Billy Eichner | Democrats Take Control of the House: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Democrats winning back control of the House of Representatives tonight for the first time in eight years, putting Trump’s agenda in serious danger.
Then, Billy Eichner celebrates the Democrats flipping the House of Representatives and commiserates with Beto O'Rourke's supporters.
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| 1:01.2 | Late Night with Seth Meyers. On today's show, you'll hear some selections from last night's election |
| 1:05.3 | day episode of Late Night. First, Seth takes a closer look at the results of the historic midterm |
| 1:09.6 | elections. Then he talks to comedian Billy Eichner about this political moment and more. Now let's go to |
| 1:14.6 | Seth. Democrats won back control of the House of Representatives tonight for the first time in |
| 1:21.2 | eight years putting President Trump's agenda. What happened? Putting President Trump's agenda |
| 1:30.3 | in serious danger for more and this is time for a closer look. |
| 1:37.7 | Well, cable news was unanimous. It was a blue wave. When you look at what's going on here |
| 1:43.5 | tonight, this is not a blue wave. So we haven't seen the blue wave. There is not a blue wave forming. |
| 1:48.9 | It's not a blue wave. This is not a blue wave. It is not a blue wave. |
| 1:52.7 | So cable news wasn't sure if it was a blue wave, but we here at Late Night can confidently say |
| 1:57.4 | that it was at least a blue ripple. |
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