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Thank you, everybody. Welcome one and all to The Late Show. I'm your host Stephen Colbert.

This weekend, you can check your calendars on me here. This weekend was the official start of summer, as my audience knows all too well.

Thank you. Thank you, you brave souls for waiting outside in the humidity that the weather channel has described as the devil's trouser chili.

What else is going on?

What else is going?

What else is going on?

Oh, right.

War in the Middle East again. At least it sure looks that way.

Yeah. And it happened a lot sooner than anyone thought. You see, last week, Trump's press secretary said this.

I have a message directly from the president, and I quote,

based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take

place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within

the next two weeks.

That would have been perfect.

For me, because we would have been on vacation next week,

and I wouldn't have known any of this was happening. Now I'm going to have to cancel my reservation

at Sandals Fordo. But on Saturday, just Saturday, right, it's just Saturday. On Saturday,

Trump surprised the world announcing that the U.S. launch strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Now, were we facing

an imminent threat? I don't know. On one hand, Iran's slogan isn't life to America. But it's

hard to trust Donald Trump to be the one making these kinds of decisions.

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