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>> jon: hi, everybody! welcome! oh, i almost surprised myself. what the heck? what is my head doing? they would go. hey, welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. unbelievable show! they are already exhausted from the open. by the way, how was your weekend? my weekend was... [screams] >> breaking at this moment, israel under fire from iran. it's just raining rockets with those sirens blaring out. >> we do effectively have world war iii in progress. >> jon: oh, no!

not world war iii! i'm still writing "iraq war" on all my checks! but yes, the skies above israel were lit up like a... i want to say christmas tree but that's probably not -- for that area. menorah? the moment society has dreaded since the armistice of 1945 was finally upon us. as einstein said, he doesn't know what weapons world war iii will be fought with, but he knows the next ones will be fought with sticks and stones! this is jon stewart, signing off. may god bless us, and everyone. and let future civilizations know that we could not overcome our fatal nature. >> in the end, there was almost no damage as israel, the u.s. and other allies shot down 99% of the missiles and drones.

>> jon: huh! it wasn't world war iii... i certainly regret doing this. i -- oh, boy. a moment of panic. sort of a primitive instinct. is that me? art garfunkel? but kudos to the united states and to israel! it shows just how effective a military defense system can be when you funnel american dollars away from health care and education. it really helps to build -- [cheers and applause] and the best part is, we did it with no help! the two amigos, surrounded by hostile arab nations, united in

their zeal to destroy israel. >> jordan's air force also intercepted and shot down dozens of drones that violated its airspace and were on their way to israel. >> and we've now learned that saudi arabia and the uae provided real time intelligence that helped track the incoming missiles. >> jon: what are the teams of these [bleep] wars? i don't even know the teams anymore? the arab countries are helping israel? i don't know what the teams are! we need to sort this out! with jerseys or something. because iran could attack at any moment! >> in a statement, iran said it now considers the matter concluded. >> jon: hey, did you hear that? we are good.

by the way, he was delicious. really? that's what got you? anyway. were going to be okay. >> israel has vowed it will respond to iran. >> jon: no! all right, can i have a word with you, middle east? overhear. shalom aleichem? trying to cover all bases. listen, i hope this doesn't sound patronizing but when we in the west drew your region's borders and set you up with perfectly functioning dictatorships, we expected a little better. see, the agreement was: we would make up a whole new bunch of countries, some of

which made sense, and in return, you would give us your delicious oil. that was the deal! you give us your delicious oil, and we take it. we certainly didn't expect to get drawn into all the drama that our actions created. and now these wars have got us all turned around! at one point, we're helping iraq fight iran, then we're invading iraq, now we're helping iran fight isis, then we're using isis to help fight houthis that are backed by iran? i mean, [bleep]! in gaza, we're actually bombing them and feeding them. how do you think that makes us feel? [applause] oh, oh, did you have a nice sandwich? ron! oh, and apparently now, there's two kinds of islam?

i mean, you could have told us before we got into this. as i said earlier, arbitrarily gerrymandered your homelands. so do better. keep that oil coming. and by the way, we got enough trouble keeping track of our own wars. like this weekend, our former president and illustrious historian donald j. trump spoke near one of america's most hallowed battlefields. and if you thought lincoln consecrated gettysburg with his soaring rhetoric, well, bu-bu-buckle up. >> gettysburg. what an unbelievable battle that was. the battle of gettysburg. what an unbelievable -- i mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways. it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. gettysburg. wow.

>> jon: that is plagiarized almost directly from my seventh grade book report: "gettysburg. wow." [cheers and applause] i did not do well. [cheers and applause] "it was vicious and horrible, and beautiful in some ways" -- is he talking about a civil war battle or a horse giving birth? "it was bloody, but it's life." now, obviously, i am not a civil war buff like -- but unlike me, he even knows all the famous quotes. >> i go to gettysburg, pennsylvania, to look and to watch, and the statement of robert e. lee, who's no longer in favor. did you ever notice that? no longer in favor. "never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill." they were fighting uphill. he said, "wow, that was a big

mistake." he lost his great general, and they were fighting. "never fight uphill, me boys!" >> jon: it is true, the north did have the higher ground, but i'm pretty sure that robert e. lee was not a leprechaun. [in an irish accent] "ah, never fight uphill, me boys! that's not how to take back the north's pot o' gold. you can't be fighting uphill, me boys." [in normal voice] also minor point but, i'm pretty sure robert e. lee would not have told them, "never fight uphill," since he's the one who told them to do [bleep] fight uphill! he wasn't like, "if they go up the hill, i'm

