♪ >> 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! thank you, everybody, and welcome! welcome to "the daily show"! thank you for tuning in! i'm trevor noah! thank you so much! tonight's guest from the new miniseries "waco," taylor kitsch

is joining us, everyone! ( cheers and applause ) but first, there is a major food crisis that is gripping great britain. >> britain's telegraph says the kfc's chicken shortage forces stores to close across the u.k. and some customers are not happy. >> it does seem unbelievable. all the chicken farmers, surely there are enough chickens. >> it's a chicken place, surely they have enough chicken. >> we want to get down and have food and can't do that today. >> my reaction is angry, sad and disappointed. >> trevor: british kfcs are out of chicken. finally, an international problem president trump can understand. he's going to be on the first plane out, like, we need to help these people middle east! don't worry britishers, this is a job i was born for!

( laughter ) by the way, was i the only person who thought it was weird that everyone who eats kfc in the u.k. is a kid? and on top of that they're so polite. even in britain a kid throwing a tantrum in a fast food place is, like, mother, i'm angry, sad and disappointed. truly, if i don't get my popcorn nuggets fort withi shall be forced to throw my body on the floor in protest. ahhh! ahhh! well, that's it, then, pip pip. cheeryo! ( laughter ) now, as sad as those mini harry potters are, that's the kind of thing that kids are supposed to be sad about, that they can't get the lunch they want. unfortunately, kids in america are dealing with much bigger problems. we already know the tragic story of the parkland, florida shooting. a 19-year-old who purchased multiple weapons walked into a high school he was expelled from

and shot and killed 17 students and teachers. even though these shootings are happening more an more frequently, i refuse to get used to it and refuse to accept the idea nothing can be done. my first instinct is to talk about limiting guns, but i'm an idiot. i get it. you know, in my dumb mind, i keep thinking gun violence is somehow related to guns. ( laughter ) haven't quite figured it out yet. but the one thing i am sure about is that a lot of people in america think that after a shooting, that is not the time to talk about guns. yeah, apparently it's way too soon. you see, there needs to be a waiting period before you can just get a gun conversation going. it's a lot more responsible. and now if you told someone that they had to solve gun violence but they couldn't talk about guns, most people would be, like, well, then, there's nothing i can do. but most people are not fox news. because over the last few days, fox showed us that once you remove the obvious solution, you have no choice but to get

creative. >> we need to protect kids, and that means we've got to have metal detectors, we've got to have experienced cops, i don't care if they're retired or they're still cops working in the schools, and we've got to be able to have perimeter controls. >> trevor: is she still speaking about schools? because sounds like she wants to build a compound in the walking dead -- protect the kids! build a perimeter around the wall! i need them dead now! so the idea is don't touch guns, just turn the school into a fortress. why stop with cops and perimeter patrols? why not post snipers on the roof? dig a mote, fill it with gun-eating sharks! yeah, stick the heads of other school shooters on spikes outside the school to deter another attack! ( laughter ) that seems like a crazy idea. you can't have a school with snipers and armed guards patrolling the perimeter. no, apparently we need those guns in the classroom. >> we should start thinking about arming teachers. a minimum of six to eight teachers and administrators

trained in the use of firearms. >> it's an issue of not enough superior fire power to stop these killers. >> trevor: so now you want teachers to have guns. like, my teacher didn't even know who was talking in class. ( laughter ) now you want to trust them to shoot the right kid? think about it. how many times did your teacher yell at the kid next to the kid who was talking? huh? like, one time my teacher tried to hit one of the kids with a blackboard eraser, missed the kid and hit the kid next to him. you want to give these people guns? it's absurd. like a game show host walked into fox news and says next category, worst way to solve gun violence. go! might be fun to live in their world, if you think about it. a world free of embarrassment, no idea is too ridiculous. i have tons of those ideas. i'll give you one now. all right, look, the problem is school shootings, right? so let's just get rid of the schools. yeah. ( laughter ) stick with me, people! you can't school shoot without a

school! everyone gets home-schooled, that way no one can shoot their friends because home school kids don't have any friends. problem solved! ( cheers and applause ) actually, that was kind of fun, yeah. all right, all right, fox news. it's your turn again. >> self-defense classes are the best thing for a kid. so it's time we actually think about this rationally and go how do you improve upon this? well you train them. learning combat, learning hand-to-hand combat. >> trevor: hand-to-hand combat? does this guy know what a gun is? you see, it's only hand-to-hand if both people agree to use their hands. hand-to-hand combat will only help you if the other person isn't armed or if their weapon of choice is a wooden board. relax, everyone, i've trained for this very specific moment. come here! hiyah! and these ideas are price less,

that gives me another one. all right, i got it. ( laughter ) i got a few complaints about my home-schooling idea, so scratch that. we keep the schools and equip them with huge supermagnets, right, and then when the shooting starts, a teacher presses the button and the magnet grabs everything metallic. yeah, we'll lose a few kids with braces, but that's the price of freedom! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) now, look, the truth is we can't blame people on fox for coming up with ridiculous ideas. it's not their job to be responsible for solve problems at all so they can just shut up and drivel. solving problems is the job of congress, or at least i thought it was until florida senator marco rubio schooled all of us. >> someone's decided i'm going to commit this crime, they'll find a way to get the gun to do it. that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a law that makes it harder, it just means understand, to be

