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now, last night was the 60t 60th annual grammy awards which was held right here in new york city. yeah, did you guys watch? ( audience reacts ) well, i watched it from the stage. that's right, me, trevor noah on tv. can you believe it?! ( cheers and applause ) wow! in case you're wondering, i only presented an award even though my album was on top 10000 for dog's trot, humble brag. kasher brought everyone to tears with an anthem against sexual abuse. kendrick lamar under sniper fire and bruno walked away with all the awards, best album, song, black guy, white guy, he can do it all, everything! ( laughter ) everyone had a great time at last night's show, except for maybe jay-z, who was nominated eight times but didn't win a single award.

on top of that, during a speech by camilla kavel, jay-z was trying to show enthusiasm but shushed on national television by a child. >> beyonce and jay-z's 6-year-old daughter blue ivy took charge when her parents were clapping during camilla's speech and here's what happened. >> these kids can't be forgotten and are worth fighting for. tonight, it is my -- >> trevor: shhh! relax, relax! it just goes to show no matter how cool you are your kids will always think you're lame. yeah, blu blue ivy is, like, cau clap on title because i don't want to hear it, yeah. blue ivy chastising jay-z was the end of an already stressful weekend because there was another child trying to tell jay-z what to do.

>> jay-z criticized the president in a weekend interview for a reported vulgar comment about hatey, el salvador and some african countries. he called it disappointing and hurtful. the president responded yesterday tweeting somebody please inform jay-z that because of my policies black unemployment has been reported to be at the lowest rate ever recorded. >> trevor: donald trump is the weirdest human being ever. if you are already on twitter, why not just@jay-z. trump is like i would have but i'm not on black twitter, i'm on the normal one! ( laughter ) on trump's defense, black unemployment in america is at an all-time low, but this is a trend that has been going on since obama in 2010. so kudos to trump tore keeping the trend going. bun thing of obama's he hasn't messed up. what i don't understand, though, is how low black unemployment in america makes it okay to call

african countries shit holes. in trump's mind, if he keeps black people working then they have no right to complain about anything. like he's going to be running around going crazy. hay, man, you can't say the n word in karaoke. check the unemployment line, my friend. i ain't saying she's a gold digger. ( applause ) even aside from the jay-z-trump brief, this year's gram grammyse political and the bit that got most talking is a sketch when james corden got celebrities to audition to read the book fire fire, the tell-all ant trump. >> if trump is not having his 6:30 dinner with steve banning, more to his liking he was in bed with a cheeseburger. why am i reading this (bleep)? i can't believe this. i can't believe that he really -- this is how he lives his life?

>> stand by. take one. >> he had a long-time fear of being poisoned. one reason why he liked to eat at mcdonald's, nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely pre-made. >> this segment was criticized by some conservatives including u.n. ambassador nicky hailey who tweeted some of us love music without the politics thrown in many it. >> trevor: oh, you want music without politics? so no country? no rap? no folk, no rock, no reggae and no punk. so i guess elevator music? that's your jam? yeah? oh, no, that's about the genocide in rwanda, so no music. and nicky hailey isn't the only person who didn't love hurricane irma's cameo. don, jr. tweeted getting to read a fake news book excerpt at the grammys seems like a great consolation prize for losing the presidency. ( audience reacts ) yeah. junior trump may be too stupid to realize he's actually made a

great point. being able to go on the grammys and talk shed about trump because you feel like it is literally the consolation prize. ( applause ) that's exactly what hillary should be doing. like, i'm sorry, people are, like, oh, hillary, go away. you can't expect someone to lose the presidency but still act presidential. that's not how it works. it's, like, if you lose the miss america pageant you don't have to pretend about child hunger anymore, you can just go on with your life. but you know, hillary's grammy cameo came at a weird moment for her because last night's theme was #metoo time's up, which is a message hillary found herself on the wrong side of over the weekend. >> hillary clinton is now facing accusations she harbored an accused sexual harasser. >> bern strider an 2008 campaign advisor was accused of sexually harassing a young staffer and hillary clinton's campaign

manager recommended firing him. >> he's accused of kissing her forehead and sending her suggestive e-mails but when the accusations made their way to hillary clinton she decided to dock his pay and send the woman to a new job instead of firing him. >> trevor: a few areas i don't expect hillary clinton to nail it -- managing e-mails, visiting wisconsin, weaknesses -- but i expected standing up for a woman on her staff to be one of her strengths. so the story is disturbing. hillary learned one of her female staffers was being sexually harassed and instead of the man being fired, the woman got reassigned? but all that woman did was come forward. she did what she was supposed to do and then got pinshed for it. it's like when park rangers euthanize a bear who try to eat a tourist. the bear is like, yo, man, i'm a bear. eating stuff is my whole life. ask that guy what he was going in my living room.

