Late-night hosts addressed the Senate Republicans’ healthcare legislation, due for a vote in the coming weeks, and Donald Trump’s attempts to exonerate himself via Twitter regarding the Russia investigation.

Seth Meyers of NBC began his segment discussing the damning Congressional Budget Office analysis of the healthcare bill, released on Monday.

“We found out today that the GOP healthcare bill could leave 22 million uninsured,” he explained, “which may be why Republicans are trying a new tactic to defend it: lying.”

He continued: “The bill cuts taxes for the wealthy and pays for it by gutting Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income people, seniors, and the disabled. In fact, when you look at the winners and losers in this bill it is almost comically villainous.”

The bill, which cuts Medicaid by $880b, could be in danger of failing after several Republican senators expressed opposition on Monday.

“The only way this bill could be more cartoonishly evil is it if mandated tying damsels in distress to railroad tracks,” Meyers joked. “The bill is essentially a giant tax cut for the wealthy paid for with Medicaid cuts. And not only that, today the congressional budget office issued a stunning new report, projecting that the Senate Republicans’ healthcare bill would leave 22 million americans uninsured over a decade. I think I’m starting to see a pattern here, because if you recall, the first version of the House healthcare bill was projected to leave 24 million uninsured. The second version of the House bill left 23 million uninsured. And now this Senate bill leaves 22 million uninsured. So basically, Republicans are just 21 drafts away from breaking even.”

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Meyers went on to address reports that Trump privately called the healthcare bill “mean”, explaining that “until now, the White House has not publicly confirmed that trump ever called the bill mean”. He continued: “GOP leaders have insisted that Trump’s comments must have been misinterpreted. So naturally, when former President Obama called the bill mean in a statement last week, Trump could not help but take credit himself.”

Meyers then showed footage of Trump, in an interview with Fox News, claiming that Obama “used my term”.

“You dummy,” Meyers said. “You’re not supposed to admit to that. Obama trolled you. You’re so easy. If Obama came out tomorrow and said, ‘You know, we should kill poor people and use their blood to lubricate our golf carts,’ you’d be screaming ‘My idea! I thought of that first. He totally stole that from me.’”

Stephen Colbert of The Late Show returned Monday from a trip to Moscow.

“Man, it is good to be back in the USA,” he began. “I don’t know if you knew this but I was in Russia last week. You know who did know I was in Russia? Russian intelligence.

“Let’s see what everybody is taking about here,” Colbert joked. “Oh, that’s right. Russia.”



He went on to detail the Washington Post report revealing that Obama was aware of Putin-directed Russian attempts to influence the election as early as last August.

“President Trump is a well-known Russia-hacked-the-election denier,” Colbert said, showing a clip of Trump calling the story “ridiculous” in a December 2016 interview with Chris Wallace. “So naturally, when Trump saw this Washington Post story, his reaction was completely consistent with all his previous statements. I’m just kidding.”

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Colbert went on to imitate Trump’s speaking voice in a rundown of the president’s many tweets over the weekend, in which he contradicted past statements flatly denying that Russians had attempted to affect the election: “The real story is that President Obama did NOTHING after being informed in August about Russian meddling. With 4 months looking at Russia under a magnifying glass, they have zero ‘tapes’ of T people colluding. There is no collusion & no obstruction. I should be given apology!”, one tweet read.

Colbert continued: “Wait, wait, what? T-time. Who the hell is T? You know there is already a letter for when you’re talking about yourself. It’s I. As in ‘I don’t believe anyone calls you T.’ You can’t give yourself a nickname.”

The host did, though, take the president up on his request for an apology: “Look, I’m a big enough man to apologize,” Colbert said. “And I think I speak for the majority of Americans when I say, I’m sorry you’re president.”