Stephen Colbert was back after a short break Monday night and he came ready to skewer President Donald Trump.

“Now, as a spry 72-year-old, Trump is looking to paint himself as a young— fresh-faced— alternative to Biden,” Colbert snarked.

He then played the clip of Trump’s boast about being so young.

“’I am a young, vibrant man,’” Colbert said, repeating Trump’s words. “That’s usually what you hear someone say as the nurse leads them out of the parking lot back to the day room. ‘I’m a young vibrant man. Let me go, young lady. General Eisenhower is expecting me on Omaha beach.’”

“What does he mean, ‘I’m the youngest person.’ Of all his 10,000 lies, that might be the biggest,” Colbert said.

Then, in his Trumpian voice, Colbert quipped: “I’m the youngest person in the world. Every single second, a baby is born, but I’m younger than any of them. Don’t believe me? I’m younger than a baby. I have no object permanence, I have a limited vocabulary, and I am wearing a diaper, and everything I see, I put in my mouth.”

Colbert, by the way, was not pulling the 10,000 lies figure out of a hat. The Washington Post recently reported that on April 26 “the president crossed the 10,000 mark,” racking up falsehoods at a rate of nearly 23 claims a day during the last 7 month period.

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Don Lemon opened his show on Monday night by slamming President Donald Trump for trying to whitewash white nationalism.

At one point, Lemon played a clip of Trump forcefully condemning “the evil of anti-Semitism and hate, which must be defeated.”

In response, Lemon said Trump was right to do that.

“The president was exactly right to say that,” he said. “He stepped up. He said the right thing. So why, when he was asked today if he thinks white nationalism is on the rise, why did he refuse to even answer the question?”

Then he said this: “Here’s the thing. You cannot condemn hate while simultaneously giving a wink and a nod to those who peddle hate. You can’t ignore the threat from white nationalism like this president did last month after that horrific attack, attacks on Muslims at a prayer in New Zealand.”

He then played a clip of Trump calling white nationalists a “small group” of people with problems.

Lemon continued on after the clip ended: “You can’t whitewash white nationalism with a bogus argument that the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis who openly paraded their hate on the streets of Charlottesville were protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee who waged war on the United States, a brutal slave owner, who fought for the continued enslavement of millions of African-Americans. Millions of people who looked like me.”

Next, he played a clip of Trump claiming people when to Charlottesville because of the monument to Robert E. Lee.

“Everybody knows, we all heard what went on in Charlottesville,” the CNN host then stressed. “There were not very fine people on both sides.”

A clip then played of people in Charlottesville shouting “Jews will not replace up.”

“You cannot have it both ways if you condemn hate” Lemon said after the clip ended.

Watch above, via CNN

The Trump family and Trump Organization are suing Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block them from handing over financial records requested in congressional subpoenas.

Deutsche Bank was subpoenaed earlier this month by the House Intel and Financial Services Committees.

Attorneys for the president said in a statement tonight the subpoenas are “unlawful and illegitimate” and that “every citizen should be concerned about this sweeping, lawless, invasion of privacy.”

Statement from Trump attorneys: “The subpoenas issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One by Chairpersons Schiff and Waters are unlawful and illegitimate.” pic.twitter.com/S5bi2xw46x

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) April 30, 2019

Deutsche Bank responded in a statement obtained by NBC News, “We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations.”

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CNN’s Chris Cuomo battled Trump surrogate Steve Cortes Monday night over President Donald Trump’s infamous Charlottesville comments.

Cortes, one of the president’s supporters who recently decided criticism of Trump’s “both sides” comments is a “hoax,” clashed with the CNN host after equating the two sides of the deadly Charlottesville protests.

Cuomo scolded Cortes for making a “moral equivalency” between the white supremacists who assembled in Charlottesville and and the counter-protestors who met them — which included Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a neo-Nazi.

“You make a moral equivalency between those two actions, you’re making a mistake in America,” Cuomo said. “The president did it that day. And you know it was a mistake. I don’t know why you don’t know that.”

