extraordinary props, extraordinary all right. >> it didn't. >> yeah. that's what they got. the event was supposed to go all weekend, but it got cut short after a day. everybody is getting refunds for their not so golden ticket. >> who thought this was a good idea? >> that is the most elaborate part, where it says factory. come, children, to the factory. >> i want to be in the moment at the time somebody said this is going to be a great idea. this will be huge. >> when they finished putting it together and hadn't opened it to the public yet, they should have said boy, nailed it. >> >> we follow the breaking news, and we have a big one today. senator mitch mcconnell says he is going to step down from his post as senate republican leader in november. [cheering] >> and now, exclusive footage of mitch mcconnell stepping down. ♪ ♪

>> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert!" tonight... mitch bye! plus, stephen welcomes chris hayes and carrie preston. featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: beautiful. good to see you.

thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome very welcome in here, out there, mr. and mrs. america and all the ships at sea to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] there is -- everybody knows. everybody's heard this. big news from washington today, because this just -- this just happened this afternoon, right? just a little while ago, mitch mcconnell announced he will step down as the senate's republican leader. [cheering] but, um, but is this true? he's not stepping down till november, because at 82, that's how long it takes him to step. mcconnell made his announcement on the senate floor and then took a fond shamble down memory lane. >> my career in the united states senate began amidst the reagan revolution. the truth is, when i got here, i was just happy if anybody remembered my name. president reagan called me

mitch o'donnell. "close enough," i thought. >> stephen: well, that's very big of you, bitch o'dumbnuts. [laughter] that's not very nice. that's not, that's not very nice. the smart choice. i've had my differences with mitch mcconnell over the years, that's no secret. but the truth is, he's an old man. he's served in our senate for almost four decades, and so i just want to put aside politics for a moment and say sincerely uhhhh... ah! yesterday both parties held their primaries in the great state of michigan,

[cheers] yeah! thank you. and on the democratic side, biden won with 81% of the vote. [cheers] 81%. 1% percent for every year he's been alive god help us. that joke works. coming in second place behind biden was "uncommitted" with 13.3%. this was the result of an organized campaign to register discontent about biden's policies on israel and was designed to be a warning from progressives, young voters, and arab-american democrats. so these are people who previously supported biden, just wanted to send him a message to change his behavior. it's like how you would tell a child, "you can't have dessert until you clean your room and figure out who gets jerusalem." the next highest vote-getter was marianne williamson, who got 3%, even though she had already dropped out of the race. that showing inspired her to

unsuspend her campaign. that is the ultimate proof that she's an optimist. she always sees the glass as 3% full. williamson beat out a candidate who is still in the race, dean phillips. who got 2.7%. afterwards, phillips tweeted "if you resent me for the audacity to challenge joe biden, at least you'll appreciate how relatively strong i'm making him look among primary voters!" yup. that's like a guy saying to his ex, "hey, you gotta dmit, thanks to me, sex with your new boyfriend must seem pretty great." huh? huh? now, but, dean, buddy, i can tell you're feeling low, so let's have a little talk. ♪ ♪ hey, pal. sometimes in life, you take a big swing and it just doesn't work out. we've all had times when we've put ourselves out there

and then lost to a protes vote and the lady who wasn't runnin. you might feel like you don't want to show your face right now. but you listen to me. you go out there and hold your head up high, because no one knows what your face looks like. stay strong. [cheering] ♪ everybody hurts ♪ over on the republican side, donald trump easily beat nikki haley, but there were some warning signs for him. in every primary so far, trump has done significantly worse than the polls predicted. in iowa, he underperformed by 2 points. in new hampshire, it was 7 points. by 8 points, and last night, he underperformed by 15 points! if this trend continues, by november, he will get negative 23% of the vote. [cheering] yes.

or as he calls it, total victory. as usual, trump did particularly badly with college-educated voters. possibly because they all had to take the pre-req course: "poli-sci 101: intro to don't vote for hitler." there's also good news. [applause] sure. no, hitler. oh, there's good news about the government. we still have one. because this afternoon lawmakers reached a deal to avert a u.s. government shutdown. that's nice. but didn't we just do this three other times in the last six months? why are we celebrating something that should always happen? it's like a school principal getting on the p.a. and saying, "uh, good news, students. todays lunch: food."

