political appointees to hire. >> sources close to the situation say the transition process is stalled. >> the words that have been used to describe this transition team and how it's been working-- "infighting, knife fight, turmoil, disarray, chaos." >> trevor: you know, basically every day. that's what they're saying. why is anyone surprised it's taking trump this long to hire his administration? this is the same guy who needed 13 weeks to fill one job. maybe he's putting them through challenges. maybe that's what he's doing. "it seems like you'd be a great continual, but first, i need you and brandi glanville to write a jingle for bud light lime-a-ritas." and you know for a guy who says he get all the best people tsure seems like trump got his team from the republican bargain bin. i mean, for attorney general, he's reportedly considering ted cruz. which makes perfect sense. who better for the country's top law enforcement position than the person trump renamed "lyin'

ted." what does day one even look like on that job? "welcome aboard, ted. first order of business, i need you to go after your dad for killing kennedy." so if an incurable liar is trump's choice for top law man, who would be trump's top choice for the top diplomats? >> i said islamic extremist terrorism! you know who you are! there's no black america. there's no white america. there is just america! >> trevor: aaarrghhh! ( laughter ) yes. trump's leading contender for secretary of state, former new york city mayor and human the "scream" portrait, rudy guiliani, who proved with his r.n.c. performance that he could speak to the entire world without a microphone. guiliani, in my opinion, sounds less like a diplomat and more

like a mad scientist who just merged black america with white america. >> there is just america! >> trevor: it's alive! ( laughter ) now, luckily, trump hasn't made any of those appointments official yet. there is one decision, though, that he has confidently made-- hiring his chief strategist, steve bannon. >> bannon, one of trump's first appointments and already, his most controversial. >> the new campaign "keanu" has been dubbed "the most dangerous political operative in america." >> he has a following among the alt-right, among white nationalists. >> bannon's got a lot of-- he's said some bad stuff. >> he is a very divisive figure. (bleep). >> trevor: yes, the man who will be the top adviser to the future president of the united states, honey badger. if you're unfamiliar with the

phrase, this is where he got it from. >> this is the honey badger. watch it run in slow motion. it's pretty bad ass. look, it runs all over the place. oh, it's got a snake? watch this. the snake's up in the tree. honey badger don't care. honey badger don't give a (bleep). >> trevor: but this steve bannon guy, he's no joke. besides running trump's campaign, can steve bannon is most widely known for being the c.e.o. of breitbart news, a web site bannon himself describes as a platform for the alt-right. these are the kind of people who think fox news is too diverse. breitbart is infamous for writing articles that are misogynistic, anti-semitic, and outright racist. and bannon's appointment to the white house has energized a certain session. the white nationalist. richard spencer tweeted he is the best possible position for policy. and david duke called the choice

excellent. the klan is so happy, they even jazzed up their hoods. and bannon may say he's not one of these people, but he happily provides them a megaphone. and in case all of that didn't turn you off. >> campaign ceo steve bannon, in 1996, he faced misdemeanor domestic violence charges. his ex-wife and this santa monica, california, police report alleging he grabbed her, an incident that the officers said left red marks on her left wrist and the right side of her neck. >> trevor: look steve bannon is a reprehensible human being, and for him to be given an office two doors down from the oval is something that should scare everybody, even the honey badger is like, "i don't give a (bleep)-- wait, wait, trump's appointing that guy? (bleep) (bleep) (bleep)." a man who at best say white supremacist enabler, has just been named chief strategist to the president. these are definitely not good times. >> oh, (bleep) that, trevor.

this is great, man! this is great. >> roy wood jr., everyone. ( cheers and applause ) >> i just got here. i was so focused on that-- snuck up on you like a trump victory. >> trevor: yeah, and nate silver didn't even warn me. so steve bannon really doesn't bother you? >> hell no. trump and bannon, they're-- they're not like other republicans, man. they're not hiding their racism behind voter i.d. or stop-and-frisk policies. it's out in the open now. finally, klan members won't need to hide their face. they're just going to be running around, "i'm loud, and i'm proud, (bleep)." >> trevor: forgive me, i'm so confused. >> confused? what are you confused about? it's not like this was a surprise. you shf known something was up when ben carson left. he saw steve bannon and got out of the white house like a blad blackdude in a horror movie. amarosa next. >> trevor: i don't understand why having a white nationalist in the whois could possibly be a

good thing. >> because we live in a country where people don't even want to admit that racism is a thing. now we're cutting to the chase. and we know who is chasing who. now, instead trying to expose hidden racism. it's on display for everyone to see, and that's easier (bleep) to deal with. >> trevor: i never thought of it like that. >> yeah. it's like, of the highest levels-- honestly, like, this is the stripper at the end of a lap dance level honesty. ( laughter ) you know, when that musk stops, they get as honest as hell. "i thought you liked me." "i did when you were making it rain." this is the situation we're in, trevor. by electing trump, america bought a ticket on the racism train, so, hell, we might as well take the express. >> trevor: thanks. roy wood jr., everyone. never thought of it like that. good point. ( applause ) you know, right now, right now, people may feel helpless because, clearly, trump is unshamable, and so is bannon. so no matter how much noise you make about this appointment, there's a good chance they don't

