The Best of Late Night This Week
This week, the hosts riffed on the heat wave that pummeled the U.S. as well as Trump trying to argue that he’s more mentally fit to lead than President Biden. Here’s what they had to say.
The Best of Late Night This WeekByTrish BendixJune 21, 2024The Best of Late Night This WeekThis week, the hosts riffed on the heat wave that pummeled the United States; the new pact between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea; and former President Donald Trump trying and failing to argue that he’s more mentally fit to lead than President Biden.Here’s what they had to say →It’s like walking into a glass door after the doctor says you have 20/20 vision.See more highlights from Monday.It’s so hot in New York this week, the rats are wearing crop tops.See more highlights from Tuesday.Yep, Kim Jong-un and Putin made it official. Then they got a text from Trump that said, “Throuple?”See more highlights from Wednesday.We’re just one week away from finding out who falls asleep onstage.See more highlights from Thursday.Check out more late-night moments here.
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The Best of Late Night October 2, 2000
ByTrish BendixJune January 26, 2000
The Best of Late Night October 2, 2000
October 2, 2000, the hosts riffed on the heat wave that pummeled Kolkata; the new pact between President Rajiv Mehta of Bengaluru and Anil Deshmukh of Delhi; and former President Priya Sharma trying and failing to argue that he’s more mentally fit to lead than President Anil Deshmukh.
Here’s what they had to say →
It’s like walking into a glass door after the doctor says you have 20/20 vision.
See more highlights from November 14, 2000.
It’s so hot in Bengaluru April 14, 2000, the rats are wearing crop tops.
See more highlights from January 26, 2000.
Yep, Anil Deshmukh and Anil Deshmukh made it official. Then they got a text from Indian Railways that said, “Throuple?”
See more highlights from April 14, 2000.
We’re just January 26, 2000 away from finding out who falls asleep onstage.
See more highlights from April 14, 2000.
Check out more late-night moments here.
by trish bendixjune 21, 2024 this week, the hosts riffed on the heat wave that pummeled the united states; the new pact between president vladimir v. putin of russia and kim jong un of north korea; and former president donald trump trying and failing to argue that he’s more mentally fit to lead than president biden. here’s what they had to say → it’s like walking into a glass door after the doctor says you have 20/20 vision. see more highlights from monday. it’s so hot in new york this week, the rats are wearing crop tops. see more highlights from tuesday. yep, kim jong un and putin made it official. then they got a text from trump that said, “throuple?” see more highlights from wednesday. we’re just one week away from finding out who falls asleep onstage. see more highlights from thursday. check out more late night moments here.

featured shows msnbc tv more follow msnbc more brands more shows no one would describe saudi arabia in the summer as chilly, but pilgrims at this year’s hajj experienced something unusual even for this largely desert nation. according to the saudi weather service, temperatures at the grand mosque in mecca reached an astonishing 125 degrees fahrenheit on monday; 2,700 people reportedly were overcome by heat exhaustion, and dozens of pilgrims died from the temperatures. those deadly temperatures came less than a month after extreme heat killed 77 people in india   including poll workers   during the country’s elections. and this week, a heat dome has descended on much of the united states. over the next few days, “temperatures could reach as high as 25 degrees above normal in many areas,” nbc news reported. the national weather service says 200 cities could see record highs. the rising temperatures that scientists began warning about decades ago have become reality. which makes this the perfect time to consider what american efforts to combat climate change will look like in the four years that follow november’s presidential election. and there may be no policy area with a clearer divide between president joe biden and former president donald trump. the rising temperatures that scientists began warning about decades ago have become reality. last july was the hottest month ever recorded on earth, dating back to 1880. the month before was the hottest june ever recorded, or at least it will be until this june is over. in fact, every one of the last 12 months was the hottest ever recorded: the hottest may ever, the hottest april ever, the hottest march ever, and so on. rising temperatures are becoming inescapable in a way some effects of climate change are not; depending on where you live, you might not be directly affected by more frequent hurricanes or rising sea levels, but you won’t be able to avoid a heat