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well, go on, cissy! [ lock clicks ] [ claps ] [ vivaldi's "spring" plays ] wow. this is pretty nice. ♪ feelin' good on a monday ♪ got my space, all the freedom i need ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ by myself ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: yeah! yes! welcome to "the daily show," everybody! i'm trevor noah! thank you so much for coming out and thank you for tuning in!

let's get to it. our guest tonight the director of the oscar nominated documentary "minding the gap," bing liu is joining us, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) a really interesting documentary we're going to be talking about. also on the show tonight, america is in a national emergency. colin kaepernick has finally signed with the n.f.l. and the reason so many white people are talking about empire. but first, happy presidents day. yeah. i'll be honest, this is another american holiday i don't quite understand. you pull a president out of the ground and if it sees its shadow, six more weeks of democracy? do i have it right? and i know a lot of people today have work off, but w we at "the daily show" couldn't take a break because there's so much news to talk about. too much news. thankfully, too much news is the right amount of news for a segment we call ain't nobody got time for that. ( cheers and applause )

mike pence, as vice president, his most important job is to be so unlikable congress never goes through with impeaching president trump. but another part of his job is representing trump to america's allies around the world, which sometimes gets a bys by the awkward. >> in germany today vice president mike pence found little agreement with this country's allies on many key issues. >> vice president pence in the eye of the storm, scolding europe's top officials for sticking with the iran nuclear deal and evading u.s. sanctions. it was a chilly reception from the moment he arrived at the munich security conference last night. >> i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. ( silence ) last august -- >> trevor: wow. not a single person in that room clapped when he mentioned -- like even the crickets left.

they were, like, you're right, #not my president, yeah. ( laughter ) that is the most awkward thing to happen to mike pence since he watched magic mike by mistake. ( laughter ) to be fair, the room probably does hate donald trump but mike pence would be the worst hype man for anything. if you put him on the stage with a super popular rapper, it would be, like, females in the crowd, if you are enjoying your evening, please make yourselves heard audibly at this time. ( laughter ) we could spend all our time talking about how the silence was another sign of the deteriorating relationship between the u.s. and europe. no time for that. in the state, big news about another strained relationship. >> new development in the wake of colin kaepernick's national anthem kneeling university. a deal has been reached between colin kaepernick and the n.f.l. >> ever since he indicted a

national debate about racial justice and kneeling during the nationanational anthem, colin kaepernick has not been able to find a job in football. while he gained a name, lawyers confronted 1/2 owners and legal officials in. a joint statement the n.f.l. and kaepernick's lawyers say the parties decided to resolve the pending grievances subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further commitment. >> trevor: that's right, baby, con connell's getting paid. ( cheers and applause ) getting paid! yes! after two years of fighting two n.f.l., both sides have reached a settlement, and people are speculating that he got anywhere between $60 million and $80 million. ( audience reacts ) yeah, now colin is going to be kneeling because his products so full he can't stand up. i'm too heavy to get up! ( laughter )

i'm glad kaepernick is getting paid especially after the n.f.l. blackballed him for protesting. but i'm not going to lie -- it is a little weird he agreed to sign their n.d.a. because, now, everyone who supported colin will never know the full story of what the n.f.l. did to him, you know? it's, like, we don't know. knits secret. iments like if martin luther king came out and said, my friends, i have been to the mountain top. and what's it like? i can't talk about it. i signed an n.d.a.! ( laughter ) and the truth is this is one of the stories that's bound to get people arguing. some are going to say colin sold out, some will say he didn't. some will say him getting blackballed is a separate issue from the kneeling protest. we don't have time to get into it. while the n.f.l. is trying to win back black americans, the n.b.a. is winning back oversees. >> the n.b.a. and the national basketball federation plan to launch a 12-team lead in africa.

former president obama is to plea a key role. the basketball africa league will be the n.b.a.'s first collaboration to run a pro sports league outside of north america. >> trevor: that's right, the n.b.a. is launching a 12-team basketball leak in afternoon, which is bound to be awkward when they're trying to recruit players. hey, africa! so america's searching for the biggest, strongest people you have. there's going to be a draft, the owners are going to pick who they like best, so what do you guys say? africans will be, like, white man, we're not falling for that again, huh? not this time! ( applause ) not this time! yeah? enslave me once, shame on you. enslave me twice, shame on me, huh? ( laughter ) now, look, i think it's cool that the n.b.a. is trying to come to africa, but i also think that africa is too big forta 120e team league.