going to be so mad if they do that." long street actually told them to go up the hill and robert e. lee actually said "me boys will do what they want." although, to be fair to former president donald trump, he does have a lot on his mind right now. >> now to breaking news, the first-ever criminal trial involving a former president will soon get underway. >> jon: oh, my god, donald, don't run up that hill, me boy! stay down! stay down the hill, me boy! [cheers and applause] stay down! but yes, after years of anticipation, the first criminal trial of a former president has begun and by all accounts, it is absolutely riveting. >> 40 minutes ago, you wrote an observation that -- i was very surprised: trump appears to be sleeping, his head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack. tell us about that. >> well, jake, he appeared to be asleep.

[laughter and applause] >> jon: hey, jake. what part of head down, eyes closed, drool coming out of his mouth, do you not [bleep] get over here? he's snoring. he's doing the honk shoo, he's doing the "mimimi." there's a piece of paper going up and down and up and down in his mouth. he's asleep. imagine committing so many crimes, you get bored at your own trial. move on to the good stuff! [applause] now, in case you've lost track, this is the trial where trump allegedly paid hush money to an adult film star that he slept with and then allegedly falsified business records to cover it up. or as trump would put it: >> this is political persecution. this is a persecution like never before. nobody's ever seen anything like it. and again, it's a case that should have never been brought. it's an assault of america, and that's why i'm very proud to be

here. >> jon: well, it's true, trump is always very proud to be part of any assault on america. [applause] oh. mm. "yes, mr. stewart," we agree! look, even if the prosecution is bit of a stretch, it's not persecution. the guy's not nelson mandela or jesus. >> i don't mind being nelson mandela, because i'm doing it for a reason. >> trump also shared two articles that compared him to jesus christ. one was titled "the crucifixion of donald trump." >> jon: don't let them crucify you, me boy! we have full team coverage down at the courthouse in lower manhattan today. here with an update on which martyr trump more resembles: jesus or nelson mandela? it's ronny chieng and desi lydic. [cheers and applause]

i'm going to start with ronny chieng. jesus or mandela? >> clearly mandela. both are two heroes, unjustly persecuted by a corrupt legal system. and as mandela often said, and i quote, "this is a witch hunt hoax. i've never even met horse face." >> i totally disagree, ronny. jesus christ. he's obviously jesus christ. it's right there in the new testament, or in its sequel, "the art of the deal." chapter 10, verse 8. "and lo, he evicted the rent-controlled tenants. and it was good. and tremendous and vicious and beautiful. jesus. wow." [cheers and applause] >> hang on. think about this for a second.

trump and mandela? they both had three wives. jesus didn't even have a serious girlfriend. the guy had no rizz. >> jon: i don't think rizz -- anyway. mandela was in prison for 27 years. >> yeah, but if you add up all the prison sentences trump got for other people from january 6th, and his campaign, and his business, it's way more than 27 years! okay? trump is, like, ten nelson mandelas. >> no, ronny, trump is jesus. they both have a ton of buildings with their names on them, filled with portraits of themselves to be worshiped. and they both sold sneakers! gold sneakers. >> hold on, hold on. i'm sorry to interrupt. this is ridiculous! >> jon: josh johnson! also at the courthouse. [cheers and applause] josh! >> trump is not mandela or jesus. we all know...

donald trump is oj. [cheers and applause] >> jon: i don't think that -- did you say o.j.? >> yeah, jon. o.j. trump! they were both iconic celebrities in the '80s. plus "donald j. trump?" is the "j" for juice? probably. but most importantly, their obvious guilt didn't deter their loyal fans who either think they're innocent, or don't care they're guilty. >> jesus had loyal fans! >> not like this. >> jon: so if he's o.j., you're saying that whether or not trump slept with stormy daniels or paid stormy daniels hush money isn't going to matter, he'll walk away a free man? >> yes, and personally, i'm excited for the moment in the trial, when trump will drop his pants and say, "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit." [cheers and applause] >> jon: ronny, desi, and josh, everybody.

we'll come back with david sanger. don't go away. [cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight, a white house and national security correspondent for "the new york times." his latest book is called "new cold wars: china's rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west." please welcome back to the program david sanger! sir! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ he wrote another banger.

