connecticut in one game. >> okay, here we go. here's the graphic. >> and i have arizona and gonzaga in the other. i've changed. in the championship game, though, now i have yukon against gonzaga, and i have yukon winning the whole thing. >> well hold on, everybody gave me so much can we say smack about going with houston. >> grief. >> yeah, another word that starts with s about going with houston, and i was unaware of their injury situation. and there they are. >> that's okay. that's all right. >> you had that -- >> i don't have them in the championship game. i have gonzaga instead. >> i have gonzaga losing in the first round, so one of us will look very smart. and the other will be -- >> there's going to be at least eight upsets in the >> we follow the breaking news, and we have a big one today. senator mitch mcconnell says he is going to step down from

his post as senate republican leader in november. [cheering] >> and now, exclusive footage of mitch mcconnell stepping down. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert!" tonight... mitch bye! plus, stephen welcomes chris hayes and carrie preston. featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> stephen: oh! beautiful. good to see you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome. welcome in here, out there, mr. and mrs. america and all the ships at sea to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] and there is -- everybody knows. everybody's heard this. big news from washington today, because this just -- this just happened this afternoon, right? just a little while ago, mitch mcconnell announced he will step down as the senate's republican leader. [cheering] but, um, is this true? he's not stepping down till november, because at 82, that's how long it takes him to step. mcconnell made his announcement on the senate floor and then took a fond shamble down memory lane. >> my career in the united states senate began

amidst the reagan revolution. the truth is, when i got here, i was just happy if anybody remembered my name. president reagan called me mitch o'donnell. "close enough," i thought. >> stephen: well, that's very big of you, bitch o'dumbnuts. [laughter] that's not very nice. that's not, that's not very nice. the smart choice. i've had my differences with mitch mcconnell over the years, that's no secret. but the truth is, he's an old man. he's served in our senate for almost four decades, and so i just want to put aside politics for a moment and say sincerely uhhhh...

ah! yesterday both parties held their primaries in the great state of michigan. [cheers] yeah! yes. thank you. and on the democratic side, biden won with 81% of the vote. [cheers] 81%. 1% percent for every year he's been alive. and god help us, that joke works. coming in second place behind biden was "uncommitted" with 13.3%. this was the result of an organized campaign to register discontent about biden's policies on israel and was designed to be a warning from progressives, young voters, and arab-american democrats. so these are people who previously supported biden, just wanted to send him a message to change his behavior. it's like how you would tell a child, "you can't have dessert until you clean your room

and figure out who gets jerusalem." the next highest vote-getter was marianne williamson, who got 3%, even though she had already dropped out of the race. that showing inspired her to unsuspend her campaign. that is the ultimate proof that she's an optimist. she always sees the glass as 3% full. williamson beat out a candidate who is still in the race, dean phillips. who got 2.7%. afterwards, phillips tweeted "if you resent me for the audacity to challenge joe biden, at least you'll appreciate how relatively strong i'm making him look among primary voters!" yup. that's like a guy saying to his ex, "hey, you gotta admit, thanks to me, sex with your new boyfriend must seem pretty great." huh? huh? now, but, dean, buddy, i can tell you're feeling low,

so let's have a little talk. ♪ ♪ hey, pal. sometimes in life, you take a big swing and it just doesn't work out. we've all had times when we've put ourselves out there and then lost to a protest vote and the lady who wasn't running. you might feel like you don't want to show your face right now. but you listen to me. you go out there and hold your head up high, because no one knows what your face looks like. stay strong. [cheering] ♪ everybody hurts ♪ over on the republican side, donald trump easily beat nikki haley, but there were some warning signs for him. in every primary so far, trump has done significantly worse than the polls predicted. in iowa, he underperformed by 2 points. in new hampshire, it was 7 points. in south carolina, he did worse by 8 points, and last night,