all rightright in you understand your away game is going to be ten hours away. you may not realize how big africa is because to have the racist assed maps that make the u.s. look as big as africa. it's not. look how many countries fit into africa. africa is so big, it can fit three united states inside of it. africa is so big it can fit seven africas inside of it. ( laughter ) africa is so big it can fit your momma inside of it! that's right! your momma joke! that's all it was, it was a yo momma joke! that's all it was! ( applause ) the most elaborate yo momma joke ever. we could spend all day talking about yo momma but we don't have the time, because there is somebody we like to make fun of, president trump. >> president trump may have been no, ma'am nailtd for a nobel

peace prize. >> the president said he had been nominated by abe. he said someone in the trump administration asked abe to do so. >> trevor: i don't know what to say. president trump might have asked the japanese prime minister to nonominate him for the nobel pee prize, which is such poor etiquette. someone's supposed to do that because they want to do it not because you pegged for it. eth like marriage proposal or a blow job. if you're begging for it, that's just sad, okay? and you have to have a really high opinion of yourself to do this. i would never ask someone to nominate me for sexiest man alive. ( cheers and applause ) that's not really my style. no, no. no. ( cheers and applause ) no, i'm just focused. i don't care about that, guys,

i'm just focused on being me. i guess i'm just mysterious like that. aaahhh! 255! 256! aaahhh! ( applause ) now, we could talk about trump's actual achievements in north korean diplomacy or the definition of malignant narcissism but we don't have time for that. because there's one big story everyone's talking about. by now you've all probably heard about the incident involving empire actor gull jussie smolle. according to smollett. he was walking the streets of "chicago" 2:00 a.m. a few weeks ago trying to get a subway sandwich, when he was beaten by two white guys. the guys recognized smollett from empire and beat him up while shouting homophobic, racist slurs at him, threw a noose around his neck, poured bleach on him and yelled this is maga country. but now seems like there's maybe

a lot more to the story. >> chicago police want to reinterview empire actor jussie smollett after getting new information about the alleged attack against him. two brothers told police smollett paid them to stage the attack. >> trevor: that's right. the police now believe that smollett staged his own attack, which would be insane! but -- you have to admit, there's a certain part of the story that was always a little weird. like who are the maga supporters who hate gay people, who hate black people, but also happen to watch empire? ( laughter ) i've heard of hate watching, but that shit would be next level. it's like a member of the klan buying tickets to fiddler on the roof. look, i'm no fan to have the jews but you have to admit they can play a mean fiddle! ( laughter ) it's being reported jussie smollett paid a couple of guys to fake this attack but who

would accept money to do such a thing? these guys. >> sources say these nigerian brothers told detectives smollett directed them to buy the rope at this hardware store and reportedly even rehearsed the assault ahead of time. the brothers were captured on surveillance video around the time smollett said he was attacked. one is connected to smollett through empire where he played a prisoner in season two. >> one to have the men was the actor's personal trainer. >> trevor: so smollett's nigerian personal trainer is one to have the guys who beat him up? that doesn't make sense, unless his trainer was really pissed off smollett was eating subway. maybe that's what it was. aaahhh! what did i tell you? no carb after 7:00 p.m., huh? ( laughter ) the story is so weird. i don't care who you are because

this is a weird story. they're saying jussie rehearsed the attack a few days before it happened. that makes sense because if i was paying these two to beat me up, i would want to practice, too. okay? i'm sorry. look at this photo. how many abs does the guy on the left have? it looks like he stole a couple of abs from the other guy. so in the public eye, this story has moved from a hate crime against a popular tv actor to a giant hoax by a popular tv actor, but smollett still insists there was no collusion. >> who the (~bleep ) would make something like this up or add something to it? you do such a disservice when you lie about things like this. >> if the attackers are never found, how will you be able to heal? >> i don't know. let's just hope that they are. you know what i'm saying? like, let's not go there yet. let's, um -- i was talking to a friend and i said, i just want

them to find them. and she said, sweetie, they're not going to find them. that just made me so angry. >> trevor: okay, either this guy's telling the truth or he deserves an emmy for that interview. ( applause ) because if all of that is just a performance, i don't care what he's lying about, you can't cancel him, he's too good to not be on tv! that's basically where the story is now. i don't know how it's going to end up because every day the story gets stranger and stranger. tomorrow we could find out the nigerian brothers are actually princes and needed the money to unlock their royal inheritance. i don't know where this is going. or maybe they're part of the n.b.a. team obama is forming in africa. we don't know. we don't know. ( laughter ) we'd love to keep wildly speculating but we don't have the time because we have to go to a commercial break. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause )

