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but first, as we all know, two weeks ago, puerto rico was devastated by a category 5 hurricane and, today, president trump went to the island to finish them off. >> president trump is in puerto rico today meeting with officials and victims of hurricane maria. during the visit, the president tossed rolls of paper towels into the crowd that gathered at the calvary chapel. >> trevor: yeah, if you think that was bad, later on, he donated food by dragging steak through a village. come and get it! come and get it! ( laughter ) who is this guy? shooting the paper towels like -- i know trump doesn't care about puerto rico, but at least act like you do. just put on the show and be, like, hey, here's the paper towels. but he's, like, oh! go long! i'm not gonna touch you, go long! ( laughter ) is that really the most efficient way to deliver supplies? i've got paper towels! bags of rice! here's a generator!

ahhh! ( laughter ) you have to admit, he knows how to bring the party. the people are having fun, taking selfies with him. it's like they weren't suffering, they were, then trump gets there and they forget it. trump brings the party. i don't care who you are or how mad you are, when he shows up, you get sucked into the good times. he's like one to have the guys that gets hired at the ba bar mitzvah -- i don't want to dance but i can't help myself! everyone in the crowd was loving it -- except eric. "oh, really? now you have time for catch, dad? i'm open, i'm open!" sorry, no more towels! ( laughter ) moving on to the mass shooting in las vegas. the shooter was a 64-year-old man from florida with no criminal record and he owned 42 guns. oh, and also, apparently, he was

a multi-millionaire, which means, right now, he doesn't fit any profile of any mass shooter, and you know who's having a hard time processing all that information? the good people at fox news. >> here's the other thing -- bin laden, we knew who to hate. sandy hook, we knew the mute living in his basement. we don't even know enough about him to hate him yet. >> that is so true. how do you hate someone who's killed 59 people? ah, because he's not muslim. he wasn't known to be mentally ill. he doesn't kneel for the anthem. he's just a rich white guy who shot people at a country music concert. how do you hate him? there's nothing to hate. i bet someone at fox news is trying to hack into 23andme, come on! got to be something about him! kind of a burka? i'll take it.

since sunday's shooting didn't fit fox news' narratives, they couldn't politicize it. if they could. politicize it, i guess neither should anyone else. >> can we not have a day in which we mourn before we engage in very divisive debate on an issue over which there has been no agreement in this country for a very long time. >> you truly hope in a moment like this we can move beyond politics. >> you need to politicize this today? can you just stand down for a moment? >> trevor: i like how fox news says please continue politicize this today as if there's any time they would talk about gun control. i'm happy to wait a couple of days but they would be, like, sorry, can't do thursday. yeah, we're going to be talking about hillary's e-mails. what about friday? no, still talking about hillary's e-mails. next month, next year? yeah, we're going to be swamped with the e-mails for a while. yeah. but i get the concern. i mean, what kind of terrible

people would push a political agenda the day after a mass shooting? a shooting like with oralo. >> in the wake of this attack, you wonder whether people like that should be -- you know, should be coming here. >> everyone in the muslim community, let's be part of the solution and work together as americans to combat radical islamic terrorism. >> it would be in the president's best interest to rally around the country to name an enemy and a movement to stonchts anyone coming from the middloverseas, especially the me east, we need to vet them out. >> trevor: he's weird. he doesn't want to see his family. we need to vet people from the middle east, especially my brother who's trying to come and borrow money and my aunt who's trying to set me up, i'm not going to set them up, #single to mingle! okay? block all of them!

( laughter ) ( applause ) so clearly, fox's whole don't politicize it is b.s. or maybe just a way to buy time while they're figuring out how to politicize it. >> right now, friends helped friends to safety, people helped strangers to safety, and law enforcement was running towards the bullet, so all those kneelers in the n.f.l. out there, they need to recognize when they're kneeling during the anthem, they're kneeling, and we're supposed to be honoring law enforcement, law enforcement trying to save lives, not take lives. >> trevor: wow. wow. did this guy just find a way to use the mass shooting to pivot back to the n.f.l. argument? yeah, like, after watching this, you would be thinking hundreds of people shot in las vegas. colin kaepernick you son of a bitch! ( laughter ) but i hear, what is the point? you've got to show respect to the police. personally, i would rather

respect the police by reducing the number of guns that risk killing police, but not kneeling is good, too. do your thing do. whatever you want. ( applause ) the people on fox news are so desperate to find a narrative to grasp on to that, at times, even they couldn't get on board with their own ideas. >> his brother said he didn't believe in god or didn't have god or didn't have faith if his life so maybe this is all speculation, but that possibly could be the reason because he knows country music fans are normally pro-god and go to church sundays, maybe he has a problem with that, or had a problem with that. okay. stay silent. let us know what you think. send us your e-mails. >> trevor: dear fox news, that was hilarious. email sent. ( applause ) yesterday, everyone on fox news

