Trump Asked Comey to End Flynn Probe, Gave Russians Intel: A Closer Look | Sen. Ben Sasse

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Seth takes a closer look at the White House playing damage control after bombshell reports about President Trump sharing classified info with Russia and asking the FBI to drop investigations into his former National Security Advisor. (0:21) Then, Senator Ben Sasse gives his big-picture opinion about reports that President Trump may have shared classified info with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. He also expresses his views about rebuilding public trust in government, what he thinks Donald Trump should be focusing on, and the future of Russia's cyber attacks. (12:19) Sen. Sasse and Late Night producer Henry Melcher then discuss more about the senator's real public safety objective. (22:04) LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Rate the Late Night Podcast on iTunes: itunes.com/LateNightSeth Subscribe to Late Night on YouTube: youtube.com/LateNightSeth Follow Late Night on Twitter: twitter.com/LateNightSeth Like Late Night on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LateNightSeth Find Late Night on Snapchat: snapchat.com/add/LateNightSeth Get more Late Night with Seth Meyers: www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/ Watch Late Night with Seth Meyers weeknights 12:35/11:35c on NBC. (Photo: Lloyd Bishop/©NBC) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:42.3	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:46.6	with Seth Meyers. Today's show features Seth's conversation with the public and Senator Ben Sass,
0:51.4	who also takes a few more questions backstage just for this podcast. But first, a closer look at the
0:56.7	chaos rocking the Trump White House. Once again, the White House spent the day and damaged control
1:04.4	after a bombshell report about President Trump revealing highly classified information to Russian
1:08.9	diplomats during a meeting in the Oval Office last week. And tonight, news broke the Trump
1:14.0	asked the FBI director to drop an investigation into his former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn.
1:19.8	For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
1:26.4	For the last week, the Trump White House has been desperate to change the story from Trump's decision
1:31.0	to fire FBI director James Comey to literally anything else. And good news, they succeeded.
1:38.1	Tonight, breaking news involving President Trump, did he reveal highly classified information?
1:44.4	Stunning reports that the President of the United States shared classified information
1:49.3	with the Russians in the Oval Office. Current and former US officials reportedly told the paper,
1:55.0	the President went off script. And it doesn't shock me that Donald Trump went off script.
2:00.4	This is a man who reads off the teleprompter like it's an eye chart. God bless the United States of
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