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( cheers and applause ) also tonight, we have a special conversation with a former u.s. nuclear negotiator with north korea, and he's going to try and tell us what's going on in that part of the world. so that's going to be a fun conversation. stick around for that. but first, hurricane season continues with devastating effects. breaking news overnight, the most powerful hurricane to hit the atlantic. >> hurricane irma is leaving a path of destruction in the caribbean. >> smashing into st. martin, st. barts, anguilla, guadalupe, and bartholemew. >> and she is still churning at this hour. >> trevor: can i just ask a question? how many once-in-a-lifetime event is it going to take-- in our lifetimes-- for everyone to admit maybe manmade climate change is real? you realize that hurricane irma is the most powerful atlantic storm ever recorded. and that's exactly the sort of thing that climate scientists

predict: in this part of the world, warmer oceans will lead to stronger hurricanes. like, i'm so confused. likes, what is it going to take to get climate deniers to acknowledge this? maybe we need isis to help us out. ( laughter ) this is where we go, "hey, isis, i know we don't agree on stuff. can you help us out here?" like, maybe isis should start taking credit for hurricanes. ( laughter ) they should. isis shoud be like-- every time a hurricane hits, isis should be, "that was us. we sent that storm. we sent that storm to destroy america." and then republicans will be like, "that's ridiculous. you guys can't cause hurricanes." and they'll be like, "who causes hurricanes?" they'll be like they're caused by climate-- oh, man, climate change. "isis, isis caused it." and it is scary to get such a massive hurricane so soon after harvey. luckily for americans, though, the president is there with his soothing and poetic words.

( laughter ) >> there is a new and seems to be record-breaking hurricane heading right toward florida and puerto rico and other places. we'll see what happens. we'll know in a very short period of time. but it looks like it could be something that will be not good. believe me, not good. ( laughter ) >> trevor: got it-- "not good." okay. ( laughter ) i hope donald trump does the eulogy at my funeral. "trevor, trevor was a man." ( laughter ) ( applause ) but before america deals with this potential disaster, unfortunately, it has to finish dealing with its current disaster. and, no, no, i'm not talking about that. no! who didn't know? new song is much better. i'm talking about hurricane harvey. as you know, victims in texas are in need of relief funding. unfortunately, that funding has to come from the federal government. and this morning, it wasn't clear if there was even going to be a federal government. >> republicans had a packed agenda when they returned to congress september 5.

among their essential tasks, passing a new spending bill and raising the debt ceiling by month's end. >> it's called the x-date, exactly when the government runs out of money. lawmakers must raise the country's debt limit before then so the treasury can pay america's bills in full and on time. so the debt ceiling will be hit exactly as congress needs to pass a spending measure to keep the government open. and the president is now threatening a government shutdown if his border wall is not funded. >> trevor: you know that trump doesn't even care about the wall, right? he just wants to get the government to shut down so he doesn't have to work. ( laughter ) that's his game plan. that's his plan. i bet even if they gave him the wall to avoid shutdown, he would be like, "oh, well, now i want a spaceship to send all the mexicans to the moon. okay, that as well. i just want to play golf! i want to play golf!" ( laughter ) so when we woke up this morning, there was a big chance that the federal government could be shut down in a few weeks, because, as usual, everyone in washington was too busy slap-fighting each

other, right. and everyone was mad about it. everybody was slap-fighting. except for ted cruz. he was like, "human touch. human touch. human touch. i love this game." ( laughter ) so for hurricane harvey counting on federal aid, things were looking really bleak. but then at roughly 12:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, a true miracle took place, the thing you never would expect to happen actually happened-- donald trump made a deal. >> fox news alert for you. aboard air force one, president trump just announcing he reached a bipartisan deal oneration the debt ceiling and funding for victims of hurricane harvey. >> we had a great meeting with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and the whole republican leadership group, and we walked out, and everybody was happy. >> it was a really good moment of some bipartisanship and getting things done, no one standing in their corner. we thought for the good of the

