Jake Tapper | Prosecutor in Trump Case Convenes Grand Jury to Consider Indictments: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the prosecutor in the criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s business dealings convening a grand jury that could decide whether to indict Trump or executives at his company.
Then, Jake Tapper talks about how the main character of his book is based off his wife, his cameo in Edge of Tomorrow and his opinion of Jason Sudeikis' impression of Wolf Blitzer on SNL.
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| 0:00.0 | Former President Trump said in his website today that his administration is the reason |
| 0:06.8 | for low coronavirus cases and successful vaccine rollout in the U.S., which is sort of |
| 0:11.7 | like the captain of the Hindenburg saying, don't forget who got us off the ground. |
| 0:21.1 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:25.2 | with Seth Meyers on today's show, Seth Chats with CNN's Jake Tapper, but first, a closer |
| 0:30.8 | look. |
| 0:31.8 | The prosecutor in a criminal investigation of Donald Trump's business dealings has |
| 0:44.1 | convened a grand jury that could decide whether to indict Trump or executives at his company |
| 0:49.2 | for more in this at the time for a closer look. |
| 0:55.7 | For the four years of Trump's presidency, we kept hearing about the possibility that |
| 0:59.7 | Trump could maybe potentially hypothetically face some eventual legal consequences. |
| 1:05.6 | There was the Mueller report to impeachments, the Michael Cohen case where he was essentially |
| 1:10.5 | an unindicted co-conspirator. |
| 1:12.3 | Every news story for four years had a thin veneer of crime. |
| 1:16.1 | He wouldn't have been surprised to see a lower third on CNN that read Trump meets with |
| 1:20.2 | Polish president who claims his wallet is missing. |
| 1:23.0 | Or how about the emoluments clause? |
| 1:24.4 | Remember that? |
| 1:25.6 | We all had to learn what emolument was, a completely useless piece of information. |
| 1:29.9 | We all had to store in our brains because the framers were nightmare. |
| 1:33.1 | A shady real estate grifter with business dealings in foreign countries accidentally became |
| 1:37.9 | president. |
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