Mehdi Hasan | Trump Threatens Not to Leave White House on Inauguration Day: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at the president and his enablers continuing their attempt to end democracy just a month ahead of the end of the Trump administration.
Mehdi Hasan talks about launching The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock from home during the coronavirus pandemic, calls for Trump to be held accountable for his attempt to steal the election and explains why the right-wing media is a "safe space" in its own right.
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| 0:00.0 | White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said this week the President Trump plans to |
| 0:06.4 | veto the $740 billion defense spending bill despite passing Congress with the veto-proof |
| 0:12.4 | majority. |
| 0:13.4 | Said Trump, how many times do I have to say it? |
| 0:17.4 | I don't understand how any of this works. |
| 0:27.0 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late |
| 0:30.9 | Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:32.2 | On today's show, Seth Chats with journalist Medihocin. |
| 0:35.2 | But first, a closer look. |
| 0:45.2 | We're just over a month away from the end of the Trump administration, and there are |
| 0:48.3 | two things we know for certain about this President and his enablers that we should never |
| 0:52.8 | forget. |
| 0:53.8 | We're going to end democracy, and they tried to get people sick. |
| 0:57.3 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:03.8 | There's a sense among some Democrats, including apparently President-elect Joe Biden himself |
| 1:08.2 | that Republicans will just calm down and become reasonable again after Donald Trump is off |
| 1:13.1 | the political stage, which is unlikely for two reasons. |
| 1:16.0 | One, Trump will never willingly leave the stage. |
| 1:19.2 | If he ever performed at the Apollo, he'd be the first contestant to get into a fist fight |
| 1:23.3 | with the Sandman. |
| 1:24.3 | Trump's like someone who draws out the happy birthday song with lots of trills and a's |
| 1:30.0 | when the rest of the office wants to get back to work, and the Carvelle cake is like |
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