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welcome back to "the daily show." president trump's border wall, it was his number one campaign promise, but now trump can't find anyone willing to pay for it. mexico refused to pay for it. congress refused to pay for it. he tried to put it on jared's credit card but couldn't figure out how the chip works. it's, like, sir, you're pulling it out too soon. well, i don't know if this machine is on the pill. i'm not getting trapped again. i don't want another eric. ( applause ) on friday the president had no other choice but to take emergency action. >> in the rose garden, the president did what he had long threat topped do, declaring a national emergency to get billions of dollars congress wouldn't give him to build his border wall. now the battle moves to the courts with challenges coming from border states, land owners and others, and they're already pointing to this stunning admission. >> i didn't need to do this, but i would rather do it much

faster. >> trevor: wait, hold up. so trump admits it? he didn't need to declare an emergency? he's just doing it to save time? that sort of negates his entire argument. it would be like a pilot coming out of the cockpit with a parachute saying, look, i don't have to open the emergency door, but we're right over my house and i don't want to fight trafnlgt thank you for flying spirit airlines! ( applause ) but, look, you can argue about it, but trump clearly thinks that mexicans coming over the border is a national emergency, and, so, in response, america has to build a wall, which is a very gradual response to an emergency. it's, like, sir, they're invading. should we mobilize tanks and call in airstrikes? no, no, no, bring me your finest brick layers. in three to five years, they'll regret invading us! ( laughter ) so, look, trump knows this isn't

the end of the border wall fight. because it's a national emergency, this declaration will be challenged in the courts, and we know he knows this because he wrote a song about it. >> we will have a national emergency and we will then be sued and they will sue us in the 9th circuit, even though it shouldn't be there, and we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we'll get another bad ruling, and then we'll end up in the supreme court, and hopefully we'll get a fair shake, and we'll win in the supreme court, just like the ban. they sued us in the 9th circuit and we lost, and we lost in the appellate division, and we went to the supreme court court and we won! >> trevor: why is he talking like that? it's like he's auto tuned. it's very addictive. i can't stop. somebody help me! ( laughter ) we should be thankful he used it to talk about the wall and not a

natural disaster. imagine if he whipped it out after a earthquake -- there's a big earthquake, lots of people trapped, going to do own best, have to expect the worse, not saying move on, but if your husband survived, his face is probably smurbled and all gross! ( laughter ) but cardi b's jam probably wasn't wrong. his prediction of the court battle makes sense, which made me think, what if the whole time the key to making trump a smarter president is to just teach him in song form. maybe that's why he doesn't retain information. his advisors should do this the next time they have to explain anything to trump. they should be, like, sir, even monitoring sectarian violence in yemen and if you look at -- >> sex-tarian? what did you say? i don't understand! ( laughter ) well, sir, you have the sunnis, and you have the shiites, this conflict goes back thousands of

years -- >> now i get it -- ( sing songing ) ( applause ) >> trevor: honestly, it didn't even sound like trump was singing. sounded like he was trying to play his own speech on guitar hero. >> and we will possibly get a bad ruling. ♪ note ). >> then another bad ruling, and end up in the supreme court and hopefully get a fair shake, and we'll win in the superior courts just like the ban, they sued us in the 9th circuit, and we lost, and then we lost in the appellate division, and then we went to the supreme court, and we won! >> trevor: you rock! now, as you would expect, prominent democrats are calling trump's emergency declaration an unconstitutional power grab. because only congress should decide how to appropriate money. why trump now thinks executive action is the way to go, back in

the day, he had a very different opinion. >> i'll make great deals and we'll get 'em done, and we don't have to use executive orders and all the stuff obama's using, we're not going to be opening our borders or closing our borders based on executive order. you get him in a room and make a deal but certainly he has not been able to do that and now he has to use executive action and it's a very, very dangerous thing. the whole concept of executive order is not the way the country is supposed to be won. you're supposed to go through congress and make a deal and go and talk to people and get the guys in there and, you know, whether you're a republican or democrat, you're supposed to all get together -- ( laughter ) >> trevor: so there you have it -- ( sing song ) -- once again, president trump is full of shit, he criticized obama, for what he's doing now, we'll thank trump when the national emergency is over, i'm stuck again. let's go to an ad break to get

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is a filmmaker whose critically acclaimed documentary "minding the gap" is nominated for an academy award. >> sometimes i know i have to work with him, so i will sneak out my window and climb out. i throw my board out first. >> when i got home, i got disciplined. and i escaped for a while. >> how did you get disciplined? >> uh -- i mean, well, they called it child abuse now, but, um -- >> trevor: please welcome bing liu. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome to the show.

