buckle up, buckaroo! [ cheers and applause ] from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> trevor: welcome to the daily show, i'm trevor noahment thank you so much for tuning in. my guest tonight the managing editor of bloomberg politics and host of the showed" circus," mark halperin and john heilemann are joining us, everybody. but first up, some breaking news and it's personal. hey, donald trump, don't be stealing our [bleep], man. yeah, no, because last night on our show jordan klepper gave a speech. and then today donald trump totally are youd it off. check it out.

>> thanks, trevor. america, family, fishing, heartland, baseball, flag pin, america. >> americans, american, the people that we love, americans, america first, make our country great again. americans. >> trevor: what the hell? what the hell, donald? i mean on the one hands i'm pissed off, on the other hand you realize this means donald is watching the show, hey, donnie, hi. and he's clearly a fan of jrd an klepper. yeah. [bleep] that gives me an idea, jordan, jordan, jordan klepper, everybody. (cheers and applause) jordan klepper. >> how you doing. >> trevor: i-- . >> i do not wish to be president any more. and i see that my campaign has been di vicive so i will be

dropping out of the race. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: good. america needs to be great again and that's why we need to build the wall and ban the muslims and get rid of all these mexicans, make make america great again. >> trevor: i didn't say that, what are you doing? >> i'm sorry, it's just me and trump are linked. like harry potter and volumed mortgage. if you will excuse me, have i to look at photos of i ving-- ivanka. >> are you still linked? >> no, we're not still linked. >> okay. let's move on to our top story of the night. usually you hear about athletes struggling to get ready for the olympics. this year is different, it is the host city that mile not make it. >> rio is seeing a lot of problems in the most month. >> you have a political crisis. you have the zika crisis. you have water pollution issues. >> it ised only country we could find that will northbound a full blown recession while hosting the olympic games.

>> oh, man, a full blown recession. you know, full blown never comes before anything good. like that is a phrase that is only used for bad things. no one is ever like honey, good news. my boss gave me a full blown raise! like people at what point does rio admit that this whole olympic thing isn't a good idea? you know rio right now is that one friend who you hang out with and no matter how bad things get for him, he just refuse to call it quits. they are partying. it's late. they lost their wall elevator. dropped their phone in the toilet while puking and still rio is going yo, where are we heading next. it's like no, rio, you're a mess. it's time to hang it up. seriously, rio, how can you carry on with the olympics when we keep hearing news like this. >> we saw how a gun gang fight broke out in one hospital over the weekend, that is supposed to be servicing guests for the olympics. >> two members of the australian par o paralympic team are

recovering after being robbed at gunpoint near their hotel in riio. >> seriously, are you robbing paralympians? disgusting. although, to be fair, if you look closely at the logo for the rio olympics, it does kind of look like the green guy and the blue guy are stealing the prosthetic limb. so we were warned, people, we were warned. oh, and speaking of being warned, hey, criminals in rio, paralympians might seem like easy targets, but don't forget this guy killed his girlfriend just for using the bathroom. so you probably want to watch-- oh, really, are you going to-- a ah you are going to ah a disabled person? now look, rio, i know you desperately want to host this party. but what is the point of a party if nobody wants to come. >> some athletes decided to skip the rio olympics including american cyclist tejaj van guarderen. wnd many saying they will skip. >> you can a rory mcelroy.

