he made me build my own tree house, and then he tore it down while i was at summer camp because instead of hearty-christian nails, i used screws, which he called fancy jew nails. like i said, totally normal. captioning sponsored by comedy central >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. (cheers and applause). >> trevor: oh!

welcome to the daily show, everybody. thank you so much. thank you so much. and thank you for tuning in, i'm trevor noah! our guest, our guest tonight one of the smartest people i know, neil degrasse tyson is joining us, everybody. (applause) he's got a new book about the partnership between astrophysics and the military and you know what that means, space force! but first let's catch up on today's headlines. >> you foe how they say if you don't like your leaders you should write angry letters to them? some people take it a little too far. >> the fbi is investigating several suspicious letters sent to president trump and others that may have contained the toxic compound ricin. officials say the letter that was addressed the president never entered the white house, similar letters mailed to the pentagon were addressed to defense secretary jim mattis and the navy's top officer admiral john richardson. a fourth letter was sent to the

houston campaign office of senator ted cruz but test there for anything hazardous turned up negative. >> trevor: okay, first of all, thank god no one was hurt. and second, if your plan to harm donald trump depends on him reading something-- (laughter). >> trevor: maybe you haven't thought this true. through. >> i got a letter now my head hurts and i'm dizzy. is this ricin. no, sir, that's words. also not smart sending a poison letter to ted cruz. they were suspicious right away. no one writes letters to ted cruz. if anything, the poison letter is lucky it never got to ted cruz because right now poison with would be in the hospital, what happened to you, poise son. i was exposed to ted cruz. in other news, if you have been looking for a reason to restock your fallout shelter, this might be it. >> the epa is proposing to weaken radiation regulations suggesting a little bit of radiation is tully good for you, like sun light. current guidance says any exposure to radiation is a cancer risk. critics warn the proposal could

increase harmful exposure for people who work near radiation or live next to superfund sites. >> trevor: now before you start complaining about how it is not safe for the epa to encourage higher radiation levels, ask yourself one question, do you want more x-men move we ares or not? i rest my case. moving on, russia. they've targeted democrats, republicans and now they're going after one of america's biggest populations, nerds. >> the hollywood reporter reports a new study claims negative buzz about star wars the last jedi is being &ified by russian trolls. an academic paper finds that half of the criticism aimed at the director of the 2017 installment was politically motivated or not even human. the author morton bay claims he found evidence of deliberate organized political influence measures disguised as banned arguments. he said a number of users appeared to be russian trolls. >> trevor: i'm sorry russian

hacking has gotten ridiculous now. no because i get them going after elections, but roten tom at owes, really? what is next, they will be hacking your airbnb reviews, just like susan's building was too uncomfortable. yeah, vote trump. who is this guy? so met's move to our top story. over the past four weeks, feels like everyone has been talking about supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. every single day. like if you took a shot every time the news mentioned brett kavanaugh, you would be brett kavanaugh. so for our own mental health let's take a break from this madness and talk about something else. donald trump. i don't know if you know this but donald trump is the president of the united states. he probably texted you about it today. and one of the reasons, one of the reasons he got that job was that he sold himself as a self-made billionaire without would do for america what he did for himself. and yesterday we found out more about his amazing road to riches.

>> the president has always portrayed himself as a master businessman using the art of the deal to turn a small loan into a global empire. but now a new york times investigation claims he was actually given a fortune from his father's real estate company, often through quote dubious tax schemes. >> i got a very, very small loan from my father many years ago. i built that into a massive empire. and i paid my father back that loan. >> it is a story donald trump has been telling for decades. >> i started with a million dollar loan. i built a company that is worth more than $10 billion. >> but reporters for "the new york times" who say they examined more than 100,000 pages of documents, claim it isn't true. they report donald trump's father fred actually lent him at least 60.7 million. >> trevor: wait, what? okay. i don't know about you, but i'm defer stated right now.

because the one thing i knew about donald trump is that he was a self-made billionaire. and now are you saying that is not real? like what's next, are you going to tell me that is not his real hair, huh? that he's natural complexation isn't sunset, huh? because this exposes trump's whole origin story as a lie. and i mean like a total lie. this is like finding out that superman was actually born in cleveland and he knt even fly t is just an elaborate system of pulleys, okay, which is still impressive but not the same. and now look, let's be honest. i don't think any of us really ever believed that trump was self-made. we knew that his dad gave him a leg up in life but "the new york times" has shown that fred didn't just give donald a leg up. he was basically all of his limbs. >> fred trump was relentless and creative in finding ways to channel his wealth to children. he made donald not just a salaried employee but also property manager, landlord, banker and consultant. he gave him loan after loan,