give a (bleep). i'll tell you who we shouldn't forget about-- these two guys. paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, the republican leaders who never had the spine to stand up to team trump. this is senate majority leader mcconnell who is being asked whether he thinks it's appropriate for steve bannon to have the ear of the president >> taken a lot of flak. we want to know, are you comfortable with him having such a high-level position in the trump administration? >> good to see you guys today. >> so no defense of bannon then? >> that will do it. thank you. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i'm sorry that-- that's not the response of a moral leader. that's someone's grandpa doing, like, a really (bleep) mannequin challenge. >> no defense of bannon, then? ♪ ♪

>> trevor: and by the way, let's not forget spineless speaker paul ryan who asked asked about bannon, the man who has been running his party's presidential campaign, this is what he has to say? >> i never met the guy. i don't know steve bannon so i have no concerns. i trust donald's judgment. i think he will pick who will best serve him. >> trevor: get the (bleep) out of here, man. you trust donald trump's judgment? you trust donald trump's judgment? since then? >> donald trump, will you support him? >> i'm not just not ready to do that at this point. i do not think a muslim ban is in our country's interest. claiming a person can't do a job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. >> house speaker paul ryan wishes trump would drop out of the race. >> ryan said on a campaign call he will not campaign for trump. he will not defend trump during

the home stretch. >> trevor: shame on you, paul ryan. shame. i'm embarrassed to be in the "my last name say first name club" with you. i'm embarrassed. ( laughter ) and i guess we know now, when it comes to putting his country first, paul ryan, well, he don't give a (bleep). we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) we hired an award-winning actor to show off the award-winning range of strongbow hard cider. oh i know about that award just like i know about your trophies. what trophies? the ones your mother wants you to get rid of because they are taking up too much space in the basement. gasp! you crossed the line, stewart! strongbow

( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." now, trump's win last week has forced us to say gone to something many of us loved-- the notion that telling the truth matters? because for several years now, politifacts has been fact checking donald trump's political statements and they found that while less than 5% of them qualified as true, 70% were mostly all or completely false. so, we're sad to see pacts go. yet another casualty of 2016. and we wanted at the very least to give them a proper sendoff. >> we're factored here to mourn

the passing of our district attorney friend, facts. now, we all know facts hadn't been doing too well. that's no secret. we didn't know how bad it was until november 8, 2016. then it was gone. would any of you like to come up here and say a few words can about facts? >> you know, i always loved facts. i loved him. and as a kid i would spend all day on the toilet reading fun ones out of uncle john's great big basket reader. >> i wasn't very popular. >> when i was in grade school, tanya bustamonte used to call me four eyes. and i used to say, "actually, tanya, it's a severe astigmatism that affects 10% of kids our age." facts always had my back. >> i just wish i appreciated facts while they were still here. >> all those times i went to the

library. i didn't read any books. i was just jacking off in the computer room. i'm sure they have it on video, but ( sighs ) it doesn't matter anymore. nothing... matters anymore. >> should have respected facts more. i remember this one time, on my tinder profile, i said i was 6'1". i'm 5'11"! that's not true. i just lied right there. i'm sor sorry, facts! i'm so sorry. >> all right, this time i'd like for everyone to share with us some of their favorite facts they lost this year. >> thousands of american muslims did not cheer for 9/11. >> immigrants aren't more criminal than citizens that are born here. >> voter rates are lower now than they were in the 90s. >> most factory jobs have been lost to robots. >> (bleep) there is no large-scale voter fraud happening in america. ( all talking at once ).

>> sorry. it's my favorite fact. ( church bells ringing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: we'll be right back.

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welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> trevor: first things first-- congratulations on winning the pulitzer prize. that's an amazing honor for you. ( cheers and applause ) and you deserve it as well. you and your team put together a really comprehensive database of police shootings. what surprises me is that one didn't exist before that. how is that possible? >> it's remarkable, right? when we started covering these stories-- i started covering women with ferguson, missouri-- and you would have the police unions say, "this never happens. most officers never fire their guns. this is rare. everyone who gets killed deserves it." the civil rights activists would say, "black men are getting gunned down, excuted every day." we said there's a fact here. one is true, one is not. at the time there were a few citizen journalists trying to do this, but the federal government doesn't keep this date doot so we started piecing it together

day by day, via google searches, to try to figure out how many people were getting killed and under what circumstances. this has been happening in black and brown communities for all of america's history. black and brown families have always known the police could go sideways. but we as a nation have refused to believe black and blown bloun people when they tell us these things. what cell phones cameras have done is expose our unwillingness to believe black people when they say, "hey, sometimes the cops aren't so nice to us. sometimes they kill us, and we shouldn't be killed." we see video after video, stories after stories, there is some where there is a gray area, and others where a guy is clearly getting shot in the back. before cell phone camera videos no one believed those things happened. every dead black guy must deserve it, they would say. >> trevor: what's interesting about this book is you've taken a slightly different approach to strict journalism, and that is you have involved yourself,

