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Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Russia launching a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, surprising everyone except the leader of the Republican Party Donald Trump.
Then, New York City Mayor Eric Adams talks about the early days of his first term, his plans to address the city’s subway system and garbage and the criticism of his recent appointments.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
| 0:04.1 | You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast. |
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| 0:12.9 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:20.7 | Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war last night against Ukraine, and this is nice, |
| 0:25.1 | Trump offered to host the after party. |
| 0:32.4 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:36.7 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:38.1 | On today's show, Seth Chatton, New York City Mayor Eric Adams. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:45.2 | Russia launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine last night that shocked and horrified |
| 0:55.2 | almost everyone in the world, except apparently for the leader of the Republican Party Donald |
| 0:59.1 | Trump. |
| 1:00.1 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:05.1 | If you were like me or like most people around the world, you were watching the news of Russia's |
| 1:10.2 | attack on Ukraine last night with a sickening feeling in your stomach. |
| 1:13.2 | A mix of grief and sorrow and despair. |
| 1:15.9 | At the mass human suffering, the sutrocious act will cause. |
| 1:18.8 | No one aside from Putin and his cronies wants this reckless and illegal war, certainly not |
| 1:23.6 | the innocent Ukrainians, targeted by it, not the rest of the world watching it, and not |
| 1:27.6 | the hundreds of ordinary Russians who took to the streets to protest, despite a total |
| 1:31.8 | ban on such demonstrations. |
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