>> oh my. okay, that was interesting. so people online pretty puzzled. some commenting that the ad is implying that he will plunge the country into darkness. i do like that song. i don't know about the ad. and there you go. who dreams this up? maybe trump himself. >> interesting. how many more years until the next eclipse, darren? >> there's going to be one in 2044, but that one's too far away. 2045, there's one that goes through northern california. a total solar eclipse in 2045. >> that's the one that we will actually care about. when i can see it from my own >> rare solar eclipse today. such an exciting event. it's the last one that we will be able to see over the u.s. until 2044. >> in honor of this year's solar celebration, trump posted this

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>> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert"! tonight... throwing shade! first, stephen welcomes representative alexandria ocasio-cortez. and musical guest tyla. featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: thanks, everybody. welcome one and all up here,

down there. welcome, everybody, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. i just want to start off today by saying happy eclipse day! i'm so glad to see all of you here in the ed sullivan theater. because it means that my eclipse glasses worked and that my retinas are still intact. and i need those retinas for important stuff, like staring at my phone at 3:00 in the morning. everybody see it? everybody get a chance to see it today? [cheering] you got to see it? it was an amazing thing to see. here at "the late show," we moved up rehearsal so we could all go outside and watch. and as beautiful and other-worldly as eclipses are, there is a simple scientific explanation. for a brief moment, the dread god telebrion devours mother moon to punish gentle tala-oth, the man within. that's why we always ring the bell of noontime darkness: to frighten telebrion back into the horn of dusk. [ringing]

i learned all that from neil degrasse tyson. a few lucky people got to experience today's eclipse from 30,000 feet, because some airlines offered special flights to chase the eclipse path around the country. okay, that sounds cool. but the windows are here, the sun's up there. and even if the plane does barrel rolls, what if you're in the middle seat? "could you just lean back a little? open the shade a little more? no? no? okay, fine. well, i get to watch "napoleon."" of course, an eclipse is always a good opportunity to ponder our place amongst the stars. but it's also a great time to see your pets go crazy. in fact, scientists warned pet owners that their furry friends may exhibit "strange behaviors." and i'm being told we have footage of one dog during the eclipse. >> outta my way!

>> stephen: it happens. that was happening all over the line of totality. it's not just pets. experts also said that most animals would likely be confused by the darkness and start their nighttime routines. aww. animals have nighttime routines? "watch as the giraffe exfoliates with a water-based cucumber cleanser, while its predator, the lion, plugs in its cpap machine." oh, no. it forgot the distilled water. the eclipse started its trip across america in texas, and cnn announced the event with this chyron: "animals at dallas zoo react to total solar eclipse." thank you, cnn. that is news you can use. i wish they'd give more animal takes on current events. i want to see "breaking: ring-tailed lemur reacts to rfk jr.'s v.p. pick."

okay, cnn. how did the animals react? >> we started hearing a lot of more bird chatter out in the distance out there. there's some guinea fowl that started running around and making kind of crazy sounds. and then we actually saw one of the younger giraffes start galloping around, as zebras started chasing im. >> stephen: that's right. the eclipse caused zoo animals to do the unthinkable: anything. usually they're too depressed and just standing in the one part of the enclosure where nobody can see them. but, cnn guy, didn't you forgot to tell us the best part? >> i forgot to tell you guys the best part. literally seconds ago,& right before we came on the air, if you look between those two tree trunks, there was an ostrich that laid an egg and the ostrich was kind of standing over the egg for a moment. i can't tell you if she laid the egg at this particular time because of the eclipse or what the deal might be, but even the zoo folks here were curious about the timing of it all.

[laughter] >> stephen: no offense, but laying an egg is one of the things ostriches do. i'm not sure if that's news. call me when an ostrich poaches an egg. but that is by no means the dumbest coverage of this eclipse, because fox news decided to cover the story like this. >> fox news alert! a rare celestial event collides with a policy failure on the ground. the southern border will be directly in the path of totality today when the moon covers the sun. >> while everybody is going to be looking up, if you're looking down here at the border, here is some of what you're gonna see. you'll see illegal immigrants dressed in dark clothing, sometimes camouflage, actively trying to sneak into the united states. the united states. >> stephen: yes. oh, yes, immigrants in dark clothing are using the eclipse to sneak across the border. they won't get another opportunity like that... until night.

