And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert captioning sponsored by cbs cheers and applause band playing stephen very nice. Hey, everybody how are you . Hi, jon, good to see you audience chanting stephen piano riff stephen thanks, everybody thank you so much cheers and applause welcome to the late show. Please have a seat. Thank you so much, everybody. Well, folks, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It is its russia week, and i just want to get out ahead of the story here. I recently met with a lot of russians. I cant remember why. Maybe because i was in russia. Oh, some of them worked for the government. This week, well be showing you one russian field piece. Sorry. I meant to say two russian my lawyers are telling me five russian field pieces. I didnt think youd find out. The whole week was supposed to be a secret but someone leaked it to cbss marketing department. I didnt. Anyway, russias coming up later in the show.