what the deal doesn't have in it is any funding for ukraine. thanks to house speaker and evil simon chipmunk, mike johnson. now, the president, the president of the united states, senate republicans, and democrats all support funding ukraine. so, yesterday, there was a big meeting at the white house, where johnson was cornered on ukraine aid by chuck schumer, president biden, and mitch mcconnell. they gave johnson the ol' good cop-old cop-might be dead cop. the entire free world is behind helping ukraine. this week, the foreign minister of poland addressed johnson directly, saying... [polish accent] "i'd like mike johnson to know that the whole world is watching and if the bill were not to pass and ukraine was to suffer reversals on the battlefield, it will be his responsibility." adding, [polish accent] the world rests in hands of man whose son gets phone alert when he's, say, rubbing mustard on his kielbasa."

kielbasu. delicious. on top of that, 23 european parliaments have sent mike johnson an open letter urging him to provide aid for ukraine. 23 countries! the only thing that unites europeans more than mike johnson are weird stand-up toilets and pants tight enough to show the outline of your mike johnson. it is no mystery in case you're wondering why republicans don't support ukraine. the reason is called donald trump. he loves him some putin. and we found out just how much from former australian prime minister malcolm turnbull, seen here trying to discreetly determine if his finger smells like butt. [laughter] no. discreetly. turnbull was on an australian news show, and he described his experience at international summits watching trump

meet putin. >> i've been with trump and putin. trump is in awe of putin. he's -- when you see trump with putin, as i have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. "ah, my hero." it is really creepy. >> stephen: that is an insulting comparison to 12-year-old boys. if one of them, if a 12-year-old boy met putin, he wouldn't idolize him. they would look him straight in the eye and say, "wait, we're the same height?" but if you want to see the russian influence in the republican party, look no further than their sham impeachment of joe biden, which they hope to accomplish by first attacking hunter biden. hunter was on capitol hill today to testify in front

of the impeachment committee. we don't know what he said, but we do know that the g.o.p. case is imploding, thanks to their star witness, alexander smirnov, seen here not being seen here. back in 2020, smirnov told his fbi handler that he could testify that the owner of the ukrainian energy company burisma had arranged to pay $5 million bribes to both president biden and his son hunter. that is what you'd call a smoking gun, okay, if it were smoking or a gun. turns out it was just a finger, and yes, it smells like butt. [laughter and applause] now, back then, the fbi warned republicans this information was stop them from staking their entire case on this clown-sky. and turns out, that might have been an oopsie-daisy, because now smirnov has been

charged with lying to the fbi and creating false records and has admitted that he had been fed information about hunter biden from russia's intelligence services. the republicans in congress trying to impeach the president of the united states based on false information piped directly into capitol hill by the kremlin, at any other point in human history would be a scandal of such magnitude and gravity that it would tilt the earth off its orbit around the sun. but you don't hear much about it, because half of the edia in the united states is focused on the scandal of "old man is old and likes ice cream." [applause] i like ice cream too. now that their star witness is behind bars, house republicans are backpedaling like a tweaked-out circus bear on a unicycle. until last week, keep in mind until last week, they called this man a trusted, highly credible informant, who was a very crucial piece of their

investigation. but now this is what they're saying. >> he wasn't an important part of the case, but it was a tip that we should investigate. >> talking about smirnov. he's part of this puzzle. he's a very small piece, right? >> yeah, he's a micro piece. >> stephen: bad news, fellas. there's no such thing as a micro piece of russian spy. if your hot dog has even a micro-piece of turd, it's a turd dog. [applause] they're all turd dogs. we got a great show for you tonight! my guests are chris hayes and carrie preston. but when we come back, i've got some great news. there's plenty of stupid in other countries as well. stick around.

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>> stephen: give it up for louis cato and the late show band, everybody. right over there. louis, this evening, we have yet another, we have another, yet another special guest this evening. please remind everybody who is sitting in on the sacks over there. >> louis: on the tenor saxophone, friend of the band of the show. >> stephen: i also have a special guest tonight. i have the star of the new tv show on cbs on thursday nights, carrie preston from elsbeth. in just a few moments sitting right over there one of my favorite broadcasters out there from "all in with chris hayes," chris hayes will be right over there. folks, i don't care who knows it. i love america.

