The hands of donald trump . [ laughter ] whats this . Classified . Do you want it . Here you go. [ laughter ] President Trump, this weekend, gave the commencement speech at liberty university. While yet again the commencement speech at Trump University was given by a raccoon that wandered on stage. [ laughter ] dont leave your trash out. White House Press Secretary sean spicer said today that there is no need for a special prosecutor in the russia investigation. Of course, this is one of those cases where it matters how he said it. Did he say theres no need for a special prosecutor . Or was it more like, you dont need a special prosecutor to figure this one out. [ light laughter ] look, heres a picture of trump in the white house with a russian spy. Should we call columbo or are we good . [ light laughter ] citizens arrest at this point . President trump yesterday issued a statement calling for paid family leave. Which is a little surprising until you remember that hes already paid two families to leave. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] could argue better off. An argument could be made. The new york yankees this weekend retired derek jeters number. But a lot of women still have it. [ laughter ] congratulations, captain. Parents at a Florida School are reportedly outraged after a video surfaced of students in a classroom twerking and giving lap dances. Or as its called in florida career day. [ laughter and applause ] and finally, a 101yearold man recently became the oldest person to sky dive. At least thats the explanations coming from united airlines. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] grandpa wouldnt get out of his seat. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show for you tonight. His new stand up special on netflix, staying alive, is fantastic. One of our favorites. Tracy morgan [ cheers and applause ] back on the show. He is a legendary actor and comedian and stars in amcs Better Call Saul. Michael mckean is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] i dont know if youve been watching Better Call Saul, but it is fantastic and he is just wonderful in it. Also, hell be here to talk about his book and Everything Else thats going on. The vanishing american adult is out tomorrow. U. S. Senator for nebraska, ben sasse is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] so happy to have him here. Before we get to all that, were at a point now in the Trump Presidency that feels very much like a Pivotal Moment for our democracy. An increasing authoritarian president relying on a small circle of loyalists abusing his power. And on top of that, just before we started taping, the Washington Post reported that trump revealed classified information to russian diplomats. For more on all of this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth of course, every time it feels like weve hit peek trump insanity, the obamas have a way of popping back up in the news with another perfectlytimed stop on their miss us yet . World tour. [ laughter ] and this time it was the former first lady talking about life after the white house at an event in d. C. On friday. How are you . How is it being free . Whats going on . Im good, im good. Just hangin out. Everybodys good. President s good. Hes, you know, running around out there in the world with his shirt unbuttoned. [ laughter ] seth its amazing how the same sentence can take on different meanings when describing different people. If you heard someone say trumps running around with his shirt unbuttoned, youd think, oh god, hes gone feral. [ light laughter ] quick someone, shoot him with the tranquilizer dart. But its true. Obama has been running around with his shirt unbuttoned. Just look at this photo of him in milan last week. And hey, man, i think its great that youre a record producer now but next time you leave the studio, could you pick up a newspaper, because this dude you left us with is out of his mind. [ light laughter ] in fact, amid all the chaos in the Trump Presidency right now, even the small details about trumps daily routine convey the image of a man who is drowning in trivial obsessions. Just take this anecdote you may have heard by now about his dining habits from Time Magazine last week the waiters know well trumps personal preferences. When the chicken arrives, he is the only one given an extra dish of sauce. At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. [ laughter ] also, im the president , so i get the highest chair. [ laughter and applause ] now, as far as as far as who got no scoops of ice cream last week, that would be trumps surrogates, who did the rounds trying to explain why trump fired fbi director james comey. As you may recall, trumps team insisted repeatedly that it had nothing to do with the russia investigation. And that trump would never interfere with such an investigation by say, asking the fbi director if he himself was the target of that investigation, as Kellyanne Conway argued last week. In a paragraph in his letter, where the president if its true admits that he asked the director of the fbi whether or not he was directly under investigation and he was told it doesnt say that. Oh, yes, it does. It is so no. You just made a statement thats false. Its so wrong if that communication happened. I dont know that its false. I dont know that the president didnt ask him. Well then you shouldnt have said it. Where does it say that the president asked the fbi director comey it does not say that he expressly asked him well then you shouldnt have said that. Seth yeah, how dare you . President trump would never just outright ask the fbi director, am i understand investigation. Did you ask, am i under investigation . I actually asked him. Yes. [ laughter ] seth cnn, why do you keep putting Kellyanne Conway on the air . Her statements are like milk you leave out over night. They go bad real quick. [ light laughter ] trump surrogates also claimed repeatedly that comeys firing had absolutely nothing to do with the russia investigation. Did the president fire director comey to impede the russia investigation . Look, thats not what this is about. This absolutely has nothing to do with any investigation into russia. This whole idea, that especially on your network, you always want to talk about russia, russia, russia. Seth that of course is known in legal circles as the jan brady defense russia, russia, russia [ laughter and applause ] well, after days of his white house insisting otherwise, trump last week just flat out admitted that he did in fact fire the fbi director specifically because comey was investigating the trump campaigns ties to russia. