Based on a contact from the Miss Universe pageant. Why is a contact from Miss Universe setting up Campaign Meetings . Did trump think there was a swimsuit edition to the campaigns . The deaf of collusion at the conversation is real, the collusion is not. But the conversation was about collusion. Oh oh, wait, im sorry. I understand. Youre lying okay. Im going to wrap this up because talking to you is like staring into the mouth of madness. Final question, kellyanne conway, how do you think our viewers will sum up our interview tonight . No information meaningful and helpful was gained from this. I cant argue with that. Announcer its is late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes Woody Harrelson, Cobie Smulders and musical guest Emmylou Harris, 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 band playing stephen thanks hey whats going on . Thats cool for summer. Thats cool for summer. audience chanting stephen piano riff stephen thanks, everybody welcome to the late show. Im your shows Stephen Colbert. Ive got to say, it is fantastic good to go away, good to have a break but its great to be back. I did not watch a lot of news over the fourth of july week because i like to celebrate my love for this country by not watching whats happening to it. laughter so i sobered up this morning and everybodys still talking about russia. But heres the thing theres no evidence of collusion or even the desire to collude with the russians by anyone in the trump campaign. Is something that was true 48 hours ago. Because, now, yeah. cheers and applause we learned yesterday that last june 9, donald trump, jr. Met with a russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on hillary clinton. Wow. audience reacts yeah audience reacts yeah. You took the ooh right out of my mouth. laughter you could knock me over with whatever you use to knock over someone who isnt the least bit surprised. The meeting took place at trump tower and included jared kushner, and thentrump Campaign Manager paul manafort. And proves that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept russian help. So its not a smoking gun, but it is a gun meeting with a russian bullet about their mutual desire to smoke. Pretty damning, but don, jr. Has a good explanation. It was a short introductory meeting. I asked jared and paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. Yes, i think they were talking about the adoption of little timmy kislyak. laughter adorable. Jon oh stephen adorable. Wont someone reach out . Someone reach out. applause piano riff so, much ado about nothing. Other than the fact that five white house advisers confirmed that don junior only took the meeting because the lawyer promised to provide damaging information on hillary clinton. audience reacts ooh, ah so like all the most innocent people, don, jr. Offered a second explanation. I was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance i knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with an individual who i was told might have information helpful to the campaign. I was not told her name prior to the meeting. I asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. laughter okay, lets break this down. Were supposed to believe that, during the height of the campaign, on the advice of a guy he met at the Miss Universe pageant, don, jr. Said, hey jared, paul, i know you guys are busy, but i need you to come to a meeting. With who . I dont know. laughter about what . Im not telling you. laughter okay, were in. laughter applause cheering piano riff thats his story. Happens all the time. Happens all the time. Now, don, jr. Claims he didnt know her name. Turns out, shes a kremlinconnected lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya. laughter although she also answers to her bondgirl name, corruption galore. laughter bond music that sound cue was not indicated in the script here. Generally, they tell me when thats going to come. laughter now, remember, don, jr. Was there to receive damaging information about hillary clinton, but he was disappointed by Natalia Veselnitskaya, saying her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. So, obviously, she was hired as a trump speechwriter. cheers and applause instead, Natalia Veselnitskaya changed the subject to russian adoption, and don, jr. Says, it became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. So the excuse is i tried to collude, but i didnt get anything. applause its like saying, yes your honor, i broke into the house, but there was nothing worth stealing. So if you think about it, they were robbing me. laughter applause and don, jr. Is careful to point out that, my father knew nothing of the meeting or these events. So were supposed to believe that donald trump had no idea what was happening at the highest levels of his own campaign . Yeah, checks out. And the acquaintance from Miss Universe who set up this meeting between don, jr. And the russian attorney is a guy named rob goldstone, a music publicist who, on the day after trumps election, posted a picture of himself on instagram wearing a russia