- you know what, i'm okay. even though i'm not truly a woman, i think i still like the new me. i'd rather be a woman who can't have periods than a fag. hey, guys! this girl is staying a woman. who wants to pound my vag? girl power. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com >> trevor: hey, everybody, what's going on. welcome to another episode of the daily social distancing show, i'm trevor noah and still in my apartment, still doing the show. and you know what's crazy is here we are.

another monday, another monday in the middle of corona and in the middle of protests about police brutality. and yet it's another monday of another police brutality incident. like another story that has people going how long, how much, when is it enough. the story is out of atlanta. rayshard brooks. and forgive me if i get any of the details wrong. but as far as i know, you have probably seen the video or read the story. rayshard was in his car in a wendy's drive thru. he was drunk or tip see or he had had alcohol and he fell asleep. fell asleep, people are driving around his car. and so somebody at the windies called the cops. the cops arrived at wendys and they get rayshard out of the car. and they start talking to him for about 30 minutes. asking him, is he drunk, why is

he driving, what is going on. it seems pretty standard. and the whole time throughout this video you have human beings being human beings. you have rayshard who is clearly inebriated and he is talking to the cops and you have cops asking the questions, what was interesting to me about this video is in the beginning it seems like everything is goes to be fine. the cops are talking to him like a person. they're not being-- they're not being disrespectful, they are not being mean or anything. he's being respectful. he is calling them sir. he is not kussing them out. he's offering to walk, everything is going well. everything is going well. and then in one moment in just a few seconds, every part of that normal story turns into the abnormal ending that we've come to know as interactions with police and black people. because the police try and

arrest him. he resists and he wrestles with the police. in the scuffle they try and tase him, while is he being taseed he crabs the taser, gets up and runs away, and i'm missing a few beats of the story because i don't want to take you through too much, much it, but that is essentially what happens. rayshard runs away. and the police chase him, as he's running he shoots off the taser. and one of the cops switches his weapon from a taser to a gun and shoots rayshard two or three times in the back and he's dead. and immediately everyone goes, you know, everyone goes to their battle stations. that is what plays me everyone goes to their battle stations. immediately people go well once again another example of blacker people resisting the cops and being criminals and why are you driving drunk and why are you running away from the police. and then of course you have other people, you know, in their

battle stations saying of course, another story of cops who immediately shoot a black man for just sleeping in his car. but like, it is messy. no one wants to admit that the thing is messy. it's [bleep] messy. if the story didn't happen now, maybe we would be looking at it differently. but it is a messy story. it is not the per sphect-- perfect story. and in a weird way it not being the perfect story means we shouldn't look at it in the most perfect way possible. we should try and break it down and understand how something like this comes to be. because we don't always have video like this, we don't always have stories like this. we don't always even look at it like. this but let's talk about what happened. you have a man sleeping in his car. right, a man is sleeping in his car and he is drunk. was he drunk driving? let's say he is. so he has broken some law, a law not worth dying for, i think we can all agree on that. the police approach him. and even then i ask the

question, why are armed police dealing with a man who is sleeping in his car. he posed no threat to anybody. no one at wendy's felt afraid, cars are driving around him, is he not stopping people, so why are armed police there in the first place? that's the question i think, like these are the questions we ask, why, why, why, why, why. why are armed police the first people who have to go and respond to somebody who is sleeping in their car who's drunk. secondly, why do the police, i mean the man says to them, i will walk home. if you are protecting and serving people, what is the true purpose of you not wanting to drive drunk. it's that you don't want them killing themselves and other people. in this instance no one has died because of his driving and he hadn't killed himself because of his driving. and so as a police officer, maybe it is intaws i live in a utopian world where the police are treully trying to protect and serve, not trying to write enough tickets not trying to fill quote owes but trying to protect and serve. in that instance you would hope

