March 3, 2019

SNL: Weekend Update

Michael Cohen's Congressional Testimony



Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Michael Cohen testifying before Congress about allegations surrounding President Trump.




Smokery Farms



The owners of Smokery Farms (Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon) talk to Colin Jost about their farm that only serves stupid and bad animals to counter the viral, cute animal videos harming the meat industry.




R. Kelly's Financial Problems



Weekend Update anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost tackle the week's biggest news, like R. Kelly's financial issues as he faces charges of sexual abuse.

March 3, 2019

SNL: Legal Shark Tank

Celebrities in legal trouble make a pitch to see if any of the legal sharks, Michael Avenatti (Pete Davidson), Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong), Alan Dershowitz (John Mulaney) or Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon) will take their case.

March 3, 2019

SNL: Michael Cohen Hearings Cold Open

The Congressional Oversight Committee (Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader, Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett) question President Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) about his former boss.

March 3, 2019

U.S. is making an effort to end the longest oil spill in history This company is fighting against it

The U.S. is making an effort to end the longest oil spill in history. And this company is fighting against it in court.

Taylor Energy says hardly any oil is reaching the surface in the site where a hurricane destroyed its oil platform. To the contrary, the government says, the spill is probably at hundreds of barrels per day.


As the longest offshore oil spill in U.S. history creeps toward its 15th year, the federal government is preparing to launch a determined effort to contain the oil and cap the leaking wells.

But the energy company responsible for the spill has gone to court to stop the government’s efforts to fix a leak that is sending hundreds of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Taylor Energy of New Orleans recently filed four lawsuits against the Interior Department, U.S. Coast Guard and a private contractor to contest their assessment that the spill is catastrophic and to shut down plans to cap more than two dozen leaking wells.

The wells were torn open in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan triggered powerful currents that collapsed the walls of a deepwater canyon. The tumbling walls slammed into an oil production platform that Taylor Energy operated 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, burying most of its 25 wells.

According to one estimate, up to 700 barrels of oil per day are flowing into the Gulf, rivaling the catastrophic 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. The estimate is based on an analysis by Oscar Garcia-Pineda, a specialist in remote sensing of oil spills, which the government accepted but Taylor Energy disputes.

The BP disaster leaked 4 million barrels over five months. If Garcia-Pineda’s estimate is correct, the Taylor spill amounts to 1.5 million barrels to 3.5 million barrels in more than 14 years.


Much more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/02/us-is-trying-end-longest-oil-spill-history-this-company-is-trying-stop-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7d3b75f16e80



Taylor Energy's downed platform was one of thousands in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)

March 2, 2019

It's clearly time to rename the Environmental Protection Agency

Honesty in labeling requires that President Donald Trump declare an emergency to rename (without congressional action, because that’s what emergencies are for) the government entity that has, since its founding, been called the “Environmental Protection Agency.”

The agency’s traditional name suggests an odious bias in favor of environmental “protection.”

Trump nominated the current acting administrator of the EPA, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, to be the permanent administrator. According to the Washington Post piece on Wheeler’s elevation to permanency, during his period as acting EPA administrator Wheeler “has advanced President Trump’s push to rollback Obama-era environmental regulations.”

During an exchange at a Senate hearing with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Wheeler did not express agreement with Trump’s expressed belief that global warming/climate change is a “hoax,” but he doesn’t believe it is much of a “crisis.” One appreciates his flexibility in seeking middle ground between the views of his boss and the almost unanimous view of the scientific community.

The Senate confirmed Wheeler Thursday on almost a perfect party-line vote. All 47 Democrats voted no, but only 52 of the 53 Republicans voted aye, with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who voted previously to confirm Wheeler as deputy administrator, voting against him for the permanent position.

But the real crisis/emergency is having an agency with a misleading name that suggests a great deal of bias in favor environmental protection. I’m open to suggestion for words that could correctly reflect the agency’s actual purpose.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/02/its-clearly-time-to-rename-the-environmental-protection-agency/

March 2, 2019

Seth Meyers: Guest Senator Bernie Sanders Says It's Awkward Running Against His Colleagues

Senator Bernie Sanders talks about his second run at the presidency and what it's like competing for office with his friends and colleagues.




Senator Bernie Sanders Agrees with Trump's Attempt to Denuclearize North Korea



Senator Bernie Sanders talks about Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un and Michael Cohen's testimony.




Senator Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Think His Ideas Will Drive Voters to Trump



Senator Bernie Sanders talks about why he thinks Americans will vote for left-wing politics, his efforts to create a more diverse coalition in his campaign and his brief cameo in a film.

March 2, 2019

Seth Meyers: Guest Senator Bernie Sanders Says It's Awkward Running Against His Colleagues

Senator Bernie Sanders talks about his second run at the presidency and what it's like competing for office with his friends and colleagues.




Senator Bernie Sanders Agrees with Trump's Attempt to Denuclearize North Korea



Senator Bernie Sanders talks about Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un and Michael Cohen's testimony.




Senator Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Think His Ideas Will Drive Voters to Trump



Senator Bernie Sanders talks about why he thinks Americans will vote for left-wing politics, his efforts to create a more diverse coalition in his campaign and his brief cameo in a film.

March 2, 2019

Seth Meyers: President Trump and Kim Jong-un's Meeting, Justin Bieber's 25th Birthday Monologue 2/28

Christina Hendricks' Interviews Keep Getting Interrupted by Breaking News



Christina Hendricks and Seth discuss her interview on Live with Kelly and Ryan getting interrupted by breaking news only to have the broadcast of her interview with Seth interrupted by another breaking news alert.




Seth's Favorite Jokes of the Week: Trump and Kim Jong-un's Summit, the First Mardi Gras



Seth's favorite jokes from the week of February 25.

March 2, 2019

The Daily Show: Kamala Harris - How to Fix Policing and Criminal Justice in America

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris explains why she became a prosecutor and how she reconciles her record with her plan for criminal justice reform.

March 2, 2019

The Daily Show: The "Black Friend" Defense - Between the Scenes

After Rep. Mark Meadows uses his "black nieces and nephews" to prove he’s not racist during Michael Cohen's testimony, a clip from 2012 surfaces showing the congressman vowing to send Obama back to “Kenya or wherever it is.”