job of president of the united states of america is mildly different from selling real estate and meat? you're surprised by that? this is a whole different life for me now. after applying for the job for two years you shouldn't approach it with the same and of bond thary jasmine did in aladdin, that is not what you do. you are like a whole different life for me now. no one can tell me no, or where to go. now don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong. i'm not saying that donald trump should downplay the gravity of the job of president but it would be nice if he had an inc.ling of what he actually had to do. because i get it, the peopled wanted someone fresh. and if the people wanted someone who could have come in and known how to dot job right away, they would have elected hill rae clinton. instead we got someone who walks around the white house like a toddler at the space museum. what's this? what's this? what's this? can i push it? i like this statue. sir, that's mike pence.

oh. because correct me if i'm wrong, if you had just become president of the united states, and leader of the free world, what is the one thing you might no longer be focused on? >> are you going to be tweeting and whatever you're upset about, just put out there? when you're president. >> it's a modern form of communication between facebook and twitter. and i guess instagram, i have 28 million people. 28 million people. >> you are going to keep it up. >> i picked up yesterday 100,000 people. >> trevor: who is this guy? he is bragging that he picked up 100,000 followers yesterday? no, dude, you're going to be president of the united states. you picked up 300 million followers and we can't block, mute or unfollow you. but we can still troll you and we are going to troll you hard. hashtag, hashtag more, hashtag hashtag more. now one of the reasons this interview was so important is

that since trump's victory america has been grappling with the reported rise in hate crimes against muslim, hispanics, black people, basically everyone not wearing a red cap. but it appears that donald trump has been so consumed with twitter that he hasn't had a chance to check twitter. >> mr. trump said he had not heard about some of the acts of violence that are popping up in his name. >> i'm very surprised to hear that. >> telling muslim. >> i hate to hear that. i hate to hear that. >> but do you hear it. >> i don't hear it. >> do you want to say anything to those people. >> i would say don't do t that's terrible. i am so sadenned to hear that. and i say stop it. if it-- if it it helps. i will say this, and i will say it right to the camera, stop it. (laughter). >> trevor: now frisk it. donald trump is truly a genius, people, because i can tell you whatever i was doing when i saw this, i stopped. maybe, maybe that's his secret

plan to beat isis. he's just going to look them in the camera and say isis, stop it. (laughter) illegal immigrants, stop it. stop signs, you do you. which involves stopping it. i think it's nice that donald trump denounced hate crimes performed in his name. but why do i feel like he's going to find out what it it is like to tell someone to stop but they still keep going. you know, as an immigrant it is obvious that i would be wary of donald trump. and as a black person trk is obvious that i would be wary of donald trump, but after this interview, i feel like there is a new group who should be worried about the trump presidency. and that's donald trump supporters. because he built his entire campaign on three main things. build a wall, lock her up, drain the swamp. >> phrases that sound less like a campaign promise and more like options in a choose your own adventure book. but still, a lot of people voted for donald trump because of those promises. especially build a wall. if he was michael jackson, the

wall was his thriller. and just like michael jackson, he is starting to moon walk away from it. >> are you really going to build a wall. >> yes. >> they're talking about a fence in the republican congress. would you accept a fence? >> for certain areas i would. >> trevor: i'm sorry, wait, wait, what just happened there. did that guy just negotiate himself from a wall to a fence? what just happened there. no, no, i'm sorry because as a trump supporter i would not be impressed with that. i signed up for a wall. no one talks about the great fence of china! no one talks about the great certificatiers of barrier restrictions of china, no! we want a wall! mexico must be like our currency crashed because of that wall, you better built it, man, hump tee dump tee is like what the [bleep] trump, i can't sit on a fence. i'm not paul ryan. (cheers and applause)

oh, and by the way, by the way, if you voted for trump because you thought that no matter what, he would send hillary to prison, well, bad news, bro. >> are you going toyask for a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton over her emails? >> well, i tell you what i am going to do i'm going think about it, she did some bad things, i mean she did some bad things. >> i know, but a special prosecutor. >> i don't want to hurt them. i don't want to hurt them. they're good people. >> trevor: wait, wait, the clintons are good people? good people? not neutral people, good people, not even like okay people. you went straight to good people, from this? >> hillary clinton, commonly referred to as crooked hillary. >> she's crooked as a $3 bill. >> she should be in prison. >> she's the queen of cor rums. >> she's a disaster. >> she's a dangerous liar. >> she's the devil. >> she's a monster.

