CBS anchor chokes up discussing how he will explain Trump’s victory to his children

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.