this stccoh smells like a campfire, i love. - you like campfires? - yeah. on february 26th, 1836, santa anna begins the offensive. he fires cannon volley after cannon volley, beating down the wall of the alamo. this goes on from february 26th, 1836, to march 5th. they're tired. william travis, in one of his last letters said, i keep asking for reinforcements and nobody's giving me anything. they send, like, 30 tejanos, but i'm screwed. could you help me out a little bit? mm, nope. and then finally, in the early morning of march "thix," general santa anna says, i will take my breakfast inside of the walls of the alamo. and prematurely, one of the soldiers yells, viva la santa anna!

and that alerts all of the defenders in the alamo that the attack is coming. william travis rallies the troops. the mexicans are at 1,800 strong against 200 alamo defenders made up of europeans, jews, two slaves, women and children, and mexicans who just want to fight for their land. there's no way that they can win this. [dramatic music] ♪ colonel william travis, he runs to the front wall, and is immediately shot and killed in the very first stages of the attack on the alamo. and his slave joe is like, well, everybody here is fighting for a bit of land. i'm not gonna get any land, clearly, so i'm gonna, hmm, not fight. and he took off. and myth has it that jim bowie fought to the death.

he must have taken out 30 mexicans with his big knife. the reality is, he had come down with a case of tuberculosis, and jim bowie was shot on his deathbed. mexican soldiers breached the wall of the alamo, and the alamo defenders realize they have to retreat to the long barracks. so the mexicans enter the barracks and do away with all of the alamo defenders in the barracks. and general santa anna takes his breakfast inside the walls of the alamo. and davy crockett is captured. [dramatic music] ♪ davy crockett, great american [stammers] mythological leven--legend is executed that morning. ♪

because of this, "remember the alamo" is used as a rally-- rallying cry and texas becomes a state. and the thing that we can take from it academically, historically-- how does davy crockett like his pie? - how? - "a la mode." - i gotta go. - yeah, me too. [patriotic music] ♪

>> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome, everybody! welcome, welcome, welcome! thank you so much! welcome to "the daily show," everybody! i'm trevor noah, so excited to have you! our guest tonight here to talk about the new film she directed "lady bird," greta gerwig is here, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) , but first, really exciting news. this morning, the grammy nominations came out and all your favorites were nominated. carly b., kendrick whether mar, taylor swift, khalid and one more nominee who may surprise you, bernie sanders.

( laughter ) yeah. who, no joke, was nominated for his spoken word album. yeah. which is exciting. that's exciting. ( applause ) so bernie sanders is in the running for a grammy, and you know right now someone in the d.n.c. is going, all right, guy, how do we rig this for hillary? ( laughter ) it's a great piece of spoken word. when you listen to it, your headphones spit on you, that's the only thing. ( laughter ) i'm happy bernie got nominated for spoken word but they snubbed his other album of pop hits. that's what i call canning rishouting. ♪ oh, look what you made me do ♪ look what you just made me do ♪ ♪ i'm in love with the shape of you ♪ ♪ last night you were in my room ♪ ♪ and now my bed shakes like you.

♪ be humble. ♪ sit down. ♪ be humble. ♪ sit down. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: oh, wow! i actually want to buy that album, now. i can see bernie say sit down! be humble! sit down! but let's move on. republicans have set a goal of passing their tax bill through the senate this week, this plan would cut taxes for everyone as long as your last name is "corporation." you would think that's all anybody would be talking about because, like it or not, the tax bill will affect you, saying whether you can deduct student loan interest, whether you can afford health insurance and whether you can write off strip clubs as a charity donation. yeah, her name was charity and i was giving generously, that's how it works.

( laughter ) so taxes should be the leading news, but unfortunately since donald trump said words with his mouth, here we go again. >> president trump igniting outrage is native american heroes from world war ii. >> president trump accused of using racial slur at an event honoring native american war heros. >> the president is under fire for using a slur. >> an event today to honor navajo code talkers, native american heroes of world war two, president trump issued a racially charged insult. >> you're very, very special people. you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, they call her pocahontas. >> trevor: sweet lord, this guy is disrespectful. ( audience reacts ) in one fell swoop he insults native americans and war veterans at the same time. this is their moment where they're supposed to be honored, and those are navajo code talkers, men who are literally

famous for using a language so complicated no one could understand it. you can see they're looking at donald trump like what the (bleep) is he even talking about? ( laughter ) what's even worse is it seemed for a moment that he had respect for their history and their achievements, but it turns out he was setting himself up to tell a joke. "i'll give you your medal of honor, but first pull my finger." ( laughter ) i don't think donald trump was trying to offend the native american war veterans. he doesn't care about them. he saw an opportunity to feud elizabeth warren because he has been calling her pocahontas long before he met with these heroes. >> pocahontas, that's elizabeth warren. massachusetts is represented by pocahontas, right? and pocahontas is not happy, she's not happy. she's the worst. >> i call her the pocahontas, and that's an insult to pocahontas.

