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here with a new book called "more than enough." elaine welteroth is joining us, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) also on tonight's show, america went to war and then didn't. there's white people at the bet awards and why somali pirates are actually the good guys. so let's catch up on today's headlines. last night was the 2019 bet awards, the show that celebrates black entertainment and gives us a break from reruns of martin. as always, it was a night to remember. >> tons of star power was on display during the bet awards, including an opening performance by rapper cardi b. ♪ brianna presented the legendary marriage j. blige with the lifetime achievement award. henson presented life time actor award to tyler perry. billy rye cyrus also sharing the

stage performing old town road. country rap smash had everyone out of their seats. >> trevor: that's right, billy ray cyrus got a standingo ovatin at the bet awards. ( laughter ) i know black people give standing ovations everywhere, comedy shows, sunday at church, the dentist's office, but still, we're talking about a white dude in a cowboy hat named billy ray getting an ovation. that's next level. i love it. what a time to be alive. imagine you woke up from a ten-year coma and i told you donald trump was president, kim kardashian was reforming the criminal justice system and billy ray cyrus got an occasion at the bet you would be, like, am i still in a coma? and why am i getting a standing ovation now? ( laughter ) the bet awards is also an opportunity to see black excellence not just?

front of the camera but also the people in the background. for instance, my man who lost his seat, then he thinks he found it. then, no, i'll see you at the after-party. then this duty who's using the bet awards as tinder. hey, what's up girl, hey! ( laughter ) congratulations to all of last night's winners especially toberries performers by an insent cast jussie smollett and the brothers. who did that! while black people are winning awards, democrats are trying to win black people's hearts. all 250 democratic candidates descended on south carolina to seat fried food and pitch themselves to voters. >> democratic hopefuls on the campaign trail drumming up support in an early primary state. the south carolina primary is more than 250 days away, but

these candidates are all down here, at a steaming hot fish fry, trying to make the case to african-american voters. >> congressman, that is some damn good fish! thank you for the fish fry! whomever the democratic nominee is, we have to stay together and elect a democrat! >> we are going to bring the american people together! >> we may be in the midst of a primary, but when the primary is over, we become a united force! >> trevor: why are you all yelling into a microphone?! a microphone does the yelling for you! ( laughter ) the poor microphone, 21 democrats all just ate fish and spat all over that thing. ( laughter ) the microphone's so toxic it's going to be the next season of chernobyl. ( laughter ) anyway, we would love to go more in depth about the fish fry but honestly nothing big happened and that's the problem with having 21 candidates at an event. no one has time to say anything meaningful. every event is, like, hello,

south carolina! that's been my time! you have been great! ( laughter ) we'll have to wait till the democratic debate to see what the policies are. next story. over the past year, the department of homeland security has come under fire for the way it's been treating asylum seekers at the border. despite criticism, things just seem to be getting worse. >> this week, congress will consider a plan to send $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the border where facilities are overrun with a record number of families. >> one doctor who recently visit add center in texas described the facility astorture. she says children were living in filth without soap, toothbrushes or other basic sanitation. >> journalist and novellest michael scott moore, abducted by somali pirates, tweeted somali pirates gave me toothpaste and soap. >> trevor: yeah, that's just flat-out embarrassing. somali pirates treated their hostages better than how america is treating refugee children at

the border. i feel like somewhere right now, that pirate from captain phillips is saying, america, look at me, look at me! i am the humanitarian now, huh? ( applause ) actually, i feel like maybe somali pirates are pissed off about this tweet because they don't want to be seen as nice guys. they're pirates. they're probably, like, oh, now that they know about the toothpaste, they are going to know we are soft! this is a disaster! i can't look at myself! look at my scfl! i don't deserve to be the captain. ( laughter ) and i hope president trump doesn't see that tweet, because he's the one person who would learn the wrong lesson. his advisors would say, sir, somali pirates treat their hostages better than we're treating children. he would be, like, so does that mean we give the children to the pirates? no, no, sir. so the pirates should run i.c.e. now? no, no, sir. so i'm in charge of the pirates? i'm the captain now?