[cheers] but it's been brought to my attention there are other countries out there. mexico, japan, barbieland. they've just been through a terrible civil war. sometimes for you i like to check in with what's happening abroad in my brand new internationally-broadcast segment... ♪ ♪ >> "what's going on over there." >> stephen: the people already know. we've never done before and they already know it. how do they know it. tonight's first destination. deutschland, the big schnitzel, the country so nice, we defeated it twice. last week, germany legalized recreational cannabis use. ja wol. this is going to have major effects on german culture.

they've already got oktoberfest, now they need to add "smoke-vemberfest" "weed-cemberfest," "get really into phish-uary." okay, everybodyback on the tour bus, 'cause next we're gonna find out... >> what's going on in scotland? >> stephen: scotland! where a lot of interesting and vitally important news stories are occurring on a daily basis. but also this. el chapo's granddaughter has joined the hunt for the loch ness monster while romping through scotland. [applause] that is the last time i get my news from mad libs. you know their slogn, "all the news that's aquarium to fart." apparently el chapo's granddaughter has been instagraming her scottish vacation, posting pics at a johnny walker whiskey tasting and hitting the highlands for a boat trip on loch ness to look for its legendary resident. it's the most fun drug lord related vacation since the double decker bus tours

hosted by pablo escobar. and there's more news from the land of squealing bagpipes. >> what else is going on in scotland? >> stephen: last weekend in glasgow, a willy wonka-inspired experience was brought to a halt following complaints it was "an absolute shambles of an event." after families traveling from all over, paying $40 a ticket for an "exhilarating and immersive adventure" called willy's chocolate experience. still better than the english attraction, spotted dick's custard explosion. good old. visitors were promised giant mushrooms, candy canes, and chocolate fountains, but instead were met with basically an empty warehouse and extremely sad oompaloompas. you all know their song. ♪ oompa loompa

oompa dee dee dee ♪ ♪ why did i go to thea-ter school ♪ the event, which again, was labeled a "chocolate experience" was so poorly organized, performers gave the children one jelly bean each and a quarter cup of lemonade. and guests were also treated, for some reason, to a completely made-up villain, an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls called "the unknown." here's a look. >> what is that? >> it's the unknown. >> no! >> stephen: "wait, wait, why are you crying, buddy? it's the beloved children's character: sex creep from "eyes wide shut"! where are we going next, globy? >> buon giorno, jared lehto. >> stephen: italy! the northern province of bolzano is trying to crackdown on the scourge of dog poop in the streets and has ordered all dogs to be dna tested. the test results will be

inserted into a database, which police can then refer to in their search for the culprits and their owners. [cheering] it'll all be covered in the new italian cop drama. >> in the criminal justice system, the people are represened by two separate yet equally important groups: the police and the guys who have to dna-test the poop. i swear it's a real job, mom! poop-poop. >> stephen: we'll be right back with chris hayes, everybody. ♪ ♪ [traffic noise] [text message] let's ace this thing! ♪ ♪ i got you coffee. oh my god, what? you literally read my mind. got you, girl. not flossing well? then add the whoa! of listerine to your routine. new science shows listerine is 5x more effective than floss at reducing plaque above the gumline. for a cleaner, healthier mouth.

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because together we can still get big things done. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. ladies and gentlemen. my first guest tonight is the emmy award-winning host of msnbc's "all in with chris hayes." he also hosts the podcast, "why is this happening?" please welcome back to "the late show," chris hayes. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ there you go. all right. hey, chris hayes, we have some stuff we need to get into the audience doesn't even know about but i heard tonight is your

birthday. >> chris: it is my birthday. >> stephen: happy birthday. we got you a present. we got you a present and since it's an election year and a really strange one at that, we got you something to help with the stress of the year. right there. >> chris: [laughs] it's a stress ball that says "f *** [bleep]. can i do that while i -- >> stephen: you can. speaking of holy [bleep] balls, at five clock today shortly before we start of the show a ruling or an announcement came from the supreme court on donald trump's attempt to get out of the january 6th prosecution because of absolute presidential immunity. tell the folks with the supreme court said. >> chris: at one level it's an