a policeman would say sir, you do not look fit to drive. you said your sister lives around the corner. you said-- we'll take you home. we didn't find you driving drunk, we found you asleep in the car. we will give you the benefit of the doubt. the country is burning down because of the way black people are dealt with the police. so let us show you, just in the moment, that it doesn't always have to end the way you think it has to end. i'm not saying they had to do that, but it would have been nice. they arrest him. he fights. now you know what's messy about this whole thing is we forget you are dealing with a descrurng person. are you dealing with somebody-- the very fact that you don't not allowed to sign a contract when you are drunk, are you not allowed to do anything when are you drunk. we know what a drunk person is in society. they are not going to do the logical thing. so as a policeman if a drunk burn does an illogical thing, i think you should acknowledge the

fact that they are drunk. it doesn't mean they deserve to die. they are drunk. we know whate what drunk people do. have i been drunk, you have been drunk, everyone has been drunk. you don't deserve to be die for being drunk. and if police cannot respond or cannot handle a drunk person, then they shouldn't be responding. if you responding to a person who is drunk means that person can be dead, the whole point of you going there was to make sure that people don't die because of whatever has happened. but if the people end up dead, then what is the point. and people say he shouldn't have resisted-- yes, he's drunk. i'm not excusing it but he's drunk. in a situation like that, the sober person in my opinion, the sober person, the onus is upon them to make sure the situation doesn't get out of hand. you are sober. he's drunk. how are two sober men res wrestling on the grounds, how does it get that far? how does it end with him losing his life?

and people always say the same thing. they go well, you know, if you didn't do that, then you would still be alive. they say this shit all the time, if you didn't do that. but the truth is, the f keep on-- ifs keep on changing f you didn't resist arrest, you would still be alive. or if you didn't run away from the cops you would still be alive. well, if you didn't have a toy gun and were 12 years old in the middle of the park then you would still be alive. if you weren't wearing a hoodie, you would still be alive. if you didn't talk back to the cops you would still be alive. if you weren't sleeping in your bed as a black woman, you would have still been alive. there is one common thread beyond all the ifs. if you weren't black, maybe you would still be alive. that's what i have to

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daily social distancing show. so let's talk about some of the other news going on right now. as you may or may not know, june is pride month. it's the month where we take a moment to celebrate how far lgbtq rights have come while style still acknowledging its work to be done, also the month where j.k. rowling tries to do what voldemort couldn't and destroy harry potter. but this year pride month has been made worse by the trump administration. they killed a rule that blocks doctors from refusing to treat transgender people and on saturday they announced a new proposal allowing single sex homeless shelters to turn away transgender people who are quote not really the right gender. and you know it is amazing that even during a pandemic and national protests, trump has

still found a way to say screw you to the lgbtq community. almost like if hannibel lechter was on his way to kill someone but took a quick de tour to burn down a community garden. how much hate does one person need. so this pride month wasn't looking great but then this happened. >> a major civil rights decision out of the united states supreme court. the supreme court has ruled that lgbt americans are protected by the antidiscrimination laws of this country at their workplaces. they cannot be fired or otherwise discriminated against at work simply because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. it was written by justice neil gorsuch and joined by chief justice john roberts. gorsuch appointed by president trump, chief justice john roberts, the leader of the conservative wing of the court, a 6-3 opinion which in ringing terms holds that the civil rights act of 1964 encompasses

lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendzer people in this country, protecting them from discrimination by their employers. >> trevor: yes, gay people across america just got a huge win. and mike pence just got a huge aneurysm, the supreme court has ruled that people cannot be discriminated against at work simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. and the reason is because they are protected by the 1964 civil rights act. and you got to admit, that is one bad ass law to still be helping more groups get equal rights. i mean we have to buy a new iphone every two years but show this act is rolling out new features 56 years later. and obviously this should all be basic de sensee. nobody should be faired just for being gay. the only reason you should be fired is if you are doing your job poorly. or if you are doing your job so well that you make the rest of us look bad, then you also need to go now the supreme court ruling isn't the only good news for human rights that is coming