he underperformed by 15 points! if this trend continues, by november, he will get negative 23% of the vote. [cheering] yes. or as he calls it, "total victory." as usual, trump did particularly badly with college-educated voters. possibly because they all had to take the pre-req course: "poli-sci 101: intro to don't vote for hitler." there's also good news. [applause] sure. no, hitler. oh, there's good news about the government. we still have one. because juust this afternoon, lawmakers reached a deal to avert a u.s. government shutdown. that's nice. but didn't we just do this three other times in the last

six months? why are we celebrating something that should always happen? it's like a school principal getting on the p.a. and saying, "uh, good news, students. today's lunch: food." what the deal doesn't have in it is any funding for ukraine. thanks to house speaker and evil simon chipmunk, mike johnson. now, the president, the president of the united states, senate republicans, and democrats all support funding ukraine. so, yesterday, there was a big meeting at the white house, where johnson was cornered on ukraine aid by chuck schumer, president biden, and mitch mcconnell. they gave johnson the ol' good cop-old cop-might be dead cop. the entire free world is behind helping ukraine. this week, the foreign minister of poland addressed johnson directly, saying... [polish accent] "i'd like mike johnson to know that the whole world is watching and if the bill were not to pass

and ukraine was to suffer reversals on the battlefield, it will be his responsibility." adding, [polish accent] "i cannot believe the fate of the world rests in the hands of man whose son gets phone alert when he's, say, rubbing mustard on his kielbasa." kielbasu. delicious kielbasu. on top of that, 23 european parliaments have sent mike johnson an open letter urging him to provide aid for ukraine. 23 countries! the only thing that unites europeans more than mike johnson are weird stand-up toilets and pants tight enough to show the outline of your mike johnson. now, it is no mystery in case you're wondering why republicans in congress don't support ukraine. and the reason is called donald trump. he loves him some putin. and we found out just how much he loves him from former australian prime minister malcolm turnbull, seen here trying to discreetly

determine if his finger smells like butt. [laughter] no. discreetly. that's discreetly. turnbull was on an australian news show, and he described his experience at international summits watching trump meet putin. >> i've been with trump and putin. trump is in awe of putin. he's -- when you see trump with putin, as i have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. "ah, my hero." it is really creepy. >> stephen: that is an insulting comparison to 12-year-old boys. if one of them, if a 12-year-old boy met putin, he wouldn't idolize him. they would look him straight in the eye and say, "wait, we're the same height?" but if you want to see the

russian influence in the republican party, look no further than their sham impeachment of joe biden, which they hope to accomplish by first attacking hunter biden. hunter was on capitol hill today to testify in front of the impeachment committee. we don't know what he said, but we do know that the g.o.p. case is imploding, thanks to their star witness, alexander smirnov, seen here not being seen here. back in 2020, smirnov told his fbi handler that he could testify that the owner of the ukrainian energy company burisma had arranged to pay $5 million bribes to both president biden and his son hunter. that is what you'd call a smoking gun, okay, if it were smoking or a gun. turns out it was just a finger, and yes, it smells like butt. [laughter and applause] worth it right there.

now, back then, the fbi warned republicans this information was unverified, but that did not stop them from staking their entire case on this clown-sky. and turns out, that might have been an oopsie-daisy, because now smirnov has been charged with lying to the fbi and creating false records and has admitted that he had been fed information about hunter biden from russia's intelligence services. the republicans in congress trying to impeach the president of the united states based on false information piped directly into capitol hill by the kremlin, at any other point in human history would be a scandal of such magnitude and gravity that it would tilt the earth off its orbit around the sun. but you don't hear much about it, because half of the media in the united states is focused on the scandal of "old man is old and likes ice cream." [applause] now, now... i like ice cream too.

now that their star witness is behind bars, house republicans are backpedaling like a tweaked-out circus bear on a unicycle. until last week, keep in mind until last week, they called this man a trusted, highly credible informant, who was a very crucial piece of their investigation. but now this is what they're saying. >> he wasn't an important part of the case, but it was a tip that we should investigate. >> talking about smirnov. he's part of this puzzle. he's a very small piece, right? >> yeah, he's a micro piece. >> stephen: bad news, fellas. there's no such thing as a micro piece of russian spy. if your hot dog has even a micro-piece of turd, it's a turd dog. [applause] they're all turd dogs. we got a great show for you tonight! my guests are chris hayes and carrie preston. but when we come back, i've got some great news. there's plenty of stupid in other countries