tshirt. laughter thats understandable. Hes just wearing the championship merchandise. All the hillary tshirts were sent to small villages in thirdworld countries. laughter and heres the thing you cant talk about the facts of this story without sounding like a crazy person. Because goldstone, who set up this meeting, did it at the request of a russian pop star he manages named emin agaralov, who is the son of aras agaralov, billionaire russian oligarch, friend of putin, and sponsor of trumps 2013 Miss Universe pageant. Trump even appeared in one of emin agaralovs videos emin, lets get with it. Youre always late. Youre just another pretty face. Im really tired of you. Youre fired. Note i in another night we would be together this would last forever cheers and applause i got swept up. I did not know the fall of western democracy had such a phat beat. laughter speaking of which, President Trump spent much of last week in germany for the g20 summit. Its a big deal, and World Leaders work on their g20 agendas for months. But the day before the conference, the president was reportedly remarkably unprepared and had no set agenda and was just going to talk about whatever is on his mind at the moment. In fact, the white house was so unprepared, they waited too long to book accommodations, leaving him with no hotel room for the g20. Oh, mr. Hotelman without a hotel how ironic laughter applause just go to airbnb almost like mr. Billionaire repeatedly declaring bankruptcy. The city of hamburg stepped up and graciously let trump stay in its Senate Guesthouse because, unlike trump, germany is sympathetic to foreigners without a place to stay. audience reacts jon whoa piano riff stephen huge german fans. applause but thats the last bit of friendship the president was shown because hes pissed off so many of our allies that, well, here he is at the summit. laughter okay. Its okay. Its okay. I like being alone. Unless someone would like my tater tots, in which i will trade them for human contact. laughter trump tried to make a few connections, but he just alienated himself further when, on his official instagram, he mistook the Prime Minister of singapore for the president of indonesia. Okay, sounds bad, but i would cut the guy some slack. His Previous International experience was with the Miss Universe pageant, and im sure hed be able to identify all the World Leaders if theyd just wear their damn sashes. applause stephen nice. Logical. It is logical. Keep it on. Stephen logical. Of course, the most anticipated moment was President Trumps facetoface meeting with vladimir putin. I think it was trumps sixmonth performance review. laughter they hit it off. Evidently they got along like a house afire because it was supposed to be a halfhour meeting and turned into two hours and 15 minutes. Its like a date you expect to be awkward, then discover you have so much in common. Wait, you wanted me to be president , too . Thats incredible jon wow laughter stephen and immediately after the meeting, trump addressed the kremlins shadow on his presidency. I strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. Ive already given my opinion. Those five dots by the way, each represent one of the opinions hes given. laughter could have been the russians, no way of knowing. Could have been a fat guy on a bed in new jersey. Could have been the chinese or somebody else. There was no hacking. And. Obama blew it. laughter and you know putin didnt meddle, because trump said he asked him twice. laughter hey, did you by any chance hack our election . Nyet. Okay, moving on did you hack our election . laughter then trump came up with the best idea ever. Putin and i discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded. And safe. laughter yes. Yes. Just get putin involved. Its like silence of the lambs, only were skipping Hannibal Lecter and going straight to buffalo bill okay bill, toss me that lotion so i can put it on my body. Lets go get the bad guys laughter and the negative feedback on his cyber plan clearly got to trump, because, later that same day, he tweeted, the fact that president putin and i discussed a Cyber Security unit doesnt mean i think it can happen. It cant. What . youre the one who brought it up laughter why talk about things you know cant happen . i know i said it would be romantic if i proposed to you here in aruba. Doesnt mean i was gonna do it. It cant happen. laughter why are you crying . Weve got a great show for you tonight. cheers and applause Woody Harrelson is here. But, when we return, i have some strange news about a strange man, steve bannon. cheers and applause band playing my name is jamir dixon and im a locate and Mark Fieldman for pg e. Most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg e. My truck is something new. Its an 811 truck. When you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you dont hit them when youre digging. 