David Remnick | A Closer Look: Robert Mueller Investigates Trump's Kremlin Back Channel
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump's escalating scandals related to everything from Russian meddling to porn stars.
Then, he talks to The New Yorker editor David Remnick about how his experiences living in Russia inform his view on the Mueller investigation. New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen also talks about her work.
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| 0:30.0 | will have you laughing and thinking, yes, I have absolutely been there. Listen to, I love my kid, |
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| 0:42.4 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of |
| 0:46.2 | Late Night with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to New Yorker magazine Editor-in-Chief |
| 0:50.5 | David Remnik, who also takes a few more questions backstage exclusively for this podcast. |
| 0:55.2 | But first, a closer look. |
| 1:00.2 | Even as he tries to refocus on trade policy, Donald Trump's presidency has been rocked this |
| 1:05.2 | week by escalating scandals related to everything from Russian meddling to porn stars. |
| 1:09.6 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:16.7 | On top of everything else going on right now, President Trump, of course, is being sued by |
| 1:21.2 | porn star Stormy Daniels over a reported hush payment. Trump's lawyer made her just weeks |
| 1:26.3 | before the election to hide an alleged affair. The Trump White House has insisted that the accusations |
| 1:31.1 | are false, but last night we found out more about the links to which Trump's lawyer has gone to |
| 1:35.8 | silent Daniels. NBC News has learned that in late February, the president's lawyer Michael Cohen |
| 1:41.3 | secretly obtained a temporary restraining order against Daniels. The order issued by a private |
| 1:47.0 | arbiter bars Daniels from disclosing confidential information related to what her lawyer calls a hush |
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