“I do not make any differentiation between neo-Nazis and Antifa,” Cortes insisted. “Just because they claim in their name that they are anti-fascist, their tactics are in fact totally fascist.”

“They are thugs,” he continued. “They are America’s brown shirts. And there is no difference between Antifa and those neo-Nazis. Both sides are thugs, and both sides are reprehensible.”

Cortes added there were “very good people” at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

Watch above, via CNN.

Rachel Maddow announced tonight she’s interviewing Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. During the toss to Lawrence O’Donnell, her colleague couldn’t resist getting in a swipe at Fox News.

“Apparently this week,” he said, “Fox News won’t be the only network that mentions Secretary Clinton, which they do apparently.”

“I don’t know this,” O’Donnell continued, “but I read that they like every minute or every hour certainly there’s some––in primetime, anyway––there’s some reference to why they’re talking about Secretary Clinton instead of any of the investigations of this president.”

“They’re still literally talking about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails,” Maddow said. “That’s a fresh thing like the Republicans in the Senate are about to advance the prospect there needs to be a new investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails.”

You can watch above, via MSNBC.

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Fox News’ Sean Hannity threw a rare bit of praise at a liberal television personality on Friday, lauding HBO’s Bill Maher for getting “something” right.

Hannity was talking about the plot to take down President Donald Trump at the time.

“All of these bad, corrupt actors must be exposed,” Hannity began. “This cannot happen to future presidents. This abuse of power… There is no shortage of high-ranking government officials plotting to take down Donald Trump, [It is] clear Hillary Clinton rigged the election in her favor.”

“The Democratic Party is fast becoming — well, pretty much a  laughingstock,” Hannity continued on. “Even HBO’s top liberal, Bill Maher, accusing the Congressman, the cowardly shiftless [Adam] Schiff, of stalking President Trump, which is a good description. Good for Bill Maher. He got something right.”

He showed the clip from Maher’s Friday show of the HBO host telling the House Intel Chair, regarding the Mueller report, “This was our big gun. Now it just looks like you’re stalking him.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju confronted Senator Lindsey Graham tonight over what he publicly said about Bill Clinton, impeachment, and obstruction back during that scandal versus what he’s publicly said about Donald Trump.

Anderson Cooper tonight brought up when then-Congressman Graham said of Clinton in 1999, “He encouraged people to lie for him. He lied. I think he obstructed justice. I think there’s a compelling case that he has, in fact, engaged in conduct that would be better for him to leave office than to stay in office.”

Cooper also brought up how, given how the Trump administration is fighting subpoenas, Graham “had a lot to say about presidents ignoring subpoenas” in 1998.

After several attempts to ask Graham, as Cooper explained, Raju finally spoke with the South Carolina senator.

Raju told Cooper, “He suggested that he has actually been consistent because he points to the fact that he voted against one of the Clinton articles of impeachment although he did support the other.”

He played that 1998 comment about subpoenas for Graham before bringing up how Trump will “fight all subpoenas.”

“I would if I were him,” Graham responded. “He cooperated with special counsel Mueller. I guess Nixon must not have cooperated with the special counsel. I consider what the House is doing a political exercise and they won’t let it go. If they think he should be impeached, the House can impeach him.”

Raju asked, “Are you okay then with a democratic president ignoring your subpoenas?”

“I’m okay with a politician fighting another politician. That’s what this is,” Graham said, before saying the idea of obstruction is “absurd” in this case.

Raju also pressed Graham on why he considers Trump’s actions “acceptable behavior” given all the obstructive acts detailed by Mueller.

“He didn’t do anything to obstruct justice. Clinton did,” Graham responded.

Raju directly asked, “Would a Democratic president get this leeway from Republican Lindsey Graham?”

“My record is pretty clear,” Graham said. “I voted against an article of impeachment where Clinton clearly lied, but it was about a personal matter… I thought it wouldn’t be good for the office. I don’t think it would be good for the office of the presidency to impeach President Trump when he fully cooperated with the special counsel.”

You can watch more of their exchange above, via CNN.

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