( laughter ) that's it for the headlines. the u.s.a. versus iran. over the past week, tensions in the middle east have ramped up bigly, after iran shot down an unmanned american sky dildo. ( laughter ) now, america said that the drone was shot down over international waters. but iran said it was flying in their airspace. we're learning that on thursday night, america almost went to war. >> just 24 hours ago, last night, the u.s. was within minutes of vehicle iran, but president trump suddenly stopping the strike before it could happen. >> president trump tweeting, we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sights when i asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a general. 10 minutes before the strike, i stopped it. not propos proportionate to shog

down an unmanned drone. >> trevor: america was ten minutes away from bombing iran. and who stopped it? donald trump. ( applause ) yeah. what's that? who ordered the strike? also donald trump. ( laughter ) ( applause ) the point is we are at peace, thanks to an and in spite of president trump. ( laughter ) can we just take a second to acknowledge how often this happens? trump takes us all to a brink of the a crisis and he's the ones 1:00 who pull us back at the last second. feels like there are two different trumps making these decisions. maybe he has an identical twin running around the white house. one of the sister sister situations. ( laughter ) that would explain all the flip-flopping. it would explain everything. mexicans are rapists! and some of them are good people. i'm going to release my tax returns. no i'm not. i'm going to play golf. i'm also going to play golf.

( laughter ) so, as you saw, in the president's tweet, the reason he called off the missile strikes is because, ten minutes before the launch, he found out how many people could die in a strike and, to him, a drone wasn't worth taking human lives. honestly, i commend him for even saying that. but now people are shooting down his story like it's an unmanned sky dildo. >> "the washington post" today reporting the president had been briefed hours earlier about potential risks and casualties and was supportive of military action until around 7:00 p.m., when he appeared to change his mind. >> this just doesn't add up that, when the president meets with his top pentagon people, they give him a very thorough list, a menu of targets and say, you can hit this target, that target, if you do, here are the possible casualties. they run through the whole thing. >> trevor: yeah, according to multiple people, the president's story doesn't make sense, because they say a president doesn't find out about wyoming

potential casualties ten minutes before a strike. those numbers are actually presented when the strike is proposed. in other words, they give the president a menu of options, then he picks what he would like to. do and i think that's where this all fell apart. you see, this isn't a guy who uses menus, okay. it looks too much like a book. this is a guy who points at pictures and asks for numbers. that's who this is. give me that one with an extra that one. that's him. and i will be taking a soak in the ball pit. let me know when it's ready. ( laughter ) as much as we would like to believe this happened because trump didn't pay attention in a meeting, it actually might be more complicated than that, right, because it's been reported that the president may have been given two different sets of casualty numbers. yeah, that's what happened. that's what they're saying happened. that wouldn't be surprising because it turns out there are two different factions in this administration and they have both been pulling trump in very different ways. >> sources tell cnn secretary of state mike pompeo and national

security advisor john bolton both favored striking iran while outside advisors reminded him of his promise to get the u.s. out of wars, not in them. >> vice president mike pence supported the planned military strike on iran but also agreed with the president's decision to stop them. ( laughter ) >> trevor: wait, what? the vice president supported launching airstrikes and not launching airstrikes? i've got to say the last thing i expected to hear about mike pence is that he swings both ways. ( cheers and applause ) seriously, what a straight-up kiss ass. he's, like, sir, i think we should strike iran. i don't want to do it. and you shouldn't, sir. great decision. ( laughter ) so the hawks were pushing trump into war and the doves were urging restraint, and i don't know what the doves told president trump, but it looks like, for now, it's worked. >> the president says if it

comes to war, the u.s. will "obliterate iron," but what he really wants is talks aimed at a new deal to keep iran from getting nuclear weapons. >> if iran wants to become a wealthy nation again, become a prosperous nation, we'll call it "let's make iran great again." does that make sense? "make iran great again." ( audience reacts ) >> trevor: what? make iran great again? so in 48 hours, trump went from threatening iran to pitching a mega franchise? tehran? ( laughter ) and i'll be honest, i don't know if miga has the same ring to it. and it could be a lot of trouble if iran ever pisses trump off. he will be, like, all right, he changed their mind so we're switching it to never iran great again! ( audience reacts ) no, sir, i don't think we should write -- change it now! change it to never!

sir, look what you've done! oh, my bad... ( laughter ) if you pay attention, it's clear what's happening. trump doesn't want to go to war with iran, and he also doesn't mind sitting down with them to make a deal. feels like the truth is he just doesn't want obama's nuclear deal. so iran, here's all you need to do -- take the nuclear deal you already had, replace "obama" with "trump," turn the whole thing gold for no reason, and most importantly, don't forget to use pictures that makes it easy for him to decide. yeah, that's a deal trump could get behind. we'll be right back ( cheers and applause ) (paul) when you get a wireless plan, wouldn't it be great to get a phone too? switch to sprint and get an unlimited plan with the samsung galaxy s10e included.

