A Closer Look: Trump's Second Week / Amber Reads Trump's Black History Month Speech / Willie Geist

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at the confusion surrounding President Trump's controversial travel ban and his bizarre calls with foreign leaders. Then, Late Night writer Amber Ruffin reads between the lines of President Trump's widely criticized Black History Month speech to explain what he really meant. Finally, Seth chats with TODAY's Willie Geist, who talks about his exciting new job on Sunday TODAY. He sticks around afterwards to talk to Late Night producer Kevin Miller about his young ambitions of working at Late Night. 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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0:42.9	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:48.0	with Seth Meyers, airing weeknights at 12.35, 11.35 Central on NBC, right after the Tonight Show.
0:58.8	President Donald Trump's second week in office has been as chaotic as his first. From the confusion,
1:04.0	surrounding his controversial travel ban to new reporting about his bizarre calls with foreign
1:08.3	leaders for more on this, it's time for a closer look. We're less than two weeks into the Trump
1:17.2	presidency and yet somehow it already feels like it's been two years. Before the inauguration,
1:21.9	we all felt like this. Now we feel like this. Meanwhile, the actual Obama right now looks like this.
1:30.6	Yeah, that dude is not coming back. I hear by sign this executive order, the Clarence
1:37.0	Ergut Pina Calada o'clock. The first two weeks of the administration have brought into focus the
1:46.7	duality of the Trump presidency and the difficulty the press has in deciding what to cover. On one side,
1:52.2	you have multiple constitutional crises and on the other, you have the more mundane,
1:56.6	everyday weirdness. Like yesterday, when Trump commemorated Black History Month by praising
2:01.4	abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but from his comments, it seemed pretty clear that not only did Trump
2:06.4	not know who Frederick Douglass was, he also seemed to think Douglass, who died in 1895, might still be alive.
2:13.0	Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more
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