A Closer Look: Trump Abuses His Presidential Power / Late Night Chats: Fred Armisen & Eli Janney

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at how Donald Trump uses his status as president to slam private companies and threaten lawmakers. (0:20 - 9:12) Then, Seth interviews Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. He shares memories of being a refugee from South Vietnam, and explains the difference between refugees and immigrants and the fears Americans have of them. Late Night producer Bee Shaffer also goes backstage with Viet to ask him a few more questions. (9:33 - 17:22) Then, the 8G Band's Fred Armisen and Eli Janney have an exclusive conversation in the podcast's newest segment, Late Night Chats. They discuss their multi-decade history playing music together, how Fred recruited the 8G Band and what goes into a day of making music for the show. (17:34 - 35:58) Photo by Lloyd Bishop/©NBC. LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Rate the Late Night Podcast on iTunes: itunes.com/LateNightSeth Subscribe to Late Night on YouTube: youtube.com/LateNightSeth Follow Late Night on Twitter: twitter.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LateNightSeth Find Late Night on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/LateNightSeth Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers Weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:43.2	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:47.9	with Seth Meyers.
0:49.4	This podcast includes an exclusive conversation between Fred Armason and Eli Janney of the
0:53.9	Chi Band, but first here's Seth.
1:00.0	This has been an especially revealing week when it comes to how Donald Trump views presidential
1:04.8	power in just the past few days.
1:07.2	He's used his status as president to slam a private company, threaten a local lawmaker
1:11.6	and attack the courts in the free press for more on this.
1:14.1	It's time for a closer look.
1:20.0	The Trump administration is in the middle of a contentious battle over the president's
1:23.8	controversial travel ban, which a court tonight refused to reinstate.
1:28.7	Trump has claimed this ban is urgently necessary for national security, but critics argue
1:32.8	it's counterproductive and unconstitutional.
1:34.6	So naturally, Trump has made sure to keep his priorities straight.
1:38.8	We have some breaking news coming in about Nordstrom Department store president Trump earlier
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