Cecily Strong | DeSantis Bans Mask Mandates, Trump Says COVID Was 'Over' When He Left: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at Republicans like Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump lying about masks and trying to rewrite history when it comes to their negligent handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Then, Cecily Strong talks about moving to upstate New York during the pandemic and her dramatic interactions with nature.
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| 0:00.0 | President Biden announced yesterday that nursing homes must require their staff to be vaccinated |
| 0:07.6 | against the coronavirus or more accurately. |
| 0:10.9 | President Biden announced yesterday that nursing homes weren't already doing that. |
| 0:20.5 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:25.0 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:26.5 | In today's show, Seth Chats was Cessily Strong, whose new book, This Will All Be Over |
| 0:30.3 | Soon, A Memoir Is Available Now. |
| 0:32.8 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:38.7 | Republicans from Ron DeSantis, the Donald Trump, are lying about masks and trying to rewrite |
| 0:42.9 | history when it comes to their negligent handling of the coronavirus pandemic for more on this |
| 0:47.4 | its time for a closer look. |
| 0:53.4 | The current Republican Party is still very much Donald Trump's Republican Party as evidence |
| 0:57.1 | by the fact that aspiring Republican candidates are all desperate to mimic him and lavish |
| 1:01.6 | praise on him. |
| 1:02.6 | The most popular Republican politicians among Republican voters, the ones who are angling |
| 1:06.4 | to be president, aren't the ones who have actually done a competent job on COVID. |
| 1:10.3 | They're the ones desperately trying to imitate Trump and repeat his disastrous COVID response |
| 1:15.1 | like Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose state is experiencing a major surge in COVID cases |
| 1:20.1 | with hospitals filling up an ICU bed scarce, thanks in part to the lack of mitigation efforts |
| 1:25.8 | and low vaccination rates. |
| 1:27.2 | And yet, even amid all that needless suffering, Cruz said last week that he's against mandates |
| 1:32.8 | of any kind. |
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