--- title: Stephen Colbert Interviewed Kellyanne Conway VIDEO description: Colbert had a few questions about Donald Trump Jr.'s mystery meeting for White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway canonical: https://time.com/4852797/colbert-kellyanne-conway-dub/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-11T15:36:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:16.438Z og:title: Stephen Colbert 'Interviewed' Kellyanne Conway About Russia og:description: Colbert had a few questions about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting og:url: https://time.com/4852797/colbert-kellyanne-conway-dub/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c28a48ef3e77bb/6988d531ab6d77271b6aee88/colbertconway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1525 og:image:height: 858 og:image:alt: ColbertConway og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert 'Interviewed' Kellyanne Conway About Russia twitter:description: Colbert had a few questions about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c28a48ef3e77bb/6988d531ab6d77271b6aee88/colbertconway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Like Staring Into the Mouth of Madness.' 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He went straight to the top for his information in a mock-dub clip, “inviting” White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to come talk “at him” about [Donald Trump, Jr.’s](http://time.com/4852612/trump-jr-hillary-clinton-russian-lawyer-info/?xid=homepage) meeting with a Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Conway had a different take on the situation, noting that “Don. Jr has very explicitly stated that he didn’t even know the name of the person with whom he was meeting.” Colbert was a bit leery of the wisdom of [Trump](http://time.com/4852423/human-rights-campaign-trump/?xid=homepage) Jr.’s plan to meet a stranger from the internet. “So let me get this straight: He accepts meetings with just mystery guests? It could be anyone,” he said. “It could be Reince Priebus in a mask or a drifter with an axe.” Colbert also struggled to understand why “a contact for Miss Universe” was “setting up campaign meetings.” He joked, “Did [Trump](http://time.com/4852642/donald-trump-russia-election-investigation/?xid=homepage) think there was a swimsuit component to the debates?” Colbert quizzed Conway about charges of collusion, too, as she said that “the conversation is real, the collusion’s not.” Colbert didn’t keep Conway on-air for too long. Not because she was busy making the rounds of the media, but because according to Colbert, talking to Conway was “like staring into the mouth of madness.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4852797/colbert-kellyanne-conway-dub/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4852797/colbert-kellyanne-conway-dub/"},"headline":"'Like Staring Into the Mouth of Madness.' 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