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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band, everybody. right over there. louis, this evening, we have yet another, we have another, we have yet another special guest this evening. please remind everybody who is sitting in on the sax over there. >> louis: on the tenor saxophone, friend of the band and the show. tevon pennicott. >> stephen: i also have a special guest tonight. i have the star of the new tv show on cbs on thursday nights, carrie preston from "elsbeth." starting this thursday. in just a few moments sitting right over there one of my favorite broadcasters out there

from "all in with chris hayes," chris hayes will be right over there. folks, i don't care who knows it. i love america. [cheers] but it's been brought to my attention. long may she wave. but it's been brought to my attention there are other countries out there. mexico, japan, barbieland. they've just been through a terrible civil war. sometimes for you i like to check in on what's happening abroad in my brand new internationally-broadcast segment... ♪ ♪ >> "what's going on over there?" [applause] >> stephen: the people already know. we've never done it before and they know they love it. how do they know it? tonight's first destination. >> "what's going on in germany?"

>> stephen: deutschland, the big schnitzel, the country so nice, we defeated it twice. last week, germany legalized recreational cannabis use. jawohl. this is going to have major effects on german culture. they've already got oktoberfest, now they need to add "smoke-vemberfest" "weed-cemberfest," and "get really into phish-uary." okay, everybody back on the tour bus, 'cause next we're gonna find out... >> what's going on in scotland? >> stephen: scotland! where a lot of interesting and vitally important news stories are occurring on a daily basis. but also this. el chapo's granddaughter has joined the hunt for the loch ness monster while romping through scotland. [applause] that is the last time i get my news from mad libs. you know their slogan, "all the news that's aquarium to fart." apparently el chapo's granddaughter has been

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willy's chocolate experience. visitors were promised giant mushrooms, candy canes, and chocolate fountains, but instead were met with basically an empty warehouse and extremely sad oompaloompas. you all know their song. ♪ oompa loompa oompa dee dee dee ♪ ♪ why did i go to thea-ter school ♪ the event, which again, was labeled a "chocolate experience" was so poorly organized, performers gave the children one jelly bean each and a quarter cup of lemonade. and guests were also treated, for some reason, to a completely made-up villain, an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls called "the unknown." here's a look. >> what is that? >> it's the unknown. >> no! >> stephen: "wait, wait, why are you crying, buddy? it's the beloved children's character: sex creep from "eyes wide shut"! where are we going next, globy? >> buon giorno, jared leto. >> stephen: italy!

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there you go. all right. hey, chris hayes, we have some stuff we need to get into the audience doesn't even know about but i heard tonight is your birthday. >> chris: it is my birthday. >> stephen: happy birthday. we got you a present. we got you a present and since it's an election year and a really strange one at that, we got you something to help with the stress of the year. right there. >> chris: [laughs] it's a stress ball that says "f*** [bleep]." very useful. can i do that while i -- >> stephen: you 100% can. speaking of holy [bleep] balls, at 5:00 today, shortly before we started the show, a ruling or an announcement came

from the supreme court on donald trump's attempt to get out of the january 6th prosecution because of absolute presidential immunity. tell the folks what the supreme court said. >> chris: it happens at 5:00. at one level, it's an anodyne announcement. what they say is we we are granting donald trump's stay which means the proceedings stay paused. >> stephen: so jack smith cannot actually go to trial. [booing] >> chris: yes. you're reacting the way i would imagine you would react and we are going to take up arguments on april 22nd. seven weeks from now. and everything will be stayed pending. just to be clear, they took 15 days from the time that these briefs were submitted to make this decision. 15 days in which they weren't writing any orders, weren't writing any dissents. weren't doing any work on they

