Seth Meyers suggests a Republican 'accidentally' saved the 'important' but fundamentally 'weird' Mueller hearings

Seth Meyers recaps the Mueller hearings
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President Trump, who said he wouldn't watch former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated House testimony, obviously watched intensely, and his rage-tweeted started before Mueller even sat down, Seth Meyers said on Wednesday's Late Night. "Dear God, his tweets would make more sense if they were scribbled on paper and faxed to a newspaper under the Zodiac symbol," he shuddered. "But at the very least, today's hearings might have been informative both for Trump and for members of Congress who have admitted they didn't read the whole report."

"Today's hearing was so important," Meyer said, after explaining Trump's bizarre "Article II" fantasies, because "a lawless president who openly welcomed foreign interference and then tried repeatedly to stop the investigation of that interference thinks he can do whatever he wants." Then he got to the actual hearing, starting with clips of Mueller explicitly not exonerating Trump.

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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.