navratilova town. i love hanging out with those guys. tune in next week to see who will get the final rose. goodnight. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> 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." thank you so much for tuning in. i'm trevor noah. my guest tonight the academy award winning director of the new movie "detroit" kathryn bigelow is here, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) really excited for the conversation. but first, to start today's show, let us please open our twitters to the book of donald. ( laughter ) as we read from tweet 8:28 a.m.

highest stock -- blah blah blah, blah blah -- economic numbers, blah blah blah -- 17 years -- blah blah blah -- border secure, supreme court -- no white house chaos. none. zero, not even a little bit of chaos in the white house. >> we do have breaking news. president trump has removed anthony scaramucci as communications director. >> this is a white house that appears to be in staff chaos and turmoil from week to week. >> trevor: wait, what?! scaramucci out? he just got here! i just bought the scaramucci 2017 jersey! what the hell, people! i just bought it! i haven't even finished my scaramucci tattoo! now it's just a scar! what am i supposed to do with another scar tattoo! i've got one from the lion ding, now i have two?

scaramucci's job hadn't started yet. his official start date as communications director is august 15. the guy got fired before the job began. ( laughter ) that's like waking up in the morning looking in the newspaper and it says, help wanted but not you. what?! i haven't even started yet! it's like the song of the summer. scaramucci came into our lives, made everyone obsessed with him for a week and then left us with nothing but memories and a bunch of moves -- ( singing macarena ) ( cheers and applause ) then he's gone. people are fired so quickly that the white house ghost has no idea who to haunt. moooch! scaramucci. you're not mooch.

where's mooch? >> i'm general kelly. >> where's mooch? >> he got fired. >> spicer -- >> -- i'll go on break. bye-bye. ( laughter ) so all too soon, my friends, we say goodbye. ( soft music ) >> here's what i'll tell you. i love the president. i love the president. i love the president and i'm very, very loyal to the president. >> he also said i'm not steve bannon, i'm not trying to suck my own -- ( laughter ) trevor: you know, even for a white house suffering from severe retention deficit disorder, scaramucci's exit was jaw-droppingly quick. why did this happen?

because, as of friday, there's a new sheriff in town. >> president trump announced by twitter late today he is replacing chief of staff reince priebus with homeland security secretary general john kelly. >> the retired four-star generally is seen as the man who can help bring discipline and order to the trump administration even though the president denies problems. >> he face as tough task, transforming a west wing that's seen its share of turmoil in recent weeks. >> trevor: i'm sorry, what? recent weeks? you mean all the weeks. ( laughter ) there have been six months' worth of weeks and every one of those has been sloppier than a bulldog orgy. ( laughter ) this is not the dumbest thing the president has ever done. bringing in general kelly will bring stability to himself. it's a way of sending himself to border skewing. like, what i need is some structure in my life, i'm out of

control and i have to learn some discipline -- and i miss my dad. ( laughter ) oh, and if you don't know general kelly, he was in the marines 45 years, commanded forces in the invasion of iraq. basically, what i'm saying is i don't know if he's ready for this. i don't know. i know some of the critics of the president are concerned trump seems to be surrounding himself with generals. yeah. general john kelly, general mattis, general mcmaster and, of course, general anesthesia. ( laughter ) it is a worrying trend. credit is due where credit is due, by firing scaramucci, trump has shown he's at least capable of the obvious because scaramucci had to go. one week into the job and the guy already had four scandal also. even trump is going, this guy, every day, there's something new with him! i mean, have you guys ever seen anything like this? have you, folks? yeah, i didn't think so.

and now that kelly's gotten rid of scaramucci, seems like everything is back to noamplet even steve bannon is, like, so, is he done? ( laughter ) ( applause ) still trying. so, now, obviously, because kelly's in, previous chief of staff reince priebus is out. the question is, though, why did he get the axe? >> the final straw for president trump with priebus was the fact that health care vote went down in defeat last week. this is a big priority for the president. reince priebus' selling point, he said he was the person to get healthcare over the finish line to overhaul obamacare, that he had all these relationships on capitol hill and, of course, it didn't get done. >> trevor: really? healthcare failed because of reince? why do they keep bringing in new people as if we don't know what

the real problem is? it's, like, drunk is a tornado and the white house keeps hiring new maids. why isn't this place ever clean? i'm just going to neaten up! ( laughter ) what's worse is how poor reince priebus got the news. >> a "the washington post" reporter tweeted when air force one touched down friday afternoon in andrews air force base priebus senior policy advisor and media director loaded into a suburban but moments later miller and scavino hopped out of the vehicle and as word trickled out about the ouster, reporters inched in to snap photos of priebus who sat alone on the rain-soaked tarmac. ( laughter ) >> trevor: shame -- poor reince. abandoned in the summer rainstorm like the star of a karaoke video. what's really sad is none of the imaginary scenarios that we can come up with are as humiliating

