Whoa, stop, stop. Stephen, not needed. But thank you, i appreciate it. Stephen what are you talking about . This isnt for you. Get out of the way. Hes coming. Im back. Wheres my fanfare . [fanfare] announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, who let the docs out . Plus, stephen welcomes prince harry, the duke of sussex featuring louis cato and the late show band and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert [cheers and applause] stephen oh there you go. Good to see you. It worked. It worked. Louis come on. Stephen happy tuesday, happy, happy, happy. Happy. Happy. Hey, everybody thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [cheers and applause] welcome to the late show, everybody. Thank you so much. Down here, up there, all around the empire. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Youve tuned in. Youve tuned in for a pretty big night. Because its pat benatars birthday. Happy birthday, pat benatar youre a real tough cookie with a long history. Of having birthdays. Hope this is a great one. Also what else is going on . In just a few minutes, im going to be sitting right over there, interviewing prince harry, duke of sussex, lord of gingers. [laughter] i was all excited to spend this whole monologue talking about the royal family. But instead, i have to talk about something stupid. Because classified documents from bidens time as v. P. Were discovered in his private office. Come on, joe classified . Is this just what every president does now, just scatter a trail of intelligence like johnnydocument seed . Are these classified files everywhere . My god this is really stressing me out. Im sweatin bullets here. Gah why . What are the odds . Heres what happened. Back in november, bidens lawyers found the government material while closing out an office at a think tank called the penn biden center. Named, no doubt, after the close friendship between biden and gossip girl heartthrob penn badgley. Details are still coming out. We dont know how the documents ended up there, and its unclear what they pertain to. But, given bidens age, i assume its the spanishamerican war and the digging of the panama canal. Republicans heard about this, and this may surprise you they said, aaaghahaha case in point, the former president , who truthed, when is the f. B. I. Going to raid the many homes of joe biden . Perhaps even the white house . Wait a minute. He may be onto something. Are you telling me there are classified documents in the white house . [applause] okay. I cant believe i have to explain this, but while those documents shouldve been returned earlier, there is no comparison between this and the transparently nefarious behavior of the expresident hauling box after box of classified material to maralago and tossing them into a mop closet, and then when the National Archives says, hey, where are all these documents . He goes, heres some of them and they say, are you sure you dont have any more to give us . And he says i dont know. I know i do have, and its executive privilege and they go to a judge, and the judge says he has to go look for more of them, so he goes, then the f. B. I. Goes, guess what we have a subpoena and he goes heres 38 of them and they say, is this everything . And he says you bet we looked everywhere and the Justice Department says, we dont believe you. And he says, what are you going to do about it . So the f. B. I. Raids maralago and finds hundreds of more documents. And he goes oh, i knew i had those, i packed them myself. But dont worry, i declassified them with my mind. So. [cheers and applause] i dont. Theyre not the same. Its comparing apples to orangeman. But that obvious difference did not stop the squeaker of the house Kevin Mccarthy from saying of bidens team, theyve been around even longer. The former president had never been in office before, and had just left, came out. Heres an individual who spent his last 40 years in office. So, the expresident did way worse but is less guilty cause hes less qualified to govern. Thats like a state trooper saying, look, i would give you a ticket for drunk driving, but youre still on your learners permit. Drive home safe, and bottoms up drunk [bleep] drunk [bleep] drink. Im sorry, im so sorry. Chuck a lug, chuck a lug. Speaking of Kevin Mccarthy, Kevin Mccarthy. Yesterday, he passed new internal house rules that included all of the concessions he made to the Freedom Caucus in exchange for their votes. Weve got some of the new rules right here sit. Down boy. Stay, and fetch Hunter Bidens laptop get em, boy. Sic em. Get him. But mccarthy might be hiding a Little Something extra. Because reportedly, theres also a secret concessions addendum that was approved in closeddoor negotiations with a handshake agreement. We all know the best rules are secret. Reminds me of the Ten Commandments thou shalt not. Wouldnt you like to know. One of those hardliners out there twisting mccarthys gavel is is Marjorie Taylor greene, who celebrated by dropping this video. Yeah. Who celebrated by dropping this video. [still d. R. E. Playing] man, those automated iphone slideshows are getting weird. You may have noticed that music to that video is dr. Dres still d. R. E. Dre certainly noticed, because