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>> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: thank you so much, everybody! thank you and welcome! welcome to "the daily show"! i'm trevor noah! thank you for tuning in. our guest tonight, you may know him as eazy e from straight out of compton, from "the chi,"
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jason mitchell is joining u us! ( cheers and applause ) breaking news from fashion. >> h.&m. is in major damage control after sparking anger over this online ad depicting a black child wearing a hoodie with the words "coolest monkey in the jungle," social media erupted many calling it blatant racism. >> trevor: i guess h&m doesn't stand for, hmm, should we run this by a black person first? ( laughter ) h&m said they would stop selling the sweatshirts which would make it worse -- i guess we have all these sweatshirts we can't sell in america, send them to poor kids in -- crap, did it again. raff laugh i( laughter ) if you head into coachella, even though marijuana is legal in california, they banned weed at
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coachella. oh, no, people have been waiting all these years to finally smoke weed at coachella. the worst part about banning pot is the second weekend of coachella begins april 20th. 4/20! yeah! how are you not going to celebrate hitler's birthday on weed? ( laughter ) what were you clapping for? ( laughter ) speaking of people who celebrate hitler's birthday, steve bannon is stepping down from breitbart. ( applause ) ah, what a comedown for someone with such a rags-to-rags story. ( laughter ) it must have been such a sad scene when breitbart security told bannon to clean out his desk and bannon said what is this clean you mentioned? this poor guy. just imagine, last year he was hanging out with nazis and accused child molesters and now he just seems like a loser. ( laughter ) enough about losers. moving to the winners. last night was a monumental
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night in the south and a good monument. alabama celebrated its fifth college football championship in nine years. they had to bring in their backup quarterback, came back to win in overtime. kendrick lamar was there to do the halftime show. one fan almost overshadowed the crimson tide, the orange tide, president trump. he attended last night's game i assume to hunt for unpatriotic black athletes and, as it turns out, he may not even know the song that he has been so passionate about. >> president trump taking to the field before the ncaa college football national championship in atlanta tonight. tonight there are reports like one from the new york tail news claiming that the president appeared to say the words wrong during the national anthem. ♪ what so proudly we hail ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪
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♪ through the perilous fight ♪ and the rockets' red glare >> trevor: oh! you know what's funny is how trump comes in at the popular parts of the song. you can see that trump knows the words to the national anthem the same way we all know words to a rihanna song ♪ ♪ work work work work work br br br br br ♪ ♪ tell me if you like it ♪ hmm hmm ♪ and the ramparts -- ( laughter ) does donald trump mow the words to the nationa national anthem? i don't know and i don't care. what concerns me if he knows the lyrics to democracy. in between his tweetings and cheeseburgers, donald trump has been saying some pretty dictator-y things and this statement he made recently
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caught my eye. >> the president tells the "new york times," i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. >> trevor: that's a dangerous idea for the president to have. the purpose to have the justice department is to enforce the law of the united states according to what's fair, not according to what some guy wants, etch some president guy. but thanks to recent reports, we're learning that donald trump doesn't quite see it the same way. >> president trump attempted to stop his attorney general jeff sessions from recusing himself in the russia investigation. >> the president reiterating regretfully, it seemed, that it was too bad sessions recused himself from the suggestion investigation and in perhaps a revealing comparison praised former attorney general eric holder because he protected president obama, totally protected him, adding, "i have great respect for that, i will be honest." >> trevor: donald trump has one of the most twisted minds i've ever come across because not only does he think eric
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holder unethically protected obama, he thinks it's the one good thing that holder did. he's, like, i know eric holder burned obama's kenyon birth certificate into ashes, but you've got to admire how he broke the law to cover it up, folks. he did a good job. good job. you see, in president trump's mind, the attorney general is his personal attorney. that's what he thinks. all right? instead of recusing himself from russia, he wanted jeff sessions to basically be his pint sized johnny cochran. he's walking around, he's a good dude, he did not collude. if the sheets have no pee, the man must go free. ( laughter ) but fortunately for trump, jeff sessions is a by the book kind of guy and donald trump hates books. >> the president erupted innager in front of numerous white house officials saying he needed he's attorney general to protect him. president trump r mr. trump then asked where's mu roy cohn? >> trevor: where's my roy
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cohn. that's not the sequel to dude where's my car. it's an incredibly revealing question for trump to have asked because he's saying his ideal attorney general is roy cohen, this guy. >> roy cohen was a horrible guy. >> he would lie and cheat. >> he was the right hand assistant to joe mccarthy. he was single-handedly responsible for naming innocent people as communist without any backing, without any evidence. >> cohen specialized in this kind of savaging of enemies, lies, slander, character assassination. >> roy cohen humiliated people, he made up things, he had no mocials. you couldn't say he even had the morals of a snake. >> trevor: man, i feel bad for snakes. ( laughter ) no, because one snake tells one woman to eat an apple and now everyone hates snakes and women. ( laughter ) ( applause )