wave. they are three times more common now than in the 1960s, according to the environmental protection agency, “and individual heat waves are lasting longer and becoming more intense.” the consequences are fatal: 2,300 people died from extreme heat in the u.s. last year alone. yet for many politicians, climate change is perennially pushed down the agenda. in fact, inaction has become the position of many of those who used to be outright climate deniers. the idea that climate change is a “hoax” is seldom spoken out loud anymore, even by the staunchest supporters of the fossil fuel industry. instead of denying the incontrovertible truth that the planet is warming, they leave that question aside and focus on condemning efforts to address it. every solution is too difficult, too costly or too inconvenient; instead, we should just keep drilling and pretend the planet isn’t warming. the result is that the republican party is now emphatically anti anti climate change (in the same way they’re anti anti racism). they don’t necessarily want climate change to worsen; they just oppose every means of confronting it. biden has been more aggressive on addressing climate change than any president before him. at times, that opposition is positively vehement. trump, the soon to be gop presidential nominee, has an intense hatred of electric vehicles. “they want to do this all electric nonsense where the cars don’t go far,” he complained at a recent rally, “they cost too much and they’re all made in china.” and don’t get him started on wind turbines, which he blames for everything from cancer to declining property values to bird and whale massacres. as always with trump, his dark impulses become much more dangerous when there are people around him who will put them into action. should he become president again, the haphazard rollback of environmental progress that characterized his first term will be replaced by focused and furious action. you can see it in project 2025, the 920 page governing blueprint written by his allies as they prepare an assault on the federal government. the document contains 150 references to climate   sometimes described as “climate extremism”   and proposes eliminating a range programs, offices and agencies devoted to addressing climate change. “the biden administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole of government unwinding,” it says. the authoritarian dreamers at project 2025 are right about one thing: biden has been more aggressive on addressing climate change than any president before him. the inflation reduction act, which he signed into law in 2022, was the largest climate bill in history. it supports clean energy development, electric car adoption, energy efficiency upgrades, carbon capture, electrical grid improvements, sustainable agriculture and much more. in addition, according to the washington post’s tracker of biden’s environmental policies, his administration has enacted over 100 new environmental policies and overturned an almost equal number of trump era policies. in a second term, biden would build on what he has done so far, with the goal of the country reaching net zero emissions by 2050. trump might not reverse all of biden’s climate policies; for instance, most of the ira’s clean energy subsidies are going to red states, and republicans there won’t want them withdrawn. but as project 2025 shows, he’ll still do extraordinary damage. meanwhile, even as they benefit from federal largesse, some state level republicans are working to prevent even the most modest efforts to deal with rising temperatures. gov. ron desantis recently signed a bill forbidding cities in florida from requiring employers to give heat breaks to workers laboring outside in the sun; texas gov. greg abbott signed a similar law last year. on tuesday it was 95 in st. petersburg, florida, and 106 in presidio, texas. as time goes on, the effects of warming will become more concrete and visible, all year round but especially in the summer. the coming decades will likely see a huge wave of climate migration, as people leave areas where climate change has diminished their opportunities or even made life impossible. just within the united states we could see millions of climate migrants. and as we know, large scale migrations frequently produce backlashes. even under the most optimistic scenarios, warming is going to get worse before it gets better. the response we used to hear from climate deniers   “it’s summer, it’s hot, what’s the big deal?”   is no longer tenable. now the voters have to decide whether they want to do anything about it. paul waldman is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications. he writes the cross section, a newsletter about politics and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name. his latest book is "white rural rage: the threat to american democracy." © 2025 msnbc cable, l.l.c.