many of them never repaid. he gave him three trust funds. he gave him shares in multiple partnerships and he gave him laund real estate revenue from his buildings. he provided money for money for his car, money for his employees, money to buy stocks, money for his first manhattan offices an money to renovate those offices. >> trevor: okay, okay, this is just embarrassing. it is one thing to be a trust fund baby t is another to be a baby bab he. all right, you are a 40 year old man and your daddy is still paying for your office furniture? like did you do anything for yourself, donald. huh? did you actually bangs no models in the '80s or was that your dad too, huh? (laughter) were you in that room like are you going to give it to me, donald, no, but my daddy will. (laughter) so tread trump was fun elling enormous amounts of money to donald for decades. and it all started before yowj donny even knew what money was. >> according to the investigation trump was earning 200,000 dollars in today's

dollars by age 3, and was a millionare by the age of eight. by the time donald was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52 unit apartment building. >> wow. $200,000 as a toddler and a millionare by the age of eight. that is not normal that is not a 2340r78a way to grow up. like it turns everything upside down. i bet donald trump never even got bullied because if they ever took his lunch money the bully was instantly be in a higher tax bracket, you know, i really want to give him a wedge yea but my accountant says it's not worth it we were in the cayman islands, boy, you would be getting it right nowment now usually when your parents gift you hundreds of millions of dollars you would need to pay taxes on that, right, a lot of taxes but these are the trumps we're talking about. and that's not how they roll. >> "the new york times" report that indicates president trump helped his father cheat the federal government and avoid for years on end paying millions and millions of dollars in federal

taxes. fred trump used a sham company to fun el taxfree money to his children. the trump manipulated the value of their apartment building, claiming they were worth millions of dollars less than fair value. >> he helped transfer more than $1 billion of his parents' wealth to himself and his siblings, a sum they report would have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million. but they say the family employed a variety of tax dodges cutting that to $52.2 million. >> trevor: sweet jesus. so according to the times donald trump, the president by the way, remember, stole half a billion dollars from the american government. yeah. it's like if you robbed a bank and then they were like you know, what, we'll make you the c.e.o. yeah. and you know the one part of this story that ing brs me joy is that in order to pay less tax, trump had to pretend his properties properties were wort less than they actually were, that must have been worth such torture.

so you see i shouldn't pay that much, the property is actually not that great. they're the greatest. >> no, they're not, don't listen me, listen to me! so what this report tells us is that donald and his dad worked together to defraud the u.s. government for decades. we also learn that donald needed his father to repeatedly bail out his failing businesses. but as it turned out, donald was so bad at business that some of his dad's fortune wasn't enough 6789 he needed all of it. >> that crucial point in his life, 1990 we found donald trump had a new will for his father and then he sends lawyers to his father's house to have him sign it his father had no idea that this was coming. and flipped out. >> his father looked at this and thought this is my son who is in incredible towbl right now trying to get control of the empire that i built. >> trevor: okay, i have heard of the apple not falling far from the tree. i never heard of the apple

falling off the tree and trying to take all the tree's money am i'm just saying that piece of fruit is an assholme and you're probably wondering what happens now. well, i have bad news for you. because of the statute of limitations, the worst that could happen to trump is that he pays a fine am but will definitely not go to prison. which we should know by now. trump doesn't go to prison. that's not how the story goes. there say bigger chance we will all go to prison for trump's taxes. we will just be? the cell i i'm not going to lie, i did not see this coming and the worse part is the trump who blew through a fortune and stuck his dad with the bill, that trump never went away. yeah, you realize that since trump took office less than two years ago the projected mat debt has skyrocketed by 1.6 trillion. so i guess what i am saying is we're all fred trump now, we'll yes.

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>> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. the mid-term elections are just five weeks away. and here with a look at some key races is desi lydic. >> thanks, trevor. when it comes to the mid-terms it's easy to focus on all the talented, diverse, qualified candidates running am but tonight i'm going to mix things up and talk about the bad boys of 2018. let's start in kl kal's 50th district with five term republican congressman duncan hunter who fun fact was the second congressman to endorse donald trump for president. now hunter made his bad boy name in 2016 when he no joke vaped in congress. but as it turns out, being congress' first ever convicted vapist is just the tip of his rap sheet. >> kl kal congressman duncan hunter an his wife pleaded not guilty to charges they used a quarter million dollars in campaign funds for personal expense the. >>. >> granning campaign money for

things like a $14,000 vacation to italy, golf outing, the congress mng even paid airfare for a pet rabbit. >> you heard that right, plane tickets for a rabbit. which let's be honest, is clearly something only a guy worst killed a rabbit by fedexing it would do. but stealing over $250 grand in campaign money would be a serious crime. so if you are duncan hunter, what do you do? that's right, you blame your wife. >> gave her power of attorney and she handled my finances throughout my entire military ka rather and that continued on when i got in congress. i am gone five days a week, home for two. and she was also the campaign manager. so whatever she did on that, that will be looked at too, i'm sure. >> true what he had say, behind every great man is a woman covered in bus tread marks. anyway polls have hunter winning by eight points. believe it or not duncan hunt certificate only one much two congressman indicted this year. the other fellow republican chris collins who, fun fact, was the first congressman to endorse

