Beto O'Rourke | Trump Thought China Had a "Hurricane Gun," Senate Blocks Bill to Codify Roe v. Wade: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trump asking if China had a hurricane gun and Senate Republicans blocking the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would codify abortion rights at the federal level.
Then, Beto O’Rourke breaks down the issues with Greg Abbott’s abortion ban in Texas and predicts what he thinks might come next.
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| 0:00.0 | Bill Gates has tested positive for coronavirus, so for now he's just going to attend meetings |
| 0:06.8 | on Zoom. |
| 0:07.8 | I mean Microsoft Teams! |
| 0:09.6 | We all love Microsoft Teams, everybody! |
| 0:13.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late |
| 0:22.8 | Night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:24.4 | On today's show, Seth Chats with Beto or Work, who is running for Governor of Texas. |
| 0:28.4 | The first of closer look. |
| 0:30.4 | The Senate Republicans joined by Democrat Joe Manchin, blocked a bill called the Women's |
| 0:41.5 | Health Protection Act that would codify abortion rights at the federal level. |
| 0:45.6 | Also, we found out yesterday that when he was president Donald Trump asked his advisors |
| 0:50.9 | if China had a hurricane gun that it was using against the United States, are those two |
| 0:57.2 | things related? |
| 0:58.2 | I guess we'll have to stay tuned to find out for more on this. |
| 1:00.6 | It's time for a closer look. |
| 1:07.4 | Every time you think you heard the dumbest thing Donald Trump said or did his president, |
| 1:11.6 | he somehow finds a way to shock you. |
| 1:13.2 | I didn't even know I still had the capacity to be shocked by Trump. |
| 1:17.6 | It's like how even after seven seasons of shocking deaths on Game of Thrones, I still |
| 1:22.5 | gasped when Little Finger died. |
| 1:27.7 | Oh, I mean, or he lived. |
| 1:28.7 | I should have said spoiler alert, but if you couldn't guess that Little Finger was going |
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