out right now. because over the weekend black lives matter rallies continued spreading around the globe. >> black lives matter and antiracism protests continue around the world. thousands in europe, asia and the south pacific continued marching to call for equality. >> black lives matter still reverberating around the world. protests in japan, new zealand, south korea, this as the u.s. embassy there. >> thousands of people have formed a human chain in berlin to unite against racism and discrimination. participates were asked to wear masks and keep socially distant from one another and were linked by colorful ribons forming what organized called a ribbon of solidarity. >> black lives matter! >> protestors chanting black trans lives matter outside the brooklyn museum. a number of groups took part in yesterday's demonstration with transgender activists leading a march. >> nearly 30,000 people all dressed in white in honor of black trans lives, it represented unity in the fight

for equality, for justice, for two deeply marginalized groups in new york city. >> trevor: yes, from brooklyn to europe and all the way to new zealand, thousands of people from all walks of life are still assembling in the streets to say that black lives matter. and it really is a powerful thing to see. i mean the last thing this many people agreed on was that carole baskin probably killed her hulls. i mean they are even coming out in japan. they don't even have black people in japan. japan is basically saying when we finally see a black person, we will welcome them with open arms. and as a whole, the world is watching these rallies take place around the globe. st clear that one person is starting to feel jealous. donald trump, president of the united states and the only human who has ever fired a secretary of state and meet loaf. trump hasn't been able to hold a rally of his own since before the coronavirus pandemic. but after months of waiting he announced that his first rally in months would take place this friday in tulsa, oklahoma. there was just one problem.

>> a rare reversal from president trump. now delaying his controversial tulsa rally. >> it was initially scheduled for juneteenth, a day parking the end of slavery but after criticism for the timing and tulsa's mystery as a city scared by century old race riot, the president tweeted many of my african-american friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this holiday. i have therefore decide stod move our rally to saturday, june 20th, in order to honor their request. >> trevor: now one way to look at this is that trump is so oblivious he didn't even realize how messed up it with be to have a rally on juneteenth in a city where one of america's worst racial massacres took place. but i guess the glass half full version of the story is that even someone as raitionzly incense tifer as trump is now recognizing the importance of juneteenth and that is not nothing. i mean let's be honest. a year ago if you told trump that he couldn't hold a rally on

juneteenth, what would he have said. he probably would have been like if i cared about emancipation, i would have freed melania a long time ago. so the point is trump is recognizing in his own small grudging way the importance of juneteenth. and i think it's good that trump made the decision to move the rally. because nobody was buying his first solution which was to pretend that the rally was for juneteenth. >> you your rally in oklahoma is set for june 19th, was that on purpose? >> but but i know exactly what you were going to say. >> i'm just asking. it is on the day of african-american emancipation. >> that's right. >> the fact that i am having a rally on that day, you can really think about that very positively as a celebration. because a rally to me is a celebration. it's going to be really a celebration. and it is an interesting date. it wasn't done for that reason. but it is an interesting date, but it is a celebration. >> trevor: really, wanted to celebrate the end of slavery with a stadium full of white

people. what, this trying to gentrify juneteenth. >> it's a celebration, a a bull shit excuse, trump is like that dad who like i didn't just forget that birthday. >> i am off to the bar. >> its me my birthday. >> that's right, what better way to celebrate than getting drunk with all my friends. you know, i'm glad that trump didn't go through with this rally. because if he did, there is a good chance there was going to be one black family who showed up thinking it really was a juneteenth celebration. hey, i brought the potatoe salad, oh, shit, i misjudged this situation. so luckily trump seems to have solved the juneteenth rally dilemma but that isn't usually the case with trump. it is never just one problem. because while his rally no longer conflicts with juneteenth, it still has a major conflict with the coronavirus. >> with president trump now just days away from his first rally since the coronavirus outbreak, a new warning this morning from tulsa's health department director. dr. bruce dart telling tulsa