it's possible hillary clinton has a good explanation for why she kept this guy on over the objections of her top campaign advisors. instead of an explanation, all we got was this. >> clinton responded on twitter stopping short of an apology. "a story appeared today about something that happened in 2008. i was dismayed when it occurred but heartened the young woman came forward, was herd and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed. i called her today to tell her how proud i am of her and to make sure she knows what all women should, we deserve to be heard. >> trevor: yeah, women deserve to be heard -- then quietly reassigned. thank you for speaking up. now into the closet. shhh! i know this incident happened ten years ago and maybe the world was a different place, but, i don't know, i thought in 2018 with everything we're learning about now, maybe hillary would come out and say, hey, guys, i realize i was part of the problem in the way i handled this, when i look back, i should have done better.

when we look back on all our lives there are moments we realize we should have done better, but it feels like hillary is not only dodging blag, she wants to present herself as having always been on this woman's side, which doesn't fly, because not only did the woman get reassigned, but this guy, strider, he went on to get another job in democratic politics where he got fired for doing the same thing to other women. so you could argue that if hillary had fired him, she would have been protecting many women instead of just herself. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) go. yes! go. yes! nice play. still buffering. mine too. what happened? hey, joy, you should let your new pals know that according to a leading independent study, the most awarded network is now best in streaming. i think you just did.

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>> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." last week, trump was at the world economic forum in davos where he made time for an interview with british journalist pierce morgan. piers morgan is not just an (bleep) colin firth. he's also one of the winners of "the celebrity apprentice." so his sit down with trump was actually a reunion. >> with time tight, i'm not sure how long we'll get, so every minute will count. mr. president. >> i've missed you. ( laughter ) >> trevor: that was the first thing he said?

i've missed you... it's kind of creepy, you know. like if there's a list of creepy greetings when you first walk into a room it would go, i have been watching you, i recognize your scent, and then i've missed you. ( laughter ) yeah. this was pretty much a softball, pierce poking and broading here and there, but the best part where pierce asked donald trump about climate change and this is where the president dropped some science. >> do you believe in climate change? do you think it exists? >> there's a cooling and there's a heating -- i mean, look, it used to not be climate change. it used to be global warming. >> right. >> that wasn't working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. the ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be down but now they're setting records, they're at a record level. there are so many things happening, pierce --

( laughter ) >> trevor: if you just go by the facts donald trump sounds ignorant because ice caps are melting, not growing -- ( laughter ) but i realize if you don't think of him as a president but a 5-year-old kid, then he's agenous. hey little buddy, what do you think of glamouring? well, it's getting hot, then it's getting cold, and before it was global warming, and sometimes it's cold but it's bigger now. yeah! that sounds good! ( laughter ) ( applause ) but while trump was busy doing a meet and greet with his biggest fan, real news was hitting at home. >> breaking news tonight, president trump ordered special prosecutor bob mueller to be fired last june. that's according to the "new york times" and four sources. >> when president trump tried to fire special counsel robert mueller in june, white house counsel don mcghan threatened to quit. the president at the time backed off. >> trevor: why does it feel like everyone at the white house is threatening to quit their

jobs -- sessions, mccann -- get me copies of the report or i will walk out of here! ( laughter ) this news doesn't come as a shock. is it prizing your parents had sex? no but no less disturbing. the real surprise is the excuse president trump gave for wanting to fire robert mueller. >> cbs news has learned mr. trump addressed conflict of interest concerns about mueller with top advisors. among the issues a dispute over mueller's membership fee at one of the president's golf clubs. >> trevor: only donald trump would cite golf club fees as proof of conflict of interest. it would be hilarious if trump ends up in prison and then mueller jumps out and he's, like, it was about the golf

fees, bitch! ( laughter ) ( applause ) now, from the very start to have the special investigation, republicans said trump never wand to fire mueller, and if he tried, that would be a step too far. but on friday, sean hannity showed us the warp speed version of what almost every republican is actually going to do. >> at this hour, the "new york times" is trying to distract you. they have a story that trump wanted mueller fired some time last june, and our sources -- and i've checked with many, they're not confirming that tonight, and the president's attorney dismissed the attorney and says, no, no comment, we're not going there. and how many times has the "new york times" and others gotten it wrong? >> all right, so we have sources confirming that, yeah, maybe donald trump wanted to fire the special counsel for conflict. doedoes he not have the right to

raise those questions? >> trevor: oh, wow! oh, man! this man is a legend. ( laughter ) he says the mueller story is fake. then finds out it's real. then immediately starts to make himself comfortable in the new reality. he just went from calm down, there's no fire to, oh, shit, i'm on fire! to, yeah, baby, i'm on fire. i like fire. fire's a good thing. ( laughter ) but better than the flip-flop is how he hits the eject button right afterwards. >> yeah, maybe donald trump wanted to fire the special counsel for conflict. does he not have the right to raise those questions? you know, we'll deal with this tomorrow might. we have a shocking video. this footage comes from arizona where you see the red suv, high-speed police chase -- >> trevor: goddam, that was devious. ( laughter ) even better, sean hannity cut to his own getaway car.

