Gov. JB Pritzker | You Can't Handle The Roof

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

President Trump appeared on the White House roof today for some reason, a new poll found everyone in the his administration is deeply unpopular, people are speculating about the reason for Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a prison known as “Club Fed,” and voters are letting GOP lawmakers know they’re unhappy about the Big Beautiful Bill. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker promises to protect the Texas Democrats who fled their state to prevent GOP lawmakers from enacting a gerrymandered redistricting plan. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome one and all to The Late Show.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:09.0	You know, folks, they're a lovely people.
0:13.0	What a lovely group of people here.
0:15.0	You know, so often these days, folks, the news goes from stupid to sad to sadly stupid. But today, I'm happy to report it's just plain dumb
0:24.9	because, was it just this morning? Yeah. Late this morning, the president held an impromptu
0:30.9	press conference from a highly unusual location.
0:37.0	Sir, why are you on the roof?
0:43.3	That's nice.
0:46.3	That's not a question you hear asked of a world leader that often.
0:51.2	It's right up there with Your Majesty Where are your pants?
0:58.2	At one point
0:59.4	The President tried to communicate
1:01.2	Through hand signals of some kind
1:03.4	I don't
1:04.8	I don't know
1:06.2	What this is
1:08.4	I think he's saying,
1:11.0	look, the Capitol D-cup.
1:13.5	Look at that.
1:15.9	Then,
1:17.6	look at that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CBS and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.