anodyne announcement paired with a sails we we are granting donald trump's stay which means that proceeding stay paws. spirits are jack smith cannot actually go to trial. [booing] you're reacting the way i would imagine you would react we are going to take up arguments on april 22nd. seven weeks from now. and everything will be stayed pending. to be clear, they took 15 days from the time that briefs were submitted to make this decision. 15 days in which they weren't writing any orders, worked doing any work on they just burned 15 days and then after burning 15 days they turn around and say we are going to do arguments in seven weeks. that's nine weeks that they have taken off the calendar. >> stephen: this seems like they are doing him a solid because what he wants more than anything else is just to burn out the clock so that the trials

don't happen regardless of what the ruling is. >> chris: that's correct. from the moment the indictments were announced and particularly this one which have biggest and most important for a bunch of different reasons. >> stephen: ethically deserved to know whether the president of the united states engaged in in an instruction against his own government if he wants to be president again. we do that's a very reasonable position. not only that i will even say and i really mean this truthfully. there's one sort of level, partisan perspective of i personally think donald trump is bad and unfit for office and i think he should stand trial. american voters deserve the knowledge in either direction. if he's acquitted and found not guilty of incredibly grave crime, american voters deserve to know that as well. one way or the other the american public is owed is a fundamental public interest as a democratic self interest to know whether in a court of law judged by a jury of his peers under full constitutional due process the man is guilty or not on the

gravest political crime in any manner history since the civil war. i want you clear with folks. everyone here knows the score and i cannot stress this enough. i saw the news about this order. it's like oh, they're going to hear the immunity case. they're going to hear arguments. i guess that makes sense. there's a calendar on the wall. it's got a certain amount of days on it, 200 days and every day you cross through and red you are doing trump a favor. you're helping donald trump and everyone knows that. the people on the supreme court. jack smith, donald trump's knows that so when they take 15 days to issue this order and then they come back and say we're going to get these arguments in seven weeks, they are going up to that calendar counter and putting nine weeks of days and they are burning them for donald trump in donald trump's interest to us to protect donald trump from the possibility of being held to account. everyone needs to understand that's what they are doing. >> stephen: it's actually worse than that. whether they rule in his favor

or against his favor we won't know until the end of june. >> chris: yes, probably. although i do want to say one thing. in '74 in july, u.s. v nixon, the case that found that you can prosecute a president, they issued the opinion three weeks later. so in this is an important thing to keep in mind about the supreme court. when they want to move fast, they move fast, baby. when they want to move slow, they move slow. if they want to move fast after april 22nd an issue that opinion, they can. do i think they will after what they signaled today, not likely. >> stephen: okay. i was about as they, do you want to bet. >> chris: the reason i'm saying that as i don't quite want to take pressure off which is to say we should know everyone's watching this and everyone understands the score the same way they do and they kept behind procedural complexity and anodyne one-page statements that give you a scotus scheduling. we all know what they're doing.

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donald trump. by the election will be 78. why is that happening? why are our candidates old? >> chris: there's a bunch of reasons. one is the baby boom was really a big generation. that's why they called it the boom. baby boomers had a kind of cultural and political dominance in american life are an incredibly sustained. back in time partly i think because of the age at which they came of age and because of their sheer numbers and they have removed, they have proven remarkably immune to being dislodged. >> stephen: unwilling to be dislodged. >> chris: i think two other things. the first answer to your question is incumbency is a powerful thing in politics, always has been. donald trump essentially unencumbered. joe biden the actual incumbent. name recognition matters a lot. those are the two guys that are going to be there. they are going to be there again a number three what i would say is actually joe biden and donald trump in very different

ways are good at politics. it's not fully an accident that these two individuals are where they are. joe biden has been the politician since he was 29 when he got elected to the senate right on the constitutional threshold of being u.s. senator. he's been doing this for 51 years and you know what? he's good at it. joe biden is good at doing politics. [applause] it's not easy. as many elections has joe biden has one back in his life and you know who else is good at politics in the dark, perverse, destructive way, is donald trump. >> stephen: he is good at motivating the policy. >> chris: for all that exhaustion with these two men or exhaustion or the notion of these individuals at the advanced stage their income of the commission incumbency and their actual political skill. >> stephen: you said people in the media should cover trump