>> trevor: wow, from the devil to good people, that must have been one hell of a fruit basket she sent him. damn, donald. donald trump got elected based on a lot of campaign promises and less than a week later he's dropping them like they're a woman who just turn ited 45. if you voted for trump's wall, now there's a good chance you may not be getting it. if you voted about hillary clinton, well that she-devil is set to roam free. but one thing doned a trump also promised his people, to crack down on the corruption, lobbyists who he said were running washington, remember? drain the swamp. >> your own transition team, is filled with lobbyists. >> it's the only 350e78 you have down there. everybody is a lobbyist down there, they are lobbyists, we're trying to clean up washington. look, everything, everything down there, we are doing a lot of things to clean up the system. but everybody that works for government, they then leave

government and they become a lobbyist, essentially. the whole place is one big lobbyist. >> trevor: get the [bleep] out of here, man! no, you promised. you promised that you would rid washington of special interest influence. you said that, you said you would drain the swamp. now you're bringing the swamp into the white house? how is that fixing the problem. it's like if your toilet was backed up so you hire a guy to come to your house to unclog it it he takes a look and then he goes, hmmmm, hmmmm, there is too much [bleep] in this toilet. we need to drain this toilet. there is only one way to fix this. hmmmm. hmmmm. hmmmm. and you know what is crazy-- (applause). >> trevor: are you looking at him like hey, man, you just made it worse. what kind of a plummer are you. and he is like who said i was a plummer? i'm an outsider. by the way, follow me on twitter. we'll be right back.

>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show, my first guest tonight is the founder and editor in chief of five thirty eight. please welcome nate silver, everybody. are you good? all right, let's make it very simple. heads or tails. >> tails. >> you are losing it, man. >> yeah. >> trevor: you're losing it. let's talk about polling. because this entire race, this entire race, as nate silver, are you not a pollster, you aggregate the polls. you try and figure out what they mean. this entire race you were wrong. >> no, i know it's like not an easy television explanation but our job is to-- . >> trevor: you are saying people are stupid, nate? >> for television. >> what i am saying is-- we're

taking, i mean everybody conceded hillary clinton was ahead in the polls because she was, right? our job is to thaik that data and translate that into an estimate of-- . >> trevor: but was she ahead though. >> in the polls-- . >> trevor: but which polls. >> some of the best polls, in fact. you know-- . >> trevor: no, no, no. do we still call them the best polls if they were wrong. why are people still looking at the polls. >> people experiencing this for the firs time, i'm confused by why people in the america are so upset about by the polls withness if you have a bunch of poll thases showed within 3 points, swing states that are close, people should characterize that as being extremely comparative. people should go out and vote. that is what we are trying to do we're trying to take that data and translate that into an estimate of probability. our probability was 70% for clinton, 30% for trump. >> trevor: yes. >> other people had trump at 2%. and so if we are saying there is a higher risk of rain, higher

risk of an earthquake than you might think, be wary, at the very least, don't take anything for granted. and then trump wins, and it is hard, right, it's much easier to be on the right side of things but the whole thing is about there's uncertainty. >> trevor: let me ask you this. one of the problems with polling was they do not know how to poll hispanic voters. they struggle with that. and i saw a lot of hispanic journalists saying no, lots of hispanic voters are difficult, you don't know how to speak to these people, you don't know how to engage with hispanic voters. >> there are a lot of pis pan-- hispanic voters whose preferred language is spanish. a lot of voters, a lot of polls don't have spanish language interviewers and they're different from english speaking hispanics. by the way, people talk about the midwest, they were also states like california and new mexico where she overperformed the polls. and so you know, it is definitely true. >> trevor: but then i go back to, and forgive me if this sounds like the dumbest question in the world what is the point

