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♪ >> kat: colbert is not backing down amid the outcry to be fired. the late show host address the uproar around the controversial joke you made earlier this week about president trump. >> >> in my still the host? i am still the host. if you saw my monologue on monday, you know i was a little bit upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine, so with the end of the monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don't regret that. i believe he can take care of himself. i have jokes. he has the launch codes, so fair fight. while i would do it again,

Step by step and understand that american people for the most part we're getting ourselves whipped into a frenzy over what he's tweeting and said on monday. if the american -- >> he's the president. >> if the american people get money in their pockets and food on their table, he can basically tweet whatever he wants, he'll get a second term. >> we have to take a commercial break on that. next, the trump administration will issue a new executive order aimed at protecting religious liberty but does it go as far as some conservatives hoped. but first i want you to see this, late show host stephen...

Old, the queen is 91 and this on the heels of that report that there was a meeting with the entire staff at buckingham palace. heather: we are told their health is okay. she is stepping down from public engagements. the queen's full support as well. that is the reason for that meeting. the time is 10 minutes after the top of the hour and late-night comedian stephen colbert double down on his attack on the president. >> having choice insult for the president in return, i don't regret that. i have jokes, he has the launch codes. a fair fight. >> new calls for him to be fired. >> giving hackers a...

>> chris: thank you. late-night talk show host stephen colbert says he has no regrets over his monologue monday about president trump that included a sexual reference some considered homophobic. >> i believe he can take care of himself. i have jokes. he has the launch codes. fair fight. while i would do it again, i would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. >> chris: i will say. his initial comments because assumptive cause for his firing and a boycott of his shows advertisers. president trump signed an executive order today intended to rollback government restrictions o...

Bill coming out of the con congress of the united states. >> bill: it's on the schedule today. we'll see it if goes forward. thank you for your time today. >> thanks so much. take care. >> shannon: the president is set to sign a new executive order he says will vigorously protect and promote religious liberty. critics are calling it discrimination. >> bill: stephen colbert backing off some of the stinging comment. far from an apology. howard kurtz set to analyze this. reaction next. >> he can take care of himself. i have jokes, he has the launch codes. so that's a fair fight. is worth doing ri...