just burned 15 days and then after burning 15 days, they turn around and say we are going to do arguments in seven weeks. that's nine weeks that they have taken off the calendar. >> stephen: this seems like they are doing him a solid because what he wants more than anything else is just to burn out the clock so the trials don't happen regardless of what the ruling is. >> chris: that's correct. from the moment the indictments were announced and particularly this one which i think is most important for a bunch of different reasons. >> stephen: i think we deseve to know whether the president of the united states engaged in an instruction against his own government if he wants to be president again. >> chris: that's a very reasonable position. not only that, i will even say and i really mean this truthfully. there's one sort of level, a partisan perspective of i personally think donald trump is bad and unfit for office and i think he should stand trial. american voters actually deserve the knowledge in either direction. if he's acquitted and found not guilty of an incredibly grave crime, american voters deserve to know that as well. one way or the other, the

american public is owed as a fundamental public interest as a democratic self interest to know whether in a court of law judged by a jury of his peers under full constitutional due process the man is guilty or not on the gravest political crime of any man in history since the civil war. [cheers and applause] i want to be clear with folks. everyone here knows the score and i cannot stress this enough. i saw the news about this order. it's like oh, they're going to hear the immunity case. they're going to hear arguments. okay, i guess that makes sense. there is a calendar on the wall. it's got a certain amount of days on it, 200 days. and every day you cross through in red you are doing trump a favor. you're helping donald trump and everyone knows that. the people on the supreme court. jack smith, donald trump's lawyers know it and donald trump knows it. so when they take 15 days to issue this order and then they come back and say we're going to get these arguments in seven weeks, they are going up to that calendar and putting nine weeks of days and they are burning them for donald trump in

donald trump's interest so as to protect donald trump from the possibility of being held to account. everyone needs to understand that is what they are doing. >> stephen: it's actualy worse than that. because whether they rule in his favor or against his favor we won't know until the end of june. >> chris: well, yes, probably. although i do want to say one thing. in '74 in july, u.s. v nixon, this is the case that found that you can prosecute a president, they issued the opinion three weeks later. so and this is an important thing to keep in mind about the supreme court. when they want to move fast, they move fast, baby. when they want to move slow, they move slow. if they want to move fast, after april 22nd and they want to issue that opinion, they can. do i think they will after what they signaled today, not likely. >> stephen: okay. i was about to say, do you want to bet. >> chris: the reason i'm saying that as i don't quite want to take pressure off which is to say we should know everyone's watching this and everyone understands the score

the same way they do and they can't hide behind procedural complexity and anodyne one-page statements that give you a scotus scheduling. we all know what they're doing. >> stephen: we have to take a quick break. but don't go anywhere. we'll be right back with more chris hayes, everybody. ♪♪ at metro get a new iphone 12 with 5g. take amazing pictures, and share instantly. you don't take yada yada in life. don't take yada yada from your wireless provider. get a new iphone 12 with 5g for only $99.99. only at metro.

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mr. chris hayes. you have a podcast called "why is this happening." we are going to likely have another presidential election between joe biden, 81, and donald trump. by the election will be 78. why is that happening? why are our candidates old? >> chris: there's a bunch of reasons. one is the baby boom was really a big generation. that's why they called it the boom. and baby boomers have had a kind of cultural and political dominance in american life are an incredibly sustained period of time. partly i think because of the age at which they came of age and because of their sheer numbers and they have proved remarkably immune to being dislodged. >> stephen: unwilling to be dislodged. >> chris: i think two other things. the first answer to your question is incumbency is a powerful thing in politics, always has been. donald trump essentially

an incumbent. joe biden the actual incumbent. name recognition matters a lot. those are the two guys that are going to be there. they are going to be there again. number three what i would say is actually joe biden and donald trump in very different ways are good at politics. it's not fully an accident that these two individuals are where they are. joe biden has been a politician since he was 29 when he got elected to the senate right on the constitutional threshold of being a u.s. senator. he's been doing this for 51 years and you know what? he's good at it. joe biden is good at doing politics. [applause] it's not easy. it's not guaranteed that you win as many elections as joe biden has won in his life and you know who else is good at politics in a dark, perverse, destructive way, is donald trump. >> stephen: he is good at motivating the polis. >> chris: for all that exhaustion with these two men or

