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Stephen Colbert Opens ‘The Late Show’ With Message of “Grief for My Beautiful Country”

Colbert's show is live this week in conjunction with the Republican National Convention, but the host opened Monday's episode with a prerecorded message condemning political violence.

Stephen Colbert ‘s The Late Show is airing live this week in conjunction with the Republican National Convention, but the CBS host opened Monday’s episode with a prerecorded message condemning last weekend’s assassination attempt against Donald Trump. “I understood his shock,” Colbert said, “but I’m old enough that one of my earliest memories is sitting in a dark room with my sister watching my parents’ little black-and-white TV, and seeing Bobby Kennedy’s coffin on that slow train from New York down to Washington. The host went on to say that Saturday’s attacker, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was “someone barely out of boyhood who reportedly donated to a Democratic group in 2021, then registered as a Republican that same year,” noting that “we may never understand his motivation, nor is that necessarily our job.”

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