of the thing. what is the point if the prediction doesn't happen. >> it's a forecast t doesn't happen. >> it's an estimate of risk. >> trevor: but what is the point of that, what i am trying to say, if it was rain there is a chance of rain. >> if the news media had acted like trump had a 30% chance of winning which is what our forecast said. >> yes. >> i think they would have acted very differently. frankly if the clinton campaign had believed that trump had a 30% chance of winning, they might have spent more time in michigan and wisconsin and not arizona and ohio and states like that. >> trevor: so this is actionable intelligence to prepare for different eventualities. because a 30% chance is way different than a 3% chance. >> trevor: i still find it it weird that this is what it sounders like to me. depending on who is going to win, determines who is going to go out and vote and yet shouldn't be just be you go out and vote because you want the person to be president. that sounds like a very crazed world to be living in. fundamentally doesn't make sense.

>> people, people don't vote when they think the race is a blowout. and that's-- . >> trevor: >> trevor: a blowout because they were going to vote that way. >> it's circular, this is why it is important to be careful-- . >> trevor: i am going to choke you, nate silver. and i really like you, i'm going to choke you right now. >> here is what i say. i say that polling is like democracy. the least worst system ever invented. there are lots of problems with the polls. but if you want to try and represent all-- represent all the different parts of america, then in theory at least. and over the long run, in practice, polling is a pretty good way to have a representative sample of the population, where media off eng doesn't do that. >> trevor: that makes a lot of sense. let's do this, have i to wrap thup. donald trump off the top of his head what is the worst that could happen. what are the chances that he would follow through on building a wall, locking hillary up and draining the swamp? >> i think, not making predictions. i do think that trump-- . >> trevor: what is the worst that could happen, nate? you are already at the bottom. you might as well gup, let's do it. throw it at me, what are the chances.

>> i think trump will be very obsessed with his polling numbers ironically and his approval rating. and that is if he depicts public pushback against his agenda, he might abandon things pretty quickly. >> trevor: numbers are low, and then will go, he will be a better president. >> you see, maybe. >> just tell him the numbers are low, nate silver, thank you so much for being here. >> trevor: nate silver, we'll be right back. thank you.

>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show, my next guest is an actor, an environmental activist and a really, really great guy. please welcome adrian grenier, everybody. (applause) >> hello. (applause). >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> why, thank you. >> trevor: i spent so many years dreaming of joining your entourage, man. i'm not even going to lie, he was a huge fan of that. and you know, still holding out. >> now the roles are reversed. now i want to be part of your entourage. >> trevor: i don't have an entourage trk it doesn't work like, that you need those eyes for an entourage, don't tease me me like that. >> oh, you're pretty, you're pretty. >> trevor: welcome to the

show. >> by the way, my real entourage is backstage and they're all swooning over you. >> trevor: oh, thank you, thank you for that. >> yeah. >> trevor: let's talk about entourage. this is really something that you have been doing behind the scenes which is exciting. and that is you have been nurturing young talent. you have been going into music. you've been trying to get producers and musicians, people that normally wouldn't be given the chance, why do you do this, you could just go out and say i'm just going to try and be the star. why help other stars come up. >> i'm big into building communities and i built the studio in my basement. it was sort of a manifestation of pie boy hood dream to have a professional studio in my house. and i got really busy. i didn't use it that much. i started giving it it away to the community, to people in the neighborhood and band was come in. and younger bands would start hearing about it. and it was a real joy to be able to let younger bands have an opportunity to play in the studio, which i always wished that i could do. >> trevor: yeah. >> and it just grew into this really great little community. >> it is-- . >> trevor: yeah, it's a beautiful thing.

(applause). >> trevor: to do for people, especially people who may not have access to that world. you don't just involve yourself in music and entertainment, though. i think one of the bigger challenges you have taken on is that of climate change. >> oh yeah. >> trevor: you. >> it's important. >> trevor: you think? >> a little bit, you know. >> trevor: what is sad, two weeks ago you would have come and said yeah, we get it t and we're moving forward. donald trump and his election for the epa looks to be, doesn't seem like climate change is going to be at the front or even on his mind at all. you not only have been an activist, i mean you swam to raise awareness with richard branson in the ocean. that was part of the, you know, the swim that you see here. this is-- you did this to raise awareness for climate change. >> yeah, so i did. i swam through the strait of messina with richard branton t was 3.3 kilometers, two mile

