We will get to the truth. Next, is hillary really just a scooby doo villain wearing a mask . We wont know for sure until we pull off her face . And finally, is hillary secretly doing the bidding of the Stranger Things 2 shadow monster that possesses her. Spoiler aalert. Any questions . Oh, and anybody that asks a question will be subject to special counsel investigation. Im watching you. Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, sessions in the hot seat. Plus stephen welcomes tyler Perry Anthony atamanuik and john avlon 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 hey how are you . cheers and applause stephen thank you very much. Welcome to the late show. Please, have a seat, everybody. Youre too kind. Now, information, now, folks. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Folks, donald trump has been gone for 12 days. cheers and applause a lot of donald trump fans here tonight. You know what they say while the cats away, the mice have to testify before congress. laughter in this case, it was attorney general and secretary of mischief, Jeff Sessions. Sessions testimony to the House Judiciary Committee covered a wide range of issues, and sessions had the same answer for a lot of them. I dont recall. I dont recall. I dont recall it. I do not recall. I dont recall it. I had not recalled. laughter stephen not a great memory. In fact, just to remember those answers, he had to write them on his hand. laughter applause so no surprise, sessions memory was a hot topic at the hearing. In your testimony today, you have stated i dont recall at least 20 times. Is that fair to say . I have no idea. laughter applause cheers and applause . Stephen its a fair answer, i guess. I guess its im im starting to get a little worried here. Is something wrong with Jeff Sessions . Did he get hit by a big coconut on his way into the chamber . And even when sessions could remember something, he couldnt actually remember it, like the meeting he attended where Trump CampaignForeign Policy adviser and guy who knows a guy, george papadopoulous, presented a plan to collude with the russians. I would like to address recent news reports regarding meetings during the campaign attended by George Papadopoulos and carter page, among others. Frankly, i had no recollection of this meeting until i saw these news reports. Stephen and once someone reports on what i said, i will recall that as well. laughter i think. I do believe. Now, now laughter so now sessions does remember the meeting, sort of. I do now recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel that mr. Papadopoulos attended, but i have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. Stephen i do now recall oops, and now ive forgotten it again. Poof, its gone. Ed where you go ed where you go there were so many meetings about collusion, ive got the collusion confusion. laughter its like brain fever with the vapors at the same time. I do believe. Is this on . Is this i hope its not. But then, the memories came flooding back. After reading his account, and to the best of my recollection, i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government, or any other foreign government, for that matter. Stephen so sessions has no recollection of meeting him, no recollection of what he said or who else was there with him. All he remembers is that sessions did the right thing. Im sorry, fellas, the ole dogs memory is kinda hazy wait its comin back to me. I looked him right in the eye and said the thing with the least legal liability. Good day, sir good day, sir cheers and applause im sorry. Im sorry. I have to keep testifying . I did not realize that. I apologize to the entire committee. So, they didnt talk about russia. They did talk about russia. Honest people can disagree also, Jeff Sessions. But one thing the campaign has been consistent and adamant about they had absolutely no contact with wikileaks. Its an insulting question. And you can take that to the bank, because i think thats where they met with wikileaks. Because you see, we just found out there was secret correspondence between donald trump jr. And wikileaks. Now, to be fair, don jr. Might have thought he was on wikipedia. laughter do they actually make the cheesecakes at the factory, or what . And, send. laughter apparently, trump jr. Exchanged direct messages on twitter with wikileaks during the course of the 2016 race. The damning d. M. Comes from october 2016, when wikileaks wrote, hey, donald, great to see you and your dad talking about our publications. Theres many Great Stories the press are missing, and were sure some of your follows will find it. By the way, we just released Podesta Emails part 4. Don jr. Did not respond to the message, but just 15 minutes after receiving it, his dad tweeted, very little pickup by the Dishonest Media of incredible information provided by wikileaks. So dishonest rigged system laughter applause now, i