RUSH EXCERPT:
COLBERT: “Yes, he’s got this bucket list of not ending up in a series of buckets. Or, or, the otherrings on, the other possibility of why he’s lying— and I can’t be I’m say this because it is crazy— he’s expecting trump to pardon him. But we heard about trump dangling a pardon last year. Why didn’t trump do it then? Well, as Einstein once said, check this (bleep) Out. He said it at some point, I’m sure. Because we just learned that while manafort was pretending to cooperate with Mueller, this whole time he was also feeding information to trump lawyer and man demonstrating the correct way to eat a baby, Rudy Giuliani. It’s like corn on the cob. Yesterday— yesterday, Rudy said that manafort’s legal team gave him regular briefings about the questions special counsel Robert exphiewrl his investigators were asking. So the fix was in, baby! It was the long con. You do this, and you get a pardon. One tiny hand washes another.”