exhaustion at the thought of a rematch or the notion of these individuals at the advanced stage they're at. >> stephen: you said people in the media should cover trump more. why? there was a lot of criticism in 2016 that he was covered too much, given billions of dollars of free publicity and free advertising. so what do you mean by "more"? certainly not what happened in 2016. >> chris: no. first of all, the critique in 2016 was correct and also the lesson was overlearned and what i mean by overlearned is what i think happened particularly after january 6, particulate after, he was no longer in the white house, disappeared from the social media platforms. he became an abstraction. his edges got sanded off and often when he was reporting about it was through the prism of reporting that characterize him rather than actually seeing him. and it's genuinely shocking. i don't know how often you go to truth social to read his posts. >> stephen: not as often as i

should, obviously. >> chris: every reporter who's ever worked in a newsroom has experienced cranks. they get emails or letters from cranks. it's all the same cadence, all the same weird capitalization, the same anger, pettiness. he is a crank. his odiousness and his abherantess is hard to keep front of mind because it's so strange. the more removed the actual figure donald trump is from the collective memory the less people remember just how odious he was. >> stephen: so if we put them on camera more often or if the news puts them on camera more often will be reminded how -- we are creeped out by him. >> chris: yeah, yeah. there was a reason -- i always go back to covid when he was doing the daily press briefings. >> stephen: i remember those. >> chris: the breaking point was probably when he said he

should try to shine uv light in your butthole. >> stephen: or inject the bleach. >> chris: either. if there's a way to get it inside the body, the uv light or the bleach. they had to pull him off doing that. partly because it was dangerous to people's health but also because it was politically bad for him. it started to drive his numbers down. i think there is the degree to which, it's hard to keep in mind just how strange and terrible a figure he is. i think that the news has helped him a little bit by keeping him offstage. >> stephen: last thing. i know you've got to go and do a show and we've got to go too, but i wanted to talk about why do you think the russia has such a grip on some of the republican party. why is tucker carlson not an aberration but an avatar of a certain attitude now? >> chris: it is strange. >> stephen: a weird switch in a short period of time. >> chris: very weird inversion.

it was very weird the way tucker did the stations of the cross of the american leftist going to soviet russia to report back on how much better things are. almost like he was doing a bit like potemkin village. there's two reasons i think. one is transactional. vladimir putin engineered criminal sabotage to help get donald trump elected in 2016 and donald trump knows that and vladimir putin knows that and the republican party knows that. they would like his help again in 2024. there's a debt he's incurred. donald trump wants him to help him out. the ideological reason is that as the republican party and conservative movement radicalizes against democracy they are increasingly looking for foreign models of right-wing authoritarianism that is alluring or attractive to them. in replacement of our traditions here. >> stephen: so, orban. >> chris: exactly.

orban being another one. putin being one. they are souring on democracy. they are souring on the project, all of us together choosing collectively what we do and as they sour on that and radicalize against that very notion, they look for models elsewhere of what things could be like and one of those places is russia. >> stephen: chris, thank you so much. always lovely to talk to you. thank you for being here. "all in" airs tuesdays through fridays on msnbc. you can listen to "why is this happening?" wherever you get your podcasts. it's chris hayes, everybody. we'll be right back with emmy-award winning actor carrie preston. if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. good to go binge-watch. good to go out even later. with cabenuva, there's no pausing for daily hiv pills. for adults who are undetectable,

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office. they said he was here. >> is he expecting you? >> i don't think anyone is expecting me. i decided to come a day early to see new york. i am elsbeth, part of the thing, the thingy thing. >> the thingy thing? >> consent decree. i'm the outside observer. the wrongful arrest lawsuit. >> right. this way. i think you should... >> i didn't even remember i was wearing this. >> stephen: please welcome to "the late show," carrie preston. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

thank you so much for being here. thank you for dressing up. i love the sparkles. >> carrie: listen. this is my baby's first late-night. >> stephen: your late-night debut. thank you for coming here. how does it feel so far? >> carrie: it feels amazing. i'm glad it's you because we are both southerners. >> stephen: you are from macon, georgia. you grew up in >> carrie: macon, georgia. you grew up in charleston, south carolina. when you're a guest, you know you don't show up empty-handed. you always bring something. a little something-something. so as you saw in that clip, my character elsbeth carries these iconic tote bags. you don't ever know what's in them. so i brought you a tote but i'm going to tell you what's in them. >> stephen: i should be giving you a gift. >> carrie: it's southern treats. >> stephen: do i get to keep the tote bag? that's kind of nice. southern treats. okay, that's good.

