Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, ethan hawke, comedian lewis black an all new closer look, featuring the 8g band with carter mclean. And now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers and this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats fantastic lets get to the news. When asked about President Trumps refusal to concede the president ial election, president elect joe biden yesterday said, quote, i think it will not help the president s legacy. Oh, yeah it would be a shame to tarnish that what was it going to be . The man who finally stood up to the sun . President trump tweeted today that he was, quote, now preparing to win wisconsin. And next week they will beat hillary according to estimates, President Trump has been offered book and Television Deals that could be worth 100 Million Dollars but he still wont come out. President trump visited Arlington National cemetery today in observance of veterans day and while he was there, he helped put out a fire. Youre welcome. Thats right, President Trump visited Arlington National cemetery in observation of veterans day trump and pence were respectful of the dead while melania and karen were jealous Senate Republicans yesterday unanimously reelected senator Mitch Mcconnell as majority leader though they had to do it twice because out of habit he blocked the first vote First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly not reached out to incoming first lady dr. Jill biden about a transition oh, no now how is she going to learn the best hiding spots . In a new episode of his podcast, boxer mike tyson said that he used the urine of his infant son to pass drug tests when he was competing which explains why he once tested positive for similac. Officials in washington d. C. Are preparing for the far right hate Group Proud Boys to protest the 2020 Election Results this weekend. Preparing . How . Are they opening another register at wendys . Macys has announced it will not have a santa claus at its Flagship Store in new york this year due to the coronavirus pandemic said one parent, wait, then whose lap is justin get away from him according to a new study, 1 in 4 americans say they purchased a vintage item since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic for example, a belt. And finally, today was actor Leonardo Dicaprios 46th birthday. Thats right, he is now two girlfriends old. That was a monologue you guys, we have a great show for you tonight. One of my favorite actors, good friend ethan hawke is going to be right here in this studio ethan is the cocreator, executive producer and star of the fantastic show the good lord bird which is currently on showtime i am so excited to see him plus, the great lewis black will be joining me. Hes got a new comedy special, thank you for risking your life. Its available now but before we get to that, President Trump is still refusing to accept his loss in the november election and now virtually the entire Republican Party is in lockstep behind him as he tries to invalidate the results and overthrow the democratically elected government for more on this, its time for a closer look. Seth well, it was fun for a couple of days wasnt it . Its like we all sat through a long, boring wedding and we finally got to drink and dance our hearts out and then they stopped the music for one more speech from the racist grandpa i remember Something Else about Korea Donald Trump and the Republican Party are not only refusing to concede a president ial election they clearly and decisively lost, theyre acting as if trump will remain in Office Despite the will of the people the Trump White House is moving forward with its Budget Proposal for next year. Vetting new hires for a second term firing officials at the pentagon and replacing them with unqualified yesmen. Authorizing Justice Department investigations of nonexistent voter fraud and saying stuff like this. Is the state department currently preparing to engage with the Biden Transition Team and if not at what point does it delay, hamper a smooth transition or pose a risk to National Security . There will be a smooth transition to a Second Trump Administration seth haha a hilarious joke about the president of the United States actively trying to overthrow his democratically elected successor. Im sorry, but are we all sure he was joking . Mike pompeo has all the charm and comedic timing of a divorced gym teacher meeting his girlfriends son for the first time hey tyler, come on, pull my finger come on, pull it. Hey, im 26, bro. Just pull it. All right, fine. Aww, i [ bleep ] my pants im going to go change my pants. Honestly, i dont know if it was a joke or not but either way, im going to out on a limb and say if youre the secretary of state, maybe dont joke about a possible coup. Thats one of those no joking jobs you know, like, Army Drill Sergeant or oncologist well, dave, im looking at your xray and its bad news. Youre going to spend about 40 more years with your wife. Or you can take them with you. The truth is, its clear and unavoidable, joe biden is the president elect of the United States based on a decisive win in last weeks election. And thats not going to change no matter how many ballots republicans challenge. Incidentally, trump is currently winning North Carolina which accepts mailin ballots nine days after the election as long as they were postmarked by election day and oddly i dont hear any republicans whining about fraud. The margins in states biden won are too large for trump to overcome even if they did find an isolated case of actual fraud, which they havent because it doesnt exist. Just take Maricopa County in arizona. After a week of baselessly