,069 AND BLAKE MASTERS HAS DENIED AND TRIED TO MODERATE, AS HE HAS ON 384 00:21:11,136 --> 00:21:13,538 A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT POSITIONS. 385 00:21:13,605 --> 00:21:15,807 THAT'S WHERE THAT'S GOING AND IT'S BEEN KIND OF IN KEEPING 386 00:21:15,874 --> 00:21:20,545 WITH THE NIGHT WHICH IS IT'S NOT THE OVERWHELM AGO IF SOMETHING'S 387 00:21:20,612 --> 00:21:23,281 LEADING DEM, THAT MEANS IT'S GOING IN THE DEMOCRATIC 388 00:21:23,348 --> 00:21:25,517 DIRECTION, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THE NIGHT HAS BEEN GOING, 389 00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:27,352 RELATIVE TO PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS. 390 00:21:27,419 --> 00:21:28,620 >> Stephen: FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR COMING OVER. 391 00:21:28,687 --> 00:21:33,492 I KNOW THAT WE BORROWED YOU FROM CBS NEWS MIDTERM COVERAGE, AND I 392 00:21:33,558 --> 00:21:35,427 DON'T WANT TO BE LATE HERE. 393 00:21:35,494 --> 00:21:38,964 I'M GOING TO STUFF YOU BACK IN THE PNEUMATIC TUBE AND SEND YOU 394 00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:41,933 BACK BECAUSE I CAN'T AFFORD THE LATE FEES. 395 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,205 WE MAY NOT KNOW-- WE HAVE SCLODDINGER'S ELECTION HERE SO 396 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:47,873 FAR. 397 00:21:47,939 --> 00:21:49,374 WE DON'T KNOW ALL THE RESULTS. 398 00:21:49,441 --> 00:21:52,878 WHAT IS VALUABLE FOR US TO KNOW SO FAR? 399 00:21:52,944 --> 00:21:58,083 AND HOW IS TONIGHT COMPARING TO THE EXPECTATIONS THAT WERE BEING 400 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:03,488 BUILT IN POLLING AND REPORTING AND LET'S SAY ON 538 THAT PEOPLE 401 00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:06,925 REFRESH ON A MINUTE-BY-MINUTE BASIS LEADING UP TO ELECTIONS 402 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:07,759 LIKE THIS? 403 00:22:07,826 --> 00:22:09,728 IS IT OVERTURNING THESE EXPECTATIONS? 404 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:12,798 >> YES, BUT A LOT OF THINGS-- LIKE 538 AND A LOT OF POLLING 405 00:22:12,864 --> 00:22:16,268 WOULD HAVE SAID HERE'S WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN, BUT IT'S WITHIN A 406 00:22:16,334 --> 00:22:16,735 RANGE. 407 00:22:16,802 --> 00:22:17,936 >> Stephen: RIGHT. 408 00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:20,305 >> AND WE'LL KNOW BY THE END OF THE NIGHT WHETHER WE'RE EVEN 409 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:21,506 WITHIN THE RANGE. 410 00:22:21,573 --> 00:22:24,276 I THINK AT THE MOMENT, WE'RE STILL-- AT THE MOMENT THINGS ARE 411 00:22:24,342 --> 00:22:25,844 NOT TURNING OUT THE WAY REPUBLICANS THOUGHT. 412 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:29,981 IF YOU LOOK AT THE RACES THEY HAD HOPED-- THEY HAD SORT OF 413 00:22:30,048 --> 00:22:32,918 THREE SCENARIOS AND THEY'RE REFLECTED IN THREE RACES IN 414 00:22:32,984 --> 00:22:33,985 VIRGINIA. 415 00:22:34,052 --> 00:22:36,655 THEY'RE BASICALLY-- KEVIN McCARTHY WAS IN THE TENTH 416 00:22:36,722 --> 00:22:38,190 DISTRICT YESTERDAY. 417 00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:40,258 IN OTHER WORDS, THAT'S A DEEP BLUE AREA. 418 00:22:40,325 --> 00:22:44,429 JOE BIDEN WON THAT WITH 58% OF THE VOTE. 419 00:22:44,496 --> 00:22:47,666 TERRY McAULIFFE WON IT WITH 5% OF THE VOTE. 420 00:22:47,733 --> 00:22:50,736 IF YOU SPEND TIME THERE, YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO WIN IN 421 00:22:50,802 --> 00:22:53,371 DEEP BLUE TERRITORIES. 422 00:22:53,438 --> 00:22:56,007 THEY DIDN'T WIN IN THE TENTH OR FIFTH. WITH 423 00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:58,443 THE REPUBLICANS PICKED UP ONE SEAT OF THE THREE THEY THOUGHT 424 00:22:58,510 --> 00:23:00,545 THEY WERE GOING TO GET. 425 00:23:00,612 --> 00:23:01,913 EXPECTATIONS, THEY'RE UNDERPERFORMING RELATIVE TO 426 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:04,716 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WON'T STILL TAKE CONTROL OF THE HOUSE. 427 00:23:04,783 --> 00:23:06,918 AT THE MOMENT THEY HAVE ENOUGH SEATS THEY WON THAT THEY FLIPPED 428 00:23:06,985 --> 00:23:08,887 THEY WILL TAKE CONTROL OF THE HOUSE. 429 00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:12,290 AND THE KEY QUESTION IS WHAT KIND OF HOUSE ARE YOU IN CONTROL 430 00:23:12,357 --> 00:23:13,458 OF? 431 00:23:13,525 --> 00:23:15,093 IS THERE THEY ONLY HAVE TO PICK UP FIVE TO BECOME THE NEXT 432 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,695 SPEAKER. 433 00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:18,930 IT'S A FAIT ACCOMPLI HE WILL BE THE SPEAKER? 