[ cheers and applause lets see. What do we got going on . A new star wars movie came out to mixed reviews everybodys talking about the musical cats. And a president who is facing impeachment Just Launched a bombing run in iraq. You know what, actually, lets hold on a second yeah, thats what im talking about [ cheers and applause thats where were at. President trump yesterday dismissed concerns that iran might retaliate for his strike on a military leader, saying quote, if it happens, it happens. [ light laughter ] wow, youre talking about the possibility of world war iii and you sound like Courteney Cox talking about a friends reunion. [ laughter ] look, if they want to do it, ill show up [ light laughter ] a missouri pastor is facing six months in prison after allegedly asking for sexual favors from men on the dating app grindr in exchange for an arbys gift card [ laughter ] which is ironic since grindrs slogan is also, we have the meats. [ laughter ] [ applause ] a 600pound tuna was sold at an auction in japan yesterday for almost 2 million. No word on how a cat got that much money [ laughter ] a company has developed a new product that men can wear between their legs to prevent premature ejaculation. Its called skinny jeans [ laughter and applause and finally, a man in florida was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly bit a police dog while naked and high on crystal meth [ light laughter ] on the plus side, as a florida man, hes already achieved his 2020 resolution. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, we have a fantastic show for you tonight she is a United States senator from massachusetts and a democratic candidate for president. Senator Elizabeth Warren is back, everybody [ cheers and applause always happy to have her here. He is an iconic musician and artist whose broadway show david byrnes american utopia, which is fantastic, is currently running at the hudson theater here in new york city through february 16th, david byrne is in the house. [ cheers and applause and we will have music from a twotime grammy winning artist who was also nominated for another five Grammy Awards later this month h. E. R. Is here, you guys [ cheers and applause so its a fantastic show im so glad youre here. A quick word to our cue card guy, wally if you watch the show, you know wally. Wally is a patriots fan and i just want to send my regards on the patriots losing. [ audience groaning i grew up in new england i am not a patriots fan. I dont care for the patriots. But i do i do want to say that i am sorry on your behalf thanks, seth. Seth yeah. It didnt sound very true that you were saying that, but i appreciate it. Seth yes you know. Listen, i just want to forget about it seth okay. As long as theres no more mentions of it during the show or anything like that, then ill be good. Seth yeah. Okay . Seth well, we wont were gonna do a closer look now and thats about politics. Yeah. Seth you dont have to worry. Its all news, great. Seth all right, and again, i do feel bad. You know, it breaks my heart [ laughter ] yeah, okay. [ laughter ] seth well, it looks like 2020 is off to a great start for more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause seth im just [ bleep ] with you. 2020 is already the worst. [ laughter ] the sky in australia is blood red thanks to a Climate Crisis republicans are trying to rig the impeachment trial. And the president is threatening war crimes on twitter. Were less than a week into 2020 the world is like your friend who tells you this is the year hes going to quit drugs and take up yoga, and then on january 6th, you see him trying to sell his mat for crack. [ light laughter ] i mean, we should have at least been able to come together and enjoy the patriots getting knocked out of the playoffs [ cheers and applause in the first round at home i mean, finally, Bill Belichick was as sad as his outfit [ laughter ] for a guy whos supposed to be good at clock management, he always looks like he woke up five minutes before game time. [ light laughter ] and yet we couldnt even take 24 hours to savor that small victory, because the president spent the weekend threatening war crimes against iran after ordering the assassination of a top iranian general. And then, in an orwellian fashion, claiming he did it to stop a war breaking news this morning, the u. S. Has carried out the assassination of a top Iranian Military and intelligence commander. The president ordered this it was carried out by drone last night in iraq. His name was qasem soleimani. He was irans top military commander. I went to a state Department Briefing today, a background briefing, and the officials basically said, the ball is in irans court and we are trying to deescalate. Actually one official said, this was an act of deescalation. We took action last night to stop a war we did not take action to start a war. Seth trump thinks we cant accuse him of rushing into a war if he reads his teleprompter super slowly [ laughter ] you cant just kill a top general of a sovereign nation and call it deescalation. Thats like getting drunk and driving your car into a kmart and then telling the cops, i did it to stop my car. [ laughter ] trump and his allies are lying in the exact same ways the Bush Administration lied us into a catastrophic war in iraq nearly 17 years ago and the exact same people are doing it. After the attack, fox news decided to turn to their stable of lumpy white guys whove been wrong about anything like lindsey graham, a champion of the iraq war, and former bush officials and serial liars, Ari Fleischer and karl rove. Why are these the best experts we can get this is like doing a segment on organizing Music Festivals and interviewing Billy Mcfarland and