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Speaker 1: all right. Before we get into the big stories, let's
Speaker 1: catch up on a few other things that are going
Speaker 1: on in the world. First up, some international news. New
Speaker 1: Zealand maybe getting a new name. Yes, yeah, Maori politicians
Speaker 1: have launched the campaign to restore one of the country's
Speaker 1: original names, altar roa right, yeah, And I think we
Speaker 1: can all be honest, like they can put a lot
Speaker 1: of thought into naming it New Zealand in the first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the colonize was so lad this is New Zealand.
Speaker 1: There's New England, New York. Zero effort. It's like Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson Colley the next girl for a New Kim Terrible.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. Meanwhile, in health News, officials in
Speaker 1: New York say that hundreds of people in the States
Speaker 1: may be infected with polio because so many people are unvaccinated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I guess New York is back back in the
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. And you know, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. Yeah, I don't polio. You want
Speaker 1: to come for me? Come ye, You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: fight for space in my body with COVID and monkey parks,
Speaker 1: just going on, just going at it, just going and hard.
Speaker 1: Oh and in uh. In politics, in politics, According to
Speaker 1: a new book about the Trump White House, President Trump
Speaker 1: complained that his national security team wasn't loyal enough to him, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: why can't you be like the German generals in World
Speaker 1: War Two? Yeah, that's right. Fox News was out there
Speaker 1: every day, like these liberals are so over the top,
Speaker 1: always comparing Trump to Hitler. Meanwhile, Trump was going, why
Speaker 1: won't people treat me more like Hitler? Why not? Nad
Speaker 1: And it actually, it actually got even more alarming than that.
Speaker 1: Later in the same meeting, he told his generals to
Speaker 1: find the arc of the government before Indiana Jones got
Speaker 1: his hands on it. And I'm joking, but that's not
Speaker 1: even the real story. So this is the crazy part.
Speaker 1: After Trump went off about how his generals should be
Speaker 1: as loyal as Hitlers were, General Kelly's response to him was,
Speaker 1: you do know that they tried to kill Hitler three
Speaker 1: times and almost pulled it off. And I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I feel like that information didn't
Speaker 1: change Trump's opinion of the German generals. Like like knowing Trump,
Speaker 1: he was probably like those losers try to kill Hitler
Speaker 1: three times and they choked like a dog, like a dog,
Speaker 1: couldn't get it done. You know who, We're able to
Speaker 1: kill Hitler in the first try, Hitler. It's called leadership,
Speaker 1: paper leadership. But anyway, let's move on to some of
Speaker 1: the beginning stories of the day, starting off with President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, who had himself one hell of a weekend.
Speaker 1: First of all, he finally tested negative again for COVID.
Speaker 1: I was allowed to leave quarantine for the first time
Speaker 1: in eighteen days. Yeah, so he's back in as good
Speaker 1: as you or whatever he was when he went in.
Speaker 1: And in eighteen days is a long time in quarantine.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure he'll get right back into the string
Speaker 1: of things, you know, because being president is a lot
Speaker 1: like you know, riding a big oh Joe done, don't
Speaker 1: do it. So the good news for Biden is that
Speaker 1: he's out of quarantine, and even more good news for
Speaker 1: Biden is that he's now in the history books. The
Speaker 1: historic vote in the Senate, major major victory tonight for
Speaker 1: the Democrats and for our planet. This morning, Democrats triumphant.
Speaker 1: Every member of my caucus is elated about what happened
Speaker 1: because we've really, we've changed the world in a way
Speaker 1: that you rarely get an opportunit unity to do that,
Speaker 1: passing a sweeping climate, healthcare, and economic package after twenty
Speaker 1: two straight hours of dusk to don work over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote for
Speaker 1: Democrats to pass the bill, which boasts climate spending and
Speaker 1: billions and energy investments, also reducing prices of prescription drugs
Speaker 1: by letting Medicare negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies, a major
Speaker 1: legislative victory for Democrats in Congress and for the Biden
Speaker 1: White House. Suddenly he is one of the most consequential
Speaker 1: legislative presidents since l VJ. In his first two years
Speaker 1: in office. Yeah, don't look now, people, but all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Sleepy Joe has himself a pretty fat stack
Speaker 1: of accomplishments. Yeah, in just the past few weeks, he'll
Speaker 1: have done lower prescription drug prices, the biggest investment in
Speaker 1: green energy ever, healthcare for veterans exposed to burncas investment,
Speaker 1: imputer computer shift production, and he kept the lead of
Speaker 1: el Kada while he was sunbathing. Think about whom safe
Speaker 1: you're like? This means if he keeps this up, his
Speaker 1: approval ratings gonna shoot all the way up to like
Speaker 1: And he did all of this with COVID. I've been
Speaker 1: right now the White House doctors are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how to give COVID back to the President. Again.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys, if we weren't even infected, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: end the one you craid and By the way, I
Speaker 1: know this is weird, but have you noticed that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden seems to be the most successful whenever he disappears. No,
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's weird, but like, like during
Speaker 1: the campaign, right, he went and he hit in the basement,
Speaker 1: and nobody's showing for months, Everyone's where's Joe Biden, Where's
Speaker 1: Joe Biden? And then out of no where, they were
Speaker 1: like they announced that he was the president. Remember he
Speaker 1: even came out on election night. It was just like wait, really, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess me. Then now gas prices crazy, Congress stuck,
Speaker 1: inflation wild, Joe Biden gets COVID, disappears into the basement again,
Speaker 1: and then when he comes out, they tell him that
Speaker 1: not only is he still the president, he is now
Speaker 1: one of the greatest presidents in the history of presidents.
