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little twitter fingers. >> president trump just tweeted on a number of subjects including chicago murder outbreak fsm comi chicago disunt fix the horrible carnage, 228 shooting ins 2017, up 24 first from 2016 i will send in the feds. >> what exactly could that mean, bringing in the feds? well, we've asked that question of white house officials several of them and there is no answer on what exactly he means. >> trevor: yeah. of course there is no answer on what exactly he means. because he doesn't know what he means. (laughter) we done even know if he means the feds. i mean like maybe he wants to send in roger federer and kevin federline. we don't know. anything's possible with trump. now don't get me wrong. that statistics about homicides in chicago is troubling. and no one can deny the issue needs to be addressed. but i guarantee that you donald j. trump just thinks "send in

the questioneds" sounds-- feds sounds cool because whenever you hear that line in hollywood something gets done. >> the feds are here. >> oh crap. >> fbi. >> feds, huh? >> yeah. >> the feds. >> you got it. >> trevor: that's what trump feels is going to what, trump thinks that will happen, you will send in the feds and all the black people are just going to scatter. or, or maybe another reason trump thinks the feds are a solution to every problem is because they definitely saved his ass. so i mean that could be another reason. to me, to me though, one of the scare yetion things about trump's tweets is not the idea, but where he got it from. you see t wasn't from some classified briefing on urban violence but trump's tweets came just an hour after bill o reilly showed an exact same stat on his show. and coincidentally bill o'reilly

also suggested sending in the feds. >> the question is can president trump override local illinois and chicago thortds and stop the murder. can the feds go in and stop this? >> trevor: that is insane. the commander in chief gets his intelligence from the same place your racist grandpa does. (laughter) and don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong. i think it's pretty cool for bill o'reilly. he gets to be president for an hour every single night. poor megyn kelly, she left fox too soon, she could have been the first female president for an hour a night. which is the way i feel america needs to do it just one hour an night, female president president. so many things could going wro. what if melania is surfing channels one night and donald trump starts issuing executive orders based on watching tv. out of nowhere. america must win the storage cars. start enforcing the vander 3u6r7 rules and stop vielta

davis-- viola davis from et going away with murder. our-- are being killed every day. if the carnage doesn't stop, i will send the feds in to southpark. will you respect my authority. (applause) a not a real thing. but let's talk about some of the things trump has actually taken action on already. since swearing in trump has signed a flurry of executive orders. and i know executive orders sounds like a great title for and moveie, progly with steven seagal in t you know, i'm issuing a new executive order with my fist. it's to increase-- increase funding for fist cancer. we'll find a cure soon, mr. punch. (laughter) a lot of people think that signing these orders means trump is making up new laws, but that's not true. you see, the president has the authority to interpret and

enforce existing laws. for example, obama used the existing presidential power to hire federal employees to raise their minimum wage because he knew they would soon be unemployed, that is why he did that. since the inauguration on friday, it's only been fave days, i know it feels like five years but it's five days, trump has signed a dozen of executive orders which is a lot but some of them don't mean anything. >> yesterday the paperwork was fired for one of the president's first act in office declaring his inauguration day as the fat day of pait patriotic devote, quote in order to strengthen our bonds in our country and renew the duties of goft to the people. >> wow. trump made his own inauguration, a day of patriotic devotion, thanks, donald trump. you realize that for the rest of us it it is like being forced to celebrate the anniversary of the first time we tried anal. that is basically what he has done. that is basically what you have done.

i want us to remember this every year, happy anal-versary, people. the executive orders that have gotten the most attention are the ones from trump's greatest hits. for example, the wall. >> moments ago president trump signing an executive order to begin building the wall on the southern border. >> so badly needed. you folks know how badly needed it is. >> trevor: i know that sounds like oh [bleep] donald trump did it, he built the wall. but all he did was sign a piece of paper. which is normally how trump gets things built. sign it, the people build it. but in this case he still needs congress to allocated the money for it. so basically this is like when a kid makes a christmas list. you can ask sanlta for a pony but unless your parents spend money at the pony store, your ass ain't getting a baby horse. obviously there are executive orders that are more serious than devotion day and more immediate than the wall. >> president trump trying to crack down on sanctuary cities which harbor undocumented

immigrants, essentially saying he will withhold federal grants and federal funding from those cities. >> this is a big one that is going to affect a lot of cities like new york, san francisco, los angeles, chicago and others. >> trevor: that is [bleep] insane. trump is basically black mailing cities to make them hand over undocumented people. like the one reason for hope in all of this is that this executive order arguably violates the 10th amendment which says that all the power not given to the federal government goes to the state. so you can't force a state to do the federal government's job. which is something trump would know if he watched hamilton. you can't send pence in your place. you can't rap it back to you. it just not the same. so there are a few hurdles, trump's executive orders are going to have to get over before they go into effect. unfortunately, not all of them.