434 00:23:18,997 --> 00:23:21,500 >> IF YOU ONLY PICK UP SIX, EVERY MAN OR WOMAN IS A KING 435 00:23:21,566 --> 00:23:25,470 BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUCH SMALL MARGINS, EVERYBODY CAN SAY, WELL 436 00:23:25,537 --> 00:23:27,139 YOU CAN'T REALLY AFFORD LOSE MY VOTE. 437 00:23:27,205 --> 00:23:30,542 WHEN YOU WIN A SPEAKERSHIP YOU WANT TO HAVE A BIG MARGIN SO YOU 438 00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:32,711 CAN ALLOW PEOPLE TO BE KIND OF CRAZY AND OVER THERE. 439 00:23:32,778 --> 00:23:37,349 THINK ABOUT WHAT IT'S BEEN LIKE TO BE A REPUBLICAN SPEAKER. 440 00:23:37,415 --> 00:23:42,020 NEWT GINGRICH BECAME SPEAKER AND WAS ULTIMATELY PUSHED OUT AND HE 441 00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:45,090 SAID THE ULTRACONSERVATIVE MEMBERS WERE CANNIBALS. 442 00:23:45,157 --> 00:23:48,627 AND JOHN BOEHNER CALLED THEM POLITICAL TERRORISTS. 443 00:23:48,693 --> 00:23:52,197 SO McCARTHY MAY VERY WELL BE SPEAKER, BUT HE MAY HAVE A VERY 444 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:55,200 RESTIVE CAUCUS THAT MAKES HIS LIFE VERY DIFFICULT AND WITH A 445 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,536 SMALL MARGIN, THAT MAKES IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT. 446 00:23:57,602 --> 00:24:00,005 >> Stephen: ONE THING I HAVE HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT IS THERE'S 447 00:24:00,071 --> 00:24:02,607 VERY LITTLE SPLIT-TICKET VOTING ANYMORE. 448 00:24:02,674 --> 00:24:04,209 BUT YOU'RE SEEING SOME OF IT THIS TIME AROUND. 449 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:05,310 >> YEAH. 450 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:06,611 >> Stephen: WHERE ARE WE SEEING SOME EVIDENCE OF THAT. 451 00:24:06,678 --> 00:24:08,180 >> IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 452 00:24:08,246 --> 00:24:13,018 GOVERNOR SUNUNU, THE REPUBLICAN, WAS REELECTED BY A WIDE MARGIN. 453 00:24:13,084 --> 00:24:15,754 BUT BOLDUC, THE REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE, WAS BEATEN 454 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:20,926 RATHER HANDILY, BY MAGGIE HASSAN, THE DEMOCRAT. 455 00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:24,029 THERE YOU HAD VOTERS WHO WERE VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRAT FOR 456 00:24:24,095 --> 00:24:27,098 SENATE, BUT VOTING FOR THE REPUBLICAN FOR GOVERNOR. 457 00:24:27,165 --> 00:24:30,368 OR THEY WERE VOTING FOR THE REPUBLICAN FOR GOVERNOR AND THEN 458 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:32,404 JUST LEAVING THE VOTING BOOTH. 459 00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:37,275 IN GEORGIA, THOUGH IT HASN'T BEEN CALLED YET, BRIAN KEMP WON 460 00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:39,811 HANDILY, BY I THINK TWO MILLION VOTES. 461 00:24:39,878 --> 00:24:41,847 HERSCHEL WALKER IS AT ABOUT 179. 462 00:24:41,913 --> 00:24:46,284 WHICH MEANS 200,000 VOTERS IN GEORGIA, REPUBLICANS, EITHER 463 00:24:46,351 --> 00:24:50,055 VOTE FORWARD KEMP-WARNOCK, REPUBLICAN-DEMOCRAT, OR JUST 464 00:24:50,121 --> 00:24:52,724 KEMP AND LEFT TOWN, OR LEFT THE VOTING BOOTH. 465 00:24:52,791 --> 00:24:54,993 >> Stephen: WHEN YOU CAME OUT HERE, WHERE DID THAT RACE STAND? 466 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:59,631 WHEN I CAME OUT HERE TO START THE SHOW, IT WAS FOUR-TENSION OF 467 00:24:59,698 --> 00:25:02,000 1% WITH NEITHER CANDIDATE HAVING 50%. 468 00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:03,101 >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 469 00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:04,536 NEITHER HAS 50%. 470 00:25:04,603 --> 00:25:05,804 AND THEY MAY NOT. 471 00:25:05,871 --> 00:25:08,807 CHASE OLIVER, THE THIRD PERSON RUNNING, WHO HAS 2% OF THE VOTE, 472 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:10,442 MAY MAKE THIS A RUNOFF. 473 00:25:10,508 --> 00:25:13,345 IF IT'S A RUNOFF, DECEMBER 6 WILL BE ANOTHER ELECTION. 474 00:25:13,411 --> 00:25:16,748 >> Stephen: JUST LIKE LAST TIME. 475 00:25:16,815 --> 00:25:17,949 YES. 476 00:25:18,016 --> 00:25:19,951 WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF WE GET TO BASICALLY THE REPUBLICANS AND 477 00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:22,320 DEMOCRATS GET WHAT THEY NEED, BASICALLY ENTIRE CONTROL OF THE 478 00:25:22,387 --> 00:25:25,056 SENATE COULD COME DOWN TO GEORGIA, THE ENTIRE POLITICAL 479 00:25:25,123 --> 00:25:29,294 WORLD BETWEEN NOW AND DECEMBER 6 COULD MOVE TO GEORGIA AND THAT 480 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:32,764 RACE BETWEEN JUST WARNOCK AND WALKER COULD BE WHAT IT ALL 481 00:25:32,831 --> 00:25:34,733 COMES DOWN TO FOR CONTROL OF THE SENATE. 482 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:36,768 AND THEN EVERYTHING WILL GO BONJERS. 483 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:40,272 >> Stephen: WELL, ON THAT BONKERS NOTE, WE'RE GOING TO 484 00:25:40,338 --> 00:25:43,108 TAKE A PAUSE HERE, TAKE A COMMERCIAL BREAK, AND WE'LL BE 485 00:25:43,174 --> 00:25:45,176 RIGHT BACK WITH MORE JOHN DICKERSON, EVERYBODY. 