Speaker 1: Gas practice went down, Congress is getting things done. The
Speaker 1: Choco Taco is coming back from that dam. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's in that basement, but whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's working. In fact, I want that basement to be
Speaker 1: president basement to twenty four. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: not like this bill was easy for Biden to get.
Speaker 1: Remember that because it's a right. The Democrats can't afford
Speaker 1: to lose a single vote. So first they spent a
Speaker 1: year convincing Joe Mansion to get on board, and he
Speaker 1: was like, look, I'll back your climate change stuff, but
Speaker 1: only if you let me squeeze baby seals to see
Speaker 1: if there's oil inside. And the Democrats were like sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever. But then at the last minute they had
Speaker 1: to convince Kristen Cinema and she was like, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: sign on, but only if you let me squeeze hedge
Speaker 1: fund manager is to see if there's campaign donations inside.
Speaker 1: And I guess it worked. So let's move on, because
Speaker 1: no matter what you think about Joe Biden's acomplishments, we
Speaker 1: can all agree that he stole the election in Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a landslide victory, but Donald Trump but sneaky
Speaker 1: Joe Byron Heckton to the matrix and turn all the
Speaker 1: voting machines black. No one denies this, and on January six,
Speaker 1: a group of patriots tried to explain all of this
Speaker 1: to Mike Pence's neck, but instead of listening, the U. S.
Speaker 1: Government has been throwing them in jail. They've been locked
Speaker 1: away in those cold cells ever since, with only their
Speaker 1: fur hats to keep them warm. So over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, conservatives gathered in Texas all right to
Speaker 1: raise awareness for just how badly the January six writers
Speaker 1: are being treated and and the way they did this
Speaker 1: was they held a very special tribute that is very
Speaker 1: moving and not at all hilarious. The Insurrection Fallout is
Speaker 1: front and center at Seapack, this year's most buzzed about booth.
Speaker 1: Is this a fake jail cell? What you're watching actually
Speaker 1: happened at Seapack. It features a convicted January six rioter
Speaker 1: doing performance are in a cage wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Speaker 1: Visitors were offered headsets so they could listen to interviews
Speaker 1: with jail January six defendants while watching the actor weep.
Speaker 1: Some viewers wept along with him. Others threw money into
Speaker 1: the cage. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green enters this out
Speaker 1: to pray with him. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, okay,
Speaker 1: just wait, help me understand, Help me understand the logic.
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green is praying for a fake prisoner. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a real thing. She's chance, She's like, who is
Speaker 1: this lady? Like America? This is a person who's actually
Speaker 1: part of running your country. She's in there morning with
Speaker 1: a fake praying for how does she function in the world.
Speaker 1: It's a fake person. She must have the hardest time
Speaker 1: at Broadway shows. They killed Hamilton's I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: in her defense, this actor in the lobby of the
Speaker 1: Spack Convention already commits it to the rule because apparently
Speaker 1: he spent hours in that jail cell weeping the whole
Speaker 1: time just weeping, which, in a way is a powerful
Speaker 1: performance arc because isn't that what conservatism has turned to
Speaker 1: in America? Right? It's just people in maga hats acting
Speaker 1: like they're victims. There's fewer white people now than they
Speaker 1: used to be. We still have all the power. By
Speaker 1: the way, the part that made me laugh the hardest
Speaker 1: it was how people were throwing money into the cave,
Speaker 1: like what what? What is that? This is like the
Speaker 1: only way they know how to interact with arts is
Speaker 1: the same way they interact with you know, just like
Speaker 1: your freedom has been stolen from you. Shake that to
Speaker 1: shake that Now, you would think a story like this
Speaker 1: couldn't get any crazier but truly the best part of
Speaker 1: the story is this actor who played the defendants was
Speaker 1: an actual rioters on January six who reportedly avoided a
Speaker 1: prison sentence by snitching on the other rioters. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: just so you understand, this dude is pretending to be
Speaker 1: a prisoner that he helped sent to prison, which doesn't
Speaker 1: say you snitched on your fellow rioters. They go to
Speaker 1: jail and now you're in the streets. Credit. Man, I
Speaker 1: wish there was something I could have done this not
Speaker 1: they preferred to jail. I wish there's something I could
Speaker 1: have done. This is wild. All right, Let's move on
Speaker 1: to some major news out of the entertainment world. There's
Speaker 1: no denying that they all fall. Too many streaming services
Speaker 1: out there these days. People, it's just too much. There's Hulu,
Speaker 1: the Netflix, as you know, Prime Video, Apple TV Plus,
Speaker 1: Disney Plus. It's getting out of hand. It's getting out
Speaker 1: of hand, especially when Paramount Plus gives you everything that
Speaker 1: you need in one place. You know this the Champions
Speaker 1: League as Rupo's drag Race, because the Daily Show, The
Speaker 1: South Park, the Star Trek, the Daily Show, Beavis and Buttet,
Speaker 1: and of course the Daily Show. What else do you need. So, Yes,
Speaker 1: there are way too many services, but luckily soon there's
Speaker 1: going to be one less. Soon you'll get a two
Speaker 1: for one deal on streaming. HBO Max and Discovery Plus
Speaker 1: will merge next year. Subscribers will have various options between
Speaker 1: HBO scripted entertainment and Discoveries reality based programming. It comes
Speaker 1: as HBO Max struggles with performance and customer issues. The
Speaker 1: CEO of Warner brother says Discovery Plus has better technology
Speaker 1: and will become the core of the new service. No, no,
Speaker 1: no is enough. How many times people going to change
Speaker 1: his name? Huh? It was it was HBO Go and
Speaker 1: then it was HBO Now on HBO Max. Like at
Speaker 1: this point, I feel like they're just missing with us.