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is an academy award-winning director, creator and executive producer of the new six-part investigative series on netflix called "dirty money." >> there is actually a diagram of this in the proposal where a human participant would sit riding an exercise bike. they would then be exposed to gas directly from the diesel vehicles. then they would poke and prod that person later to determine what type of health effects they'd see from this person being gassed. were you involved in discussions about doing this to -- this study on humans? >> yes. >> trevor: please welcome alex gibney. ( cheers and applause )

welcome to the show. >> thank you. pleasure to be here. >> trevor: i have such a strange relationship with your work because i'm a huge fan of what you do but it always makes me feel like the world is not worth living in. ( laughter ) you created the documentary "going clear" which i know a lot of people loved about scientology. >> yes. >> trevor: you worked on this new series "dirty money." what is it all about? >> "dirty money" is all about corporate crime and at a moment when our president states would be good to deregulate everything having to do with corporate activity this shows you what might happen if that comes to pass. these are real stories. >> trevor: we kick it off with the first episode you created and directed, the story of volkswagen, the emissions scandal. everyone has now learned of volkswagen coming out, you know, and figuring out a way to trick the emissions test, but you broke the story that they were

using monkeys to experiment on? i didn't even know car manufacturers had monkeys, first of all. what were they actually doing with these experiments? >> what they were doing, it was volkswagen, mercedes and bmw set up a fake nonprofit to try to prove diesel exhaust was good for you or not bad for you. so they set up a scientific test in new mexico. from the clip, as you say, they were going to test it on human beings. somebody at volkswagen america thought, well, this was a company jump started by hitler, maybe the optics of that aren't so good. >> trevor: right, right. gassing people. >> yeah. so what hay did was they got monkeys, and they put them in plastic -- clear plastic boxes, they made them watch cartoons and they piped diesel exhaust into those boxes, and then they tested them. they scraped their lungs afterwards to see what had happened to them.

it's horrifying, and they were doing it in order to be able to prove the diesel exhaust is good for you. it's like the cigarette companies trying to prove cigarette smoke is good for you. >> trevor: there's another part of the series where you examined the banks, hsbc specifically, for found to be helping mexican drug cartels launder their money. >> yes. >> trevor: what's particularly infuriating is the department of justice is dropping the charges? >> indeed, they're moving on. nobody at hsbc has been prosecuted for that. it's appalling. in the film directed by christie jakenson, you see prosecutors and journalists and so forth saying you've got them red handed, prosecute them. >> trevor: right. >> then clearly the people at the department of justice decided they were too big to jail. that's the appalling thing in terms of white collar crime, you know, we'll put somebody into jail for ten years for stealing a tv set. >> trevor: right. >> but steal 500 million and you

get a new private jet. >> trevor: how does the administration respond to this somebecause you could argue that, without these banks, many of these drug cartels don't have the power that they have right now because, if they can't transport their money, if they can't buy weapons or move things around, they just don't have the same ability. you would think that the administration would be going after them the hardest. >> you would think but those are big businessmen who provide campaign contributions, and as lindsey graham reminded us recently, you know, it's all about those campaign contributors. that's who they're doing this for. you know, it's interesting, in the trump administration, just announced it's new budget for the consumer protection bureau. >> trevor: right. >> do you know what the budget is? >> trevor: i'm going to say less than it should be? >> zero. >> trevor: zero is less than it should be. >> yeah, zero is not very much, for consumer protection. >> trevor: which means they don't care about it. >> correct. >> trevor: so we live in a world where the bankers wait for

the next group of people they can do the same thing with. >> indeed. >> trevor: and this is why i say you make me hate life. ( laughter ) >> oh, but there is got to be good news, i'm sure there is. >> trevor: but the good news is you make the shows that expose the people and hopefully people are shamed into doing something about it. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> trevor: "dirty money" available now on netflix. axe alex gibney, everybody. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) new year, new phones for the family. join t-mobile, and when you buy one of the latest samsung galaxy phones get a samsung galaxy s8 free. yahoooo! ahoooo! plus, unlimited family plans come with netflix included. spectacular! so, you can watch all your netflix favorites on your new samsung phones. whoa! join the un-carrier and get a samsung galaxy s8 free. all on america's best unlimited network.

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jordan, are you ready for tomorrow night's live state of the union show? >> i have been ready my whole life. trump's address will be about one thing, winning. tomorrow the state of our nation will win so hard by the statue of liberty will o.d. on exceptionalism. >> trevor: i don't know what that means but sounds exciting. stay piewnd, the opposition is coming up next.

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