swim. you see, i'm, i have a balloon tied around my neck for a very specific reason. i was actually out training one day and i, in the middle of the ocean i came across a balloon, a happy birthday balloon floating in the middle of the ocean. and it sort of embodied exactly why i was doing the intim in the first place because a moment of swroi for somebody's birthday is a thousand years of death in the ocean. >> trevor: wow. >> fish eat it, birds eat it, and then eventually it just poisons our waters. >> trevor: a lot of times global warming is seen as this giant task that cannot be dealt with unless you are a scientist. how do we drop temperatures of oceans and atmospheres. but you were particularly against drinking straws. >> yeah. you know, straws are like the low-hanging plastic. you know, no, i mean seriously. they're everywhere. we encounter them every day. and they're easy to change.

we can just refuse single use plastic straws. 500 million straws every day, go into landfills and end up in the ocean. 500 million. and all we have to do is just say no. >> trevor: why is it it so important to you. you have traveled the world, met with many activists, can do you think it it is so important to have a president that believes in climate change. >> well you know, i've been trying to convince people or at least inspire people to chak their lifestyles, to be more conscience. but we really do need strong leadership. because these laws not only govern us but they level the playing field for businesses so that some corporations and companies don't get-- aren't able to profit off of the destruction that they put out. and then the costs that we ultimately end up paying for. when oil spilled in the ocean, who paid for that we do. not only extra added tax dollars but also just quality of life, what about the pollution. that is an unknown tax that we

end up having to pay for in health costs and just quality of life generally. >> trevor: something ef we got to fight and i think the fight has gotten a lot tougher. but i'm glad that are you on it. thank you so much. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. (applause). >> trevor: for more information, check out lonely whale.org, it it is a truly fantastic cause and we need to support it. adrian grenier, everybody. we'll be right back when you run your own restaurant,

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midnight when the day resets and we announce a winner. this is what's going on in the bustling chat rooms of america online today. i'm chris hardwick. our future president/good source of vitamin c, donald trump, recently met with barack obama to go over the transition of power and also to ask "what do presidents do?" [laughing] [cheers and applause] >> chris: the exact moment of it just sinking in, what he has to do right here. obama is like, ya [beep] -- according to cnbc, aides on trump's team were surprised to learn that the entire white house staff will leave with obama, which is a bummer because trump was really looking forward to saying "you're fired!" to a bunch of housekeepers. trump is also reportedly planning to split his time between washington d.c., trump tower, and mar-a-lago because he doesn't want to do this job. you guys, he doesn't want to do it. he didn't think it through.

right. this is like the "twilight zone" ending for trump where he gets his faustian bargain. you mean i have to do this. no! [cheers and applause] >> chris: think about it. he's a billionaire, 70 years old. the next 4 years a considerable chunk of his life. he has to do it now. i don't know how funny it is to some people. it seems like donald doesn't know what the presidency actually entails. he's like america's drunk friend watching "american ninja warrior" saying, "i could do that (/ bleep/ )" except then 60 -- i could do that [beep]. million people were like, "okay!" why don't you. and now the state of our country rests on his ability to what are presidential duties for

him to know about. arden myrin. >> preceding over the government of the united states of america. >> chris: alright. [ applause ] >> chris: yes, points. judge doug benson. [laughing] >> i -- i don't -- i don't know exactly how it works chris. i think around christmas he has to choose a turkey and grab it's lady giblets. >> chris: points. samm levine. >> negotiate the cease fire in the middle east, the federal budget. i'm just joking with you -- >> chris: i will give you points. also i need to point this out. what are you standing on, samm. >> what are you talking about, chris? what are you talking about, chris?

[cheers and applause] >> chris: samm. >> i didn't request one that big. >> it's not like doug and i are giants. [laughing] >> chris: welcome. [ applause ] [cheers and applause] >> chris: do not laugh at me! i am a human being. [laughing] >> what long knees you have. >> you had it, didn't you. chris: i want to try to do the show from up here. first up, audio quiz. you can't spell "hear" without "ear"! comedians, i want you to hear this sound with your ears. [laughing] that sound was all over the reddit. what was it?