Speaker 1: Next month they're gonna be like, on your name is HBO.
Speaker 1: Bitch As says what what ha? So yeah, Warner Brothers,
Speaker 1: Discovery and HBO emerging everything into one giant company. I
Speaker 1: know that's gonna be weird, but I for one cannot
Speaker 1: wait to see how all of these biggest shows combine.
Speaker 1: Coming up on House Hunter's Western Roast, Jerry is looking
Speaker 1: for a bigger space in King's Landing for his growing family. Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all a sword chair. What is this like,
Speaker 1: seven guys, Let's switch that. Let's just switch that whole
Speaker 1: thing off, you know. Let's put in a cute ottoman,
Speaker 1: knock down some of these walls. Yeah, switch out the
Speaker 1: blood with a fresh coat of paint. Yeah, we gotta
Speaker 1: do that. We gotta fix the thermer staff. That's way
Speaker 1: too hot, way too hot. And also on the new HBOS,
Speaker 1: every stay tuned for the premiere of our new series
Speaker 1: ninety day Succession to fundamentally alter the nature of the
Speaker 1: family on my wedding day. You have any consumption? How god,
Speaker 1: I'm so fish you are. I just want a green card.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we
Speaker 1: go to a quick break, let's checking on the stock
Speaker 1: market without finance expert Michael cost To everybody, this is
Speaker 1: wild mussel mergers, people coming together. What is happening in
Speaker 1: the market today. I am crushing it. I mean I
Speaker 1: am crushing it. So yeah, you're crushing it too. You know,
Speaker 1: you're crushing And you're an excellent boss, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and I'm loyal to you, Trevor, unlike unlike those
Speaker 1: Trump generals, you know, you're my hitler. Trevor. I'm sorry. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. When when you look at Trevor, no, I
Speaker 1: want you to think of a off hitler, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's doing what you think it is.
Speaker 1: I got a hot tip for you. I got hot tip.
Speaker 1: You make some money like I make some money, I
Speaker 1: gotta tip you pay attention. So behind me right here,
Speaker 1: this is the Warner Brothers stock after the streaming merger
Speaker 1: between HBO max In Discovery Plus and what you want
Speaker 1: to pay attention to here? Okay, actually, just for a second,
Speaker 1: that story about President Biden, Well he's just accomplishing so much,
Speaker 1: crushing it with COVID, right, Apparently you can get a
Speaker 1: lot done with COVID. I mean me, I'm crushing this segment,
Speaker 1: and I've got COVID too, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I have polio. But
Speaker 1: let's get back to judge me by time. As a
Speaker 1: financial expert, I'm here to offer this. Mergers are tricky,
Speaker 1: all right. What's the most dangerous part of driving? Right? Merging?
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I've just plowed
Speaker 1: into people. Right, What's what's the worst part of a
Speaker 1: birthday party. Merging separate groups of friends, you know, work friends,
Speaker 1: college friends. Both groups have stories you don't want the
Speaker 1: other side to know about. Business merging is no different, Okay, mergers, Trevor,
Speaker 1: They're not like relationships. Right at first, it's two single
Speaker 1: companies just having fun. You're like, hey, maybe we should
Speaker 1: have fun together, you know, combine our assets like like
Speaker 1: a marriage. In fact, that's why it's called a merger,
Speaker 1: because merge sounds so much like merge. Okay, But next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, after the merge, the arguing starts. Are we
Speaker 1: HBO Discovery? Are we Discovery HBO? How many subsidiaries are
Speaker 1: we gonna have? Because I want one but she wants three?
Speaker 1: Where are we going to spend the holidays? Why does
Speaker 1: Discovery plus keep my best friend? Okay? And then and
Speaker 1: then that's when this happens, Michael, I think getting off
Speaker 1: just can you just give us the hotivities hot to?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, um, you should get tested for polio. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I have this. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for that, Michael. Cost everybody you should get it checked out.
