>> what are you writing down? >> no, sir. >> i don't know if you know this, this is my first time hosting a tv show, did i do something wrong? i'm new at this. >> oh, we know. [ applause ] >> from comedy central's world 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 for tuning in. our guest tonight from "orange is the new black," selenis leyva is here, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) we'll have a fun conversation with her. but let's not talk about tv for

now, because there is breaking news from the theater. >> the theater company behind new york's names hwange national parshakespeare tohave the park. it features a president trump look alike in the title role. he is shown stabbed to death on stage. delta air lines ended its sponsorship and bank of america pulled its sponsorship of the production. >> trevor: the play is so violent, delta pulled out. terrible news for the public theater put a great opportunity for united air lines! they're probably, like, we want in! people are getting hurt! we want in! ( laughter ) now, clearly, putting a trump look alike into julius caesar angered a lot of people. plus the play totally ignored it was ted cruz's dad who actually killed caesar.

but that's beside the point. fortunately, somebody's got bill shakespeare's back and that's fox news. >> i expected it to be a classic rendition of julius caesar. when the character was brought forth and it was donald trump i was appalled. >> this is this -- this isn't art. it's disgusting. >> if this was president obama and they behaved in this fashion you cannot imagine the international outrage. >> you can have this trump-like character stabbed to death in front of a american flag in front of a bunch of senators is a perversion of shakespeare. >> trevor: shakespeare's whole point is violence in politics makes things worse. how are you just learning shakespeare is distasteful? the plays have beheadings, suicides and character have their own dead children fed to them. share spear is basically quintin tarantino with a thesaurus. that's all it is.

for the record, on the question of whether liberals would go nuts if obama was caesar -- >> interestingly in 2012 delta gave financial backing to a production in minneapolis of julius caesar which seemed to reference then president obama, but that production didn't get anything near this type of attention. >> trevor: exactly, it happened and no one cared it happened because it happened with tons of leaders. they always make it a caesar production with the leader in power. if anything, we should say all shakespeare plays should include donald trump, if only to hear him speaking like a thespian -- the lady doth protest too much. unless you're a star, then they let you do it. ( applause ) let's move on to a story with way more drama than shakespeare could write. >> president trump considering whether to fire special council

robert mueller. >> swirling speculation whether president would move to fire robert mueller. >> the lead story of the "new york times," the front page to have the "l.a. times." >> it amounts to political suicide if president trump actually tried to fire special counsel robert mueller. >> trevor: at some point we're going to have to stop saying trump is committing political suicide. all right, donald trump don't die, people. ( laughter ) donald trump is the transformer's movie of politics. no matter how bad it gets, it's never over, and you think you don't know anybody who supports them, but you do. you do. that being said, though, i get why a president firing the special prosecutor investigating his campaign is something the media would want to cover because it's fun to gossip, which if we're honest, is, at this point, all this story really is. >> this all started when the president's friend chris ruddy floated this idea on the pbs "newshour". we know he was here, had west wing meetings.

we don't think he actually met with the president, that's important to point out, but floated the idea the president was thinking about the possibility of trying to get mueller fired. >> trevor: so some guy is just guessing that trump is thinking of firing mueller. well, no (bleep), trump's always thinking about firing someone. ( laughter ) it's who he is. right now at this very moment, he's probably watching the white house gardner out the window going like, maybe if i fire him, russia will disappear. maybe him in no... ( laughter ) i know it's exciting to think about trump sabotaging his presidency, but this is a rumor, no more or less. why waste energy on speculative crazy when there is so much actual crazy to focus on. like the recent gift from the house of representatives. >> republicans voted to undo most to have the dodd-frank act arguing it made it harder for banks to do business and hamper

the economy. the house voted to undo stricter banking rules imposed following the 2008 financial crisis. >> trevor: finally republicans stepping up for the white working class banks. ah -- and i know relaxing bank regulations could easily lead to another financial collapse but is that necessarily a bad thing? is it? because let's be honest, every generation deserves the chance to complain to their kids about how rough they had it. huh? so when this causes the next crash, millennials will finally get to tell their story. after the crash, we couldn't afford the puppy filter. we had to use road kill and scotch tape and we were happy! ( laughter ) we had it tough. people, you understand what happened here? the house voted to repeal dodd-frank. that actually happened. the mother thing didn't. but there is more coverage on the mother story because it's more fun to watch a soap opera

than cnbc. that's why everyone was clued on d.c. hobbit. >> jeff sessions set to testify on capitol hill today about russian contacts during the presidential campaign. >> attorney general sessions, if you would stand, i will administer the oath to you. >> trevor: oh, you were standing? oh, my bad. my bad. i didn't realize that you were standing at the time. ( applause ) that's right. jeff sessions today gave sworn testimony about the russia investigation to the senate intelligence committee. it was a pretty dramatic hearing because just last week james comey testified to the same folks and he threw some hard shade at his former boss suggesting sessions hasn't been truthful about his role in the whole russia mess and, today, sessions fought back. >> until i finish with this, i

