>> trevor: what's going on, everybody? welcome. welcome to "the daily show." thank you so much for tuning in. i'm trevor noah. take a seat, everybody! thank you so much! my guest tonight the mayor of new orleans is joining us, mitch landrieu is here, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) but first, but first, you know all that data you give to facebook so that everyone can see it? well, it turns out they let everyone see it. >> tonight, cambridge analytica, a data company tied to president trump's 2016 campaign is under investigation by facebook accused by the internet giant of mishandling more than 50 million americans' personal information. cambridge an litta would create online quizzes when facebook users log in to those tests, they were giving cambridge

access to that data and all their friends. >> trevor: i knew it! i always knew those facebook quizzes were suspicious! what hogwarts house are you in? enter your social security number to find out. ( laughter ) you know what's really messed up is that people hired by the trump campaign got access to your data because your friend took a quiz. like now i'm getting hacked because your dumbass had nothing wet better to do on a saturday night? that's bul bullshit. this is super shady. think about everything a political campaign could learn from your facebook -- what charity i support, what issues make me angry, which ex-girlfriends i'm still not over. all of them. ( laughter ) let's move on. even though i haven't. did you guys have a good st. patrick's say? yeah? ( applause ) well, i know irishman who didn't. >> breaking news on a friday

night andrew mccabe the former f.b.i. deputy director fired tonight by the attorney general jeff sessions. >> mccabe denies wrongdoing but an inspector general report concluded he authorized a conversation between f.b.i. officials and a journalist about a clinton foundation probe and then he misled investigators about it. >> both the i.g. and the office of professional responsibility found that he lacked candor, which is a firing offense. >> trevor: wow, i didn't know that. you can get fired from the f.b.i. for lack of candor. the f.b.i. must be a brutally honest place to work, just like i got a new haircut, what dining diewng? you look like shit! i'm so sorry. it looks like a squirrel died on your head! i need to keep my job. this is a big deal, andrew mccabe, number two at the f.b.i. has been fired. now the justice department said it's because mccabe lied about leaking information to the press. but mccabe has a different theory. >> mccabe says his firing was

part of a wider effort to discredit the f.b.i. and the mueller investigation. he says he was singled out because of events heed with in the aftermath of firing of f.b.i. director james comby. >> trump and jeff sessions have been attacking andrew mccabe, they're probably worried mccabe could be a key supporting witness to possible obstruction of justice charges or any other wrongdoing by trump in handling the russian inquiry. >> trevor: interesting. mccabe says he got fired because he's got dirt on donald trump, he's got info on the comby firing, part of trump investigation, he knows trump bought a sex doll and diducted as a business expense -- the last one is not true but could be. doesn't mean trump was going to come after him. however, it doesn't help that for the last year trump had been trashing mccabe on twitter.

trump accused him of plotting with comby. he accused him of taking money from hillary. trump even accused mccabe of looking like every background extra on madmen. which he's right at that one, i can see it. trump didn't keep tin results on line. one of his best stories about the president hating mccabe came out after comby was fired. when trump was so angry he roasted mccabe about his wife losing a race for state senate. >> trump demanded why comby was allowed to fly home on an f.b.i. plane after being fired. he said if anyone would have asked he would have approved it. the president was silent and turned on mccabe, "ask your wife how it feels to be a loser" trump said. mccabe replied, okay, sir. trump hung up the phone. >> trevor: donald trump is a proper asshole. if being an asshole was an arcade game, he would have all the top scores. ( laughter ) think about it, he's mad at

comby so he enresults mccabe's wife because she ran for a senate seat and lost? that's so messed up. especially since trump should know what it's like to have a wife who wants to run. come on. ( laughter ) and -- ( applause ) poor mccabe is so f.b.i. that he gets insulted and he's just like, okay, okay, sir. that's all he does? the commander-in-chief insults him, treats it like an order. why don't you ask your wife why you're so bad in bed. okay, sir. honey, the president has a question. ( laughter ) so, again, it's well known that president trump wasn't a fan of andrew mack cabe but still doesn't prove he conspired to have mccabe fired. it is suspicious, though, that back in december trump tweeted "mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go ." then at the deadline. >> former f.b.i. director andrew mccabe fired tonight by

attorney general jeff sessions two days before mccabe was going to retire. his pension now gone. >> that was just 26 hours before mccare was due to retire on his 50th birthday. >> trevor: that is heartless. he doesn't get his pension and his birthday is ruined. that's a double win for trump. he fires an enemy and he gets to eat his birthday cake. ♪ happy birthday to you ( laughter ) firing somebody ono their birthday is the worst gift you could give them. that or a card from radio shack. wow, i can buy the walkman to listen to the c.d. ♪ can't stop the lies, living in the ga-ga-ga-ga ♪ young kids won't know what i'm doing now. what is that trevor? the life we lived. it was a hard one. in the end, trump appears to have been extra vindictive about this. he said he didn't want mccabe