486 00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:09,968 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY. 487 00:26:12,971 --> 00:26:15,907 WE'RE BACK HERE WITH CBS NEWS' OWN, JOHN DICKERSON. 488 00:26:15,974 --> 00:26:17,909 ALL RIGHT, JOHN, BEFORE WE LEFT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE 489 00:26:17,976 --> 00:26:19,711 BALANCE OF THE SENATE, AMONG OTHER THINGS. 490 00:26:19,778 --> 00:26:23,148 AND BEFORE I CAME OUT HERE, IT WAS STILL UNKNOWN WHAT'S GOING 491 00:26:23,214 --> 00:26:26,518 ON IN PENNSYLVANIA AND GEORGIA AND NEVADA, WHICH WERE THE THREE 492 00:26:26,584 --> 00:26:29,254 STATES LEFT LIKELY TO FLIP IN EITHER DIRECTION. 493 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:32,057 WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT GEORGIA YET, THOUGH IT'S VERY TIGHT. 494 00:26:32,123 --> 00:26:33,224 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ON NEVADA. 495 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:35,694 I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON 496 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:36,962 PENNSYLVANIA. 497 00:26:37,028 --> 00:26:43,368 >> YES, BO ERICSON SAYS CBS SAYS PENNSYLVANIA SENATE IS NOW LEAN 498 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:44,302 DEM. 499 00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:47,739 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: SO WHY CAN THEY-- 500 00:26:47,806 --> 00:26:51,977 WHY CAN THEY MAKE THAT SUGGESTION, SHALL WE SAY? 501 00:26:52,043 --> 00:26:57,215 >> BECAUSE OUR ELECTIONING DIRECTOR, ANTHONY SAL VATO, SAID 502 00:26:57,282 --> 00:26:59,951 FETTERMAN IS LOOKING GOOD BECAUSE THE OUTSTANDING VOTE IS 503 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:01,519 BASICALLY IN PHILLY AND PITTSBURGH. 504 00:27:01,586 --> 00:27:04,089 IF YOU THINK OF PENNSYLVANIA -- >> Stephen: AND PITTSBURGH 505 00:27:04,155 --> 00:27:06,291 IS-- >> DEMOCRATIC VOTES ARE ON THE 506 00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:09,894 PHILLY AND PITTSBURGH, DEPENDING WHERE YOU'RE SITTING AND THE 507 00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:12,063 MIDDLE IS WHERE THE REPUBLICANS GET THEIR VOTE. 508 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:16,101 THE OUTSTANDING VOTE IS FETTERMAN'S, AND BASICALLY OZ 509 00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:19,371 WOULD HAVE TO WIN 52% OF WHAT'S LEFT. 510 00:27:19,437 --> 00:27:19,904 GIVEN THE WAY THIS RACE IS, THAT'S A HARDER HILL FOR HIM TO 511 00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:21,072 CLIMB. 512 00:27:21,139 --> 00:27:25,110 THAT'S WHY THEY'RE SAYING LEANING DEM, NOT TOTALLY THERE, 513 00:27:25,176 --> 00:27:27,912 BUT. 514 00:27:27,979 --> 00:27:29,581 >> Stephen: I GOT TWO QUESTIONS THAT ARE SORT OF 515 00:27:29,647 --> 00:27:34,986 RELATED TO EACH OTHER, AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF 516 00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:38,023 REPUBLICANS MOSTLY, 65% OF REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT THERE 517 00:27:38,089 --> 00:27:40,992 WAS SHENANIGANS IN THE LAST ELECTION. 518 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:44,396 AND THAT WAS ALL, OF COURSING, LED BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT 519 00:27:44,462 --> 00:27:47,065 GOING OUT THERE AND SAYING THIS WAS ALL ROBBED. 520 00:27:47,132 --> 00:27:47,999 WE WERE WINNING. 521 00:27:48,066 --> 00:27:49,000 WE DID WIN. 522 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:53,204 AT THE TIME, BACK IN 2020, YOU PUT IT VERY WELL. 523 00:27:53,271 --> 00:27:57,409 YOU SAID, "BY DOING THIS AND BY REPUBLICANS NOT STANDING UP TO 524 00:27:57,475 --> 00:28:01,546 THAT ACCUSATION, THAT THEY ARE BURNING THE DEMOCRATIC FURNITURE 525 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:04,082 AND THAT THERE WILL BE A PRICE TO PAY. 526 00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:06,651 ARE WE SEEING ANY OF THAT PRICE REFLECTED IN THIS YEAR'S 527 00:28:06,718 --> 00:28:08,319 CAMPAIGN AND IN ANY OF THESE RESULTS SO FAR? 528 00:28:08,386 --> 00:28:13,091 >> WELL, CONGRESSWOMAN IN THE SECOND DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA 529 00:28:13,158 --> 00:28:13,825 LOST. 530 00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:15,060 SHE'S ON THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE. 531 00:28:15,126 --> 00:28:19,364 AND YOU HAVE OF COURSE, CHENEY AND KINZINGER WHO WERE BASICALLY 532 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:21,132 PUSHED OUT OF POLITICS. 