Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: From the most trusted journalists.
Speaker 3: At Comedy Central, It's America's only source for news. He's
Speaker 3: the Daily Too with your host Jordan's.
Speaker 2: Supper and Roddie Jang.
Speaker 4: Show.
Speaker 2: I'm Ronnie Chang and he's Jordan's Leper.
Speaker 5: I truly am and We've got so much to talk about. Tonight,
Speaker 5: Congress finally passes a bill. Tennessee teachers are getting strapped,
Speaker 5: and pickleball is coming for your family. So let's get
Speaker 5: into adlines. Let's begin with a major announcement from the
Speaker 5: President of the United States.
Speaker 2: It's a good day for America. It's a good day
Speaker 2: for Europe. It's a good day for world peace. A
Speaker 2: good day for world peace.
Speaker 6: I'm one of those I wonder what happened.
Speaker 5: Did the nations of the world finally banned together to
Speaker 5: outlaw war? Did they finally buy everyone in the world
Speaker 5: a coke?
Speaker 6: Is there?
Speaker 5: They're finally peace between Kendrick and Drake?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 2: Moments ago at the White House, President Biden signed a long.
Speaker 8: Awaited aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan into law.
Speaker 7: In total, about ninety five billion dollars. We'll go toward
Speaker 7: assisting Ukraine and Israel's war efforts and money to counter
Speaker 7: China's aggression in the Indo Pacific.
Speaker 2: Oh oh world peace?
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, it was peace.
Speaker 5: The one with the tanks is that the one I
Speaker 5: went to public school that wasn't funded because they spent
Speaker 5: all that money on peace.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he's being right, yeah, maybe maybe the
Speaker 2: President is being sarcastic, you know, like it's a good
Speaker 2: day for wold keise to everybody.
Speaker 4: It's by right, yes, yes, yes, but yes.
Speaker 5: After months of delay, President Biden today signed a military
Speaker 5: aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
Speaker 6: Yes, Taiwan.
Speaker 5: Now they're not at war yet, but you got to
Speaker 5: book a reservation in advance just to save yours spots.
Speaker 5: And even though even though this bill passed easily, it
Speaker 5: had been held up for six months because right wing
Speaker 5: Republicans threatened to kick Speaker Mike Johnson from office.
Speaker 6: He helped Ukraine.
Speaker 5: But now that he let it go through, everyone's been
Speaker 5: talking about him like this.
Speaker 4: I applaud Speaker Johnson's courage.
Speaker 2: What you're witnessing here is moral courage.
Speaker 9: A profile encourage is putting the nation above yourself and
Speaker 9: that's what he did.
Speaker 7: Not only put this up for a vote, but he
Speaker 7: also separated the bills, which I thought was courageous.
Speaker 2: Did the right thing, made his own decision, made his.
Speaker 6: Own decision, put his job on the line. And that's courage.
Speaker 7: Is courage in this case, that's courage.
Speaker 2: Courage. The world is courage.
Speaker 6: Both filing courage. There's a courage, curl courage.
Speaker 2: So courage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, thank you. So apparently Mike Johnson is the
Speaker 5: hero here. Sure, a couple of Ukrainian cities fell while
Speaker 5: he decided whether or not to be courageous, but he
Speaker 5: got around to it. I mean, we're always praising the
Speaker 5: first responders. What about the eventual responders. Huh, the ones
Speaker 5: who jump in there firetruck and say, hey, let's stop
Speaker 5: for throw you on the way. Huh, where's their takeer
Speaker 5: tape parade?
Speaker 2: I salute you, my Johnson. I mean now, but six
Speaker 2: months from now, I woke up the courage to do it.
Speaker 2: But moving on, because with all this money in Congress
Speaker 2: is sending overseas, you might be wondering, hey, when does
Speaker 2: Ronnie gallow taste of this? Now, where's the government gonna
Speaker 2: do a little something from me.
Speaker 4: The Biden administration revealing new airline passenger rights protecting folks
Speaker 4: from hidden fees and other frustrations of flying, like the
Speaker 4: refund policy for flight delays.
