I'd like to say thank you very much, very kind, welcome one and all in here, out there, all around the world to the late Joe. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

You know...

Thanks a large part to the former president. There's a whole industry of people who make a good living trying to make you think you're insane.

Well, I make a very good living, reminding you that you're not.

Now, you think. You would think.

You think that once the people gaslighting you on a daily basis have been revealed to be liars, say, in multiple text messages and a $1.6 billion dollar court filing by dominion voting systems, they would pump the brakes.

But apparently, some people are just addicted to being dicks.

Case in point, Fox News host and Toddler sucking on a dog turd, Tucker Carlson.

Here's what happened. In order to become a speaker, Kevin McCarthy had to make a lot of stupid promises to a lot of awful people like Matt Gaetz.

And one of those promises was to release 41,000 hours of capital surveillance footage from the January 6 riot, because the Freedom Caucus helped cause that most tragic day in our nation's capital.

And they desperately needed someone, anyone to create propaganda, make it seem like it was no big deal, so they can stay in office and maybe do a better coup next time.

And McCarthy kept his promise. He gave all the footage to Tucker Carlson who last night, cherry picked innocuous clips to try to rewrite what we all saw happening with our own eyes on January 6th.

They were peaceful. They were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers.

Sightseers. Sightseers, really. Grab a rock, honey. We're going to the Louvre.

I want to peacefully smear my crap on the Mona Lisa. See if she keeps smiling after that.

He lied some more.

Footage from inside the capital overturns the story you've heard about January 6th. Protesters queue up in neat little lines.

They give each other tours outside the speaker's office. They take cheerful selfies and they smile.

They're not destroying the capital. They obviously revered the capital.

Yes. They obviously revered the capital so much that they queued up neatly to smash those windows. And we all remember their chant.

Wait, you're turn. Wait, you're turn.

Tucker also talked about the Q Shaman. Remember the guy with the horns, the writer who was caught, you know, with the spear and the bear chest and the screaming.

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