Welcome. Welcome, one and all. To the late show, I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Well,

here we all are. Another day has gone by, and the ex-president still has not been indicted

for making illegal hush money payments to a porn star, right? Yeah, I really thought

it was going to happen today. After all, Wednesday is, cover up your hump day. But we did

get some movement in another one of the ex-presidents, myriad criminal investigations, because

a federal judge has ordered former vice president Mike Pence to appear in front of the January

6 special counsel's grand jury. And, yeah, I highly agree. And the reason we know this

is good for the country is because neither Pence nor the former president want it to happen.

The ex-president argued that his conversations with Pence fell under executive privilege,

while Pence claimed that his role as the president of the Senate granted him legislative

immunity. So, he was part of the executive branch and the legislative branch. You can see

it all in the new movie. Every job everywhere, all my Pence. What prosecutors really, really

want to know is what the former president said to Pence prior to January 6, in order to pressure

Pence to go along with the plot to overturn the results of a free and fair election. We know

some of the things the ex-president said Pence already about that plot. Like, if it gives you

the power, why would you oppose it? And you can either go down in history as a patriot,

or you can go down in history as a pussy. To which Pence replied, what's that?

Is that the lady area covered in caution tape?

Of course, one reason this case may never come to court is that America might cease to exist

because the GOP is refusing to raise something called the debt ceiling. And according to the

Treasury Department, June 5 is the deadline to avoid catastrophic default. Now, I'm sure that's

not good, but at this point, aren't we all a little catastrophe-doubt? If you want to grab our

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