Michael Che | McCarthy's Marathon Meltdown; Kennedy Smears Biden Nominee as a Communist
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy throwing a nearly nine-hour tantrum on the House floor as Democrats passed their social spending bill, while Republican Sen. John Kennedy accuses a Biden nominee of being a communist.
Then, Michael Che talks about why he picked Oakland to film his special Shame the Devil, originally being skeptical of the vaccine and enjoying his audience leaving shows with a new perspective.
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| 0:21.5 | Saturday was President Biden's 79th birthday. |
| 0:24.3 | Democrats call it a happy occasion and Republicans call it proof that inflation is out of control. |
| 0:29.9 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:40.2 | On today's show, Seth talks to Michael Chey of Saturday Night Live, but first, a closer look. |
| 0:52.7 | House DLP leader Kevin McCarthy threw a nearly nine-hour tantrum on the House floor. |
| 0:57.7 | As Democrats pass their signature social spending bill, meanwhile, one Republican center |
| 1:02.2 | continued to spread Trump's big lie about the election and another accused a by nominee |
| 1:07.2 | of being a communist for more on this. |
| 1:09.0 | It's time for a closer look. |
| 1:10.4 | There was a temptation during his presidency to believe that Donald Trump and the fringe |
| 1:18.9 | movement of Goons and Weirdos who supported him. |
| 1:21.1 | We're not necessarily the core of the modern GOP that once Trump faded away, the party |
| 1:25.5 | would return to some semblance of normalcy, but over and over, Republicans keep proving |
| 1:29.4 | how naive and wrong that assumption was. |
| 1:31.6 | And look, I get it. |
| 1:32.6 | I think lots of people were hoping this would be a Beatles-U situation where we could just |
| 1:36.2 | say his name three times and he would disappear into that waiting room, worried. |
| 1:40.6 | Finally, look like he fits in. |
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