Late-Night Hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers Rip Senator Jeff Flake for Doing Too Little Too Late

"Mr. President, I raise today to say enough," Flake said after announcing he wouldn't run in 2018. "I must say that we have fooled ourselves for long enough hat a pivot to governing is right around the corner. A return to civility and stability right behind it. We know better than that. Mr. President, I will not be complicit or silent."

"No, I will be complicit and absent," Colbert said in his monologue, after showing the clip.

"Why is it that Republicans only speak up against Donald Trump when they know they're not running for reelection?," Colbert said. "They finally grow a set. Then they say, 'I'm taking my balls and going home.'"

Meyers also sarcastically cheered Flake on for having "kinda-sorta guts" to stand up to the man in charge.

"All right! Jeff Flake! Way to eventually go," Meyers said. "It took kinda-sorta guts to stand up only 11 months after the election and tell America not to elect Donald Trump."

As the NBC late-night host continued to slowly clap, he mocked the Senator for thinking the best way to help Americans is to quit.

"You said, 'Hey, I don't care if this hurts my 18 percent approval rating. And yeah, maybe I voted to confirm Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos, even though one lied during his confirmation hearing, and the other spells 'lie' with an 'h,' but I'm going to stand up and do what was right a year ago,'" he said. "'I'm going to fight for the American people by quitting my job of fighting for the American people.'"