Ewan McGregor | Marjorie Taylor Greene Condemned for Comments on Mask Mandates: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at prominent Republicans continuing to push back against mask rules and COVID vaccines despite the significant evidence that the vaccines cut down transmission.
Then, Ewan McGregor talks about narrating BBC nature documentaries, getting stuck in Los Angeles during quarantine and portraying an iconic fashion designer in the series "Halston."
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| 0:00.0 | According to the Washington Post, President Biden occasionally goes to the South Lawn, |
| 0:06.0 | a rose garden during the day to get fresh air with his dogs champ and major, while the |
| 0:10.2 | rest of the staff goes literally anywhere else. |
| 0:18.2 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:22.4 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:23.4 | On day show, Seth talks to actor U and McGregor, but first, a closer look. |
| 0:36.4 | Several prominent Republicans are continuing to push back against both mask rules and COVID |
| 0:41.7 | vaccines, even though we now have significant evidence that the vaccines cut down on transmission |
| 0:46.8 | and help protect others and get us back to normal. |
| 0:48.8 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:54.9 | When it comes to masks and vaccinations, there have been a lot of dumb opinions. |
| 0:58.5 | For example, yesterday former GOP Congressman Jason Schafitz, who's now a Fox News contributor, |
| 1:03.7 | tried it out what he apparently thought was a brilliant analogy to criticize mandates. |
| 1:07.7 | I think one of the principles that people just tend to forget about, which is the proper |
| 1:12.2 | role of government. |
| 1:13.2 | The proper role of government is to inform the public, but we believe in the United States |
| 1:16.8 | America about self-determination that we get to make those decisions. |
| 1:21.5 | The government can help provide the information. |
| 1:24.6 | They have a Centers for Disease Control, but there are lots of diseases that kids can potentially |
| 1:30.5 | get. |
| 1:31.5 | I mean, we could all not die driving down the freeway at 55 or 70 or 80 miles an hour |
| 1:38.4 | if we all drove three miles an hour. |
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