[cheers and applause] of course, donald trump had to make the eclipse all about himself. he posted this bizarre ad that was made by one of his fans. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: that is a hell of a campaign message. "i will bring darkness upon the earth. blocking out all the life-giving warmth, driving the animals to stark madness. give me that ostrich egg, daddy wants a giant mcmuffin." give it up. here i am.

[applause] ooh, one thing they left out of trump's eclipse commercial was the time he stared directly at the eclipse. which is why this year, released his own eclipse video. >> folks, enjoy the eclipse. but play it safe. don't be silly. >> stephen: "yeah, folks. i tell ya, you gotta protect your eyes, folks! no joke. that's why i'm doing this with double shades right there. whoa! how'd it get so dark? don't worry. everything's fine. i'm just a tall, unsteady old man alone by a low balcony railing who can't see a damn thing." marco! marco! there you go. [cheers and applause] was joe biden just here? it's been an interesting week here in new york city, because in addition to the eclipse, on friday, the east coast was hit by a rare 4.8 magnitude

earthquake. i think we'll all remember where we were when we said, "what's that sound? is my neighbor making a smoothie?" and at the time, this is true, i was in newark airport. flying to south carolina. i was in line at dunkin' donuts buying my affleck juice, when suddenly the ceiling of terminal a started shaking, the lights were swaying, and i thought "why would they put a truck ramp on top of an airport terminal? that doesn't seem sustainable." then everybody's looking at their phones saying, "hey, there was an earthquake." and after all that, my coffee still wasn't ready. okay? america may run on dunkin', but i'm just saying dunkin' needs to pick up the pace. even though it was barely a tremor, we did get some fun footage from the statue of liberty. look at that. reminds me of that famous poem. "give me your tired, your poor, your whoa, whoa, whoa!" lady liberty wasn't the only landmark getting in on the action. the empire state building

tweeted, "i am fine." nice to know. that's comforting. you don't want anything to happen. while the port authority bus terminal tweeted, "kill me." [laughter] >> louis: wow. >> stephen: poor port authority. what did it ever to me? while no one was hurt, there were some dicey moments, specifically for a pennsylvania man who got a vasectomy ooh, that is scary. especially since he went in for a root canal. the man is totally fine, but, according to the patient, when the doctor said he was pausing the operation, "i figured he was messing with me." yeah, 'cause if there's one thing urologists are famous for, it's doing tricks. all right, i'm going to make a small incision and "whoa,

hey who put all these handkerchiefs in your taint?" an earthquake directly followed by an eclipse feels a little apocalypst-ish. but there is one armageddon-foretelling phenomenon that's kinda fun. because the italian volcano mount etna is blowing smoke rings into the sky. that's so cool! how does that even happen? jim, can we take a closer look inside that volcano? okay, here we go. okay, we're descending down the caldera. i knew it! it's your college roomate, dan. come on, dan! these smoke rings seem innocent enough, but back in the 17th century, etna buried the town of nicolosi. so, italians, stay safe, or at least make sure you're in a cool pose for future archaeologists to uncover. everyone should have one ready. i'm either going with double guns or coppertone baby. speaking of...

[applause] ooh, speaking of the end times: donald trump. this weekend, trump held a fundraiser down in palm beach, where his campaign claims he raised an eye-popping $50 million. wow, that is impressive! or not, because, so far, the amount has not been verified. that has big "my girlfriend at summer camp was so hot" energy. "yeah, uh, me and brenda, we kissed the french way, it's so sexy you can't verify it. and then she gave me $50 million." at that price, trump had to play all the hits, so naturally he got real racist about immigrants, saying, "why can't we allow people to come in from nice countries? nice countries, you know, like denmark?" maybe because people don't tend to flee one of the happiest countries on earth.

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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band, everybody. [cheers and applause] i'm very excited. >> louis: yeah? >> stephen: yeah, i'm very excited for tonight's guest. one of my favorite guests we ever have. how many times and we have this person on? five or six times. it's been way too long. because tonight, my singular talk guest, i've got two cards to go with this person. representative alexandria ocasio-cortez will be right over there.

