Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the ugly footrace between Trump’s scandals and his budget

In his “A Closer Look” segment on last night’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, Meyers urged caution. No, not against reading too much into the mounting-daily Trump-Russia scandals, because those continue to be written in official memos in letters about ten feet high. You know, like the ones former FBI director James Comey kept, documenting that time Donald Trump told him to back off investigating resigned-in-disgrace national security pal Michael Flynn and swear a Godfather-esque “loyaty oath.” And now the memos from National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, who claims that Trump asked both him and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to “publicly deny” any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. (They declined.) As Meyers said of all the furious note-taking about this glaringly clear obstruction of justice by a sitting president, it’s like, every time Trump meets with someone, they immediately think, “Trump is so crazy! Damn, I gotta write this shit down!”