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 CBSMore than eight months after he was forced to perform his monologue from a bathtub, Stephen Colbert finally conducted a face-to-face interview. And he couldn't have asked for a bigger guest.
The Late Show host traveled down to Washington, D.C. this week to sit down, at a healthy distance, with former President Barack Obama and talk about his new best-selling memoir A Promised Land and the perilous state of American democracy in the last days of President Donald Trump.
"I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment," Colbert said early in the interview. "Because I'm having to get used to looking at a president again. I've gotten out of the habit. I have to warm up for Joe Biden. I don't want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The picks are a repudiation of President Trump's isolationism, but they will have to resolve tensions between an Obama-era approach and the "fresh thinking" the president-elect says he wants.
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