The Late Show appears to believe that President Trump's impeachment defense is going off the rails.
"Yes, a lot of people are saying 'Wow, what a great outcome, congratulations' — specifically, Erdogan and Putin; they keep saying it to each other," Colbert said. "Trump made one thing clear: This was our fake victory, and we're not sharing," but his definition of the "safe zone" he claimed to have carved out for the Kurds was more ambiguous. "Maybe we should call it the 'danger zone,'" he suggested. "I hear there's a highway that goes straight to that."
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