Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen | Gettin' Wiles

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s Chief of Staff dropped dirt on her boss and his cronies in a series of interviews, the president’s new White House ballroom is being built on top of an emergency operations bunker, and the Madagascar hissing cockroach is the spy of the future. The hosts of “Anderson Cooper 360” and “Watch What Happens Live” stop by for their annual Late Show visit ahead of their big New Year’s Eve broadcast, which typically results in Anderson Cooper being overserved.

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
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1:12.5	Thank you very much, very kind. Welcome one and all. Ladies and gentlemen, to The Late Show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. And ladies and gentlemen, if there's one thing Donald Trump wants, it's a hamburger.
1:18.2	If there's a second thing, though, it would be to make you think that you're crazy.
1:24.3	That's why, periodically, I like to remind all of you that you're not crazy.
1:26.3	What's happening is crazy.
1:34.8	And today... and today, in the pages of Vanity Fair, they confirmed it. Who's they? Them's is. The crazies. You see, over the last year, Vanity Fair has conducted 11 on-the-record interviews with Trump's chief of staff, a woman named Susie Wiles.
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