news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show"! i'm trevor noah! thank you so much, everybody! thank you! my guests tonight, el-p and killer mike run the jewels are here, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) it's going to be a fun conversation with both of them. but first, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. but some pictures are worth just three letters, wtf. >> the president led with leaders from historically black colleges and universities. >> social media erupted after a picture emerged with kellyanne conway with her feet on the couch in the oval office. >> trevor: no, no, no! i'm sorry, what the hell, kellyanne conway! how dare you disrespect the oval

office! that was one of the most sacred -- i'm sorry, i can't do this. ( laughter ) i know i should be doing this. i know people are angry. who cares about the feet on the couch when you have the asshole behind the desk? ( applause ) because at this point, honestly, i think this is kind of funny. some people said she was being rude. i don't think it's rude. it's just alternative manners. ( laughter ) no, it was funny how all the dignified visitors in the oval office with their nice suits and kellyanne conway is curled up on the sofa like she's at a slumber party like, "hey, guys! want to play truth or dare? just kidding, what's truth?" ( laughter ) ( applause ) but that picture there is how you know kellyanne conway doesn't have a black grandmother, because if my grandmother found me sitting on the couch with shoes on, i

wouldn't be sitting on anything for weeks! like trump and conway are lucky those black people didn't just start whipping ass in the white house. one of those grandmothers would be like how many times sri told you about your feet on that couch?! what did i dwroil about your feet -- no, no, please! and where are your tax returns? where are your tax returns? where are your tax returns? no, no, please, please! ( applause ) those are shoes! they're fake shoes! ( laughter ) all right, what else going on? yes, yes, last week, congress went on break. so as is the tradition, they all went back to visit their districts to host town hall meetings where they can connect with the people they have been screwing over. normally these meetings are

emptier than floyd mayweather's bookshelves, but when you tell people that a president retires to russia is planning to take their healthcare away, you may as well put your feet on their couch. ( chanting ) >> i could tell you three members of my family including me that would be dead -- dead and homeless, if it was not for a.c.a. ( chanting investigate trump ) >> what are you talking about? you are insane! >> 2020, you're gone! >> shame! shame! shame! shame! shame! >> trevor: shame! shame! shame! do you know how bad you have to be to turn all your constituents into the

shame-nonfrom game of thrones? what would be funny if the senator was a huge fan of "game of thrones." oh, well, i guess i have to get naked now! if i was him i would have been like, so you can't afford healthcare but you can afford hbo? huh? and the crowd is, like, we share a password! well, i didn't know think of that! it's really inspiring to see the people out there engaging in democracy in such an active way. though someprotests seemed less effective than others. >> another republican lawmaker faced another angry town haul crowd, now learne leonard lancen branchburg, new jersey. some brought a pair of lamas carrying their own political message. >> trevor: no, the lamas were not carrying their own political message. they're carrying the political message of somebody who owns lamas.

lamas can't go to "staples" and buy poster board. they're not out there with their own signs going, don't shave me, bro! trump's america is the only place you will see a 7-year-old showing up with talking points. >> arkansas senator tom cotton getting an earful, even confronted by a 7-year-old boy. >> donald trump makes mexicans not important to people who are in arkansas who like mexicans, so like me, my grandma -- >> and he's deleting all the parts in pbs kids just to make a wall. ( cheers and applause ) heshtd dhe shouldn't do that. >> trevor: you know you (bleep) up even when the little kids are coming hard at you. i bet senator cotton thought he was getting a softball. all right, tough room. let's see what that kid wants to say? what do you want to know about, my favorite candy?

the kid's like, let's talk about the emoluments clause! (bleep)! some people say why the hell is a kid participating? he's not old enough to vote. when you have a president who thinks global warming is a hoax, he doesn't know if he'll have a chance to vote in the future so the kid is getting involved now. some congressmen have noticed the uncomfortable positions their colleagues are getting into. instead of facing the heat, they've decided to get out to have kitchen. >> some lawmakers defending actions, citing concerns for safety. congress louie gohmert telling constituents in a letter the house sergeant at arms informed us after gabby giffords was shot that attendees at a congressional event stand the most chance being harmed or killed just as happened there is that okay. well, in his defense, this texas congressman is afraid of someone getting shot at his town hall, and i understand.

