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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Amanda Seyfried | Wrong! Said Fed

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Wall Street Journal called the charges against Fed chief Jerome Powell “lawfare for dummies,” President Trump is surging thousands of additional ICE agents to Minnesota, and Stephen Colbert has an update on the Midwest’s monkey emergency. The pride of Allentown, Amanda Seyfried, stops by to join Stephen Colbert for a look at what’s going on this month in her hometown. Watch her portrayal of the Shaker firebrand in the new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is in theaters now. 

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0:00.0

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1:01.0

Welcome, everybody in here out there and all around the world to the late show.

1:03.5

I'm your host Stephen Colbert.

1:04.6

Folks, is one thing.

1:06.8

We're going to tell you.

1:11.9

It's, you know, we've had a rough ride, but it's one thing when the Trump administration comes after our rights or comes after our ideals, but now he's coming after

1:16.6

something we care about. Our money. Right now, make no mistake, our money is under attack.

1:26.5

Thanks for the Trump administration's malicious prosecution of Fed chair and Keebler Elf at the funeral for Snap, Crackle and Pop.

1:35.3

Jerome Powell.

1:36.9

You see, what was, 110 years ago, something like that, the Fed was established specifically to be an independent agency outside of political pressure.

1:46.3

That's what keeps the entire global financial system from collapsing, and all of us going back

1:50.8

to bartering with bales of indigo and little bags of toddler teeth.

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