as trump came up for him in his real life. >> his final departure was a humiliating coda for a largely denining tenure in which priebus endured regular belittling and emas calculation from lives and the president himful is. "the post" story recounts when priebus was asked to kill a fly bothering president trump in the oval office. >> trevor: president trump, you don't call reince priebus in to kill a fly. you call melania. she's an expert at swatting pests. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. do we really have to choose him we'll be right back. to be our next spokesperson? he's so boring. hm. sounds like you're on the fence. why don't i just leave you my resume? yes, it's laminated. no thanks. you're hired!

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the guys, really good -- you could say a really respected police officer, he was at the head, he was the boss, and you could see he was the boss, he actually talked like the boss. i said, what the hell is going on? and he said, it's a problem we can straighten out. i said, how long will it take you to straighten out this problem? he said, if you gave me the authority, a couple of days. >> trevor: okay. so many things. ( laughter ) first of all, what was this? like, is this like a new move he's trying out? is this like a thing he's trying to do? and secondly, a guy on a motorcycle told you he can fix all of the city's crime problems in two days? all of the problems, one guy? you sure it wasn't batman? ( laughter ) no, because, if trump was talking to batman, then that story makes a lot more sense. >> we had motorcycle brigades

take us to the planes and stuff and one of the guys, he was the boss, and you could see he was the boss, he actually talked like the boss -- >> where are they?! ( laughter ) >> trevor: i said, how long would it take you to straighten out this problem? he said, if you gave me the authority, a couple of days. ( laughter ) i don't even know who this guy is. believe it or not, that actually wasn't the craziest part of the speech. it was the part where president trump talked about police brutality and how there isn't enough of it. >> police departments across the country are blasting president trump's comments to police officers. hear what is raising eyebrows. >> and when you see these towns, and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in rough, i said, please don't be too nice, like when you guys put somebody in the car and

you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over them, like don't hit their head and they've just killed somebody, don't hit their head, i said, you can take the hand away, okay? ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) >> trevor: did -- did you see that pause before the cops started applauding? that was them going, wait, we can start being rough? because we have been -- you know what? don't get it twisted, we all know donald trump could not care less about police brutality. on his list of priorities it's all the way down below international diplomacy. we know that. ( laughter ) and now, many police and law enforcement groups did say trump had gone too far and that with just a few of those words he had casually undone community relation efforts they have been spending years trying to improve. but other people were, like, relax, guys, trump's going to trump! >> there are other police groups including police unions

defending the president saying, listen, he was just joking. >> when he made the comment uh you heard everybody laugh in the audience. they all took it as a joke and so did i. >> i believe he was making a joke at the time. >> trevor: yeah, come on, guys. if you don't like what trump says, it's a joke. if you do like it, it's policy. that's how it works. ( laughter ) trump couldn't have picked a worse place to make that joke. that was the police to the -- a speech to the police department of suffolk county new york when last week james burk was sentenced for beating up a suspect. you said that suspect must have done something really bad for the police chief to beat him up. >> expert james berg admitted to beating man who broke into his personal suv and stole a duffle bag full of personal items including sex toys. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> trevor: yep, that guy

really (bleep) himself. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i almost feel wad for the thief who broke into the police suv, stole a duffle bag and opened it up and found it full of dildos, all the cops showing up saying, drop the weapon! it's not a weapon! it's for consensual pleasure! ( laughter ) anyway, that's the community trump chose for his light banter about abusive police practices, really? and people are always going to argue, was he joking, was he not? because a lot of the stuff he says makes people laugh but there's a difference between being funny and making a joke. and if you want to know whether you should take trump seriously or not, why not ask him. >> a lot of people say, oh, oh, trump was only kidding -- i wasn't kidding. i don't kid. i don't kid. politicians think we're joking. we don't joke. they think we're kidding, too,

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! my guest tonight is an academy award winning director whose latest film is called "detroit." >> says right there, par trooper eight years, two deployments, honorable discharge. >> this is a fake. >> no, sir. >> this your girl? >> i just met her. >> what's his name? >> i don't know. >> his name is karl green. >> wasn't asking you. i was asking her.

