Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar | House Democrats Move to Impeach Trump for Insurrection: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
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4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the Republicans who incited the violent insurrection at the Capitol telling everyone it's "time to move on" after House Democrats unveiled a text of impeachment calling for the removal of President Trump through the 25th Amendment.
Then, sisters Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar talk about their book, "You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey," and share why their mom will not enjoy reading it.
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| 0:00.0 | Apple and Google have removed far-right social media platform parlor from their app stores |
| 0:07.8 | which means now the only place far-right wingers can spread their messages for three hours |
| 0:12.2 | every night on Fox. |
| 0:18.3 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of late |
| 0:22.3 | night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:23.9 | On today's show, Seth talks to Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar about their new |
| 0:27.6 | book, you'll never believe what happened to Lacey, but first a closer look. |
| 0:36.6 | House Democrats unveiled the text to their impeachment resolution today and called for the removal |
| 0:40.7 | of President Trump through the 25th Amendment, meanwhile the Republicans who incited a violent |
| 0:45.2 | insurrection to overthrow the government responded by telling everyone it was time to |
| 0:49.3 | move on. |
| 0:50.3 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:56.8 | The sitting president of the United States is the leader of a violent insurrectionist |
| 1:00.6 | movement who incited a seditious mob of right-wing terrorists to ransack the Capitol and overthrow |
| 1:05.5 | American democracy. |
| 1:07.0 | And every day that he remains an office, he's a threat to continuing citing violence and |
| 1:11.2 | breaking the law, including possibly pardoning himself and others. |
| 1:14.8 | Impeachment and removal are the bare minimum we should expect from our elected leaders. |
| 1:19.0 | And today, House Democrats began that process only to be blocked by Republicans. |
| 1:23.8 | Today, House Democrats tried to pass a resolution by unanimous consent calling for Vice President |
| 1:30.1 | Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. |
| 1:33.5 | Republicans objected so it failed. |
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