country, we should make the right offer, and we did. and we're very glad the president accepted it. >> trevor: okay, i don't know about you guys, but this all feels like some crazy dream. ( laughter ) donald trump is working together with the democrats? and my hand is a fish! aaahh! aaaah!! no, no, false alarm. i just remembered i'm holding a plastic fish. i put it on my hand so i could tell this joke. there we go. there we go. but still-- thank you, maem. but still, but still-- ( applause ) trump and the democrats working together. you have to admit, that is super weird. it's like finding out your mom still has sex. like, you're happy because she's a person. you just don't think of her that way. ( laughter ) and it turns out, i wasn't the only person today who was like, "whoa, mom!" says president trump left

republican leaders "shell shocked" today by agreeing with congressional democrats. >> he essentially went into the oval office and kicked them in the gut. >> it seems that it has really caught republicans off guard. as you just noted, kate, i mean, moments before the president did this, paul ryan called this proposal ridiculous. >> trevor: damn! if paul ryan had balls, that's right where trump would have kicked him, right there. right there. ( cheers and applause ) but even though they hate it, apparently, enough republicans will go along with the new deal, agreeing to raise the debt ceiling and averting a government shutdown for a while. so it looks like congress has accomplished its mission, its main mission. but now, there's all the side deals the republicans want to complete-- tax reform, dealing with health care, finding a way to keep dreamers in the country. vacuuming under mitch mcconnell's jowls. ( laughter ) where, by the way, several dreamers are currently hiding. ( laughter )

now, are they going to be able to do all this stuff? i don't know. i don't think anybody knows. but let's put it this way-- it took a hurricane just to get the government to stay open. and staying open is square one, by the way. that's where you should be all the time. and then you should work. but they got it done, and in a way, that's the good news. the government has shown that it still can function. the bad news is that it takes a hurricane to get them going. the good news is that there are more hurricanes coming. ( laughter ) the bad news is that they're hurricanes. ( laughter ) like, at this rate, americans are going to be hoping for natural disasters just so their government gets (bleep) done. like, who knows? in the future, instead of getting the news from the news, americans might just be watching the weather. >> thanks, trevor, are you ready for the weather? here we go. we're talking weather and politics. so get out your umbrella and your veto pen. we've got a tropical depression

forming in the gulf that could bring with it prescription drug funding for under-privileged youth with health problems. wildfires are blazing in utah. that's good news if you're legalizing weed. let's going back to weather. this is the heat wave that's continuing across the south. we might just have to decriminalize sodomy. that's what i call hot. that's the weather, i'm michael costa. come on, trevor, hit me right now! >> michael costa, everybody. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪

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he is now a dean at the university of denver, which is much crazier than north korea. welcome to the show. >> thank you very much. >> trevor: thank you so much for being here. >> pleasure. >> trevor: let's get straight into it. you have had to negotiate with north korea. everyone is asking the same question right now, and that is, "what does kim jong-un want?" other than a better barber. what does he want? ( laughter ) >> yeah, i think it's pretty serious what he wants. this is not a case of some little country that thinks they'll feel better if they have a couple of nukes. i mean, this is a country that has a long-term program. they have been working on this for some 40, 50 years. and i think, ultimately, what they hope to do is decouple the u.s. from the korean peninsula, to create a circumstance where the u.s. isn't prepared to defend south korea and risk its own population. >> trevor: right, but that seems like an illogical want. like, south korea is an ally of the u.s. >> right. >> trevor: right. north korea knows this. china knows this. the question everyone seems to be struggling with is why would

he continue to create these nuclear weapons? what is the end goal of doing this? because the u.s. is not stepping down, it looks like. if anything, the u.s. is escalating, you know, its readiness. in would kim jong-un go, "i still want my nuclear weapons. >> one of the things people say is he wants nuclear weapons to keep us from attacking north korea. in fact, we never planned to attack north korea, and our allies, the south koreans, would say, "no, thank you." so there's no interest there in attacking north korea. so why does he do this? and the answer is he believes that if he can get the u.s. off the korean peninsula, stop being the ally of south korea, he could actually unify the korean peninsula. >> trevor: how do of do they work this out. it seems like a lose-lose situation. >> we have to work with the south koreans and japanese to assure them we are there. we have to sit down with the chinese-- and i don't mean sending them a tweet in the dead of night. ( laughter )

