On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert jokes that inside the White House most have blamed Rudy Giuliani for the Ukraine fiasco. The bit plays a clip of Giuliani telling an interviewer named Laura that the State Department asked him to talk to Ukrainian officials and that he reported every conversation back, then mocks his "just a country lawyer" line.
The receipt
- Who
- Stephen Colbert
- Where
- monologue - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Original footage
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 57 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Rudy's shaping up to be the fall guy for this whole fiasco because inside the White House, most have blamed Giuliani. They are throwing Giuliani under the bus and by the looks of him, not the first time he's been run over by public transport. But, but, the old second show feeling. But according to Rudy, he wasn't going rogue. He was acting as an official diplomat. You know who I did it at the request of? The State Department. I never talked to a Ukrainian official until the State Department called me and asked me to do it. And then I reported every conversation back to them and, uh, Laura, I'm a pretty good lawyer, just a country lawyer. Sure. Sure, it's the country lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Hey, can you remind me what dusty little town Rudy's from? Thank you.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.