CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s interview with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was derailed late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning on night two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago by anti-Israel hecklers. The Late Show host struggled as he sought to control the unruly behavior, but also tried to appease them by noting Pelosi’s answers were “unsatisfying to some people” as he did not realize his and Pelosi’s desire for a two-state solution is not what the hecklers really want.
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Later, Pelosi’s successor, Hakeem Jefferies, joined the show, and Colbert tried again, “Now, we had some protesters earlier this evening when Speaker Pelosi was out here, who, despite the horrors of the attack on October 7th, and the remaining hostages that are in the hands of Hamas, believe that the United States shouldn't be selling arms to Israel right now. given the number of civilian deaths in Gaza over the last 11 months. How would a Speaker Jeffries advise a President Harris about that situation?”
Jefferies, too, repeated the party line as he praised Biden and Harris’s current policies. Switching topics, Colbert wondered, “You served as the House manager overseeing the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Watching that party now, completely enthrall of Donald Trump, are you surprised after all of that, after the disaster of the end of his presidency and the horrors of January 6th, that he has such complete control?”
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