ja rule. [ laughter ] and the same people are trotting out the same lies they did 17 years ago for example, Vice PresidentMike Pence Lied and tried to link soleimani to 9 11 in a tweet that was not supported by the evidence and if that sounds familiar to you, its because its right out of the playbook of george w. Bush and donald rumsfeld, who repeatedly linked Saddam Hussein to al qaeda and other terrorist groups without providing any evidence the reason i keep insisting that there was a relationship between iraq and saddam and al qaeda, because there was a relationship between iraq and al qaeda there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations. Reports that say that something hasnt happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know, we know we also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know theres some things we do not know [ light laughter ] but there are also unknown unknowns the ones we dont know we dont know excuse me, but is this an unknown unknown . [ laughter ] several unknowns this is an unknown unknown im not going to say which it is seth oh youre not gonna say . So its unknown whether its an unknown unknown . But one known that we do know is what trump knows, which is a known unknown, because he unknows what he doesnt know meaning we know, he knows no knowns [ laughter ] its amazing [ cheers and applause its amazing that we found a way to elect people who think these guys had the right idea. Its like if 17 years from now someone made a movie called cats 2, this time with genitals [ laughter ] so pence lied just like bush and rumsfeld lied. But hey, at least this isnt the first time mike pence has been wrong about a disastrous war in the middle east. I am here to report, as the United States military confirmed in iraq on monday, weapons of mass destruction have been found in iraq. Seth its fitting that 16 years later, pence is telling the same lies because 16 years later, he looks the exact same i mean, im pretty sure hes just a stock photo business man come to life when he takes off his shirt, it says getty images across his chest. [ laughter ] so the Trump Administration tried to link soleimani to 9 11. They also claimed they were stopping an imminent threat. But if thats true, they havent presented any evidence of that threat to congress or the public in fact, a New York Times reporter tweeted that the evidence for such a threat was razor thin and the times also wrote that National Security experts and even other officials at the pentagon said they were unaware of anything drastically new about iranian behavior in recent weeks but thats not good enough for fox friends host Ainsley Earhardt, who said today that we just have to trust the intelligence agencies. So interesting that people are critical of the president s decision, of our Intelligence Communitys decisions, our generals decisions. They want details general tata said well, they cant have it they cant everything cant be made public we heard pompeo over the weekend saying everything that we have, the Intelligence Community has he said, i ran the cia at one point, we cant release everything. We cant release all of our intelligence information well release as much as we can, but you just have to trust us, basically. Seth oh, we just have to trust them im sorry, but im not inclined to trust an administration that lies about everything, even the dumbest things lets not forget, this is the same guy who literally drew a circle on an official weather map in sharpie to claim that alabama was gonna get hit by a hurricane and then pretended he had no idea how it got there [ laughter ] can you imagine if trump actually tries to present some evidence against iran . I have it right here, the top secret intelligence briefing that proves i was right. It says, iran bad, right there. [ laughter ] right there. [ applause ] so, there you go you heard fox friends. We have to trust our intelligence agencies. I wonder though, if she felt the same way back in may when the intelligence agencies were investigating trump. What no, she didnt oh, and the next clip proves it. Well, why are you telling me you ruined the surprise. All right, well lets just show it anyway. There was a fox news poll, and folks were asked how likely intelligence agencies like the fbi broke the law to investigate president trump. Look at that, 58 said, extremely, very, or somewhat, and only 31 said, not at all. And you get your so that just shows you up the first three. Thats pretty scary that we cant trust the fbi. Seth what . [ light laughter ] we cant but that lady on the news just a second ago said we can [ light laughter ] wait a second oh my god, one of two things is happening here either Trump Supporters are selfserving hypocrites who defend intelligence agencies when they want to bomb other countries, but attack them when they investigate the president s crimes, or Ainsley Earhardt has an evil twin [ applause ] now, if youre a trump supporter out there, claiming anyone who opposes this act of war is siding with the enemy, lets just remember this is the same president who literally said he and kim jongun, a brutal dictator who starves and tortures his own people, quote, fell in love because of kims beautiful letters. [ light laughter ] trump actually said that about a brutal dictator. He sound likes a Southern Belle meeting suitors at a cotillion my dear beauregard, i fell in love with you after your beautiful letters [ laughter ] im pretty sure most people hadnt even heard soleimanis name until recently and that includes trump himself, who was asked about him in a radio interview in 2015 and clearly had no idea who he was are you familiar with general soleimani . Yes [ laughter ] go ahead give me a little