Trump Says He Will Become "Mr. Veto" If Democrats Win Midterms | with Sam Rockwell, Niecy Nash-Betts, Eric Ripert | Monday, November 2

0:05From Studio 6B and Rock and Miller Center in the heart of York City, it's the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Tonight joins Jimmy and his guests, Sam Rockwell. Hey, hey, hey. Niecy Nash-Betts. He's here for the pair. And featuring the legendary Ruth Hurley. 2363. And now, here he is, Jimmy. Jimmy Fallon!

0:38Oh my God!

0:44How you doing? Hold on, hold on. Hey! How you doing? Hey! How you doing? Hey, good job. Good job. Oh, come on. Come on! Thank you. Thank you very much. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Tonight Show! This is it. Yes. Well, guys, it's finally here. The midterm elections are tomorrow. And President Trump spent the weekend making his closing pitch to voters. Let's see how he did. The people of Iowa are going to elect Ashley Hinson. I knew Ashley for a long time, and she was a little bit heavier, okay? I did not marry my sister. Oh, baby. Oh, mom.

1:31Oh. Ah! I could have won the Vietnam War in a week. I think we've had enough. Yeah, I mean... Pretty much. Pretty much sums it up. That pretty much sums it up right there, yeah. We've gone from presidential rallies to drunken best man speeches. This weekend, Trump held campaign rallies in Kansas and Iowa after canceling, then uncanceling them. He kicked off his speech like, It's great to be here, even though I tried not to be. And get this. Today, Trump made his final rally speech before the midterms at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He also considered speaking in front of the half-built ballroom, a closed Kennedy Center, and the Strait of Hormuz.

2:18But this was more convenient. Only 60 people showed up for Trump's speech at the Reflecting Pool. Yeah. At one point, he was begging vandals to show up. He was like, 60 people, that's not a rally. That's a spin class. Meanwhile, with the blue wave looking more and more likely, Trump says that he will become Mr. Vito if Democrats take control of Congress. Mr. Vito sounds like the guy who got to fix the reflecting pool. Hey, you do it. Hey. We're going to put the Lincoln Jacuzzi over there, and then we're going to... Well, how about a little water slide? Uh-oh. Right now, there's a 96 % chance the Democrats take the House.

2:59Usually when Trump loses the House, it's in a divorce. The top issues for voters are the economy, health care, the war, gas prices, and corruption. Or as Trump put it, uh-oh, oh no, eek, yikes, and no bueno. Now listen to this. I saw that on Saturday night, Trump attended a jungle-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. Yep, the party was jungle-themed, and guests were told to dress up as all the animals Trump could spot on his cognitive test. You guys see this? Vice President J.D. Vance celebrated Halloween by dressing up as Dumbledore. Check it out. Oh, yeah. Trump saw the blonde wig and asked Vance to be his new press secretary.

3:42Can we see Dumbledore? Yeah. Nailed it! Well, the midterm elections are tomorrow, which, of course, means that tonight is midterm election eve. So, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell a classic bedtime story.

4:02"'Twas the night before the midterms, and win, lose, or draw, the president was yelling, "'I love the meat! Ah !" So many issues on the ballot. what would fail, what would pass, while the president said... I watched up and down. I looked at his ass. Trump's approval rating was low, his reputation in shambles. But at least he can remember... A lion, a bear, a snake, and a camel. Some predicted a blue wave. Will Congress go left? While the president said... 90 % of the reason I took the governor... If the Republicans lose, he'll claim sabotage and run to his top advisor. Nicki Minaj. So fill out your ballot and slide it into the machine.

4:56It's as easy as this. Or E. There you go. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yes!

5:07That's right. Tomorrow's Election Day, which means a lot of people will be walking around with their I Voted stickers. and this year there are actually a bunch of new voting stickers to choose from. For instance, there's...

5:21There's also...

5:26Here's another...

5:31Up next, there's...

