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Thank you. Welcome, welcome, welcome in here, out there all around the world to the late show.

I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

Ladies and welcome.

I want to sincerely thank everybody watching this broadcast night for tuning in.

I know, I'm well aware that right now America is a rough watch.

Before I turn on the news,

I usually grab a bite stick and strap on a cup.

But we did find one piece of happy news today.

There we go.

It's Oprah's birthday.

Every show you. Every show at CBS has to do that at least once today.

Gail put that in all of our contracts.

There is some other good news.

Reportedly, thanks to his plunging popularity over his goons brutality in Minneapolis and elsewhere,

Donald Trump is frightened and backed in a corner.

Yeah.

You know, couldn't know there's some consequences, but I just want to warn everybody that that's when you have to be extra careful.

Because if you startle him when he's cornered, he'll inflate his neck pouch.

Didn't expect that zoom in there.

He surprised me a little bit.

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