Spencer Ackerman | Trump Defended "Toadstool" Penis, Manchin and Sinema Block Biden Agenda: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at centrist Democrats holding Joe Biden’s agenda hostage while Republicans threaten to crater the economy.
Then, Spencer Ackerman talks about his new book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and writing a Suicide Squad comic book.
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| 0:00.0 | During his testimony yesterday before the Senate joint chiefs of staff chairman general |
| 0:06.6 | Mark Milley called the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a quote, logistical success but |
| 0:12.3 | a strategic failure. |
| 0:14.3 | Sort of like when you buy your wife a table saw for Valentine's Day, logistically, you |
| 0:19.5 | got her a gift. |
| 0:20.5 | But strategically, mistakes were made. |
| 0:28.5 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of late |
| 0:32.6 | night with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:34.4 | On today's show, Seth Chats with journalist Spencer Ackerman, but first, a closer look. |
| 0:40.5 | Two, centrist Democrats are holding Joe Biden's agenda hostage while Republicans threaten |
| 0:51.8 | to create a new economy as a negotiating tactic. |
| 0:54.3 | Oh, and also we found out that the previous president called the White House aide from |
| 0:58.1 | Air Force One to defend the size of his penis. |
| 1:00.7 | And I know one of those stories is bigger than the other, but we can do both. |
| 1:04.9 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:10.7 | No, I just meant that one of the stories is bigger than the other. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, it had nothing to do with the size of your, you know. |
| 1:18.7 | No, I didn't know a lot of people had been saying that now. |
| 1:22.9 | Okay. |
| 1:23.9 | Okay. |
| 1:24.9 | All right. |
| 1:26.5 | I love to Melania. |
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