more. why? there was a lot of criticism in 2016 but he was covered too much, given billions of dollars of free publicity and free advertising. what do you mean by more? certainly not what happened in 2016. >> chris: no. the critique in 2016 was correct and also the lesson was over learned and what i mean by over learned is what i think happened particularly after january 6, particulate after, he disappeared from the social media platforms. he became an abstraction. his edges got sanded off and often when he was reporting about it was through the prism of reporting that characterize him rather than actually seeing him. it's genuinely shocking. i don't know how often you go to truth social to read his posts. >> stephen: not as often as i should come obviously. >> chris: every report who's ever worked in a newsroom has experienced cranks. they get emails or letters from cranks. it's all the same cadence, all the same weird capitalization, the same anger, pettiness. he is a crank.

his odious notice at his aberrant i is ha to keep front of mine because it's so strange. because it's over balance. the more remove the actual figure donald trump it's from the collective memory the less people remember just how odious he was. >> stephen: so if we put them on camera more often or if the news puts them on camera more often will be reminded how -- we are creeped out by him. >> chris: i always go back to covid when he was doing the daily press briefings. i >> stephen: i remember those. >> chris: the breaking point and probably when he said he should try to shine uv light in your butthole. >> stephen: or inject the bleach. >> chris: if there's a way to get it inside the body, the uv light or the bleach. they had to pull him off doing that.

partly because it was dangerous to people's health but also because it was politically bad for him. it started to drive his numbers down. i think there is the degree to which, it's hard to keep in mind just how strange and terrible a figure he is. i think that the news has helped him a little bit by keeping him offstage. >> stephen: i know they've got to go and do a show and we've got to go to but i wanted to talk slightly about why do you think the russia has such a grip on some of the republican party. why is tucker carlson not an aberration but an avatar of a certain attitude now? >> chris: it is strange. >> stephen: a weird switch and a short period of time. >> chris: very weird inversion. it was very weird the way tucker did the stations of the cross of the american leftist going to soviet russia to report back on how much better things are almost like he was doing a bit like potemkin village.

there's two reasons i think. one is transactional. vladimir putin engineered criminal sabotage to help get donald trump elected in 2016 and donald trump knows that and let them reboot and knows that under the republican party knows that. they would like his help again in 2024. donald trump wants him to help them out. the ideological reason is that as the republican party and conservative movement radicalize is against democracy they are increasingly looking for foreign models of right-wing authoritarianism that is alluring or attractive to them. and replacement of our traditions here. >> stephen: so orban. >> chris: exactly. orban and putin. they are souring on democracy. they are souring on the project, all of us together choosing collectively what we do and is a

sour on that and radicalize against that very notion, they look for models elsewhere of what things could be like and one of those places is russia. >> stephen: chris, thank you so much. always lovely to talk to you. thank you for being here. "all in" airs tuesdays through fridays on msnbc. you can listen to "why is this happening?" wherever you get your podcasts. it's chris hayes, everybody. we'll be right back with emmy-award winning actor carrie preston. new axe black vanilla? ♪♪ ♪he like when i get dressed♪ ♪i live life with no stress♪ ♪he said that's my best flex♪ ♪♪ new axe black vanilla. get closer with the finest fragrances. to help protect from hiv. i prep without pills. with apretude, a prescription medicine used to reduce the risk of hiv without daily prep pills. with one shot every other month, just 6 times a year. in studies, apretude was proven superior to a daily prep pill in reducing the risk of hiv.

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♪ ♪ 's >> stephen: oh, hey. hey, everybody. welcome back. ladies and gentlemen, my next guest this evening is an emmy-award winning actor you know from "true blood," "the good wife," and "the good fight." she is now starring in the new cbs show, "elsbeth." >> hi. i'm sorry to interrupt. i'm supposed to meet with -- ooh that's a pretty scarf. i'm meeting with detective smullin. i called captain wagner's office. i don't think anyone is expecting me. i decided to come day early to see new york.

i am elsbeth, part of the thing, the thingy thing. >> the thingy thing? >> consent decree. i'm the outside observer. the unlawful arrest. >> this way. i think you should... >> i didn't even remember i was wearing this. >> stephen: please welcome to "the late show," carrie preston. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ thank you so much for being here. thank you for dressing up. i love the sparkles. >> carrie: listen. this is my baby's first late-night. spew in your late-night debut. thank you for coming here.

