Sterling K. Brown | Trump Puts ICE in Airports, Backs Down on Iran Threat Amid Oil Crisis, Blames Hegseth: A Closer Look

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On today's show, Seth talks to actor Sterling K. Brown.

But first, a closer look.

The president sent ICE to airports and threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants

then backed off after talks with Iran that Iran said are not happening.

Then blamed Pete Hegseth for the war,

and he also spent the weekend posting a bunch of deranged stuff to his social media account.

For more on this, this is Time for a Closer Look.

Over the weekend, Robert Mueller passed away.

Now, you might expect the president of the United States to show some decorum and decency

when a former public servant or any American dies,

but that's because you forgot Donald Trump was the president.

You saw Project Hill marry over the weekend, and you were just so happy

that Ryan Gosling brought back the magic and the wonder of the cinema

that you forgot about the reality of the world.

And then you walked out of the theater, and you looked at your phone,

and you saw a notification from President Donald Day Trump,

and you said, ah, f**k me.

The president was just posted on true social following the death of former FBI director, Robert Mueller.

It says, Robert Mueller just died.

Good, I'm glad he's dead.

He can no longer hurt innocent people.

You sound like an aging Hollywood starlight who hasn't left her mansion in five years,

finding out her husband just died.

Good, I'm glad he's dead.

He stole my best years from me, weather be darling.

Fetch my fight this week and go to the funeral so I can spit on his grave.

Bring a glass of water that can't generate spit anymore.

What's really going to me is when Trump's cronies demand that we have limitless patience

and understanding for him, even though he has none for anyone else.

Do you think it's appropriate for the president of the United States

to celebrate the death of an American citizen, someone who's a bronze star,

purple heart, recipient, and who served in Vietnam?

Kristen, I was with the president of the Green Room at Davos

and there was a video playing of what may have been an illegal raid on his home at Marlago.

They are going through his wife's wardrobe and I watched the look in his eye

and I think that neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and to his family.

Is it appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of any American citizen?

I think that given what has been done to President Trump and his family,

it is impossible for either of us to understand what he has been through.

So you don't think that there's anything wrong with the post-Saint George Robert?

Again, I think that we should all have a little empathy for what has been done to him and his family.

I'm sorry, empathy for the Trumps? Is this the same family that made billions of dollars

on some bullsh**t crypto coin the last year? What empathy should we have?

How will they ever find time to spend it all?

He just said he's glad someone died, but we have to tiptoe around his feelings

like he's a rabid dog during a thunderstorm.

He's very agitated by loud noises.

Just keep your distance and if he bites you say,

I understand where you're coming from, Kujo.

And then get his hospital as fast as you can because you definitely have rabies.

This is Magan one sentence, empathy for me, but not for you.

The hypocrisy shouldn't be surprising, considering the same people who spent years complaining about celebrities

and participation trophies now line up behind a celebrity who collects participation trophies like

they're Labubus also.

I have to go back to this part.

There was a video playing of what may have been an illegal raid on his home at Marlago.

They are going through his white wardrobe.

No, no, not her prize collection of hats that double his lampshades.

She's like, why do you have that hat? You look like you're at Barney's funeral.

Good, I'm glad he's dead.

Now we can no longer hurt people with his stupid songs.

Where's my empathy?

All right, but so what? So maybe you're saying to yourself, find the president's obnoxious.

He's not someone I'd want to hang out with, but at least he's got the government humming like a Ferrari.

And by the way, I know if you're watching this show, that's not actually what you're saying.

It's just a little rhetorical trick we do to set up a clip package.

It's fun. We like it. I'm going to do it now.

Who cares if he's a bad guy you say?

Everything's running smoothly and going great.

Markets are tumbling right now and the oil is surging.

Oil price is soaring to their highest level since 2022.

The gallon of gas now up nearly 50 cents in a week.

War in Iran has caused some concerns about inflation.

We lost jobs in February. We've lost jobs four of the last seven months.

Travel chaos and chaos is a word across the country.

Is the airport stable with TSA staffing shortages?

There is no end in sight for the continued problems that airports across the country.

Hours long security lines are becoming the norm.