cant i i i i i. I cant prove that donald trump jr. Called his father, but like they say, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, the duck is colluding with the russians. laughter applause and wikileaks even contacted don jr. Twice on election night. First, when hillary was still expected to win, they wrote, hi, don, if your father loses, we think it is much more interesting if he does not concede and spends time challenging the media. Then after midnight, when it was clear trump won, they just wrote, wow. laughter thats right. Not congratulations. Just wow. laughter thats like telling the bride at the wedding, holy crap, derrick, huh . Well see what happens. Dob jr. Is not the only one implicated because when we got their very first message he emailed steve bannon, kellyanne conway, Jared Kushner that wikileaks made contact. Dear everyone wikileaks is going to help us take down hillary. Make sure to keep it secret, dont put it in an email like this one. And, send. Oh, shoot i forgot to ask about the cheesecake factory. Too risky. Too risky. cheers and applause and in keeping with don jr. s strategy of not knowing when to shut up, yesterday, after the story broke, he tweeted out the full conversations, saying, here is the entire chain of messages with wikileaks, with my whopping three responses, which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic that defense doesnt work. Your honor, heres the photos of my victims body with a whopping three stab wounds. I rest my case. How ironic. applause meanwhile jon got no case. Stephen meanwhile, for everybody in the trump camp, daddys home. Because President Trump is finally back from his 12day trip to asia, and according to him, the trip was a huge success, bragging to reporters, a lot of people said its almost physically impossible for someone to go through 12 days. Layoff laug laughter really . You know there are people who live in asia forever, right . laughter well, thats bigger than 12. 12 12 is more 12 is more or less. 12 is less than forever. And trump isnt the only one giving him rave reviews. So is his staff, noting that the president remained attentive during lengthy diplomatic rituals, including an hourplus tour of a museum in beijings forbidden city. Yes, our president successfully completed the rigors of a fourthgrade field trip. laughter applause yes, he did so well cheers and applause did so well general kelley general kelley actually gave him 20 minutes of ipad time on the ride home. 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Oh, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, what a lovely evening we have in store for you tonight. Its going to be so nice. Folks, i just want you if youre following the news, if youre not following the news, if im the one breaking this news to you, i want to you brace yourselves, alabama lovers. Because there have been more developments in the scandal surrounding Alabama Senate candidate and man demonstrating how tall you must be to date him, roy moore. laughter if you like that one, this is going to be a long four minutes. laughter five five now five women have accused moore of Sexual Misconduct against them when they were toons. And now weve learned that in the 80s, when he was a local assistant district attorney, moore was banned from an alabama Shopping Mall for bothering teenage girls. The only place in the mall that girls were safe was the forever 21, because that is way too old for ray moore. Jon oh, my goodness cheers and applause . Stephen now, one one alabama are the recalls, itd seem like every friday or saturday night, youd see him Walking Around the mall, like the kids did. Well, he wasnt Walking Around exactly like the kids did, because he wasnt looking over his shoulder for roy moore. laughter hey, mr. D. A. According to reports, when at the mall, moore was usually alone, and welldressed in slacks and a buttondown shirt. Well, thats just roy moores approach to romance put on your finest slacks and go afoodcourtin. laughter jon oh oh oh Stephen Moore even went to the mall to get into the holiday spirit. One woman recalls that she was 14 and working as santas helper at the gadsden mall in 1977 when moore first spoke with her and told her she looked pretty. Two years later, when she was 16, he asked her out on dates. He hit on one of santas elves . Well, a true evangelical, hes putting the christ back in christmas. Jon wow wow cheers and applause i hear the sleigh bells ringing and it wasnt just the mall. One alabama journalist claims that moore was also banned from the y. M. C. A. For his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls. And dont forget, he did that while he was assissssstant d. A. The assisssstant d. A. A. Im up there sing. I dont hear any back track over there. I know we didnt rehearse it, but come on i dont want to distract from the main story here, which is that Senate Candidate roy moore was banned from