>> trevor: wow, trump says pocahontas a lot, which is weird because his favorite disney movie is definitely finding nemo. a story of a father who's lucky enough to lose his son. ( laughter ) obviously, elizabeth warren doesn't like being called pocahontas, which is why, yesterday, she hit back back (sighs) >> it is deeply unfortunate hat the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur. look, donald trump does this over and over thinking somehow he's going to shut me up with it. it hasn't worked in the past. it is not going to work in the future. >> trevor: wow! damn! yeah! ( applause ) that was powerful. i know elizabeth warren thinks that's a rebuke, but i bet donald trump just sees that as an invitation.

"say all the racist slurs you want, donald trump." "yea!" this beef between donald trump and elizabeth warren is tricky to process because all the other nicknames he uses on other people are self-explanatory. low energy jeb, man doesn't excite anybody. little mark o he looks like a little boy. lying ted, he says he's human. ( laughter ) we see you fish boy. ( laughter ) but when he says pocahontas, you might be thinking, wait, trevor, i'm confused, is elizabeth warren native american? you see, that's the question because, for a long time, she said she was. >> warren came under fire in 201 for claiming -- 2012 for claiming without proof to have native american heritage. >> from '86 to '95 she listed herself as minority in the association of american law school's directly.

>> when warren was a harvard law professor, the university was criticized for not having enough diversity on faculty so the school defended itself by touting warren's lineage. >> trevor: how white is your college when you get called out for being too white your response, is new huh, we've got her! yo elizabeth, come out here and show these white folks what it is! ( laughter ) the way warren tells the story is it's been part of their family for decades, they have native american ancestry. while listing it in the law director might have hypothetically helped her career, there is no evidence she used it to get jobs, though not like she got no benefits out of it. >> in 1984 elizabeth warren contributed recipes to a native american cookbook powwow chow claiming she was cherokee. ( laughter ) >> trevor: if you're contributing recipes to a book

called pow wow chow, you better be comfortable in your native american identity. ( laughter ) the problem is, in 2012, the new england historical genealogical society looked into it and found no proof of warren having native american lineage, which is problematic, because she wrote for powwow chow. ( laughter ) i mean, that would be like finding out i am completely white, i have no african blood, yet i wrote the book "snacks for blacks." ( laughter ) which is a best-seller, by the way. go out and buy it. ( laughter ) so the question i'm struggling with is donald trump racist? is donald trump racist? yeah. but in his own (bleep) way, he's hitting elizabeth warren for saying she was native american,

when she wasn't. something she's never pol apolod for or owned up to. it's not like she's committed a crime. lots of white families from oklahoma think they have some native american blood. it's one of those things people genuinely believe and don't question enough because being part of native american is cool, but just part of native american, like enough that you're interesting at a party but not so much that they build a pipeline through your house. you know what i mean? just enough. but elizabeth warren did something problematic, the kind of thing we rightfully call each other out for every day. so as weird as it is to say, in his own racially offensive way, donald trump was being woke. that's unfortunately the truth. like a bernie sanders pop album, the truth isn't always something we want to hear. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause )

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! you know, this is a strange time to be a journalist. on the up side, there is so much news every day. you know, it's like being justin bieber at a bad tattoo shop. but, on the other hand, whenever you do your job, even when you do it right, people call your work fake. we're seeing it now with "the washington post." they meticulously researched and broke the story of roy moore's history of allegedly sexually harassing teenagers. then moore accused the paper of making it all up -- "fake news. i'd never date teenagers. i would never attract teenagers. wear my hat backward? tell me how i would do it? i'm asking for a friend. what would be the best way?" then yesterday "the washington post" broke a real fake news story. >> the "the washington post" says this woman identified as jamie phillips approached the paper about three weeks ago

falsely claiming that senate g.o.p. nominee roy moore impregnated her as a teenager leading to an abortion. >> trevor: this jamie phillips is nefarious, creating a bull (bleep) story to give to a newspaper so when they run it you can claim that the news is full of bull (bleep)? wow, i wonder how "the post" was able to see through her plan to combat the mainstream media. >> the post-uncovered inconsistencies in her story including this post from a woman with the same name saying she accepted a job working for a conservative media outlet to combat the mainstream media. >> saw an interest in working in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceit of the liberal msm. is that still your interest? >> no, not really. >> no? >> trevor: you can see the journalist enjoying every moment. so is your plan still to destroy

it? is that your plan, no, no, not really. social media will be the end of everything. everyone exposes themselves on it. i can't wait for the millennial james bond movie. i am a computer progra programm. oh, really? because i read on the computer you are going to blow up russia and have sex with beautiful women. that's an old idea i have. but you penned the tweet here. ( laughter ) if you're wondering, what's the story behind jamie phillips? she's part of the thing called project veritas, devoted to exposing the main stream media. first made a name for itself in 2009 when o'keefe took down acorn, a voter registration group, and did it in a strange way. >> o'keefe and hannah giles

dressed as a pimp and prostitute in a sting operation to uncover wrongdoing at acorn. o'keefe described their business arrangement and taped workers allegedly giving advice on setting up a brothel and disirting the law. >> this is what you think a pimp looks like? >> i guess it's the stereotypical pimp costume comes to mind. >> trevor: he looks like for his birthday he got a fisher-price my first pimp kit. that's what it seems like. ( laughter ) here's a couple of other things to know about this acorn sting. first, when he went in, he wasn't dressed as a pimp. he made up that part afterwards to make acorn look more foolish. since he shot the filming in california, where it's illegal to do so, o'keefe had to pay acorn $100,000, and a pimp paying out money is a failure on all levels.