5:43There's also... There's also, I voted to cancel out my crazy dad's vote. Oh. Then there's also, I voted to cancel out my crazy son's vote. And finally, there's, I voted and ran the marathon, so, yeah, I think I'm better than you. That's right. I think we have some people here tonight that ran the marathon. Congratulations. That's good. Good job, buddy. Congratulations, pal. Well, congratulations, bud. And finally, guys, as I mentioned, the midterm elections are tomorrow, and there are so many polls out there, and some have pretty interesting results. I'll show you what I mean. It's time for Tonight Show Polls.

6:24Here we go.

6:30The first poll asks, how did you spend your Sunday? 5 % said reading. 10 % said taking a walk. 85 % said figuring out how the hell to change the clock in my microwave. It's like... Press popcorn and then you and hold it. The next poll asks... 70 % said Noah Wiley. 29 % said Glenn Powell. Jay-Z said Jay-Z. The next poll asks... 20 % said no. 20 % said not really. 60 % said no, but I have walked into a bath in Body Works, and that's pretty much the same thing.

7:17This next poll asks...

7:35There you go. That's all the time we have for Tonight Show polls. We have a great show tonight. Sam Rockwell is here tonight. Nisi Nash-Beth is joining us. Eric Repair is here. Stick around. We'll be right back with Sam Rockwell, everybody. Come on back.

8:09Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actor who stars in the new movie Wild Horse 9, which hits theaters this Friday. Please welcome Sam Rockwell!

8:28Thank you very much. Wow, that's... Oh. Uh... Hi. How's it going? Welcome. Hi! Yeah. Yeah. Everything okay there, buddy? No, it's great to be here. I just got a little sciatica thing going on. Hey, Sam, come on. Every time you've been out on our show, every time we've introduced you, you always come out dancing. You always do a dance when you come out. You've been doing that since 2009. Every single appearance, you've danced. When I announce you, you come out here. What an ass jack. Look at this guy. No! What are you talking about? A talented guy. A guy that has moves, and people want to see...

9:06I don't... I... I... I'm just... I don't think anybody wants to see... You don't think they want... You don't think they want to see you dance? You don't think they want to see it? You come in, Stan Rockwell in the house? You want me to reintroduce... Let me reintroduce you. Can I reintroduce you? Okay, I got a little psoas thing going on. No, you don't. I'll try. No, you don't. All right. All right. Okay, I'm gonna come out. Sorry to make you do that. I'll just give you... I'll give you another intro there. Sorry about that, Sam.

9:47Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actor, one of my all-time favorites. He stars in the new movie Wild Horse 9, which hits theaters this Friday. Please welcome Sam Rockwell!

10:21Oh, my God. Sam! Sam Rockwell, welcome to the show. I'm a little shaky. Yeah, you're a little shaky. Oh, my God. That was a little nunchuck chicken dance. That was fantastic. Never seen that one done before. Well, welcome to the show. Wow! That's what they say. Welcome to the show. So happy that you're back. I love you so much. Thanks for doing any of those bits. Not only are you a great dancer, but you're one of my favorite actors as well. Thanks, man. You have a lot. You do a lot of things. You're a talented, talented individual. And people love seeing you. How about these guys? The Roots. Yeah.

11:00There's a back two. Sam, I want to get to know the actor, Sam. How about you? No, no, not tonight, buddy. I want to know more about Sam Rockwell. That's why we're here. That's why people are tuning in. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Let's talk about it. Can you give us some tips on acting? No, how about this? Could you really, seriously? Angry? No, no, no, no. But, like, how about auditioning? Do you have any tips for, like, how would I audition? Yeah. Well, you know, I used to listen to the door before the audition before me, which could backfire. And you might hear that it's bad, and then you feel good about yourself.

