"I want answers," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "For almost three years now, I've had to read all of [President] Trump's tweets, all of his staff's indictments, 127 tell-all books, and none of them told us anything we didn't already know just by looking at the guy." Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 400-page report was supposed to tell us everything, but all we got was Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary, he said. "That's like tuning in to see the new season of Game of Thrones and it's just Barr holding a sign that says, 'Dragons did some stuff. The end.'"
Congress wants to see the "whole kit and colludal," too, especially after reports that Mueller's team is complaining that Barr whitewashed their report, Colbert said. "That was in The New York Times, but it was also the cover story for No Duh! magazine."
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