He said what . And then i get to say it on tv . Oh, man, this job rules. [ laughter ] President Trump, yesterday, defended himself over reports that he used an expletive to describe african countries, saying, quote, im not a racist. Im the least racist person youve ever interviewed. [ laughter ] man, who else has that reporter interviewed . Just paula dean . President trump, again, Martin Luther king jr. Day at his golf club in florida. And what better way to celebrate Martin Luther king than with the whitest thing you can do. [ laughter ] golf at a private club thats named after you. [ light laughter ] the only whiter thing he could have done would be to put on some cargo shorts and listen to npr at whole foods. [ laughter ] you tell him steve inskeep. Thats right, President Trump spent Martin Luther king jr. Day at his florida golf club. Because as dr. King once said, darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only a callaway xr 16 driver can. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] thats right, President Trump played golf today despite telling americans to celebrate with acts of civic work and community service. Though to be fair, any day trump spends outside the oval office, technically counts as an act of community service. [ cheers and applause ] President Trump said yesterday that the Daca Immigration Program is probably dead. Then again, in the past, trump has shown a willingness to work with things that are probably dead. [ laughter ] a new report is claiming that within 10 years scientists may have developed a way to translate the thoughts of pets into human language. But until then its safe to assume cats are thinking, i wouldnt care if you died. [ light laughter ] on this day in 2009, captain Sully Sullenberger landed a disabled Us Airways Plane safely on the hudson river here in new york. Or as it was reported in the goose gazette, the eighth anniversary of the brutal murder of steve. [ light laughter ] [ scattered applause ] we miss you steve. A new study has found that doing facial exercises can actually make people look younger, while not doing them can make people looked trapped. [ laughter ] and finally, today was new jersey governor Chris Christies last day in office and not as we all assumed, months ago. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen we have a fantastic show for you tonight. He is the star of xfiles on fox. David duchovny is back on the show. [ cheers and applause ] shes one of the stars of nbcs the blacklist. The wonderful megan boone is here tonight, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] and we have music from a fantastic up and comer in country music, Jillian Jacqueline is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] so excited to hear her. Before we get to that, well, it looks like media mastermind donald trump has pulled off another successful pivot. This time from a conversation about whether hes mentally unstable to a conversation about the fact that hes a racist. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth it says a lot about where were at as a country that in the last few days it was reported that a porn star was paid to stay quiet about an alleged affair with trump. And for 38 minutes people in hawaii thought they were about to get hit with an incoming missile. And neither of those is the biggest story in the news right now. [ light laughter ] theyve of course been overshadowed by the fact that President Trump referred to haiti, el salvador, and african nations as shitholes during a meeting on immigration, and said he wanted more immigrants from norway. Thats right, trump wants more immigrants from norway. Though frankly, i cant imagine white. [ light laughter ] of course, his word choice was what got most of the attention at first, although news anchors werent quite sure how to handle it. Parents, if youre watching with children, you might want to mute for the next 35 seconds. I apologize for using this word here, but this is a quote from the president the president said, quote, why do we want all these people from i wont use the word, shole countries. All these shole countries. Shole countries. Shole countries. Bleephole countries. Bleephole countries. Sblankhole countries. Blankhole countries. Blankhole countries. They would say sinkhole or whatever the word is that he actually used its not sink. [ laughter ] and then what he said about immigrants from countries like haiti, african countries, that these are you get the point. Seth oh my god. You managed to flummox wolf blitzer. [ laughter ] do you know how hard that is . Hes never been emotional in his life. [ light laughter ] his wedding vows were just, im wolf blitzer, and youre in the situation room. [ laughter and applause ] now while the comments have been verified by other Media Outlets and confirmed by senators who were in the room at the time, theres apparently a pointless debate happening over the exact word trump used. He used a different my understanding from the meeting, he used a different but very closely related vulgarity. He said shouse, and not shole. Seth oh. So trump didnt say [ bleep ]hole, he said [ bleep ]house. [ light laughter ] and thats way better. After all, it only takes a little love to make