was flailing like mariah carey. except spongebob squarehead. >> imagine if the president brought up the second amendment, how would the news media in this country reacted? there were a lot of people who raced immediately. let's talk about guns. i've always been a believer that you've got to prepare to defend yourself and i had gun permits in new york and rhode island and california and alabama and georgia in my life and i was trained in the use of the firearm by my parents who had connections to law enforcement. >> trevor: what does that mean? i was trained in the use of a firearm by my parents who had connections to law enforcement? the world doesn't like that. if someone's sick on the plane, no one screams does anyone have a cousin who watches grey's anatomy? anyone? ( laughter ) according to sean hannity, what stops a bad guy with a gun is sean hannity with a gun.

>> this guy has a machine gun. how are they going to take him on without a weapon? or if it's happening in a crowd, if you're in san bernardino, do you want sean hannity trained in the safety and use of a firearm in that room so when they drop the clip and start to reload you have a shot, a chance? >> trevor: sean, you answered your own question. the shooter was 400 yards away in a hotel room 32 floors up, but you're, like, yeah, but if he was down on the ground and close to me and was out of bullets, then i might have a chance to shoot him down. that's like saying if tyra banks had no money and i had all the money and she was, like, really hungry, i might have a chance! ( laughter ) it's not reality. hannity's fantasy was so ridiculous even his fox colleague couldn't get on board. >> do you want sean hannity who's trained in the safety and use of a firearm in that room so

when they drop the clip and they start to reload you've got a shot, you've got a chance? >> we've never done much good, 32nd floor unless you had a high power rifle to take him out but point well taken. >> trevor: yeah, point well taken. she's thinking you couldn't even protect women from being sexually harassed in your own building and you you're batman? calm down, man. ( cheers and applause ) i'm not gonna lie, he may seem crazy, but after watching that, i wish sean hannity would start his own security service. >> in a dangerous world, if you need protection, then you need sean hannity's private security services! sean hannity is trained in kicking ass, throwing footballs indoors, and wearing his hat backwards. so when th the crap hits the fa,

hannity's your man. do you want sean hannity trained in the safety and use of firearm in the room so when they start to reload you've got a chance? >> if you're threatened by a shooter who is in the room and has run out of bullets, then you've got a chance. sean hannity's private security services, total protection in very specific circumstances. >> trevor: we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause )

( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." i have been in america for two years now, and if there's anything i've learned, it's that there's three things americans love -- sports, fast cars and a good comeback story. luckily, we get all of that from one man. >> one of america's most well-known convicts is out of prison tonight. o.j. simpson walked out a free man just after midnight, a day before he was expected to be released on parole.

officials in nevada wanted to avoid a crush of paparazzi hoping to get a glimpse of simpson but as joe friar tells us his hopes of keeping a low profile vanished quickly. >> trevor: his hopes of keeping a low profile? he's o.j. simpson, the world's most infamous shirt thief. legally i have to call him a shirt thief. who can forget the time he mercilessly stole his own jerseys. ( laughter ) low profile? we made fave tv shows about you this year. even ryan secrest is, like, he's everywhere, man! but it's true, the juice is finally loose. let's see how he's doing. >> didn't take long for a cameraman to catch up with o.j. simpson at a nevada gas station. >> how does it feel to be out? >> i'm in a car the last five hours, how do i know how it feels to be out? >> trevor: whoa, is it just me

or did black people used to be more grateful for freedom? free at last, free at last, lord have mercy in damn traffic is killing me! ( laughter ) and your first car trip is in what might as well be a white bronco? how did you guys find me, the pope says? i was in the pope mobile! avis didn't have a tan subaru? and the reporter sneaking up on o.j.? that was a gangster move. o.j. would be, like, whoa, i could have killed you, come on! he's, like, what do i have to do to hide from you, cover myself in goats' blood? kidding aside, for 70 years old, o.j. simpson looks good. what's your secret? i killed my wife and ron -- oh, wrong secret. ( laughter ) we're all wondering what's next

for o.j. >> his attorney says he's interested in life's simpler pleasures. >> steaks, seafood, all those kinds of things. >> trevor: that's correct o.j.'s back and he has a taste for clams! ( laughter ) i'd like to imagine o.j. going out for seafood. he puts on the lobster bib and it doesn't fit. oh, here we go again. oh, man! surf and turf is not all o.j. has on his plate. >> according to a number of his courses simpson will be spending time with golfing buddies in a gated community in las vegas. he's reportedly also getting an iphone so simpson himself may announce where he lands on social media. >> trevor: steak, golf, social media -- folks, i think we finally have a contender for 2020! yeah! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) who knew that phones would start doing everything?