533 00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:24,903 I THINK OF THE TRUMP 10, EIGHT OF THEM ARE NO LONGER RETURNS-- 534 00:28:24,969 --> 00:28:28,406 10 VOTE ARE FOR TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT, EIGHT ARE NOT 535 00:28:28,473 --> 00:28:29,607 COMING BACK. 536 00:28:29,674 --> 00:28:31,943 ON THE OTHER HAND, IN TERMS OF MOATOVATION AND TURNOUT, THAT 537 00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:34,479 MAY BE ONE OF THE THINGS WE FIND. 538 00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:37,015 OUR EXIT POLLING, INFLATION AND ABORTION ARE TOP OF MIND. 539 00:28:37,082 --> 00:28:39,951 THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY, THOUGH, IT'S INTERESTING, HALF 540 00:28:40,018 --> 00:28:43,288 OF THEM ARE DEMOCRATS SAYING WE'RE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT 541 00:28:43,354 --> 00:28:44,489 REPUBLICAN ELECTION DENIERS. 542 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:47,692 THE OTHER HALF ARE REPUBLICAN ELECTION DENIERS SAYING VOTER 543 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:49,394 FRAUD AND A VARIETY OF OTHER THINGS. 544 00:28:49,461 --> 00:28:51,896 WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE SAY, "DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT," 545 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:54,632 FOR A LOT OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS THAT MEANS SOMETHING VERY 546 00:28:54,699 --> 00:28:55,767 DIFFERENT. 547 00:28:55,834 --> 00:28:57,335 IT'S NOT JUST A MESSAGE TO DEMOCRATS AND THAT'S SOMETHING 548 00:28:57,402 --> 00:28:58,837 THAT'S BEEN INTERESTING IN THIS ELECTION. 549 00:28:58,903 --> 00:29:05,977 >> Stephen: THE TOP, SO FAR--UBI LAST TIME IN 2020 WAS CHRIS 550 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:08,480 KREBS, HORATIO TO THE BRIDGE SAYING TO THE ADMINISTRATION, 551 00:29:08,546 --> 00:29:10,682 NO, THERE WASN'T OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE WITH THIS ELECTION. 552 00:29:10,748 --> 00:29:11,749 YOU REALLY DID LOSE. 553 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:13,985 IT WAS A VERY SECURE ELECTION. 554 00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:20,892 THIS TIME AROUND YOU HAVE OTHER TOP ELECTION SECURITY EXPERTS 555 00:29:20,959 --> 00:29:25,897 SAYING WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN ANY EITHER FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC 556 00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:27,432 SHENANIGANS WITH OUR ELECTIONS. 557 00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:32,070 YET, 65% OF REPUBLICANS, AS I SAID, BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE 558 00:29:32,137 --> 00:29:33,438 SOME-- DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THE RESULTS. 559 00:29:33,505 --> 00:29:38,076 HOW DO YOU, AS YOU REPORT THIS, THESE RESULTS, "A," DO YOU KEEP 560 00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:40,512 THAT STAT IN MIND AS YOU TALK ABOUT IT? 561 00:29:40,578 --> 00:29:47,051 AND WHAT DO YOU DO TO TRY TO-- I DON'T KNOW-- ELIST SOME TRUST IN 562 00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:49,254 THE INFORMATION YOU'RE GETTING AND TRANSMITTING? 563 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,724 >> BEFORE I GET TO THAT, I DO WANT TO STEP BACK FOR A SECOND. 564 00:29:52,790 --> 00:29:54,626 THAT'S THE EXTRAORDINARY THING ABOUT THIS ELECTION. 565 00:29:54,692 --> 00:29:57,195 SO FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS, WHENEVER A PRESIDENT'S PARTY HAS 566 00:29:57,262 --> 00:29:59,864 CONTROLLED BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE AND THEY'VE GONE INTO 567 00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:02,800 THE MIDTERMS, THEY'VE LOST ONE OF THOSE TWO. 568 00:30:02,867 --> 00:30:06,638 THE SENATE FLIPPED CONTROL SEVEN TIMES, THE HOUSE FOUR TIMES. 569 00:30:06,704 --> 00:30:07,906 THAT'S OKAY. 570 00:30:07,972 --> 00:30:11,576 GOOD PARTISANSHIP MAY BRING OUT THE BEST IDEAS BUT WE DON'T HAVE 571 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:12,810 GOOD PARTISANSHIP. 572 00:30:12,877 --> 00:30:15,313 WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO WIN TONIGHT, 150 HAVE ALREADY 573 00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:17,448 WON WHO ARE LYING ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION. 574 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:21,286 AND THAT IS POISON THAT YOU'RE POURING INTO AN-- INTO THE 575 00:30:21,352 --> 00:30:22,687 AMERICAN SYSTEM. 576 00:30:22,754 --> 00:30:26,591 BECAUSE WE GIVE PEOPLE POWER BECAUSE WE HAVE FAITH IN THE 577 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:27,358 ELECTIONS. 578 00:30:27,425 --> 00:30:29,260 SO ELECTIONS CAN REFRESH DEMOCRACY. 579 00:30:29,327 --> 00:30:32,931 BUT YOU CAN'T REFRESH DEMOCRACY IF YOU'VE BEEN POURING POISON 580 00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:34,165 INTO IT. 581 00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:36,334 AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS ELECTION, REGARDLESS OF WHO 582 00:30:36,401 --> 00:30:36,935 TAKES CONTROL. 