Speaker 9: Passengers must now get automatic cash refunds when a flight
Speaker 9: is canceled for any reason or delayed by more than
Speaker 9: three hours for domestic flights more than six hours for international.
Speaker 2: Okay, cash refunds, that's something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I'm always happy airplane delays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good. I mean, but but you know,
Speaker 2: delays is only a small pop of the problem. I mean,
Speaker 2: what if you know, you know, when airlines make you
Speaker 2: change airports, all they add connections, and they always just
Speaker 2: trying to screw over.
Speaker 9: If the airline changes any of your airports, adds connections,
Speaker 9: downgrades your seat, or even changes the plane to one
Speaker 9: that's less successible.
Speaker 6: To those with disabilities, those.
Speaker 9: Are all new reasons for cast refunds.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm caustiously optimistic. It's good. I'm got my attention.
Speaker 2: It is pretty good. In fact, it feels a little
Speaker 2: too good to be true. But hey, I guess all
Speaker 2: I have to worry about now is losing my luggage
Speaker 2: and a shitty WiFi.
Speaker 9: If your check bags aren't delivered within as little as
Speaker 9: twelve hours or your WiFi doesn't work, you're entitled to refunds.
Speaker 2: This is the greatest thing the government has ever done
Speaker 2: in history.
Speaker 5: I mean the New Deal, history in history.
Speaker 2: Jordan, the man is refunding you for Wi Fi and
Speaker 2: the sky and it doesn't work. What more could you want?
Speaker 5: I mean, you still gotta fix that thing with the
Speaker 5: doors falling off into that.
Speaker 2: But thank you, Joe Biden, thank you for making my
Speaker 2: life better. And I'll just bring back rov waste so
Speaker 2: i'd have to sit next to a crying baby on
Speaker 2: a red eye. Okay, you're gonna chew.
Speaker 5: Up for that's provided to a problem that America hasn't solved,
Speaker 5: gun violence. A lot of people think the answer is
Speaker 5: reducing the amount of guns, but Tennessee lawmakers are going
Speaker 5: in the opposite direction.
Speaker 8: Chaos erupting in Tennessee state capital, where lawmakers just passed
Speaker 8: a bill that would allow teachers to carry concealed handguns
Speaker 8: in schools. If signed by the governor, the Tennessee law
Speaker 8: would allow teachers to carry guns and schools where top
Speaker 8: administrators agree the teachers would be required to have a permit,
Speaker 8: due training, and get a background check and mental health evaluation.
Speaker 5: Congratulations, Now your shop teacher is going to have two
Speaker 5: stories about hey, how he accidentally lost a finger.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean, can the students at least vote on
Speaker 2: which teacher gets the gun, because you know, my gym
Speaker 2: teacher was all do on a massive power trip and
Speaker 2: all he had was a whistle.
Speaker 5: So for more on the new Tennessee law, we go
Speaker 5: live to the State House in Nashville with Grace Coolan Schmidt. Grace, Grace,
Speaker 5: aren't legislators worried that giving teachers guns will just lead
Speaker 5: to more gun violence?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: You silly, scarecrow of a man. The lawmakers here are
Speaker 10: putting teachers through a lot training, permits, background checks, mental
Speaker 10: health evaluations. You don't want to give teachers guns without
Speaker 10: making sure they're responsible.
Speaker 5: That actually raises a good point, Grace. If they're going
Speaker 5: to require teachers to go through all that, why don't
Speaker 5: they require it for every gun owner.
Speaker 6: I'm not following, I'm.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying if all that training is good for teachers,
Speaker 5: it's equally good.
Speaker 6: For all gun owners. But they aren't all teachers, right, Yes,
Speaker 6: but they all own guns. Rock and roll. Good for that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Hello, let me try again. Let's say you walk
Speaker 5: into my classroom.
Speaker 6: Hello, mister slender man.
Speaker 5: Okay, fine, Now you see I have a gun.
Speaker 6: How do you feel?
Speaker 10: I'm glad because I know that you received firearms training.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: Now, instead, you walk into my bar and you see
Speaker 5: I have a gun.