get his pension and looks like he made sure that happened. that's how it looks. if you'd been saying for a year i wish my dickhead husband gets killed by a 1982 dodge caravan and it happens, don't be shocked when you get arrested for it. but i loved that dickhead, i did! ( laughter ) here's the thing, because trump involved himself so permly in the mccabe case, you can see why it's easy to think mccabe's firing is about politics and not process. because of that people are saying comby got fired, mccabe got fired. who could be next? >> president trump is taking direct aim at robert mueller in the russia investigation. >> something of a milestone from the president over the weekend for the first time going after special counsel robert mueller by name. >> saying the investigation into russian influence in the presidential election should never have started. >> mr. trump's tweets have some

wondering if he's considering firing robert mueller. >> trevor: he's definitely considering it. you know how they say men think about sex every eight seconds? that's what trump does with firing people. yeah, when trump meets a new person, that's what he fantasizes about. oh, man, it would be so awesome to fire that lady. i would fire her so, hard. oh, my gorksd i want to fire her right now. ( laughter ) point is trump is going after mueller by name for the first time. so robert mueller, i don't know when your next birthday, is but something tells me the president may be plan ago surprise. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) pssst. what? i switched to geico and got more. more savings on car insurance? a-ha. and an award-winning mobile app. that is more. oh, there's more.

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is not for you. >> russia's president vladimir putin savoring a landslide election win. >> he cruised to an inspected victory in yesterday's presidential election winning nearly 77% of the vote. >> came out by red square for a brief acceptance speech. looking jeer intect, she thanked voters for hard work and unity ending with a cheer "russia, russia, russia!" >> trevor: he's doing u.s.a.! what the hell is that? ru-shi-ya! that's america's rhythm! get your own want, you big jerk? ( laughter ) great news for vladimir putin, he has won the election. i know some people are concerned about how he won. there are fears he may have colluded with russia. either way, it was a landslide. ( laughter ) putin got 77% of the vote. his closest rival got 12% and

jill stein got 5%. no, no, i'm messing with you. i'm messing with you. putin got 77% and the other guy got poisoned. ( laughter ) even though the elections outcome was never in doubt, putin took no chances. >> in videos verified by ap, voters seemed to insert multiple ballots. one election fissle appears to stroll over to a box, stuff it when no one seems to mind. >> one held up balloons to obscure the camera as ballots were being counted. ( laughter ) >> trevor: what a fun way to rig an election. turn off the camera! no, bring balloons! ( laughter ) balloons are always suspicious in russia. basically anything that causes joy is totally out of place in russia. you don't look at a russian guy holding a balloon and go, he's going to a party.

you wonder if it's filled with nerve gas. that's what you're thinking. ( laughter ) putin didn't win by stuffing ballot boxes. of course, he stuffed them, but he won long before election day by rigging the the system. >> the real staging of putin's campaign began months ago when the kremlin approved an opposition to create the illusion of a real race. seven candidates, all allowed to run, but not to win. there is one man who might have given mr. president a run for his money, an anti-corruption activist harassed in the election runoff and predictably, eventually barred from the race. >> trevor: that's right. putin got to choose his opponents, which is a pretty sweet deal. imagine if you could do that at the summer olympics. like, i pick all the white guys. yeah! let's race! aaahhh! ( laughter ) vladimir putin had it wrapped up

before he began but that wasn't enough. >> the kremlin did pull out all the stops to get out the vote including the polling station we visited including setting up free cancer screening tests. >> voters were greeted by characters, dancing and cookies, tiny intimes to lure the crowds. >> one clown in moscow were shouting out questions about russian history and if you answered correctly you got a free chocolate bar. >> this bear made his choice as well. >> trevor: talk about voter fraud. they let a bear vote? you know, i'd like to think the exit poll was still, like, did you vote for putin? he's like, do i shit in the woods? ( laughter ) anyway, congratulations again to vladimir putin. though i have to say i still think bernie would have won. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) on the count of three,

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our full past, affront to the present and bad prescription to our future. history cannot be changed. et cannot be moved like a statue. what is done is done. the civil war is over, the confederacy lost, and we're better for it. surely we are far enough removed from this dark time to acknowledge that the cause of the confederacy was wrong. >> trevor: please welcome mayor mitch landrieu. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: how are you? welcome to the show. >> thank you very much for having me. >> trevor: the title of the book is intriguing. the contents are even more amazing. "in the shadow of statues: a white southerner confronts history." that is exactly what you are, a white southerner. it comes with a certain connotation, a certain stereotype attached to it. but do you think there is something about being a white southerner that gives you a different way of thinking in america? >> gives you a different perspective.