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support, like universal background checks to make sure you're not a violent criminal or terrorist. instead, we stop talking for ten seconds. that's what we offer to the people who have been s traumatized which the events in las vegas, sandy hook, orlando. it's the drum beat of the impotence and silence that makes my head explode. >> trevor: this is the second time you refused to participate in the moment of silence. some people would say you're disrespecting the victims. why wouldn't you participate in the moment of silence congress is holding? >> anywhere else in a rotary club, at a baseball game, do a moment of silence. if you're in the one room where you could start fixing this problem that no other country has that is resulting in 35,000 or so americans every single year dying and what your answer is, let me just stop talking for ten seconds? and by the way the flag at the top of our building, we're going to drop that down 20 feet, that's negligence. that's not honoring anybody.

honoring the victims would mean we're going to fix this. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: let's talk about the arguments around the discussion because there are people who would say, congressman, background checks wouldn't have prevented what happened in las vegas. this man was a legal gun owner. this is someone who had no record of anything, so what's the point of passing a universal background check? >> which is tool number seven in the big toolbox of things that the opponents of any gun safety and the core of that is the n.r.a. have to distract us to make us forget, you talked about it earlier, you know, this is not the moment to have a politicized discussion. it's funny, after 9/11, i don't remember us sitting back and saying let's let a couple of days go by before we figure out who did this to us and how we ought to address it. when a hurricane strikes an island -- well, i guess they did let a little time go by, but you shouldn't let time go by.

this is the moment in which the american people are looking to us for an answer and saying this particular case wouldn't have been solved by things we know would dramatically reduce gun violence -- again, universal background check, putting limits on the kind of weaponry. i'm a second amendment guy myself. i support the second amendment. i actually like shooting firearms. i don't want to take away people's guns. i just think that we could check you out, there should be limits on the guns you have and we should take up mental health care. two-thirds of the gun deaths in this country are suicides. that says there are a lot of distressed people out there you want to address but also make it less easy for them to get the tool to end their lives. >> trevor: don't you think that's the ultimate paradox for americans is a lot of time you're in the place where where you say i love the second amendment, i love shooting guns, i think we should have guns but not certain guns and not guns for certain people, how do you define who those people are and how do you define what the

certain gun is because in america, most gun deaths come from handguns. so someone would say but it's not the assault rife that causes the most deaths. maybe it's the most gruesome example of people being killed because so many can be killed at one time, but the handgun becomes the culprit, so which guns do you try to take away? >> you're absolutely right, assault weapons we tend to focus on in gruesome moments like sandy hook and orlando, they can cause massive amentsz of damage like we saw in las vegas. but you're right, the number one source of gun des in this country is suicide. >> trevor: right. >> but i really object to the idea that, okay, we shouldn't focus on assault weapons. australia in 1996 had a brutal, brutal, violent mass shooting and they took action against these weapons that can kill a lot of people quickly. since then, they've really had no mass shooting incident. so that's a part of it. but it can't be, well, we shouldn't deal with assault weapons because most of the

deaths around guns are suicides, we should also deal with that. >> trevor: realistically, where from here? if you're in a situation where children, members of congress, people at a music festival have been shot, if nothing gets done, then realistically, what could people to? how do you move that conversation forward? >> well, this is a case where the facts are on the side of those people who support reasonable restrictions, reasonable gun safety measures, the people are on the side. many measures are supported by 80 and 90% of the population including most gun owners. i think the best answer to your question is the kind of activism, the kind of mobilization that we saw -- that we've seen for a long time but that in particular that we saw that prevented the repeal of the affordable care act, the attempts were there and there and there, and people showing up at town hall meetings saying don't take away health care from 20 million people, if people

show up at town hall meetings to their republican representatives and say i'm not going to accept this is the right time to talk about this, people are dying, what are you going to do about it? if people show up, over time, opponents on any progress on this issue will necessarily listen. >> trevor: thanks so much for joining me on the show. >> appreciate it. >> trevor: congressman jim himes, everybody. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause ) ♪ hat's our show for

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klepper is up next. now here it is... your moment of zen. ♪ ( crowds talking ) buzzer. ( buzzer ) ( ding ) ( buzzer ) >> klepper: let me catch you up. it's starting to make sense. george foreman challenged steven seagal to a no-holds-barred fight in response to seagal bashing n.f.l. players for kneeling. two 60-year-old men duking it out over patriotism? that's the senate america needs. ( laughter ) also, activists are working to bring a steel sculpture of a 45-foot-tall nude woman to our nation's capitol. all right, calm down, washington monument. you dog. and, finally, every year, when i look outside, i notice the leaves all turn red at the same time. how did the communists get to our trees?