Tonight, Russian Tiger and collusion. Plus stephen welcomes Carrie Underwood, kevin smith and jason mewes, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater iyork ty, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing stephen come on whoo welcome back beautiful beautiful thank you very much very kind what lovely people what lovely people. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause you know, the constitution gives the accused the right to remain silent, and clearly donald trump has never read the constitution. laughter because he will not shut the old hamburger hole. laughter everything he says just makes him guiltier. Well talk all about it in tonights episode of chopper talk cheers and applause stephen yesterday, the president was asked a simple question on that phone call, what was he asking the ukrainian president to do to the bidens . He wisely dodged it. Today, he took it straight in the face