dr. Dre sent her a ceaseanddesist letter. [cheers and applause] cease and desist. Cease and desist. So hes a doctor and a lawyer . How is that guy still single . This isnt the first time theres been copyright problems between rappers and politicians. Who can forget Bernie Sanders unauthorized tour as soup doggy dogg. One percent, two percent three, four soup doggy dog dr. Dre is at the door we would like some chowder drop it like its hot wheres my soup . [cheers and applause] soup speaking of dr. Dre, eminem. The candy. With all the problems in the world, fox news remains laserfocused on the big issue m ms have gone woke. First of all, no, they havent. Second, if any candy is woke, isnt it the one that tells you to taste the rainbow . Heres what theyre griping about. In honor of International Womens day, m ms is releasing its firstever allfemale packs featuring m ms female characters upside down, with the slogan supporting women flipping the status quo. Okay. All right. I guess so. Fine. This is obviously just a ploy to sell more sugar by being socially conscious. Just like in the 80s, when the koolaid man took on the south african government. Apartheid . Oh, noooo stephen so. Where is his nobel prize . Robbed. So, the packaging is dumb but harmless, right . Not according to fox news host harris faulkner. When you look at the package, the women are upside down. And i understand flipped, but thank you very much, we stand on our own. We dont need to be shown on a package looking crazy, upside down. Stephen no, we need to be looking sane you know, complaining about candy packaging on a news network normal uh come on. Really another thing theyre upset about was this photo of these two female m ms mascots. Holding hands there. Keep in mind, this tweet is from 2015. So, naturally, they were complaining about it yesterday. Apparently theres new lesbian characters. Its female empowerment. I just didnt know that when i was eating, like, an orange right now, is this orange a man or a woman . Stephen easy, pete. Its easy, pete. The ones with an m are men, the women have a w. Okay . [cheers and applause] lady candy. And come on, pete, were all adults, we know all candy is gendered. Okay, first of all, snickers . Woman. Milk duds . Milk dudes. Three musketeers . A polyamorous gay thrupple. Baby ruth . Not sure the gender reveal started a series of wildfires in california. And candy corn . You got yourself a bag of clitorises. 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Stephen that is the spare. Yeah, exactly. Audience harry, harry, harry, Harry Stephen thank you so much for being here. And youre absolutely right, you might have missed it but harry said is this the chair and the spare over there . Well done, well played, sir. Now, it is lovely to have you on the show. Thank you for coming on and talking about your new book. What should i call you . Prince harry call me whatever you want at this point. Im stuck here till we stop talking. Stephen in the book i find you have a lot of different names, your birth name is henry, your father and brother call you harold, people call you h, what is haz, short for hazardous . Prince harry my wife calls me haz. Stephen is harry okay . Prince harry yeah, harry, haz, baz, bazza spike, bazarooney. Its all there. Stephen bazarooney. Prince bazarooney. Prince harry no, the prince doesnt come before that. Stephen it is its own title in and of itself. Well, you have written this very intimate memoir which i have read. And its fascinating. Its a very good read. By itself. [applause] its is available today. A lot of sensational leaks in the days coming up with this. I know that you yourself are a very private person for being a public figure. You are revealing a lot of things in here. You must be on a certain level kind of nerveracking to be out there to publicly and physically represent the book. Would you like a cocktail before we begin . Prince harry yes, please. [applause] stephen i hear you like tequila. Prince harry does he ever make you guys a drink or not . Everyone wants a drink. Everybody wants a drink. ]cheers and applause] stephen theyre already on your side, man, you dont have to get them drunk. All right, are you glad now to be out here so people can see this book, after all these leaks, so they can see the context of these remarks . Prince harry yes, context is everything, as we know. Writing this book has been a cathartic experience. Hard times and happy times. Bringing up old memories that i didnt think i had. But yes, context is everything. And unfortunately due to those leaks, the British Press, which are central to so much of my story in my 38 years up to this point, and after spending two years focused on context and what i am going to share, how i am going to share it, and being able to piece it all together, they intentionally chose to strip away all the context and take out individual segments of my life, my story, and just to make a salacious headline, which is some what typical. Stephen right, especially if you read this book, you find out how typical that is. Prince harry yes. Stephen there is a lot of faults in the american press. And people can see that in the american press. But the British Press is odd to me, sort of bizarre