>> the word is lebron james is saying i don't think i want to go. >> the zika virus has chicago bulls star pau gasol. >> he has not decided if he will play for spain but if he does, he said he will consider freezing his sperm. >> trevor: that is genius. that is genius. you freeze your sperm in case you get zika, although a word of advice to anyone considering that. don't store your sperm in a freezer in an empty tub much ice cream especially if you have a roommate. it's been ten years, dave, get over it. get over it. i still want my tub back. at this point the only thing the rio games have going for them is that cute jaguar they have as a mascot. now why would i mention that? >> now to a strange event tied to the olympics. the jaguar was shot dead after it escaped its handlers in brazil shortly after it posed for photographs with the olympic torch. military officials tried to recapture her but when ju ma lounged at a soldier she was shot with a pistol. >> trevor: what?

that is so unfair. the mascots of the rio olympics were shot dead. yeah, onlookers called it an unspeakable act of metaphor. >> it was just-- i mean goddammit, people k we just go one week without executing a beautiful, exotic animal? that jaguar is going to go up to animal heaven and harambe the gorilla will be waiting up there like damn, mother [bleep] got you too, huh? damn! well, technically because it is harambe-- harambe it is an african name so it will be oh, damn, those mother [bleep] got you too huh? here is my question, even without the crime, the zika, the pollution, why did rio even want to host the olim pecs. >> in recent years cities hosting the games have faced billions of dollars in cost overruns leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. they rarely ever turn a profit for the host city. london and beijing saw tourism decline during the month they hosted the olympics. >> trevor: i never get this logic. i know you want to increase tour

im, right. but the olympics will cost rio $11 billion. you do realize for that money you could give a random tourist $1 million every single day for the next 30 years, could you do that just give them one million. do you know how much tourism that would generate, everyone would want to go to brazil because you could get a million dollars every day. could you have zika-infested mosquitoes mugging people at the airport and people would stibl like brazil, here i come! look, at the end of the day, people, hosting the olympics is way too much work. are you never fully prepared. you spend a fortune to buy all the stuff you only use for a month. everyone has opinions on how are you supposed to be doing it. basically it's like having a kid, yeah. especially because once are you done it, you have to pretend it was a really great idea, yeah. oh, i was glad i had my olympics, should too, you should too, rio, stop that, stop that. we made a big mistake. we'll be right back. stop, that rio!

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built. even if no one needs it. >> the u.s. army corps of engineer is the largest public engineering organization in the world. 700 military personnel, over 30,000 civilians. and these guys build things like the washington monument, panama canal. >> damn. >> and dams. >> damn. >> these guys are bad asses and i'm sure journalists michael grunwald agrees with. >> late thee they built a lot of environmentally drukive boondoggles. >> what the hell did he just say. >> they build a lot of stuff that nobody needs that tends to do a lot of environmental damage. >> so what i'm an american, i done care about the environment. >> well, are you paying for it. >> who paying for it? >> you are paying for it. >> i ain't paying for it. >> american taxpayers are paying for it. >> i didn't get no bill from the army corps. >> they have never really been accountable to the taxpayers. members of congress have always protected them. >> talk about wasting taxpayer

dollars, here say billion dollar transformer thing on the mississippi river that the corps build to handle barge traffic. looks like a great investment to me. >> no. >> hatesser number two, environmentalist brad walker. >> this was built to handle barge traffic that has never come. nowhere near what they used to protect-- project its construction. >> how do you know it's not coming. how are you so sure that there aren't multiple barges coming in late at night that you don't even see. it's barge night life going, you know the river done even get popping until 3:00. it's crazy on the river at night. >> yeah, it doesn't really matter what time, because the corps keeps track of all this. there are statistics that we use to check how much barge traffic is going up and down the river. >> is that right plrks hater. let's check out those statistics then. the blue line represents actual barge traffic and the green line represents the corps of engineers projections. look like those proswrekses are pretty accurate to me, look, wait, why is the blue line doing

that, dam it. soon it's going to hardly be any damager traffic and the corps know this. >> the army corps of engineer keeps track of barge traffic why didn't they just go hey, we are building that [bleep] that is stupid. >> i wish they would. the army corps considered the barge industry their client. >> oh, a client. is that why the corps is snoffed with seven new projects for the barge lobby that would koses billions of dollars. >> you got to remember there is this kind of iron triangle that goes on between the army corps, members of congress, and the special interests that benefit from these projects. >> iron triangle? man, i hadn't tried that position since my girlfriend and her sorority sisters were-- never mind. look, i had to get to the bottom of this. so i went to the man at the top, the head of the corps of engineers general thomas. >> the corps of engineers doesn't decide on which project to do. the congress authorizes this project.