>> thanks. >> trevor: congratulations on an oscar nomination. >> thank you so much. >> trevor: yeah. ( cheers and applause ) i think what connects with so many people when watching this film is that it really is a journey through life, right? you started filming this when you were a kid, what was it like 12 years ago maybe? >> i started the project five years ago. it wasn't until the last few months of editing it went into archival and i was able to expand the sense of time you feel in the film. >> trevor: when you started to film it did you know this was going to be a long projects or did you just film your friends skateboarding? it's about skateboarding culture in the neighborhood you grew up in. seems like you had greater aspirations at first, but i don't know if you did. >> i did. so much of documentary storytelling is in the edit. so a lot of it was reverse engineered. so skateboarding and the love of skateboarding becomes the trojan horse for all the other issues

coming out of it. >> trevor: and tissues in this documentary are really gripping. at one point, you're just watching a bunch of kids skateboarding and you're seeing them and they've grown up, and these are your friends as well. but these people let you into their lives. as we saw in the clip, you have a young man talking about, you know, in his home how he was disciplined and how it would be termed abuse today, and you look at cycles of abuse and pain. how did you let the story be told without making it feel like you were giving away your friends' secrets? >> well, i think it's a two-way street, right? at that moment in the film you just saw was the first time he ever talked about his father and what it was like growing up with him and, you know, the pain and also the guilt he felt about what happened between the two of them. >> trevor: right. >> i mean, you know, he wanted to talk about it. i think most young people just aren't given the space to be able to process these things. i think people think it's actually harder than it actually is to be able to get this out of young people. as long as you come from a

non-judgmental actually curious authentic place, i think young people want to talk about these things. >> trevor: many people said this film is one of the greatest, i guess, observations into america as a whole. it's not just about this town, it's about almost every town. why do you think it connected in the wait did? >> i think especially as a millennial, i'm 30 years old, i think we live in a time that's more connected than ever, but, at the same time, also, people are feeling more isolated than ever. i think the film really gets at that thesis. by the end of the climactic character arts that we get to, you feel a sense of just how alone everyone feels and how, you know, misunderstood they feel, and despite all the friends, despite all the chosen family members that they've gotten, that they've connected with, you know, i think everyone just wants -- they don't feel heard. >> trevor: right. have any of your friends watched the film? >> yeah, so i told them earlier on we were going to show them the film before we picture locked to give them one chance

to see in context the story so they could tell me, hey, you didn't get this right or i don't want this represented this way. >> trevor: right, right. >> so i think that's what helped me, also, you know, in terms of just getting at these secrets you talked about because i knew once they get to a certain point, they will see it all in a story, and that way these things aren't stilted in a way where, you know, they feel like, oh, my god i'm scared of this moment, but, no, this is part of my journey. so when we show them the film, they were all on board because i think they felt like there was a sense of being included in the process. >> trevor: it's really come through as well because i mean the film has done well with all audiences. it has 100% on rotten tomatoes. critics are loving it, fans are loving it. where do you go from here? this is the beginning for you. it's a welcome surprise but the beginning of a journey. do you see yourself making more documentaries or aspirations to

make more film? >> i think it's all downhill from here. it's all abject failure. ( laughter ) next year i will be getting the least improved. >> trevor: right. >> i'm working on a couple more documentaries. one was started before "minding the gap" was finished, and that was about young men who need to confront the past and their emotions in order to move forward as pertains to gun violence in chicago and neighborhoods that experienced them. and another is about millennial love and intimacy. so they're related themes, so i'm excited to explore. >> trevor: if it's half as good as the film, it will be a smash hit. "minding the gap," streaming on hulu. you want to watch this film. bing liu, everybody! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ whatever will be, will be ♪ the future's not ours to see

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: that's our show for tonight. now here it is... your moment of zen. ♪ ( cheering ) >> we will have a national emergency, and we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the 9th circuit, even though it shouldn't be there, and we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we'll geat get the another bad ruling, and then we'll end up in the supreme court, and hopefully we'll get a fair shake, and we'll win in the supreme court, just like the ban, they sued us in the 9th circuit, and we lost, and then we lost in the appellate division, and then we went to the supreme court, and we won -- ( cheers and applause ) ♪