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MERYL STREEP: I do
remember that moment, yes.

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But he got the story
a little bit wrong.

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He's a very good writer,
but his memory is--

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STEPHEN COLBERT: OK,
let's fact-check.

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Let's fact-check
the president here.

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- Meryl Streep and Barack Obama
are huge fans of each other.

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In fact, he even awarded her the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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But during her visit on "The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert"

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Monday, she said the story in
his latest memoir about her

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softly reciting Chinese song
lyrics to him in Mandarin

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was incorrect.

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It was actually a
4th century poem.

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MERYL STREEP: Alone on a misty
mountain I come to a clearing.

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Sunlight on green Moss.

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I am not alone.

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- During a performance with
world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma,

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Streep recited the poem
in English at the Beijing

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National Stadium in China.

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However, on "The Late Show,"
she shared the Mandarin version

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that she told the president.

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MERYL STREEP:
[SPEAKING MANDARIN]

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That's it.

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- While Streep was happy
to recite the poem,

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she was a little worried
that some Chinese people

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won't be quite as impressed.

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MERYL STREEP: Since one in five
people on the face of the Earth

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is Chinese, they will know
now that I have just said

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something horrible probably.

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STEPHEN COLBERT:
But my ratings are

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going to be huge in Beijing.

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MERYL STREEP: It's an
international incident.

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[LAUGHTER]

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