The DHS shutdown is causing TSA workers to go without pay and

leading to workers quitting or having to call out sick.

Wait times in Atlanta and airports across the country are not just long today,

but painfully long stretching for hours.

Houston, Atlanta, and we're hearing about similar scenes at LaGuardia this morning.

It's TSA lines that last for up to two hours.

If I was flying back to New York and I was on a TSA line that was two hours long,

I would simply call my family and tell them,

I live here now. That's where I would live, wherever I happen to be.

I have stand-up shows in Missouri next month and I'm already looking at houses

in the St. Louis area on Zillow.

Did you guys know you can buy a house that doesn't share a wall with a neighbor

who practices the trumpet at 7 a.m.?

Mickey, I'm moving to St. Louis.

I'm sad too, buddy. I'm sad too.

We're going to keep doing the show, but they're going to have to change the backdrop.

So, there's chaos.

There's chaos at airports, but don't worry, the president is on it.

He's sending the best of the best to help and a lead squad of civil servants

who've been through rigorous training with impeccable qualifications.

I'm just kidding. He's sending ice.

President Trump says ice will deploy to US airports starting today to assist with the TSA.

Can you tell us anything about how this would work with ice showing up at the airports?

We're finalizing plans today, but you know, there's a lot of things that TSA does.

It doesn't require like specialized training, right?

Like you have exit lanes where people leave the airport.

Not people try to enter those exit lanes, that's a security breach.

Well, an ice agent can maintain those exits.

With respect, if you're doing this in 24 hours, how well thought out could it possibly be?

How much of a plan doesn't mean to guard an exit to make sure no one comes through that exit?

That's what you think the TSA does, just keep people from going through exits?

I think you're thinking of Hodor.

So you think it's not that hard to guard exits?

Okay, well, how hard is it to check for ice on the ground before you take off into dead run and fall on your ass?

Do you imagine those same dudes on the people-movers and airports help?

Help! See!

The ground's moving, Steve!

Find me at Hudson News!

Don't forget about me, Steve!

So you guys are sending an agency's own leaders call their performance pathetic and a disaster

because their recruits keep failing physical and academic tests in the chaotic airports with massive crowds

and your plan is how hard could it be to guard an exit?

You sound like the head of security at the Louvre trying to get a job for your screw-up brother-in-law.

Come on, give up!

But you used to be a mall security guard in Pyramus, let him guard the exit!

Oh, there's no one's gonna steal from the Louvre!

So the situation at airports is bad and with rising oil prices, airfares are also going up.

But again, Trump says he wants you to have one take away from all of this.

Be nice to the President, okay?

What's your advice to Americans that are planning air travel in the weeks or months ahead?

I mean, we've seen prices have already gone up significantly.

Well, we haven't seen a significant spike in airline tickets because of this conflict.

But again, I think we have to offer the President grace.

They're talking about Trump.

The way your therapist talks about self-care.

You have to give yourself empathy and grace.

Put your phone down, start a bubble bath and just relax, close your eyes.

Imagine you're at the beach or you're the President in the Oval Office.

People are waiting for hours on TSA lines to get on flights that are more expensive

because of an oil crisis caused by a reckless and unnecessary war.

The President can't even explain.

And we have to give him grace, the guy who tweeted this.

Now, with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has

is the radical left highly incompetent Democrat party.

You don't get to f**k on everyone else and then act like a wilting flower when people criticize you.

The radical left Democrats are the enemy.

I'm Abby, Robert Mueller is dead.

But when you speak of me, please be gentle with your words.

Your slings and arrows gravely wound me.

I am but a vulnerable modest soul.

I beg of you, please extend me your empathy and your grace.

So Trump's cabinet wants us to extend empathy and grace to him

while Americans suffer with long lines, high gas prices.

He costs, but don't worry, Trump has a plan.

The whole Iran war thing is about to come to an end.

The President posting, we are getting very close to meeting our objectives

as we consider winding down our great military efforts in the Middle East.

Boom, there you go. We're winding down.

The war we started in the first place doesn't make any sense.

But whatever, the quicker it ends, the better. That's good news.

If Iran doesn't fully open without threat,

the straight of her moose within 48 hours from this exact time,

the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants

starting with the biggest one first.

