Stephen Colbert recaps Trump's 'shambling mess' of a press conference, warns Senate Republicans on Kavanaugh

Wednesday's top story is, sadly, not about a moth drinking a bird's tears — it's still Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, Stephen Colbert lamented on Wednesday's Late Show. "Let me do this as quickly as I can, because it's important, but we have to get to the president's press conference, because it's unbelievable." A woman named Julie Swetnick came forward Wednesday to swear that Kavanaugh attended at least 10 parties in high school where he drunkenly abused girls. "Do we want someone on the Supreme Court who treated women this way, even in high school?" Colbert asked. "I'm not sure we want someone who even attended 10 parties in high school. We want nerds, damnit!"

Swetnick's allegations get much darker, including drugging and raping women, and Kavanaugh denies them, Colbert noted. "It was against this horrifying backdrop that the president decided to call only his fourth press conference since becoming president." In it, President Trump defended not having the FBI investigate the Kavanaugh allegations and called them collectively a "big fat con job." "That is a harsh attack on these women," he said, "but it would make an honest slogan: 'Trump 2020, A Big Fat Con Job.'"

Colbert encouraged everyone to watch Trump's press conference, which ended while he was delivering his monologue, "and I can't convey to you the shambling mess that reassured no one who's going to see it." Republicans are plowing ahead with the Kavanaugh hearing tomorrow, "with only one of the accusers" and "no witnesses, and then a vote the next day at 9:30 in the morning," Colbert said. "Now, I'm not normally in the business of giving Republican senators advice, but gentlemen — and I use that term inaccurately — you need to call for an FBI investigation now and get to the truth of all these dark allegations. Because if you don't, there are not enough moths in the world to drink your tears on Nov. 6." Watch below. Peter Weber

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