John Oliver | Kash Patel Parties in Italy, SCOTUS Strikes Down Tariffs, Trump to Release UFO Files: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the Supreme Court striking down Trump's tariffs and FBI Director Kash Patel partying with the U.S. men's hockey team instead of focusing on the Epstein sex trafficking scandal.
Then, John Oliver talks about hosting "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" for 13 seasons, competing against Seth on Taskmaster Live and his passion for the Olympic sport of curling. Plus, John talks about ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson getting arrested and why he chose to be a Mets fan instead of a Yankees fan.
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| 0:00.0 | The Olympic Village for Milan Cortina Games reportedly ran out of free condoms for competitors in just three days. |
| 0:08.8 | It was so bad they almost had to cancel the two-man luge. |
| 0:18.2 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:24.7 | On today's show, Seth talks to last week tonight host John Oliver. |
| 0:28.0 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:36.4 | Donald Trump is very mad that the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs, |
| 0:39.9 | but his administration also scored a huge victory. |
| 0:42.3 | When FBI director Cash Patel arrested key figures in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, |
| 0:48.4 | and whoops, sorry, I read that wrong, he was partying in Italy with the U.S. men's hockey team. |
| 0:54.3 | That's always who you want to party with first when you win a championship. |
| 0:57.7 | The director of the FBI. |
| 1:00.2 | I remember when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, |
| 1:04.3 | and the first person who got a champagne shower |
| 1:06.3 | was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. |
| 1:09.2 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. Thank you. was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. |
| 1:13.2 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:20.0 | A lot happened during our two-week Olympic hiatus, |
| 1:21.7 | but I want to open today by playing a clip from Donald Trump's comments this morning. |
| 1:23.6 | And what C-SPAN described is an event honoring families |
| 1:26.1 | of victims of foreign criminal organizations |
| 1:28.2 | and if you're thinking, oh, if that's what the event was, |
| 1:30.7 | I'm sure he talked about people shoveling snow in New York. |
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