levels. i'm not used to this at all! this is so strange now! he's only gotten worse. he tried to tap a senator's phones, got arrested. he phoned a liberal nonprofit posing as a donor but forgot to hang up and they heard him talking about his scheme. right? almost every time james o'keefe tries to expose the mainstream media, he ends up exposing himself. basically this is another example how people like this, project veritas, roy moore, donald trump, are much less interested in the truth than in discrediting all the sources of truth. because instead of doing their own investigation of the roy moore scandal, they were trying to create fake news to prove fake news exists. and then use that to delegitimize all the news that they don't like. so in a way, project veritas ended up living up to its name. they exposed the truth. the truth is they're a punch of idiots and there are real journalists working for the "the

washington post." ( applause ) so to put this in words you would understand, mr. pimp, get your dumbass out of here you little bitch! ( cheers and applause ) we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ you are a city city wall, city wall ♪

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♪ ♪ >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight makes her

directorial debut with the movie she also wrote "lady bird." >> i want to go where culture is, new york, connecticut, or new hampshire where writers live in the schools. >> you can't get into those schools. you can't pass your drivers test. >> you wouldn't let me practice! >> the way you work or don't work you're not even worth state tuition, christine. >> my name is lady bird. >> it's not. >> call me lady bird like you said you would. >> go to city college, jail, back to city college and maybe you would learn to pull yourself up and not expect everybody to -- ( screaming ) >> trevor: please welcome greta gerwig! ( cheers and applause ) >> hi. >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you so much for having me. i'm a big fan. >> trevor: that clip, i think everyone is a big fan of yours and if they aren't they should

be because that clip satiny piece that's the amazingness of this film. if you were to distill it into one thing, because i feel like it's every story, what would you say the main story in lady bird is? >> well, the main story is kind of a love story between lady bird and her mother. it's a conflict-ridden relationship because she's 17 and her mom is, like, my god, am i gone raising you yet? i'm going to be sending you out into the world. i find mother-daughter relationships to be rich and exciting and i want to tale story about it. >> trevor: it's told from a different perspective. sometimes it's told from the outside, like i think this is how a mother and daughter would fight. i watched the movie. this is me and my mom, we fought, loved. it's true as opposed to a

caricature. is that why you wrote it? >> trevor: i always loved a great mother-daughter story. terms of endeermt is one of my favorites. i feel like there aren't enough of them. when i had the script, i brought it to producers most of which are men who have money to make movies -- ( laughter ) -- and if they had daughters or raised with sisters they totally knew what in is. but if they hadn't they're like do women fight like this? and i was, like, oh, yes, it's crazy down here. >> trevor: it's also interesting to watch a movie where women are on screen for the entire movie, and it's not about men. >> no, i mean, yeah, i mean, there are wonderful men in the movie, male actors. i have to say i have a brilliant cast. tinl thintimothy shalamay and ia great cast of men, but their

stories are secondary. it was actually mazing because most of the time women have to be the secondary supporting characters for the men's story. and these wonderful actors are so sweet, they're, like, we love being here for you guys. >> trevor: i love the idea they're no, no, please, carry on. >> you do all that, we'll just be here. no, they're wonderful in the movie. >> trevor: when you're directing your first film, it must come with all the pressure in the world, it must come with all the fear in the world. you've gone from what i assume is maybe a nervousness to now having your film be the most highly-rated film ever on rotten tomatoes. i think beating the previous record which is set by toy story two. >> yes, toy story two. my brother thinks toy story two is pretty perfect. he tested me and he's like, i don't know. ( laughter ) he's going to drop your tomatoes by one? >> yeah, no, it's amazing.

one of my favorite things about mick making is what a collaborative art it is. >> trevor: right. >> you have your entire cast who are so amazing and they bring themselves to it and you have your crew and design team making it with you. even though it was a huge leap for me, i was doing it with all these people who gave so much to it. also i wanted to direct forever. >> trevor: you also have a lot of people who see you as an indy voice and star, you are the star of that world. do you think you would ever have aspirations to go into a mainstream film, direct a blockbuster movie or are you against that? >> no, i would love to. >> trevor: because i have this movie now -- ( laughter ) >> yeah. >> trevor: you would be into that? >> you have to send it to my agent. >> trevor: oh, wow. >> i'm kidding, you guys! i accept unsolicited material. ( laughter ) no, i would love to. i mean, one of th