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so trump longing for a lawyer like roy cohen is disconcerting because what he admires in cohen is that he worked to destroy his political rivals by any means necessary and that's exactly what trump wants the justice department to do for him now and looks like he may be getting his wish. first this happened. >> president trump openly called for clinton to be investigated branding his former rival crooked hillary and tweeting where is our justice department? >> trevor: then this happened. >> the justice department is taking another look at hillary clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. fox can now confirm the justice department is now investigating whether the clinton foundation engaged in any play to pace games while hillary clinton was secretary of state. >> trevor: called for the justice department to investigate his political rival, now they're doing it. that could make you afraid. whether or not there are legitimate reasons to further
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investigate clinton and her people, if the president can start criminal investigations into anyone he wants, feels less like a democracy and more like a trump-ocracy. i feel bad for hillary clinton because she's always taking the brunt of these things. you know this will never end for her. she will be in the grave and republicans will want to exhume the body for more investigations. she will be in heaven. st. peter will say, welcome to heaven, my child. your time here -- what? the republicans want to investigate uranium one. wait outside. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause )
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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! there's news and then there's news that's not like the news-news. so in this segment we focus on the news that's not in that news, but in other news. ♪ ( cheers and applause ) tonight other news is all international starting with the prime minister of thailand who just found a new way to avoid the press. >> thailand's prime minister took on unusual approach to avoiding media questions at an
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event to promote children's day, brought out a life size cutout of himself. he told reporters to "ask this guy if they had any questions on politics or conflict," then he walked away. >> trevor: that is gangster! ( laughter ) you know sarah huckabee sanders is ordering one of those for everyone in the white house now. ( applause ) please direct your questions to kellyanne conway cardboard, thank you. they don't need one for ben carson even though everybody thinks he's a cardboard cut out, "i'm a real boy. i'm still here ." have you noticed ben carson's department has done nothing. i think it's because he's still reading the mission statement. he's, like, we will give-the homes-to-people who need -- it's 5:00, ben, we've got to go.
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okay, sentence three tomorrow. ( laughter ) in other news, pakistan that is recently come under fire from the trump administration for harboring terrorists. despite having received u.s. military aid for decades. the president decided not to pay people. >> "the washington post" reports trump administration will suspend most security aid to pakistan. the administration said it would previously suspend $255 million in military support for pakistan. small anti-u.s. protest broke out. the u.s. accuses pakistan of not doing enough to crack down of terrorism inside its own borders. >> trevor: i'm going to put it out and say this actually might be the right decision from donald trump. if you have burn flag money, maybe you don't need the u.s. to give you more. i do okay myself and i don't have spare flags lying around, people. you can't just burn flags. that's not the way to try to win america back. if your girl says she needs space you won't get her back by
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burning her car and say, but i love you! i love you! ( laughter ) now because america is stepping away, china is already taking advantage of the situation to get closer to pakistan, which is something that we're seeing all over the world. essentially every time the u.s. stops getting along with a country, china steps in on the rebound. basically, china is every r&b guy from the '90s. it's, like -- ♪ and he won't love you like me ♪ ( laughter ) it's just, like, that's all china's doing. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: in other news, happy birthday kim jong un! yeah! yesterday he turned 34, abhe had what i can only assume was an awkward birthday party because i mean they probably came out and was, like, surprise! he's, like, where's my cake? they're, like, what's cake? he says, you guys suck.
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yesterday he extended an olive branch to the south on his birthday. >> for the first time in eight years north korea decided to send its athlete, a figure skating pair, and maybe more to the upcoming olympic games. south korea even wants to enter the olympics opening ceremony side by side with the north korean team. the north koreans calling it a new year's give it, for the south an insurance policy that kim jong un won't disrupt the games. >> trevor: huh, slick move by kim jong un. it's, like, we're going to send figure skaters to the games to bring peace. you know he probably just watched the tonya harding movie and was like, ah, i figured out how to take everyone out. let's get it going, people. bring me my blades. so, yeah, north and south korea will be competing in the olympics where they will be collectively referred to by the americans as the chinese team. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )
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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is an actor who can be seen in the critically acclaimed movie "mudbound" and starring in the new showtime series "the chi." >> roll with me, get your mind off stuff. >> no, i'm good, bro. >> something up? talk to me, bro. >> i think i know who killed my brother. >> (bleep). for real? what the (bleep) we gonna do then? >> i don't know what to do. >> you got a piece? >> no, man, i ain't trying to kill nobody. >> trevor: please welcome jason mitchell. ( cheers and applause ) >> whoo! this is a good looking crowd!