11:38Or they're, like, laughing, and they're like, Ha-ha-ha! Call us any time! You know, and then you're like, uh-oh. Oh, I don't know if I would do that. It went really... Exactly. So you would hear the audition, and you'd go, Oh, I didn't like that. It could backfire, and you'd be like, Oh, s***, they really liked Josh Brolin. We were always up for the same parts, me and Josh. Exactly. Yeah, and then I would never get it. That could backfire. Or you give them low expectations. You go in and tell them you're not prepared. That happened with the Green Mile. I told them I hadn't looked at it. Oh, that's kind of interesting.

12:07Yeah, so it's a strategy so they have low expectations. And, uh, but that can backfire. But that worked for you. You got Green Mile. Well, it almost didn't work. Oh, really? You went in and you go, I wonder what this movie's about, man. Exactly. Exactly. I don't know, man. What am I doing? What am I doing over here with this movie? I don't understand. What is it, a green mild? I don't understand. What is it, a sandwich? Why isn't it purple? Why? Yeah, it's so smart. That's your idea. You know, and then... You can't improvise that. You can't do that. No, and they didn't like it. The casting director, Mally Finn, God rest her soul, she got really...

12:44Legend. She got upset, yeah. And so... She didn't like it. Then I got uptight, and then I started hyperventilating, and then I went and I almost blew the audition, but then... She was like, I can't believe you're not prepared for this. Because we've known you for years, Sam. You're always prepared. And you're like, well, not tonight. And you're like, just go along with my... I'm trying to get a job here, man. Exactly. Jeez. So it cannot work sometimes. You know, I saw something on the Internet I wanted to ask you about. Yeah. Paul Walter Hauser wants to do... He wants to do a Chris Farley biopic.

13:15Yeah. And he wants you to play Lorne Michaels. Oh, my gosh. Well, I think Paul would be an amazing Chris Farley. Yeah. I-I think I'd be... I'd rather do, like, Bill Murray. Um... That'd be your move? Would you be... What about you as Lor... How about Lorne Michaels for you? Would you rather be Bill Murray or Chevy Chase? Yeah, you think I could be that? What would... Could you do Lorne Michaels? No. Can you do a Lorne Michaels impersonation? Well... Because I... I sure as hell can't. Will you introduce me? All right. I'll be... I'll be Chris Walken. Okay, good. And then I'll do it. All right, go.

13:55Hey, Lauren, come on in. I got lots of french fries. French fries with gravy.

14:09Not that good? That's not bad? Is that Adam Sandler? No, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Whatever. I mix them up. I mix them up all the time. Would you consider it? No, you would do Bill Murray. That's your dude? I don't think I could do Lauren. God bless him. I wish I could do it. It's tough to do. People do, like, a fake Lorne. They do, like, the Dana Carvey version of the Lorne, which is funny, but it's not really how he sounds. Yeah, well, Mike Myers did the... Yes. Yeah, Dr. Evil is Lorne. Is that Lorne? No. No. It's ish. It's not really Lorne, but it's takes on it. You can... Sam Rockwell brings anything to the party.

14:42When you show up... I'm gonna try. Yeah. By the way, you showed up. Wild Horse 9. Let's talk about this movie. Come on now. This is happening this weekend. Go see it this Friday. It's a really good movie, yeah. It is phenomenal. But we just had Parker Posey on, by the way, who's fantastic. Oh, you did? Yes. She's great. She's amazing. We did Hot Ones together. You did not? Yeah, yeah. I think it's gonna break the Internet. I think it's gonna... Oh, no. I don't... Does she like spicy stuff? I don't think so. No, no, no. She's so fun. I don't know, but she's funny, man. She's so fun. She's so fun.

15:14She's the best. I love her. But you guys also together on John Malkovich. John Malkovich. Martin McDonough. This is a Martin McDonough film, and you've worked with Martin... A lot of times, yeah, and he's... I'm very lucky. I always tell you this every time you come on, but I kind of forget that it's you when I'm watching these movies, because I know you so well, and I go, oh, yeah, I love Sam's... And then it's a totally different character, and it's a different person. You just... You get me in the zone. I love you. And then John Malkovich. I'm like, that's... He's incredible, yeah. That's like playing tennis with one of the greatest tennis...

