Sen. Bernie Sanders | Biden Gets to Work Undoing Trump’s Damage: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
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4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at Joe Biden working to clean up the mess left by Donald Trump on his first full day as president, making Republicans lose their minds.
Then, Sen. Bernie Sanders reacts to his inauguration photo becoming a meme, goes over the positives he’s seen in President Joe Biden so far and explains how the government can unite people of different viewpoints.
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| 0:00.0 | President Biden today unveiled a 200-page national strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic, |
| 0:08.8 | which means he's already done more to fight the coronavirus than former president, |
| 0:13.2 | um, yeah, you know, president, uh, that guy, the hair, Florida, uh, oh, I can't, whatever. |
| 0:28.7 | In 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:32.8 | with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to Senator Bernie Sanders, but first, a closer look. |
| 0:46.8 | Today was Joe Biden's first full day as president, and as he set to work, |
| 0:50.4 | cleaning up the mess left by his predecessor, Republicans predictably lost their minds for more |
| 0:55.8 | on this. It's time for a closer look. It is very hard to overstate the sheer magnitude of the |
| 1:04.7 | crisis left behind by the Trump administration. It's unprecedented in our lifetimes and in modern |
| 1:09.8 | American history. And in the short term, it's only getting worse for one thing Biden inherited |
| 1:14.4 | the worst economy since the Great Depression. And as we learned this morning, 900,000 Americans filed |
| 1:20.1 | for jobless claims last week, which means this is now the second time in 12 years Biden has been |
| 1:25.5 | part of an administration that inherited an economy and smoldering ruins from a Republican |
| 1:30.4 | predecessor. Binds like the grandpa. It sits quietly in the recliner all day reading a newspaper, |
| 1:35.6 | but then when it gets too cold, you have to ask him to chop the firewood because no one else knows |
| 1:40.4 | how. Get out of the way, kid, you're gonna hurt yourself with that axe. Now, why don't you and your |
| 1:45.2 | new alarms go play some more Minecraft? So Biden started by signing a total of 17 executive |
| 1:51.7 | actions on his first day in office yesterday. And then today, he discussed his administration's |
| 1:56.4 | COVID response and signed 10 more. Joe Biden already signing 17 executive orders, some of them |
| 2:02.5 | focusing on the coronavirus. 10 more today focusing specifically on the pandemic. Moments ago, |
| 2:08.6 | the president also speaking, signing those executive actions aimed at changing the course of the |
| 2:14.3 | pandemic in this country, including expanding testing, accelerating vaccinations, and safely |
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