Seth Meyers compares new Clinton emails to Sopranos episode, calls Clinton lucky

Seth Meyers takes closer look at Clinton emails, again

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last updated 24 August 2016

On Tuesday's Late Night, Seth Meyers gave his "closer look" treatment to Hillary Clinton's never-ending email controversy — but he began with Donald Trump, and a focus group of former Trump supporters who had very little good to say about their former candidate (plus a chuckle over Trump's 12-year-old county campaign organizer). Candy digested, Meyers turned to the meat and potatoes — or, rather, the 15,000 new Clinton emails the FBI is releasing before the election. "How many emails does Hillary Clinton have that she can just miss 15,000?" Meyers asked.

He spent the rest of the segment on a recently released batch of Clinton emails focusing on ties between her State Department and the Clinton Foundation. "Words like 'favor' and 'take care of' shouldn't be in State Department emails, they should be in the last 5 minutes of a Sopranos episode," Meyers said of one exchange. "But by far, the best email uncovered in this latest batch was one with the subject line 'Bono/NASA,'" a subject line so great that "if you want someone to open an email with a virus, that's what you put."

"While there aren't any smoking guns in these emails," Meyers concluded, "they do seem to demonstrate at the very least that if you were a Clinton Foundation donor or friend or Bono, it was easier to at least get your request seen by someone at the State Department — even if it ended up going nowhere." In any other year, this would be big news, he said. Clinton just got lucky she's up against Trump. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.