Jesse Eisenberg | Trump Lies About Racist Rally Chant: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the president lying about his reaction to a racist chant at one of his rallies.
Then, Jesse Eisenberg talks about The Art of Self-Defense, working with different dog breeds on the set of the film and why he keeps costumes from the films he’s worked on.
He also sticks around to talk to his friend, Late Night supervising writer Seth Reiss, backstage at Studio 8G.
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| 0:21.8 | The House of Representatives voted today on a bill that would raise the federal minimum |
| 0:26.0 | wage to $15 an hour. Said Trump, that's too high. I mean, who works for a whole hour? |
| 0:37.3 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of late night |
| 0:41.3 | with Seth Meyers. Today you'll hear a session review with actor Jesse Eisenberg, who sticks |
| 0:45.2 | around for a few more questions backstage exclusively for this podcast. But first, a closer |
| 0:50.0 | look. |
| 0:51.0 | There's a tendency among some in the media and in DC to interpret every unhinsed Trump |
| 1:00.9 | outburst is some sort of calculated political chess move designed to corner Democrats |
| 1:05.6 | in a politically difficult spot, which doesn't make much sense. I mean, last night he tried |
| 1:09.6 | to talk about an upcoming special election in North Carolina's ninth congressional district |
| 1:14.2 | and his brain melted down just trying to get those words out of his mouth. |
| 1:19.5 | There's another crucial election in North Carolina's ninth. You know what, right? You know |
| 1:25.9 | what we're talking about? |
| 1:27.7 | No. No, we don't. Trump always sounds like he went to grab some water and accidentally |
| 1:34.7 | drank an entire bottle of Nova Cane. Trump isn't some genius political chess master. He's |
| 1:43.0 | a racist whose brain is mostly oatmeal and his mouth is attached to Fox News like some |
| 1:47.9 | kind of human centipede. He's a wannabe authoritarian who craves the adoration of crowds and that's |
| 1:53.7 | why he opened his rally in North Carolina last night by telling the crowd he would be there |
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