Cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight temper tantrump. Plus, stephen welcomes Kamala Harris. And Kaitlyn Dever. 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 stephen wooo hello come on beautiful beautiful welcome. Thank you for being here. Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well today, there really is just one big story americas stepdaddy is angry. laughter see, trump and congress have been in a standoff over investigations. Until now, trump has blocked every request made by house investigators and democrates democrates . Them there democrates. They got a painful case of the blue subpoenas. laughter so this is leading to more and more of them democrates to throw up their hands and call for impeachment. So, this morning, nancy pelosi held a meeting to calm down her caucus, and she emerged to say this we
Interview today, quote, the presidency is not just a reality show. Said trump, youre lucky you have immunity this week. [ laughter ] youre lucky. [ light laughter ] House Speaker nancy pelosi, today, called president trumps behavior villainous and said that he is, quote, crying out for impeachment. And then she said the democrats are not on the road to impeachment. Then she said the president s family should hold an intervention for him [ laughter ] well, which is it, nancy this is usually the part where the waiter says, do you need a few more minutes . [ laughter and applause thats right [ cheers and applause thats right nancy pelosi said she wishes president trumps family or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. Although, lets face it, interventions dont generally work if everybody there is also drunk. [ slurring ] do you want to read your letter, uncle mike . I cant, its too my letters too blurry. [ laughter ] the department of Homeland Security reported this
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