always good. a lot to talk about. folks, if you watch the show, you know i spend most of my time, right over there, gathering the day's finest 99% commercially pure ti22 news titanium, fastening it with over 120 topical story rivets and adding ultra-silent wheels, c.n.c.-milled from aircraft aluminum, to create for you the tecknomonster kronos titanium chestnut trolley luggage that is my monologue. but sometimes, sometimes, folks, you know i rip the screen door off an abandoned double-wide and punch out the mesh, then cinch it up using the waistband i stripped out of a drifter's sweatpants and load it with my collection of pill bottles filled with squirrel teeth to make the contaminated skunk bindle of news that is my segment... >> "meanwhile"! [cheers and applause] >> stephen: the only anesthetic i need. you could take out a tooth right now. wouldn't even feel it. meanwhile, in waifish millionaire news, gwyneth paltrow recently

revealed she is "weirdly very into spanx." "weirdly"? may i remind you you literally sell a candle that smells like a hoo-ha, and "leggings" is the weird thing? that's like buffalo bill saying, "i like to wear women's skin as a suit. also, i'm weirdly into olives on pizza. quirk alert!" meanwhile, big box giant costco has announced that they're launching a weight loss program that prescribes ozempic and wegovy. you'll find costco's weight loss drugs between the pallets of oatmeal cookies and the pumpkin pies the size of a tractor wheel. [applause] a raft. meanwhile, here in new york, customers at the muji store in hudson yards have been shocked by an employee at the shop. a robot barista that can make you a coffee in minutes. wow! coffee in minutes?

that's heard of! meanwhile, in coif news, actress julia fox debuted her "velveeta gold" hair while in her underwear at a knicks game. [sirens] oop, i'm sorry. that sound means we've tripped the "too many things in this headline" alert! that hasn't happened since 2002 when we reported "enrique iglesias flashes baked bean mohawk while in assless chaps at jingle ball." meanwhile, news for fans of panera. they might be lowering their standards to skimp on costs. panera with lower standards... so... subway? turns out, panera is trying to cut costs ahead of its planned ipo, so its stores across the u.s. were directed to remove signs that include the phrases "no antibiotics ever," "vegetarian fed," "grass fed pasture raised," "animal welfare," or any mention

of "hormones." they will all be replaced with new signs that say, "a teenager with strep coughed on this sandwich." >> louis: wow. >> stephen: [cough] meanwhile, a recent study says that coin flips are not exactly 50/50. coins flipped into the air and caught in the hand had a 50.8% chance of landing on the same side they started from according to frantisek bartos, a researcher at the university of amsterdam, who analyzed the results of 350,757 coin flips. you do not want to get stuck talking to that guy at a party. "and then on flip 254,678... it was heads!"

then on flip 254,679... it was heads!" and then... meanwhile, down in plano texas, a vehicle crashed through a glass window at a gym. nobody was hurt, but if you look at the footage after the incident, you can see somebody still working out on the treadmill next to the crash site. that's a dedicated workout. either that, or it's the driver trying to make a getaway. "quick, gotta flee the scene! why aren't i going anywhere!?" [cheers and applause] 254,000. meanwhile, hold onto your all-beef weiners, 'cause the new york mets have introduced an adventurous new menu item called the cookie egg roll, which consists of a rainbow cookie, raspberry jam, and chocolate syrup, rolled and fried

in an egg roll wrapper. ugh. the concession stand has gotten so pretentious since mr. met studied abroad. this is on-brand for the mets, though, because when you put that fried cookie in your mouth, in a way, you've already lost. [applause] meanwhile... really? sure, why not? speaking of cookies: milk. remember the blue milk luke skywalker drinks in "star wars"? well, after 47 years, "star wars" blue milk is finally coming to stores. yeah, they're rolling out a big campaign featuring yoda. "milk got?" we'll be right back with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez.

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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. ladies and gentlemen, my guest tonight is a three-term democratic congresswoman from new york. please welcome back to "the late show," congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. [cheers and applause]

♪ ♪ [cheering] >> rep. ocasio-cortez: thank you. >> stephen: hi. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: hi. how's it going? >> stephen: pretty well. nice to see you. it's been too long. there's a lot to catch up on for the first and we should talk about is the big story of the day, did you take in the eclipse? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i did. i did. my puppy and i went to the lexington school for the deaf in queens and hung out with all the kids. >> stephen: is that what this is? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: yes. >> stephen: play it safe. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: that's deco. that's deco. he had his protective eyewear too. >> stephen: okay, good. i know you're a congresswoman now. he wanted to be a scientist originally. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i did. >> stephen: where is this? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: oh, my god. this was at the intel i stepped

science competition. that's me in high school. there you go. >> stephen: congress returns, is it tomorrow? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: yes, tomorrow. >> stephen: a two week break. you made a lot of news for giving a speech on the floor of the house before the break. and we're coming up on, just past six months of the war between israel and gaza. the unfolding crisis over there. the heartbreak and the horror of asymmetrical war. the horrors of the attack of october 7th and the horror people see of the innocent lives lost in the military response. tens of thousands of lives being lost there. but you took it a further step. i think you think you were the first person to do this in the congress. you said, you called the famine in gaza in unfolding genocide. that is an electric term to be