a Shopping Mall for sleazing on young girls. Thats nuts, but it does kind of explain this commercial i found. Take a look. Looking for a mall that has it all . Then come on down to the gadsden mall. Youll find appliances, housewears, mens and womens fashions and now row roy moore now the only thing that is going to sneak up and grab you is savings. Come visit Christmas Village to see santa and his elves who are armed with tasers. Please, teenagers, just come back. Theres plenty of parking. And in the case of roy moore sightings, plenty of roy moore alert stations. Roy Moore Roy Moore roy moore the gadsden mall. Just off route 759. The only place you have to you worry about roy moore is the rest of alabama. Stephen well be right back rest of alabama. Stephen well be right back with tyler perry. Stick around hey google, good morning. Good morning, claire. Its 72 and sunny. Dont forget to wear some sunscreen. Oh, thats nice. Itll also read you the news, look up traffic, and tell you your first meeting is at 9am. And you know how sometimes youre in bed and you cant get out of it until you hear that one song that ok, playing your get out of bed playlist. nants ingonyama lion king song plays yeah, it can do that too. Its Google Home Mini and the rest of the google home family. Hi, i need your help. Ive been trying to find a knee specialist. But nobody has an opening for months you cant always control your feelings. Oh, i found one innetwork next tuesday. 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Thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Which means madea is a big, ugly woman. Thats a big, tall, scary, ugly woman. Stephen just a lot of woman to love, thats all. Just a lot of woman to love. Okay, cool, okay. Stephen the last time we were together and weve been together at some fun things the hand in hand benefit. Thats right. Stephen after harvey hit houston, and before the other hurricanes even hit. Yeah. Stephen we did a benefit. And this was we got this picture here. Did we get this from you or did we have this in house . I dont think i had that picture. So maybe its in house. Stephen you and i were everybody was there, right . Yeah, yeah. Stephen and this was our little group. Our row. Stephen our little row there. It was cher. Billie crystal, Barbra Streisand, me and you right there. cheers and applause . Yup. But but but notice how im trying to lean in to get into the picture. Its like, look at me im here, too stephen these are owl pros. Look at this. No teeth. Look, no one is smiling with their teeth showing. Thats how the pros do it. I didnt notice that. That was a pretty intimidating row. Stephen it was. Did you talk to Barbra Streisand at all . I i did not. I was scared. Stephen i talked to her a little bit but i did not know what to say. Know what she noticed . She turned to me and said, notice which stars leave first. After the cameras went off, we answered the phones for another 15 minutes. And she said, some will leave before everybody else. Who left. Stephen im not going to say, because he might come back on the show. You were talking about this is when we were sitting there, i was so fascinated and so happy for you because you live in atlanta. And you were like how can i stay in atlanta because im growing my company so fast and you told me some really great news. You created your whole world out in atlanta. You took over a whole army base. Thats my new studio, and we have 12 sound stages there and hundreds of people working. Its very fantastic. Im very proud of it. cheers and applause . Stephen wow. Well, what do they call it tyler town . Tyler town. Yeah. You have to come down and see it. Stephen id love to. Bring the show down and come do it live there from atlanta. Wed love that. Stephen done condition, done, done. Stephen theyre telling me its not going to happen. Not going to happen . Stephen but ill say, absolutely, you betcha. Thats a tv yes. I love it, i love it it which means absolutely nothing. Stephen never going to happen. You presented at the c. M. A. , the Country Music awards. Yoi did not know that you were a Country Music fan. I love Country Music. Tim and faith and i were friends and we would see each other all the time down in the bahamas. And somebody said, you have to listen to some of the Country Music. You have to listen to the music. Its going to be really great if you sit there and youll love it. I dont recall, i dont recall, i dont recall thats what he was saying to me you. Stephen have a perfect bahamian accent by the way. Thank you very much. Stephen so you got hooked on tim mcgraw and faith hill. I listen to country and i love it, i love it. Stephen wow. Why does that surprise you . Stephen no, because there are not a lot of African American careful, careful. Stephen Country Music fans. Yes, thats right. Stephen there are not a lot growing up when i was a kid, charlie pride was the only African American