When asked yesterday if he would consider suspending habeas corpus to fight crime,

President Trump asked the reporter, quote,

suspending who?

Probably because he doesn't know what habeas corpus is.

And definitely because he was picturing a Roman gladiator fighting crime.

From gladiator fighting crime.

From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City,

please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Myers.

On today's show, Seth chats with actor Ryan Reynolds.

But first, a closer look. The president threatened to jail the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois while claiming the city of Portland is bombed out and that stores there don't even use glass windows anymore because they're all boarded up just a few days

after falsely claiming that he deserved credit

for predicting Osama bin Laden would attack the World Trade Center.

But on the bright side, he hasn't considered

suspending habeas corpus, not because he suddenly believes

in the rule of law, but because he thinks habeas corpus is a person.

Hold on, before we start this closer look, I'm going to hit my vape pen real quick.

Wait a second. This is just a ballpoint pen.

But it's a bick, and that's the good...

For more on this, it's time for a closer look.

You guys, I don't know if you remember,

but when Joe Biden was president,

there was a small kerfuffle over the status of his brain.

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