donald trump for president. republican congressman crist collins refusing to drop out of his race after being indict ford insider trading. >> he allegedly picked his son to dump stock if an australian drug company that he sat on the board of. >> video uncovered by cbs news appears to show collins on his phone at the moment prosecutors say he gave inside information to his son. >> wow. caught on camera allegedly insider trading. this is why we need cameras everywhere. yet dave and busters has a serious problem with me setting up toilet cameras. so sexist. >> now this could affect collins' chances but don't forget he represents the 27th district of new york which is home to the buffalo bills stadium. so his constituents are these guys. yeah, they're good with it. so two gop incumbents, two very bad buys am but for my money, the baddest boy of the 2018 mid

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>> thank you. >> trevor: welcome back to the show. >> hey, man. thanks for having me back. >> trevor: first things first, happy birthday. >> oh, this week is my birthday. >> trevor: happy birthday. (applause) >> so but everybody has a birthday every year, so just to specify, this is my 60th. >> 60. >> yes. >> trevor: this book say really interesting book because you talk about the relationship between astrophysics and the military. >> going way back. >> trevor: like way, way back. >> hundreds, thousands-- . >> trevor: so people have always been using like the military has always been using astrophysics. >> so before the late 19th century, just the term astronomer was it. later on we started doing spektroscopy and more physics became a part of it so we use as interest physics. but basically people who understood the universal from hained maichedens to military conquers from the beginning. >> trevor: right. >> and part of it, you want to

know, especially the sea faring nations you want to know where the people are who you want to conquer, how do you know where you are on earth, you have to go to the astronomers because we know what the sky lacks like from all different parts of the earth. and you take that information and infer where you are on earth were it. and when you do that, you control the seas. you control the undiscovered land. you control the land that people are living in that you are more powerful than. when you finally land on-- like columbus did 24. >> trevor: right. >> columbus, he-- on his fourth voyage, he lands on hispaniola, he thries get back to spain, he doesn't have enough fly, supplies shall he goes to the natives and said give me some of your supplies, they said no we just have enough for ourselves to get through the next harvest. and he knew a total lunar eclipse was coming up a week later. and he said if you do not give me your supplies, my god will make the moon go away. i will make it disa per from the sky. and they freerked out but some were sceptical. a week goes by, the moon starts

disappearing. they rapidly got their supplies, gave it to him, he stayed in his cabin until halfway through the eclipse 6789 he then comes out and says my god is merciful to you for giving me the supplies. we will now have the moon return. halfway through the eclipse the moon comes out the other side of earth shad he o. he used knowledge of the universe to exploit people's not as knowledgeable or powerful as he was. >> trevor: that say hilarious story but i feel like we are skipping over the part where these people died because they don't have food now. >> right, right, there is nothing written about that but columbus successfully gets back to spain. >> trevor: that say wild, i feal like you could still use those techniques today because a lot of people don't think like that i feel like i could use that with like my taxi driver. i'm not going to pay. you have to pairks my god will remove the moon. you could still work it. >> you could, for some, it it ain't work on me but it could work, think about it, if you have knowledge of natural phenomenon an of the universe

and you have nefarious motives, you can exploit anybody who does not. and so for me, science literacy is so important in modern civilization. so it is inoculation against people who would otherwise exploit your ignorance of the phenomenon of the world. >> trevor: is it important for astro fis ecks to be part of the military s it something luxury or do you feel this will determine the future of the world? >> here is what happens, we make discoveries and the military looks over the pick et fence and says we want some of that. they do things of higher budget we kontd oarsz afford, we want some of that. that is why we, we, we care about the same things the military cares about. >> trevor: are you ever worried that the military would use one of your discoveries as an astro fis fist-- physicist to do something horrible on earth. >> they might but have i no control over that. so what this book does is it is a discussion, it it is an exploration of all the ways we have each crossed each other's

street to either blindly say give me, that i don't care what you did with it or how many. i want that because it will help me learn about the universities and vicea versa. i don't judge t i present it. and i observe it. because not all wars, i used to think war was bad because i grew up during vietnam but the second world war, are you not going to sit identitily by and let hitler run ram slack elevator over europe. you will say let's rise up, war memorials, soldiers standing proudly, brandishing weapons and i look at them and say why are they doing this. because war is bad. >> trevor: right. >> but i realize not all conflict is bad. sometimes you have to stand up and fight enemies of civilization. and so we have been a handmaiden to theant price ever since the beginning. >> trevor: and this is why they are best serls. you make it interesting. thank you so much for being on the show. (applause) access ree to war is available now, neil degrasse tyson, everybody, we'll be right back.

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