Okay, that seems like the opposite of winding down.

Hit in obliterate sounds like a text Pete Hegseth used to send about happy hour.

Five o'clock, baby.

Let's hit in obliterate on calla hands.

Still, you heard him. The President has made it clear.

Iran, you better play ball or he will hit and obliterate.

Just moments ago, President Trump said he is now post-poning his threat

to strike Iran's power plants if Iran didn't reopen the straight of her moose.

He said on two social that based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth

detailed and constructive conversations,

which will continue throughout the week.

I have instructed the Pentagon to postpone any and all military strikes

against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period.

What happened to hit in obliterate the straight of her moose is still closed.

The regime is still in place.

None of the military goals have been met but fine.

Deescalation is good, diplomacy is good.

I'm glad to hear Trump and Iran are engaging in dialogue.

Media in Iran this morning is saying there has been no director

indirect contact with Trump.

The Iranians are saying this is fake news.

This is coming from far.

There's semi-official news agencies and they are saying that this is not happened.

There are no talks.

What is happening?

I'm moving to St. Louis, Mr. President.

Can you please explain who in Iran are you talking to?

President.

A top person.

We're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader.

You know, it's a little tough.

They've wiped out, we've wiped out everybody.

Is that the great leader?

No, not the supreme leader.

But the people that seem to be running it and they seem that based on really fact

because things they've said have taken place.

Mr. President, I can't.

Mr. President, I know you're deporious.

I don't want them to be killed.

I don't want them to be killed.

But if they were to be killed, I would immediately f***ed on their grave

with a post on Drew social.

The minute they die, you're going to get my true feelings about them.

None of them are good.

Can you at least tell us what the plan is if these talks do work out?

What about the straight-up or moves?

Who's going to be in control of them?

That'll be open to a very soon if this works.

How soon?

And who's in control of it?

Will Iran still be able to control the flow of oil?

Be jointly controlled.

Find them.

Maybe me.

Maybe me.

You want the United States?

Me and the Iatola, whoever the Iatola is.

Well, well, don't overwhelm us with details.

You answer that like the question was, who's coming to Game Night?

I don't know me, the Iatola.

But maybe the Iatola is roommate.

Also, has this been the plan from the beginning that you and the Iatola

were going to go into business together?

I'm not sure how Barnes and Noble started collaborating,

but I'm guessing it wasn't because Barnes killed Noble's dad.

I'll do fiction.

You do nonfiction.

You killed my dad!

So the war is wildly unpopular,

and it's getting even more unpopular as it drags on.

And here's how you know it's not going well.

Today, Trump generously gave someone else credit for coming up with the idea.

I called Pete.

I called General Kane.

I called a lot of our great people.

We have great people.

And I said, let's talk.

We got a problem in the Middle East.

Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up.

And you said, let's do it.

I think Pete was the one who came up with this whole war idea.

You were the one, Pete, who came.

And you know, I was skeptical at first.

I said, won't this spike oil prices?

Pete over here, he said, I think it's going to work out perfectly.

And if it doesn't, it's my fault.

Not yours.

A lot's on the line for old Pete over here.

We have soaring gas prices, chaos at airports,

and the president's posting deranged stuff from his social media account

while blaming other people for a wildly unpopular war he can't explain.

I don't know what he's going to do in Iran,

but when it comes to his poll numbers,

it seems like his plan is to hit and obliterate.

This has been a closer look.

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Our guest tonight is an Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated actor

you know from shows like This Is Us,

an American Crime Story, as well as the film American Fiction.

He stars in and executes his paradise.

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Please welcome back to the show our friend Sterling Kay Brown, everybody.

Oh, hello my friend.

How are you?

I'm great brother, how about you?

I'm wonderful.

Nice job, the Oscars!

We're doing a really nice performance

with our friend Conan Obrade.

Yeah.

In all of it.

A little bit of a Casablanca.

It was very good!

It was a good time time!

Were you nervous about, I mean again,

You've been on stage at things like the Emmys and whatnot.

But like, doing a sketch at the Oscars is a whole other thing.

It is a pretty big audience.

It's kind of like the world.

Yep.