>> it is good you get your orders from congress and not the lonnieist, correct? >> absolutely. we can't all be in bed. >> that's just awkward. >> what i will say is we work with a lot of the leaders on-- that may have ties to the lobby that help with ideas on what they recommend the corps of engineers and congress pursue as priorities. >> the lobbyists convince congress to fund certain projects, congress authorizes the corps of engineers to do those projects and the corps builds those projects which pleasures the lobbyists. damn, i guess that is like my iron triangle, except in this case taxpayers get it but it units out this goes beyond wasting tax colors. as hater number two showed me in missouri. to benefit the farm lobby the corps plans to drain these wetlands right here by building a new levee. just one problem. >> if we put that levee in here, other areas will be at risk getting flooded. they will expect people affect people in kentucky, in southern illinois, it will affect people

upstream in missouri. >> the corporate levees could cause flooding. >> where have i heard that before. >> the worst army corps failure in its history is the drowning of new orleans. >> oh yeah. the corps poorly engineered the levee system that failed during katrina. and the corps train descrained near by wetlands that may have further protected new orleanss in the first place. critics say proposed bro jects create flood risks upstream? hold on. that's st. louis. i don't want to lose st. louis, man, that's the home of knelly. >> i love st. louis. >> you are saying knelly is safe. >> i'm not saying knelly is safe. >> we're talking knelly, man-- nelly man, this made classic, down, down baby, street in the range rover, boom boom, street sweeper, ready to let it go. well, anyway, we want to protect the american people. >> some of the projects you do, i think we should just assign

priority levels. this is priority a, for absolutely. let's do this project. all the way down to priority d, as in dumb, as it don't do this, as it demolish the idea. >> we don't even consider priority d projects. >> except for new-- yeah, new madrick the concrete-- here is the thing the corps does plenty of projects but as long as they keep getting these dst, man, you better carry a life vers with you. learn how to swim or something. >> roy wood, jr., everybody, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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show, my guests tonight are the ex-- executive producers an cohos-- cohosts of show time "the circus." >> wouldn't it be good? >> we started out with like 22 candidateses and its first 12 episodes basically get down to clinton, bernie sanderses and trump. >> the first week in july we're going to shoat conventions like they have never been shown before and it looks like the conventions are going to be like they have never been before. >> the real prize is winning in november. >> there is a chance there will be a contested event for the democratic because bernie sanders will fight all the way. >> 's in this for the long haul. >> trevor: please welcome mark halperin and john heilemann. (cheers and applause) gentlemen, welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: i'm such a huge fan of your guys work. you are political superstars, basically. >> are we allowed to say vice versa. >> trevor: you can say that. >> okay, vice versa.

>> can you say who are you mixing us up with? >> i'm not mixing you up with anyone. you guys are the guys of game change, you created the circuit. quick question, why did you call the show about the political race "the circus." >> because it's a big candidate, drp-- circus the candidates say it all the time when they are frustrated it travels around the world like a circus an there's a bearded lady. i'm not saying who that is. >> think about t circuses are fun. >> but circuses, do you not think that offends the-- the circus' plan, the sir discuss met odd kal, people in the circus, it's not like-- i'm sure the circus goes hey, we have our elephants under control thravment is not something-- do you think it is as crazy as it seems? you guys are on the ground every single week on these campaigns, is it as bad as we think it is. >> it is not only crazy t is so physically taxing, no one else picks their leaders like this, so the scheduling, the changes, the back and forth, the social