a [ bleep ]house a [ bleep ]home. [ laughter and applause ] also, it doesnt matter it doesnt matter which word he used. The racist sentiment is the same. And the fallout from that sentiment has been inescapable for trump. On friday for example, he held an event commemorating Martin Luther king jr. Day, at which he signed a proclamation and ignored shouted questions from reporters as he left the room. Mr. President , will you give an apology for the statement yesterday . Oh, boy. Mr. President , did you refer to african nations, did you use the word [ bleep ]hole to refer to african nations . Mr. President , are you a racist . Seth another successful Martin Luther king day in the books for donald trump [ cheers and applause ] it went well. Only one person asked me about being a racist. Now, trump has been at his maralago resort in florida, apparently enjoying a threeday weekend. And last night he was asked again if hes a racist. And as usual, he overreached. No, no, im not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. That i can tell you. Seth why do you do that to yourself, man . [ light laughter ] if you had just said, im not a racist, maybe you could muddy the waters and people would have to debate it. But when you say the least racist person, you just set off alarm bells. Its the difference between saying, im a tall person and im the tallest person on earth. [ light laughter ] with one, you go, yeah, pretty tall i guess and with the other you go, oh, hes crazy. [ laughter ] also, lets not forget, this is a line trump has used many, many times before, with little success. Are you racist . I am the least racist person that you have ever met. All right. Im probably the least racist person on earth. Well, ive known you a long time. I think people know better than that. I know. Number one, i am the least antisemitic person that youve ever seen in your entire life. [ light laughter ] number two, racism. The least racist person. Youve been labeled a racist. Youve been called a sexist. Thank you very much. [ laughter ] how do you respond to that . I am the least racist person youve ever met. Seth why cant he just say im not a racist . Everything has to be a superlative with him. Im the least racist. Ive done more than any president. This is the longest tie youll ever see. [ light laughter ] its like he thinks theres a trophy for everything. You see that gold jug with the diamonds on it . I got that for least racist. i just edged out the dalai lama. And yet despite the fact there are multiple senators from both parties confirming what the president said, there are still a few trump allies finding new ways to blame everyone but trump for his racist comments. Take republican senator bill cassidy, who took issue not with the president s comments themselves, but the fact that they became public. Theres an etiquette. Theres an honor in meeting privately and not discussing what was talked about. And while those things may be incendiary, i want to get your take on that. I totally agree with you. It undermines trust going forward. Whatever was or was not said, if you disagree with what the fellow or gal says, then you disagree with them, publicly then. But to go out and kind of, ah, report it, is going to undermine trust. Not just for this issue, but for future issues. Its just a rule of human contact. Whether its a marriage, a friendship, or a political negotiation. Seth are you comparing the confidentiality of a marriage to a political negotiation . Because those things are not similar. If my wife said to me, were spending the weekend at my friends house and i said, that [ bleep ]hole . Shed definitely tell a few people. [ laughter ] and then there was kentucky senator rand paul, who complained not about the president saying something racist, but about people calling him a racist. The only thing i regret from all of this, other than i think some people in the media have gone completely bonkers with, you know, just ad hominem on the president. But what i regret is, i do want to see an immigration compromise. Right. And you cant have an immigration compromise if everybodys out there calling the president a racist. Seth it would also be hard to have an immigration compromise if people kept yelling, theres a coyote in the oval office but what else are you supposed to yell when there is a [ bleep ] coyote in the oval office . [ laughter and applause ] those are the words for it. [ cheers and applause ] trumps comments also undercut a hollow talking point he and his acolytes like to repeat about their restrictionist immigration ideas. That they just want what they call merit based immigration. As a candidate i campaigned on creating a merit based immigration system that protects u. S. Workers and taxpayers and that is why we are here today. Meritbased. Whos gonna argue with meritbased . Who can argue with meritbased . Meritbased immigration system. Merit. Merit. Merit. People that will help our country. People that will help our country. What we are demanding is merit based immigration. Seth you want immigration to be meritbased . Your job isnt even meritbased. Your whole life has been the opposite of meritbased. Youre a celebrity billionaire despite the fact that youve declared bankruptcy six