Army has a great defense and also nuclear weapons. Thats true, but i wouldnt count villanova out just yet. They have the explosive scoring power of allamerican josh hart. Yes, but the russian army has proved tenacious on the eastern front. They ate their own dead. Im going to make a bold prediction and say the russian army makes it to the final four. I agree with that, but in the end i think either the russians lose to duke or duke is tossed in a siberian labor camp. Either way, its going to be a great tournament. For everybody here at cbs sports, good night its the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause tonight stephen welcomes Ewan Mcgregor, Finn Wittrock, and musical guest the shins, 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 whoo hey cheers and applause whats up . Good to see you. Thanks, everybody piano riff well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. I hope everyone is staying safe and warm tonight because were expecting a huge blizzard. Im hearing up to 18 inches of snow from what the Weather Channel has dubbed winter storm stella. For the latest on the storm, lets go to the Weather Channels jim cantore. Stella laughter stephen thanks, jim. You stay safe out there. laughter you think he would be wearing a winter coat or Something Like that. Its very surprising hes dressed that way. Quick reminder to everybody who may not know this, the Weather Channel has no authority to name anything. They are not part of the government. laughter in fact, i have as much authority to name things as they do, so, because were expecting 18 inches of snow, even though just last week it was 60 degrees, im calling this winter storm crazy balls. suspenseful music cheers and applause yeah, thats much more likely. Jon pretty crazy, pretty crazy. Stephen speaking of crazy balls the gops Health Care Plan came out last week. piano riff laughter and, so far, its popular with everyone. Except doctors, hospitals, the insurance industry, patients, the elderly, democrats, republicans, and, uh, whats the word. Mortals. laughter yeah. These mortals, they need so much care. cheers and applause and this just happened this afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office released its official analysis of the g. O. P. s healthcare bill and they found that 24 million americans will lose coverage under the plan. Now audience reacts jon oh, man stephen okay, okay. But keep in mind, thats 24 Million People by 2026. And, without health insurance, a lot of those people wont live that long anyway. laughter yesterday, speaker of the house and personal trainer who high fives way too hard paul ryan went on face the dickerson to get ahead of the cbo report. The one thing i am certain will happen is cbo will say, well, gosh, not as many people will get coverage. Stephen well gosh not as many people will get coverage. Gee willickers, i need chemo cheese and crackers, i cant afford to go to the doctor. Holy toledo, i shouldve identified my next of kin, because. Fiddlesticks, im dead laughter applause yeah, doesnt sound so bad when its folksy. Jon yeah, right. Stephen gosh, golly applause piano riff so, anyway, a lot of people could end up losing their healthcare. Speaking of losing it donald trump laughter as you all recall, a week ago donald trump pinched out a couple of Early Morning tweets accusing barack obama of wiretapping trump tower before the election. Now, trump offered no evidence and then demanded that congress go out and find some evidence. Well, today is the deadline set by congress for Justice Department to hand over anything that might exist. So far, brace yourself laughter who could have seen that coming . Well cheers and applause who saw that . Who could have predicted that . Uh, everyone, including paul ryan. Have you seen anything to suggest there are wiretaps . No. Stephen okay, you dont even want to think about it for a second . No. laughter stephen okay, but President Trump had four tweets specifically accusing no. laughter stephen okay. So, that means youre going to cancel the investigation . No. laughter stephen do you have any idea what you should say about this . No. Stephen okay, fair enough. cheers and applause piano riff ryans reaction here isnt that surprising. Now, to believe trumps claims, youd need a shaky grasp of reality, and zero regard for the truth. Sean spicer today laughter seems like a good guy. Seems like a good guy. cheers and applause if someone had to represent me, id go with sean spicer. Jon yeah. laughter stephen today, sean spicer attempted to downplay the president s wiretap claim. The president used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities. Stephen sean, i think youre grasping at straws. laughter i think youre funny bunny. I think youre laughter i dont literally mean grasping at straws, of course. I mean deeply troubled. laughter then seany got a little spicy. The bottom line is, the question that you still have not answered is i have answered it can you say affirmatively that, whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real . If hes not joking, of course laughter stephen okay if hes not joking how hard is it to tell when the president is joking . the president means it unless hes joking. And its easy to tell the difference. I mean, just look at when he took the oath of office. Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States so help me god. Bazinga laughter applause stephen he always throws that on the end, right . Bazinga and spicer wasnt the only member of team trump cleaning up the tweet storm. Trump adviser and stepmom who is trying to replace your mother, kellyanne conway, explained yesterday that just because theres no evidence that his phone was wiretapped doesnt mean trump is wrong. There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into cameras. Stephen its true. Its true. laughter microwaves that turn into cameras. How do you think we film this show . laughter jim, show them camera three over there. Show them what weve got over there. cheers and applause there it is. piano riff but, conways microwave comment heated up online, so today she explained to chris cuomo why her claims may have been a little off. Chris, im not inspector gadget. laughter stephen yes, okay, chris . Okay . piano riff inspector gadget had all sorts of tools at his disposal gadget skates, gadget copter. Kellyanne conway only has one move gogo alternative facts laughter cheers and applause piano riff oh, then she kept talking. I dont believe people are using the microwave to spy on the trump campaign. However, i have im not in the job of having evidence. Stephen okay. Who has that evidence job . Because its certainly not paul ryan or tom price, and it would be nice to know if obama was spying on everyone through the popcorn setting on our microwaves. laughter ding oh, excuse me. My hot pockets done. cheers and applause oh, mmm, mmm mmm oh, mmm. Ahhh cheers and applause by the way, president obama. I miss you cheers and applause actually, can i come in there with you . Can i just can i just can you please can i just i just want to laughter applause laughter