President Biden said yesterday that he will travel next week to the southern border for

the first time since taking office.

When asked if it was dangerous, the Secret Service said, the little, but we don't think

he'll actually try to escape.

From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night

with Seth Meyers.

In today's show, Seth Chats with writer director Jordan Peale, but first, a closer look.

Well, the Republican meltdown in the house just keeps on getting more humiliating for the

party, and specifically, for GeoB Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is now, as of this taping

lost eight consecutive votes to become speaker, leaving one of two chambers of Congress in

total paralysis as Republicans and Fox News host Bicker with each other, stab each other

in the back and call each other names.

And I gotta say, that's pretty fun to watch.

For more on this, this is time for a closer look.

Let's just step back for a minute and remember all the predictions of what Republicans thought

would happen this week on the back of a massive midterm red wave.

The GOP would sweep into power and annoy Kevin McCarthy as a forceful new speaker of the

house who would use the GOP's new position of strength to go on the offensive against

Joe Biden and the Democrats.

McCarthy even repeatedly made a very bizarre joke about wanting to hit Nancy Pelosi with

the speaker's gavel when she inevitably handed it over to him, although it didn't always

make sense.

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