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Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

Neil Gaiman | Trump Defends His Sedition Speech as Support for Impeachment Grows: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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4.33.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Seth takes a closer look at House Democrats calling on Vice President Pence to remove President Trump through the 25th Amendment as they prepare to vote on a resolution to impeach Trump.

Neil Gaiman explains why quarantine boredom is bad for creativity and shares how peculiar it is for his twenty-year-old book to be adapted into a show and still feel of-the-moment.

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0:00.0

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence reportedly spoke yesterday at the Oval Office

0:06.4

for the first time since last week's attack on the Capitol, which had to be pretty awkward

0:10.8

but don't worry, Trump accepted Pence's apology.

0:18.8

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

0:23.0

night with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth Chats with writer Neil Gaiman. But first,

0:27.6

a closer look.

0:37.2

House Democrats called on the Vice President to remove President Trump through the 25th Amendment,

0:41.8

as they prepared to vote on a resolution to impeach the President, meanwhile Trump emerged

0:45.9

for the first time since his Twitter ban and refused to take any responsibility at all

0:50.3

for inciting a violent riot at the Capitol for more on this its time for a closer look.

0:58.4

The House is preparing to impeach Trump for inciting an insurrection, which would make him the

1:02.0

only President ever to be impeached twice, who also be the only President who lost the popular

1:06.3

vote the first time in re-election the second time in addition to being impeached. A record number

1:11.1

of Americans went to the polls to boot him from office and his job approval is now down to 33%,

1:16.4

his name will be etched in the congressional record and in history books forever as a seditionist

1:21.3

and aspiring tyrant and the worst most dangerous President we've ever had. He could very well be

1:25.9

permanently disqualified from holding offices in the future arrested and tried for sedition.

1:29.8

He's been banned from so many social media platforms. He's going to have to start hiding his

1:33.5

hateful rhetoric and yell reviews. His longtime bank is refusing to do business with him and he

1:39.1

could even be held liable for civil damages in addition to being prosecuted. Oh, and his wife won't

1:44.0

hold his hand. But one of them won. And yet knowing Trump none of that will matter as much to him as

1:50.0

this. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick declining the civilian honor, the presidential

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