media, it is-- circus it is probably more offensive to the circus but it is an out of control process that tests the candidates, their families, everyone around them in a way, there are really nothing else like it. >> you have been doing this together for a long time. you have written books together. you created the show together. are you like ben affleck and matt damon of politics, basically. >> i'm not sure which one of those i want to be but i would be happy with either one. >> trevor: you know which one. >> they are both pretty good. >> trevor: you know which one you are. >> okay. >> trevor: but people off d dks. >> people often ask us whether this is the craziest election we covered. we covered 92y, a third party candidate ross perot, incredible, right. 2,000, recount in florida setted by the supreme court. 2008, barack obama, hillary clinton, sarah palin, world financial meltdown in the course of the campaign. what is craze ye than that, donald trump. >> trevor: donald trump is craze yer -- crazier. >> than all of those things

combined. >> correct. >> trevor: is there a fear when are you out there i mean you go to these events. you go to the rallies. trump is not a fan of the press, the media, inct fa, how do you get in so close. you have seen things that nobody else has. you have seen his hair yet? what is going on there? >> you know, he has on several occasions in the course of this campaign taken off the hat. i know you have a hat, right. >> trevor: of course i have, everyone has a hat. >> and it had to be hot so it is slicked back, he looks a little when it is slicked back, like michael will douglas as gordon gecko in wall street. i'm not kidding. it's real, whether it is totally authentic is another question. but it's real. there is something that is real. >> trevor: that sounds like donald trump's campaign, it's real, whether it's totally authentic. >> can i take another question all together. >> the that for a bumper sticker would be pretty good. >> trevor: you have been there from the beginning with bernie sanders. in the clip there was speculation about bernie sanders going into the convention, making it contested, looking

increasingly like that will not happen. were there signs of this while you were on the road or did it seem a madhouse. >> he will still go and want to be treated with respect. we try to to sus on-- focus on the process but more on the people. not to do a show about polling and strategy, so it is about the people. bernie sanders could have walked down any street in america including his hometown of brooklyn no one would have recognized him a year and a half ago. now he draws the biggest crowds anybody has ever seen and he is a pan because of his issue positions. we have never seen anything like that in our modern politics. sew wants to go and still do stuff. he said just today he knows will not be the nominee. it is an incredible poignant story, it won't be the main thing we cover but it will be a really important story of how he stort of makes his peace with hillary clinton and the democratic party. >> we started interviewing him at the beginning when he started out on our show on bloomberg and a lot of people weren't taking him seriously. i think he appreciated that we did from the beginning. so in the early phases we had a lot of great behind the scene,

backstage access with him. i was with him in the hotel suite on the night of the iowa caucus where it still wasn't clear if he had won. having the greatest night of his life. seeing him go from a cause candidate, challenging the political dynasty, to wing all these primaries and now having to go through all this, and see it slip away. we talk about the high human drama of presidential politics, bern yoa sanders embodies that better than anybody. and going out on the road and seeing 10,000 people on inn tulsa, oklahoma on a tuesday afternoon t is an inspiring thing to see. whether you agree or not there are a lot of people moved by his passion of conviction and what they see as purity. >> trevor: 10,000 in tulsa on a tuesday, sounds like a great movie title. >> right. >> trevor: i saw hillary clinton speaking today. and in her speech, you can feel bernie sanders pepper through, talking about free, the debt free education for american o college students, talking about wall street being reigned in, you know, you can feel bernie

coming through. there you guys are going to be at the convention -- conventions, we're going to be at the conventions. >> bring your bulletproof vest. >> trevor: i was about to ask you what to do, and you told me. which convention. >> both, both. you are need your hackie sack uniform in case you want to hang out with the sanders people. they are both going to be incredible shows. >> it will be your first convention. >> trevor: it will be my first convention. >> you have to lock and load. >> trevor: could be my last convention. >> just come with no preconceptions and no preconditions and you will be fine. >> and a lot of alcohol. >> in a really big bag. >> trevor: i will meet you there. thank you so much for joining me on the show. thank you for being here. the circus returns with a new episode starting july 109. mark halperin and john heilemann, eve

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