i love the south. i love the city of new orleans and the people. but when you're dealing with the issue of race, which is one that we had not dealt with forthrightly in the country, sometimes you need to speak truth, and you try to speak it in a way that invites people to a different place. >> trevor: right. >> and we've had a hard time doing that in this country and, of course, it's beginning to raise its head again. every time it does that we have an obligation especially from the south to confront the issue and deal with it so we can heal a divided nation. >> trevor: when you look at the the story of the confederate statues, you were in the epicenter of this. four statues in louisiana that you were trying to take down, and you would think, i mean, that it would be a simple exercise, but it turned into one where you were receiving death threats. >> yep. >> trevor: construction companies refused to bring it down. you couldn't get a crane to do the work. you had to bring in people from out of state. were you shocked at the backlash? >> i was surprised how visceral the backlash was and how people outside of new orleans, notwithstanding the fact they were not from there, felt they

had ownership over the property people of new orleans owned in a city that was now 60% african-american. >> trevor: right. >> and i was surprised it was o hard. i thought after the murders in charlotte when they took down the confederate statue that the nation would come to grip with the issue and realize these particular statues were not true, part of an historic lie. it was in the midst of us rebuilding new orleans after the destruction of katrina. we were trying to rebuild the wait should have been if we had got upit right the first time. i was surprised and disappointed by how hard it was. >> trevor: what's interesting in the book is you talk about your journey as well in discover the pain and message that comes with the confederate statues and i found that intriguing because you acknowledged you had a blind spot and didn't see the statues at all and it was a friend of yours, a jazz musician that had to bring it to your attention. >> correct.

it wasn't just any jazz musician. he was the greatest. wwynton marcellus. i asked him to commemorate the 300th an careers of new orleans and he said i'll help you but you need to do something for me, i think you should take down the robert e. lee statue. my first reaction is why would i do that? he said, well, do you know who put him up or why they're there? and he said can you imagine them from my perspective and what i think about them and how they made me feel? the next thing he said was lewis armstrong left the city because of those statues and right away i felt very silly, my head felt like it exploded because that's the explanation of the great diaspora, 500 million americans left the south. can you imagine how much we lost with all that raw talent, people who were doctors, lawyers, musicians left and took their

tall don't new york, detroit, chicago and los angeles and we're the worse for it. the message of the book is really an invitation of people to be open to the fact that because we made the mistake and can't admit it that we are the ones losing not just african-americans who have been sent away because the country is better when we understand and go towards diversity because diversity is a strength not a weakness, it adds value to all of us. >> trevor: i've seen people say, look, i agree with you, i agree the confederacy was bad and the statues should be removed but, at the same time, we can't erase history. >> couple of things. some people never noticed the statues as symbolic of anything, just where they watched mardi gras parades, like the historic building, never thought much about it. people had an certificates who fought in the confederacy who thought taking them down would do injustice to the people who served. i think there are place force remembrance and places for

reverence. museums are places for remembrance so we never forget and don't repeat. a 1-year-old african-american girl should not have to walk under a statue of an individual who fought to destroy her life and freedom, that's not a city new orleans has ever been. i think people ought to remember the totality of history. we don't have a lot of slave ships or place where is people were lynched or places where people were sold into slave which, most which was in new orleans. we should tell the whole story and if not remember the things we did, admit we did them wrongly, say we're sorry, hope somebody forgives and move to where we want to go to in the book. >> trevor: your message res nays and you're brutally honest. it's got a lot of people asking, your term has come to an end and you've reached your term limits. is there a potential 2020 run?

do you see yourself going up a demagogue? ( applause ) >> it's obviously very flatter for people to talk to you in that context. i have been doing this 30 years. my wife and i have five kids. i don't plans of what i'm doing in the future. the 300th anniversary is coming up, you should help celebrate, you helped rebuild it, so on behalf to have the people of new orleans, thank you so much. i'm going to rest a bit and figure out what i'm going to do in the future. >> trevor: he said yes. ( laughter ) >> thank you so much. >> trevor: thank you for being on the show. "in the shadow of statues" comes out march 20th, mayor mitch landrieu, everybody. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause ) our fathers sacrificed themselves to help save the world. they're back. this is your chance to make things right.

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. before we go, let's check in with jordan klepper over at "the opposition." what's going on? >> brackets, trevor. march madness. losing a lot of money. >> trevor: dude, same here. i had north carolina going all the way. >> yeah, i'm talking about white house march madness. i had mccabe lasting until at least march 23rd. >> trevor: oh, man! that's a bad call, jordan. >> i'm a comeback kid as long as trump fires mueller after the 25th, but before the 1st, that way i can pay my netflix bill this month. >> trevor: you pay netflix monthly? good luck with that jordan. "the opposition" is next.

first, your moment of zen. >> an extraordinary campaign rally for vladimir putin whose election saul but certain. he's a real man, strong president, a great person. >> we were told to come here. comedy central (applause). >> jordan: get in here, opposers, it is already march 19th. my o upon ert is atlantic contributor julia ioffe. first, it is official, another swamp creature bites the dust. >> former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe was fired late friday. mccabe who was let go a little more than 24 hours before he was eligible to receive his pengs says he's being singled out for supporting former fbi dir