>> you just said what's his name. >> you're lucky i haven't broken your (bleep) neck yet. >> all right, man, i see what you're trying to do. i'm not going to cause any trouble, okay? but i'm not going to lie down for you, either. >> trevor: please welcome kathryn bigelow. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show." >> thank you. >> trevor: i am such a huge fan of your work. you have directed some of the mosing films we've had the pleasure of experiencing. you were awarded an academy award for your directing. looking at this film, "detroit," would you say that this is one of the more difficult films that you have worked on? >> i would definitely say yes. emotionally, it was very, very difficult. >> trevor: right. >> not only for the cast but the crew. i mean, everybody -- everybody

was -- you could not be immune to the motion that of this piece. i would oftentimes say, cut, i'd go out to the porch -- you know it takes place in this one house and there's a porch. i would find the cast with heads buried in hands. i tried to move it along a:00ly as i could because it's a very tragic story. >> trevor: why did you choose to tell the story about what was happening in detroit? >> well, the thinking going in, the canvas is huge. a rebellion took place over five days in 1967 and that was only one of almost 300 in 1967, so there was a tremendous amount of social unrest, understandably. >> trevor: right. >> so you have the beginning of it starts with the riot, and then it begins to telescope down to several characters and then it telescopes down further to this one character, so it's an opportunity for me to humanize what i think is somewhat unthinkable which is the degree

of police brutality and racial injustice that took place in those few hours in the algiers motel. >> trevor: is it ever strange for you telling a story that is set in a time many decades ago and, yet, it still seems timely? it still seems like the story could have been a few days ago? >> well, that was exactly my entry point. when first presented to me by the writer i work with, it was around the time of ferguson, missouri, i was thinking tha sounds like today. it's 50 years ago but it's today. and if it's today, could it be tomorrow? my hope was the film could possibly be a part of a larger conversation and encourage a conversation about racial injustice in this country, and i think that -- or perhaps other stories coming forward, you know. i think it's a really meaningful conversation for this country to have at this point. >> trevor: what -- you dmoont

escape, when tackling any subject like this -- because you're dealing with police brutality, because you are dealing with aicial injustice, there's an element of people always questioning people asking the whys. i know one of the toughest whys that came to you was why are you telling the story? you are a white woman telling a story of black people in "detroit." why would you do that? >> well, i think that -- i mean, i certainly had to do some soul searching in order to answer that and then go forward with it, but i found the story so moving, and i felt that it was an important story to tell and so compelling that -- and i had the opportunity to tell it, so i thought perhaps that mitigated the negative aspects of the fact. i thought, am i the right person to tell this story? absolutely not. but does the story need tell? yes. that was my motivation. >> trevor: when you worked on the story, as well, i noticed you worked with key figures within the african-american

community, people who could lend credence to the story and make it factually correct. it was based specifically on the algiers hotel incident. why that incident in particular and why did you feel it was so important to get prominent african-american historians in the project. >> we were fortunate to have michael dyson and henry lewis gates to help us with this project. what was so important is to base it on actual events. it was extremely well researched and it was important we get it right, that it be accurate and authentic and we were true to the events that took place. we also had eyewitness accounts. >> trevor: right. now, when you are a director, we understand there is the commercial aspect, you're trying to make money from the film, it is a business and, at the same time, you're trying to tell stories and move people. if there is one thing you would

hope would move people after watching the movie, what's the one thing you would hope it would be? >> i would hope it encourages and invites a conversation about the racial injustice in this country. you're from south africa and there's a meaningful conversation about truth and reconciliation, but here i feel there is silence. >> trevor: right. >> young african-american men are afraid to drive in their own car. who knows what will happen. i just think this is -- you know, there's a -- there's a situation out there that has me -- i'm just a filmmaker, but in my humble opinion, needs to be addressed. >> trevor: right. >> i hope this can certainly encourage that to happen. we had a screening the other night on capitol hill hosted by representative john conyers and he has a bill to end racial profiling and is encouraging people to see the movie and gender conversation. >> trevor: you call yourself a humble filmmaker but we think

you're exceptional. >> thank you. >> trevor: thanks for being on the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: "detroit" will be in these are everywhere august 4. ( applause ) stay tuned for a sneak peek of the movie during commercial break. kathryn bigelow, everybody ( cheers and applause ) ♪

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escorted off the property? >> we are told by our producers here, our team here that he was escorted off the property. [cheers and applause] >> chris: it's 29 minutes until midnight-- oh, we're just gonna keep rubbing that in? real mature. it's only 11:30. "game of thrones" is almost halfway through its seventh season, and it's making monday mornings at the office very stressful. personally, i'm two seasons behind. people usually say "oh my god." cope in mind i have other jobs in my life.