thought so, too, till i zoomed in. member? you see, we all want to go back to when we were kids. simple ideas like a big man to protect us, keep us safe. instead of a fresh, new "star wars," we want the old, just recycled and plopped in our tummies. you almost make it sound like j.j. abrams is responsible for this entire election. does this look familiar? oh, geez. sir! we've got a message from overseas. you really should see it. a message how? we're completely offline. this was sent on a vhs. whoever sent it is completely offline, too. put it on the screen. people of denmark, we know that you've been the victim of trolling. so have we. maybe we can help.

i'm not sure if you know my girlfriend, heidi, but she's really smart and really funny. stop it. no, i'm not. you are, babe. stop it. who the hell are these people? just listen. go on, babe, just tell them. tell them. i have an idea. i might be able to figure out the source of who trolled you last night. get everyone back inside. if this girl really is that smart and funny, we might have another shot here. >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show," everybody! thank you so much for tuning in! i'm trevor noah!

take a seat, take a seat! let's get into it! our guest tonight, i could not be more excited, maggie gyllenhaal is joining us, everyone! ( cheers and applause ) glad to have her back. we're going to be chatting about the new season of her hit hbo show "the deuce." first, let's catch up on today's headlines. yesterday, we were all shocked to learn that there is a secret group of senior officials in the white house who say they are trying to stop trump from being trump. that's right. they're taking him down from the inside. to which k.f.c. replied, i thought that's what we were doing! ( laughter ) ( applause ) today, understandably, the president could only focus on finding the traitor. >> inside job, new fallout from the explosive "new york times" op-ed. it is rattling the white house and the finger pointing is on. >> no surprise trump is furious calling on the "new york times" to turn the writer over to the government. >> inside the west wing there really is this intensifying sense of betrayal.

white house staffers don't know who they can trust, the president doesn't know who's loyal to him and who's out to get him. >> trevor: oooh, you know, i feel like if trump catches who did this, he's not going to go easy on them because not only did they embarrass him in the "new york times," but they also forced him to read. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and, now, the person who did this is someone who thinks trait trump is amoral and unfit to be president. that's who we're looking for. so that narrows it down to everybody. ( laughter ) in fact, just today, another person published an anonymous editorial in the slovenian gazette. an excerpt reads, quote, this president is not being best and also america needs her own bedroom. could be anyone. ( cheers and applause ) in other news, one of my favorite stories, china has announced it will give

$60 billion in financial support to african nations -- get this -- with no strings attached. yeah. now, critics are saying that china is just tricking africans into getting colonized again and, to that, i say, yeah, but it's $60 billion. ( laughter ) ( applause ) i feel like onlinizing africa would have gone much easier the first time if europe had done it this way. if europeans had landed on african soil and told us, hello, we're going to rule all your people and take all your race horses but here's $60 billion! us africans would be, like, god save the queen, huh? ( laughter ) the next story, social media affected every aspect of our lives, how we communicate, stay informed, showcase our booty clapping skills. i used to make homemade d.v.d.es to get that out, now it's so much easier.

lately conservatives are complaining tech companies are biased against them and, yesterday, they took action in real life. >> the justice department is looking at whether facebook and twitter are intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas. twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey told a house committee his company is not censoring conservatives. >> jeff sessions doubled down and says he'll gather state attorneys general to gather information on whether state social media companies stifle conservatives. >> trevor: jeff sessions will look high and low, mostly low, to find out if social media companies are censoring social conservatives. he lube, like, i can't find any bias. did you check the top self? noooo... ( laughter ) now, the reason the justice department and both houses are over this issue is because they're tackin taking cues frome top. >> you look at facebook, twitter and other social media

giants, and i've made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, black listing. we will not let large corporations silence conservative voices. >> trevor: that's right, folks! i donald trump am sick of being silenced! >> when was the last time you saw a tweet of mine? when was the last time you saw something about me on the internet, folks? it's been almost half an hour! why is that? is it because i have been up here for 30 minutes or because i'm being censored, folks? ( applause ) come on get the ( bleep ) out of here, man. ( laughter ) how is the guy who became president because of twitter claiming twitter is censoring him and out to get him? yeah, like they're out to get him elected. like superman bitching about earth. man, this planet is holding me back. so this planet made you, if you don't like it, go home and be an

accountant. you can't because your home blew up! sorry. i get angry when super man does that to us. maybe the president feels like conservatives are being censored because his only source of information tells him. >> so the tech giants are obviously politically biased against conservatives, no one really disputes that. >> you cannot have them dominating the information space only on behalf of left wingers. >> sometimes when you search my name certain articles pop up that are more disparaging and negative three or four years ago instead of anything current. >> trevor: to be fair i understand what the steal prince of bellaire is saying ( laughter ) sometimes google prioritizes old and negative stories, but that's not anti-conservative bias, that's just the internet. the negative stories get more attention than the positive ones. when i google myself, the news