recuse myself into any investigation into the campaign with the president but i did not recuse myself against defending myself against secur scurulous d false allegations. >> trevor: beauregard! jeff sessions uses that line all the time, i recuse myself from the russia investigation but i will not recuse myself from these nachos, yeah! wait, $5 for quack moley? i recuse myself! ( laughter ) now the recusal sessions mentioned was one of the key issues everyone wanted to know about. did he speak to president trump after russia after he said he wouldn't? so the question is simple, but if there's one thing we know about imaginicle creatures is

it's if you ask them a question they don't like they make up rules for why they can't answer. >> if any of your discussions with the president about the firing of james comey did the question of the russia investigation come up. >> i can't answer that because it was a communication by the president or if any such occurred it would be a communication that he has not waived. i am not stonewalling. i am following the historic policies of the department of justice. >> you referred to a longstanding d.o.j. policy. can you tell us what policy it is you're talking about? >> a policy that goes beyond just the attorney general. >> is that policy in writing somewhere? >> i -- i think so. ( laughter ) >> trevor: we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) so, if anyone has a reason that these two should not be wed, speak now. (coughs) so sorry. oh no...

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>> trevor: welcome back to the "the daily show." with the russia scandal completely swamping the news, it's good to get additional perspective every now and then and for that we turn to current affairs analyst roy wood, jr., everybody! ( cheers and applause ) roy. >> oh, russia, trevor. russia, russia, russia! russia everywhere. i'm sick of it, man! every day with these hacks nothing safe. you know what? just today we heard it's worse than we thought. >> it's reported russia's cyberattack during the 2016 election was far more widespread than initially reported. >> russia's hackers hit systems in at least 39 states. in illinois, reports that authorities found proof they tried to delete or alter voter data. >> they hit 39 states which has to make you feel bad if you're one of the other 11. russia basically decided you weren't worth it. it's like being the guy who doesn't get spam e-mails. it's not like i need a bigger

(bleep) but i like to be asked. just ask. ( laughter ) but here's the thing, trevor -- my question, is i want to know what's the end game for these russian hackers? why are they doing this? >> trevor: i think the end game is to cause chaos in america. >> you want more chaos in america? i got news for you, russia, we're at max chaosivity, you're basically driving behind a tornado and throwing out trash all over the place. we got chaos covered. just this past week, you got "black lives matter" backing the gay pride parade, feminist and men complaining about wonder woman and we can't decide if tristan thompson kissed david west. i don't know. >> trevor: i'm sorry, roy, what's wrong with men kissing? >> nothing but they're in game five of the finals. now's not the time for romance. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i don't get it. what does this have to do with the hackers? >> nothing, trevor.

i have money on the cast. >> trevor: all right. >> look, i'm not even that upset about these political russian hackers. it's all the other hackers wasting their skills. have you seen they have been up to? >> unfortunately, the hackers are back. abc is affected by the latest theft. a hacker leaked eight episodes of steve harvey's funderdome online. >> mm-mm-mm... you're hacking steve harvey? steve harvey? the whole point of hacking is to give us something we don't have access to. we have plenty of steve harvey. he's on the radio, he's got tv shows, books, he's got maken, trevor! bacon! he's got bacon! the hackers, come on, those aren't the hacks we want. you control the universe now. at least do some good. delete our student loans. help small-town drug offenders out of jail. help me find tupac! i know you're out there pac. holler if you hear me, come on,

packers, step your game up! >> trevor: wow, those are powerful words. you say the hackers are useless. >> no, no, no, no. >> trevor: roy wood, jr., shots fired, hackers, y'all ain't (bleep). roy said it, my man. going at the hackers. >> you need to slow down. all i said -- hackers, please don't hack me. i have nothing but respect for your craft, your keyboards -- >> trevor: hack his ass! hack his ass! roy said it, roy wood, jr. 37@hot mail.com, hack him, hack him!

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permission. what's more important to you, your criminal peer group or your child? >> trevor: please welcome selenis leyva. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> thank you! thank you! >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you! wow, this is fancy. >> trevor: this is nice, yeah? >> yeah. >> trevor: you're used to being in prison. >> anything is better. >> trevor: i feel anything is better than where you were. >> and real cops. >> trevor: i am such a beg fan of the show. i have been a fan of yours since day one, "orange is the new black." i guess it just became one of the biggest hits out of the blue and still going strong. let's talk about your character. this is an interesting season for her. i don't want to spoil anything for anyone but i know people

