The show. Thanks for watching at home. Thanks for coming to my work. Very kind, i appreciate it. Remember like remember like four days ago when we were all worried about north korea . What happened to that . [ laughter ] those were simpler times. Im glad youre here. Im glad im here. Theres so much trumpiness going on right now. Its hard to keep up. But tonight President Trump gave his first tv interview since he fired the director of the fbi on tuesday. You know, one of the reasons theyre giving for that firing is that trump said james comey lost the trust of rank and file fbi agents. And today the acting head of the fbi, andrew mccabe, flatly contradicted that. He said the vast majority of agents hold a deep positive connection to director comey. So hes fired too then, right . [ laughter ] everybodys fired. I think the strategist thing about how all this went down is that trump fired james comey b he had a letter delivered to his office at the fbi. He didnt even say youre fired, which
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 673 brunei. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, come on. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah. Welcome everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. This is the tonight show. [ cheers and applause ] you made it. Thank you for being here. Well, heres what pe all talking about. Of course, the big story still trump firing fbi director, james comey. And it turns out comey had six years left on his tenyear term. Yeah. That story again. Its easier get out of your fbi contract than it is your at t contract. [ laughter and applause ] its much easier. I still cant. And in the middle of all this, trump met with Russian Foreign minister yesterday. The Russian Foreign minister. Yeah. And the white house says russia tricked them by posting photos of the meeting. Got suspicious when the photographer told trump, okay now to silly one when you hold up nuclear codes. [ l
Youre fired. [ laughter ] in an interview today, President Trump called former fbi director james comey a showboat and a grand stander. Hes a showboat. [ laughter ] if your ego was any bigger, youd start putting your name on your name. [ laughter and applause ] in the same interview, President Trump said that comey told him at dinner that he was not under investigation. Okay, but if you if you were under investigation, do you think an fbi agent would just tell you . [ light laughter ] do you also think s. W. A. T. Teams send a save the date card . [ laughter and applause ] a Confederate Monument was removed today from new orleans. No word on if theyll relocate it to d. C. , like the Confederate Monument they removed from alabama. [ audience ] [ applause ] President Trump will meet with the president of turkey next week. He has a lot of questions you want to ask, like why does turkey have a president , but chicken has a colonel . [ laughter ] it doesnt seem fair. Its very unequal. And a
Because sustaining the shelling of i. S. I. S. Insurgents is nothing to weathering the merciless bombardment of april ryan. If i am felled on the battlefield, the wind will whisper my words to you woohoo, sweet release, i am free. Sincerely yours, sean spicer. P. S. , please send gum. laughter announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight stephen welcomes mayim bialik, andy karl and Ramy Yousseff, 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 band playing stephen whoo captioning sponsored by cbs hey thank you whoo youre too kind please, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Well, the last 24 hours have just raised more questions about why donald trump fired f. B. I. Director james comey. Okay. No one seems to know why. Donald trump doesnt seem to know why. laughter first, he said it was based on the recommendation of assistant attorney general and
You know, i try not to get emotional, but it was a scary story. And before i go into it, i want you to know it has a happy ending. Okay . So when im telling this, dont get too upset. Leave that to me. But a little over a week ago on friday april 21st my wife, molly, gave birth to a boy. A baby boy. His name is william john kimmel. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. We call him billy. It was an easy delivery. Six pushes, he was out. And he appeared to be a normal healthy baby. Until about three hours after he was born. We were out of the delivery room. We moved to the recovery room. Our whole family was there. And we introduced him to his 2 1 2yearold sister. She was cute with him. We were happy. Everything was good. My wife was in bed relaxing. And when a very attentive nurse at cedarssinai hospital. Her name is nanush. Was checking him out and heard a murmur in his heart, which is she also noticed he was a bit purple, which is not common. So she asked me to come with her. An