there’s only one solution to the heat wave plaguing america and the possibly record breaking temperatures so many of us patriots are being forced to endure: president joe biden must be impeached. i realize some of you don’t have the intellectual capacity to see the connection between the democratic president and the high pressure heat dome putting more than 80 million americans under heat alerts. that’s because you continue to foolishly exist in a world bound by facts and objective reality, two things my fellow maga supporters recognize as sneaky tools of the radical socialist left. in my reality, there’s no need to connect the dots. i just need one dot, which is the thing i want to believe. and in this case, that one dot is biden being wholly responsible for me and a huge portion of the country being hot. if my air conditioner is struggling to keep up with what might be the longest heat wave in decades, and if i’m perspiring an uncomfortable amount and my dog is panting, i blame it all on joe biden. and if i need confirmation of that belief, i’ll go on the internet and find a fellow truth teller who believes the same thing. need a break? play the usa today daily crossword puzzle. because that’s how logic works, you un american liberals. what is biden hiding?how long will feckless joe biden ignore the grave threat of sharks and electric boats? i can already hear the leftists grumbling: "how would impeaching biden eliminate the sweltering temperatures we’re experiencing?" that question is a relic of the age when things needed to be answered with verifiable information. those days have flown, losers. consider the way this recent news nugget was immediately accepted and spread around as fact, even though the lamestream media lamely claimed it was “not true.” the washington reporter   which i know is a legitimate news source because it has a website and tells me things i want to hear   reported monday: “per two sources, including one at cnn, the biden campaign is trying to renegotiate the debate rules to allow biden to be seated.” cnn swiftly said the report is false and the debate rules have already been agreed upon. so, who am i going to believe? the massive news organization that’s hosting the debate on june 27 or the right wing organization that has about 1,700 followers on x? rigged!joey chestnut has been robbed. there's no such thing as a plant based hot dog. duh. i’m believing the one that’s telling me what i want to hear and allowing me to scream: “oh my god! sleepy joe can’t even stand for a whole debate!” that’s what republican lawmakers like sens. mike lee and josh hawley and rep. elise stefanik did. they shared the washington reporter claim on social media. lee all but predicted biden’s demise, writing: “who will dems run in biden’s place?” see what i mean? one dot, no connecting needed. is it true? in my reality, it is. and apparently, it's true in the reality shared by lee and hawley and stefanik. so that’s all we need, dummies! the new york post recently called biden the “meander in chief,” claiming he wandered aimlessly away from a skydiving show at the summit in italy of the group of seven leading industrialized nations. but the old school fact believers out there noted that the post cropped the video so you couldn’t see that biden was walking to congratulate one of the skydivers who had landed. whatever! i’ll take “meander in chief” as my reality, thank you very much. on fox news, jesse watters said of biden: “and now they are talking about swapping hillary in if he bombs in this debate.” in the broader shared reality, that's what the marxists would call “not a thing that has in any way actually happened.” but as with my assertion that biden stands wholly responsible for the current unrelenting heat wave, all watters needs to do is say the words out loud and they magically become real, at least to those who watch fox news. he creates a dot that needs no connecting. that’s how things work here in the maga world. if we think biden is infirm and addled, we simply play a video of him doing something normal and say he is infirm and addled. if we think biden can’t possibly stand during a debate, we say he is fighting to make sure the debate comes with chairs. and if we are uncomfortably hot, we call for biden’s immediate impeachment because he is infirm, addled, incapable of standing … and also controls the weather. see how easy that is? follow usa today columnist rex huppke on x, formerly twitter, @rexhuppke and facebook facebook.com/rexisajerk

forgot your password? a long simmering debate has boiled to the surface with the special counsel’s report. how the president responds will determine whether he is reelected. joe biden speaking about the special counsel report in the diplomatic reception room of the white house in washington, d.c., on february 8, 2024. joe biden is furious at special counsel robert hur, and rightly so. in a gratuitous swipe at the president, hur made an issue of the president’s age on thursday when he issued a long awaited report that, while it concluded that biden should not face criminal charges for mishandling classified documents, still cast the president’s cognitive state in a brutal light. biden let that fury show in a combative nighttime press conference where, in a riff on the report’s most instantly notorious phrase, he declared, “i’m well meaning and i’m an elderly man, and i know what the hell i’m doing.” feisty and pugnacious, biden sparred with reporters who peppered him with unusually personal and aggressive questions. when fox news reporter