Ivanka says she wants to be ‘force for good’ in WH
Macdonald joins Cumberbatch in ‘Child’
LOS ANGELES, April 5, (Agencies): In a preview of her first television interview since being named Assistant to the President, Ivanka Trump says she wants to be a “force for good” as she assumes her new role under her father, President Donald Trump.
“If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact then I’m complicit,” Ivanka told “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King. “I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing,” Trump said. “So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”
Ivanka is President Trump’s eldest daughter and was recently named to the new position within her father’s administration, which will see her take up an office in the West Wing as well as getting a top-secret security clearance. She also addressed concerns over the lack of diplomatic experience of her husband, Jared Kusher, who is among the President’s top advisers alongside former RNC chair Reince Priebus and former Breitbart executive chair Steve Bannon.
“So, you know a lot of people would say the same about how could somebody successfully win the presidency who had never been engaged in politics and my father did that and Jared was instrumental in helping his campaign succeed,” Ivanka said. “So, you know Jared is incredibly smart, very talented, has enormous capacity. He is humble in the recognition of what he doesn’t know. And is tremendously secure in his ability to seek informed viewpoints. He has an amazing team that my father has built at the White House, and that he’s built that’s helping work on each of these initiatives. So you know the myth that he is operating in a silo is just that.”
The full interview aired Wednesday during “CBS This Morning” between 7 am and 9 am.
Ivanka says that when she disagrees with her father, “he knows it, and I express myself with total candor.”
The first daughter responded Tuesday to the criticism that she has not publicly denounced parts of Trump’s conservative agenda.
Now taking on an official unpaid role in the administration, Ivanka Trump has come under increased scrutiny. So far she has focused on policies relating to women and workforce development, but she has drawn criticism for avoiding public comment on her father’s travel ban, border wall, proposed budget cuts or rollback of environmental regulations.
That view was captured in a “Saturday Night Live” send-up that featured her in an advertisement for a perfume called “Complicit.”
But in an interview Tuesday with CBS News, Ivanka Trump argued, “I would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence.”
When CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” hits the screen this Thursday and Friday, viewers may have a sense of deja vu - but only a little bit.
The late-night program, which has seen its audience grow in recent months as its host and producers pay ever-closer attention to the headlines and President Trump-dominated news cycle, will test a new format. Rather than trot out repeats, as they were scheduled to do, “Late Show” staffers will pair new opening sketches, monologues and some new guest interviews with encore presentations of past sit-downs between Colbert and visiting celebrities. Both episodes will start at 11:50 PM eastern due to CBS’s telecast of highlight shows from the Masters golf tournament on those nights.
Colbert and his team have tested this concept in the recent past.The late night comic pre-taped episodes for March 20, 21, and 22 when the program was scheduled to be in repeats. And in October of last year, Colbert taped a segment from home offering his reaction to a presidential debate. The six-minute piece added a fresh element to an old program featuring Amy Schumer and Michaela Watkins. The show had been dark that week.
Three new cast members have joined Benedict Cumberbatch in BBC drama “The Child in Time,” which has started filming in and around London. Directed by Julian Farino it is the first production of Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch TV production banner.
“Boardwalk Empire” star Kelly Macdonald will play the estranged wife of Cumberbatch’s children’s author Stephen Lewis, who struggles to find purpose in life following the disappearance of his daughter two years earlier. Stephen Campbell Moore and Saskia Reeves have also joined the production playing Lewis’ best friends.
Adapted by Stephen Butchard (“The Last Kingdom”) from a novel by Ian McEwan, “The Child in Time” is a one-off 90-minute drama produced by Pinewood Television and SunnyMarch TV for BBC One. It is co-produced by PBS’ Masterpiece.
Stephen Colbert hit another milestone in his stunning late-night turnaround against Jimmy Fallon of NBC’s “Tonight” show.
Colbert won in the Nielsen company’s ratings for the ninth consecutive time last week, his margin of 400,000 viewers the widest lead since the CBS star overtook Fallon with a sharp concentration on politics. Fallon aired a rerun Friday; otherwise the shows were all fresh last week.
More ominously for NBC, Colbert tied Fallon among viewers aged 25-to-54 for the first time, encroaching on younger viewers who are more valuable to advertisers.
Fallon had been the unquestioned late-night king until the advent of the Trump administration, and he’s been struggling to regain his footing. Boosted by the NCAA tournament, CBS dominated last week with an average of 9.7 million viewers in prime time.