claiming fraud and suggesting trump could end up winning the state, trumps legal team has challenged a grand total of 180 rejected ballots biden leads in arizona by 14,746 votes its like the jets kicking a field goal down 42 points after the game is already over coach, send me out there for the fifth quarter. There are only four quarters. Um, then why isnt a quarter worth four cents, coach . They cant provide any proof at all that there was any fraud, let alone widespread systemic fraud on the scale required to overturn the Election Results. Because there wasnt any investigations by both the New York Times and a. P. Have confirmed that the trump teams lies are so transparent even fox news cut away from one of their press conferences. You are welcoming fraud and you are welcoming illegal voting we want every legal vote to be counted and we want every illegal vote to be whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear that she is charging the other side as welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting unless she has more details to back that up, i cant in good countenance continue showing you this seth man, its rough when your most sycophantic supporters bail that was like watching smithers say, shut the [ bleep ] up, old man its like the national zoo cutting away from the panda cam because the sex is getting too graphic. Okay, they are humping. Thats fine. Now they are oh, my god kevin, what position is that . I think that is called standing wheelbarrow. Okay, cut the feed cut the feed kids are watching. Cut the feed and by the way, in that same press conference a reporter asked White House Press secretary kayleigh mcenany, who incidentally gets paid with your tax dollars to show up and lie at Trump Campaign events, a very simple straightforward question. Do you know for a fact that there were fraudulent votes cast . This will not shock you. She did not answer do you know that fraudulent votes were actually cast or are you simply saying we dont know because we couldnt see it look, what we are asking for here is patience seth so, all youre saying is you need a little patience . Thanks, guns nrose. You swore that would work, shoemaker. I did seth im sorry, donald trump wants patience the least patient man on the face of the earth . The guy who literally shoved his way to the front of a group of nato leaders like a bridesmaid trying to catch a bouquet at a wedding . You already have a boyfriend, janet. Let me have this. A man so patient he tried to close his umbrella once and then just left it on the stairs to the plane . Donald, where is your umbrella . Antifa took it. Again . Theyre out to get me, mel. These ghouls have had a week since the election to prove their voter fraud bull [ bleep ] and all they can do is ask for patience this is like if you came home late from work with lipstick on your collar and your wife asked are you having an affair . And you said, look, i can get you a cover story tomorrow but right now i am dead tired due to some very strenuous extramarital sex. And every time they do mention something that sounds vaguely nefarious, like, dead people registered to vote or backdating ballots or whatever, it always turns out to have a very simple and innocent explanation in pennsylvania, a postal worker admitted he fabricated claims of ballot tampering and recanted them or how about nevada where the Trump Campaign is challenging 3,000 ballots cast by people they claimed moved to another state making them ineligible to vote well it sounds bad, right . Well it turns out theres a different explanation according to the the wall street journal. Service members who have legally voted in nevada after being transferred elsewhere. Thats right, trump and the gop are trying to get thousands of ballots cast by Service Members thrown out because they legally voted in nevada and then were transferred elsewhere. Because that is what happens when youre in the military. In just four years, the gop has gone from support the troops to disenfranchise the troops, on veterans day no less. Bravo. What is on tap for groundhog day . Are you going to pour gasoline into Punxsutawney Phils burrow . I say how much winter is left whos got a match . Trump promised for months that this is exactly how he would react if he lost and now hes doing it and shredding american democracy in the process if anything, this might be the first time he is delivering on what he promised lets not forget in 2016 he also said he wouldnt accept the Election Results either. So unlike his pledge to build a wall that mexico pays for, that wed win so much wed get sick of winning, that coronavirus would go away when the weather got warmer, in this case trump has kept his word to the American People about not accepting the word of the American People. If a guy walks into a party and says i cannot promise that i wont go through your wifes underwear, and you later catch him elbows deep in her stretch silk eyes closed, mouth hanging open, saying love that dryer sheet smell, the fault kind of lies on you for not immediately kicking him out when he said the first thing. Sore winners rarely make good losers you might remember that in 2016, trump made the absolutely ludicrous, unhinged claim that three to five million voted illegally in that election, which he won and which hillary conceded the next day. Trump even promised an investigation to prove that he was right. If you look at voter registration, you look at the dead people that are registered to vote, who vote, you look at people that are registered in two states, you look at all of these Different Things that are happening with registration. You take a look at those registration for youre going to