>> reports the president's broader proposed immigration plan that includes at least a four month halt on all refugee admissions and temporary ban on people coming from some muslim majority countries. that could include iran, iraq, libya, somalia, sudan and yemen. >> trevor: he did it, people. this is the muslim ban. i mean i know it's not called the muslim ban. but there is the muslim ban. when you say it like that, it sounds like a song, do you know the muslim ban, the muslim ban-- (laughter) like they say it not a muslim ban but it is, he is just banning immigration from countries that just happen to almost entirely be muslim. it's like if instead of banning black people, trump banned people who use cocobutter. only a certain group that are being excluded. now you probably noticed these executive orders would mostly affect people from outside the u.s. but before you feel left out, don't stress. trump's got you covered. >> the president also signed one to speed up the environmental review process for high-priority

infrastructure projects. >> he signed executive action to provide construction of the keystone pipeline and da cota access pipeline both which had been stopped by the obama administration. >> trevor: trump is just mad at native americans because they're better at casinos than him. (applause). >> trevor: oh, and speaking of being petty, can we just enjoy for a moment how trump doesn't seem to know what any of these executive orders are actually about. just watch him when he reads them. he looks like he is a brilliant class on book report day who obviously didn't read the book. >> this is with respect to the construction of the dakota access pipeline. dakota access pipeline. (laughter). >> trevor: it's exactly, it's exactly like a book report.

this is the story of beowolf. beowolf. shut up, mikey, i'll punch you in the face. shut up. stop laughing. so look, i understand, seeing donald trump sign like a dozen executive orders in less than a week may make it seem like he is getting [bleep] done. but don't forget, whether you support the mango in chief or oppose him, remember, just because you signed an executive order, doesn't mean it's going to get done. because obama's gone. but guantanamo is still here. we'll be right back. plaws baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?

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finger typing people? >> no, because this is a story about an incredible event that the state of nocialg really did not want told. because it had to do with prisoners protesting for better human rights, more human rights, and their protests were shut down incredibly violently at the hands of law enforcement. none of whom were ever prosecuted. and so this is a story that was very much shut down then and remains shut down. so it was hard to tell. >> trevor: i won't lie, this book was an introduction for me. you know, to go back in time, 45 years ago, an uprising at attica prison. and it started it seemed like because the prisoners were confused. someone thought that a guard had killed one of the inmates. >> right. >> trevor: and that really lead to an escalation. but what really got to me and was gripping in the book is stories of untold brutality in the prison, especially in response to the uprising. prisoners being killed for no

reason other than just prisoner, you know, the warden wanted to kill them. >> right, after four days of negotiating, which was going quite well, they were actually getting very important demands met, it would seem, by the state of new york. but it turns out that behind the scenes the state was intent on taking the prison with force. hundreds of state troopers who had been out there for days, heavily armed, and when they were sent in they took off identifying badges. they brought in their personal weapons. they began to shoot indiscriminately and the carnage was quite remarkable. probably more remarkable was the torture that you mentioned that happened afterwards for daring to have protested for better conditions. >> trevor: it's so interesting that the book draws parallels to what we're experiencing today. shows how in many ways this uprising lead to many of the systemic problems that america is dealing with now. principle,-- for instance, prison overpopulation and more

importantly, the rockefeller laws that were a response to attica which was the mandatory minimums of the extremely high sentencing. would you argue that this, you know, this attica was the reason that new york started treating prisoners the way it did which was even worse? >> i think that's right. i think one of the reasons the nation itself turns against there idea that prisoners are people has everything to do with the way this particular uprising was spun to the public. even the though law enforcement killed 39 people, guards and hostages were shot, a total of 128 people, they went out in front of the world, really, and said the prisoners had killed the hostages. that this, all of this violence was down to the prisoners. so in short, we as americans were sold a false bill of goods as to what had happened. it made america incredibly punitive and angry and in 1972 right after this, we get the rockefeller drug laws, thereafter we get mass incarceration. so getting our history wrong had

huge consequences for us as a country. >> trevor: you have really taken the time, you have talked to at least countless sources. you got so much information. it seems like a problem that is so big, it cannot or will not be figured in writing this book. what is the one thing you hope to achieve? >> well, i hope two things. i hope that the book really yupped scores the importance of insisting on equal justice under the law. when members of law enforcement commit crimes, they must be held accountable for those crimes. but probably most importantly i hope this shows that the people behind bars, the more than two million people heund bars in the united states, they are at the end of the day our mothers our brothers, our sons, our daughters. and they are human beings. and attica reminded us that-- (applause) >> attica reminded us that we as a society have an obligation to

run our institutions humanely. and more porntdly, these are public institutions and we the public have an obligation but also a right to see what goes on behind the walls. >> trevor: it's a truly, truly fascinating and heartbreaking book at the same time. a story that i wasn't familiar with and now i wish i could forget it, but i can't. but thank you so much for writing it. >> nah so much for having me. >> trevor: congratulations. blood in the water is available now. heather ann thompson, everyone. we'll be right back. thank you so much. thank you very much.