Speaker 6: Now, how do you feel you're my teacher?
Speaker 10: Why do you own a bar?
Speaker 6: I guess I'll have a beer. I'm only in eighth grade.
Speaker 4: No, I know I did not make you.
Speaker 6: I didn't make you in eighth grade. And that's not
Speaker 6: what I said, Jordan.
Speaker 2: Analogies are stupid. Okay, let me let me try. Great. So,
Speaker 2: you know how everybody needs a license to drive a car? No,
Speaker 2: you don't.
Speaker 6: Who's checking the.
Speaker 2: Government?
Speaker 10: They're all in DC.
Speaker 2: I'm a peak. Okay, yes, she's not getting it.
Speaker 6: Hold on, let me try to do one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: You know how on Love.
Speaker 10: Is Blind there's two different people and they talk to
Speaker 10: each other without seeing each other, but then eventually the
Speaker 10: walls come down and they see if they're still in love?
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, yeah maybe. Okay, that's a great show.
Speaker 2: What is the analogy?
Speaker 4: Oh that's what you guys?
Speaker 2: Were doing.
Speaker 10: I thought we were just making up situations.
Speaker 2: Grace.
Speaker 5: We're saying if teachers need training to have a gun,
Speaker 5: then it's only fair if the entire population has training
Speaker 5: to have a gun.
Speaker 10: You're right, it doesn't make sense that some people should
Speaker 10: get training while other people don't get training. Let's make
Speaker 10: it fair and remove the training for everyone.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, we were so close, so close, we
Speaker 5: were we were, Yes, Grace Coolichman, everybody.
Speaker 4: We come back.
Speaker 5: Michael Costa takes on its great at enemy you don't
Speaker 5: want to offer. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Now
Speaker 5: that spring is here, people are back outside having fun again,
Speaker 5: whether it's sneezing in the park, or sneezing in a cafe,
Speaker 5: or dodging angry stares from a mother who's child you
Speaker 5: sneezed on at the playgrounds.
Speaker 2: But there's one activity that Michael Costa wants you to
Speaker 2: stop enjoying. Hi.
Speaker 11: I'm Michael Costa Daily Show correspondent, an intrepid journalist.
Speaker 2: But this story is not about me.
Speaker 6: It's about him.
Speaker 11: Michael Costa, former professional tennis player once ranked eight one
Speaker 11: hundred and sixty four.
Speaker 4: In the world.
Speaker 11: Because right now, there's a serious threat to tennis enthusiasts
Speaker 11: like him, slash me.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about pickleball.
Speaker 6: And it needs to be.
Speaker 2: Stopped now the battleover court space between tennis and pickleball
Speaker 2: players can both.
Speaker 8: Use the tennis courts and both are fighting for space.
Speaker 2: Pickball is the fastest crewing sports. Sorry for.
Speaker 11: To discuss the monstrosity these picklers are imposing on my
Speaker 11: beloved sport. I sat down with legendary professional tennis champ McEnroe.
Speaker 3: You cannot be serious.
Speaker 11: No, No, not that one. The other one his brother Patrick,
Speaker 11: also a former tennis champion and current sports commentator.
Speaker 2: From one pro to another, tell me what yearbook pro.
Speaker 2: We've crossed paths many times. I've said, hike to you
Speaker 2: at the tournaments and stuff.
Speaker 7: Were you were you like a ball boy or something?
Speaker 11: Or I was ranked eight hundred and sixty four in
Speaker 11: the world.
Speaker 6: We don't be ranked that high. I made eleven thousand
Speaker 6: dollars over four years. On we go, Let's talk about pickleball.
Speaker 6: What is this craze? I can't believe he didn't know
Speaker 6: who I was.
Speaker 7: Well, the thing that annoys me about it, Michael, is
Speaker 7: that the pickleball courts are taking over thirty five percent
Speaker 7: or so of the tennis courts here in the US
Speaker 7: and in Canada. Hey, get off, aren't tennis turf?
Speaker 6: Let's just discuss the differences. And here's a can of
Speaker 6: tennis balls. Is there anything better than this?
Speaker 2: Ready to listen to this?
