Like melania. [ laughter ] President Trumps soninlaw and adviser Jared Kushner reportedly met with executives from a russian bank that was under u. S. Sanctions during the 2016 president ial election. But im sure theres a perfectly treasonable explanation. [ laughter ] the white house said today that President Trump has turned down an offer to throw out the first pitch on opening day for the washington nationals. But they said he would be happy to throw out some of the nationals. [ laughter and applause ] you go. You go. You stay. He dont want to throw out a first pitch. Baseball looks like a big ol bowling ball in his hands. [ laughter ] ford announced today it will create 130 new jobs in michigan. Is one of them president . Asked hillary. [ laughter ] a Catholic High School in illinois recently held a ceremony in which the boys of the school randomly chose their prom dates names out of a hat. I got mary, said everyone. [ laughter ] a kansas man was recently honored for donating 32 gallons of blood to the American Red Cross over the past 64 years. Said the man, some of it was even mine. [ laughter ] that guy is a hero and im joking him down. A North CarolinaJewelry Store has apologized for putting up a billboard saying sometimes its okay to throw rocks at girls. Look at this. Even worse is the billboard they replaced it with. [ laughter ] a new study has found that female athletes have a higher concussion rate than men. They get one every time a man explains sports to them. [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] aww. I gave some people a concussion with that joke. [ light laughter ] the u. S. Coast guard recently seized 420 million of cocaine from canadian ships. To give you an idea of how much cocaine that is, here is a picture of aerosmith. [ laughter ] and finally, in a powerful speech on the house floor last night, representative Maxine Waters stated that she does not respect donald trump. Today fox newss Host Bill Oreilly reacted to a clip of her speech on fox and friends and had this to say. I didnt hear a word she said. I was i was looking at the james brown wig. If we have a picture of james its the same its the same one. Seth here to comment is one of our writers, amber, in a segment we call ambers minute of fury. [ cheers and applause ] fool [ laughter ] couldnt listen to her because of that james brown wig, huh . Its the same wig, you say . Well theres only one problem. James brown didnt wear a wig, you idiot thats his hair. Thats his hair. And even thats his hair. [ laughter ] thats the hardest working hair in show business. You clearly dont know what a wig is. For all you know, this is a wig. And it is. [ laughter ] but either way, it doesnt matter if shes wearing a burger king crown. You listen to her because she is a United States congresswoman. [ cheers and applause ] okay . And why are you criticizing her appearance . It certainly cant be because she looks bad, because lets be clear, wig or not, bitch stay looking tight. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] meanwhile, yo ass can use a wig. Like this one. [ laughter ] and what the hell is wrong with your eyesight . Was it the hair or the fact that theyre both black . Do you think im Maxine Waters right now . [ laughter ] doesnt make a difference . We think the exact same thing. Both i oppose this president. Thats not a radical statement. Most people do. [ laughter ] and how is it hard to listen to someone with this hair, but its easy to listen to someone with this hair . [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] looking tight. Now, bill oreilly apologized earlier today. So i would like to too. Bill, im sorry. Please accept my apology, and this wig. This has been ambers minute of fury. [ cheers and applause ] seth give it up for amber ruffin, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] weve got a great show for you tonight. She is the star of ghost in the shell, Scarlett Johansson is here tonight. [ cheers and applauase ] they are the cohosts of morning joe on msnbc, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] also, well be cooking up some razor clams and shrimp with the great, one of our favorites, mario batali is here tonight. So [ cheers and applause ] youre here on a good one. Before we get to all of that, congress is supposed to be investigating the Trump Administrations alleged ties to russia. But today, there are new questions about the republican leading that investigation and whether hes capable of doing his job. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth every day it seems like theres some new revelation about the trump teams russian contacts. The Trump Administration keeps failing to disclose them, and then giving us shifting explanations for why they happen. And now even the president s soninlaw has been caught up in the story. New questions about a newly disclosed meeting between trumps top adviser, his soninlaw Jared Kushner, and the head of a russian bank that is subject to u. S. Sanctions. And Jared Kushner had this unexplained and previously undisclosed meeting with this guy who is the head of a russian governmentcontrolled bank with very close ties to president putin and to the russian spy services. Seth at this point it would just be easier to talk about people at the white who didnt meet with shady russians. For example, heres mike the white house groundskeeper. [ laughter ] and before that, he