Colbert Says Sanders Can’t Hide From Trump’s Immigration Policies
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Version 0 of 1. Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you’re interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday that, try as she might, there’s only one way for Sarah Huckabee Sanders to separate herself from the Trump administration’s new hard-line immigration policies: Quit. According to a CNN reporter, Sanders, the White House press secretary, preferred not to do the daily press briefing because she didn’t want to answer questions about a widely criticized new policy separating migrant children from their parents. Colbert said that he, too, would prefer not to talk about the policy — but that it’s not up to him. “Hucka-Sands didn’t want to do the briefing amid questions about Trump’s child-separation policy. Sarah, you think you don’t want to talk about child-separation policy? Try doing it on a comedy show! ‘Oh, you must love the Trump administration, Stephen — the sadness just writes itself!’” — STEPHEN COLBERT Then he issued the ultimatum. “If kids in cages is too much for you to defend, there is one option: You could resign! This is the White House, not an abandoned Walmart. You’re allowed to leave.” — STEPHEN COLBERT He criticized Kirstjen Nielsen, the Homeland Security secretary, for stepping forward to defend the policy, even against the advice of her friend John Kelly, the White House chief of staff. “Even Nielsen’s close ally, White House chief of staff John Kelly, advised Nielsen against doing the news conference. Man, does anybody in the White House listen to John Kelly? John Kelly’s like that sticker on your meds that says, ‘Do not take with alcohol.’” — STEPHEN COLBERT David and Lauren Hogg, students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, sat down with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday to discuss the shooting at their school in Florida on Feb. 14, and to promote their new book, “#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line.” “I want everybody that’s watching to close their eyes for a second and imagine the person that you love most — imagine the person that you hold closest to you, that is your shoulder to cry on, the person that you laugh the most with and cry with — and imagine that person is murdered. And you go to politicians and you ask for moderate changes, and they won’t even meet with you. Or if you do ask them for changes, they say, ‘Yeah, we’ll do that,’ and then nothing happens. And you have to continue to see more and more people just like your best friend, your sister or your brother, get killed — again and again. Meanwhile, America sits back and does nothing. And that’s why we wrote this book: To create that change.” — DAVID HOGG “Canadian lawmakers yesterday voted to nationally legalize recreational marijuana. Which makes sense, considering their prime minister is already smokin’.” — SETH MEYERS, showing a photograph of Justin Trudeau “According to Politico, White House chief of staff John Kelly has been going to the gym in the middle of the day. Well, that’s one sure way to not run into the boss.” — SETH MEYERS, showing a photograph of President Trump “The king and queen of Spain visited Washington. When Trump first heard people speaking Spanish in the White House, he frantically pressed the silent alarm button under his desk.” — JIMMY FALLON “Trump was a little confused. When the king asked him if he wanted to go to a tapas bar, Trump was like: ‘Yes, just don’t tell Melania. Is it totally topless?’” — JIMMY FALLON In London to tape a special 500th episode of his show, James Corden went to the Savoy Hotel and found different ways to fail at a variety of jobs. Seth Meyers “asked” Sanders: “When are you going to start telling us the truth?” Trevor Noah will talk shop with his colleague Colbert on “The Late Show” on Wednesday. A new exhibition explores the works of artists who have lost their sense of sight to macular degeneration. In the words of one painter, “Nothing to lose is a new kind of freedom.” |