you know, i mean, it's not like politicians can create laws to restrict where people can carry guns. i mean, that's impossible, you know. and to be fair to him, former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords, she was shot when she was meeting with her constituents. so if anyone would understand congressman gohmert's position, it would be her. >> give reds said i was shot on saturday morning, monday morning my offices were open to the public. to the politicians who abandonednary obligations, i say have to you courage, face your constituents, hold town halls! >> trevor: damn, shots fired! gohmert used give reds as an excuse and she clapped back hard. in fact, if you listen carefully, you can hear the wind

whispering, "you little bitch." ( laughter ) >> trevor: now, if you were a republican in power you would have to think about this losing healthcare and you would have to think i better respond constructively or say the whole thing is fake. >> jason chaffetz accused protesters of being paid and shipped in from out of stayed. >> i thought it was over the top and intended to bully and intimidate. >> most of these protests as we've checked into it are very well organized and financed. these protesters are being bussed in from out of state. >> they've turned protesting into what seems like a full-time profession. >> there is a bit of professional protester manufactured base in there. >> trevor: damn! i never thought of that. yeah, it all makes sense -- the democrats paid tons of people to go disrupt town halls across the country. i wish i could have been in the meeting when they were planning it.

all right, guys, here's the plan -- we're gonna pay thousands of people to come out and support us. is that for the election? no, no, that would be too easy. first, we're going to lose. then we're going to complain. yeah! ( cheers and applause ) the question eremains, people, are these protesters real? after the break, we send our very own desi lydic to one of the town hall's to find out. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." the big question about the recent town hall protesters has been are they real or, like the news, are they fake? desi lydic went to find out. >> as republican congressmen return home to hold town halls

and not have sex with wives, outraged voters across the country are lashing out. but are these real protesters or are they bused-in professional agitators as the g.o.p. suggested? i had to find out. i sacrificed my bottomless saturdays to head to this town haul -- wait, where the (bleep) am any. >> birmingham. >> whatever. alabama's sixth is the reddest district in the country but surprisingly protesters flooded republican gary palmer's town hall and spilled to the streets outside. time to find out if these were paid professionals. >> i'm not paid to be here. >> i feel passionately about it and i haven't been paid for it. >> nobody i know of has been paid. they're here because of their genuine beliefs. >> but g.o.p. supporters knew exactly what was going on. >> people here today who are protesting, they are being paid. >> how can you tell? >> well, they're not going to admit it. >> if these people are being

paid, how do we find out? >> if they can't engage about a policy or issue, they've been paid because they have been given talking points. somebody has to tell them what to say. let's talk about hitler. the only place i hear them talking about hitler is from talking points. >> the way to tell if someone is being paid is to bring up hitler? >> hitler or anything else, the tax return, russia, hitler -- like i would never bring up hitler and all that stuff because -- >> you brought up hitler, like, ten times, already. nowed that i knew the signs, it was time for me to confront these professional performers head on. >> i'm concerned about my country. >> paid protester -- >> no. >> paid protesters says what? >> you're doing the -- >> paid protester says what? >> i'm not being paid. >> that was good. i don't want to give you a line reading but it was more like, i am not being paid! >> i'm sorry, what? >> just one more time, like, i am not being paid! but throw in some back story.

you are late dr. . >> i am getting nothing out of being here other than freezing. >> that might be good. try saying that again, but it's really cold outside and you're on the verge of tears. action. >> action? >> blink twice if you're being paid to protest. >> don't say that. i accidentally blinked! no! no no no! ei didn't mean to blink. >> so maybe these protesters weren't hiding something, but what if the g.o.p. supporters were. >> how do we know for sure neither of you are being paid? is it because of your sign being on a manila folder? >> we don't need the money. >> how do i know you're not being paid? >> i'm not being paid. i've never been paid. >> that sounds like something a paid protester would say. >> i'm an activist. >> as opposed to -- >> yes. >> so i wasn't going to get to the bottom of who was paid, but there was something even more alarming with these protesters. >> i think it's despicable for people outside the sixth district trying to influence as

if they were people who lived and voted here. >> from homewood, that's in this congressional district. >> they don't live in the district. they're here from all over. >> i am in the sixth district. >> when you see them coming up in buses unloading like that you were in north carolina and there is clear stuff on the internet about it. >> have you seen buses here today? >> i have not. >> you have not. but they're here? >> that is my zip code to prove i am from this district. >> it's hard to take the protesters at their word when real locals like this one could smell an outsider from a mile away. >> we don't believe they are people from this district representing people from alabama. >> where are you from? >> living across the bay from mobile, alabama. >> in this district? >> no. >> right, right. >> no wonder i couldn't find protesters being brought in. the supporters took all the seats on the bus. >> desi lydic, everybody. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ you guys ever try one of these bars

