Desus & Mero | Biden and Democrats Move Fast on COVID-19 Relief Despite GOP Obstruction: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Republicans getting upset Joe Biden won’t work with them after signaling they were willing to do anything to sabotage his agenda.
Then, Desus and Mero talk about Biden’s first week in office, the FBI tracking down capitol rioters and Trump’s life after the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | The NFL has announced that youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman will recite a poem before |
| 0:08.1 | next month's Super Bowl. |
| 0:09.5 | That's right. |
| 0:10.5 | It's easier for a 22-year-old poet to reach the Super Bowl than it is the Jets. |
| 0:21.2 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:25.3 | with Seth Myers. |
| 0:26.7 | On today's show, Seth Chats with Comedy Duo, D'sus and Merrill. |
| 0:30.0 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:39.8 | After signaling that they were willing to do anything possible to sabotage President |
| 0:43.5 | Joe Biden's agenda, Senator Republicans are now supposedly upset that Joe Biden won't |
| 0:48.1 | work with them for more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:55.0 | It is new reported coronavirus infections are dropping. |
| 0:57.5 | Things are still very bad and will likely stay that way for a while with new, more transmissible |
| 1:01.5 | variants identified at this point. |
| 1:03.2 | It's a race between the variants and the vaccines. |
| 1:05.5 | And seeing is how the last administration left the vaccine roll out in chaos with some |
| 1:09.2 | getting tossed in the garbage and others missing altogether, there's a lot of work to do. |
| 1:12.6 | I mean, the Trump administration passed on the opportunity to buy more vaccine when they |
| 1:17.0 | had it. |
| 1:18.0 | Such a simple solution, and they just missed it. |
| 1:19.8 | If Trump ever tried an escape room, they just find a skeleton slumped over the first clue. |
| 1:25.3 | Jesus, he's only been in there for an hour. |
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