Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers mandy moore, chat and music from jeff tweedy, an allnew a closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear get to the news. President elect joe bidens Transition Team announced today that he has selected longtime adviser and Foreign Policy veteran Antony Blinken as his secretary of state you know, i think im a little scarred, because my first thought was, which season of the apprentice was he on . President Trumps Campaign issued a Statement Last night distancing itself from lawyer Sidney Powell after shed repeatedly made unsupported claims of widespread voter fraud. Man, youve got to be pretty crazy if Rudy Guiliani thinks youre a liability sorry, ms. Powell, but youre a loose cannon now if youll excuse me, im late for a press conference where i say joe biden is the hamburglar. The Pharmaceutical Company
They announced that iran and russia exploited voter information to send misleading emails. This is just another reminder that multiple different adversaries with multiple different objectives want to fuel division among americans and create chaos. Iran, china, russia, and other adversaries may have different goals, but they all share the same primary objective of undermining americas confidence in our democracy and they are thrill thrill they are thrilled when their disinformation causes us to point fingers at each other rather than at them. The good news is that we spent the last four years gearing up for this. Unlike the obamabiden information on whose watch even democrats admit we were caught flatfooted, the Trump Administration worked overtime with congress and other actors to get us ready. The white house has imposed harsh new sanctions on russians to interfered in 2016. The department of justice, the department of homeland security, and the Intelligence Community have led efforts
Diablo range scrolling up to mount diablo the oakland hills. All those areas that typically everybody is on alert whenever the winds pick up around mount tam for instance and of course up in the wine country. Both napa and sonoma counties look at all that purple all those areas either have power thats already been turned off or those are locations of peach and he has an eye on today to shut the power if the winds continue and were out there with our live reporters keep a look at whats going on in those neighborhoods in Contra Costa County with will tran in the north bay. With Sarah Stinson and in the Weather Center thats were going to start with you john yeah because because it has been a very windy evening and continues to be this morning to something that will be causing you problems as you leave for work this morning as you will be encountering areas. Where youll be able to feel those gusts as you do into roadways as for conditions right now from suture tower it is beautiful, it is
Shes here to talk about the Upcoming Supreme Court confirmation involving judge Amy Coney Barrett. Thanks for being with us. Guest good morning. Host remind our viewers about the organization and where you stand politically. Guest we are looking to get judges confirmed to our committed to interpreting the constitution and the laws as they are written. You have any active role in the president s choice for Supreme Court . Guest thats the president s call and it is done through the White House Counsel Office but im thrilled, i felt like everyone he was looking at closely was really wellqualified. I felt like i couldnt be in a better position. I would have been happy if it was Amy Coney Barrett or barbara lagoa, he had some great choices. Host i suppose the question you are asked a lot these days is about the overall impact on the court and how it changes when it comes to the justices themselves. How would you answer that . Guest its a shift in perspective and how we look at the law versu
At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much