15:43It is. I mean, it's like acting with him. It is. It is. There was a moment in the rehearsals. We were rehearsing at the public theater, and Martin just politely said, can you turn up the heat on that one line? And he just, he said, yeah, yeah, no problem. And he did, just the hair blew back on our heads. Wow. He did that burn after reading in the line of fire, you know. And we were like, oh yeah, we got tickets to the John Malkovich show. Yeah, you got front row tickets, yeah. It's so great. It's getting award show buzz, very well deserved. By the way, how do we set up what Wild Horse 9 is about?

16:14CIA, the 1970s, Pinochet, all that kind of crazy stuff in Chile. Yeah, that's it. Hijinks ensue. There you go. I like that. Come on! Yeah! That's how you do it, Sam Rockwell, everybody! Wild Horse 9 hits theaters this Friday. We'll be right back with more Tonight Show. Stick around!

16:44I'm a twin, twin, twin, twin, twin, twin, twin, twin, so when I never get a little better. Our next guest is an Emmy Award winner starring in the series All's Fair. Season 2 premieres this Wednesday with three episodes on Hulu. Please welcome Nisi Nash-Betz!

17:09A standing ovation. They love you, Nisi Nash-Betz. Welcome, and thank you so much for being here. You look fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. And I will say happy Halloween, only because I know that you're a big Halloween fan. You go kind of... Huge. You've got to go crazy on Halloween. I do. You do? Every year. Always. Without a doubt. Since you were a kid? Yes. Wow. Loved dressing up. I loved it. And you know what's funny? When I was a little girl, I would get that costume that was plastic. You step in it, and then it's just got the little face with the rubber band on the back. And I would cry every year.

17:45Remember, they would say, well, what do you want to be then? And I would say, a lady. Oh. And so I'm glad I could be a lady. Now I hear you. I had those same costumes. I want to show some of you. This is your costume this year. Oh, yes. You guys dress up as Monica and Brandy. You look exactly. That's crazy. The boy is mine, Tora. Look at that detail. Are you kidding me? Oh, yeah. But here's one. And this is you guys dressed as Rihanna and A$AP Rocky from the Met Gala. Oh, yes. That was us, too. And you know what was funny about this? I was presenting at the Golden Globes or something, and I got ready to pull the card out.

18:26And I looked, and there was Riri sitting right in front of me. I said, girl, I got to tell you I love you. Did you see that I was you for Halloween? She was like, as a matter of fact, I did. She saw that you did that? She's fun. They're both fun. Here's one of you as... Who am I? Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Not bad, by the way. Well done. Thank you. You know how to do it. I'm a good time. You do have a good time. I read somewhere also that you have a new... You have like a weekend tradition that I was gonna ask you about if it's true. Do you... Is it... Is it skinny dipping and eating crab?

19:06You got it right. Is that correct? Yeah, but I drink expensive champagne as well. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. I missed the biggest part. Right. So when I got together with my spouse... Yeah. ...after eating crabs, my clothes just fell off. So... I keep it going. I keep it going. Every weekend, I make crabs. Every weekend, my clothes fall off. Oh, my God. That's so funny. I... I wanted to ask you about that. I also wanted to ask you about, you have a new podcast coming out, a true crime podcast. Yes. Which I'm obsessed with. Mother Knows Murder. Mother Knows Murder. Yeah, that's my daughter right there.

19:52I mean, what are your true crime podcasts? What are the shows you watch? All of them. Yeah. Anything. Anything and everything. The women who did it. The guy who got away. All of them. I don't care what they are. We watch them all. And then we call each other, and then we trade stories to see who has the best stories. So I was just like, why don't we just... Yeah, since we do it anyway. Yeah. And are you actually in bed next to each other talking about these crimes? Sometimes. That's a lot of the time how it ends up. But, you know, we can't talk too long, because I got to get to eating crab. Oh, yeah.