how does it feel so far? >> carrie: it feels amazing. i'm glad it's you because we are both southerners. >> stephen: you are from macon, georgia. >> carrie: you grew up in charleston's al qaeda. when you're a guest, you know that you don't shop empty-handed. you always bring something. little something-something. so as you sign that clip, elsbeth carries these iconic tote bags. so i brought you tote but i'm going to tell you what's in them. >> stephen: i should be giving you a gift. >> carrie: southern treats. >> stephen: do i get to keep the tote bag? that's kind of nice. okay, that's good. stone ground white grits, or how many come as we call it in south carolina. we have bull city barbecue sauce

from durham, north carolina. i give you for that. cheddar cheese straws, ocourse but he can't go to a cocktail party without cheddar cheese straws. >> carrie: a dented can. >> stephen: of boiled peanuts. thank you for this is very kind of you. thank you very much. does anybody here know what boiled peanuts are? yes? a couple. people, if they're not from the south, people don't know what boiled peanuts are. >> carrie: they are best hot. >> stephen: they are best taught and on a boat with a can of beer. literally boiled peanuts. my friends asked me what's the recipe for boiled peanuts. boiled peanuts. a lot of salt. i'm going to have one of while we are talking. i'm not asking you to because you look too nice. >> carrie: you do you, boo. >> stephen: i would make these for my friends in chicago and they would say oh, great, here comes colbert with more of his damp food. you started playing elsbeth 14

years ago on "the good wife." that's a long time to play a character. these are good. how has she grown? i played a character for nine and a half years on "the colbert report" and i don't know what else to do with this guy. how have you grown at high she groaned as you have played her? >> carrie: it was great when i first got off of the role they described her as a female colombo. i didnt really watch a lot of "columbo" but i knew they were talking about, this unconventional character who uses the fact that she's underestimated as her superpower. so we did that in the first season or so of "good wife." then they brought me on later and after a while we just kind of hit our stride and then i played the character about 20 times over the good fight" the good wife." and now i'm at the center of the show playing a character, playing the same character but

she's very much like a "columbo." it started off that way and we've moved her from the legal world into the police, police detective role so she's kind of like a "columbo." she comes to new york on a consent decree >> stephen: which is what? >> carrie: basically she is the police police. she's there to make sure these high-profile crimes don't turn into lawsuits. she walks onto her first crime scene and she's like, what's that? why is that they are? i don't think this is a suicide. i love your tie. then it turns out she's really good at it and then we get to see all of her howdunnit, not whodunnit. >> stephen: do you get a sense of what people recognize you from. do they know you from "true blood." do you know if someone knows you a elsbeth? >> carrie: i like to play a game where i try to guess so they will say i loved you on

that show when i say so glad you loved "true blood." or i will say "so glad you loved sometimes i get it right. sometimes it's like swipe left, no, not that, no, not that and you go down your entire resume. one time i was on an airplan and there were these flight attendants and i saw them talking and i thought okay, here it comes. they come over and they say "excuse me. are you a flight attendant on delta?" >> stephen: you have been a working actor for 30 years now. >> carrie: yeah. >> stephen: but now this is the first time that a show is being built around you here. here's a billboard in times square. >> carrie: it still gives me chills. >> stephen: did you imagine, jew ever think about that? [applause] >> carrie: stephen, you probably know something, you know this too. it's profound and humbling when

it happens to you and dream come true. this has happened for me. let me tell you what i've really learned. i said to the crew when we finished shooting the pilot, i don't know if i'm ever going to be able to play this role again because pilots, a lot of them don't get picked up. i said to them, this is the dream. coming together with a group of people who are talented with the common goal of making something special. we did that. so that's the dream and you're the dream. that's what i said to the crew and i really believe that. [applause] >> stephen: that's exactly right. what you do with each other. so lovely to meet you. thank you so much for being h here. you can catch a sneak preview of "elsbeth" tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. and every thursday starting april 4th on cbs. carrie preston, everybody! we'll be right back.

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>> stephen: that's it for "the late show." tune in tomorrow when my guests will be senator cory booker and "dune" director denis villeneuve. now stick around for "after midnight" with taylor tomlinson and her guests fortune feimster, mae martin, and tig notaro. good night!