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. Seth normally you only get a confession that blatant at the end of the episode of law order svu. [ light laughter ] but trumps like a guy who answers the door in the first five minutes, sees icet, and says, im guilty. And then the rest of the episode is just like a bake sale. [ laughter ] so to recap, trump openly admits that he asked the fbi director if he was under investigation and then fired the fbi director specifically because of that investigation. In a way its actually disorienting how blatant trump is about all the shady stuff he does. Trump just admits to wrongdoing and then dares the rest of us to do something about it. Hes like a [ bleep ] High School Student who always get a pass because his parents are wealthy. Donny, is this your marijuana . So what if it is . My parents wont ground me. [ light laughter ] in fact, when i go home tonight, im getting two scoops of ice cream. [ laughter ] so the white house spent two full days lying repeatedly to the public about what happened with comeys firing. In fact, trump openly admitted over the weekend that his team was not being truthful. But he had an excuse, telling fox news that he moves too quickly for his staff to keep up. I am a very active person. I have a lot of very positive things going on right up here for this country. Its impossible for a person or two people or three people, who are press people, to cover every aspect of what im thinking and what im doing. Are you moving so quickly that your Communications Department cannot keep up with you . Yes. Thats true. [ light laughter ] seth no. No, its not true. [ laughter ] you do not move too quickly for anyone. Have you seen yourself move . [ laughter ] you walk like the mummy in a 1940s horror move. And while were talking about trump being active, trump apparently has a very bizarre theory about exercise. The new yorker and the Washington Post recently reported and this is real that trump considers exercise misguided and gave up athletics after college, because he believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. [ laughter ] you know, like the famous nike ad, just save it up and store it. [ laughter ] so the president has now admitted that he fired the fbi director, because he didnt like the investigation into his campaigns ties to russia. But thats not all. It also emerged that comey refused to pledge personal loyalty to trump in a private dinner. And now trump is threatening to release secret tapes of that dinner. Long before President Trump fired fbi director james comey, he asked him for his personal loyalty. So comey is summoned to a oneonone private dinner with President Trump and at that dinner, as comey tells it, President Trump asked him for his loyalty. During that dinner a source says comey was taken aback when trump asked for a personal pledge of loyalty, which comey refused to provide. President trump threatening the former fbi director, james comey. Writing a tweet, and im quoting the president now james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press. Seth so comey refused to pledge loyalty to trump, trump fired him, and now trump is threatening him with secret recordings of their conversations. Now Everyone Wants to know if these tapes are real. And i can you, they are. In fact, we got our hands on the tape of trump and comeys conversation and i cannot stress enough this is real. We definitely did not cut together preexisting statements made by trump and comey. This is the actual recording of their conversation. Welcome to the white house. Thank you. If its possible would you let me know am i under investigation . I cant answer that question. Hey, im president. Can you believe it . It makes me mildly nauseous. [ laughter ] seth so to recap, the president is literally threatening the former fbi director for his perceived disloyalty and admitting that he fired him because of the russia investigation. Thats insane. Trump is worse than nixon. Hes shameless nixon. Nixon famously said i am not a crook. Trump is basically saying, i am a crook and theres nothing you can do about it. In fact, after dinner tonight, im having three scoops of ice cream. [ laughter ] now if trump really was secretly recording conversations in the white house, it actually wouldnt be anything new for him. In fact, he has a history of spying on his employees. According to the Washington Post and buzzfeed trump installed, in trump tower, a system for secretly tape recording business meetings. And at his maralago resort, trump had a telephone consol installed in his bedroom that acted like a switch board. And several employees said he used that consol to eavesdrop on calls involving staff. And they all probably knew he was eavesdropping, because he breathes like a whale coming up for air. [ breathing heavily ] must save battery. [ laughter ] but as unnerving as all this is, its not all that surprising coming from trump, who notoriously values personal loyalty above all else. And in our system of government thats dangerous. In fact, weve seen trump ask for loyalty before from his supporters. Like during the campaign when he began asking his crowds to pledge the vote for him. Although, as you might remember, not everyone went along with it. Raise your right hand, everybody. Do you swear that youre going to vote for donald trump tomorrow . Raise that hand. I do solemnly swear. Look at the furry, fourlegged audience member, who seemed to be an unwilling pledge participant. Seth that dog was like, no thanks. I have to consider my vote carefully. He might be your president for for years, but hell be my president for 28. [ light laughter ] so to recap, trump has now been turned down on loyalty pledges by the director of the fbi and a dog. And that dog is right. In our system, we dont pledge personal loyalty to president s. In fact, theyre supposed to be checks on the president to prevent these kinds of abuses to power, but those checks only work if the other branches of government exercise them. Now, weve seen the judiciary check trumps authority, like when his travel ban was struck down by the courts. But what about congress . Well so far most republicans seem content to surrender our Democratic Institutions for short term political expediency. Its really quiet on the republican side of the aisle today. I didnt see it coming, but its a decision the president s made and well go from here. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is rejecting calls for a special prosecutor. What are your thoughts about what some have considered to be a threatening tweet from the president directed at ive decided im not going to comment on the tweets of the day or the hour. You talk to the presideent all the time, would it be okay with you if he recording those conversations . Ive never given any thought to that. Seth ive never given any thought to that. In fact, i dont think about anything the president does. Thats how i sleep at night. [ laughter ] and on top of all this, you might also remember that trump met last week with the Russian Ambassador and foreign minister in the oval office the day after he fired comey. And just before we started taping tonight, the Washington Post reported that in that meeting President Trump revealed highly classified information to that Russian Foreign minister and ambassador. A u. S. Official said trump revealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. Now i know why the russians are smiling in that picture. Look at them. They must have been like, can you believe how easy this is . I cant believe this. [ light laughter ] did not even ask for it, just gives. [ light laughter ] our democracy only works if both parties choose to exercise the checks on president ial power that our constitution prescribes. 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[ cheers and applause ] also joining us this week, one of the most influential musicians in the modern jazz world, and you can hear his grammy awardwinning playing on the late great david bowies no plan ep. Mike guiliana on drums, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much for being her, mark. Our first guest tonight is an emmynominated actor and comedian you know from his work on saturday night live and 30 rock. His new stand up special, tracy morgan staying alive, begins streaming may 16th on netflix. Please welcome back to the show one of our favorites, tracy morgan, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] seth how are you tracy