20:34I want to tell you about All's Fair. Thank you for congratulations. Season two, by the way. Season two. What a cast. You see Nash Betts. You have Kim Kardashian. You have Tara Paulson. Glenn Close. Naomi Watts. How was it like working with all of that cast? Oh, I love the ladies. And see, the thing of it is, is that now that we're in the second season, this is when you really know who people are, okay? Uh-huh, yes. The first season is like summer camp. You can't, you know, everybody loves everybody. Second season, especially if you got a bag of bras, it could go any kind of way. But we are still tapped in, we are still locked in, we love each other off camera, um, in a way that I haven't experienced a lot in this business.

21:16Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, because they're all... I know, uh, most of them. I think they've all been on the show. I think that Sarah Paul... Well, this is my first time. First time on our show? Uh-huh. I'm so sorry. I found that hard to believe. I feel like I just saw it. But maybe it was late night. No, that was probably with the other Jimmy.

21:37Who's that? No, but they're all fun. Sarah, Paulson... No, they're great. But, no, but let me tell you something what you guys don't see. Sarah is a disruptor. She really is. If Sarah makes Kimberly, Noelle, Kardashian laugh, you can forget it because we're 30 minutes down. You can... They don't stop. You can go call your better half. You can go have a snack. You can go pee. You can go do a lot of things before they can really back in. So, yeah, it's all over once they start laughing. Definitely. Forget about it. Yeah, how about Glenn Close, who's also fun? She's hilarious. Let me tell you something.

22:14Glenn Close... I had no idea she was that funny. Now, I thought, you know, Madame Close. Like, you know, I don't know. I just thought that she was, you know... Proper. She was very proper. On our last day, she drives in a car. Her feet are hanging and legs out the back window. She's like, bye, you suckers! I'm like, what? So funny. Here's you, Naomi, and Kim. Tell me about this picture. You know, we had to wear these outfits for so long that everybody just started calling us ketchup, mustard, and mayo. And... You know, can you please bring mustard back to the set? I mean, it was a lot of that.

22:59Yeah. The first season of All's Fair was a huge hit, but you were telling me backstage the critics weren't really fans. That's a very lovely way of putting it. They hated us! They did. They hated us. They dragged us down to hell. Do you understand me? Really? And I just, I don't know if they didn't know what the show was, but they hated us, but the audience loved it. Yeah. They, we, you know, the numbers through the roof, all of the things. so we were able to say, in your face! That's right, yeah. Good for you. Success. Success is the best move in. Even my mama said, she said, you got a zero on rotten tomatoes.

23:41They couldn't have gave y 'all one tomato? He couldn't even get one tomato out of it. No, we couldn't, but fans all over the world have leaned into the show to amazing numbers. Number one in 26 countries or so. So congratulations. That's how you do it. And now you're back. I'm back. Season two, All is Fair. What do we have to say? What's going on with your character? Ooh, well, you know, my character this season is an empty nester. So I know what I was doing when I became an empty nester, but you got to tune in to see what Emeril is gonna do. Yeah, all right. Nisi Nash-Betz, everybody. All is Fair.

24:19Season two premieres this Wednesday on Hulu. We'll be right back with Eric Rappier. Please come back. Please.

24:40Our next guest is a world-renowned chef and the co-owner of the three Michelin star restaurant Le Bernardin. His new book, Mindful Cooking, is available now. Everyone, please welcome Eric Repair!

25:05Chef, welcome back to the show. You know I'm a big fan of yours. I think you're a genius. Congrats on the new book. It looks gorgeous, by the way. We're going to talk about all this. I was going to ask you, did you always know that you were going to be a chef? Or did you try other things? No, actually, my entire life, I wanted to be the chef that I am today. Really? Yeah, when I was four or five years old, I wanted to be the chef to eat, not to cook. Oh, yeah. Right? And then I grew up and I went to culinary school. Yeah. And I really enjoy cooking at home, in school. But the school wanted me to potentially become a waiter after one year of doing cooking and service.