world a large indoor rally with 19 to 20,000 people is a huge risk factor today in tulsa, oklahoma. noting a significant increase in cases, dr. dart says he's concerned about our ability to protect anyone who attends, including our ability to ensure the president stays safe, acknowledging the risks the campaign is now requiring anyone who attends to sign a liability waiver, giving up their right to hold the campaign or venue responsible if they contract the virus. >> trevor: okay look, i know that social distancing has been falling out of fashion recently. but it is one thing for people to be gathering outdoors wearing masks to fight against police brutality and racial oppression. st another thing for thousands of people to gather indoors, probably without masks, to watch a boxing match between a man's mouth and his brain. i mean the fact that trump is making attendees agree to not sue him if they get coronavirus at his rally should be a pretty good signal that this whole thing is a bad idea. it also shows you how full of

shit trump has been about coronavirus this whole time. yeah. because what is the contract even say, promise not to sue me if you get this deadly disease which is basically a hoax and not that bad but totally under control and you can kurn it with bleech. also, how is donald trump going to tell other people they can't sue him. that is the most hypocritical thing i have ever heard. suing people is trump's favorite thing in the entire world. as we speak the man is suing yankee candles for not having a hot dog screnlt. so either way it looks like this trump rally is officially happening. coronavirus be damned. and if you are planning on going to this rally, i mean go with-- just remember every time trump makes you sign something in advance, it means you are about to get screwed. when we come back, i will be speaking to activist and former democratic candidate for georgia governor stacey abrams. stick around.

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daily social distancing show. my first guest tonight is stacey abrams, an ak vis and leader in the democratic party. earlier today we spoke about her new book "our time is now" and her fight to end voter suppression. stacey abrams, welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> thank you for having me, or not. >> trevor: yeah, that say great way to put it. having you and not at the same time. we are living thraw a very strange time where you know, it felt like coronavirus was the biggest issue affecting america and very quickly we have come to realize that there is a much longer standing issue that america has had that people are now standing up against and fighting about in the streets. and that is, you know, racial disparity. police brutality, the lack of

justice for black people in this country, for brown people who are oftentimes oppression-- oppressed. you have lived that life in more ways than one. you know, as a black woman and as someone who has been in politics, you have experienced america in a very unique way. how do you feel about what america is going through right now? >> i think that we do ourselves a disservice if we actually separate these moments from one another. what has happened with covid-19 is that it exposed the fractured and inequities in our health-care system. and the expectations we had where certainly workers essentially were the people we weren't protecting but we demanded their allegiance to our needs anyway. and what we saw happen with george floyd and breonna taylor and ahmaud arbery and rayshard brooks just in the last month or so, what happened to tony mcdade is that we see that part of the de humanization that we experience with covid transplate-- translates into how we are viewed by those that are charged with protecting us.

that police brutality, systemic injustice, systemic inequity are all part of the original sin of america, which is the deval yaition and de humanization of people of color, primarily and most clearly black people. >> trevor: atlanta has become a hot bed of these conversations. georgia has become a hot bed of these conversations. everything from ahmaud arbery to rayshard brooks as you just mentioned has thrown atlanta into turmoil. you know, you have had police officials resigning. you have had the mayor coming out and condemning the violence and it feels like atlanta is more on edge than we have seen, i mean, almost ever. when you look at what has happened, what is happening and the conversations around it, where do you think america needs to go? where do you think atlanta need toses go, where do you think georgia needs to go. >> i approach this in a different space because my first major activism on my own was in the 92y rodney king protests. it was being a part of a

community separated by gedge on one sighs, we were gordon cordoned off by the city of atlanta, by the state of georgia. i understand the outrage and the pain that is discomforting to some and offensive to others because i understand where it begins. and what we have to understand is that these moments cannot be allowed to dis pait and let us return to not a normal but to a state of numbness where we just accept that our deaths are going to happen, we accept that our de gradation are going to happen, my hope, my expectation, the reason i wrote this book is because there is a pathway for more but it doesn't happen if we just assume that we get what we get and we don't deserve more. >> trevor: it really is interesting that you have written a book that i think affects so many including yourself, you know, in a really personal way. to write a book about voter suppression is, too many people