using against the actions of a country that was formed in the wake of the greatest genocide of the 20th century. if politics is the art of the possible, you're a politician. what did you hope to make possible by going that far in your description? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i appreciate the extent of that question. while i was not the first in congress to use that term, it certainly was a dedicated speech towards it before the beginning, rather the end of that session. and to me what i saw in that moment is that we have been on the precipice of a mass famine that would indiscriminately kill nearly a million children, adults, innocent people, men, women, and children. and this is an utterly heartbreaking moment. as you mentioned the attacks on

october 7th or horrifying. the hostages that are being held in gaza are also being endangered and imperiled by an indiscriminate famine and bombardment campaign as well. and it's important that they be home. but i think in using this term, it is not to engage in a game of rhetoric. but it is for us to see what is happening for what it is. i am very, very close growing up one of my closest friends is a survivor of the rwanda genocide. and i've been speaking with him a lot while all of this has been unfolding. and i asked him, would you have wanted to see and american member of congress say while you were a child saying rwanda? and what he had told me was "i

wish people would have seen us as human, because genocide is a crime of scale of dehumanization." and in order for us to prevent and to save lives, we have to rehumanize the people whose death has been normalized. and i think that's really what this moment is about. in order for us to establish a lasting peace and security for both israelis and palestinians. >> stephen: well, the president of the united states, the leader of your party, joe biden, staunch supporter of israel, a man also with an enormous amount of empathy. have you spoken to him directly about this? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i have. >> what have those conversations been like if you can tell me. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i think it's important, i think many of us have engaged the president on this issue. and you're correct. he is a man of tremendous empathy. and you know, i think as time

goes on, we are starting to see the increased urgency that he is seeing on this issue. he called prime minister netanyahu recently, and i think we've seen dramatic shifts since that time especially after the úwos were attacked and seven of them passed away. i think what we are seeing particularly in this moment is aid trucks starting to come through, although nowhere near the level needed to avoid a feminine. but we are starting to see some of that progress because at the end of the day and regurgitate this, it's not just about, and i said this on the floor, it's not just about israel. it's not just about gaza. this is about us. because this is u.s. taxpayer assistance and what is being financed with our resources.

if anything, if any conflict is going to have u.s. resources, than it does become a matter of our values and if we are to protect democracy worldwide we have to show what moxie is good for. and to me, showing the value of democracy is the commitment to human rights, to the sanctity of civil rights, the rules of war, and to ensure that people at the end of the day, the humanity of innocent populations is preserved and protected at all costs. >> stephen: we have to take a quick break. we'll be right back with more alexandria ocasio-cortez, everybody. stick around.

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>> stephen: hey, everybody. look who it is. it's congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. in the democratic primaries, already had an impact on our politics here. israel and the palestinian crisis always has some effect. it's part of our political conversation in the united states but there's been a very interesting and very direct one in the primaries. just last week, 15% of voters in rhode island, 11% in connecticut, 8% in wisconsin loaded uncommitted to protest

the u.s. support of the present military action in israel under netanyahu's government. what do you make of that movement? do you have anything come as a prominent progressive voice, to say to those people? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: yeah. >> stephen: who are holding up their support over this. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: well, i think for small it's important, we need to acknowledge actually the upside of the uncommitted movement, which is that these are folks that could have easily given way to cynicism and walked away from this process entirely. and what they're doing instead is using the primary to send a message and say "this is important to me" to the president. this is important to me. i'm going to engage in our democratic process. i am going to show up. i am going to vote. i'm going to say what's important to me but i also know and i do believe that many in the uncommitted campaign believe

this, i also know and understand the threat of a donald trump presidency. the democratic party has always been a coalition party, and we have to bring everybody together every time. because that's what it means to be american. and so they are offering and saying "this is what's important to us." a lasting peace is what's important to us. and this is a message we want to send before the convention. it's the method we want to send before the general election, because we are committed and together on all of these values. on the other side of this too, beyond the uncommitted campaign, on the other side of the spectrum, there is an enormous, $100 million financed operation to primary every virtually any sitting member of congress that calls for cease-fire. you have jamaal bowman here was the primary challenge, cori bush has a primary challenge. i myself am a primary challenge pages for saying that