find and were going to do an investigation on it but three to five million illegal votes . Well, were gonna find out. But it could very well be that much when you say in your opinion, millions of illegal votes, that is something that is extremely fundamental to our functioning democracy, a fair and free election. Sure, sure. You say youre going to launch an investigation into this sure, done. So youve launched an investigation . We are going to launch an investigation to find out. Seth surprise. He did not find out. Trump would be the worst private investigator sure, doll, ill help you find your husband ah is that him . Down there under that street lamp no well, im out of ideas. When this is over he should star in a british detective series called, i dont know, the trumpledown mysteries. And every episode would be him slowly revealing he has done no investigating. Have you deduced who the killer is, inspector trumpledown . Uh, getting close closer every day hearing some very, very bad things about the butler. Oh, we dont like the butler, do we, folks . But we are probably, possibly going to have an answer soon because one thing we can all agree on the countess is dead, or not. This is the same stunt trump has been pulling for years remember when he built his entire political career on the racist Conspiracy Theory that the first black president wasnt born in the u. S. You know, the one that rocketed him to stardom with Republican Voters because he is not a unique figure in history but a perfect emblem of the racism and depravity of the modern conservative movement . Well, anyway, he pretended he was doing the same dumb investigative work back then too. He may not have been born in this country and ill tell you what, three weeks ago i thought he was born in this country. Right now i have some real doubts i have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they are finding. You have people now down there searching in hawaii . Absolutely. And they cannot believe what they are finding seth obviously he did not send investigators down to hawaii because you have to pay investigators. But if he did, i bet that would have been a plum gig a worldrenowned idiot sends you on an all expenses paid trip to hawaii to investigate a racist Conspiracy Theory you know is bull [ bleep ] and all you have to do is call him up and say, yeah, no, we are finding a lot of stuff down here no, no, no, you wouldnt believe it. Hey, can i get another mai tai and this time can i get it inside a pineapple with a little umbrella thank you. Anyway, yeah donald, we are finding lots of proof down here. Were going to need some more money and maybe a masseuse . This is the same scam trumps been running for years and every time, republicans and their voters eat it up for example, trump actually went through with that dumb threat to investigate voter fraud in 2016 and put together a commission that was so unsuccessful they had to disband it after finding nothing the commission was led by kris kobach, the former kansas secretary of state, who found so little proof of voter fraud he got humiliated in a disastrous interview on cnn we have about three Million People who are registered in more than one state and that is not a crime. Right, including the president s soninlaw including the president s treasure secretary exactly yeah, and many of your viewers are probably registered in more than one state but what is a crime is if you actually vote in both of those states or in more than two states of course its a crime. But where is the evidence of this widespread rampant millions of people voting if it had happened, why havent we seen it we have already filed from the notes that i saw you had nine cases guilty pleas. Six guilty pleas, one dismissed, two pending that says january 25th nine cases does not rampant widespread voter fraud make. And the nine cases are just the ones at the top of the list. One of the interesting things we found in prosecuting this crime in kansas is that both republicans and democrats do it. Seth these guys are such bumbling morons. They went from claiming there were three to five million illegal votes, all of them for democrats, to there were six guilty pleas and some of them were republicans its like an episode of law order that starts with a jogger finding a body in the park and ends with a coroners report that says he was just sleeping and now hes pissed and hes a lawyer. And hes suing us. Theres a common throughline from birtherism to lies about voter fraud republicans dont see their opponents as legitimate and they dont accept the outcomes of democratic elections. Thats why they claim the first black president wasnt born here or that mail ballots are somehow fraudulent or that a secret army of dead people rose up from their graves, voted in this election and then held a press conference in front of a landscaping company. Thanks for coming, everyone its getting late so i better scoot on over to the cremation center. The Republican Party is an authoritarian movement that is opposed to democracy, does not see victories by their political opponents as legitimate, they believe they are the only ones entitled to wield power regardless of what voters actually want. Maybe its just me but im not sure we can have a functioning democracy if one side refuses to accept the results whenever they lose and even if this specific coup attempt doesnt work, thats not, like, good news if someone tries to rob a bank but gives up because he cant crack the safe, you install new security measures to stop them from doing it again. You dont just wave goodbye and say, no harm, no foul take care, buddy come back if you want to open a checking account. Suffice it to say it