Speaker 1: Don't go away because when we come back. Republican Senator
Speaker 1: Tim Scott will be joining me right here on the show.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My first guest is a Republican from South Carolina serving
Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. He's here to talk about
Speaker 1: his new memoir, America, A Redemption Story. Please welcome Senator
Speaker 1: Tim Scott brought them back. Senator Scott, are welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. Thank it's gonna be back. It's good
Speaker 1: to have you here. It's very read that Republicans drop
Speaker 1: in when they are still in office and not like
Speaker 1: on their way out. This is fun. Um, No, it
Speaker 1: really is, because you know, you've always been somebody who
Speaker 1: comes on the show and we talked about everything, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It's times a little different. You've written
Speaker 1: a book about your life, and honestly, there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot in this book that I didn't know about you
Speaker 1: as a human being. You know, and let's let's start
Speaker 1: in the beginning. In many ways, the book talks about
Speaker 1: your journey of how you got to where you got
Speaker 1: to today. You know, many people have referred to as
Speaker 1: many different things, the unicorn, you know, the loan black
Speaker 1: senator in the Republican Party. People have referred to you
Speaker 1: as the outlier. But what's really interesting in the book
Speaker 1: is you talk about how you got there with family
Speaker 1: who will also democrats talk talk me through that experience
Speaker 1: of you know, what was like being in a family
Speaker 1: where people were voting differently. Absolutely well, I think the
Speaker 1: most important part of my story really is the devastation
Speaker 1: of divorce, being raised by a single mom who worked
Speaker 1: sixteen hours a day, three days a week, and eight
Speaker 1: hours a day two days a week as a nurse's aid,
Speaker 1: just changing bedpans and rolling patients. So see my mother
Speaker 1: occur butt off to try to keep food on the table,
Speaker 1: and then moving in with my grandparents, my grandfather born
Speaker 1: in in Sally, South Carolina, having to get off the
Speaker 1: sidewalk when white folks were coming. Just the humiliation and
Speaker 1: the devastation that he experienced, and that passed down to
Speaker 1: my mother, and then it impacted me too. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: forget to tell both sides of the story when we're
Speaker 1: having conversations. I wanted to make sure that people had
Speaker 1: a full perspective of my journey to becoming who I am,
Speaker 1: because much of it was built on the shoulders of
Speaker 1: people who paid a very high price for you and
Speaker 1: I'd have this conversation, and sometimes we forget to say
Speaker 1: thank you to those who went before us, right on
Speaker 1: the shoulders of giants. I mean, you know, it's interesting
Speaker 1: that you say telling all sides of the story because
Speaker 1: you talk about your father very early on in the book,
Speaker 1: and what I appreciate is how you talk about the
Speaker 1: negative impact he had on you, but you appreciate all
Speaker 1: of the positive as well. You talk about how he
Speaker 1: comes back from adding a wolf for America, and yet
Speaker 1: America doesn't want him. People split at him, he doesn't
Speaker 1: get treated as a as a first class citizen. What
Speaker 1: what what impact did that have on you growing up
Speaker 1: knowing this? You know, I learned a lot more about
Speaker 1: my father's story while I was writing the book. Truly,
Speaker 1: to tell you the truth, my father was not close
Speaker 1: for about thirty years after the divorce. We went in
Speaker 1: the separate ways, and uh, it was in my late
Speaker 1: twenties early thirties when I first started getting back with him.
Speaker 1: Truth is that the more I understood about the pain
Speaker 1: and the misery and the devastation that happened during the
Speaker 1: Vietnam conflict for him, as well as coming back as
Speaker 1: a black Vietnam veteran very very very painful experience, and
Speaker 1: then the altercations that he had with other members of
Speaker 1: the service just because he was black, and how that
Speaker 1: painted in stained him, and how that caused him to
Speaker 1: spiral some and being the recipient of that, you see
Speaker 1: it differently. As you grow older, you get looking backwards.
Speaker 1: And so my father is now a good man and
Speaker 1: a solid man that I have much respect for, And
Speaker 1: having walked that journey together has made me such a
Speaker 1: better person, and it gives me a perspective that I
Speaker 1: would not have had had I not taken the time
Speaker 1: to listen. Because sometimes when we go through pain and suffering,
Speaker 1: we put our finger towards a person we think caused
Speaker 1: us that pain, and we literally turn our backs. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes the best thing we can do is listen,
Speaker 1: even to the people we feel like hurt us. The
Speaker 1: scripture and Matthew five, the love your enemies, to pray
Speaker 1: for those who persecute you. And I gotta say that
Speaker 1: South Carolina, we've had more than our share. And I
Speaker 1: talked about Mother Emmanuel Church shooting those amazing people. MHM
Speaker 1: forgave the killer the racist who walked into the church,
Speaker 1: sat through a Bible study. And when you hear stories
Speaker 1: like that and you understand the magnitude of their power
Speaker 1: to bring light into a dark place. The least I
Speaker 1: could do is learned to listen to people who may
Speaker 1: disagree for me. You've always done that, you know, You've
Speaker 1: always had conversations with people you don't agree with um.
Speaker 1: You You've often faced criticism as well. You know, many,
Speaker 1: many people have said, how can you be a black
Speaker 1: man in the Republican Party? Look at what the Republican
Speaker 1: Party is doing, look at the policies that the Republican
Speaker 1: Party enacts, and and some people haven't been you know,
Speaker 1: haven't said it's you in the nicest way. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talking the book about how people call you uncle
Speaker 1: Tim when you when you you know, you responded to
Speaker 1: the president's address. How do you how do you reconcile
Speaker 1: you know that that that narrative, or how do you
Speaker 1: reconcile the conflict of being a black man in a
Speaker 1: party that is predominantly white and black people are predominantly
Speaker 1: Democrats and saying no, no, no, I can still believe
Speaker 1: in this and not be you know, a race traitor,
Speaker 1: which I don't. I don't believe in any way, But
Speaker 1: I'm you know whatever, we'll breaking news here. You're ready,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I think the black community is a conservative community,
Speaker 1: so I think I'm just being consistent with who I am.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a couple of examples of policy
Speaker 1: positions that I think the most most people don't understand
Speaker 1: or appreciate or have ever even heard that. While we
Speaker 1: were in the majority, we invested more money in historically
Speaker 1: black colleges and universities than any other time in American history.