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>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. our next guest stars at first lady on scal dan.

please welcome bellamy young. (applause) >> hi. >> trevor: welcome to the show. just water, unfortunately. honestly, this is so strange for me. i'm such a big fan of scandal that i only know you as melee grant. i know you as being a con sief-- con iving and yet very hurt individual who is plotting the demise of everybody that stands in her way. do you get the feeling people hate you because of who you play? >> you know, what i get is they come and they are like i love to hate you. there is a real joy in it. i know some of my other casemates have gotten, particularly the guys, have gotten some stranger encounters. the women on-- you know, like-- you know, you know. >> trevor: i know what you mean. >> i have only gotten joy and goodness.

we love our job so much, trevor. we really, really do. >> trevor: i don't blame you. scandal is a show that just has blown up, shonda reims has done an amazing job-- shonda rhimes has done an amazing job, as actors you have done an amazing job. looking at scandal, for the one person that doesn't know, the show is about washington d.c. but it is scandalous t is extreme, it seems like hyperbole before donald trump-- (applause) do you ever think to yourself that like now you guys are a documentary by comparison? >> you know what is funny is yeah, we-- i mean shonda has gone on record with this even in particular, we started this season as our sixth season, we feel so lucky but we shot the first five episodes in the summer. my years are circular in my mind but there is the summer and this is the winter. so we shot the first five in the summer right before the election. and they had an idea of how

season six would arc out. and they were like oh, at the very end someone will start speaking russians and russians will a hack the election. and then the russians hacked the election. you know so-- . >> trevor: that's what i am saying. now it seems like are you stealing from real life. people are like this is so boring. >> it's surreal. >> trevor: everything in the show, it is. >> no, believe me, we're going to still bring it. >> trevor. >> that is too high a bar, trevor noah. but i know we will be scint lating in our own way, more sex, can i say that. >> trevor: more sex. you don't know, than the trump presidency. he has a few executive orders to sign, you never know. one of them could be more sex. >> he'll read it like more sex. >> trevor: more sex. >> more sex. >> trevor: what i did find particularly intriguing in the story is you know, the role that your character plays, she is in many ways, like she reminded me,

in some ways of hillary's story. you have this woman, her husband is president and then you know, he has a tumultuous time with the press and he has all of these illicit stories following him around. and then she becomes this force in politics. she rises up and she goes i'm going to run for president. like that story, in parallel with what hillary was doing was pretty inspirational. was that something that connected with you on a personal level? >> well, you know, here's-- here's what-- how that makes me feel. and i have this feeling, frequently, there are-- there were especially in the beginning of scandal, rather clintonesque paradigm. like but i think we have only got tone watch hillary clinton run for president, and almost be president. and then we've gotten to watch melee grant run for president and almost be president and because they're the only women we have gotten to watch do that we conflate them. the more women we get to see go

through that experience. >> trevor: that's insane. >> we won't just think that's all women. that woman is all women. we will just see them as people it is my greatest honor to be a soldier in shonda's army because her-- it's not even her goal. she just writes life as she sees it, so everybody has a seat at the table. everybody's story gets told. everybody gets to see themselves represented on screen. and when it happens on tv, right, it comes into your home, like you go into everybody's home tonight and they're like i love that trevor noah. and so you-- . >> trevor: you haven't been on twitter. >> but our stories go into people's homes and it normalizes the experiences that, you know, maybe marginalized or may not have happened yet. and that's the power of story. >> trevor: it's really beautiful, shonda does a great job. you do an amazing job. i am a fan, we are fans. thank you so much for being on the show. >> listen, you know what, you back me up, my neighbor allison want mood to say will you ask trevor noah to run for

president. and i said all right. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: wow, thank you. >> yeah. >> trevor: waited, wait, wait. as long as you don't ask to see my birth certificate, that's all. i was born in africa. thank you so much for being here. thank you so much for being on the show. season six premier of scandal airs thursday, january 26th at 9 p.m. on abc. bellamy young, everybody. we'll be right back. play marian hill. ♪ ♪are you down, d-d-down, d-d-down,♪ ♪d-d-down, down, down? ♪are you... down, d-down, down,♪ ♪d-d-d-d-down, down, down, down?♪ ♪down, d-down, down, down, ♪d-d-d-d-down, down, down, down?♪ ♪are you down, are you down,♪ ♪are you d-d-down, are you? ♪ ♪

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