and i don't mean, you know, having some kind of, you know, public phone call. >> trevor: right. >> we need to sit down with them and say, "china, what do you want to see out of this situation? because this is what we want to see." we need to kind of have this kind of have this serious deep dive with the chinese. and we haven't done that. >> trevor: do you really believe that the u.s. hasn't done that? i mean, you were involved as an ambassador, communicating with north korea. now, it's no secret that the north koreans once lied about what they were doing. they lied about their enrichment of plutonium. they were secretly working towards getting nuclear weapons. can you trust this kind of country? and then on the flip side, someone will say, if you cannot trust them, what you can realistically do? >> look, to paraphrase tina turner-- what's trust got to do with this? it's all about-- it's-- ( cheers and applause ) it's all about can you verify what you're doing? we had a deal with them, but they wouldn't give us verification. they would only give us verification of things we already knew. >> trevor: right. >> so we need to be able to verify that there's something

over there we want to have a look at, and we need the right to have a look at these undeclared sites. and that's when the north koreans said no. and this was in the fall of 2008. there were a couple of possibilities. maybe they wanted to deal with the next administration. maybe they were sick of dealing with george w. bush, et cetera. the problem was we never got back to a negotiation. and, as you suggest, they have a plutonium facility we know about. in fact, we got it shut down. we got it disabled. but they also had some purchases on the international market, consistent with having that other means to a nuclear weapon, so-called highly enriched uranium, and that's where they wouldn't tell us anything. so we had to pull out of that without any verification if we couldn't go further. >> trevor: let's pivot to donald trump's approach. he, as you said, tweets. i don't know if kim jong-un follows him, but i think he knows. ( laughter ) and he has come out saying, "fire and fury like never seen before." there has been a lot of posturing from donald trump.

you think that he's taking the right approach? >> he will outsource it to china. you take care of that and we'll help you with trade issues. >> so he's sending jobs to china instead of getting americans -- oh, that's interesting. for people who are afraid on the u.s. side, scale of 1-10, how afraid should an american be? and on a scale of 1-10, how afraid should a south korean be? >> we can protect ourselves, and we can protect our allies. i would put it way down on the scale right now. but on the longer run, we have a problem. because when they do perfect an arsenal that is aimed at us, this is a new thing. we haven't had this, had a new country show up with a nuclear weapon pointed at us in a half a century. so in the short run, i think we can all sleep well tonight. tomorrow, well, i think we'll be okay, tomorrow, too. ( laughter ) but i think-- i think we really

have to address this. and we have to address it in a serious way. and we're supposed to be the adult here. and that's what we've got to do. >> trevor: we'll just keep checking in every single day with you. thank you so much for coming to the show. ( cheers and applause ) you can learn more about his fascinating career in his book "outpost: a diplomat at work." ambassador christopher hill, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: elcome back to "the daily show." my next guest is an independent film maker and actress who wrote, directed, and stars in the new film "i do until i don't." >> the lady, she came by the workshop, and she begged us to do it because of our open relationship. >> no. >> yes. >> what was her name? >> vivian? >> no, it was-- it was gideon. gideon. >> vivian, her name is vivian. burdec. vivian burr deck. >> yes, yes. >> right, it was vivian. >> when did-- >> when did this come about?

>> no, when did she come in? >> no, i think i deserve to know whatever avant garde sex games you signed us up for. >> it's not a game. >> avant-garde. i can totally see why you would think that. >> what is that supposed to mean? >> you know what's great? we're all going to do it. >> are we talking about sex? >> no, no one's talking about sex. you're the only one who brought sex into it. it's not like that. >> trevor: please welcome lake bell! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> hey! >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> well, thank you. >> trevor: wonderful to have you. i feel like i see you everywhere, and i love you in everything. you are what many people consider a triple threat-- you write, you direct, and you act. >> yes and now-- ( cheers and applause ) and, also, i create humans because i'm a mom now. so i-- >> trevor: congratulations! congratulations! ( applause ) >> i get to do this all the time on set now all the time, uh-huh, uh-huh. >> trevor: without the baby?

