Welcome, one and all. Thank you very much. My friend, please have a seat. Welcome to the late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen.

It's a great day for love, and for loving love, and for those who love, to love those who love love.

Because this afternoon, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which guarantees legal recognition of all marriages.

That is great news, and I hope you are listening, Alan and Brad, no more excuses.

Grandma's not going to live forever. I burp the double tree by the lake for June 9th, get a linen suit.

This law is the culmination of a huge change in American society since 2004.

Support for same-sex marriage has gone from 42% to 68%. And even among Republicans, that number, even among Republicans, that number has gone from 19% to 43%.

So progress, but still slightly less than the number of Republicans who believe that JFK Jr. is going to rise from the dead to create an even better pillow.

The White House. The White House. The White House made the signing a big event with drag queens and attendants on the South Lawn.

Well, that's how we should celebrate every new piece of legislation. Here to commemorate the passage of efficiency standards for manufactured homes.

Please welcome Trixi Mattel, your HVAC system. Gonna work insulated work.

Hey, those felt as work. We're learning more in said details about what went on in the lead up to the January 6th attack.

courtesy of former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows,

seen here scaring the girl from the ring back into the TV.

Meadows was forced to hand over his January 6th text messages to the House Select Committee. And last night, the website talking points memo

announced that it had obtained a whole bunch of them showing that Meadows exchanged texts with 34 members of Congress about plans to overturn the 2020 election that is unbelievable.

34 people wanted to talk to Mark Meadows.

The members of Congress, these members of Congress, all members of Congress, right?

These members of Congress communicated with Meadows were, and it's not my place to editorialize stupid evil traders who are trying to do crimes against democracy for which they should be punished with decades of jail time.

One of the worst of the baddies is South Carolina representative Ralph Norman, breaker, breaker, ten, four, back door, what you're 10, 20, catch on the flip.

Mark, we're at a point of no return in saving our republic. Our last hope is invoking Marshall Law.

Okay, invoking Marshall Law means this congressman was calling for military involvement in a coup, again put him in jail.

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