Trump Attacks Protesting Athletes: A Closer Look | Jordan Klepper | Josh Earnest

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Seth takes a break from breaking news to check in on how President Trump spent the weekend attacking athletes for peacefully protesting police brutality. Seth then speaks to guests Jordan Klepper and Josh Earnest, who both take additional questions backstage at Studio 8G for this podcast. LATE NIGHT ON SOCIAL Rate the Late Night Podcast on Apple Podcasts: applepodcasts.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 Like Late Night on Instagram: www.instagram.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. 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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0:41.6	From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night
0:45.8	with Seth Meyers. Today's show features sets interviews with comedy central Jordan Clepper and
0:50.3	former White House press secretary Josh Ernest, both of whom dig a few more questions backstage
0:54.8	just for this podcast. But first, Seth takes a closer look at Trump's feud with the NFL.
1:00.9	The Trump administration is dealing with crises both natural and of its own making from hurricanes
1:05.6	to a series of scandals involving cabinet members. So naturally, President Trump spent the weekend
1:10.3	attacking athletes for peacefully protesting police brutality. For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
1:16.0	Pensions with North Korea over its nuclear program are escalating and there's currently an
1:25.0	urgent humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico where more than three million American citizens are currently
1:30.0	without power after Hurricane Maria. So President Trump decided what our nation needed most this past weekend
1:36.2	was one more thing for us to deal with. President Donald Trump says athletes who take a knee during the
1:42.5	national anthem should be fired. It all started on Friday when President Trump went on a tear during
1:47.7	a rally in Alabama. Here's a reminder of what he said. And I should more knew some, especially
1:53.4	young ones in the room, we're going to find this language offensive.
1:58.3	When you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say,
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