David Simon | Trump Contradicts Experts as Coronavirus Is Declared a Pandemic: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump contradicting public health officials about the severity of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Then, David Simon discusses the prescient nature of The Plot Against America, meeting Philip Roth and Charles Lindbergh’s anti-Semitism.
He also takes a few more questions backstage at Studio 8G exclusively for this podcast.
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| 0:39.6 | At a press conference, I say, President Trump encouraged Americans to remain calm through |
| 0:46.2 | the coronavirus outbreak and added it will, quote, go away. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't know. |
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| 1:04.7 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 1:05.7 | On today's show, Seth talks to David Simon, whose new mini-series, The Plot Against America, |
| 1:09.7 | premiered on HBO on March 18th. |
| 1:11.9 | David also takes a few more questions back to the age exclusively for this podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | First, closer look. |
| 1:16.7 | The coronavirus outbreak is now officially a global pandemic, and yet President Trump |
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