Speaker 1: We made the funding for HBC use permanent for the
Speaker 1: first time in American history. We put a billion dollars
Speaker 1: in the middle of the pandemic, specifically targeting HBCUs. My office,
Speaker 1: we led the charge on sick of cell anemia research
Speaker 1: and passed legislation to make sure that it would be easier.
Speaker 1: Unemployment twenty we have the lowest unemployment in the history
Speaker 1: of the country for African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, a seventy
Speaker 1: year low for women. We created seven million jobs to
Speaker 1: thirds were African Americans and Hispanics. So, but my point
Speaker 1: is that when you think about the policy positions that
Speaker 1: I have fought for, not to even talk about opportunity zones.
Speaker 1: The fact is that as a sitting conservative Republican, I
Speaker 1: fought for those issues that had the greatest impact in
Speaker 1: the communities where I come from, because it's like common sense.
Speaker 1: But but here's but here's the thing that I find interesting.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you're not an outlier in doing this.
Speaker 1: I I find it interesting to see how American politicians
Speaker 1: choose to measure time or effect. Because what you said
Speaker 1: was true. There was a man by the name of
Speaker 1: Barack Obama who was president up until six and as
Speaker 1: you know in economics can take a while. You've heard
Speaker 1: of the name, right, and so no, so here's a fine.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I don't think. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: you know, and you know we've had conversations. I've accusing
Speaker 1: you of betraying anybody. I'm not accusing you that. I think.
Speaker 1: Sometimes what becomes confusing for people is how it seems
Speaker 1: like the Republican Party and conservatives at large seem to
Speaker 1: have an idea of you know, victimhood. Let's let's put
Speaker 1: it this way. So I'll see people saying, oh, we're
Speaker 1: sick and tired of people talking about racism. That's over.
Speaker 1: We're sick and tired of people talking about oppression. That's over.
Speaker 1: Minorities need to learn to do right. But what it
Speaker 1: seems like, and you'll you'll you'll tell me how you
Speaker 1: see it as it seems like. Oftentimes, in order for
Speaker 1: people of color to be accepted into the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: they have to ignore all of the systemic things that
Speaker 1: happened to them in the country, and then the people
Speaker 1: who are in the Republican parties go with the victims.
Speaker 1: We're the real people being oppressed. We're being replaced, We're
Speaker 1: being oppressed. This is what's actually happening because we are white.
Speaker 1: And I find that you do not find that there's
Speaker 1: a weird disparity. At times. I hear what you're saying,
Speaker 1: But can I point out one thing, of course, the
Speaker 1: online don't ask a question you don't know the answer
Speaker 1: to the people I don't know bad my bad. In
Speaker 1: my book, one thing you'll learn very quickly. I don't
Speaker 1: sidestep the issue of race at all. That's what I
Speaker 1: said with you. I agree with that, and I talked
Speaker 1: about the twenty plus times that I've been stopped in
Speaker 1: the last two decades for just driving while black. I
Speaker 1: talked about the race riot that happened at the high
Speaker 1: school I was going to attend it when I was
Speaker 1: in the eighth grade. I talked about the challenges that
Speaker 1: so many people in our community has faced because of
Speaker 1: the color of our skin. I talked about the economic realities.
Speaker 1: I talked about the justice system. I work, as you know,
Speaker 1: on police reform. So the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: that I think you have to be comfortable in your
Speaker 1: own skin wherever you are, and if you have to
Speaker 1: betray or deny a part of your existence, don't do it.
Speaker 1: And I refuse to allow any party affiliation to stop
Speaker 1: me from being when I'm gonna do be when I
Speaker 1: leave and what I was before, I can't. And you do,
Speaker 1: I will say, you do that honestly, do that, honestly
Speaker 1: beyond just black. You talk about this in the book,
Speaker 1: for instance, you know you you you you, you were
Speaker 1: one of the senators who said Donald Trump and trying
Speaker 1: to overturn the election, what he did was unconstitutional. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about January six. I feel like even in
Speaker 1: the book, when you're telling the story of January six,
Speaker 1: you do a really good job of placing the blame
Speaker 1: at the feet of the people who conducted the insurrection.
Speaker 1: It seems like there is a looming absence though you know,
Speaker 1: it's a glaring absence of Trump's name in it. It's
Speaker 1: it seems like at times you are you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean it in a in a bad way
Speaker 1: at all, but it's it's it seems like you're trying
Speaker 1: to thread the needle, you know, of saying what happened,
Speaker 1: but then not saying why it happened. For the next sense,
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, tell the truth the Lord. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like that. So it is called The Daily Show with
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah, not Tim Scott's. I assume the audience no funny.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, I know you're a comedian
Speaker 1: on trying my best, you know, give a brother bring
Speaker 1: no you know that. Yes, here, here's the point, though,
Speaker 1: I was actually in the building and you yeah, you
Speaker 1: talk about the rolling by slaves up preparing to fight
Speaker 1: for my life. So when I put the blame on
Speaker 1: the people who were coming after me, I put the
Speaker 1: blame squarely where I believe it belongs. And that's what
Speaker 1: you hear my my recount of the issue. When I
Speaker 1: say that at the end of that day, on January
Speaker 1: the six, we the United States Senate, both Republicans and Democrats,
Speaker 1: went back out and performed our duty to affirm the
Speaker 1: President Biden has won the election. We did our job.
