Younger, moreattractive state. Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight snubponea. Plus, stephen welcomes howard stern featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen wooo hey cheers and applause thanks, everybody. Welcome, one and all, ladies and gentlemen, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Trump cheers and applause if you pay attention, you know that donald trump and congress are fighting. I would say they were at each others throats, but its hard to find the throat under all the oldman jowl in there. And ill tell you all about it in tonights obstruction junction our democracy doesnt function. Floutin subpoenas cuz executive privilege the House Judiciary Committee was supposed to hear testimony today from former white House Counsel and smileschool dropout don mcgahn. They wanted to ask mcgahn about the section of the Mueller Report where mcgahn says trump t
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Described at the time as a case without known parallel, a case that author matt lake says philadelphia broke wide open. Matt we caught him and we got the body, yeah. Hed have gotten away with it too if it werent for those darn philly kids. George most of h. H. Holmes notoriety centers in chicago, around the site of whats now this us post office. It was there, in 1889, that he built his famous Murder Castle Hotel ahead of the citys world fair, a castle full of secret chutes and gas chambers. Some who arrived were never seen again. Matt hed wind up putting them into an airtight room and turning a gas on in there until they suffocated. George experts believe holmes made big money selling his victims body parts and swindling their insurance. And in 1894, holmes brought his swindling to philadelphia and this corner of 13th and callowhill. It was here, lake says, that greed finally got the best of him. In his scheme to get insurance money, he killed his business partner, making it look like
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