was lets see, the head groundskeeper at the kremlin. Son of a bitch. [ laughter ] and clearly trump is starting to feel the heat over all these russian revelations because he took to twitter last night to lash out and suggested the media should be focusing not on him, but on Hillary Clinton. The president has once again taken to twitter, saying in effect theres nothing to see here on the subject of russia. Quote, why isnt the House Intelligence Committee looking into the bill and hillary deal that allowed big uranium to go to russia, russian speech money to bill, the hillaryrussian reset, praise of russia by hillary, or Podesta Russian Company . Trumprussia story is a hoax. Make America Great again. Seth do you know why congress isnt looking into Hillary Clinton . Because every day youre presenting them with a thousand bigger problems. [ laughter ] if godzilla is rampaging in the street, its not the best time to say, we need to fix these potholes. [ light laughter ] and by the way, that hillary story is false. She didnt approve a uranium deal with russia. The state department was one of nine agencies that approved the deal and theres no evidence clinton herself got involved in the deal personally. But i guess i cant expect you to understand the details of a uranium deal since the only metals youre familiar with are irons. [ laughter ] now, trump tweets aside, there are obviously serious questions about his teams alleged russian ties. And as you may recall, congress is supposed to be investigating those ties through the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by a republican congressman named devin nunes. Nunes of course looks like every guy you dont remember meeting. [ laughter ] really . Were you at lindas barbecue . All right, if you say so. [ light laughter ] nunes caused a firestorm last week when he held a press conference by himself and claimed mysteriously that he had seen evidence that Trump Officials were legally surveiled by the government. And then, nunes ran to the white house to tell trump about it before he told the members of his own committee. A move so egregious it shocked former officials from the Intelligence Committee and justice department. This is a chairman who is suppose to be doing an impartial, bipartisan investigation of the president and his inner circle. And instead he goes and basically tells the president and his Team Everything he knows. Ive got to believe that other members of the committee are horrified at what they just witnessed. I have never seen a Committee Chairman come out in front of the press and just kind of pour gasoline all over himself and light himself on fire. [ light laughter ] seth you havent seen it yet but i feel like were one more russian story away from sean spicer trying it as a diversionary tactic. [ laughter ] of course nunes is supposed to be investigating trump, not working with him. And whats worse, trump took nunes stunt as proof that he actually was wiretapped by the obama administration, a claim that has already been debunked repeatedly including by the fbi director. In fact just after nunes held his press conference last week, trump claimed hed been proven right telling time magazine, devin nunes had a news conference. Did you hear about this . Where they have a lot of information on tapping. Did you hear about that . A lot of information has just been learned. So that means im right. He just got this information. This was new information. If youre having trouble following that [ light laughter ] here is a condensed version. Ive got information, man. New [ bleep ] has come to light. [ cheers and applause ] seth you know, now that you think about it, the dude and trump have a lot in common. They both have bathrobes. [ light laughter ] both obsessed with their rugs. And they both love white russians. [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] so nunes has been very cagey about where he got this information, with some speculating that it may have come from the white house to try to give trump cover for his false wiretapping claim. But the story only got weirder last week when details started to emerge about what nunes was doing the night before his wednesday press conference. It was tuesday night here in washington, dc when chairman nunes was riding in a car with a staff member. Thats when he got some type of message on his phone and abruptly got out of that car and into an uber. He then seemingly disappeared into the night. Seth what . [ laughter ] he got out of his car in the middle of the night and disappeared . This whole thing is starting to turn into an episode of dateline. [ laughter ] a congressmans phone tells him his uber is arriving now. But Something Else arrives first. Murder. [ laughter ] so nunes apparently disappeared from a car and didnt tell anyone where he was going. How could this story get any more bizarre . Well, now we know a little more about where nunes was earlier that day. Beginning with breaking news this hour about a mysterious night, something of a secret rendezvous that led to the controversial announcement that President Trumps Communications May have been intercepted. The republican in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, one Key Committee investigating the trump campaigns possible ties to russia, is now revealing he was on the white house grounds the day before his big announcement. Seth so he was on the white house