"new cold wars" >> jon: david, nice to see you again. >> good to be here. >> jon: david, is the premise that the united states did a poor job of managing risk after the fall of the soviet union? >> well, we certainly made a lot of false assumptions, bad assumptions. >> jon: that doesn't sound like us. >> nah, wouldn't be us, wouldn't be us. and the fundamental argument of the book is that we believed somehow, we deluded ourselves, jon, into believing that china and russia, each for their own different reasons, would like to sign up to the western world. that we were going to say, we've got the whole thing figured out. all you guys do is come in here and sign on the dotted line. >> jon: right. we are going to do a rules-based democratic foundation order and everybody will be cool with it. >> and that was supposed to be the end of history. >> jon: are we lying to them or are we lying to ourselves? >> i think more to ourselves. so we did not want to conceive of a world in which we were back in superpower conflict. we wanted to live in the world

in which the u.s. was the predominant power. we finally calmed down the middle east. we're doing really well with that. we could then focus on competing with china, some containment of russia, and you know, biden happened to be the one sitting in office when this all fell apart. and most of the book is the story of what happens when that fell apart. it is the story of how the nuclear plant in ukraine, the biggest nuclear plant in europe, suddenly everyone believes is going to become the world's biggest -- >> jon: chernobyl. >> right. >> jon: haven't we sowed the seeds of that with our own arrogance and cavalier approach to a lot of these foreign policy conflicts? a, we always frame things as this is a battle between democracy and the free world and liberation and authoritarianism but the truth is, we are

fighting for trade channels and resources. like, this is all a function of competing capitalist powers and aren't we the ones -- we've invaded more countries than russia and china combined. so would it help us to not have to scold everybody for failing to live up to principles that we very clearly do not uphold? >> well, at least we have some principles, okay? that's the one thing -- >> jon: we say that. but you can't invade a country. what happened in iraq? >> that's right. >> jon: you can't call for regime change. what did we do in libya? every time we say these things, we undercut our own position with -- for god's sakes, iran is an enemy because we overthrew the democratically elected government in 1953. >> that's right. >> jon: at what point do we admit that this is how we are behaving? >> the odd thing is, at the moment, presidents to admit that.

they get chewed up for admitting to american error. obama went and apologized to the iranians -- >> jon: i'm not saying apologize. i'm just saying, take off the mask and go, you know what this is? it strikes me as, it is colonialism and imperialism in a more modern form. china is in africa trying to [applause] extract -- we are trying to extract, we are militarizing economic rivalries and creating all kinds of chaos and death over what is ostensibly trying to get better deals. >> well, some of it is better deals, some of it is protecting technology, and i argue in here that with china, as opposed to russia, this is -- first of all, this is an incredible competitor and it's a competitor in the military sphere, in the technology sphere, in finance, in economics. >> jon: and we're their best customer. >> and they are ours. and that is really what makes this different from the old

cold war. the reason there is a "new" in "new cold wars" and there is a reason there's a s at the end. first of all, we are fighting two simultaneously. the old cold war, that was not the case. >> jon: is fighting the wrong terminology? because isn't that -- look, the a war are the only people that never lose a war are the military-industrial complex, the people that sell the weapons. if we continue -- if we continue to push that weaponization of these economic rivalries, aren't we just playing into that cycle? >> we are playing into the cycle. but if you are in a world in which vacuums happen, if we say, okay, we are done with this, you will go back and build our big walls and sort of recede from it, someone fills that space, and that space is going to get filled largely by china, some by russia, some by other authoritarian regimes and so we have to make a really hard and bad choice, which is, do we want to be the one trying to fill

that void with our technology and our principles, understanding that we violate them all the time? or do we want to let an authoritarian regime go fill that space, which we know how that is going to look? so the book is sort of a warning ahead to what these next 20 or 30 years are going to look like. >> jon: wow. >> because this is not a world in which these new cold wars are going to end sometime soon. they are going to be the dominant theme of the next 20, 30, 40 years, long after putin and xi are gone, and long after joe biden and donald trump are gone. >> jon: i don't believe that last part. >> that trump is never leaving? >> jon: i think the two of them, honestly, it will be 2084. they will be like, it is another biden-trump rematch. i can't believe it. two heads in a jar. [applause] "new cold wars," it is available now. david sanger! [cheers and applause] >> jon: thank you!

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