After Texas Center Ted Cruz accused Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney in a recent interview

of having Trump derangement syndrome, Cheney tweeted, quote,

"'Trump broke Ted Cruz.'" Yeah, but that's like breaking an Ikea bookshelf.

It was about to go anyway. You put books on it. Oh, you can't put books on it.

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

with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth Chats with actor Paul Rudd, but first, a closer look.

Republicans defended Congressman Paul Gosar after he was formally censored by the House for tweeting

a violent video targeting a colleague. Meanwhile, former President Trump sat down for a truly

insane interview with my pillow CEO, Mike Lindell, where they continued to spread their election

lines for more on this. This is time for a closer look. Watching our two political parties right now

is very much like watching two completely alternate realities or like watching two teams on the

same field play completely different sports. Like if the jets showed up to a game against the

Patriots and soccer gear and loudly complained every time they were tackled,

"'I'm sorry! When you said football, you meant American football.'"

We wrote that last night and then, you know, then the jets show up in vaccine news as well.

We had no bad, no idea how badly they were going to take it.

For example, on the one hand, you had President Biden signing into law a widely popular bipartisan

infrastructure bill that will invest over a trillion dollars in everything from rows and bridges

to broadband to electric vehicles. And the best part was he didn't do that dumb thing Trump used to

do where he'd hold up the bill for the cameras. Like a judge at the Olympics holding up a 10 after

a floor routine. That's a joke from our new segment. Remember that? Remember that? When the President

used to show off the bill for the cameras, like he was a waiter at a restaurant that had the

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