which is really personalized the stories, not just of the victims but of you being in this role. because when you went out to ferguson, i don't think even you anticipated, from what i read in the book, how big this movement would become. i mean, at one point you were arrested for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> , of course, i was one of dozens of reporters who at some point knot arrested in ferguson. it was fascinating. when i first went to ferguson, i was a political reporter. i covered congress. i thought i would write a cute little story, maybe something for the expweekd thought i would be home by that weekend drinking with my buddies where we always go out. instead i landed and could immediately sense-- like, you could feel it in the air, that this was something bigger, this anger has really boiled over in a way it had not previously. and we watch as we go from city to city, as new activists spring up, who get involved, new shootings occur. and you just have this feeling throughout these last two years that this is something bigger

than just one story, than just an isolated incident, than just-- than just the story of michael brown or eric garner or sandra bland. it is part of a movement that is carmalizing. >> trevor: there's something fascinating you wrote here they connect you with. "there's no right way to approach these interviews. in the moment you are literally walking up to a heartbroken human. and asking them to find words to express those feelings and thoughts. and the 24-hour news cycle doesn't help because it's so often prompts reporters to ask either clicheed, leading sound bites or processed questions to which the response of the dead man's family is little." which is a really strong indictment because what you're saying is essentially, because of cycle is based on entertainment, 24-hour news needs something nais catchy and grabby. you can't ask a person how they feel. you need it to fit in one sentence. >> of course. we are talking about th the

fundamental issue at the basis of the foundation of this nation, right. race in america, race and justice. and we're walking up to you after your son has just been killed and we're saying, "how do you feel? do you think you're going to get justice?" and we're cutting you off after 15 seconds to put you on the evening news. we're anything to a protest where you have been marching for five hours. you've been crying. you're carrying a sign. maybe you have flown into town to participate in this this and we're giving you half a sentence in the newspaper-- "so why are you out here tonight?" that is not a way to have a conversation about this. >> trevor: you have really captured this and one reason i would recommend everyone to read this book is it is not just statistics. it is not just the information but it's the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. i really enjoyed it. thank you so much for being on the show. >> thank you, trevor, i appreciate it? >> trevor: "they can't kill us all" is available now. go out and get it. wesley lowery, everybody. we'll be right back.

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>> chris: it's 29 minutes until midnight when the day resets and we announce a winner. this is everything that happened online today, minus that fight you got in with your dumb uncle. what a dick he is. i'm chris hardwick. it's just over a week since a furious birds nest was elected, -- birds are getting out right there. and many people are still very afraid because it's not just civil liberties being threatened, it's also shiny things. the donald has promised to tax imports from china, which could raise the price of the iphone, not to mention his plan to ban all iphones that aren't white [laughing] >> wow. chris: listen. [cheers and applause] >> chris: you know these phones -- [ applause ] this potential $50 to $97 increase is, of course, most concerning to liberals since many trump supporters prefer to communicate through illuminati fluoride brain waves. comedians, how else will trump's presidency affect the new iphones? james davis. >> now you can grab siri by the

pussy. [cheers and applause] [laughing] >> chris: please don't do that right now. >> it works a lot better than you expected in the red states. >> chris: alright. points. aerial. >> he will bring back the headphone jack and suddenly everyone will love him. >> chris: that's all he has to do, put the headphone jack where it belongs. >> we need it >> chris: next up, "word up." yesterday, the oxford dictionary made their big announcement. no, not how they've survived when no one has purchased a single dictionary since wifi started. they announced their word of the year for 2016, and it's "post-truth," which is when your mailman admits to you that your middle child is his. that's a post-truth. he's making special deliveries.

as people are pointing out on twitter, last year's oxford word was the "face with tears of joy" emoji, which also would've -- it's not a [beep] word. it's not a word. it's a pictogram. >> no one draws like that -- >> not accurate. chris: at all. comedians, what will oxford's word of the year be for 2017? james davis. >> electoral college another word for something that's outdated or useless. [cheers and applause] >> chris: dan. >> you don't need to worry about this, chris. there is no 2017. we are all going to die. it's over. >> chris: it was a trick question. trick question. >> it's over. chris: next up get me pictures. when people invade your personal space. i want to be left alone when i'm

on a train or at the american girl doll store. i just creeped myself out. don't you wish someone would invent clothing with mechanical spikes that would shootout. someone just did. >> it's a spider dress. a dress that mechanically reacts. super sensors here in the desi design. it's deciding between these states. >> chris: that's artist doing a special report from the biork institute. >> i need that dress. chris: it's cool. cut to the front of the line. comedians, what is this the perfect look for, james davis? >> that's the perfect look for a threesome with lady gaga. >> chri