binge and this season is basically about the inmates taking over the prison. your character is one of the more moderate people in the big house. >> she's always the voice of reason. >> trevor: right. >> she wants to keep the peace and we see that and her life just collapses and unfolds and it's about survival and it becomes literally life and death for her behind prison. and we haven't seen that. we haven't seen her really be in it like this, so i got to play, and you will see, i spent a lot of times wet and muddy. it was good. although, you know, wet and muddy -- i mean, you know -- ( laughter ) >> trevor: the story -- >> not that show, but -- ( laughter ) sorry. >> trevor: the stories that are told in "orange is the new black" are really interesting to see as they evolve. when the series first kicked off, the story was told predominantly from what seemed to be a white woman's point of view in prison, and then, as the seasons moved on, it became the black experience for a woman in

prison. now what's come to the fore is a story of a latino woman in prison and a different story is being told now. >> yes, that's good, right? ( applause ) you know, and it's about time. the wonderful thing that is done with the writers is everyone gets a time to shine. groups get a time to shine and tell their stories. you know, we're just lucky that it was our turn and we got to deliver the goods, and it feels really good to just be a representation because growing up, i didn't see myself on tv. i didn't see myself in the big -- on the big screen, i didn't. so for me it's more than just me. it's bigger. it's like there's a little girl out there in the bronx, you know, just like me where i grew up, and she's, like, that's me, i could do it. so it's bigger. i always see it as a bigger picture, you know, the stories that we're telling. they're also bigger pictures. we're representing people that usually are not thought of. >> trevor: right.

>> people in prison who thinks about them, if you don't know anyone who's behind bars. so this show has really been a good, good voice for those that usually remain voiceless. >> trevor: it's also interesting because it's not just a story about convicts as oftentimes we have been taught to speak of them. it's a story of people who are in prison. your character's story is one of those where she is in prison because she was trying to feed her family, and it was what many people would consider a minor infraction that led to her being locked up, and that the unfortunately a story you hear all too often. >> our prisons are filled with people with minor infractions. our prisons are literally filled with people who commit petty crimes and they're doing hard time. and our prisons are filled with, you know, people who i believe we've failed, you know, as a society -- the poor, you know, the people who haven't been really educated. and it cycles. it's hard to break these cycles. people end up, it's almost like

a family with young pregnancy, chances are you're going to see that again. they're cycles people kind of fall into, and a lot of people behind bars, unfortunately that's what they have and that's what makes it home, almost. we have an interesting episode, i don't even remember when, but you know where tasty danielle brooks gets out and goes, i've got to go back to prison, that's my home. a lot of people feel that. we have a responsibility as a society to make sure we do a better job. >> trevor: you're not just speaking of that on the show. because to have the show you work with the women's prison association, you work with women prisoners who experience these things. when you speak to them, it must be an interesting conversation to have because you are portraying a piece of their lives. >> yes. >> trevor: you are trying to convey the human side of what prisoners are going through. what was the biggest thing you took from them when you went back into doing the show?

>> i think there is definitely gratitude when you speak to them. they're grateful we're telling these stories and we're telling them with depth and heart and humor. it's important for me, playing gloria, who is a mother, when i talk to these women who have been incarcerated and they tell me the pain being separated from their children, missing out on important years of their lives, that has helped me bring it back to the set of "orange is the new black" and tell the story, and that does help. >> trevor: you've done such a great job. >> thank you. >> trevor: that back home they've honored you. >> that's my cousin. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> trevor: you have many cousins, then, because, in the bronx, they have now named a street after you. >> that's crazy. yes. >> trevor: that is insane, right? ( cheers and applause ) i would love to know how that

feels, especially considering the story of your family and where you came from. >> you know, my parents are immigrants. my father is from cuba, my mother from the dominican republic. they came here, worked hard, paid their taxes. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) okay. and, so, and now, you know, they were there. they were there, you know, with me and the un-- at the unveiling. i had my daughter by my side, my brothers, my sisters. it was a huge moment,. >> trevor: right. >> because i don't think my father or my mother ever imagined that one of their children -- that their children would be as successful as we've become individually. >> trevor: right. >> and they're so proud. that moment, for me, it was about them. it was them. >> trevor: they have everything to be proud of. thank you so much for being on

the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: "orange is the new black" is available now on netflix. we'll be right back. kfc's new spicy, crispy zinger chicken sandwich is now available on a $5 fill up. because who wants to spend $7 dollars on a meal at a burger place, when you can spend $5 on a meal at kfc? you need another reason? i didn't think so! kfc, it's finger lickin' good. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) guys...i'm trapped, my boss wants me here. raz, where are you? we are not leaving without you. just go downstairs now. ♪ rapunzel?! ♪ look for my c-hr. ♪

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assassination plays and productions out. shouldn't, by their own logic, aren't they encouraging cooks to do something more dangerous? >> i don't think so. this is a 400-year-old play called julius caesar. >> chris: it's 29 minutes until midnight if you even believe in that kind of stuff. for the second time in three years the golden state warriors bested the cleveland cavaliers to win the nba title, the series mvp award went to kevin dawrnt but in the locker room right after the game he seemed new to the concept of celebratory drinking. >> you see here. here it comes. and, nope! >> nope! none of that. oh.