583 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:38,870 HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THIS? 584 00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:42,807 WELL, WE TRY TO BE SUPER TRANSPARENT ABOUT, AND WE ALSO 585 00:30:42,874 --> 00:30:46,444 HAVE SOMETHING CALLED "THE DEMOCRACY DESK." 586 00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:50,815 DAVID BECKER, WHO IS AN ELECTION LAW EXPERT, IS THERE AND CAN 587 00:30:50,882 --> 00:30:53,084 SAY, "HERE'S THE LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA. 588 00:30:53,151 --> 00:30:55,553 HERE'S WHAT CURING A BALLOT MEANS WHEN YOU HEAR THIS WORD. 589 00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:56,688 HERE'S THE TERMINOLOGY. 590 00:30:56,754 --> 00:30:58,189 DON'T BE CONFUSED BY IT. 591 00:30:58,256 --> 00:31:00,491 THERE'S A LONG TRADITION OF ELECTION LAW AND PROCEDURE." 592 00:31:00,558 --> 00:31:04,295 WHICH ACTUALLY WORKED QUITE WELL IN 2021, REGARDLESS OF WHAT 593 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:08,466 THOSE WHO ARE LYING ABOUT IT SAY T, WHOD REALLY WELL, AND IT 594 00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:10,501 APPEARS SO FAR TONIGHT IT'S WORKING WELL. 595 00:31:10,568 --> 00:31:12,904 WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPLAINING PATIENTLY HOW THE 596 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:17,508 PROCESS WORKS SO THAT PEOPLE WON'T THING THERE'S ANY 597 00:31:17,575 --> 00:31:20,111 SHENANIGANS BECAUSE WHEN THERE ISN'T INFORMATION, THOSE WHO 598 00:31:20,178 --> 00:31:23,615 HAVE ILL INTENT RUSH IN AND OFFER, YOU KNOW, SOME CRAZY 599 00:31:23,681 --> 00:31:24,782 THEORY. 600 00:31:24,849 --> 00:31:27,619 AND ONCE THE, YOU KNOW, A LIE GETS-- A LIE CAN GET HALFWAY 601 00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:30,688 AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH CAN GET ITS BOOTS ON. 602 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:32,957 >> Stephen: JOHN, THANK YOU FOR COMING OVER HERE AND GIVING 603 00:31:33,024 --> 00:31:34,225 US YOUR INFORMATION. 604 00:31:34,292 --> 00:31:36,027 GOOD LUCK GETTING BACK THERE. 605 00:31:36,094 --> 00:31:41,966 DON'T GET NORAH MAD AT ME. 606 00:31:42,033 --> 00:31:43,835 "CBS NEWS PRIME TIME WITH JOHN DICKERSON" STREAMS MONDAY 607 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:46,037 THROUGH THURSDAY, AND YOU CAN FIND MORE OF JOHN'S REPORTING 608 00:31:46,104 --> 00:31:51,175 TONIGHT AFTER OUR SHOW ON CBS' LIVE MIDTERM COVERAGE. 609 00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:53,244 JOHN DICKERSON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 610 00:32:14,999 --> 00:32:17,201 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY! 611 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:19,537 WELCOME BACK. 612 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:21,939 DO WE HAVE ANYTHING? 613 00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:23,074 NO NEW RESULTS? 614 00:32:23,141 --> 00:32:26,944 OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON. 615 00:32:27,011 --> 00:32:28,846 MY NEXT GUEST IS A COMEDIAN WHOSE NEW ONE-MAN SHOW, "THE OLD 616 00:32:28,913 --> 00:32:32,250 MAN & THE POOL," OPENS THIS SUNDAY ON BROADWAY. 617 00:32:32,317 --> 00:32:37,322 PLEASE WELCOME BACK "TO THE LATE SHOW," MIKE BIRBIGLIA! 618 00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:41,893 THERE YOU GO. 619 00:32:41,959 --> 00:32:42,427 ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ). 620 00:32:42,493 --> 00:32:44,028 >> HEY! 621 00:32:44,095 --> 00:32:49,967 HEY! 622 00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:51,102 >> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU. 623 00:32:51,169 --> 00:32:52,403 >> HOW ARE YOU? 624 00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:55,473 >> Stephen: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN HERE FOR A LIVE SHOW? 625 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:56,040 >> NO! 626 00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:57,075 THIS IS SO COOL. 627 00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:58,710 >> Stephen: A LIVE AUDIENCE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 628 00:32:58,776 --> 00:32:59,911 >> THIS IS SUPER COOL. 629 00:32:59,977 --> 00:33:02,814 >> Stephen: NOW, OBVIOUSLY, MIDTERMS ARE TODAY, SO I NEED TO 630 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,786 ASK YOU THE BIG QUESTION ON ALL THE VOTERS' MINDS: HOW DID YOU 631 00:33:08,853 --> 00:33:11,389 END UP IN A TAYLOR SWIFT VIDEO? 632 00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:14,926 YOU'RE IN TAYLOR SWIFT'S MUSIC VIDEO-- IT'S THE ONE QUESTION I 633 00:33:14,992 --> 00:33:16,094 HAVEN'T HEARD ANSWERED TONIGHT. 