Speaker 7: I'm here, Yeah, I love the smell.
Speaker 2: Give me that.
Speaker 6: Oh my give god. It's like a fine wine.
Speaker 11: And now let's just contrast that with this.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: This looks like an old guy's ball sack.
Speaker 7: You can't compare it to It's loud, it's obnoxious. Tennis
Speaker 7: is elegant, it's classy. Well, there's this sweet Look at
Speaker 7: this tennis it's just look at that. Isn't that a
Speaker 7: beautiful thing you want? And then pick a ball?
Speaker 6: It's like a car crash. What's the solution for the
Speaker 6: turf wars?
Speaker 7: And the great Martina Navtolovo said, build your own pickleball courts?
Speaker 7: And the truth is pickleball get out of my yard.
Speaker 1: The one person who needs to take that note is
Speaker 1: this guy. He may look like a yodler on a bike,
Speaker 1: but don't be fooled. Every morning he electronically pedals little
Speaker 1: pickaball bike to set up his little pickaball nets on
Speaker 1: our turf, and he's known as Albert the pickleball Doctor.
Speaker 11: Why do you think that pickleball deserves that overtake a
Speaker 11: tennis court?
Speaker 2: I think you guys have too many tennis courts.
Speaker 9: You can get two pickable course and a tennis court.
Speaker 11: So is your answer then to eliminate tennis courts for pickleball?
Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
Speaker 11: You are unhinged and worse than pickleball is their terminology.
Speaker 11: I'm hearing kitchen dink adyl flawful.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it a sport or is it a
Speaker 2: food truck? So I say, look, a universal game. It
Speaker 2: might be more universal than tennis.
Speaker 11: Tennis doesn't have stupid made up words. Yeah, deuce when
Speaker 11: you're tied and zero is love and we score by
Speaker 11: forties and fifteens.
Speaker 2: But that stuff makes sense.
Speaker 6: Won't you just try it?
Speaker 11: You want me to try pick a ball? You know
Speaker 11: what that means to be eight hundred and sixty four
Speaker 11: in the world in tennis, it means I'm the number
Speaker 11: one pick a ball player right now.
Speaker 2: Why don't we do a little head to head.
Speaker 6: How about that?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna whip your butt.
Speaker 11: I'll see your geriatric ass in the kitchen. Okay, but
Speaker 11: dink time baby.
Speaker 7: All right, welcome to what is sure to be a
Speaker 7: waste of everyone's time. But here we are. I'm Patrick mcner,
Speaker 7: reported live through the losing of bet to cover a
Speaker 7: most unanticipated game of pickleball.
Speaker 6: On one side, we have.
Speaker 7: The handsome and the one and a half time employee
Speaker 7: of the month at the Daily Show, Michael Costa. Okay,
Speaker 7: clearly he wrote this, Costa will be playing against Albert
Speaker 7: doctor of pickleball.
Speaker 6: And what's this?
Speaker 7: He's got a twin? Will Costa go for the obvious
Speaker 7: doubles joke?
Speaker 11: So I guess doubles is literally doubles.
Speaker 2: There is my twin, brother Gil. You know what, I
Speaker 2: got my own sacred weapon. Ronnie, Ronnie Ronnie. Why let's go, dude,
Speaker 2: we're the pickles. We're playing pickleball. You said to be food.
Speaker 7: And for his doubles partner, Costa has Ronnie Chang, who
Speaker 7: seems to have been tricked into being here.
Speaker 2: That makes two of us? Is it two of the
Speaker 2: same people? That was a surprise for me too.
Speaker 7: So here we go, Costa and Chang versus the pickle twins.
Speaker 7: And Costa blows it.
Speaker 2: Dah, let's go. We can't lose to the double of
Speaker 2: the twins. Let's get over the net yet a word?
Speaker 4: Dah, take back, grass hop up.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 7: Never before the history of commentating have I heard more
Speaker 7: vicious words spoken on a court.
Speaker 2: These guys take it.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, this changes everything.
Speaker 7: I've never had siachrameow in a sandwich before.
Speaker 6: What's the score?