Speaker 1: So I'm not actually sugarcoating or skirting or pivoting away
Speaker 1: from an issue. I'm actually not making it more political
Speaker 1: than it has to be. But then let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, certain many people have floats with the idea,
Speaker 1: and I'm not asking about everybody, And my mom would say,
Speaker 1: I'm only asking about you right now. I would like
Speaker 1: to know them. If you were asked to run as
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's vice president, would you accept that. That's a
Speaker 1: good question. I am going to pivot. I'm just your
Speaker 1: honest okay, So everything of the here's the truth. When
Speaker 1: you're up for real election to the United States Senate,
Speaker 1: the first goal is to win. So once you win,
Speaker 1: then you look at the options that are like and
Speaker 1: make a decision on what is possible. And so for me,
Speaker 1: at this point in my career, the only thing I'm
Speaker 1: asking for are the people in South Carolina to give
Speaker 1: me a chance to be reelected and and and they do.
Speaker 1: They do love you. You served your state. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you you talk about your beginnings in the book, and
Speaker 1: you talk about a commitment that you have to your
Speaker 1: country and people. People admired in the way that you've served,
Speaker 1: whether they agree with you or not. Um talking about
Speaker 1: South Carolina, though, I would love to know how you
Speaker 1: see the state and its positioning as it pertains to
Speaker 1: some of the issues facing America today. Well, one of
Speaker 1: the biggest being abortion. For many, many years, people said
Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade was settled. Roe v. Wade was settled.
Speaker 1: People saw the Supreme Court flip in a way that
Speaker 1: some sentences even felt betrayed. You know, I won't ask
Speaker 1: you to comment on the Supreme Court, you know, but
Speaker 1: but what I will ask you to comment on is
Speaker 1: South Carolina as a whole. Right now, many sentences, many
Speaker 1: lawmakers have said it's up to the states. Let the
Speaker 1: states decide. We see states are starting to decide Kansas, Indiana,
Speaker 1: et cetera. South Carolina has a bill that is being
Speaker 1: discussed that would prohibit people from giving women information on
Speaker 1: getting an abortion, even if they were to do it
Speaker 1: in a state that did decide to still have it.
Speaker 1: So where do you stand on that issue? Then? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll say, I have not read the legislation because the
Speaker 1: United States sentaor not a state senator, so I don't
Speaker 1: have the information. And to answer, I understand you don't
Speaker 1: want to comment to something, but then even not not
Speaker 1: that I think I'm going to ever satisfy your audience
Speaker 1: on this issue. But the truth is that you're asking
Speaker 1: me about a bill I have not even seen. Nor
Speaker 1: then let me ask you. Let me ask you then,
Speaker 1: based not on that billboard on the issue, should people
Speaker 1: be able to get information about the decisions that they
Speaker 1: want to make? The answers yes, okay, so if they
Speaker 1: were restricting it, I'm not saying they are. If they
Speaker 1: were right, then then you would you would not be
Speaker 1: Afore that, I think that people making a profound decisions
Speaker 1: that all the information pros and cons. Let's talk about um,
Speaker 1: the journey to the presidency. I've been on the Daily
Speaker 1: Show for a few years now, and there's something I've
Speaker 1: I've noticed, and that is when people write memoirs, it
Speaker 1: generally means it generally means, it generally means that they
Speaker 1: might be uh, they might be eyeing a run at
Speaker 1: the presidency. So with coming up, I know you've been
Speaker 1: asked this in many, many different ways. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: ask you, would you run, would you not run? You're
Speaker 1: gonna tell me, well, Trevor, right now, we just gotta
Speaker 1: focus on the midterms, and you're the most I know
Speaker 1: that I get that right. But actually I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that, Okay, I was gonna say that we should
Speaker 1: focus on the next Friday night, like we were, right.
Speaker 1: So so let me ask you this, then, what would
Speaker 1: you do differently if you were elected presidents of the
Speaker 1: United States? What would you do differently from a Donald
Speaker 1: Trump presidency? What would you do differently from a Joe
Speaker 1: Biden president? What is what is the difference that you
Speaker 1: would bring. I honestly think that the America is the
Speaker 1: greatest got you on Earth. We are the we are
Speaker 1: the solution, not the problem. If we're going to focus
Speaker 1: our attention on making America a better country, think they
Speaker 1: all three of your people up there. If I think
Speaker 1: it's just in the moment, people are struggling in the moment,
Speaker 1: people up for whatever reason. So if I were going
Speaker 1: to say, agenda the first thing I would do and
Speaker 1: I would focus on the poor zip goes in this
Speaker 1: country need really high quality education, agree. If that's I
Speaker 1: went to four different elementary schools by the fourth grade,
Speaker 1: I am serious about equipping our parents with all the
Speaker 1: options they need and improving the quality of our public education. Rather,
Speaker 1: that's here in New York City, the Success Academy does
Speaker 1: a fantastic job. Or in Charleston we have the we
Speaker 1: have one of the top fifty public high schools and
Speaker 1: all of the country. So there's a way for us
Speaker 1: to be able to be able to provide great incentives
Speaker 1: for our for our kids to continue along the path
Speaker 1: to a better edge. That's your way of saying privatizing education.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're saying that. Let me say
Speaker 1: it differently because because there's the thing I've noticed in
Speaker 1: America and in the just to go back to the book,
Speaker 1: what I do like is that you talk about the
Speaker 1: impacts that education may both negatively and positively in your life.
