Idris Elba | Trump Admin Lies About Deadly ICE Shooting in Minneapolis Amid National Outcry: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the growing national outcry over the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis and the Trump administration's attempts to lie about it.
Then, Idris Elba talks about receiving a knighthood from the British government for his charitable youth work, his Madame Tussauds' wax figure unlocking his phone with Face ID and writing songs in between takes for Season 2 of "Hijack."
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| 0:00.0 | Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cell phone |
| 0:06.2 | went off yesterday during the White House press briefing, |
| 0:08.9 | and his ringtone was a duck quacking. |
| 0:11.9 | Maybe not the best ring tone for a guy pushing phony medical advice. |
| 0:15.8 | Quack, quack, oh, that's me. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah, we know. We know who the quack quack quack, oh, that's me. Yeah, we know. |
| 0:22.1 | We know who the quack quack is. |
| 0:29.9 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, |
| 0:33.0 | please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:36.7 | On today's show, Seth talks to actor Idris Elba. |
| 0:39.6 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:41.6 | You guys, there's a growing national outcry |
| 0:51.2 | over the deadly ice shooting in Minneapolis |
| 0:53.1 | and the Trump administration's attempts to lie about it. |
| 0:55.4 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:57.4 | Let's not forget, everybody, Trump lied from the jump |
| 1:03.5 | about the scope and focus of his mass deportation program |
| 1:07.3 | during the 2024 campaign. |
| 1:09.1 | We got to get the criminals out first. We're going to get the criminals, the murderers, the 2024 campaign. We got to get the criminals out first. |
| 1:28.8 | We're going to get the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers. We have to get all of these criminals, these murderers and drug dealers and everything. We're getting them out. We are going to start with violent criminals, and we're going to start then with criminals. Yes, we're going to start with violent criminals, then regular criminals, then small-time criminals, then, of course, fashion criminals, and yet, you just know Trump's going to give Kid Rock a pardon. |
| 1:33.9 | Since when is it legal to turn the American flag into a onesie? |
| 1:37.6 | If you could tell Betsy Ross that Kid Rock was using her design to catch farts, she'd probably say, |
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