And you think about that before, like, at first,

you're like, oh, you know, a few people

have seen maybe this eclipse, and they're like,

not a whole world, it's a whole world, yeah, yeah.

Try to get it right.

Try to get it right.

You were mobile.

You were more mobile than you were at the Emmys this year

where you came out with a scooter.

And it's correct.

Now, how did you injure yourself?

I know, but tell you the people here.

I was doing this thing that middle-aged black men

do call play basketball.

Uh-huh.

I went left, and then I went down.

Like, nobody touched me.

I didn't get hit.

And I said, hey, who stepped on my foot?

And they're like, sir, what do you mean?

Because I'm unxtatic now.

I got a grip on the beard.

And I was like, hey, just apologize.

And I'll be OK.

And they're like, sir, nobody stepped on your foot.

And then I tried to stand up, and I sat back down.

That scoots my black ass off the court.

And I rooted my team on to victory,

because we're playing high school kids, and we still won.

OK.

Thank you.

That was the important part.

By the way, when you hit the ground,

and they call you, sir, you know it's serious.

You know it's serious.

Sorry, sir.

Yeah.

Oh, no, sir, it's the Achilles, isn't it?

It was bad.

Were you playing with your sons when it happened?

My sons' coaches.

So the coaches were playing against high school kids.

OK, got it.

And who was giving more grief about it?

Your wife or your boys?

My wife said, so I called her up, and I said,

hey, man, where's that emergency room that we normally go to?

Yeah.

And she's like, why, yes?

I was like, I just got to stop by real quick.

Check something out.

And she was like, sterling.

Like, it was like, gilly.

Yeah, that was like, huh?

And then the coach finally told her what happened.

And she's like, you're just going to take yourself

to the emergency room, because he wanted to drive me.

But Brown doesn't leave the whip unattended.

So I drove myself, because I tore the left foot.

I'm still dry.

This thing works fine, and I drove myself to the emergency room.

You know what?

If your wife was anything like mine,

I bet she was also pretty disappointed.

You didn't know where the ER was.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

That's true.

There were certain things Alexi asked me.

What we had kids.

She's like, no, like the five most important things.

That would be one of them.

And I did not know.

Yeah, when you're like, what's that 911 number?

How do you do that?

That's for information, right?

You also did a, you and your wife were

on Michelle Obama's podcast.

We were.

And she gave you a hard time about the injury.

She gave me a, I think so.

I spoke to her husband about it.

Name brought it.

Yeah, yeah.

It actually wasn't.

I actually, you know what?

Yeah.

I want to say it's not a name drop

when you say Michelle Obama's husband.

But it's like, it's actually called a name dot.

I tried to, yeah, underplay it.

You mean, let's drop it.

He said, he stopped playing like at age 55, right?

So I was like, I mean, I got like,

six more years before, like, why are you getting on my back?

But she said it, I don't know.

It just happens, man.

It was one of those things where I warmed up.

I did all the stretching and everything,

like everything that I was supposed to do,

and it still just happened.

Yeah, it's my recommendation.

Don't tear your Achilles.

Yeah, okay.

It sucks.

I know, I've heard about it.

I think our friend, Sandberg, Andy Sandberg,

I think he tore his plate of soccer.

Yeah, same thing.

Just like where it's like, what happened?

Two old.

Two old.

Yeah, that's it.

Two old.

You're about to April, I believe.

Big five, oh, is that right?

Big five, oh, congratulations.

Big five, oh, congratulations.

Thank you.

Do you have big plans?

I asked my wife to throw me a roast.

Oh, you'll regret it.

Do you think so?

What about you?

What are your friends?

Did they understand where the line is?

I think so.

Yeah.

As this voice goes up to, I feel like,

laughter is my love language.

There you go.

The laugh with the people that you love

and laugh at yourself is important.

So I just want to make people make fun of me

and have a good time.

Also, I feel like you can put your full faith

in your wife to get it right

and to ask the right people.

You also just celebrate your 20th anniversary

with her in place.

Good day, 20 years.

Thank you very much.

I think that's more impressive than being 50 for four.

I agree.

Totally.

And I imagine laughter is a pretty important element

of 20 years.

We laugh every day, like even through hard things.