Speaker 1: You know, like where where where it impacted you. And
Speaker 1: that's something I didn't notice in the book is your
Speaker 1: journey cannot be separated from the journey that America had.
Speaker 1: You cannot separate it from a world where America believed
Speaker 1: in investing in America. Wait, wait, it wasn't a oh,
Speaker 1: those kids can choose those charter schools or those systems
Speaker 1: or those I'm saying. It seemed like this was your
Speaker 1: product of that world. And and and we've spent seven
Speaker 1: hundred sixty billion dollars as a country on on public
Speaker 1: education K through twelve, but teachers are still broke. Listen,
Speaker 1: listen if you're ye, yes, so, and your point is
Speaker 1: a good one. So the in Department of Education in Washington,
Speaker 1: D C. The average employee at the Department of Education
Speaker 1: makes over a hundred thousand dollars a year, where the
Speaker 1: teacher does not. So should we take some of the
Speaker 1: money that we're spending in Washington, D C. And give
Speaker 1: it back to the states so that they can provide
Speaker 1: more money for teachers. You could just take it away
Speaker 1: from wars or or but a just weird? Are this word?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? So I to say, without any question,
Speaker 1: and you look at the breakdown of our of our
Speaker 1: budget around the country, you will see that we're spending
Speaker 1: seven hundred sixty billion dollars on education. We spend about
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy actually something now about eight billion dollars
Speaker 1: on our discretionary defense. We spent about a trillion one
Speaker 1: point one trillion dollars on Social Security, about eight hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars on medicare, about six hundred or so on Medicaid.
Speaker 1: So our domestic spending rivals any of the place on earth.
Speaker 1: So it's not that we can't walk into gum. It's
Speaker 1: not that we can't provide for the primary defense of
Speaker 1: this nation and fund education. The truth is, in South
Speaker 1: Carolina and around the country, some of the poorest performing
Speaker 1: schools have about twenty four thousand dollars per student. One
Speaker 1: of the blessings of this area in New York City
Speaker 1: is the Charge Schools, a success academy very similar to
Speaker 1: what we have in Charleston, meeting Spree academies where you're
Speaker 1: seeing for less than half of the current student expenditures,
Speaker 1: you and get high quality education for the average student
Speaker 1: in the average place without privatizing it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I still I still support all choice. I mean, whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to improve education. I'm not gonna but the
Speaker 1: way you stand under before I let you go there
Speaker 1: there there is You're pretty good at this. YEA, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming already. You're discerning and and your
Speaker 1: directional and your questions. I like that. Try try, I
Speaker 1: understand it's um. You know what I do enjoy in
Speaker 1: the book is that it reminds me that you are
Speaker 1: a human being. I don't I don't need to agree
Speaker 1: with you on everything to believe that you are a
Speaker 1: human being. And you talk about that in the book.
Speaker 1: You talk about the way people see you, um, the
Speaker 1: way you see people you don't agree with. One of
Speaker 1: one of the more touching parts of your book is
Speaker 1: when you talk about going with your grandfather for him
Speaker 1: to vote, and this was for him to vote four
Speaker 1: eight and he was going to vote for Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: And one of the volunteers at the at the polling station,
Speaker 1: I didn't trust that you would like let him vote
Speaker 1: because your grandfather couldn't read. Is that correct? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's it's It's one of the most touching stories about
Speaker 1: my grandfather I could ever share. Going back to fast
Speaker 1: forward in two thousand and eight, thinking about a black
Speaker 1: man born in the Deep South with very very few
Speaker 1: rights of any at all, living long enough to see
Speaker 1: this country evolve far enough for the possibility of an
Speaker 1: African American being elected president of the United States. It
Speaker 1: was something he could not comprehend or imagine. So I
Speaker 1: take him to vote as as I always have. We're
Speaker 1: walking into the voting booth because he can't read. I
Speaker 1: always went into the booth with him, which is the
Speaker 1: way that we do it. And the young lady at
Speaker 1: the counter didn't thank me. Being Republican was my grandfather's quishes,
Speaker 1: and I just thought to myself, how sad is it
Speaker 1: that what she thinks of the human condition is so off.
Speaker 1: But my grandfather, having a hundred percent faith in me,
Speaker 1: said lady, please and thank you. Shut up. And we
Speaker 1: went in there together exactly. And so I said, granted,
Speaker 1: I want you to I want you. I want you
Speaker 1: to memorize. My grandfather had almost a photographic memory, and
Speaker 1: so I want you to Barack Obama. I want you
Speaker 1: to remember those words, so when you see it on TV,
Speaker 1: you know who you voted for. There will never be
Speaker 1: any question on what you did. And so he said, okay, Timmy,
Speaker 1: he called me Timmy. And so we pushed your button
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, Grandad, I want you hit the
Speaker 1: vote button. It's a big green button. And and walking
Speaker 1: out they were getting in the car. I've seen my
Speaker 1: grandfather cried twice. Once was when my grandmother died a
Speaker 1: one in the second time was having the privilege and
Speaker 1: the responsibility of electing President Barack Obama. It's a really,
Speaker 1: really fantastic book because I think it gives so much
Speaker 1: more complexity to who you as a man. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joinning me on the show. I appreciate you a lot.