is never about a cool joke i told, it's always something negative, and i tell cool jokes all the time. you never hear about the good stuff. for example, right, today, i saved this baby on the way to work, but are you going to see that on the first page of my google search results? no. but if i do this, if i do this, number one news story on google news, and i'm not even a comedian anymore, all of a sudden just a south african baby slammer, that's who i am. ( applause ) the internet is cruel to everyone! everyone! ( applause ) but, according to many people on fox news, the only explanation for this is bias. >> i tweeted out a clip from cnn of james clapper basically admitting that president obama was the one who directed all of the intelligence agencies at the end of 2016 to launch an investigation into president trump. so i tweeted out, it got no life. it got no life.

and i know that's something that my followers and viewers care about big time. it got no life. so i'm just wondering, buzz i shadow banned? >> trevor: no. ( laughter ) no marieia your post was just boring. ( laughter ) i'm not even saying that to be mean, we've all been there. every one of us has posted something online that we were sure was going to break the internet, right? all of us had the one tweet where we were like oh, man this tweet's gonna blow up. should i send? not yet, not yet. oh, man! hold on -- hey, cans my meetings, i'm about to go viral. then you hit send and you're looking, come on, anytime now. no likes, refresh. okay, hold on, is the wi-fi working? no, wi-fi -- okay, i'll like mittself and get it started. one like. it happens to all of us. i'm not saying there should be no regulation of tech companies, don't get me wrong, i'm just surprised to see conservatives all of a sudden in favor of

regulating private businesses, right? because when it's consumers or gay people or polar bears saying, hey, can you regulate some industries, conservatives are, like, it's not the government's job to regulate private business, but then as soon as they feel like they're not getting enough retweets, suddenly it's, like, we're launching an investigation, we've got a nationalized tech companies, long live socialism! bernie, bernie, bernie, bernie! ( cheers and applause ) so now the government will spend all this time and money on something that could have been avoided if a few people like maria got a few more likes. and you know what? we here at "the daily show" would like to help conservatives without having to drag congress or the justice department into it so we went through her twitter looking for another tweet that didn't get life and should have and i think we found of. it's from june 6, 2016.

"would you throw abort bday bash for your dog? i'm going to assume there was auto correct weirdness there because i don't think there is such a thing as abort bday bash but i think this tweet should have gotten mad engagement especially since she went to the trouble of including the twitter handle also for her show, network, the puppy parties and birthday dog at minidoodle. she only got five likes, four retweets and seven comments and one of the comments is, i swear this is real, this one is from @minidoodle saying, wrong person, please don't include me in your tweet. ( applause ) so, you know what? i've decided at "the daily show" we're going to give maria a hand and retweet this brilliant tweet to our own account at "the daily show." so please go there and like

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who definitely wears socks at the pool brett kavanaugh. so check in for another edition of "so you think you can judge." ( cheers and applause ) ♪ now, one of the major concerns with brett kavanaugh is that president trump might have nominated him specifically because kavanaugh believes that sitting presidents shouldn't be subpoenaed or indicted, and some people are worried kavanaugh might have even made a deal with trump's personal lawyer mark caseo visit basically saying we'll put you on the court if you promise to protect the president from robert mueller or as trump would put it you grab scratch my back, i'll grab your pussy. we don't know if kavanaugh met with trump's lawyer but when senate's ca camilla harris asked him about, hi did himself no

favors. >> have you discussed mueller or investigationy w anyone? >> ettes in the news every day. >> have you dissed it with the law firm founded by marc kasowitz trump's personal lawyer? >> i have -- >> be sure about your answer, sir. >> well, i'm not remembering, but if you have something you want to -- >> are you certain you've not had a conversation with anyone at that law firm? >> kasowitz -- i would like to know the person you're thinking of because what if --. i think you're thinking of someone and you don't want to tell us. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: wow. kavanaugh did not look good in that exchange. it's like if they asked a suspect at a murder trial, they're, like, where were you on the night of the 13th. ah, where shouldent i have been?

