Welcome, folks, to the late show I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

I want to start off.

First of all, happy hump day, which is fitting,

because thanks to the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit,

it looks like Fox News is royally humped.

Some new court filings dropped just last night.

And the big surprise is something that should surprise no one.

Fox News doesn't believe a word they say, and neither should you.

And neither should the White House Correspondents Association.

Case in point, newscorp CEO and Picard action figure left on the hot dashboard,

Rupert Murdoch.

Publicly, Rupert Murdoch's network has been totally supportive of the former president

and his election lies, but private messages from November of 2020 show Murdoch fretting

that the ex-president was going increasingly mad, increasingly mad.

I'm just curious, Rupert, at what point in his madness might have occurred to you

to report that the most powerful man in the world has grown increasingly mad.

I believe the scale goes mad, increasingly mad,

inciting a coup, strangling his secret service driver, and dinner with Kanye.

We also...

That's right, it's the...

Right on top.

We also found out that Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election

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