Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers amy adams, author and journalist, adam davidson, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear in that case, lets get to the news President Trump announced last night that he was instructing his administration to begin cooperating with president elect joe bidens transition team. Wow id say, what took you so long . But ill be honest, this is way sooner than i thought. I figured youd hide out in the basement for the next four years like the family in parasite. Im just kidding that family has way more money than you thats right, President Trump is instructing his administration to begin cooperating with joe bidens transition team. If nothing else, itll be Good Practice for cooperating with law enforcement. Though im not sure if trump understands what cooperating with the transition means, because he told melania, go with
Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my valueadded might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that werent really on most peoples anda until now. We never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then ill pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. You write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. In the months and years ahead, americans will hold the power between them. Lets hope the make the right choice. Im going to be asking you more but what that right choice
Already in. Meantime of course the president refusing to concede the election repeating his baseless claims that the election was a fraud. Lets go to carol lee standing by for us in washington. Welcome to you. What did the president say today if anything on this . He made a number of very familiar being aing could yaccud that wont sound new to you, but he continues to make them. He also vented a range of frustrations on everyone from his own Justice Department to the governor of georgia who is a republican and ale lie. T ally. The president said he was ashamed that he endorsed him. And he took aim at the Judicial System Making Unfounded accusations of unfairness there. Take a listen. They dont want to take the affidavits. Then they say we dont have proof. I wanted to file one suit, donald j. Trump president of the United States against, you know and put everything into one simple suit and they say sir, you dont have standing. I say i dont have standing. You mean as president of the Uni
The white house. Without further adieu lets get and the individual states. To that video. Winning the trade war, i will be going this weekend protecting and strengthening and congratulations, thank you medicare and social security, for that great job out there. Lowering the cost of insulin, delivering the first real drop we really appreciate it. We are one National Family and in drug prices in 50 years, we will always protect, love restoring our military, fixing the va, bringing our troops and care for each other. Home and taking the worlds here tonight are the people who deadliest terrorists off the have made my journey possible battlefield, soleimani, al baghdadi, isis brought to and filled my life with so much justice, moving americas joy. Embassy to jerusalem, a new era of strength and solidarity with for her Incredible Service to our nation and its children, i our ally israel, negotiating a historic peace deal between want to thank our magnificent israel and the united arab first
Hello im down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up nato warms russia are against meddling in delarue says president putin promises troop support if protests get out of control. And the crisis deepens in the Eastern Mediterranean as turkey and greece stepped up the rhetoric over a maritime dispute. The. Democratic Vice President ial nominee comedy harris has delivered a preemptive strike on donald trump just ahead of his speech to the Party Faithful at the Republican National convention how is condemned trumps response to the coronavirus pandemic and address the unrest over the Police Shooting of jacob blake saying america must fulfill the promise of equal justice the reality is that the life of a black person in america has never been treated as fully human. And we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law well earlier trump praised the National Guards efforts to quote protests in the city of can osha suggested the same approach should be used in