comedy central >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: thank you, everybody. thank you so much. thank you so much, everybody, welcome to you, welcome to the daily show, thank you for tuning in. i'm trevor noah. my guest tonight here to discuss his new album radio silence talib kweli is joining us, everybody. but first, but first, let's start our show the same way that

the "today show" did, by telling you that matt lauer got fired. >> welcome to today and hoda is here with me this morning because there is a sad morning here at today and at nbc news. just moments ago nbc news chairman andy lack sent the following note to our organization. dear colleagues on monday night we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the work place by matt lauer. it represented after serious review a clear violation of our company's standards. as a result, we have decided to terminate his employment. >> trevor: man, you know this whole situation is so-- so [bleep] because no matter how or where it happens, you are losing. either it is happening to you. or it is your coworker who is accused and now it's your show that is affected. i mean you heard savannah. they just found out and then they had to report it. no time to process their emotions, nothing. like the stage manager was just like three, two, we fired matt lauer and we're live.

so like how many news people is this now, there was bill o'reilly. k45r8ie rose. mark halperin, soon they will have enough guys to stop their own perv news network. and we heard a lot about these story over the past few months and almost felt like we heard it all but then matt lauer comes along and finds new ways to be repulsive. >> variety discovered several nbc news employees making similar allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by lauer including a colleague who says he gave her an adult toy as a present. it included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her. he also quote summoned a different female employee to his office and dropped his pants and reprimanded her for not engages ing in a sexual act. >> he had a button under his desk where he could lock the door without standing up. >> trevor: i'm sorry. he had a button under his desk, so he could lock the door without getting up.

like seriously, people, you know you've reached a new level of perviness when you have to call a contractor in. like the button is under the desk. like i guess in a disgusting way it sort of makes sense. you need to have the secret button to lock the door because you can't expect them to stand up and then pull his pants down and then shuffle oer to the door to go lock it. like that's just not dignified. you know speaking of unwanted advances, north korean leader kim jong-un, he has exposed his new missile to the world. >> breaking news as we could come on the air, north korea launching a new missile flying higher and longer than any previous attempts. >> fired on a standard trajectory the missile could travel approximately 8100 miles, far enough to hit anywhere in the united states. >> a missile was launched awhile ago from north korea. i will only tell you that we will take care of it. >> that's right. we will take care of that

missile. we will raise it as if it were our own child. the son we never had. every time they launch a missile trump says he'll handle it, he'll take care of it. >> what is his actual plan because now north korea has a miss thail can hit anywhere in the u.s. which is really scary. i mean that means kim jong-un could even hit toledo, ohio. america's favorite and most important city where america keeps all of the weapons and money and jewels. that's toledo. t-o-l-e-d-o. gps coordinates 41 degrees north, 83 degrees west. but you know what, let's move on to some positive international news. earlier this week prince harry announced he's getting married to american actress meghan markle. yeah. and this is superexciting for a

lot of people. i mean cuz they come from different worlds, you know, her mom is black, his family is superwhite. she is an actress. he's on welfare. like it's so romantic. and yesterday details emerged about the engagement. >> prince harry and meghan markle selecting st. gorge's chapel for their upcoming ceremony set to take place in may. >> the proposal took place over chicken dinner here at home. >> the engagement ring, two diamonds from jewelry belonging to harry's mom diana and a center stone from the african country botswana where the couple spent their third date. >> trevor: wait, hold up. their third date was to botswana? i mean normally on a third date you might go to red lobster but for a royal you go to an entire african country? wow. >> botswana. ♪ take my-- botswana and i say, and i say. ♪ for more perspective on this

royal engagement we turn now to our actual british person gina yasheri, everybody. (applause) gina, this royal wedding has people around the world excited. in britan it must be pretty big. >> it's huge, trevor. tins pierce morgan left for america. i can see why america loves the royals, world famous family with tons of drama like the kennedys but with better security. don't boo me, boo ted cruz's dad. >> trevor: gina, this is good news for the royal family cuz like harry has always been known as a bad boy, bit of a womanizer, partying naked in vegance a. they must be relieved he's finally settling -- set egg down. >> this engagement is one of the most rebellious things a royal has ever done. meghan markle is american, she's divorced and she's black. this is not the traditional