stone ground white grits, or hominy, as we call it in south carolina. we have bull city barbecue sauce from durham, north carolina. i forgive you for that. [laughter] cheddar cheese straws, of course you can't go to a cocktail party without cheddar cheese straws. >> carrie: a dented can. >> stephen: a dented can of boiled peanuts. thank you. this is very kind of you. thank you very much. does anybody here know what boiled peanuts are? yes? a couple. people, if they're not from the south, people don't know what boiled peanuts are. >> carrie: they are best hot. >> stephen: they are best hot. also best on a boat with a can of beer. literally boiled peanuts. my friends ask me, what's the recipe for boiled peanuts? i said boil peanuts. a lot of salt. i'm going to have one of these while we are talking. i'm not asking you to because

you look too nice. >> carrie: you do you, boo. >> stephen: i used to make these for my friends in chicago and they would say oh, great, here comes colbert with more of his damp food. you started playing elsbeth 14 years ago on "the good wife." that's a long time to play a character. mmm, these are good. how has she grown? i played a character for nine and a half years on "the colbert report" and i don't know what else to do with this guy. how have you grown and how has she grown as you have played her? >> carrie: it was great when i first got the role they described her as a female columbo. i didn't really watch a lot of "columbo" but i knew what they were talking about, this unconventional character who uses the fact that she's underestimated as her superpower. so we did that in the first season or so of "good wife." then they brought me on later and after a while, we just kind

of hit our stride. and then i played the character about 20 times over "the good fight" and "the good wife." and now i'm at the center of the show playing a character, playing the same character but she's very much like a "columbo." it started off that way and we've moved her from the legal world into the police, a police detective role. so she's like a columbo. she comes to new york on a consent decree. >> stephen: which is what? >> carrie: basically she is the police police. she's there to make sure these high-profile crimes don't turn into lawsuits. she walks onto her first crime scene and she's like, what's that? why is that they are? ooh, i don't think this is a suicide. i love your tie. then it turns out she's really good at it and then we get to see all of her howdunnit, not whodunnit.

>> stephen: do you get a sense of what people recognize you from. do they know you from "true blood." do you know if someone knows you as elsbeth? >> carrie: i like to play a game where i try to guess so they will say "i loved you on that show." i'll say so glad you loved "true blood." or i will say "so glad you loved good wife." sometimes i get it right. sometimes it's like swipe left. no, not that, no, not that and you go down your entire resume. one time, i was on an airplane and there were these flight attendants and i saw them talking and i thought okay, here it comes. they come over and they say, "excuse me. are you a flight attendant on delta?" >> stephen: you have been a working actor for 30 years now. >> carrie: yeah. >> stephen: but now this is the first time that a show is being built around you here. and here's a billboard in times square. >> carrie: it still gives me chills. >> stephen: did you imagine, did you ever think about that?

[applause] >> carrie: stephen, you probably know something, you know this too. something very profound and humbling when it happens to you and dream come true. this has happened for me. let me tell you what i've really learned. i said to the crew when we finished shooting the pilot, i don't know if i'm ever going to be able to play this role again because pilots, a lot of them don't get picked up. i said to them, "this is the dream." coming together with a group of people who are talented with the common goal of making something special. we did that. so that's the dream. and you're the dream. that's what i said to the crew and i really believe that. [applause] >> stephen: that's exactly right. what you do with each other. well, so lovely to meet you. thank you so much for being here. you can catch a sneak preview of

"elsbeth" tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. and every thursday starting april 4th on cbs. carrie preston, everybody! we'll be right back.

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