Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers chat and music from john legend, comedienne sarah cooper, an all new closer look, featuring the 8g brand with Carter Mclean. And now seth meyers. Seth good evening, everybody and welcome to late night. Sorry, wally, is that the only thing on the card . Thats it seth huh, i guess we were over relying on him. [ laughter ] all right, let me tell a story when we first started the show about six years ago, our First Episode in this studio we had two guests amy poehler, my dear friend, and joe biden. And it was important to me that amy poehler was our first guest. Because i really did not believe then, and do not believe now that i would ever have this job if it wasnt for her which meant that we had to ask the then, Vice President of the United States if he would be the second guest on a show that started, and continues to start at 12 35 in the morning. And he said, with no hesitation, it would be an honor to follow the great amy poehler. And
Trevor lets get straight into the big news over the weekend. Yeah, i finally learned how to dunk boom turns out you just need to make the net a little closer to the ground. Dont know why i didnt think about that. Also this happens. Cnn projects joseph r. Biden, jr. Elected the 46th president of the president of the united states. There was jubilee as people flooded the streets celebrating from the white house to the west coast. Celebrations in the streets. In new york city the trystate and across the world. In the streets of the largest cities, today a party. In President Trumps hometown new york city, biden supporters shouted out their windows. There were bands and champagne. Whoo costumes and tears. An impromptu dance party broke out. Had sweet caroline sing alongs and nah nah nah goodbye sing along. Trevor oh, yeah, what a day, what a day, what a day, now, people were out in the streets dancing, they were partying, singing sweet caroline which is genius because any generation singin
Caroline isnt going to get broken up by the cops. For real, this was such an amazing weekend. It was a festive atmosphere. Saturday always which mazing. Even coronavirus took the day off. Im kidding. But this weekend, joseph r. Biden was declared the 46t 46th president of the united states. I know it was tough waiting four days to get final results but its actuallile cool it happened on a saturday morning right . Because think about it, normally it happens tuesday, wednesday, just have to be at home. But now people could soak it in. They heard wit their families, going for a walk, even one guy found out ton golf course. President trump was not at the white house when he learned he lost it. He was golfing in virginia, driven home past his critics, cheering. cheers and applause trevor no matter what you think about trump, thats a terrible way to find out youre fired. Its bad enough for your boss to tell you to clean out your desk, but can you imagine on the way to your desk the entire of
[ cheers and applause thank you all for watching stay safe out there. Wash your hands. Dont touch your face. Stay tuned for late night with seth meyers. Good night, everybody [ cheers and applause announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers chat and music from john legend, comedienne sarah cooper, an all new closer look, featuring the 8g brand with Carter Mclean. And now seth meyers. Seth good evening, everybody and welcome to late night. Sorry, wally, is that the only thing on the card . Thats it seth huh, i guess we were over relying on him. [ laughter ] all right, let me tell a story when we first started the show about six years ago, our First Episode in this studio we had two guests amy poehler, my dear friend, and joe biden. And it was important to me that amy poehler was our first guest. Because i really did not believe then, and do not believe now that i would ever have this job if it wasnt for her which meant that we had to ask the then, Vice President of the United State
South korea. Infections slow in japan, but young adults becoming more vulnerable. Do infections in new zealand itsend weaken reputation as a covid19 beater. The Prime Minister is delaying the election. Down that is weighing matters in new zealand, but lets look at u. S. Futures. Uncertainty continues to plague markets as we kick off this new session in asia. Uncertainty when it comes to trade with the phase one meetings being postponed indefinitely. We are also getting an indefinite stalemate when it comes to stimulus talks, as well as uncertainty over the future of mailin voting and usps. Theve futures trading on s p, positive 5. 1 . The nikkei 225 up by about. 25 . We are continuing to watch price action on the topics, the worlds best performing index in august as we continue to see the encouraging recovery in industrials and financials. The japanese economy sent to crater by a record in the latest quarter. We are getting gdp numbers later today. In new zealand, back to one of the to