Speaker 7: I wasn't even watching take that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope we've got a feeding June. I was
Speaker 2: shoving ship down your throw all day. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, right here, right here.
Speaker 7: Finally they're coming together as a team.
Speaker 2: Michael, I think you're having fun here? No, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I'm not having fun.
Speaker 7: Three two Nobody, I mean nobody saw this coming because
Speaker 7: nobody's even watching.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's illegal. You disqualify, not disqualified.
Speaker 4: Shut up, get out of here, Grasshoppa.
Speaker 2: Let's go, but they just qualified its let's go. Uh,
Speaker 2: let's go now. It's like I'll meet up with you later. Hey,
Speaker 2: you guys want keep going?
Speaker 7: Yeah, there are no winners in this game tonight. In fact,
Speaker 7: I think it's safe to say after watching this game,
Speaker 7: we all feel like losers. This is Patrick McKinnon reporting
Speaker 7: Homwark Srwin. This is rock body of my career.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael Cossa. When we come back, Representative Andy
Speaker 2: Kim be joining us from the show, so don't the way.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 5: Our guest tonight is the third term congressman from New
Speaker 5: Jersey who's.
Speaker 6: Running for US Senate.
Speaker 5: Please welcome Representative Andy Kim.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's nice to Asian representative. Thank you, and
Speaker 2: Kim House representatives you're currently running to replace. Are you
Speaker 2: writing for Senate? That's right, to replace the previous guy
Speaker 2: in New Jersey who got caught with gold Boss in
Speaker 2: his house? That's right, right, So yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: That's a big no no in politics, right.
Speaker 2: What do you have against gold Boss?
Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently I'm anti gold bars.
Speaker 6: Anti Federal Reserve guys, your platform.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is getting a heated into interviewing right out
Speaker 4: of the gate here.
Speaker 2: But what you're right for Senate?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I mean it's not something I planned to do.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm a three term member of the House
Speaker 4: of Representatives. I got a six year old, eight year old,
Speaker 4: two little boys at home, so I would not you know,
Speaker 4: planning to take on a statewide election. But look, I mean,
Speaker 4: right now, I mean, I'm sure that the audience feels too.
Speaker 4: I mean, we live in the time in the greatest
Speaker 4: amount of distrust in government in modern American history, and
Speaker 4: eighty four percent of people in New Jersey believe that
Speaker 4: their politicians are crup Like eighty four percent like, how can.
Speaker 2: Well they were kind of validated?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you're so you're wondering what's
Speaker 4: wrong with the other sixteen percent?
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, They're just not that educated.
Speaker 4: Now, look, I mean we have to I believe that
Speaker 4: the opposite of democracies is apathy. It's if people give
Speaker 4: up on this, it feel like they're elected officials are
Speaker 4: not in it for the right reasons. So I just
Speaker 4: I feel like at this critical moment, we have to
Speaker 4: restore a sense of integrity back into our politics and
Speaker 4: try to do our best to give the people New
Speaker 4: Jersey a choice.
Speaker 2: Sure, and yeah, yeah, I mean you you're running in
Speaker 2: a district. If I'm not wrong, voted for Donald Trump twice.
Speaker 4: Well my congressional district.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In twenty eighteen, I was part of the class of
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen that flipped the House of Representatives tried, you know,
Speaker 4: take that away from Donald Trump. And I won a
Speaker 4: district that Trump one, And in twenty twenty, I was
Speaker 4: one of only seven Democrats in the entire country that
Speaker 4: want a district Trump one.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and you're like, so it's you want in
Speaker 2: a district at Trump one and your I'm assuming a
Speaker 2: minority in that district both in race.
Speaker 4: And yeah, my district is eighty five percent white, less
Speaker 4: than three percent Asian. When I was first elected, there
Speaker 4: were zero Korean Americans in Congress, and I had a
Speaker 4: lot of people tell me there's no way that Asian
Speaker 4: American can win a district the vast, vast majority of how.
Speaker 2: Did you win it? No, seriously, did you win because
Speaker 2: you want it? Then?