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departments have been strained, the relationships have been strained with their minority communities. over the past few years, there's been an increased focus on how they can improve. you know, some people think that body cameras are the answer, some say america needs nor diverse police forces. personally, i think all police should have to always ride segues. ( laughter ) yeah. first of all, i think it's adorable. secondly, you can't shoot anyone because you need both hands to steer. free! aaahhh! free! aaahhh! ( laughter ) this weekend presidential candidate pete buttigieg had to leave the campaign trial to deal with a police shooting in his own city where many have blamed racism for how police treat black people in their own town. this is a nationwide project. the plain view project did a social media review of police officers' posts across the country and the findings are

already making waves. >> the philadelphia police department under fire this morning, 72 of the city's police officers taken off the streets and placed on administrative duty, under investigation for allegedly posting offensive and racist statements on smeedy. the facebook posts in question contain discriminatory opinions. if our country was all caucasian, the homicide rate would drop 70%. perhaps we should be very suspicious of all muslims in this country, said another. or encourage violence, it's a good day for a choke hold. >> trevor: yeah, your reaction is right. imagine seeing that. the police posting "it's a good day for a choke hold." it's never a good day for a choke hold. choke holds don't belong in your workplace. choke holds don't belong in any workplace. unless you work at the cheesecake factory, where someone's had a slice of cake with 5,000 grams of sugar, to

calm them down, please, please, please, sir! please! i know it's tasty, but calm down. ( laughter ) this report reviewed the social media of police officers in eight cities and counties, all right, and they found, in all of these eight cities, that out of the 3,500 cops' accounts, 853 had posted offensive content. imagine that, 853 had posted offensive content. yeah, that's almost a quarter of all of the accounts. and they're just the dumb cops, the ones who put it online. yeah, because you know the smart cops, the racist ones, they keep it in their d.m.s. so police departments everywhere are realizing they could have racist cops. while it is encourage cities like philadelphia are taking them off the streets, the bad news, they're getting promoted. >> in louisiana a police officer who shared a racist image on social media is 3r0e789d to chief. he made headlines in 2017 where

he shared a picture of a white woman pushing a girl's face into bath water supposedly as punishment for having a crush on a black child. >> trevor: what the (~bleep ), man. not just that's a racist meme, but the person who posted it is a police chief. how do you post that and get promotion. like if you hijacked a plane and the f.a.a. says, yeah, you want to fly full time? come on. i don't think anything is scarier than a racist police chief. in many places the officers are a reflection of their communities. >> the officer says the meme is irrelevant because it was posted two years ago in july 2017 when chief welch was assistant police chief. >> he was dealt with and ran

unopposed and elected. >> what would this say to this community that they elected him? >> i won't elaborate on that. >> this town racist? >> no. >> you use the y word? >> often, but don't use it as racist. >> how is using the n word as a white man not racist? >> i don't know find it racist, i got plenty of black friends, we all use it. >> trevor: i call my black friends anythinger and they say stop calling me nigger. ( laughter ) racism is pervasive in police departments. philadelphia suspended 72 of their own cops. the good news is for those cops, there's definitely a town that will hire you. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause )

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( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is an award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of "teen vogue," who is now a judge on "project runway" and author of the new york times best seller, "more than enough: claiming space for who you are (no matter what they say)." please welcome elaine welteroth! ( cheers and applause ) >> hi, guys! ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: whoo! welcome to the show. >> a live audience here. >> trevor: this is fun. we have a good time out here. congratulations on not only your first book but on being a "new york times" best seller. >> listen, i'm trying to keep up with this guy.

( cheers and applause ) thank you. >> trevor: it feels like this was an inevitable step for you because so many people were blown away not just by your leadership but by your writing at "teen vogue." >> thank you. >> trevor: you seem to have all had a way with words. where do you get that from? >> i think my dad would like to say i get it from him. he would like to take credit for that. but, yeah, ever since i was a little kid, i was always interested in storytelling. i remember being in the bathtub at six years old and i would pretend to be oprah or barbara walters and i would interview these imaginary people and they would be so dramatic. >> trevor: because there's a six-year-old in the bathtub. >> most had their moms doing story "time" and i would be, mom, i'm good here. >> trevor: you have a personality that has blown you up in multiple different fields. "more than enough" tell us the story behind what we see in front of the camera and that is who you are and how you became who you are today.