634 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,998 HOW DID YOU END UP IN A TAYLOR-- I DON'T ASSOCIATE YOU WITH 635 00:33:21,065 --> 00:33:22,200 TAY-TAY. 636 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:25,503 >> IT'S, YOU KNOW, I'M IN THE ANTIHERO VIDEO, WHICH IS-- IT 637 00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:26,771 WAS A FLUKY THING. 638 00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:34,912 IT WAS A FRIEND OF OURS, MUTUAL FRIEND OF ME AND TAYLOR, IS JACK 639 00:33:34,979 --> 00:33:35,680 ANTONOFF. 640 00:33:35,747 --> 00:33:36,447 >> Stephen: HOW DO YOU KNOW JACK? 641 00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:38,916 >> I HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR MANY YEARS. 642 00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:41,953 WE MET AT A MUSIC FESTIVAL ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO. 643 00:33:42,019 --> 00:33:43,521 >> Stephen: THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOU. 644 00:33:43,588 --> 00:33:44,389 THERE YOU ARE. 645 00:33:44,455 --> 00:33:47,125 >> IT JUST SO HAPPENED SHE WAS WRITING -- 646 00:33:47,191 --> 00:33:48,292 >> Stephen: THERE YOU ARE. 647 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:50,228 >> SHE WAS WRITING THE MUSIC VIDEO THE DAY THAT WE HAPPENED 648 00:33:50,294 --> 00:33:53,598 TO MEET,s AND WE WERE HAVING PIZZA WITH JACK, AND A BUNCH OF 649 00:33:53,664 --> 00:33:54,332 FOLKS.E. 650 00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:57,068 >> AND THEN SHE THOUGHT OH, YOU-- 651 00:33:57,135 --> 00:34:01,839 APPARENTLY, IN HER MIND, SHE THOUGHT THIS IS THE DISTONIC 652 00:34:01,906 --> 00:34:05,743 VERSION, THE MIERM VERSION OF WHAT MY SON WOULD BE. 653 00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:11,716 ( LAUGHTER ) AND THAT'S MY DREAM COME TRUE. 654 00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:13,751 THAT ENDED UP BEING MY DREAM COME TRUE. 655 00:34:13,818 --> 00:34:16,587 I GOT A TEXT FROM HER-- I DON'T KNOW, A AMONG OR TWO LATER. 656 00:34:16,654 --> 00:34:18,122 >> Stephen: YOU GOT A TEXT FROM HER. 657 00:34:18,189 --> 00:34:19,023 >> YEAH. 658 00:34:19,090 --> 00:34:21,893 >> Stephen: SO YOU HAVE HER PHONE NUMBER. 659 00:34:21,959 --> 00:34:24,028 >> SURE. 660 00:34:24,095 --> 00:34:25,196 OR A BURNER. 661 00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:27,765 OR A BURNER OF SOME KIND. 662 00:34:27,832 --> 00:34:29,567 I DON'T HAVE IT. 663 00:34:29,634 --> 00:34:31,269 >> Stephen: YOU COULD TEXT HER. 664 00:34:31,335 --> 00:34:34,772 >> I THOUGHT MAYBE I WAS JUST BEING CATFISHED. 665 00:34:34,839 --> 00:34:35,840 IT'S JUST A NUMBER. 666 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:38,376 >> Stephen: DID SHE SAY, "HEY, THIS IS TAYLOR SWIFT?" 667 00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:39,310 >> YEAH. 668 00:34:39,377 --> 00:34:40,578 >> Stephen: I WOULDN'T BELIEVE THAT, EITHER. 669 00:34:40,645 --> 00:34:47,351 >> I THOUGHT IT IS TAYLOR SWIFT OR SOMEONE CATFISHING ME WHO IS 670 00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:48,820 AN EXCELLENT WRITER. 671 00:34:48,886 --> 00:34:52,457 SHE SENT THE SCRIPT TO THE VIDEO THAT'S WONDERFUL AND VERY FUNNY. 672 00:34:52,523 --> 00:34:54,692 AND I THOUGHT THIS IS FANTASTIC. 673 00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:56,961 EITHER WAY, IT'S SORT OF A WIN-WIN. 674 00:34:57,028 --> 00:35:01,732 I GO, COUNT ME IN, EITHER TAYLOR SWIFT OR CATFISH PERSON. 675 00:35:01,799 --> 00:35:04,368 AND WE SHOT THE VIDEO, AND I THINK IT'S A RIOT, AND IT'S 676 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,171 SUPER COOL, JUST A LITTLE-- TO BE A LITTLE PARENT OF A BIG 677 00:35:07,238 --> 00:35:08,105 SUPER THING. 678 00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:10,942 >> Stephen: NOW, YOU'VE GOT A NEW SHOW HERE. 679 00:35:11,008 --> 00:35:15,146 IT'S A NEW ONE-MAN SHOW CALLED "THE OLD MAN & THE POOL." 680 00:35:15,213 --> 00:35:16,347 IT OPENS THIS SUNDAY. 681 00:35:16,414 --> 00:35:16,747 ( APPLAUSE ). 682 00:35:16,814 --> 00:35:17,315 >> THANK YOU! 683 00:35:17,381 --> 00:35:18,483 OH, MY GOD! 684 00:35:18,549 --> 00:35:19,584 ( APPLAUSE ). 685 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:22,186 >> Stephen: AT THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER UP HERE IN 686 00:35:22,253 --> 00:35:23,221 LINCOLN CENTER. 687 00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:25,223 OBVIOUSLY, ONE MORE SHOT OF THIS, JIM, RIGHT HERE. 688 00:35:25,289 --> 00:35:27,992 YOU KNOW, IT'S-- YOU KNOW,. 689 00:35:28,059 --> 00:35:34,499 >> MY WIFE TOOK THAT PHOTO MY WIFE, JENNY, TOOK THAT PHOTO. 690 00:35:34,565 --> 00:35:35,366 YEAH, FOR REAL. 691 00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:36,767 >> Stephen: YOU'RE SELLING IT WITH SEX. 692 00:35:36,834 --> 00:35:37,902 SO WHAT'S THE SHOW ABOUT? 