Speaker 4: Well, look what I'll say is no, no offense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean no. Look, I think what I learned is that, like,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to let other people determine what I
Speaker 4: am or am not capable of accomplishing simply because of
Speaker 4: the color of my skin. In my last name, you know,
Speaker 4: this was.
Speaker 2: This was.
Speaker 4: This is the district where I you know, I grew up.
Speaker 4: I did my entire kindergarten through twelve in the public
Speaker 4: school systems of my congressional district. I'm raising, you know,
Speaker 4: two little boys in that school system. Like I have
Speaker 4: every bit as much right to represent that district as
Speaker 4: anybody else, and I have every bit as much right
Speaker 4: to represent my state as anybody else.
Speaker 2: I will say that is that.
Speaker 5: Is both inspiring to hear and a little gross.
Speaker 6: That's a lot of time in New Jersey. I just
Speaker 6: I guess it says wow, that you're really New Jersey. Yeah, God,
Speaker 6: bless well.
Speaker 5: I think you talk about this feeling in America right
Speaker 5: now we feel very divided. Yeah, but in the House,
Speaker 5: you guys just had you just passed this bipartisan bill
Speaker 5: funding for Ukraine, Taiwan. We had the TikTok bill in
Speaker 5: there as well. Mike Johnson seemed to want across the
Speaker 5: aisle and work.
Speaker 6: With you guys. What is this?
Speaker 5: Is this the beginning of some sort of bipartisan coalition
Speaker 5: or is this a one time spring fling.
Speaker 4: Now, look, I think what he realized is he has
Speaker 4: no other choice. He can either be a speaker that
Speaker 4: gets zero things done for the entire time that he
Speaker 4: has speak. Everything that he's done, whether it's passing our
Speaker 4: government's funding or anything else, it's required us on the
Speaker 4: Democrats side to be there with it. I'm basically, you know,
Speaker 4: he and Hkem Jeffries are co Speakers of the House
Speaker 4: right now. There's nothing that the Speaker of the House
Speaker 4: Johnson can get done without Hackem Jeffries and the Democrats
Speaker 4: and so looks it's out of necessity in that way.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I hope that there are some
Speaker 4: places where we can find some agreement. But I'll be
Speaker 4: honest with you, like I'm not holding my breath. We'll
Speaker 4: see where things go. But I mean, you guys, you know,
Speaker 4: you all see it. I mean, I basically work in
Speaker 4: the world's worst reality TV show.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just like, well, speaking of that, I mean you
Speaker 2: are on the ground there, you know you presumably you
Speaker 2: talk with these people every day, if not all the time,
Speaker 2: you know. So I guess my question is like, how
Speaker 2: is it different to what we're seeing on TV you'll
Speaker 2: vibe on the ground in Congress. Is it as divisive
Speaker 2: as what we think it looks like on Instagram? Or
Speaker 2: is it when you guys are in the same room,
Speaker 2: is it more like, hey, you know finger guns tell us, Yeah.
Speaker 4: How did you know that's it's like no, I mean, look,
Speaker 4: it's it's very frustrated. I'm not gonna you know, and
Speaker 4: I say that as someone who's never thought that i'd
Speaker 4: be in politics. I don't enjoy that aspect of it
Speaker 4: so much. But I mean, look, you know one of
Speaker 4: my one of my colleagues, I guess I call him that,
Speaker 4: Matt Gates, for instance. You know, he has his line
Speaker 4: where he says, you know, if you're not making news,
Speaker 4: you're not governing. And I just think that is so
Speaker 4: indicative what's wrong with our politics right now. You know,
Speaker 4: it's this idea. You know, it's this idea that you're
Speaker 4: equating attention with governance. You know that that's absolutely the
Speaker 4: wrong thing. You can see how someone who has that
Speaker 4: kind of mindset is then incentivized to just say crazy things.
