A Closer Look Back: Trump’s Iran Strike, Bernie’s Warning About AI Love, Zohran’s Win in NYC
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In an all-new episode of Late Night’s podcast “A Closer Look Back,” A Closer Look Supervising Writer/Producer Sal Gentile discusses Trump’s desperate attempt to sell his illegal strike on Iran and debates whether Saddam Hussein was more like Wile E. Coyote or the Road Runner. He also discusses Bernie Sanders’ interview with Joe Rogan and Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC. Sal is joined by Supervising Producer Emily Erotas.
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| 0:32.4 | podcasts. President Trump is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt. |
| 0:44.3 | Rather than 34 felony counts, President Trump may end up with 34 Nobel Peace Prizes. |
| 0:49.3 | President deserves all this credit, of course, and more. I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 0:53.3 | Sounds like a citation to a Nobel Peace Prize to me. |
| 0:56.0 | I would submit to you that there's no one more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:02.0 | If for some reason he doesn't get it, it would really be a travesty. |
| 1:06.0 | They should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda and if you look at the Congo or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, |
| 1:14.3 | you can say a lot of them. |
| 1:15.4 | You could say, I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan. |
| 1:21.1 | I should have gotten it four or five times. |
| 1:26.4 | Emily, so it was my understanding that you wanted to attend the Nobel ceremony in Oslo. |
| 1:32.7 | You requested time off. |
| 1:34.7 | I go every year. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.4 | I don't see why it's a problem. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, you're a Nobel super fan. |
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