Stuff in the news right now. But before we get to that, lets kick it off with a fun crime story thats out of this world. And now that i hear that, it probably sounded like it has something to do with outer space, which it doesnt. No, its not out of this world. Its pretty cool, though. A wild chase worthy of the big screen. The suspect in a multimillion dollar ponzi scheme tried to escape the feds under the water of lake shasta. The u. S. Attorneys office says mathew percy took off in his truck when the f. B. I. Showed up at his home and eventually jumped on a sea scooter, a device that propels people up to 100 feet under water. Well, agents eventually spotted his bubbles and waited him out. When he finally came out, they cuffed him. Trevor man, there is so much i love about this story. First of all, i love how the guy had the sea scooter ready, like, he knew he was going to have to outrun the feds at some point. Thats going to be a hard one to explain to the judge. Not guilty, your hon
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
Philadelphia. Originally thats what it was. But in the years the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capitol. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about 3 3 4 million. We had six members of the house would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of the u. S. Capitol is the story of where were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially annou
Be widely available. We will have 100 million shots in arms by the end of february. The experience will look at what you do for a flu, cbs, cvs, krogers, or at your Doctors Office so that is the experience we are trying to recreate. Dana President Trump calling it a modernday miracle and touting Operation Warp speed. If i wasnt president you wouldnt have a vaccine for five years, okay . I push the fda, Companies Involved like nobodys ever been pushed before and now you have it rolling out. But this has been a great really medical miracle. And its going to have a tremendous impact. Juan williams, lets start with you and give the floor over to our cohost. Juan i think this is great news, dana. I had this covid thing and it is great news. You dont want to mess with this. I just think it is a wonderful day for america that we have this vaccine now being distributed. The key point i would ask everyone to keep in mind, no point, no time to let your guard down. It will take a while for this t
Talks to secure a trade deal between the uk and the European Union are resuming later on monday. They broke up last night with the trickiest areas of disagreement like fishing richts, Competition Rules and enforcement of the deal remaining unresolved. If theres going to be a deal, it needs to be done by december 31st. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Last night in brussels, the lights on, the talks ongoing. Huge amount at stake. It is serious. Its at 50 50 right now and i dont think one can be optimistic about resolution emerging. Speaking to some of the key principles here, this isa the key principles here, this is a very challenging issue to resolve, and particularly around the level playing field. There are three main sticking point, the so called level playing field, how any deal is enforced and fishing rights. Eu sources suggest a deal on fish is close. The british sources say it isnt. It seems the two sides cant even agree on what they disagree on. After todays ne