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>> trevor: welcome to the show. >> thank you, thank you, thank you for having me. this is a good looking crowd. >> trevor: so good to have you. you looking sharp. never seen you in a suit. you're all dapper. >> no, i watch your show all the time. i'm, like, i gotta show up. >> trevor: i appreciate that. welcome to the show. so many people know you straight out of compton as eazy e. so many know you from the screen. you play a character eazy e who had a gangster life but is a human being, struggled with aids. that's a sensitive character you played. was that the moment that everything changed for you straight out of compton. for a while i thought i was crazy, like, should i get a real job? is this headed down the wrong path? but i always knew i had somebody beautiful inside i wanted to show to the world and eazy e let me unpeel my onion in front of the world. after getting the feedback, i thought, i might be in the right
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lane. this might turn out all right. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: it has! like, your story of getting that gig is really a cinderella story because you couldn't even afford to fly yourself out for the audition. >> correct. i was at work and they called me back, like this is maybe a month and a half after i sent my tape in, so i didn't think i was going to get it. i thought somebody else was in line for that. so they call me and they're, like, yeah, we'd like you to fly to l.a. tomorrow. i'm, like, i'm sorry are, what? because the way my bank account is set up, you hear what i'm saying, i can't really do that. now, tomorrow, unless you plan on paying for it, i've got to call out to work. then 30 minutes later they call me and said gary gray the director wants to skype with you. i go home, set up the hard wire, put a satellite dish on the house, please don't skip. >> trevor: this is the one time you need it. >> one time i need it not to
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buffer. it was an hour and 17 ppts we stayed on skype. >> trevor: wow. >> yeah, we did the same scenes five times back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, just kept going. i had to do the hospital scene, so i'm, like, crying and the butterflies are leaving my stomach and gary is, like, breathe, jason, just breathe, just breathe. so it starts to tickle my stomach a little bit, right, so i just bust out laughing. i can hear all the voices and i can only see his face and he's saying, he's good, right? and i booked it right there on skype. >> trevor: an amazing story. >> yeah ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: i feel that's something many critics and directors and fans have noticed about you is you have the ability to portray a character in an authentic manner. you play these strong male characters but without the toxic masculinecally aattached. you're not afraid to cry. is that something you bring to
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each role? >> absolutely. i think in new orleans growing up as a black man, i wanted to be the strength. i never cried when i lost my father. my sister took it hard. i wanted to be the guy everybody leaned on. i think most men think like that. in the process, we forget to hug and love each other and say, hey, man, it's all good and we forget to let the tears out sometimes. >> trevor: right. >> but through my work i learned it's very therapeutic. i'm crying on set, bouncing around, people are, like, how are you doing this? i'm, like, i feel better. i let the tears out. i really feel better. it's going really good. it's been really therapeutic. >> trevor: when we look at "the chi," this is a story that has blown up. this is a fascinating story because every story in chicago seems to be about crime and this is a story that acknowledges the crime in chicago but it's not about the crime, it's about the people. >> right, right.
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i know we've got some chicago people in the audience ( cheering ) yeah, and chicago has a lot of love. chicago is a very family-oriented city. they do food, some of the best, you know. and i think it's misunderstood and misjudged because it's one of the cities that has a real identity. you know what i mean? >> trevor: i'm with you. >> they want people to do things right by them but at the same time it's just very misunderstood. so i think with this tv show, you get to see that it's not just senseless killings. it's not just violence, it's not just drugs. it's not just gangs. sometimes it's people with families. most time it is people with families and u.s. just a domino effect. this story is a story of one bullet changing a bunch of people's lives, you know what i mean? so it's very family-oriented and people are just -- people really see the story behind some of these just shootings. i'll never forget when i first went to chicago the first time, walking past this billboard, it's like an interactive billboard and says 46 people
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were shot this weekend. i'm thinking like, wow, why is this not the talk of chicago. you know what i mean? it's such a half and half city. it's the most segregated city i've ever been to. but it's also very beautiful. and i think the ignorance comes from people not being able to understand each other. >> trevor: right. >> and this tv show brings the understanding. >> trevor: is there a role that you see yourself playing -- is there a dream role you're aiming for? any character. >> if i could play any character, i think it would be louie armstrong or maybe floyd mayweather. >> trevor: wow, that's the complete opposite on each side. louie armstrong or floyd maewater. >> you've got to stretch yourself. you've got to shoot for it. >> trevor: it's amazing. you're one of my favorite actors. >> thank you, man. >> trevor: "the chi" airs sundays at 10:00 p.m. on showtime. "mudbound" is streaming on netflix. jason mitchell, everybody. we'll be right back! we'll be right back! buffalo wild wings is the home of the fan,
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emerge and see. >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. stay tuned for "the opposition" with jordan klepper which is coming up next. now here it is... your moment of zen. >> if donald trump has three more years like the year he just had of amazing successes, he can
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run against a combined ticket of jesus and the virgin mary and he will still win in 2020. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> jordan: "if you strike me down, i shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." those are the words of abraham lincoln before he fought john wilkes booth. but he could easily have been quoting stephen k. bannon who, it was announced today, is stepping down from his position as the head of breitbart news. [cheers and applause] now, some are saying "oh how fast the mighty have fallen!" and yes, it is true that mightier objects fall faster. that's just physics. but don't write off bannon as quickly as you would your private jet under the new g.o.p. tax plan. bannon has a proven record of becoming more powerful the more "outsider" he is. remember: he got stronger when

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