New york, its late night with seth meyers. Tonight, Rosie Odonnell. From the death and life of marsha p. Johnson, director david france. Featuring the 8g band with anton fig. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause ] that is wonderful to hear. In that case, lets get to the news. The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers last night to win their first world series title in team history. Sad news for dodgers fans, some of whom have been following the team since as far back as game three. [ laughter ] security researchers have reportedly discovered that recently indicted former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort used bond007 as one of his computer passwords. [ laughter ] he also signed his checks, from russia with love. [ laughter ] according to cnn, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner recently turned over documents to special Counsel Robert Mueller about his role in the firing of fbi director, james comey. Oh, man, i hope they dont put kushner in jail because hell just walk right out between the bars. [ laughter ] weve got a skinny dude loose [ light laughter ] in an interview with the New York Times, President Trump repeated the claim that he is not under investigation, and then he winked so hard, he got a black eye. [ laughter ] because i havent done anything wrong. [ laughter ] in the same interview, trump said he enjoys being president , and leaves the office late. In fact, he was supposed to only be there till may. [ laughter ] former Vice President , joe biden, said yesterday that President Trump is a charlatan. Said trump, no, im not. Im more of a miranda. [ light laughter ] im the smart one. Everyone knows. [ cheers and applause ] legos all female women of nasa toy set recently went on sale and is currently at the top of amazons list of bestselling toys. And coming in last, their men of hollywood set. [ laughter ] [ applause ] President Trump today announced his nominee for chair of the federal reserve, and i think hes confused cause this was his pick. [ laughter ] incredibly smart joke. [ laughter ] papa johns yesterday asserted that their decline in pizza sales may be due to their association with the nfl and the recent controversy surrounding player protests. Oh, really . Nothing to do with the quality of the pizza . [ laughter ] because subway survived jared [ laughter ] [ applause ] according to a new poll, 30 of americans are afraid of walking alone near their homes at night because what if theyre caught and brought back . [ laughter ] okay. [ light laughter ] and finally, kfc is currently selling limitededition Fried Chicken scented bath bombs in japan. Though if you like kfc that much, something tells me your bathroom already smells like Fried Chicken. [ laughter and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a fantastic show for you tonight. Shes stars in the new shes stars in the new Comedy Series smilf on showtime. Rosie odonnell is here everybody. [ cheers and applause ] back home in studio 8g. Hes the director of the netflix documentary, the life the death and life of marsha p. Johnson, david france joins us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] so youre here on a great night. Before we get to there, our guests tonight, President Trump is flailing as republicans squabble over a signature piece of legislation in his tax cut plan. Meanwhile, amid the special counsels russia probe and after the terror attack in manhattan, hes sounding increasingly authoritarian. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth trump has gone nine months without a major legislative achievement as his healthcare bill imploded and his infrastructure plan fizzled. So hes betting everything on the tax cut plan republicans unveiled today. Now this is not the largest tax cut in history. Larger tax cuts were passed twice under obama and once under reagan. But as usual, that does not stop trump from lying over and over again. This will be the biggest tax right. Cut in history. In the history of our country and thats great. It will be the largest tax cuts in the history of our country by far. This is the largest tax cut in the history of our country. All told, it will be the greatest tax reduction in the history of our country. So were going to have the largest tax cut ever. A giant, beautiful, massive, the biggest ever in our country, tax cut. [ laughter ] seth man. He just cannot help himself. Was he like this when ivanka was born . This is the first baby ever born. [ laughter ] theres never been anything like this in the history of the world. Donald, you already have an older son. That guy . Ill believe it when he releases his birth certificate. [ laughter ] now republicans were originally supposed to unveil their tax plan yesterday, but delayed the announcement until today because they couldnt agree on ways to pay for their giant Corporate Tax cut. In fact, republicans couldnt even come to an agreement on the name of the bill. Abc news reported yesterday that less than 24 hours before the bill is slated to be revealed, there is still dispute over the name. Trump has been insisting that the bill be called the cut, cut, cut act. [ laughter ] the cut, cut, cut act. Our president is so adult, he can only think in chants. Lock her up, build the wall, cut, cut, cut mr. President [ cheers and applause ] whats on the agenda today . We want golf [ laughter ] now it would still be helpful, of course, if the president of the United States could actually articulate to voters what the plan does, and why it would be good for the country, but as we saw with health care, he cant do that, because he doesnt know anything. In fact, in a Cabinet Meeting yesterday, when trump tried to explain the details of the tax plan, all he could do was describe in the most generic terms possible the basic process of passing a bill. The houses, i must tell you, they have been working really hard and they are coming up with a great plan. And the senate is coming up with a great plan and theyre going to be put together and something is going to come out of that that will be i think really, really something very special. [ laughter ] again, were doing senate, were doing the house. Its put it together and then we have our beautiful new tax cuts and reform and i think it will be very special. [ laughter ] seth trump isnt schoolhouse rock. Hes just rock. Also, i love when he turns to tillerson for help. Rex . Dont ask me. I think youre a moron. [ laughter ] just to give you an idea how little trump understands about actual policy, yesterday he also claimed that in tandem with cutting taxes, his administration was rolling back supposedly burdensome regulations that were liberating business. A mythical gop talking point that defies all evidence and as usual, trump went overboard in his description of how bad these regulations are. The republicans want to lower taxes and we want to get rid of regulations. Youre going to see a lot of additional relief from these horrible regulations that have been killing our country. They have literally been killing seth thats a little like claiming that a 35mileperhour speed limit is killing people. If those people were doing 80, they would have been home way before the accident happened. [ laughter ] another problem with this tax plan, aside from the president s inability to sell it, is the fact that most voters apparently dislike it. One poll found that only 28 said they strongly, or somewhat supported the plan. And a majority wants to see tax increases for large corporations and for the wealthy. But while trump flails on his signature legislative proposal, hes also becoming increasingly authoritarian on issues of National Security and criminal justice. After the terror attack in manhattan on tuesday, trump repeatedly lashed out on twitter and to reporters, even going so far as to deride our system of trying criminal suspects in civilian courts, a hallmark of our constitution. We also have to come up with punishment thats far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are getting right now. Theyll go through court for years. At the end, theyll be who who knows what happens. Seth when trump says, who knows what happens, you know that means he doesnt know what happens. [ laughter ] but maybe its sad. Maybe this whole time we thought he was being rhetorical, but maybe hes actually asking. Who knows what happens . Rex, do you know . Rex . [ light laughter ] [ applause ] and then last night trump took the unprecedented and chilling step of demanding the toughest possible sentence for the suspect even before a trial had taken place. In an angry late night tweet, trump demanded in all caps that the suspect should get the death penalty. Hey, man, youre the president now. Youre not an old crank yelling at the tv over the bar. When you tweet that, youre jamming yourself into the judicial process and tainting the jury pool in the same way you probably taint every pool you get into. [ audience ohs] [ applause ] of course, trumps also been taking aim at the current immigration laws, calling for a new draconian crackdown on illegal immigration and eliminating whats known as the diversity lottery program, a program signed into law in 1990 by george h. W. Bush. But again, trump knows so little about the program, he cant even pronounce the word diversity. I am today starting the process of terminating the diversery lottery program. I am going to ask congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program. Diversery or diversity lottery. Seth trump only believes in diversity when it comes to pronunciations of the word diversity. I support diversity as well as diversery. Diperpersery. [ laughter ] but while trump stumbles on taxes and terrorism, his white house has also been haunted by the special counsels russia investigation. There have been reports that trump is angry and lashing out at his aides over the scandal, but on wednesday, trump called a New York Times reporter out of the blue to insist that everything was going great. Trump told the times, im actually not angry at anybody. Im in the office early and leave late. Its very smooth. Honestly, im really enjoying it. This has been him enjoying it . Dear god, whats it going to look like when he starts to hate it . Youll just log into twitter and there will be a gaping rage hole. [ laughter ] in reality, trump is becoming increasingly desperate, and sounding more and more authoritarian. He continues to threaten many of the basic principles this country thrives on, including due process, the rule of law and of course diversery [ laughter ] seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with Rosie Odonnell and our friends from nbcs will and grace teamed up with honda to help them debut their all new accord. 