Donald Trump's Charlottesville Press Conference: Breaking Crazy | Bryan Fogel

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Seth breaks down the crazy that came out of President Trump's most recent press conference, where he seemed to side with white supremacists in the wake of the events in Charlottesville. (0:20) Then, filmmaker Bryan Fogel explains how he unintentionally documented the Russian Olympic doping scandal for his film Icarus and helped the mastermind escape to the U.S. (2:30) After that, Fogel takes a few more questions backstage at Studio 8G from Late Night producer Sarah Jenks-Daly. (8:16) LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Rate the Late Night Podcast on Apple Podcasts: applepodcasts.com/LateNightSeth Subscribe to Late Night on YouTube: youtube.com/LateNightSeth Follow Late Night on Twitter: twitter.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Instagram: www.instagram.com/LateNightSeth Find Late Night on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/LateNightSeth Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:42.8	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth
0:47.5	Myers. Today's show features Seth's conversation with filmmaker Brian Fowell, whose new documentary
0:52.5	Icarus examines the Russian Olympic doping scandal. He then answers a few more questions backstage
0:57.4	just for this podcast, but first, here's Seth. Donald Trump gave a press conference right before
1:05.3	we started taping, which means it's time for Breaking Crazy.
1:12.4	President Trump this afternoon gave a press conference that can only be described as clinically
1:17.3	insane. You know that list of side effects at the end of a pharmaceutical ad? He apparently has
1:23.4	all of them. He said among other things that there were very fine people on both sides of the
1:30.2	events in Charlottesville. He asked if people on the left have any guilt that the white supremacists
1:34.9	became violent. And then he said this. Many of those people were there to protest to taking down
1:41.3	of the statue of Robert E. Lee. So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's
1:47.3	coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and is that Thomas Jefferson the week after,
1:53.0	you know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? Where does it stop?
1:58.4	Buddy, we've been asking ourselves that question since January.
2:09.6	Normally when someone is talking that level of crazy Batman crashes through the ceiling and punches
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