693 00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:42,373 >> WELL, YEAH, I'M NEITHER THE OLD MAN NEAR THE POOL. 694 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,609 I'M-- IT'S ABOUT MORTALITY. 695 00:35:44,675 --> 00:35:47,278 IT'S ABOUT DEATH AND THINKING ABOUT MY OWN DEATH, AND 696 00:35:47,345 --> 00:35:52,183 BASICALLY, IT'S 80 MINUTES OF JOKES AND LAUGHTER AND STORIES 697 00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:54,719 ABOUT STRUGGLES WITH MY OWN HEALTH THAT ULTIMATELY TRIES TO 698 00:35:54,785 --> 00:35:57,822 MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AS HARD AS THEY CAN. 699 00:35:57,889 --> 00:36:00,424 AND I'VE HEAD REALLY COOL PERFORMING EXPERIENCE WITH 700 00:36:00,491 --> 00:36:04,695 TBECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MESSAGED ME ON INSTAGRAM AND 701 00:36:04,762 --> 00:36:06,998 SAID, "I CALLED MY PARENTS AFTER I LEFT. 702 00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:09,567 I TOLD THEM I LOVED THEM." 703 00:36:09,634 --> 00:36:10,101 >> Stephen: THAT'S LOVELY. 704 00:36:10,167 --> 00:36:11,502 >> IT'S AMAZING. 705 00:36:11,569 --> 00:36:15,506 AND IT'S BEEN-- I WAS DOING IT IN LOS ANGELES, AND A WOMAN 706 00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:19,677 AFTER THE SHOW SAID, "I FELT LIKE-- A FEW YEARS AGO I LOST A 707 00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:23,080 BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY, AND ONE OF THEM WAS MY DAD, AND 708 00:36:23,147 --> 00:36:25,750 TONIGHT I FELT LIKE I WAS LAUGHING WITH MY DAD." 709 00:36:25,816 --> 00:36:26,951 >> Stephen: THAT'S LOVELY. 710 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:32,557 >> EVERY NIGHT WHEN I DO THE SHOW VIVIAN BEAUMONT, I THINK OF 711 00:36:32,623 --> 00:36:33,558 THAT PERSON IN LOS ANGELES. 712 00:36:33,624 --> 00:36:34,659 THAT'S WHO IT'S FOR. 713 00:36:34,725 --> 00:36:36,260 >> Stephen: THINKING ABOUT YOUR MORTALITY, AND WHEN YOU 714 00:36:36,327 --> 00:36:39,463 THINK ABOUT YOUR MORTALITY, I SUPPOSE YOU THINK ABOUT 715 00:36:39,530 --> 00:36:39,931 EVERYBODY'S MORTALITY. 716 00:36:39,997 --> 00:36:41,165 >> SURE. 717 00:36:41,232 --> 00:36:43,734 >> Stephen: FOR ME THE WAY THE WHOLE THING IS SET UP, LIFE, THE 718 00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:45,636 WAY LIFE IS SET UP. 719 00:36:45,703 --> 00:36:52,343 DOES IT EVER SEEM LIKE A STUPID WAY TO SET THINGS UP FOR YOU 720 00:36:52,410 --> 00:36:54,178 DEATH SEEMS LIKE A STUPID WAY TO END LIFE. 721 00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:56,347 >> I THINK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME. 722 00:36:56,414 --> 00:36:59,817 IT'S ALL ABSURD AND THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH IT IS WITH JOKES IN 723 00:36:59,884 --> 00:37:00,751 A CERTAIN SENSE. 724 00:37:00,818 --> 00:37:02,320 THAT'S PART OF THE REASON I WROTE THE SHOW. 725 00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:07,224 AND I FEEL LIKE-- I FEEL LIKE-- ONE OF YOUR EXCUSERS WAS SAYING 726 00:37:07,291 --> 00:37:11,462 THE WAY YOU DESCRIBE THIS SHOW SOMETIMES IS THAT YOU'RE NOT 727 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,464 PUTTING THE SHOW ON FOR THESE PEOPLE. 728 00:37:13,531 --> 00:37:15,800 YOU'RE PUTTING ITING ON WITH THEM. 729 00:37:15,866 --> 00:37:16,801 >> Stephen: RIGHT. 730 00:37:16,867 --> 00:37:21,272 >> AND THAT'S WHAT MY SHOW IS LIKE IN A WAY. 731 00:37:21,339 --> 00:37:23,274 ( APPLAUSE ) THERE IS SOME AUDIENCE 732 00:37:23,341 --> 00:37:25,643 INTERACTION, AND THE GOAL IS THAT EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE, OKAY, 733 00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:27,845 WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER, AND WE'RE ALL GOING 734 00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:30,982 THROUGH THIS VERY ABSURD THING AT THE SAME TIME. 735 00:37:31,048 --> 00:37:34,352 >> Stephen: ONE OF THE PEOPLE AT YOUR SHOW RECENTLY WAS TOM 736 00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:34,652 HANKS. 737 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:35,553 >> YEAH. 738 00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:36,621 >> Stephen: AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S TOM HANKS. 739 00:37:36,687 --> 00:37:38,289 >> I KNOW! 740 00:37:38,356 --> 00:37:39,357 ROYALTY. 741 00:37:39,423 --> 00:37:39,924 >> Stephen: DID YOU KNOW HE WAS THERE WHEN YOU WERE 742 00:37:39,991 --> 00:37:40,257 PERFORMING? 743 00:37:40,324 --> 00:37:41,459 >> I DID. 744 00:37:41,525 --> 00:37:44,895 HE AND I WERE IN THIS MOVIE CALLED "THE MAN NAMED OTTO" THAT 745 00:37:44,962 --> 00:37:46,931 COMES OUT IN CHRISTMAS THAT IS SO GOOD. 746 00:37:46,998 --> 00:37:47,732 >> Stephen: THAT'S NICE. 747 00:37:47,798 --> 00:37:50,668 WHAT'S THAT LIKE TO PERFORM WITH HIM? 748 00:37:50,735 --> 00:37:52,870 >> MAN, IT WAS COOL, BUT ALSO SCARY. 