>> without the baby. >>ings that the best move. i like that. >> this is the baby. >> trevor: that's a nice move. i like that. let's talk about film making. >> yes. >> trevor: when you are on set as a writer, a director, and an actor, how do you know what hat to wear? are you in a scene and go, "cut, i can do that better. actually, i am going to write that differently." how do you know when to turn it on and turn it off? >> it's a weird thing because the character i play is weak and apologetic and sort of lame, low status. so when i'm sort of in the character, and i'm like, "oh, sorry." and i'll be like, "cut. okay, guys, what we want to do is--" i have to change my voice and my body language and everything. so it is strange. >> trevor: just to set it up for the people, your character is making a documentary-- >> no, dolly's character. dolly wells. >> trevor: dolly wells is making a documentary. >> about three different couples. and i play this sort of, like, laim-o sweet woman named alice. i'm married to ed helms, and

holly is this puck-like rebel rouser at the helm. she's sort of a cynic. she's trying desperately to prove her thesis that marriage should be now a seven-year contract with an option to renew, because after all, we're living too long, and it shouldn't be "till death do us part." i mean, what kind of ask is that? >> trevor: what's funny is you-- you shared a lot of those views, though. >> i did, yes. >> trevor: i see you have a ring on your finger now. >> i did it. i got betrothed. >> trevor: yes, and-- ( applause ). >> trevor: like, i'm interested in that. you had a lot of views. you used to be very outspoken. you'd be on youtube. you'd be like, "marriage is an institution. it's outdated." >> it was archaic. i was a child of divorce, and sort of inside looking out. i was like, this seemed like a doomed thing, am i right? even as a kid, i was like, this is not working for anybody. >> right. so i think i came at it from a very cynical place.

but i even didn't see it as jaded. i saw myself as a realist. >> trevor: right. >> just realistically, this doesn't make any sense. but the movie kind of reflects what happened, which is while i was writing the movie, i met my now-husband, scott campbell, who is really smokin' hot. ( laughter ) so i was like, "i'm listening." he's a, you know, southern gentleman, and it's really important to him. he's actually-- he's covered in tattoos, but he's actually the traditionalist in our family. >> trevor: and that's what the movie is about. >> yeah. >> trevor: a movie talking through the ideas and concept of marriage, something people are struggling with all over the world. people are like, "is this still something we need?" >> sure, because we're swiping and distracted, and there's social media, and there's just, like, how do you stay focused on one person? >> trevor: as someone who is married now, do you think that marriage should be, like, a renewable thing where you get a contract and go, "this is how long it is," and it ends, and you don't have to get divorced, and you can say "let's do it again"? >> here's my thing. i think that if you don't bail, it's far braver to stick it out and say, "you're going to call me out on my stuff. i'm going to call you out on your stuff. and now we have to grow

together." so that, i think, is the past evolution. not to get too heavy here, people, but i believe in it. okay, i'm putting my money where my mouth is. because when the going gets rough, i have to stick it in. but, yeah, i actually-- i actually-- coming from a person who did not believe in the institution, i actually see it as the bad-ass, brave way to go forth. i do. >> trevor: so if someone-- if someone was watching this movie, do you think they would have the same experience you had if they were a skeptic? would someone watch this coming in going, "i don't believe in marriage at all" and come out and say, "i'm ready." >> i'm hoping for some engagements at the end-- like, like, i'm hoping, like, "yeah, i guess i'll go see this movie with you, honey." and by the end... "let's do it." ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> trevor: i think everyone is going to be doing that. it's a really amazing film. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for doing everything you do.

"i do until i don't" is in theaters now. lake bell, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