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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Iran selected a new leader without seeking America’s approval, President Trump wore a novelty hat to an event honoring soldiers killed in action, and the president insulted his Spanish-speaking guests at the first meeting of the Shield of the Americas. National security analyst and podcast host Paul Rieckhoff describes President Trump’s use of the military as “all gas, no brakes” and says that Congress is utterly failing by ceding control of America’s warfighting to the president. New episodes of the podcast “Independent Americans” are available on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official
0:05.5	after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then join
0:11.5	me, 48 hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of post-mortem, where we bring
0:17.8	you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels.
0:24.0	Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.7	Welcome, welcome, one and all to The Late Show.
0:37.8	I'm your host Stephen Colbert.
0:39.4	Ladies and gentlemen, we now are on, was this 10?
0:45.2	Day 10 of the Iran War, and we're not any closer to finding out what the goal is.
0:51.2	Is it regime change?
0:52.9	Is it ending a nuclear program?
0:55.0	Is it changing the name to Donald Trump's Iranilago?
1:01.6	But we are, we are learning more about the cost because according to estimates, the first
1:07.4	week of the war alone cost approximately $6 billion.
1:12.6	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's surprising. You know,
1:16.4	did you know what you could buy with $6 billion?
1:19.5	27 Christy-nomhorsi commercials.
1:24.7	It's unclear.
1:35.7	It's unclear how long the war will continue because this weekend, Trump said the war will only stop after Iran's unconditional surrender to which Iran replied, that's a dream
1:41.3	America should take to their grave.
1:43.3	Okay, that's a dream America should take to their grave.
1:46.3	Okay, that's spooky.
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