Tables turn on Trump as audience chants 'lock him up' while Hillary Clinton talks impeachment on Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show'
The tables were turned on US President Donald Trump during 'The Late Show' with Stephen Colbert on Monday when the audience members started chanting 'Lock him up' while Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea were the guests on the programme.
The moment happened when host Colbert broached the topic of Trump's impeachment, wasting no time in asking what Hillary thought of the inquiry started by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi against the sitting POTUS.
"We learned about the Trump-Ukraine call, the private server, is it time to dare I say, 'lock him up?'" he asked gleefully.
Before the former first lady had the time to answer his question, the audience started cheering and chanting "Lock him up!" Neither Colbert nor his guests condoned the chant, as the late-night host tried to get his audience to stop. "I am sorry, stop it! I created a monster, I apologize," he said, as he frantically waved his hands around to get the people to cut out the chant. They did stop after a few seconds.
After having a good laugh at the audience's reaction, Hillary went onto state what she thought about the ongoings at the White House. "So here we are and we have started an impeachment inquiry which will look at the evidence. And I think that's exactly what should be done. I believe strongly that this particular incident has had such a huge impact. Because we've known for a long time that he was a corrupt businessman who cheated people and we've known that he and his campaign asked for aid from Russia, we've known that," she said
She added: "But to see him in the office of the President, putting his own personal and political interest ahead of the national security of our country just pierced through whatever confusion or denial people had. And at that point, Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi rightly said, this is something we have to investigate and that's what's going on."
Although Colbert did not go into details about her own husband's impeachment, he did ask Hillary about the time she worked on "The Constitutional Grounds of Presidential Impeachment" in February 1974.
The former Secretary of State recognized the irony of the situation as she quirkily replies, "As I like to say, you cannot make my life up, really."
She also dished on some general knowledge on why the process of impeachment was created in the first place. "If the founders had said, look, no matter how bad a president is, there'll be another election, we would have lived with that. But instead, they said there may come a time when a president has subverted the constitution, has abused power, has taken actions that put the nation at risk. And therefore, we've got to have a remedy between elections. And that's what's being looked at now," she said.