go ahead, tell me. He runs the quds forces yes, okay right. Do you expect hed be and i think the kurds, by the way, have been harshly mistreated by us no, not the kurds, the quds forces, the Iranian Revolutionary guards, quds forces, the bad guys yes, right. Do you expect his behavior to change as a result oh, i thought you said kurds. [ laughter ] seth i love i love how trump tried to pretend he know who he was even though he clearly didnt do you know general soleimani . Yeah no, i do. But i want to see if you know who he is. [ laughter ] clearly, this was a reckless act by an impulsive president who hasnt thought through any of the consequences, but a lot of people, including prominent democrats, are also asking, why now . Why would a president who is facing an impeachment trial and mounting evidence of his guilt, suddenly start a war with iran as he heads into an Election Year i wonder if 2011 to 2012 donald trump had anything to say about that when it came to president obama i say that he starts a war in iran before the election, which will make it very hard for the republican to win, okay . And ive said that and i predicted that he doesnt talk to anybody hell start a war. You know, lives will be wasted for no reason. I happen to think that the president is going to start a war with iran. I think itll be a shortterm popular thing to do and i think hes going to do that for political reasons. Our president will start a war with iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. Hes weak and hes ineffective so the only way he figures that hes going to get reelected, and as sure as youre sitting there, is to start a war with iran i believe that he will attack iran some time prior to the election because he thinks thats the only way he can get elected. Isnt it pathetic . Seth yes, it is. [ light laughter ] the thing about trump is that he never tells the truth about himself in the present, but he always tells the truth about himself like ten years in advance. When he accuses people of crossing the border illegally, that means ten years from now hes going to get caught climbing over his wall trying to flee to mexico [ laughter ] damn it whyd we make it so tall . [ laughter ] so its already terrifying that the president is possibly lurching into an unjust and immoral war. And then on sunday, he decided to go even further and threaten war crimes against iran with a truly psychotic tweet that he genuinely thought counted as some sort of official legal document here is the very real tweet the president of the United States sent out on sunday these media posts will serve as notification to the United States congress that should iran strike any u. S. Person or target, the United States will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless. Thats right the same guy who brought you such tweets as Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart [ light laughter ] and, i have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke, now thinks his tweets serve as official legal notice to congress i dont think this tweet counts as legal notice to commit an act of war, but i do think it counts as legal notice to have you committed. That tweet sounds like something that could be scrawled on the walls of a psych ward. [ laughter and applause let this serve as a legal notice that i know youre hiding pills in my applesauce, and i will find them and sue you for malpractice. By the way, threatening a disproportionate response is a war crime, just like when trump tweeted the previous day, that if iran strikes any americans, or american assets, we have targeted 52 iranian sites, some at a very high level, and important to iran and the iranian culture. And those targets and iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard. First of all, its not reassuring when the president tweets in all caps like a lunatic who sees his exgirlfriend posting photos of herself with another guy, and texts her at 3am, who is brad and why are you in cabo . I will hit him very fast and very hard. A war with iran would be unjust and immoral, cause mass death and suffering, and destabilize the region and the world and trump obviously hasnt thought about, or doesnt care about those consequences, because by all accounts, he made this decision impulsively, to the surprise of his own top military officials the New York Times reported that they were stunned, flabbergasted, and alarmed when trump chose the option of killing soleimani. Apparently trumps military advisers put the option on one powerpoint slide to make the other options seem more reasonable, not actually thinking he would pick it. One briefing slide shown to trump listed several follow up steps the u. S. Could take, among them targeting soleimani. Unexpectedly, trump chose that option oh, did donald trump do the unexpected instead of the reasonable [ light laughter ] did you guys not get a briefing on him [ light laughter ] you cant expect the reasonable choice from the guy who stared into an eclipse, and when his umbrella got caught, just left it on the stairs [ laughter ] Congress Must do everything in its power to stop an unjust and immoral war with iran that will have disastrous consequences thats why thousands of protesters took to the streets over the weekend in cities across the country to say no to war with iran. We have an impulsive lawless president , threatening war crimes, who thinks his tweets count as official legal documents. You got to ask isnt it pathetic seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause well be right back with senator Elizabeth Warren, everybody [ cheers and applause announcer for more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. 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