NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Late night shows Tuesday night dealt with Donald Trump Jr.’s newly released emails with questions, saw an announcement from Joe Scarborough and even elicited a formal apology from Stephen Colbert.
“I’d like to apologize to Eric Trump,” Colbert said of another of the president’s sons.
“We always thought you were the dumb one… We were wrong.”-
Clinton campaign officials surprised by Donald Trump Jr. emails
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump Jr., President Trump‘s eldest son, released emails from last summer via Twitter in which he’d agreed to meet with someone he’d been told was a “Russian government attorney” about “very high level and sensitive information” that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr. tweeted that he was releasing the emails to be “totally transparent,” but his release came just before The New York Times published the content of the emails. The Times had reported Saturday that Trump Jr. met with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, alongside Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The host of CBS’ “The Late Show” opened his show trying to figure out what Trump Jr. was doing by tweeting out the emails.
“Who told him to do this? Does he even have a lawyer?” Colbert asked. “Because you rarely see a cop show where the lawyer bursts into the interrogation room and shouts, ‘keep talking! In fact, tweet out everything you know!'”
Colbert also remarked that some called the Russia story a “nothing burger” but said that…
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