CBS anchor chokes up discussing how he'd explain Trump's victory to his children The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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00:00How would you explain that to a 14-year-old today?
00:03How would you explain this election?
00:04I'll try not to think about my boys, because...
00:07Yes.
00:11But I think you would say that, you know,
00:15amazing things have been done
00:16through the American political system.
00:18People have been given freedoms that they were denied
00:21and glorious opportunities in this country
00:24that you can't get anywhere else.
00:25And then awful things have happened in the American system.
00:28And you have to fight to make sure
00:32that you're doing the good part and not the bad part.
00:35They can get on basically one of two buses
00:38that are going to take them to a destination
00:40they think is meaningful.
00:41And you get on the bus,
00:42and there are a whole bunch of the people on the bus
00:44who just want to be seen
00:45and have opportunity in American life.
00:48And then there are other people on the bus
00:49engaged in the same journey
00:51who are there absolutely just for themselves
00:54to get power, to give themselves
00:57just more riches and more control over things.