jon nice. Stephen we need a bigger microwave. laughter now i want to talk about donald trump here, but not the president. The one that looks like hes wet all the time, donald jr. laughter okay . He was at a gop fundraiser this weekend in texas, and he really knew how to win over the crowd, saying stephen dude, you live on the upper east side. laughter the only thing you see are goldendoodles wearing rain shoes. laughter applause piano riff jon come on stephen making hissing sound laughter a lot of people have been worried about conflicts of interest because donald trump senior owns the trump organization. Now, hes turned it over to his son, and don junior assured the crowd that, since his dad took office, quote stephen aww. crowd says, aww. thank you. A little late but thank you. laughter poor don junior. You know, it reminds me of that old song. The cats in the cradle and the silver spoon. The silver fork and the silver plate the golden table and the golden bed and the golden toilet seat yeah, daddys got a golden toilet seat cheers and applause when you comin home dad i cant tell you, son it violates the emoluments clause, son it violates the emoluments clause cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Ewan mcgregor is here. But, first, ill talk about another trump crony whos cozying up to the russians. Stick around. At red lobsters lobsterfestime. Any of these 9 lobster dishes could be yours. So dont resist delicious new lobster mix and match or lobsterfest surf and turf because you wont have this chance for long. This clean was like pow everything well . My teeth are glowing. They are so white. Step 1 cleans. Step 2 whitens. Crest [hd]. 6x cleaning , 6x whitening a i would switch to crest [hd] over what i was using before. Sir . You give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Yes. 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Jon whoa stephen they have cheers and applause do we have a shot of this thing outside, is it parked outside . Its literally parked outside of the theater right now. cheers and applause this is the van they have toured with for years. Its been super charged and souped up and theyre giving her away. Jon wow. Stephen stick around at the end of show. You can find out how you can win the shins van. I might apply. Jon yeah, ive seen worse vans than that. Stephen i have seen worse vans than that. Jon way worse vans. Stephen thats a great ad for a car, youve seen worse. laughter jon ive seen worse stephen right. Speaking of things youve seen worse some of trumps friends may be in trouble. laughter this time its former Campaign Advisor and maitre d at a gangsterthemed restaurant, roger stone. Hes a big ol buddy of donald trump, seen here being his buddy. During the election, roger stone was accused of having ties to the Russian Hackers who broke into the Democratic National committee servers. But just last week, when asked what contact he had with russians, stone said laughter stephen i threw out all my russian nesting dolls, i quit my russian roulette league, and i even walk really slowly everywhere so that nobody can say im rushin laughter of course, so no russian nothing russian at all cheers and applause nyet of course, we all know what happens when a trump adviser denies contact with suspected Russian Hackers they soon admit they had contact with suspected Russian Hackers. Now, this isnt just any hacker. Its the one and only who is believed by u. S. Officials to be and goes by the name yesterday, stone confirmed that he and guccifer had a private twitter conversation and released a screenshot in which guccifer told stone yeah, is there anything i can do to help . Maybe pick up your dry cleaning, or, any elections you need rigged . laughter but stone had a perfectly good explanation for why he didnt mention his direct contact with one of the most notorious hackers in the world, telling the Washington Times laughter which is exactly the same thing my College Girlfriend said. laughter applause now to clear this up, weve managed to secure an exclusive interview. Please welcome live via satellite, the hacker himself, guccifer 2. 0. Thank you so much for joining us, mr. 2. 0. cheers and applause it is great pleasure to me, stephen. You look so much different in person than in private photos i find on your computer. laughter stephen well, lets talk about your relationship with trump adviser roger stone. Yes, i love roger i call him stoney the tiger because hes grrrrrrreat man laughter stephen really . Because he said his contact with you was banal and perfunctory. Well, im sure perfunctory is good is funky, like american hip hop. Stephen no, not that kind of funky, he denies having any real relationship with you. Well, okay then. Is not important to me either. I dm with many decaying and beautiful old men. Oh, who am i kidding . I miss him so much laughter i may be most dangerous hacker in the world, but the stoneman breached the firewall. Of my heart. laughter who knew that colluding to throw election for paranoid reality tv star could have such bad result laughter stephen guccifer, im so sorry. He promised me hed help raise little guccifer 3. 0 laughter dont worry, goosey3, papa is coming home soon stephen guccifer 2. 0, everybody. Well be right back with Ewan Mcgregor. cheers and applause so sad. Various shouting heigh ho its off to work we go woman on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. And each job created by the Energy Industry supports two others in the community. Altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. 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Thats right, that does remind me of daves studio. Stephen as i said in the intro, you are playing a talking candle stick. Yep. Stephen and youre also playing a 40yearold heroin addict in these two different films. Which one of these things is more believable . laughter because the idea that any of the guys from trainspotting are still alive is pretty crazy. Yeah. I dont know. I think its quite a stretch to believe me as a candlestick. Lets ask them what they think. I dont know. Stephen oh, i totally buy you as a candlestick. You know, the truth is, renton sort of cleaned up his act over the years. And you might be more surprised about where hes at at the beginning of t2 than the other boys. Stephen yeah . There are a lot of people that do kick heroin and get over it. Stephen well, trainspotting is pretty rough. I watched it again this weekend in preparation for t2. And those guys are living a pretty rough life there. I mean the fact you people in t2 have all your teeth is surprising. laughter i dont think bobby has all of his there. Hes missing one, i think. Stephen all right, well, beauty and the beast, lets talk about that for a second. You play a candlestick as i said. You play lumiere. How does one prepare, as an actor, how does one do a ride along as a candlestick . Months and months of research. laughter i dont know really know. The funny thing about it is i sort of just swanned into it, you know. Stephen you what . I swanned into it without much thought. And it was a mistake, as it turned o