Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 10/1/19

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Trump's Inner Circle Facing Intense Scrutiny In Ukraine Scandal

On tonight's episode of 'Don and the Giant Impeach,' Stephen Colbert updates us on the fast-moving Ukraine investigation and the actions of key players in President Trump's inner circle: Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and attorney Rudy Giuliani.




Colbert Explains The Ukraine Scandal To Ainsley Earhardt Of Fox & Friends

Connecting the dots between the various abuses of power going on in the Trump administration can be challenging, so Stephen has come up with a simple explanation that should work for even the President's least-informed defenders.




It's Donald Trump Calling, Can You Do Me A Favor?

It turns out politicians aren't the only ones receiving problematic calls from the President of the United States.

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1. Wowsa! Barr running trump 'errands' like his last 'personal attorney', Michael

[jailbait] Cohen.

Have to step back. Watergate looks like a church picnic crowd in comparison.

Who could imagine all this at this grimey, shitty level. trump is amazing.

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2. That's my take on this, too!

I had dental surgery on election day 2016 and fell asleep on the couch watching the returns. I woke up at about 3am to see Trump standing there with his entire deplorable family! At first I thought it must be a nightmare and hoped I'd wake up - and I still am! It's gotten so bad so fast that it's tough to keep up!

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3. It is so hard to keep up on the news floods. Just picked up my morning Wapo -

Wapo's front page has 4 trump stories, involving 7 reporter bylines.

In addition to 5 more trump related articles in the later pages of the front news section of the paper.
Additionally, today, a separate, special, 8 page supplement to the news section on Khashoggi [and Prince 'Sawbones' referred to as MSM] - with no ads in those 8 pages. So far, I haven't read it, I just . . . blinked.

Generally, it seems to me that Wapo has lagged the NYT in trump coverage over time. I did see the last $6 NYT Sunday edition - impressive.

[At the other end of the spectrum, talked to a trumper I've known for several years, last week. He is still all in for trump. I casually asked him, didn't some trump things like air and water pollution bother him. His answer was, 'I only drink bottled' water. [In fairness, he did realize what he said, after he said it - but suspect he still will vote trump to the end. He claims he likes trump on the abortion issue, I suspect its more likely the future dem brown nation issue].

' . . . and so it goes . . . '