grounds. Whats so suspicious about that . [ gasp ] the groundskeeper [ laughter ] on monday, nunes pushed back on all the criticisms and suggested that the Trump Administration wasnt aware he was on white house grounds the day before his press conference. Did you have other meetings at the white house . Did you meet with the president or any of his aides while you were there that night . No. And in fact im quite sure that people in the west wing had no idea that i was there. Seth thats actually the one thing about this story i do believe. That the Trump White House would have no idea who was on the premises at any given time. I bet the white house now is like the play boy mansion in the 70s. Its just a weird combo of clist celebrities and exotic animals. Hey shayla, scott baio just jumped in the pool with a boa constrictor. [ laughter ] and by the way, what could be so important, so explosive about these documents nunes saw that he had to switch cars and scramble around dc in the middle of the night to view them . Well right now no one really knows. But cnn reported yesterday that one gop source, who has been briefed on what nunes has seen, said these conversations were primarily among diplomats and was almost like the kind of trivia you would pick up in gossipy conversations about trump and what he was doing, such as where he was having dinner. So nunes has been running around dc like hes james bond just to find out where trump had dinner . That surveillance feed must have been pretty boring. Ill have the 12piece bucket, extra crispy, in fact it should be the same color as my skin. Thank you. [ laughter ] i hope i hope this isnt being tapped. Now all this bizarre behavior from nunes and his apparent interest in helping out the Trump Administration while supposedly conducting an independent investigation has led democrats in congress to call for nunes to recuse himself. Chairman nunes has compromised his ability to lead this investigation and he should step aside and let somebody else lead it. Representative nunes has created a real problem for himself with all of this unusual scurrying back and forth with the white house. Whatever it is hes done, it has been at the white house. It appears to have been in the service of the white house. Its bizarre. Its loopy. And jumping in and out of cars. You cant make this stuff up. If this was a movie, you would turn it off because you wouldnt believe its believable. Seth actually if it was a movie about this guy, then id definitely watch that. Steve carell stars as a bumbling congressman turned spy in the new comedy, high nunes. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] now, today today the committee was supposed to hold a hearing with former acting attorney general sally yates who played a key part in the investigation surrounding former National Security adviser michael flynn. But the Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration sought to block sally yates from testifying to congress on russia. And then nunes said he would not go forward with the public hearing. Today nunes was asked as he walked through the capital whether the white house had asked him to cancel the hearing and whether he could continue to run the investigation fairly, and to be honest, he seemed a little overwhelmed. Are you gonna stay as chairmen and run this investigation . Well, why would i not . Can this investigation continue with you as chairman . Why would it not . But theyre saying that it cannot run as you as chairmen. Youve got to go talk to them. That sounds like their problem now. Is the Trump Administration speak to have sally yates not testify before your committee . Look, you guys are just speculating. Im sorry, whenever theres time well do a press so did they ask you to cancel the hearing yesterday . Come on, guys. Seth come on, just i hate this so much, you guys. [ laughter ] its like, answer your question and then i walk and you keep following me and asking me more questions and i dont think my uber is ever going to show up. [ laughter ] and the white house is clearly growing frustrated with the mounting scrutiny over its russia ties. And today White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer tried unsuccessfully to push back. Youve got russia. Youve got youve got wiretapping. Youve got no, we have that. You you i dont investigations on capitol hill no, no, i get it. But you keep ive said it from the day that i got here until whenever that theres no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. [ laughter ] seth of course the most suspicious thing about that scenario is the idea that trump would eat a salad. [ laughter ] i would like a salad, russian dressing, hold the lettuce, no vegetables. Put it in a bucket with 12 pieces of chicken. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] now look, people deserve to know that congress is actually exercising serious oversight over the president and investigating his ties to russia. And nunes weird behavior is undermining confidence in that investigation. He disappeared in the middle of the night, called a press conference, and basically said this. New [ bleep ] has come to light. Seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with Scarlett Johansson, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] today, unlimited gets the network it deserves. Verizon. mic thuds uh, sorry. 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