honest, it isn't going stop this from happening. >> trevor: nothing inspires like a lawmaker who doesn't believe in the power of laws. like a pastor who said, i would pray for your cancer but who knows if it works. i don't know. ( laughter ) and legislators are super restrictive when abortion and everything else. only when it comes to guns, they're all zen -- look, man, if the universe wants it to happen, it's going to happen, man. yeah, we're all just flowing down the river of time. ( laughter ) so another mass shooting and we're in exactly the same place -- don't talk about the guns and don't bother changing the laws. it feels like nothing's ever going to change, except this time, there was one big difference -- those meddling kids. >> six days after the school massacre in parkland, florida, the nation's jot are seizing the

meg phone, they're demanding changes to america's gun laws. >> tuesday students meet with state lawmakers in tallahassee and from there prepare for rallies this week in parkland, florida, and across the country next month, including a march on washington. >> it has to be more difficult for someone who's mentally ill and disabled to acquire weapons like an ar-15. >> we don't want to disarm america. we want to make america have to work for their weapons. >> a 19-year-old who can't purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be able to purchase an ar-15. >> they say tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. we call b.s.! >> trevor: goddam, these kids are not messing around! wow! yeah! ( cheers and applause ) i mean, this also just goes to show how upside down everything becomes when guns are involved. like, now, kids are acting like adults and adults are acting

like children, because you've got senators, like, you're taking my favorite toys! this is so unfair! and the kids are, like, you can't have them if you're not responsible enough to handle them! i hate you! you're not even my real father! i hate you! ( laughter ) these kids are inspirational. town halls, marching on congress all the while mourning the loss of their fellow schoolmates. what they lack in experience they seem to be making up for with sharp moral clarity. i know some people think they're just kids, can they really make a difference? think of it this way, their generation found a way to make it cool to eat tide pods. so there's nothing they can't do. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

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dollars. don't worry. if you haven't seen the movie yet, it just means you're racist. i'm kidding. you're racist, but that's not why. ( laughter ) anyway, there's one person in the know when it comes to hollywood. our resident movie king roy wood, jr., everybody! >> wakanda to you! wakanda to me, wakanda, wakanda! >> trevor: wakanda, my brother. so i'm guessing you saw the movie? >> oh, dude, saw it once, twice, six times, trevor, saw it in a black theater with black people, it was a black ass movie theater. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: i don't understand, how did you know it was a black movie theater? >> it was above a food locker, trevor. >> trevor: that's a point. >> a black ass theater, man. look, this movie is a phenomenon. it's like black hamilton. >> trevor: isn't "hamilton" black "hamilton"? >> not like this, trevor. first of all, nothing where seats are $400 a ticket is the

black anything. ( laughter ) i guarantee you've never seen black folks act like this for a movie. >> people are showing up with musical instruments, they are dressed in these beautiful outfits. >> "black panther"! yeah! wakanda! ( drum beats ) >> if you thought black people were loud this theaters before, wait till we bring out drums! we dance at all the movies! next stop peter rabbit! stay strong, brother peter! ( mimicking drum beats ) >> did you feel the blackness? i tell you who could feel the black naysness, white people. i saw white people on twitter, they didn't even know if they could come to the movie or note. >> trevor: they were, like,

can white people come to "black panther"? can they? >> of course! it's not an actual "black panther" meeting. everyone's welcome. bring the kids, join the fun, dress up! >> trevor: whoa, whoa, you're okay with white people dressing up as the characters from "black panther"? >> yeah, for as long as they dress as one of the two white characters in the movie. you got a choice, a skinny dude and a muscle dude. >> trevor: you can choose, right? >> yeah. >> trevor: here's the thing that's fascinating, roy, the movie is resonate ago lot with the black community. do you think it's about representation, the powerful black women we see, the visions of afroe-futurism? >> or, or it's just a dope-ass movie. look, i don't mean to go all james baldwin but did you see the fight scenes? the pole, pulled it out, did the wig, the flip, she was on top of the car, then the car flipped, and he flipped and -- >> trevor: spoilers, spoilers. >> that was in the preview, man!

>> trevor: i get it. but you have to admit for many black people this movie makes you feel something special inside. >> of course. wakanda touched me because it's nice to have a black movie that's not about slavery, singing or slinging dope. it's just a fun fantasy film, and black fainty is not even that outlandish. for black people, a good fantasy is just us chilling in africa having a good time. that's all we need and a couple of fine cars would be nice to do the flippy thing. wakanda! wakanda to you! >> trevor: wakanda, everybody! >> wakanda to me, wakanda! ( cheers and applause ) let me tell you a story

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight portrays branch davidian leader david koresh in paramount network's six-part series called "waco." >> gary? >> no, it's walter.

gary's been reassigned. >> reassigned? why? >> david, i need to tell you that my bosses have run out of patience with you. >> every day we try and show you men good faith, but all you want to do is fight. i'm tired! i don't want to fight no more! i'm alive! everyone in here is alive. we've got children, we're american citizens, and you're doing wrong by god and by man and every day you're adding to your wrong. >> david, you're the one who's doing wrong. >> no, no, no, no! >> trevor: please welcome taylor kitsch! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ welcome. >> first and foremost, happy birthday ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: oh, man!

