Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, biden his time plus, stephen welcomes Craig Ferguson. Ronda rousey. And bear grylls. 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 come on wooo oh, hey welcome band playing hello please please, have a seat, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. And it is cheers and applause i feel the same way. I feel the same way. It is friday. You can feel it in the air. More importantly, happy trio de mayo. laughter thats a thing . Its not a thing. Trumps been riding high this whole week. Its been a very good week for him. Thanks to his old obstructinin buddy, bill barr, the Mueller Report might be behind him. But hes facing heat from a brandnew, gentlyused enemy joe biden, because trumps own campaign has internal polling showing biden to be trumps most dangerous opponent unless theres a surprise candidac
Lets bring in our North America correspondent anthony zurcher. It has been a very long day, the grand jury proceeding going on for hours and things are not over yet at the courthouse. Flat over yet at the courthouse. Not over yet at the courthouse. Not over et over yet at the courthouse. Iirrt over yet although we are getting indication that we could have those indictments that you mentioned, ten indictments, we dont know who they are what they cover but they are what they cover but they will be unsealed, publicly released sometime in the next two hours and at that point, the mystery will be over, we will look into it and steve donald trump is invited, or any associates of him, like rudy giuliani, if they are included and what kind of crimes they are charged with. Obviously in the investigation was on attempts to influence or overturn the results of the 2020 election in georgia but did they use a Racketeering Law which has a 20 Year Prison Sentence as part of a criminal enterprise that
And new video of the man accused of starting it all from the moment before he went into the crowd. War of words the Special Counsel asks the judge to prohibit former President Trump from speaking out on parts of the election interference case against him. His teams response today. Another Brazen Attack by ukraine, sending a sea drone right into a russian fuel tanker the biggest cyber attack on hospitals in years dozens of medical facilities impacted computers down, surgeries canceled new hate crime charges against a against a teenager accused of killing a gay man dancing at a gas station a terrifying School Bus Crash carrying teens back from summer camp. 11 injured, many in critical condition. Hod it happen . Dramatic rescue at sea The Coast Guard saving this man who had gone missing his boat sinking 12 miles offshore. And the sound and the fury over pickleball. Nearby homeowners outraged by the noise from the popular sport. You cant hear the people on the phone because theres pickleba
there s a verdict. the jury in donald trump s civil rape case deliberated for just about three hours. the judge announced he will read the verdict at 3:00 p.m. it is 3:00 p.m. the lawyers are in the room. the judge is in the room. the jury is in the room. so any moment now we will hear from they decided. six men and three women were charged with that deciding. one, did donald trump rape carroll and did he defame her when he said she was lying. if so, how much money does carroll deserve to be fairly and adequately compensated for her injuries? in closing arguments, her attorney told the jury donald trump didn t show up because he knew he did it. trump s attorney said trump didn t testify because there was nothing to testify to. he said the whole story was an unbelievable work of fiction. kaplin said carroll was exactly donald trump s type and she played the video deposition where trump mistook carroll for his ex-wife, marla maples. he said she couldn t give a date to when the
we are back with the second hour of cr chris jansing report reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. at this hour, breaking news, we are waiting for a pentagon briefing expected any moment as we learn new details about exactly who might be behind the leak of classified u.s. intelligence documents of government secrets online. plus, in the hot seat, former president donald trump s deposition in a high stakes civil lawsuit here in new york what it could mean for the fate of the family business and days of flames, the fire at an indiana plastics recycling plant, pumping toxic black clouds into the richmond skies for a third straight day the danger and how the community is responding. plus, a 50-year flood event. we re live from fort lauderdale, florida, where officials just issued an emergency declaration after that massive rainfall. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, let s start with that breaking news officials have identified a