palestinians deserve human rights that they should be protected. and so we do have a complex political fabric on this issue in this country. i think that it should be centered and where our homebase always is is what are our values as americans? and if our commitment to lasting peace, global democracy and our own values for freedom of speech on liberty, then if these are the values that we want to protect, then we have to acknowledge and see one another for the pain that we're holding. and once people feel like their concerns a been seen, then we can start the process of coming together. and so right now these are folks who want to be seen. i think they're using this process to be seen and it's best that we do that now then for folks to stay home in november. >> stephen: still respond to this now is what you recommend the biden administration to do

so people can trust his judgment in the future. before we move on to the next subject, will you be voting for joe biden? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i will be voting for president biden in november, yes. >> stephen: we have to take another little break here but if you'll stick around and you'll stick around, we'll be right back with more congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. (vo) ready to attack this new lobster & shrimp stack? ready for your lobster lover's dream to come true? they're two of ten lobster creations. plus, cheddar bays for days. lobsterfest is ending soon, so hurry in.

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local congresswoman made good, alexandria ocasio-cortez. today the white house announced plans for a new student debt relief program. that you personally worked on. tell me about it. >> rep. ocasio-cortez: there are over 40 million student loan borrowers in the united states today president biden president biden just unveiled plan to offer relief in some way, shape, or form, either complete or partial, to 30 million of them. 30 million student loan borrowers are going to start seeing relief. [applause] >> stephen: just because i know how recently this with you, are you one of the people who will benefit from this program? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i don't think i will be. actually i'm going to be one of the few that doesn't. i'm a member of congress. i'm a little bit outside the threshold and bounds. but if i wasn't, you know, just a few years ago, waitress knee five years ago would have

benefited. congresswoman me will not, but that's okay. i'll take the knock if it means people can get relief. people getting student loan forgiveness, their student loans canceled, it means that it's hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad or maybe even go back to school and pursue a career that maybe they otherwise wouldn't have. one of the reasons that's not me now is because i didn't feel like i'd be able to afford medical school. and so hopefully someone else who is at a isef competition somewhere will be able to do that because of this. [applause] >> stephen: as congress comes back in, everyone's going to be watching mike johnson and how he wrangles his slim geordie which is 1 now, right?

and what's become one of the least effective congresses since the great depression. it's always great to add "since the great depression" in any sentence. but also he's got this completely unruly congressional caucus himself. republican congressman mike turner and michael mccaul said russian propaganda has infected the republican parties based on the republicans in congress are repeating russian propaganda on tthe house floor. can i get a witness? have you seen this? what do you make of that kind of self accusation? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i mean, if you think if you turn on any house oversight hearing in the last year you will see marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert and all these folks engaged in wildly propagandist rhetoric. let's just rewind a second. we just went through an

impeachment attempt on the president of the united states that was started with the source that republicans used that was in communication with russian intelligence. so you have not just the bottom bench here. you have the chairman of the house oversight committee, representative comber, take quote-unquote evidence an account from someone who was working with the russian intelligence and try to impeach and remove the president of the united states over it. this is serious. >> stephen: how did they not know that -- or did they know that this was connected to the russians? or did they not figured out because they have been translated from the cyrillic? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: that i think is a very excellent question for german comber. >> stephen: he won't come on. >> stephen: it is a good question because when they hauled us all into the skiff,

which is a confidential space to look at this, we were looking at this document, like is this for real right now? and they proceeded. so what they felt was in good faith or bad faith i don't know. but i do think that it is immensely serious that something got to this extent and got this far and has been platform to the extent it has. on the raking member jamie raskin were able to stop them in their tracks as well. [applause] >> stephen: as we know, as we discussed, congress is also all up for election in november. there's a one seat majority for the republicans. no confident do you feel about the democrats retaking the house this november? >> rep. ocasio-cortez: i believe democrats will retake the united states house of representatives. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: congresswoman, thank you so much for being h

here. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, everybody. we'll be right back with a performance by tyla.

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♪ i'll be your peace ♪ ♪ i'll be your piece ♪ ♪ your a-r-t ♪ ♪ study my face ♪ ♪ frame ♪ ♪ put me on the wall ♪ ♪ above the stair ♪ ♪ case ♪ ♪ if you show me off ♪ ♪ i'll be your piece ♪ ♪ your a-r-t ♪ ♪ i'll be your piece ♪ ♪ your a-r-t ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: that was beautiful. thank you. tyla, everybody. that's it for "the late show." stick around for "after midnight" with taylor tomlinson. good night!