Jacob Soboroff (Extended)
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Soboroff, author and Senior Political and National Correspondent for MS NOW, has been on the ground covering Trump's violent immigration policy as put into practice by the likes of Greg Bovino and Tom Homan. His new book, "Firestorm," is both personal, as it chronicles his experience watching his childhood neighborhood burn down in last year's Los Angeles fires, and universal as it serves to warn the public that the fires of the future are here today.
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| 0:31.0 | It's the Late Show Pancho with Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:39.4 | Folks, my next guest is the senior political and national correspondent for MS Now. |
| 0:44.7 | He has just written a new book, Firestorm, the Great Los Angeles Fires, and America's New Age of Disaster. |
| 0:50.5 | Please welcome back to The Late Show, Jacob Soberov. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome. Please welcome back to The Late Show, Jacob Soberov. Welcome back. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you for having me. Nice to see you. |
| 1:00.0 | Always nice to talk to you. I want to get to your book, Firestorm in just one moment. |
| 1:05.0 | But before we get into the book, you just got back from Minneapolis. |
| 1:08.7 | I did, yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | I know, among other things, you were covering the ice raids, and you spoke with Governor Tim Wals. |
| 1:13.8 | And we've heard a lot this week about some talk of de-escalation and changing of, some changing of leadership and policy there. |
| 1:22.9 | What's the reality on the ground? |
| 1:24.4 | What are things like there this week? |
| 1:25.5 | I think the first thing that everybody needs to understand is when they say they're going after |
| 1:29.1 | the worst of the worst, they are doing anything but. |
| 1:32.3 | And frankly, it's depraved what I have seen, not just in Minneapolis, but in Los Angeles, |
| 1:43.1 | in Charlotte, in Chicago, in the hallway of 26 federal plaza here in New York City. |
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