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Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight leader ofe1o the free world. Plus stephen welcomes taraji p. Henson, aasif mandvi and comedian kevin comia, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing happy thursday whats up, tom . Beautiful oh, my goodness welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Remember a couple of years ag when trump first got into office, when we were all afraid that donald trump was some sort of a sleeper agent who was going to sell america out to a foreign power behind our backs . Well, its throwback thursday. laughter because we just learned that this summer, donald trump had a phone call with a foreign leader that was so troubling that it prompted an official in the u. S. Intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint, when trump was overheard making a promise to a foreign leader. Yeah. au
should be. however, i will say that our team, who is gone it was a go shading on this, is absolutely committed to figuring out how we can reach an agreement. america cannot default. president biden has been keeping an eye on the talks while at the g7 summit in japan, even leaving the dinner to get an update. he will be back in washington on sunday to work on this. meanwhile, progressive democrats say biden should be ready to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt limit on his own. also making big headlines tonight, the big reversal from the president on getting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. biden will support efforts to train ukrainian pilots on the f-16s, though the jets themselves might not necessarily come from the united states. and according to two u.s. officials, president biden plans to announce a 375 million dollar military aid package for ukraine. this all comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join world leaders at the g7 summit later
enforced. and my one-on-one with conversation with actor and comedian rain wilson. where he reveals the secret to happiness. at the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday night. that means our nightcap crew is here to talk about all the big news of the week. but first, we ve got to get to the serious drama in d.c. over efforts to keep the u.s. from default in an economic collapse. which could happen as soon as june 1st. talks between aides for joe biden and kevin mccarthy have been intense, and so far, there is no deal inked. earlier today, mccarthy s aides briefly walked away from negotiations, claiming things were going nowhere. we ve got to get moving by the white house. the white house is just, we can t be spending more money next year. we have to spend less than we did. kamala harris says the white house team is committed to finding a solution to matter what there are differences in terms of where
That was a great one. He was going to interrupt the show to get him some more. Or, b, the more likely scenario, as hollywood has taught us, when a black president interrupts your show a meteor is headed towards the earth. So i start flipping around. Im flipping around, right . Im flipping around. Its clear all the news people know what this is but they cant say it yet. And this goes on for like a half an hour. Its going to be the president addressing the nation from the east room at the white house. We can only speculate on what that might be. What ive learned from government officials, this is the result of an incident that the United States initiated. We think, we think what . What do we think . A c. I. A. Operation. Can i say overseas . Yes, yes, yes. I can say it had something to do with something overseas. Yes. A brave, serious c. I. A. Operation overseas. Jon can i say that it involves a bearded dialysis patient . Can i say its more extremist than a bread box . No . For gods sake