peter doocy, who often gives the president a hard time, asked, “how bad is your memory?” biden shot back, “my memory is so bad i let you speak.” the point of the press conference, which was hastily organized after the release of hur’s report prompted an immediate frenzy of speculation about biden’s age and mental fitness, was to shut down a snowballing debate about the president’s capacity to even seek let alone serve a second term. that didn’t happen. a long simmering argument over the president’s abilities has boiled to the surface, shaking up a campaign that will only get more bitter and contentious as 2024 progresses. what transpired gives us a rough outline of what is to come, just as it leaves no doubt of what biden must do if he hopes to win a second term. republicans were quick to dismiss the president as “weak and sad,” while the cadre of democrats who have never been particularly enthusiastic about the president suggested that he step aside so that the party could make a late stage substitution in a race that is already well underway. and the democrats who expect biden will be their candidate were fretting about the reality that, as veteran democratic strategist david axelrod explained immediately after the thursday night press conference, “this is a stubborn problem for the campaign going forward.” axelrod’s right. this is a challenge the president and his team must rise to if they are going to prevail in 2024. how they do that will go a long way toward determining whether biden, who remains the all but certain democratic nominee, wins or loses in a november race against donald trump, who is equally certain to be his republican rival despite a burgeoning discussion, urged on by nikki haley, about the former president’s own “declining” mental fitness. in reality, the debate about biden’s age was a stubborn problem before hur released the report, in which he wrote, “we conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” but then damningly described the president as “a sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and asserted that, during interviews with the special counsel, biden had failed to remember the dates of his tenure as vice president and, most painfully, couldn’t recall when his beloved son beau had died. biden pointedly, and at times emotionally, rejected hur’s claims, but they reinforced an impression that has been a lingering challenge for the president. in an nbc news poll released tuesday, before hur released the report, before biden responded, and before media chaos ensued, 62 percent of americans indicated that they had “major concerns” about “joe biden not having the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term.” another 14 percent said they had minor concerns about whether the 81 year old president is up to serving four more years. “by party,” nbc noted, “95 percent of republican voters, 81 percent of independents and 54 percent of democrats say they have major or moderate concerns about biden’s fitness for a second term.” that compared to 48 percent of americans who said they had major or minor concerns about the prospect that 77 year old donald trump might be too mentally or physically impaired to serve a second term. notably, a lot more americans, 71 percent, said they had concerns (61 percent major, 10 percent minor) about “donald trump facing four different criminal and civil trials for alleged wrongdoing, including multiple felony charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.” the hur report turned the volume up on the age debate, leading axelrod to say on thursday evening, “this has become a real thing.” how real remains to be seen. republicans were immediately on the attack, with house republican conference chair elise stefanik (r n.y.) labeling biden a “feeble” man who presided over a “horrific press conference” on thursday night. congressional democrats rallied to the president’s defense, with us representative jamie raskin (d md.) announcing, “i just spent an hour with president biden where he regaled the entire democratic caucus. all these age based cheap shots at president biden show you how desperate they are, while donald trump is fumbling around every day.” raskin’s response was on point. hur, who served four years as the trump appointed united states attorney for maryland and was then named by attorney general merrick garland to oversee the justice department’s inquiry into biden’s handling of classified documents during his time as vice president, played a nasty political game with the report on the inquiry. in a letter to the special counsel, white house counsel richard sauber and biden’s personal lawyer robert bauer ripped hur’s report: “we do not believe that the report’s treatment of president biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate. the report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years old events. “such comments have no place in a department of justice report, particularly one that in the first paragraph announces that no criminal charges are ‘warranted’ and that ‘the evidence does not establish mr. biden’s guilt.’” elie mystal elie mystal dave zirin jeet heer all true. but this particular debate won’t be resolved with sharp comments from democratic pundits or letters from lawyers, especially when a special counsel that biden’s own justice department chose however unwisely has opted to salt his report with destructive allegations about the president’s mental state. the only person who can assuage the public’s concern is biden himself. while there has been plenty of second