Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers amy adams, author and journalist, adam davidson, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear in that case, lets get to the news President Trump announced last night that he was instructing his administration to begin cooperating with president elect joe bidens transition team. Wow id say, what took you so long . But ill be honest, this is way sooner than i thought. I figured youd hide out in the basement for the next four years like the family in parasite. Im just kidding that family has way more money than you thats right, President Trump is instructing his administration to begin cooperating with joe bidens transition team. If nothing else, itll be Good Practice for cooperating with law enforcement. Though im not sure if trump understands what cooperating with the transition means, because he told melania, go with
You with us equity markets are rallying shares in japan hit a 30 year high on the 1st day of trading off the Television Networks declared joe biden the winner of the u. S. President ial election there are hopes that a Biden Administration would expand fiscal stimulus in the u. S. Stepped up measures to reduce the spread of covert 19 i want to take a less aggressive approach in trade policy but how does his slogan buy american fit in here lets check out some of bidens ideas about how to stimulate the economy. Will it be like night and day. Joe biden has promised to create a more restrained balanced American Economy instead of the full throttle one of the past 4 years. In practice that means a return to regulations on industry greater powers for financial watchdogs and Consumer Protections and above all higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses im going to raise taxes im not going to raise taxes on anybody making less than 400. 00 grand but but you wont pay a penny more but those making
But i think when youre better for the world youre better for israel to halt to this office us hard bargain is very different from trump trying to bully dos and wanted us to appease him as well as many. Countries with a historically difficult relationship with the u. S. But in selection of burkes little hard. For the future development of the china u. S. Relationship trump didnt do a good job i dont hold much hope for biden turn. But im. I do but im a drummer we talked about improving relations with russia but it didnt come to anything. When you deal with biden is openly against russia. Or for a here. All eyes are now on biden and what changes he may bring to foreign diplomacy for the us. And lets get more now we are joined by did i use your ear shadow who is standing by with the view from moscow yury the kremlin has been remarkably quiet to silence speak volumes. Hi sara well we have no official reaction from the kremlin so far youre right russian president putin only commented once on
we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in two years covered by the release, he and his wife paid just 15 hundred dollars in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. joining me now is adam davidson, a contributing writer to the new yorker. he has long covered trump s finances for the magazine. thank you very much indeed for joining us. if i could start by picking up on the point made there by donald trump, a lot of people will neither be able to make head or tail of
hello and welcome. the uk looks set to become the latest country to impose covid screening for travellers coming from china as cases in the country surge. the chinese government has said it would fully reopen its borders next week for the first time since march 2020. but a number of countries, including the united states, india, spain, italy and in the last few minutes france have said passengers arriving from china will need will need a negative covid test before they travel. lets speak to our political correspondent helen catt. put this in the picture from a british perspective.- put this in the picture from a british perspective. same story? there s been british perspective. same story? there s been a british perspective. same story? there s been a lot british perspective. same story? there s been a lot of british perspective. same story? there s been a lot of concern - british perspective. same story? i there s been a lot of concern about the reliability of info