Welcome one and all to The Late Show.

I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

Ladies gentlemen, there you go.

We are on four, right?

We are on day four of what we hear at the Late Show are calling a war with Iran.

We're trying to keep it simple because it's confusing enough already.

The United States and Israel continue to bomb them, and Iran is launching counterstrikes

at the U.S. and its allies in the region.

Yesterday, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh was attacked by two drones, and today a drone targeted the U.S. consulate in Dubai. Thankfully, there were no injuries from the attack. But the State Department is taking no chances. They say Americans should depart now via commercial means from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the occupied West Bank, and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

And let's, we have this, let's go to the official announcement.

There, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, both Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Marko Rubio.

One problem with his evacuate order, depending on the country, flights out of the Middle East

have been either extremely limited or stopped entirely.

And earlier today, multiple U.S. embassies told Americans

they cannot evacuate or help them get out of the Middle East.

But if they can't leave, then what are they supposed to do?

Just wander around the desert?

We all know why that took Moses 40 years.

I refuse to ask directions.

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