Speaker 4: You know, so like I always think about it if
Speaker 4: you gamify Congress, you know, Congress is a game, and
Speaker 4: you think of what is the points system? You know,
Speaker 4: it's like people are chasing you know, likes online, the
Speaker 4: followers on social media, you know, the money into their fundraising,
Speaker 4: how many cable news hits they've done, you know, things
Speaker 4: like that, and like you know, I have colleagues of
Speaker 4: mine who are more interested in being social influencers rather
Speaker 4: than lawmakers. And and that's that's really crazy, you know,
Speaker 4: Like I get to work, like I get to work
Speaker 4: a job whose job description is in the Constitution of
Speaker 4: the United States, like me as a son of and
Speaker 4: we're a getting some public school kid gets to do
Speaker 4: that kind of work, Like that should be a deeply
Speaker 4: humbly experience, not some platform for you to just go
Speaker 4: chase your ego and your ambition.
Speaker 5: That being said, just alder kid.
Speaker 4: Picked every single one of them to come in from Jersey.
Speaker 6: You never chase attention. But we do appreciate you coming
Speaker 6: on our television show.
Speaker 4: It's not about life, no, no, this is I'm a
Speaker 4: humble many central appreciation.
Speaker 6: I am curious.
Speaker 5: Democratic Party is an interesting place right now. And I
Speaker 5: think this last bill that just got passed had funding
Speaker 5: for Israel with very few conditions put upon it. The
Speaker 5: more progressive wing of the Democratic Party wants there to
Speaker 5: be more conditions with Israel funding.
Speaker 6: How do you balance that? Right now? It seems as
Speaker 6: if the.
Speaker 5: Progressive side of the Democratic wing is wants more from
Speaker 5: a Democratic Party that's not willing to give it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, Look, I mean I think what we need
Speaker 4: is to be able to move forward and have as
Speaker 4: much leverage as possible. What we see is that, you know,
Speaker 4: Netan Yahoo is taking a path forward that I think
Speaker 4: is very dangerous, you know, dangerous for Israel, dangerous for
Speaker 4: our world, and we need to make sure that we're
Speaker 4: stepping up to be able to have as much strength
Speaker 4: as possible, to be able to end this violence as
Speaker 4: soon as possible. And I'll be honest with you, a
Speaker 4: lot of Democrats feel that same way. A lot of
Speaker 4: my colleagues feel that same way. We're just trying to
Speaker 4: figure out how we can have you know, that kind
Speaker 4: of approach going forward while addressing you know, the humanitarian crisis.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a famine that's imminent right now in
Speaker 4: northern Gaza. You know, that's devastating. We got to make
Speaker 4: sure that we're providing the kind of aid and support
Speaker 4: to that, also making sure we're tackling all these other
Speaker 4: issues around the world. Ukraine, we have you know, we
Speaker 4: were trying to pass humanitarian assistance for the catastrophe in Sudan,
Speaker 4: which is something that doesn't get enough attention. So yes,
Speaker 4: you know, we got to make sure that we're pushing
Speaker 4: forward in all those directions.
Speaker 5: I'll say, also, some of your colleagues made news talking
Speaker 5: about in regards to this Ukraine funding bill, that they're
Speaker 5: seeing Russian propaganda being echoed and talked about on the
Speaker 5: House floor. Are you seeing colleagues, colleagues echo this Russian
Speaker 5: propaganda in terms of whether or not we should be
Speaker 5: funding Ukraine?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean, you know, it's it's scary. It's scary
Speaker 4: to see how you know, what we're seeing right now
Speaker 4: is basically a new movement of neo isolationism, you know,
Speaker 4: something that's really about weakening America's position in the world
Speaker 4: and just turning not even just turning a blind eye
Speaker 4: to Vladimir Putin, but actually enabling him. And you know,
Speaker 4: when I think about leaders in other countries, when they
Speaker 4: talk to me about what's happening, first they ask, you know,
Speaker 4: what is happening in America. And the second thing they
Speaker 4: ask is they say, is America a reliable partner? That's
Speaker 4: what they ask themselves, and they say, and the answer
Speaker 4: to that right now is no. You know, we are
Speaker 4: not a reliable partner in the way that we can
Speaker 4: and should be. You know, and you see that with
Speaker 4: three cards to Ukraine and hopefully we're going to be
Speaker 4: able to provide some support. But that has a lot
Speaker 4: of impact in terms of how we're perceived all over
Speaker 4: the world with all sorts of other crises that are
Speaker 4: out there. So you know, this is one of the
Speaker 4: biggest questions that we have of just what is America's
Speaker 4: role in the twenty first century. What is the value
Speaker 4: of the American handshake right now? And that's very much
Speaker 4: under question right now in the world.