And it doesn't mean that you don't go through hard things,

but the ability to laugh at it, reflect on it,

and just find something humorous about it

makes it a little bit easier.

There you go.

That's good advice.

I have more to ask you.

Fantastic show.

We'll be right back.

We're out of.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Welcome back, everybody.

We're here with Taylor Brown from Paradise.

By the way.

Yeah, man.

That guy's about to tear his Achilles.

Yeah.

What they're putting you through.

With the wrong dude, man.

This is a fascinating show.

First, it took place first season in a bunker

at a natural disaster.

Yes.

Now we're out of the bunker.

That is correct.

Dan Fogham in the show creator.

You told us last time you were here,

he had a plan for three seasons of this show.

We just got picked up for the third season.

We're just fantastic.

So you're going to get to tell the whole story.

Thank you very much.

Obviously, you worked with Dan before.

It must be with this one, you started

a part earlier in the process that was this is us

where you were cast.

Has it just been fantastic to work with him

on a different level?

It's friggin' awesome, man.

That's my guy.

Yeah.

I friggin' love everything about him.

He's smart.

He's funny.

He's deeply empathetic.

Like, he understands character, how people interact

with each other, and he understands story.

Like, giving you that hook that makes you want to come back

weekend and week up.

Like, if we get a chance to do it again,

we can be like Scorsese and Denero,

but not of television and black and Jewish.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It works for me.

I'm glad you didn't say Scorsese and DeCaprio,

you're too old for that.

There you go.

Way through.

A very unkind thing, or maybe not,

but people always say, don't work with animals,

don't work with children.

Dan has, basically, you spend a lot of this season

with a baby strapped.

And a horse.

A real baby strapped your chest.

Yeah.

This is not every action movie actor's dream.

No.

How has the baby been?

And how many different babies are there?

Brown love the babies.

OK.

I love the babies.

Little white baby, very sweet, very kind.

I like taking care of little white babies, this is my history.

It is, there's two babies.

There's usually twins.

In this case, there's two different babies.

But you have a hero baby.

And if that one gets, you know,

a wild-up thing you bring in baby number two.

Right.

Is it important to let baby number two know their baby number two?

You're only in this scene because something went wrong.

With our first choice, baby.

I usually don't tell them, but they know.

They know, yeah.

Perfect.

I do know.

I was like, I've been in this trailer for a long time, man.

But I'm kind of a baby whisperer.

Are you really?

Yeah, man.

Like, I try to go into the trailer before we shoot,

hang out with the baby, know his or her name,

play around with them a little bit.

So when I get them on set, like that,

we already have them a little bit smarter.

I'm sure you save yourself a lot of time in everybody else.

Wait, yes, totally.

I want to ask, because it's a story

that seems too good to be true.

But you gave Dan, a Pokemon, a gift one time.

And this is a story I've heard him tell, but...

Yeah, man.

All right, so...

So, okay.

So, I drink socially.

Yeah.

Like, I don't drink a whole lot.

But when you get nominated for awards and things,

people love to give you alcohol.

Yes.

They're like, he drinks, look at him.

Well, it's also...

And it's an easy gift, right?

It's an easy gift, right?

So...

LAUGHTER

Well, Pokemon had a birthday, right,

because he's two months older than me.

His birthday's in February, mind's in April.

And for his birthday a couple of years ago,

I gave him like this bottle of LaFroig, right?

Very fancy bottle.

No, it was Blue.

It was Johnny Walker.

Johnny Walker Blue, that's the real deal.

It was like high level.

I was like, I don't know the difference.

I don't drink that much, right?

I give him the blue.

And so, he goes to break open the blue.

And it's like, it has stenciled on it.

Like, Emmy Award when it's sterling Cape Brown.

Thank you for your...

Like, so he knew I regifted it.

Yeah.

From something that didn't even pay any attention.

That's fantastic.

What you should have been like,

I wanted you to know is for me.

There you go.

So I engraved my name.

That's it.

I wanted to engrave my name and credits.

It's the Emmy that I won for the show that you wrote.

So that's how it works.

Oh, hey, man.

It's always so good to see you.

Congrats on season three coming.

I got some season 5.

Isn't it about everybody?

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