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Youre messing with me, right . All at no extra charge. This is awesome another reason why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. Mic drop. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back, everybody. Give it up for the 8g band right over there [ cheers and applause ] also, all this week weve had a legendary drummer sitting in with us. He was a vital part of David Lettermans house band for almost 30 years on both nbcs late night and the late show for cbs and continues to be a highly sought after session musician. His solo album figments was recently reissued and is available on itunes. Anton fig, everybody. Thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Seth been a fantastic week. Thanks. Seth our first guest tonight is an Emmy Awardwinning talk show host and actress. She returns to television in the new Comedy Series, smilf, which premiers sunday night on showtime. Lets take a look. You look tired. What . You look tired. I am tired. All right, go to tutu. Come here, baby. [ sneeze ] gesundheit. Ugh, thank you. All right. I got to go to work. Why dont you come in for a little bit of Grilled Cheese . I cant. Im going to be late. Oh, really . Yeah. Its not like ally is going anywhere. I mean, she is the saddest woman i have ever met. Mmhmm. I was thinking we could take larry, wed go down to joes this weekend, im going to cook, you know . Because i think he really needs to feel loved. Seth please welcome to the show, the former occupant of this studio, Rosie Odonnell, everybody [ cheers and applause ] hi, seth, how are you . Seth im so happy to have you here im so happy to be here. Its like deja vu. Seth it is deja vu. But of course, we were talking you know, sets are completely different. Does this even feel like your old studio . Not one bit. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] no, i was actually walking through, and i said, oh, maybe theyre not in our studio. And donna said the wardrobe person, you know she said to me, no, this is actually your your exact studio. We had people come out this way for reasons unknown to me. And then i had to do a little dance and meet them and hug and then run back. Seth yeah. This is much more streamlined. Seth well, we this is we this is our second set in the time we had the show. We started and we did a we had a weird swinging stage. We did a lot of things wrong in the beginning, too. [ light laughter ] yeah, it happens. Seth i had to jump on the desk as it passed by. [ laughter ] well, that keeps you in shape seth it does. And your core muscles toned. Seth the fact was, i was going to age out of it, though. [ laughter ] eventually. Seth yeah, eventually sadly, we all do. Seth so you did a show here from 96 to 2002. Yes. Seth do you miss having a talk show . Do you did you enjoy your time doing it . I loved doing it. It was like a dream job. But i knew going in that i was more of a sprinter than a marathoner. You know . Seth uhhuh. And i had a little baby boy who was just two years old. Took his first steps, actually, in this studio. Seth unbelievable. Thats fantastic. Hes now 22 and has enlisted in the marines. Seth fantastic. Yes, he did. Seth congratulations to him [ applause ] weeks ago. Seth oh, great and i had a great time doing it, but i definitely felt i was done when i was done and then i needed a very long break. Seth yeah. Well, i hope you got your break. And im very excited about what youre coming back in now. And certainly youve done plenty between the time you left your show and this show. But smilf is is this true . This is your first, like, sort of recurring role in a Television Show . It is. When i was very young i was on gimme a break in 1986. Seth yes. Yeah, with nell carter. The role was maggie obrien. Im sure its familiar to a lot of people here. [ laughter ] seth woo maggie yeah. That was it. And that was sort of fun. But i really havent done one. And when i saw the short film that frankie shaw, who is the seth shes the star of the show. We saw her in the clip. Yeah, beautiful young actress, 31 years old. She wrote it, stars in it, directs it, shes absolutely amazing. And i saw a short film she did and she facetimed me instead of an interview. She facetimed me and said, would you do it . I said, ill do anything you want because you are what, you know, feminists have hoped would come along 20 years later. Seth oh, thats really exciting. She really is. Shes a phenomenal girl. Seth now, from the clip, we can all see you you wear a sort of gray wig on the show. Does that give you thats actually my real hair. Seth oh, it is . Okay. [ laughter ] it is. Seth but its made more gray than it is in real life. Not really. Seth okay. [ laughter ] now that im done filming seth so the cgi the cgi yeah. Yeah now that actually, i had the extensions taken out last night. Seth okay. And a little darkness to try to cover. Seth okay. Part of the gray. But i am letting it go in gray for this role and my teenagers are not very happy about it. Seth oh, interesting. Yeah. In fact, i have been banned from volleyball games. Seth wow. They dont want their mom to have gray hair at a volleyball game . Apparently thats a thing now with the kids. [ laughter ] i didnt know. But i mean, i guess it would be weird to have your mother show up and look like your grandmother, i guess. But i dont know, its kind of freeing. I dont really get noticed. Seth oh, intere