25:48And I didn't want to be a waiter. I wanted to become the chef. So... So they invited my mom, and they said, you're going to look at your son, and we're going to show you what he can do in a dining room. And I was the sommelier that day. You had to serve your mom? I served my mom. I was the sommelier. They gave me an easy job. Just open the bottles, pour the wine, cocktails. And then the general come with a table of four, and he wants some cocktails. I bring the cocktail. A general from the French army. Oh, my God. That's more pressure than your mom. A little bit. For sure. I remove the glass to serve him, and the tray falls on his head.

26:29So that's bad, right? So the teacher says, don't worry about your mom. It's OK. You have to clean up. You have to come back. I mean, in real life, you have to finish the job. So I do that. I go back to the bar. I come back. I try to serve. And it was an ice cube on the floor left from the previous incident. The tray goes on his wife. Oh, my gosh. Long story short, they asked me to go back to the bar, and I go back, I come back, I serve. Finally, the table, and it was some water in my tray that fell on the neck of the general. And then they were like, kitchen. Yeah. Used to be a chef. Used to be a chef.

27:10Uh, congrats on the book, Mindful Cooking. This is inspired by your time visiting monasteries and temples in Korea. Yes. And Japan. And I will say, every recipe is amazing. But the photos in here by Nigel Perry are just stunning. Look at this. Just beautiful photos. If you got a tomato salad like that, I would cry. I mean, this is just... There's like an avocado in here. Look at that thing. Wow. I would just look at this all day long. They're gorgeous. His dear friend is a great photographer. I think he took a portrait of you. I think I remember Nigel Perry. He's the greatest. Yes. How did you get into this and what made you want to do this now?

27:49So I wanted to go to Korea and go to the temples and disconnect from New York and the crazy world that we live in. And I have been many times. I take retreats and then I come back refreshed. And then I realized their food was very good and beautifully presented and I was interested in that. But going back and going back, I realized it was really a practice, It's a practice of being grateful, mindfulness, which means being in the present, having the right intentions, right mindset, putting love and compassion into the process of cooking, and inspiration as well. It's some of the guiding principles in this book.

28:33So this book is not a Buddhist book. It's a secular book, but embracing all those guiding principles. Yeah. Do you believe that, that if you put love into a dish? Oh, I believe that. My grandmother was making every day an apple tart for me. Yeah. And it was the best apple tart in the world because the love was in it. And you could go to the pastry store or pastry shop next to the house or to another market. They were beautiful tarts, but never taste the same. So I believe that strongly. Put some love into it. Yeah. That's exactly right. That's why you're the best. You brought me a little tea to have so we can celebrate your book.

29:14What tea did we make to it? So, actually, it's a recipe in the book. So this tea, it's actually a tea to a cleansing tea. It's not going to fall. I'm sorry about that. I've seen you surf. Sorry. My dad was a general in the French army. I don't want to get into it. I saw you doing a macaron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were amazing. I did, dude. Thank you. I appreciate that. So it's made with sage, oregano, rosemary, mint, thyme, and you'll see it's powerful. It's almost like... And the biggest ingredient. Look. Come on. Thanks, bud. You can put tequila, too. I can do that, too.

30:00Wow. It's like... Yes! Invigorating. I love this. Absolutely. He's the best. That's Eric Repera. Thank you so much. The greatest. Mindful Cooking is available now everywhere. Books are sold. More tonight's show after the break. Stick around. Fantastic. My back definition is wild. I wrote graffiti as a human. I'm in.

30:27My thanks to Sam Rockwell, Nisi Nash, Betts, Erica Pear, and, of course, the roots right there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Good night, everybody. Bye-bye.

31:09Yeah, I said Go love, go love, y 'all Go love Love, get it, mate

31:24I said

31:32Pull the bow

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