749 00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:56,407 YOU KNOW THE PHRASE, "AN ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE." 750 00:37:56,474 --> 00:37:58,609 >> Stephen: WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR LINES, YOU'RE LATE, 751 00:37:58,676 --> 00:37:59,644 YOU MISS YOUR CUE. 752 00:37:59,710 --> 00:38:03,514 >> I HAD THAT, BUT IT WAS-- IT WAS WITH TOM HANKS. 753 00:38:03,581 --> 00:38:05,983 LIKE, I WAS ON THE SET OF THIS MOVIE, AND IT WAS LIKE THIS 754 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:09,053 FIRST SHOT OF ME IN THE MOVIE, AND THEY WERE LIKE, "YOU NEED TO 755 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,989 DRIVE THE CAR AROUND THIS CORNER AND COME UP AND THE CRANE WILL 756 00:38:12,056 --> 00:38:15,159 COME IN HERE AND THEN TOM HANKS IS GOING TO COME TO YOUR WINDOW 757 00:38:15,226 --> 00:38:17,862 AND HE'S GOING TO SAY BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, AND YOU'RE GOING TO 758 00:38:17,928 --> 00:38:19,230 SAY BLAH, BLAH, BLAH." 759 00:38:19,296 --> 00:38:22,800 I DID IT AND I DROVE AROUND THE CORNER AND OPENED THE WINDOW AND 760 00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:27,605 THERE IS TOM HANKS AND I BLANKED SKY HIGH, NOTHING, LITERALLY 761 00:38:27,672 --> 00:38:28,739 NOTHING! 762 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:32,243 IT WAS SO FUNNY BECAUSE OF COURSE HERE'S THIS GUY, WHO I 763 00:38:32,309 --> 00:38:33,210 IDOLIZED. 764 00:38:33,277 --> 00:38:36,947 I GREW UP WITH AN "APOLLO 13" POST OR MY WALL. 765 00:38:37,014 --> 00:38:39,283 I'M LIKE THIS IS THE NIGHTMARE, THE ACTUAL NIGHTMARE. 766 00:38:39,350 --> 00:38:40,785 AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID TO ME? 767 00:38:40,851 --> 00:38:45,056 HE DID THE THING THAT SOMETIMES ACTORS DO TO BE GENEROUS. 768 00:38:45,122 --> 00:38:48,559 HE GOES LIKE-- HE TRIED TO FEED ME MY LINES. 769 00:38:48,626 --> 00:38:51,829 HE GOES, LIKE, "HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ME?" 770 00:38:51,896 --> 00:38:55,232 "DO YOU THINK I SHOULD MOVE FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD?" 771 00:38:55,299 --> 00:38:58,002 ( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: OH, NO. 772 00:38:58,069 --> 00:38:59,670 OH, NO! 773 00:38:59,737 --> 00:39:02,273 HE TREATED YOU LIKE A SLOW CHILD. 774 00:39:02,339 --> 00:39:03,874 >> YES. 775 00:39:03,941 --> 00:39:10,214 AND THEN, AND THEN, THEN HE-- BUT IT WAS A WONDERFUL 776 00:39:10,281 --> 00:39:10,848 EXPERIENCE. 777 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:11,716 LIKE, THE MOVIE IS AMAZING. 778 00:39:11,782 --> 00:39:13,417 AND HE CAME TO THE SHOW THE OTHER NIGHT. 779 00:39:13,484 --> 00:39:16,420 AND I HAD THIS IDEA FOR A TIKTOK BECAUSE EVERY DAY I WOULD SHOW 780 00:39:16,487 --> 00:39:21,692 UP TO THE SET, AND HE WOULD DO JOKES FROM MY SPECIALS TO ME. 781 00:39:21,759 --> 00:39:25,196 LIKE, I HAVE A BIT ABOUT SOMEONE THINKING THAT I'M SOMEONE'S 782 00:39:25,262 --> 00:39:31,802 BROTHER, AND SO HE WOULD GO, "YOU'RE JOEY BAG OF DONUTS' 783 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:32,503 BROTHER." 784 00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:34,004 AND HE WOULD DO THE BIT FOR ME. 785 00:39:34,071 --> 00:39:39,110 AND I WAS LIKE, "MY LIFE IS SO SURREAL, TOM HANKS IS DOING MY 786 00:39:39,176 --> 00:39:39,977 BIT FOR ME." 787 00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:41,479 I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A FUNNY TIKTOK. 788 00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:47,251 I CAN'T SAY THAT TO THIS OSCAR, AWARD WINNING-- I CAN'T DO IT ON 789 00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:48,385 THE SET OF HIS MOVIE. 790 00:39:48,452 --> 00:39:50,921 BUT I CAN DO IT BACKSTAGE AT MY SHOW. 791 00:39:50,988 --> 00:39:51,689 SO I DID IT. 792 00:39:51,756 --> 00:39:53,057 I ASKED HIM THE OTHER NIGHT. 793 00:39:53,124 --> 00:39:54,191 AND THEN WE DID IT. 794 00:39:54,258 --> 00:39:56,994 >> Stephen: WE HAVE TO RUN HERE BECAUSE IT'S A LIVE SHOW. 795 00:39:57,061 --> 00:40:02,399 IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU, MIKE BIRBIGLIA. 796 00:40:02,466 --> 00:40:03,567 "THE OLD MAN & THE POOL" IS AT THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER 797 00:40:03,634 --> 00:40:04,168 THROUGH JANUARY 15. 798 00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:04,668 MIKE BIRBIGLIA, EVERYBODY! 799 00:40:04,735 --> 00:40:06,604 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 800 00:40:20,017 --> 00:40:22,386 >> Stephen: THAT'S IT FOR "THE LATE SHOW." 801 00:40:22,453 --> 00:40:24,288 FOR SOME OF YOU, CBS NEWS CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE 802 00:40:24,355 --> 00:40:24,755 MIDTERMS IS UP NEXT. 803 00:40:24,822 --> 00:40:26,824 GOOD NIGHT!