Seth Meyers tackles Trump's obsession with being secretly taped

For those who decided not to keep up with the news over the weekend, Seth Meyers put together a crash course, filling viewers in on Monday night about Carter Page, President Trump's all-caps warning to Iran, and, of course, Michael Cohen's secret recordings.

During "A Closer Look," Meyers looked into why Trump is "obsessed with being secretly recorded," and the rambling answers he gives when asked about the matter. As we found out last week, Cohen, his former fixer and personal lawyer, taped without Trump's knowledge a 2016 conversation between the two regarding a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump that ended in 2017.

Trump has been worried this whole time about being secretly recorded by outsiders, Meyers said, when it was really his own personal lawyer he needed to keep an eye on. "Everyone from his past is coming back to haunt him," he said. "If he ever goes on trial, it's going to look like the Seinfeld finale, but instead of the Soup Nazi, there will be actual Nazis." Watch the clip below. Catherine Garcia

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