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guests tonight are acritically claimed hip-hop star whose latest album is called "run the jewels 3". please welcome run the jewels! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> how are you? >> trevor: welcome, welcome, welcome. that is quite an ornament. is that from a hood of a rolls royce? >> from the louvre museum in paris. >> this cost $400, by the way. >> it's from the hood of a car. >> trevor: looks expensive but looks like it's from a hood of a car. >> yeah. >> trevor: that would be a rapper thing to do, i wowght the car just because i want the ornament. great to have you here. >> love, love. >> trevor: you are doing so well right now. you have been blowing up for a while, but recently it feels

like run the jewels has hit their stride. you're selling out more shows than ever before. albums are flying off the not shelves. >> the shelves, too. we give our records away for free but we also sell them. it's been cool. only took us 20 years and 4 years. >> trevor: that's funny. where did you get that idea? how do you wake up and go, you know what? we're not going to sell music? >> i ran a record label ten years called deaf jokes and it completely collapsed under the whole weight of the music industry. people stopped buying. we were based on an old model. we kind of did the first record as a thank you to our fans. we were really thankful we had our solo careers, we had been working together, and we didn't want to go through everything. we didn't want to look at the first week sales, we didn't want to compete. we just wanted to give something

away. it just occurred to us and it just felt right. we wanted to get to the hearts and minds of people. we didn't quint want to trick them into buying the record for one single. we didn't want to play the game. >> trevor: some people term you as "woke," right? but at the same time it's still, like, what many people consider real hip-hop. how do you balance the two? >> weed. >> marijuana, lots of it. lots. lots. ( cheers and applause ) lots of marijuana. >> trevor: no, but for real, as killer mike, for a lot of people, you came, you know, in as the guy on tv with bernie sanders. >> yeah into they were, like, who was this guy with bernie sanders? >> yeah. ( applause ) >> trevor: that was a big thing that you did. >> yeah. >> trevor: the question is why? i mean, i understood at the time, but, i mean, why was that so important for you? >> i'm an american, and i love this constitution, i love this

republic and the potential it stands for, and i bought the hype. when we're in grade school, they preach propaganda to you. when you buy it and believe it, it's quite a dream. i have been an activist since i was 15. my grandmother was a devoid democrat and worked with dr. king and tirelessly in elections. i have been working elections since i was six years old and have been mentored by people who were there. it is my responsibility as an african-american and an american to be a part of the political process. when i saw sanders tweet that one of the first things he would do is restore the voting rights act when he talked about decriminalizing marijuana, taking it off the scheduled list, which i thought our former president should do, because he's a black male and we get so caught up in law enforcement, do the gateway arrest, signing it's time for one of these presidents to deschedule something that only got up there because of a

law in '37 or '38 because a logging industry had a war going on with the hemp industry. i'm tired of us being a part in this wicked game. i saw a candidate who represented my community in terms of class, rather than color and culture and rolled with him fearlessly. i know post-election i made the right decision, because the guy is still out on the road, pushing the line and active in very local ways and i think that's what we all should be doing. >> trevordoing. >> shout out to bernie. ( applause ) >> trevor: i like that. do you and bernie still kick it? >> yeah, i was with him, like, a month ago at georgia tech. i try to talk to him a couple times a month. my wife and i are going up to hang out with him and his wife

in vermont. i'm taking the chain. >> i'll lend you the scarf. ( laughter ) >> trevor: the album you released, i was going to ask were you smoking? now i know you were. >> backstage. >> trevor: you remixed the remixes of your second album and the instrumentals you replaced with cat sounds. when i first heard that, i was, like, is this rejet? that was you. >> yeah, yeah, we did that stupid (bleep). we realized there was an opportunity to do something charitable with it. that was the reason why we did it. we gave all the money we raised to the families of mike brown and eric garner who were victims of police brutality. ( applause ) you know, and we also continue to give whatever profits go to that record to a group of lawyers who defend protesters. >> trevor: amazing. >> it was about people. it was the stupidest possible thing you could do for good, i figured. >> trevor: which is the reason you should do everything. >> exactly. >> trevor: before i let you

go, you guys are blowing up on this touring scene. you have your music that's out there. a lot of people want answers to this question, they go, people felt you were snubbed for the grammy when it came to the second album. >> absolutely. >> trevor: did you submit? >> yeah. >> trevor: because people were, like, because maybe you were selling it. >> people were fighting for us. the ninth wonder, he already fought for us. we're coming back next year. >> trevor: "run the jewels 3". >> we feel good about the third one. >> trevor: on this one, instead of making a cat thing, you should replace the instrument also with bernie sounds. like him going, wa-wa-wall street! triple platinum. thanks for coming to the show. appreciate it. el-p, killer mike. "run the jewels 3" is currently available at run the jewels.com. killer mike, everybody! we'll be right back!

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