Stephen Colbert

But, Stephen, you're probably being recorded as saying, doesn't all this government's fine-run citizens mean losing our basic freedoms?

Of course not.

It means gaining limits on those freedoms, something Uncle Sam likes to call Freedom Plus.

This was close.

We almost lost me.

I'm never going to take me for granted ever again.

I think we can agree that this has been an absolutely exhausting, bruising election for everyone.

That's right.

And it has come to an ending that I did not imagine.

We all now feel the way Rudy Giuliani looks.

Seeing this election...

Seeing this election, you know, people all around the world.

I mean, she's going off to Portugal.

Everybody's saying, has America lost its mind?

And the answer is evidently back off, buddy.

We got 300 million guns and we're kind of stressed right now.

By every metric.

I mean, we are more divided than ever as a nation.

And it's been a very good week for Donald Trump.

His poll numbers are up, Hillary's email scandal is relevant again, and he just got his second newspaper endorsement.