times and youre president despite being wildly unqualified. If you want a meritbased immigration system, fine. But then you should have to go back to whatever bog your family crawled out of and get in the back of the line. [ cheers and applause ] of course, what trumps private comments reveal is that he doesnt actually want a meritbased system at all. He wants a system that takes in more white people and keeps out people of color. Thats what he was saying in those comments. Its as clear as ever that donald trump is a racist. And on top of that, hes also a shole. Bleephole. Blankhole. Seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with David Duchovny everybody. [ cheers and applause ] announcer for more of seths closer looks be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. Creaming] [splash] oh. 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They want to see your drawing. Would you like to show it to them . Oh, its nothing. Thats just, hangman. You play a lot of hangman. I play with my brother. Does he visit you here . My brother is an insufferable jerk. We play telepathically. You know Arkie Seavers . I mean, just he had an accident recently. I dont know an Arkie Seavers. This is just a coincidence . I dont know an Arkie Seavers. But she might. Seth please welcome back to the show David Duchovny, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back. Thank you. Seth so this is now i love it in scenes where they write the name of the person youre supposed to be discussing on a big piece of paper as hangman. Seth yeah, thats david cant remember his lines, lets do a whole episode of hangman. [ light laughter ] seth oh, so youre the kind of actor that just loves it, if its right there on paper, you dont have to rehearse. Many times i want to be the actor who cheats that way, like on a computer. And ill write what im supposed to be seeing on the computer or commenting on the computer, on the computer. And then ill start to feel so guilty that im a crappy actor and i should have memorized my line. [ light laughter ] and then my eyes have gotten worse, so i cant even read what ive written. [ light laughter ] my handwriting is so bad and so small. And im there. And i dont know my lines now and Everybody Knows that im a crappy actor and ive been trying to cheat. And its just awful. Seth well, i dont think youre a crappy actor. Well, thanks. Seth i do think you should have figured all this out by now. Because this is now 25 years. [ light laughter ] yeah, sure. Seth 25 years of mulder. Thats true. Seth did you ever think i mean, and no one thinks this, but whats it been like to play a character for this long . And has it been nice to have the breaks that youve had, obviously . Because, its not been 25 years straight. Its like mulder, again. Yeah. Yeah, its i dont know that i can compare it to anybody elses job because, you know, i started playing this guy in 93. And he has a certain kind of, like, antiestablishment energy. And i would have had to have had that, too. You know, i auditioned for it irreverently in a tie with pigs on it. Seth you wore a pig tie when you auditioned . I thought that was like, irreverent. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] did they like that . Did they say youre our guy when they saw it . No. They said, we thought you were our guy until we saw the pig tie. [ laughter ] and then, you know now im playing him 25 years later and hes still hes still kind of antiestablishment. But you cant play it with the same kind of energy that you do as a young man. It has to have ripened into some other kind of decrepitude. Seth yeah. But, its like an energetic decrepitude, if you know what im saying. Seth yeah. So, thats really what ive been trying to find is an energetic decrepitude. [ light laughter ] seth thats seems like something worth fighting for. I feel like in this moment right here i found it. [ laughter ] seth an interesting thing thats happened is it feels like the world has caught up to the mulder world view in 1993, of dont trust the government. That now seems to be like, a platform you can even run on. [ light laughter ] yeah. Well, it is interesting because when we first started doing the reboot, i was like, oh, my god, is mulder kind of in league with president [ bleep]hole . [ laughter ] seth yeah. By the way, i think the words youre looking for is [ bleep ]blank. Seth yeah. Oh, you think we should say [ bleep ]blank . [ bleep ]blank is perfectly acceptable. Seth right. Now thats like a game of hangman. [ bleep ]blank. [ light laughter ] [ bleep ] blank countries. Since hole or house is the one thats open to conjecture. Seth yeah, exactly. But i think, you know, mulder was saying the government is lying about aliens and stuff like that. And what is coming out of president [ bleep ]holes white house is that theyre delegitimizing every news source. Seth yeah, its not just aliens. Actually aliens is the only thing theyre giving us. [ light laughter ] seth yeah, exactly. You know. Seth do you you obviously spent a lot of time with this character. Do you think mulder is a good fbi agent . Hes the worst. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] weve done about 200 i think, 213, or 218 episodes. Seth yeah. And hes solved n