Bill Clinton & James Patterson | Trump Wanted to Send Americans with COVID to Guantanamo Bay: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at a book that reveals shocking new details about the Trump administration's criminally negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Then, Former President Bill Clinton and James Patterson talk about collaborating on their second book The President’s Daughter, life after presidency and how a fictional book inspired the United States’ Strategic National Stockpile. Clinton also discusses the benefits of big government and why the filibuster needs to be suspended.
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| 0:00.0 | The Senate voted yesterday to block the four-the-people voting rights bill, but not until they got |
| 0:07.1 | their voting paperwork in order. |
| 0:08.9 | Let's see, I got my license, passport tax returns, high school yearbook. |
| 0:12.5 | Okay, I think I'm ready for my riddle. |
| 0:19.8 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late |
| 0:23.9 | Night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:25.3 | On today's show, Seth Chancewood, former president Bill Clinton and author James Patterson, but first, |
| 0:30.6 | a closer look. |
| 0:38.0 | An upcoming book reveals shocking new details about the Trump administration's criminally |
| 0:42.0 | negligent COVID response, and Republicans blocked a voting rights bill as part of their ongoing |
| 0:47.0 | attempt to dismantle our democracy for more on this. |
| 0:55.7 | As eager as we all are to get back to normal, we can't lose sight of the fact that the |
| 0:59.4 | COVID pandemic is still very much with us. |
| 1:01.8 | Vaccination rates in parts of the country are lagging, case numbers in some states are |
| 1:05.5 | rising, a dangerous new variant is driving up infections in the UK and models predict a |
| 1:10.5 | possible surge of cases in the fall. |
| 1:12.9 | But even as things get better overall, there are still constant reminders of how much our |
| 1:17.6 | world has changed in the last 16 months. |
| 1:20.0 | Every time I reach across the counter at my local coffee shop to grab my iced oat latte |
| 1:24.3 | from the barista, only to accidentally punch the plexiglass partition that's still there |
| 1:29.4 | to stop the spread of contagious droplets from a deadly disease, I think to myself, |
| 1:33.5 | all right, COVID, not that. |
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