811 is a free service. Im passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. Theyre the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then ill drive it every day of the week. Together, were building a better california. cheers and applause band playing Stephen Jon Batiste and stay human, everybody give it up for the band right now cheers and applause whoo nice to see you. Jon babys birthday cheers and applause nice to see you, brother nice to see you stephen good to see you. Jon, i am super excited. Do you know why . Jon i know we got some shows coming up. Stephen next week, it is russia week. Jon oh, my. laughter stephen on this show, its going to be a huge event. Itll be like shark week, if sharks had secretly hacked the our president ial election. Which i believe russia is training them to do right now. Jon oh, my goodness stay out of the water, stay out of the water stephen i talked to people on the streets over there, oligarchs over there, Cyber Security experts over there. The exclusive, can i reveal this . We went to the president ial suite of the ritz carlton, the pp room. Jon mmmmm stephen no one had gone, so lets just go. We took one of those black light things they use on tv gotta tell you, somebody was murder in there. I hope it was murder because it was a mess under the black light. laughter but Everybody Knows this room is bugged. Thats a known thing. Everybodys, like, hes in that room, we mow the room is bugged. The crazy thing about that room is, when youre sitting on the bed and looking out the window, what do you see, floor to ceiling, walltowall window is the kremlin. They dont need to put the camera in the room. Putin could get out the binoculars and look at you. All next week, five nights, all russia, all join us. It will be so exciting, ladies and gentlemen. cheers and applause can you translate that . Next week. Next week. Next week. Stephen as i was saying over there, before, President Trump was at the g20 last week and a lot of people were thinking that trump would try to mend bridges with other countries by giving a speech everyone could agree with. Like hey, shouldnt this Fidget Spinner thing be over by now . But he didnt do that, even though there was an issue that could unite the world stopping north Koreas Nuclear program. But he didnt mention it at all which is crazy because, just a few days earlier, after a series of failed attempts, north korea successfully tested a missile that could drop a Nuclear Weapon on alaska. I cant believe they could hit alaska i thought it was safe in that box on the map laughter but the people of alaska dont scare easy. Facing eminent death, the mayor of anchorage said, im worried about moose, not missiles. They are similar problems though they both explode when you hit them with your car. laughter when asked if he was worried about being nuked by north korea, another alaskan said, im more worried about whether im going to fall off my paddleboard on an alaska glacier lake this summer. So, nice try, kim jongun, but alaskans arent scared of you. Theyve dealt with much tougher disasters, like the 1964 anchorage earthquake or the three years that sarah palin was governor. cheers and applause well be right back with Woody Harrelson. Stick around, everybody cheers and applause band playing i have spent years taking overthecounter products for my belly pain and constipation. Ive had it up to here its been month after month of fiber. Weeks taking probiotics days and nights of laxatives, only to have my symptoms return. vo if youve had enough, tell your doctor what youve tried and how long youve been at it. 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Put some flavor in your break with new snapple mango tea make time for snapple. cheers and applause band playing stephen welcome back, everybody cheers and applause lovely evening. Folks, welcome back to the broadcast already in progress. My first guest has played everything from a true detective to a natural born killer. He now stars in war for the planet of the apes. My god look at your eyes. How did you know i was here . I was told you were coming that more soldiers from the north would be joining you here. Joining me . To finish us off for good. Who told you that . Okay. Lets go. Stephen please welcome, Woody Harrelson cheers and applause band playing stephen how are ya . Oh, pretty good, dude. Pretty good. You know, i tell ya, ive gotten into a good groove where i dont get nervous on these things, but now im a little nervous. I dont know why. Stephen why . Weve had a good time before. Last time i saw you on a show, at least, i shaved your head while we sang the National Anthem together. Thats true. Stephen it takes about the same amount of time to sing the National Anthem as to shave your head. Maybe a little less time, the way things go. Yeah, yeah. Stephen i see you joined a Baseball Team this year . No, i did this movie called lost in londen. Its based on an incident that happened in my life that i wanted to forget but then i thought could be funny. Stephen what did you want to forget about being off in london . Well, it was a bad night for me and the wifeypooh and i got arrested and went to jail. It was a lot. Wasnt great. Stephen it was a good comedy. Owen wilson is in it. Stephen does owen play you . No, i play me. Stephen i can have