Rudy Giuliani Says Collusion Is Not a Crime: A Closer Look | Rebecca Makkai
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Trump's defenders moving on from insisting that the president didn't collude with Russia to arguing that even if he did, it's not a crime.
Then, author Rebecca Makkai talks about exploring how the AIDS epidemic affected Chicago in her novel The Great Believers, reveals how her father smuggled poetry into Hungary and explains why she loves teaching.
She also takes a few more questions from Late Night producer Sarah Jenks-Daly backstage at Studio 8G.
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| 0:50.5 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with |
| 0:55.2 | Seth Meyers. I'm Sarah Jank-Staley, a producer here at Late Night. And on today's show, Seth talks |
| 1:00.0 | to Rebecca McCuy, the author of The Great Believers. Then, just for this podcast, I get to sit down with |
| 1:05.0 | Rebecca backstage here at Studio HG and ask her a few more questions about her work. But first, |
| 1:10.3 | Seth takes a closer look at the state of the Mueller investigation. |
| 1:13.7 | President Trump's defenders have moved on from insisting he didn't collude with Russia to |
| 1:18.8 | arguing that even if he did, it's not a crime. For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:28.2 | At some point, everyone is close to Trump turns on him. His ex-lawyer Michael Cohen might be |
| 1:32.8 | cooperating with prosecutors, Omarosa is writing a tell-all book about him, three different people |
| 1:38.0 | who worked for him, called him stupid. Even Grimmis admitted that when he shot a McDonald's commercial |
| 1:43.6 | with Trump, he was wearing a wire. And of course, we all remember when Grimmis testified before |
| 1:50.3 | Congress. Do you believe Donald Trump colluded with Russia? |
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