why that title, "more than enough"? , i'm so glad you asked that question because i struggled with what to call this book. i knew all the stories that i needed to tell. >> trevor: right. >> and it's really about, you know, going beyond the headlines and the high light reels we scroll every single day on the internet, but the title, really more than enough, it's a mantra that i think we all need, particularly young women, women, people of color, people from marginalized communities because, for generations, we have been made to feel that we're not enough. >> trevor: right. >> you know, i think it resonates with anyone likely. we all know that feeling of not feeling smart enough, successful enough, skinny enough, tall enough. we both have experienced not black enough, not white enough, coming from interracial families. >> trevor: right. >> so i think as you go true the book, you kind of see yourself in this journey, this arc where you're born into the world with this limitless sense of possibility, and unbridled

confidence, and then, over time, the world starts to chip away at that, particularly young girls, who a stat i found when i was writing the book is that young girls' confidence peaks at age 9. >> trevor: peaks at 9? >> peaks at 9, which was so heart breaking to me. i thought about my life and i thought, no, it makes sense. think about all the messages we're getting. then layer on social media. so you can find of see this journey that i think we all go through where if we're lucky, we get to a point where we start to reclaim, you know, some of that confidence in who we were really meant to be. >> trevor: right. >> so this is what the book is about. it's a larger arc we can all relate to. >> trevor: you talk in the book ability find you can mentor. you wanted to get into the world of magazines and you just hunted somebody down and you're, like, i'm going to bork with you. >> i was a stalker, basically. ( laughter ) >> trevor: a very classy stalker. >> yes! somehow it worked. >> trevor: but how did you even think of that? how did you choose your mentor

and how do you go, harriet cole is going to be the person i wanted to shadow, and how do you begin the journey of taking tall the nos and turning them into a yes? >> i think it's important to know what you don't want to do. i did soul searching early on, then i had an aha moment, i realized i wanted to be a magazine editor. i didn't know how to do that as a small-town girl who knew no one in new york stat new york c. i was drawn to mar yet cole who had a multi-facetted career in media. i was drawn to here, saying this is my career model and who i want to be. so i proceeded to stalk her. this is pre-social media. >> trevor: o.g. stalking. >> i could slide 'do into your d.m.s and maybe you will respond one day, but even if you don't i can see the way you're living your life and be inspired

by you digitally. but back in the day i had to snail mail her, find her assistance -- assistant's number and call her every day and she finally took me call and we had coffee. >> trevor: inspiring and creepy. >> i don't recommend it. >> trevor: ( laughter ) >> trevor: they're going to stalk you and be, like, how does it feel? ( laughter ) here's the thing, though, you came into it with a base of knowledge. you did the work, you know, and i think that's what you feel in the story is that it's not just a story of locking your way through or forcing your way through, you were doing the work. it's no mistake that at 29 you became the younger editor and chief in "teen vogue"'s history, that's an insane achievement. what is more impressive in my opinion is that you take over at "teen vogue" and everybody remembers this, "teen vogue" shifted its focus in what people saw it as and it went from being just a magazine where it was just about beauty tips alone to

now engaging young people predominantly young women in politics, social justice, what's going on in their world. some people are, like, who is "teen vogue" to talk about politics? that was really done under your curatorship. why was that important and how would you even begin to do that in what people consider just a beauty space? >> it was a critical responsibility. i mean, you have to any about what was happening at the time, the 2016 election had just taken place, and, you know, this is a generation that cares deeply about the issues that affect our world, and directly affect them, whether they can vote or not, and they see themselves as activists, as change agents, and we needed to respect and reflect that. so it felt like a real responsibility, and, you know, we threw out the formulas. we didn't know if it was going to work, but we knew it was the right thing to do, and we really ended up finding a much larger audience, actually, of really

engaged, politically engaged young people. >> trevor: right. >> and i just feel really proud of the work that we were able to do collectively as a young team. it was a very young team of people that really took risks to change that -- to really transform that brand and hopefully more adults think of their young teenagers in new ways now. i hope that they're inviting them to the conversations to talk about politics because they have an opinion and their voices matter. >> trevor: their voice definitely matter. thank you so much for being on the show. congratulations, an amazing book. >> thank you. >> trevor: "more than enough" is available now! elaine welteroth, everybody! we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ the shawn mendes verizon up concert was surreal.

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