Alan Cumming | ICE Polling Hits New Low Amid Backlash; New Recruits Called "Pathetic" & "A Disaster": A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the Trump administration doubling down on ICE presence in Minnesota, even though a majority of Americans disapprove of ICE and its tactics.
Then, Alan Cumming explains why "The Traitors" is a combination of theater, stand-up comedy and psychological torture before talking about the Scottish New Year's Eve tradition of Hogmanay and reprising his role as Nightcrawler in "Avengers: Doomsday."
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is set to meet tomorrow with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machata. |
| 0:08.1 | Well, she might want to leave her Nobel Peace Prize at home. That would be like bringing the ring to your meeting with Ghalem. |
| 0:20.1 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:26.7 | On today's show, Seth Chats with actor Alan Cumming. |
| 0:29.6 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:36.0 | A majority of Americans disapprove of ICE and its tactics, |
| 0:42.7 | but the Trump administration is doubling down on its presence in Minnesota. |
| 0:46.3 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:51.9 | We keep going back to this, but I think it's worth remembering this. |
| 0:55.8 | This is how Donald Trump sold his mass deportation program to voters during the campaign. |
| 1:00.9 | We are going to start with violent criminals. |
| 1:03.0 | We have to get all of these criminals, these murderers and drug dealers and everything. |
| 1:07.1 | We're getting them out. |
| 1:08.0 | And we got to get the criminals out first. |
| 1:10.2 | We're going to get the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers. |
| 1:13.9 | We're gonna get the criminals out, but don't worry, |
| 1:16.1 | we're also gonna bring new criminals in. |
| 1:18.4 | We're calling it the Trump Criminal Exchange Program. |
| 1:21.8 | You get one of ours, we get one of yours. |
| 1:24.6 | By the way, there are other types of criminals |
| 1:27.1 | besides murderers and drug |
| 1:28.2 | dealers. I mean, what about fraudsters and financial criminals? No? Better yet. What about people |
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