ah, yeah... ( applause ) wherever the murder didn't happen, that's where i was. ( laughter ) but the other major concern that people have is that kavanaugh could be the deciding vote that overturns roe v. wade, aka a woman's right to choose. going by what kavanaugh has said in the hearings, you would assume that he would let roe v. wade stand because this guy is a freak for precedent. >> tell us why you believe roe is settled law and, if you could, do you believe it is correctly settled? >> roe v. wade is an important precedent in the supreme court. for 12 years, i have been applying precedent of the supreme court and of my court as a judge, i follow precedent. i had to follow precedent. precedent of the supreme court. this is all about precedent for

me. that precedent on precedent is quite important. precedent is not like a cafeteria where i can take this and not that. >> trevor: this guy loves precedent. you can call him mr. precedent. you might even say he's the precedent of the united states. ( laughter ) ( applause ) oh, come on! come on! the joke wasn't that bad! ( applause ) come on, it wasn't that bad. but here's the thing, even though kavanaugh says he follows peres department, he doesn't act like it, because if you look at his history as a judge whether on a woman's right to choose or gun control, he's always twisting precedent to get the conservative result he wants. kavanaugh is like a guy who says he's on a plant-based diet but then you catch him eating a steak and he's, like, well, cows eat plants, don't they? so technically precedent. the thing is cavanaugh can say what he wants but it's clear he won't rule in favor of reproductive rights, otherwise trump wouldn't have nominated

him, but it does feel strange that this dude could get soon to decide what all women can do with their bodies, a fact senator harris made sure to point out. >> can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body? ( applause ) >> i'm happy to answer a more specific question but -- >> male versus female. >> there are medical procedures. >> i'll repeat the question. can you think of any laws that gives the government the power to make decisions about the male body? >> i'm not -- i'm not thinking of any right now, senator. >> trevor: i'm -- i'm -- i'm -- goddam, kamala harris brings it, man. ( cheers and applause ) we actually have a live shot of the capitol the moment that happened. can we go to that?

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alice in wonderland, it's based on that. misty beethoven is based on my fair laidy. >> charles pig mailian. >> mrs. jones -- >> it's a bit of a stretch. >> don't do the smart ass film buff thing of yours, i'm just trying to talk to you. >> i just trying to talk to you. >> trevor: please welcome maggie gyllenhaal! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ welcome back to the show. >> thank you so much. >> trevor: congratulations on season 2 that is kicking off. i remember when we spoke about season 1, it was really a fas snaiting story that took us into an interesting world where you were portraying a woman working as a prostitute and moved up in the game and decided, no, i'm going to start creating my own pornographic films, and this is now that part of the journey. where are we seeing your character move to in the next

season. >> the last season was 171, '72, we jump awe head to '77 and, yeah, candy is a director, also acting in some porn films but, you know, she's like many women right now, i think she's realizing she doesn't have what she needs. >> trevor: right. >> she's hungry, she wants more than she's been allowed to have and she wants to make real movies. well, she wants to make her porn movies great. >> trevor: she's a wonderful, loveable character that you enjoy, and what i've loved about season 1 and hopefully season 2 is the relationship developing between us, the audience and character. but what's interesting to me is how you have a similar idea and yet you've changed it in the movie that you're in on netflix, right. the kindergarten teacher, because i watch you as candy and in movies and you go you're so likable, so much fun, great, i enjoy you. and i've only seen the trailer,

and it made me wonder if i should call the police on you as a person. >> as a person? ( laughter ) >> trevor: yeah, it's one to have the creepiest things. i go, is this a thriller, a horror movie, a psychothriller? like, what is the story about without you spoiling anything? >> well, i love that you say that about the trailer, and i think the thing is that it's new what it is. it's -- you know, we say and i think it's fair to say it's a psychological thriller. >> trevor: right. >> but it's really being in the mind of this woman who is not mentally ill, is not crazy, but who is being driven crazy by the culture that she finds herself in, and the culture she finds herself in is this one. and, so, i think it's terrifying. >> trevor: because she plays a kindergarten teacher and there's a kid in a class that's likely talented. in the trailer from what i see, she does poetry by night and

there's a kid that seems to be more talented than she naturally. >> he's a kid. this is interesting. she thinks he's a poet, but who's to say in i mean, i have a child the same age as that child and my child, like all our children, say things that are incredible and poetic all the time. >> trevor: right. >> but she looks at it and goes, that's a poem, and she is an artist who is not being heard anywhere, and she goes on the wrong track. candy goes on the right track. candy knows how to feed herself. >> trevor: right. >> and this woman who i play in "the kindergarten teacher" tries to feed herself off this kid. >> trevor: that is a weird twist in the world, you're playing a porn star who's doing the right things and a kindergarten teach who are's evil. i love every moment of it, thank you for being on the show. season 2 of "the deuce" premieres on hbo september 9th and "the kindergarten teacher" will be available on netflix in october. maggie gyllenhaal. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

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