Stephanie Wittels Wachs | A Closer Look: Trump, Parkland and the #NeverAgain Movement
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Seth takes a closer look at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and how the #NeverAgain movement continues to put pressure on Republicans and the NRA.
Then, Stephanie Wittels Wachs talks about her brother, comedian and writer Harris Wittels, his struggle with addiction and her memoir, Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful.
She then goes behind the scenes and takes a few more questions backstage from Late Night producer Kevin Miller.
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| 0:41.8 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:46.0 | with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to author Stephanie Whittles Wax, who has new |
| 0:50.4 | memoir about the life and death of her brother, comedian Harris Whittles. Stephanie also continues |
| 0:55.1 | the conversation backstage just for this podcast, but first a closer look. |
| 1:01.0 | It's been almost two weeks since the horrific shootings in Parkland, Florida, and the never-again |
| 1:06.1 | movement started by students in Stoneman Douglas High School continues to intensify, putting more |
| 1:10.4 | and more pressure on Republicans in the NRA. For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 1:19.9 | President Trump's approval ratings have fallen back down to historically low levels, |
| 1:23.6 | admitted at a launch of scandal in chaos in his administration. And yet, on Friday, Trump went to |
| 1:28.4 | the conservative political action conference and made this outlandish claim about all the promises |
| 1:33.9 | he's made that he supposedly kept. Remember this. We've got, you know, somebody got on television |
| 1:40.3 | recently and they said, actually, this is the first time I can remember. Trump made campaign promises. |
| 1:45.1 | He may be the only person that actually fulfilled more promises that he made. I think that's true. |
| 1:51.3 | Look at what is he talking about. Trump is so garbled. His speeches are becoming logical paradoxes. |
| 1:58.0 | I fulfill promises I haven't even made. I marry the woman I haven't met, and I made a rock so heavy. |
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