--- title: Comey Hearing: Watch Seth Meyers on Trump Tweets VIDEO description: Seth Meyers was clearly baffled by President Donald Trump's decision to tweet about FBI Director James Comey's congressional hearing. canonical: https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-21T15:46:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:02.978Z og:title: Seth Meyers Denounces Trump's 'Crazy' Tweets About the Comey Hearing og:description: "Witnesses in a hearing are now fact checking the president's tweets" og:url: https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Denounces Trump's 'Crazy' Tweets About the Comey Hearing twitter:description: "Witnesses in a hearing are now fact checking the president's tweets" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Denounces Trump's 'Crazy' Comey Hearing Tweets > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 21, 2017 3:46 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 21, 2017 3:46 PM UTC [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4705083/seth-meyers-trump-meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/) was clearly baffled by [President Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4707742/president-trump-colin-kaepernick/) decision to tweet about [FBI Director James Comey’s congressional hearing](http://time.com/4707410/comey-hearing-donald-trump-setbacks/) while testimony was still ongoing. During the “A Closer Look” segment of Monday’s episode of _Late Night_, the host commented on the irregularity of Congress asking Comey about Trump’s [tweet claiming](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/843772976151642112) that former director of National Intelligence James Clapper had stated during the hearing that Russia did not influence the electoral process. “Witnesses in a hearing are now fact checking the president’s tweets about that hearing during the hearing,” he said. “We are now at the point where the crazy things the president says are making their way to the halls of Congress and wasting the time of allies, intelligence officials and the FBI director.” Meyers also joked about Comey saying he could not comment on the specifics of the FBI’s probe into the Trump’s campaign’s potential ties to Russia after [publicly announcing](http://time.com/4550453/hillary-clinton-james-comey-fbi-emails/) 11 days before the 2016 election that his agency was re-examining [Hillary Clinton’s email investigation](http://time.com/4550323/hillary-clinton-anthony-weiner-emails/). “I’m not saying Comey cost Clinton the election but his name is definitely on the list that Hillary mutters like Arya Stark when she’s walking in the woods,” he quipped, referencing the _Game of Thrones_ character’s [infamous kill list](http://time.com/4385792/game-of-thrones-arya-stark-kill-list/). “James Comey, Wikileaks, the Hound…Anthony Weiner.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Denounces Trump's 'Crazy' Comey Hearing Tweets","datePublished":"2017-03-21T15:46:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:02.978Z","description":"\"Witnesses in a hearing are now fact checking the president's tweets\"","url":"https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","James Comey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4707777/comey-hearing-seth-meyers-on-trump/","name":"Seth Meyers Denounces Trump's 'Crazy' Comey Hearing Tweets"}}]}] ```