Speaker 2: Right and what you know, just on that note, like
Speaker 2: to solve a lot of problems that you know are
Speaker 2: facing the point to me point like I can't help
Speaker 2: with that Asian dog, you know, making it happen. But
Speaker 2: a lot compromise is required. So when you're talking to
Speaker 2: like your best friend Matt Gates, for example, like you
Speaker 2: did say that, you did say no, good friend, Matt Gates,
Speaker 2: he went out when when you are talking, is this
Speaker 2: some kind of like, look we put the cameras off
Speaker 2: right now, let's just talk or is it always just
Speaker 2: you know, this guy's always on. You know, everyone's always on,
Speaker 2: even in private meetings, everyone's still you know, yelling about
Speaker 2: Jewish space lasers, and you know, like.
Speaker 4: When I came into Congress, a lot of people ask me,
Speaker 4: like do they really believe what they say? And when
Speaker 4: I first came in, I kind of came up with
Speaker 4: category three categories. You know, there are sort of the
Speaker 4: traditional conservatives, of which there are very few of them left.
Speaker 4: There are the crazies and you can you know, mad libs,
Speaker 4: fill in the blank, whatever name you want. And then
Speaker 4: they're the cowards, you know, the people who know better,
Speaker 4: but just you know, for their own purposes of staying
Speaker 4: in their jobs, they continue on. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 4: just in the five and a half years that I've
Speaker 4: been in Congress now, there are a lot more crazies
Speaker 4: than that even when I started. And it's it's really alarming.
Speaker 4: I mean, like they some of them really do believe this.
Speaker 4: And I you know, I remember it, you know, on
Speaker 4: the night of January sixth, when we came back into
Speaker 4: the House of Representatives after the insurrection, you know, hearing
Speaker 4: their speeches, like watching them like only a few feet
Speaker 4: from them, and I could tell like some of them
Speaker 4: really do believe the big lie. They've bought into this,
Speaker 4: they're they're they're feeding it and and that's what I
Speaker 4: find so scary right now. You know, my first boss
Speaker 4: in government, he had this line, he said, you don't
Speaker 4: have good government unless you have good people working in government.
Speaker 4: Right now, you know, if you have a government that's
Speaker 4: filled with you know, egotistical, narcissistic, power hungry people, you
Speaker 4: will have an egotistical, narcissistic, power hungry government.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: So we have to try to find a way to
Speaker 4: be able to stop it. But part of their plan
Speaker 4: is to try to make government so toxic, politics so
Speaker 4: toxic that reasonable decent you know, people don't want to participate,
Speaker 4: and that just leaves it for them.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, good laugh, Thank you, PREMI your time,
Speaker 2: and as far as from what I'm hearing from you,
Speaker 2: I just think that we just need more Asian people
Speaker 2: to be running into everything representative and you Kim everybody,
Speaker 2: we'll go tell you a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 7: Up this.
Speaker 5: Other show for tonight. But before we go, please consider
Speaker 5: donating to every Town for Gun Safety. They work with local, federal,
Speaker 5: and state governments to end gun violence and build safer communities.
Speaker 2: If you want to support them in this work, please
Speaker 2: donate at the link below, now here is your moment
Speaker 2: of zen.
Speaker 3: Remember it was trying to deal with COVID.
Speaker 2: See just subject a little bleach in your veins.
Speaker 3: He missed it all went to his hair. Look I
Speaker 3: should have said that. Explore more shows from the Daily
Speaker 3: Show podcast universe by searching The Daily Show wherever you
Speaker 3: get your podcasts. Watch The Daily Show week nights at
Speaker 3: eleven ten Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes
Speaker 3: anytime on bare Abound plus. This has been a Comedy
Speaker 3: Central podcast