She also hosts a politics and pop culture podcast called lady dont take no. You have like seven jobs, that is seven fulltime jobs were working at any time. We are thrilled you joined us today. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Lets start by talking about how this summer has been. Obviously, as one of the cofounders of the black lives matter movement, you have been centering some of the issues, all of the issues really, that have taken even a bigger place front and center stage in national politics, the national conversation, more generally. What has how do you feel 3, looking ater the Political Landscape today versus how you felt at the beginning of summer, early june . While, it does feel like time is not a construct, but ever flowing. Ill say that in the beginning of the summer, we saw unprecedented rebellions spread not just across the country, but across the world. I think it has a lot to do with a few things. Number one, at this point black lives matter is kind of in the
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
A divide but now since today do you see this socalled progovernment and see Government Division and theres a lot of concern that this could lead of course to fly ins and that could lead also to a more strict approach started government even though calling maybe for martial law a reason for russia to step in so do so scenario its not all on the table right now and protesters also back on the streets of thailands capital calling for political reform thousands have taken part in the largest the latest protests to demand reform to the political system and the monarchy student led groups have been demonstrating for the past month when haye is at one of those protests in bangkok. This is the largest rally that weve seen so far thousands of antigovernment protesters coming here to the heart of the capital city bangkok to continue their campaign to try to force the government out they Want Parliament dissolve they want to new election they want the military drafted constitution to be rewritten
Mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and were experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change america is crying out for leadership well mike hanna is in washington d. C. He says biden the selection of harris as his running mate sends a strong message to americans. Well there was a great deal of acrimony between them during the campaign for the president ial candidate from the Democratic Party come of the heroes was exceedingly critical of joe biden on a number of levels however when she dropped out of that race she immediately threw her support behind joe biden and its very clear that joe biden has chosen her for one very good reason and that is he is demonstrating to the public that he is not going to put a lucky in the deputy position he wants somebody who will criticize him he wants somebody who will be forc
Belief that each of the 330000000 lives in this country has meaning and worth while alan fischer has been following all the night speeches from outside the white house for us he has more on Michelle Obamas address. For someone who famously does not like politics and even mentioned that during his speech this is perhaps one of the most searing indictments of the Trump Presidency that weve heard she talked about how there not been just a failure of policy but a failure of character and she said that doesnt just make me upset its infuriating and then the point that she was making is that donald trump. Had not met the moment and was not fit to be president and therefore that is why in her opinion the country should vote for joe biden but clearly what the democrats are hoping is that she can reach out to some republicans and weve heard from plenty over the last 2 hours who are changing their vote from 2016 when they back door trump to support joe biden this time around and perhaps even inde