Jonathan Bailey | Trump Loses Battle to Conceal Epstein Files; Greene Hits Back Over “Traitor" Nickname: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump losing his monthslong battle to stop the release of the Epstein files after Congress passed a bill forcing the Justice Department to make them public.
Then, Jonathan Bailey talks about how seeing his niece watch Wicked: For Good for the first time made him cry and loving all of the time he’s been spending with the cast before being joined by his childhood best friend Kit Buchan to talk about his play Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump held a black-tie dinner last night |
| 0:05.0 | in honor of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. |
| 0:08.0 | At the dinner, President Trump said he has more than three |
| 0:11.0 | and a quarter years left in office and added, quote, |
| 0:14.0 | For the Trump, that's like an eternity. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, buddy, not just for the Trump. |
| 0:20.0 | That's an eternity for the Myers, too. |
| 0:24.8 | I would rather spend three and a quarter years |
| 0:28.1 | stuck in an elevator with a ventriloquist |
| 0:30.5 | and two of my exes. |
| 0:40.9 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City Please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers |
| 0:44.2 | On today's show, Seth Katz with actor Jonathan Bailey |
| 0:47.1 | But first, a closer look |
| 0:49.3 | Donald Trump lost his months-long battle to stop the release of the Epstein files on Tuesday when Congress passed a bill forcing the Justice Department to make them public. |
| 1:05.7 | So now Trump is doing a 180. He says he'll sign the bill that forces him to release the files he could have released on his own, but wouldn't, thus requiring a bill to force him to do the thing he didn't want to do, which he will now be forced to do, because of the bill he was against that he will now sign. |
| 1:22.5 | It makes sense to me, and for more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:29.3 | You guys, Donald Trump wants to know, he's not mad at all about this Epstein bill passing. |
| 1:35.3 | He's actually very cool with it. |
| 1:37.3 | House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide, |
| 1:41.3 | and it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical F lunatics |
| 1:46.1 | in order to deflect from the great success of the Republican Party, including our recent victory on the Democrat shutdown. |
| 1:53.0 | Now, farther down, he adds, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I don't care. |
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