how vicious they can be. You detail a lifetime of dishonorable behavior like the kind you are describing. And not only from the press but from palace sources, palace insiders who would not only not defend you but also plant stories that were derogatory toward you. And placed you and your loved ones under attack. And judging in the last few days, that hasnt changed. Do you think that right now there is an active campaign by the rest of your family, by the royal house, as it were, to undermine this book and you as you support it . Prince harry of course. And mainly by the British Press. Stephen but aided and abetted by the palace. Prince harry again, of course. But this is the other side of the story, right. After 38 years, they have told their side of the story. This is the other side of the story. And there is a lot in here that, perhaps makes people feel uncomfortable and scared. I would say that i think there are some veterans in the house tonight. [cheers and applause] i think one of the most im not going to lie. The last few days have been hurtful and challenging, and not being able to do anything about those leaks you refer to. Perhaps, well, not perhaps without doubt, the most dangerous thing they told is that i somehow boasted about the number of people i killed in afghanistan. Stephen i read that section of the book, without reading the entire thing right here. It is, to me, it is a very thoughtful description of what that knowledge is like to have. And what the experience is to know that you had done this in order to protect what you believe is good in the world from those who would wish to destroy it. There is nothing boastful about it. And not only that. Prince harry but also, i would say that if i heard anybody else, if i heard anyone boasting about that kind of thing, i would be angry. But its a lie. And hopefully now that the book is out, people will be able to see the context. And it is, it is really troubling and very disturbing that they can get away it with it, because they had the context it wasnt like here is just one line. They had the whole section. They ripped it away and said here it is. Hes boasting on this. This when as you say, you read it. And everybody else will hopefully have a chance to read it. And that is dangerous. And my words are not dangerous. But the spin of my words are very dangerous. Stephen dangerous because it makes you an increased target, and those around you that you love. Prince harry and that is a choice they made. Stephen another odd thing about it is that this is nothing new. Here is an article from i believe this is from reuters from ten years ago describing that you had killed afghan insurgents. So this isnt new information. This has been known for a long time. Prince harry almost ten years to the day. My face was splattered all over the pages because someone asked the question when i was still in afghanistan if i had killed anybody from an attack helicopter and i said yes. And i think the most important thing here is not only the context, but the reason as to why i decided to share this in my book. Because again, to the vets here and to the civilians here, which may seem may feel as though it is slightly a weird conversation to have, especially on this show of all shows, but i made a choice because having spent nearly two decades working with veterans all around the world. I think the most important thing is to be honest and to be able to give space to others to be able to share their experiences without any shame. And my whole goal and my attempt with sharing that detail is to reduce the number of suicides. [applause] stephen you talk in the book, here we go. There you go. You talk in the book about those years in the military as having saved you. You say you continue to work with veterans, wounded veterans. The invictus games. And do you think the u. K. Press is using this specifically to hurt you in an area that is meaningful to you . Prince harry without question. It is not just an area that they know is the most meaningful, but it is what has defined my life. I spent ten years in the army. I only joined originally for three. I couldnt resist staying. They kept dangling the carrot of different jobs for me for many years. But i found a refuge there. And as i talk about in the book, i found my purpose. A purpose greater than myself and to be amongst comrades, no longer being treated differently for the first time in my life, being able to hideaway from the media focus. For me, that was an amazing place to be and an amazing community. I still am part of that community. So they will do everything they can to try and disrupt that. Stephen i know this might be a simple question or there might be a simple answer here, why do you think people are so fascinated with your family, and this moment, in you . Aside from this book, because there was already a press fascination, public fascination when you and your wife were being private, all during covid out in california. Why do people have an appetite . Prince harry well, first of all, are you talking about my family . Stephen your family. Well, how about your family and your Greater Family . Prince harry the Greater Family, i dont know i grew up within it. I think there has always been a