Speaker 1: Everyone comes in chats with me, so I always appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming here. Turning the Scott's book America
Speaker 1: a Redemption Story is available right now. Thank tun Because
Speaker 1: when we come back, and that's the Emmanuel bringing on
Speaker 1: the show, don't go roight. Thank you, Thank you. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to a Danna Show. My next guest is Emmy
Speaker 1: nominated actor, naturally Emmanuel. She's here to talk about starring
Speaker 1: in the new film The Invitation. Please welcome. That's to
Speaker 1: the Emmanuel. That's a new Manuel. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Welcome in person, because the first thing I
Speaker 1: have to say is congratulations, because the last time we
Speaker 1: spoke was virtually and that's when you were doing the
Speaker 1: new show was Die Heart with Kevin Hart, right, and
Speaker 1: since then you got nominated for an Emmy for that role.
Speaker 1: So congratulations, thank you saying it feels like you your
Speaker 1: journey has just been you know, it's just on the up.
Speaker 1: You're enjoying yourself with its comedy, with its drama, whether
Speaker 1: it's whatever, this is like a thriller, horror, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's terrifying. Yes. Um. You know, I like to
Speaker 1: challenge myself and try my hand to everything. Watching this movie,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is a terrible mistake that your
Speaker 1: character has made, because we saw a little bit in
Speaker 1: the clip she goes to like you know, like a
Speaker 1: lemiship into English destination wedding with a long lost relative
Speaker 1: who is a stranger, um and goes alone. I mean no,
Speaker 1: like that was her first mist I So I always
Speaker 1: joke that if it was me in this situation, that
Speaker 1: movie would have ended in the scene with my best friend,
Speaker 1: He's like, are you going to go meet him? And
Speaker 1: we'd be like nah, Because like if I got invited
Speaker 1: to a long lost relatives event and I get there
Speaker 1: and then it's a bunch of people wearing masks pulling
Speaker 1: out knives, I'd be like, yeah, this is not always
Speaker 1: I intended this, This is not it. What I also
Speaker 1: found interesting was you are playing an American in the movie,
Speaker 1: but then everyone is English. Is that like super weird
Speaker 1: for you because it's like you English playing an American
Speaker 1: with English people. Do you find that there's like parts
Speaker 1: of Natalie the change like other things, like American Natalie
Speaker 1: does that English naturally would never do. Um. I think
Speaker 1: American Natalie is probably a little more. She's probably a
Speaker 1: little louder, to be honest, a little louder. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I don't mean that to sound like negative, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: It's fine, as you've said it, don't We love that.
Speaker 1: I love that. I think that sometimes, like my Britishness,
Speaker 1: you know, often it's like, you know, keep it sort
Speaker 1: of yes, of course, yeah, exactly, and so and I
Speaker 1: think there's a freedom that comes with that accent and
Speaker 1: that I see with Americans, like they have no problem
Speaker 1: expressing themselves, expressing their opinions. And I love that. I
Speaker 1: wish I had more of that, So I tried to
Speaker 1: adopt it myself, not always successfully, but not. I think
Speaker 1: you do a great job of it. I loved seeing
Speaker 1: it in the character. I love seeing how you change
Speaker 1: before I let you go. There's one change that we
Speaker 1: have to speak about and that's your hair, right, Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, say much. I saw the video of you
Speaker 1: cutting your hair and it was really emotional. It was
Speaker 1: so emotional because we've known you with your hair for
Speaker 1: so long. It's become a part of you, and people
Speaker 1: have even come up to you and so like, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having natural hair on on TV show,
Speaker 1: and like what made you decide, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: going to cut it and not for a role, by
Speaker 1: the way, just for yourself. It was for me. I
Speaker 1: think it had taken for many years. I wanted to
Speaker 1: cut my hair, and I always found a reason not to.
Speaker 1: And I think some of it was fear. Some of
Speaker 1: it was like, oh um, you know, to be what
Speaker 1: is femininity or beauty or whatever. Like often we're kind
Speaker 1: of taught that you have to have long hair and
Speaker 1: it has to be a certain way, and and I
Speaker 1: think i'd um also like there was a real pride
Speaker 1: in not changing my hair for the screen and on
Speaker 1: red carpets and doing you know, glamorous looks with my
Speaker 1: natural texture and you know, hair discrimination all of that.
Speaker 1: It was a real kind of defiance that was in
Speaker 1: my hair in a celebration that was in my hair
Speaker 1: and so when I decided to cut it, I wanted
Speaker 1: to just shed it. I wanted to let go of
Speaker 1: all the sort of complex feelings, but you know, start
Speaker 1: fresh and to be honest, Congratulations to me. You've inspired me.
Speaker 1: Now now maybe I'm not I'm not gonna cut it,
Speaker 1: but maybe I'll come to the show with Cornrows. Maybe
Speaker 1: you never know, I might switch things up. You've even
Speaker 1: spired me. You've been doing you've been mixing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I might Now I might like just do like
Speaker 1: a whole you never know whole just like you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still like it for now, Natalie,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me on the show.
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