Julianna Margulies | Matt Gaetz Wingman Pleads Guilty and Says He'll Cooperate with Feds: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trump threatening to abandon his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani amid his criminal investigation and Congressman Matt Gaetz’s wingman pleading guilty and promising to cooperate with prosecutors.
Then, Julianna Margulies talks about binging The Office with her son, joining the cast of The Morning Show and growing up in New Hampshire after living in England.
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| 0:00.0 | The CDC announced last week that fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks |
| 0:07.8 | and most indoor outdoor settings. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh my God, finally, said unvaccinated Americans. |
| 0:18.4 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:22.8 | with Seth Myers. On today's show, Seth talks to actor Juliana Margo Leaves, whose memoir, |
| 0:27.9 | Sunshine Girl, an unexpected life, is available now. But first, a closer look. |
| 0:36.7 | The Wingman, a Florida, Congressman Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty in court today and promised to |
| 0:42.2 | cooperate fully with prosecutors. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is threatening to abandon his former lawyer |
| 0:46.9 | Rudy Giuliani, who is also under criminal investigation for more on this. It's time for a closer look. |
| 0:51.7 | Maybe it's a coincidence, but the Maga crowd seems to have a lot of criminals in it. I don't |
| 0:59.9 | want to make generalizations, but there are more criminals or alleged criminals. And Trump's |
| 1:04.8 | inner circle than there are in a motorcycle gang or a Hollywood PTA meeting. If anyone ever needs |
| 1:10.4 | to assemble an ocean's 11 team of criminals for a hike, they could make one entirely out of |
| 1:15.3 | Trump cronies. There's Manafort. He's our surveillance guy. Stone, he handles explosives. And then |
| 1:20.6 | there's Rudy. He's in charge of arranging our getaway to Jamaica. That's right. Jamaica, |
| 1:24.6 | Queens, holiday and express right next to the air train. No Rudy, Jamaica the island. Okay, |
| 1:29.1 | okay, I'll switch it. But I can't promise I'll get our deposit back. |
| 1:32.8 | Today, for example, a close friend and ally of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz pleaded guilty |
| 1:36.9 | in court to six charges and promised to cooperate with federal prosecutors as part of the plea, |
| 1:41.2 | which doesn't seem like great news for Gaetz. |
| 1:43.9 | Joel Greenberg, former Florida tax official and associate of Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, |
| 1:50.4 | was in that courtroom. According to court filings, he pled guilty to six federal charges, |
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