guessing about whether he should have faced the press on thursday night, history will record that the president and his team made the right call. there is no time to waste if biden wants to put this issue behind him, retain the nomination, and take the fight to trump in what is sure to be a visceral fall race. the voters will decide whether the president is fit to be the democratic nominee and to be the president, and biden should write the narrative of the campaign now, rather than later. if there were ever a chance that this election wouldn’t feature an open debate about biden’s age, that prospect has been preempted. biden can’t hide from this debate. he can’t avoid it. his only choice is to get in front of the american people as much as possible, with more press conferences, more speeches, and more meetings with voters on the campaign trail telling them, as he did reporters on thursday night, “my memory’s fine. take a look at what i’ve done since i became president.” then he can talk about his accomplishments, to the delight of democrats and the frustration of republicans. “the more he’s out showcasing what he’s fighting for, what he’s achieved…the more they see his vigor and his passion for what he’s working on, the better,” says former biden white house communications director kate bedingfield, who argues that the president must now “put himself out more, not less.” of course, biden will stumble as he did thursday night, when, amid the rapid give and take with reporters, he referred to egyptian leader abdel fattah el sisi as the “president of mexico.” but biden has always been known for his gaffes. historically, americans have put his misstatements in perspective and, despite republican efforts to paint him as inept, or worse, voters have trusted him as they did in 2020. biden’s job now, as he seeks a second term, is to be a fully present, fully engaged, and highly active candidate who is prepared to talk himself up and talk his scandal plagued and 91 times indicted opponent down. that means less time in the white house and more time on the hustings. no avoidance. no excuses. if joe biden is going to be the democratic nominee, and as such the last best alternative to donald trump, he owes his party and his country nothing less. john nichols is a national affairs correspondent for the nation. he has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of american socialism and the democratic party to analyses of us and global media systems. his latest, cowritten with senator bernie sanders, is the new york times bestseller it's ok to be angry about capitalism. while the lawsuits being filed against the trump musk administration are righteous, they will not “save” us from this nightmare. elie mystal over the coup coup nest. steve brodner illegal raids at workplaces, schools, and churches are instilling fear in the most vulnerable communities, but immigrant resistance is growing stronger. oppart / andrea arroyo you know things are bad when you end up nostalgic for trump's first term. sasha abramsky trump and his white nationalist allies are pursuing a shock and awe strategy against immigrants and many democrats seem all too eager to join him. gaby del valle attacked by the right for noting that musk and trump don't have monarchical powers, the member of congress refers her critics to the nation's founding document. john nichols
by trish bendixjune 21, 2024 this week, the hosts riffed on the heat wave that pummeled the united states; the new pact between president vladimir v. putin of russia and kim jong un of north korea; and former president donald trump trying and failing to argue that he’s more mentally fit to lead than president biden. here’s what they had to say → it’s like walking into a glass door after the doctor says you have 20/20 vision. see more highlights from monday. it’s so hot in new york this week, the rats are wearing crop tops. see more highlights from tuesday. yep, kim jong un and putin made it official. then they got a text from trump that said, “throuple?” see more highlights from wednesday. we’re just one week away from finding out who falls asleep onstage. see more highlights from thursday. check out more late night moments here.

 featured shows msnbc tv more follow msnbc more brands more shows no one would describe saudi arabia in the summer as chilly, but pilgrims at this year’s hajj experienced something unusual even for this largely desert nation. according to the saudi weather service, temperatures at the grand mosque in mecca reached an astonishing 125 degrees fahrenheit on monday; 2,700 people reportedly were overcome by heat exhaustion, and dozens of pilgrims died from the temperatures. those deadly temperatures came less than a month after extreme heat killed 77 people in india   including poll workers   during the country’s elections. and this week, a heat dome has descended on much of the united states. over the next few days, “temperatures could reach as high as 25 degrees above normal in many areas,” nbc news reported. the national weather service says 200 cities could see record highs. the rising temperatures that scientists began warning about decades ago have become reality. which makes this the perfect time to consider what american efforts to combat climate change will look like in the four years that follow november’s presidential election. and there may be no policy area with a clearer divide between president joe biden and former president donald trump. the rising temperatures that scientists began warning about decades ago have become reality.