>> i had to. >> trevor: thank you very much. happy birthday to you, too. ( laughter ) welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: i'm a huge fan of yours, have been for a long time, but i've never seen you in a role like this. for people who don't know, what was the "waco" siege about? >> an event in 1993 that was a cult, a branch davidian religious group in waco. texas, that basically ended up in a 51-day standoff with the atf and f.b.i. and ended with it burning to the ground and 76 people dying in that building. >> trevor: it's a tragic story, and it's laid out in this mini series in six parts, and it's one of the most confusing stories on an emotional level, because you play koresh, all right. you play david koresh, the leader of what some people call a cult and other people say, no, no, it was a religious organization. >> right. >> you're playing a complicated character and you're making us

like him. how do you think you achieve that? >> my first mistake in prepping for him was in the first few weeks where i was judging. obviously, there's some reprehensible stuff he's done or did, and once i stopped judging that and trying to understand why he did what he did or led the way he led and studied the way he studied, because through prep you're listening to hundreds of hours of calls with child protective services, with gary, the lead f.b.i. negotiate, and his crutch was the bible, it was the unknown, and he could lay fear into that. and when you can't prove or disprove that, he has something to stand on. >> trevor: right. >> that's how brilliant he was with that. he was an incredible manipulator. he really gave purpose to the davidians, and he was a self-proclaimed messenger of god. you know, so with that comes ego. >> trevor: right. >> and you start to see -- you see in that clip -- by the way,

that's the first time i saw the clip. >> trevor: wow. >> yeah, i'd never seen it, so it's interesting to see that. >> trevor: you're like that all the time. >> yeah, that's me in the morning,. >> trevor: your character is so intense. here's what's interesting, david koresh is a character who is a great manipulator and a lot of people don't realize, to be a great manipulator, you have to be charming, you have to be charismatic, you have to be what many people would consider a nice guy doing really, really obscene and horrible things, but the people within his parish, many people would see as normal apart from the beliefs they have. >> right, and i think that goes with the purpose and i think, in that sense, he could give that purpose. it really does go down to, like, he would tell you when to eat, when they're going to have some sermons. some of the sermons would be an hour to 36 hours. >> trevor: wow. >> so, in the sense of testing these people, like, they would fall asleep, wake up, and still be in the sermon. >> trevor: wow.

>> and he's just -- and when you're there in the compound, he's created this system of control, and this is a guy that comes from abuse and zero control. >> trevor: right. >> left at 14, memorized the bible by 17. so he has that over anybody on the planet. >> trevor: when you look at the parallels between where america is now and where many americans were back when the waco siege happened, i found it interesting that many people were in place of distrusting both the media and the f.b.i. do you see how it's easy for people to begin to believe a narrative where they go i don't believe anything that's happening around me other than what i know? >> without a doubt and i think, in 93, that's what it kind of encompassed in the sense that the f.b.i. was the media, so they did block off the press. there's a three-mile perimeter around the compound. >> trevor: wow. >> so from, obviously, the press to also even when it was burning down they didn't even allow the

fire department to come stop the fire. so you're dealing with, on both sides, somebody that's answering to god and then you're dealing with the a.t.f. who's answering to somebody who has an ulterior motive to the f.b.i. that's the amalgamation between all the -- it's a perfect storm. when the government knocks on your door with a 51-day gun fight, there's no trust there. so i understand why they didn't come out in that sense, but during the siege with the children, i think that's something i'll always have questions about et. >> trevor: it's questions that you have, we have, but the show does a great job of posing those questions and creating a great story. you're amazing. >> thank you. >> trevor: thanks so much for being on the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: "waco" airs wednesdays 10:00 p.m. on paramount network. taylor kitsch, everybody! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause )

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yourselves. now here it is... your moment of zen. >> the motivation for me is my people who i lost, my friends and the families who are never going to have their kids come back to them again. that motivates me every single day and it will never be a deterpt for any reason. nothing could bring me down, be reminded every single day of the horrific things i saw and hopefully no one has to see ever again. ( cheers and applause ) comedy central >> jordan: the day began like any other day in america with president trump defending himself against a vicious m.s.m. smear campaign! listen: >> a woman i don't know, and to the best of my knowledge never met, is on the front page of the fake news "washington post" saying i kissed her, for two minutes yet, in the lobby of trump tower 12 years ago, never happened. >> jordan: never happened. and we know it never happened, because trump went on to say "who would do this in a public space 'with live security cameras running?'" everyone knows the strongest alibi isn't to simply say, "i'd