recipe for princess. even in kids movies they went green before black. >> trevor: okay, waited, i understand american and divorce but black s that really an issue in britain? >> it is for the british press. i know in america people don't really think of meghan as super black, one, because her name is meghan. and two, because she can't pick her out of this line-up of white women. >> trevor: i don't know where she is. >> but to the british right wing press, harry might as well be engaged to wendy williams. how you doin? >> trevor: look, i hear what you are saying and i have been following the knch from the u.k i don't know if i seen that much racism. >> exactly. the brits use subtle racism, not the "n" word, it's in code. let me show you examples. they say meet the in-laws, the various unroyal markle family, when they say unroyalty, they

really mean unwhite. they also talk about how meghandle-- meghan's parents are divorced and she comes from a broken family. you know who else comes from a brocken family? prince harry! (laughter) they call meghan unconventional, the queen is married to her own cousin. oh, and this one trevor is my favorite. the daily mail said that meghan is almost straight outta compton. she isn't. she actually went to a brief at school in hollywood but she's black, she's on the west coast so she must be an n-wa. wayne: gina yasheri, everybody,-- . >> trevor: gina yash eschi, everybody, we'll be right back. alright, off you go.

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with two people. >> we don't know who is running the consumer financial protection bureau. on friday president trump named his budget director mick mul van eye to take over for cord ray, he had announced that leandra english what replace him. he filed a lawsuit to block the president the president's choice and now a judge may have to break the dead look. >> he will have to be vindicated is it mick mulvaney or trump or leandra english. >> who is the boss. >> who is the boss. >> trevor: oh snap, boss fire. i will say the who's the boss reference doesn't really work here. i will get what everyone is was traying to do, in this case it is genuinely unclear who the boss is. on the tv show 2 was obvious. angela is the boss. tony works for angela, if the rolls were reversed it wouldn't have even been a question who the boss was. the show would have just been called he's the boss, not heard, thank god this confirms to our perceptions of whats bos are so

there is no confusion, anyway, the fight over the financial watchdog agency went to court and yesterday a federal judge ruled that president trump's budget director mick mulvaney is legally in charge of the agency. he looked at him and said you are the captain. right. and i mean for him to go to court to fight for this job, he must have really loved this government agency for a long time. mick mulvaney is not a big fan of this agency. take a listen to what he said about it back in 2014. >> it's a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke an that's what the cfpb really has been in a sick sad kind of way. >> trevor: wait, he said that and then he got the job? what was the interview like, so tell us what you think about our company. oh, this place is trash. and i hate everything you stand for. ps, i took a dump in the waiting room. >> oh, so when can you start, i

like it. >> trevor: so mick mulvaney really hates the government agency that he now runs. it makes you wonder. what is it that they've done that is so terrible. >> the cfpb was formed in 2011 as part of the response to the 2008 financial crisis. its mission is to oversee financial institutions, to encourage them to make less risky decisions and to safeguard consumers from financial fraud. >> since 2011 the bureau has provided nearly $12 billion in relief including billions in refunds to consumers harmed by illegal banking practices. >> trevor: they took money from banks and gave it back to the people? that's not how money works. everyone knows it's money goes in to the banks. and then things happen and then-- come on, people. look. the truth is, the cfpb has been instrumental in keeping banking

institutions accountable for shady practices that affect many americans, for example, it's the reason wells fargos had has to pay 185 million after ripping off customers by opening fake bank accounts in their names. but even more than that, the cnpb or-- helps keep banks financially stable to prevent another recession. but according to the trump administration, the real victims are the banks themselves. >> donald trump tweeted over the weekend the cfpb has been a to the all disaster. financial institutions have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public. >> he wants me to fix it. wants me to get it back to the point where it can protect people without trampling on capitollism. >> trevor: financial institutions devastated? trampling on capital im, have you seen capitalism lately? if you scroll through capitalism's instagram feed, life is looking pretty good. >> huge profits undercut the administration's argument that regulations have hurt the

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financial protection gur owe-- bureau will only make it worse. this is is one of those times when i wish that there was a political hero. someone who would stand up and say i'm not going to let wall street get away with murder. >> i'm not going to let wall street get away with murder. >> when you cast that ballot, just picture a wall street board room filled with the special interests who have been bleeding your country and your city and every place else, and imagine am the look on their faces when you tell them you're fired! fired. >> trevor: fired. we should make him the boss. we should make him the boss. we'll be right back. ♪ we should make him the boss. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. my guest tonight is a ledge enary hip-hop artist whose new album is called radio silence. please welcome talib kweli.

(applause) welcome to the show. >> i'm glad to be here, i thought i was going to roll off the end. >> trevor: that is how i design it, i like an element of danger. >> right, okay, keep me on my toes. >> trevor: you could fall off. >> i could never fall off. >> trevor: welcome to the show. congratulations, is this your 8th album. >> it is my 8th solo album, if you include collaborations, probably my 15th or 16th album. >> trevor: wow, you've been in the music game. >> yeah. >> trevor: you've been successful at it for such a long time. i always wondered this, when i see where you came from like in brook len and what brooklyn used to be look and you go to brooklyn now and you're like things have changed, a little slash lot a bit. you think that a lot of what brooklyn was was what forged lip hip-hop and do you still think that can come from a place that

has been gentrified. >> absolutely. i'm fond of saying where you were raised and your parents create who you are as a person, and particularly for music, particularly for hip-hop music, it is very regional, you understand. and as any brooklyn people here? (applause) i could be at any room on the planet and i will get that same response. that is how brooklyn people do. >> trevor: i would like to betted if you were in the oval office and you asked that question, there would be dead silence. anyone from brooklyn over here. >> i actually went to a meeting at the oval office last year with obama and i asked that question. it was brook lynn. >> trevor: yeah, yeah, yeah, that was then. >> i mean. >> trevor: there were many black, everything is back then, i mean. but. >> i like, i like you know, i have a new video out with anderson pack, right. and i perform with him the afro

punk which is an event that takes place in brooklyn. and to see all the black nerves come out of their shell, at afro punk, i grew up, i couldn't be a black nerd back then, you know what i am saying, we listen to tropical quest t was looked at as other, but now to see people embrace freedom, you know what i am saying, you see black kids with tight jeans, skateboarding and stuff like that. i like that but of course gent ri facial-- gentrification can be a gift and a curse. >> trevor: you aren't just outspoken in this conversation. i have seen your twitter feed and you are prolific in your tweets. i see like you tackle every troll that comes into your life. sometimes i go like where do you get the energy and the time. how were you not screaming the entire day. >> i joan-- enjoy t i sent three tweets already while i'm sitting next to you talking. but again growing up in brooklyn, i used to roll around with a lot of dudes who was considered five percent, you know what i am saying, five percent, if a spiritual sort of

street philosophy is offshoot of the nation of islam, you know what i'm saying, and five percent philosophy is there is the five percent who know the truth, 10% that control it and 85% that is deaf, dumb and blind. these dudes used to stand on brooklyn street corners drinking 40 ounces, smoking blunts, talking about the suns, moons and stars, science, math matk and the nature of man, and you had to be right in exact, you had to show proof frk you didn't show you wasn't right and exact. you might have to do some push-ups, somebody might punch you in the chest, something like that. as fares alike on twitter, that is light work, that is nothing. >> trevor: let's talk about the music and a album. what are you talking about in radio silence, what does this album mean for you. >> it is a very liberating album for me because it's very independent. the album is featuring walk a flock of flame, pj the chicago kid, rick ross, j electronica robert glass, you know, but it's really me. and the title radio silence is the idea that my career exists outside of the

people who get music from the rye. radio, most people don't get mus frick the radio any more but radio has been such a defining piece of our culture and been the gate keeper. and like neil gaming has said, the gate keepers are leaving the gates open now, you know, so for independent artists, my career is fine with or without the radio. you have to come directly to me, you don't have tro go to the radio. >> trevor: in this day and age it feels like people expect a certain level of politics in every album that comes out now. >> uh-huh. >> trevor: do ever feel like there say pressure to have an album explicitly political and only political. >> no, i don't. i mean look i'm not on this show because i'm a good political rapper. i'm on the show because i'm a good rapper. if i just did politics, that would be corny and boring trk is my job as an entertainer first to make it entertaining, something that y'all do very well with the daily show and other people, other alums that have come from "the daily show" have done great shows where it's like the comedy comes first but you've been able to add to the national discourse by the km de

being so good. that's my job as a mus ig. the music has to be so good you don't even realize, you know what i am saying that you're dealing with politics. and when we deal with it it has got to be in a way that is responsible. i would encourage people to not talk about politics in music if you don't involve your yourself in it. i involve myselfs in grass roots organizing, i involve myself directly into activism so when i speak i'm speaking in the language of the activist on the ground. i'm not removed. like can't we all just get along, or. >> it is amazing. >> talib kweli. wear your silence is available now. talib kweli, everybody. (applause) what is that? the google pixel 2. what can it do? a lot. can it tell me when to leave? yes, now. and the fastest way there? yep. can it take a selfie just by saying take a selfie? yep. take a selfie. what happens if i snap this? it gives you info. what happens if i snap her? she likes it. do i still have to sit here for ages?

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