would be a tall task because they say you can prove it, can you show it. we just saw primaries take place in georgia where people were forced to wait an hour, some people even left before they could vote. what was interesting is this took place in predominantly african-american communities but also in republican communities as well. that are predominantly white. my question to you is when i look at the book that you're writing now and what is happening in georgia, what are you learning from georgia that america needs to learn about voting and protecting people's' rights to vote. >> first of all voter suppression has a singular way of being expressed if georgia. i spernlsed it at 18, i experienced it on tuesday, in 2020, and it has happened for the last 20 years. but what is singular to georgia is not sole slee limited to georgia. because we also watched on april 7th as many and women were forced to stand in line at the height of covid-19 in wisconsin. we saw the hours-long line in texas because of the shutdown of

precincts. we know that in nevada and south carolina on tuesday while georgia got the lion's share of the attention because of the size of our population, there were also challenges, hours-long lines because they shut down precincts in clark county in nev never. what we at fair fight, the organization that i started, what we are trying to do and what i am trying to do through this book is make us pay attention to voter suppression now in the primary so we can fix it for the general. because the other side, the con sterve-- conservatives that are protecting the suppression, they hope that we give up. they hope we look away and they hope that the conflagration and the explosions of anger and pain, that they basically die down before november. and that we allow the system to continue the way it has been designed. >> trevor: what was interesting about georgia was the fact that you know some republican precincts were affected as well. do you think that that undermines the aferg of voter suppression or do you think it shows something else. >> it actually, the through line that i have tried to push since

2018 in specific which is that the tar gets may be people of color, it may be young people, it may be the poor. but when you break the machine ree of democracy, you break it forever every one. incompetent, animal fees an, when they come-- mall feesance, when they coming to, they can't determine what is the by disanner, that is why you saw republican communities, areas that the speaker of the house overcease. they couldn't vote. black folks couldn't vote, brown folks couldn't vote. it happened when you harm the infrastructure of what holds as a nation together, everyone suffers. they may not suffer in the same amount and at the same time but eventually it takes us all down. >> trevor: there is no getting around the fact that one of the reasons you've been put forth as a potential vp is because you speak to so many of the issues that americans are facing today and because many people feel like you would bolster joe biden's presidential run. you know, you would bring not

just different angles but i guess a different experience and a different demographic as well who support you, you know. you have shown, we have seen your numbers in atlanta, we have seen how strong you are with hispanic voters, with younger voters, et cetera. that has been the biggest conversation in and around the name stacey abrams. my question to you instead of are you going to be the vp, are you running to be the vp, et cetera, which i see you have been asked a thousand times, is rather what do you think the role of a vice president should be especially in this climate. >> the role of a vice president is to be the chief lieutenant to the person in charge. is to shore up where additional support is needed, is to take on specific taskses when they need to be sell grated-- del gated but most of all it is to reaffirm for an entire nation that the leader sees us, and part of my background is that i come from a working core community, but as a legislator i did the work of holding police accountable, passing legislation. i did the work of criminal justice reform, ensuring that

people had access. i worked on concrete issues, helping bring together communities as you pointed out, that are often separated. i was able to convince republicans to tea party, to work with me on environmental legislation. and i was able to get republicans to do what is right to hold police accountable. i know how the systems work because i have been a part of them, but i also know how they work because i have been a victim of them. i come from an activist community and an activist family that believes you fix the problems you see, you don't lament them. you work on them. and that is what i would do. and if i were so honored, it would be my role, any role, the role of any person who the vice president chooses to be his running mate and his parter in, to use what we have to bring our experiences, to add to the narrative of what america can be, and that is why i am so excited to even have my name mentioned. >> trevor: i hope to you have back on again, and again and again. and i hope everybody reads the book. because i think every american really needs to understand how

important it is to maintain the safety and sang tit of their vote. so stacy abrams, thanks so much for joining meeses. >> thank you, mr. noah it has been an honor. >> trevor: thank you so much, miss abrams, after the break i will be talking to the legendary alicia keys. stay tuned. to

the daily social distancing show. earlier today i spoke with grammy award-winning musician alicia keys. we talked about her new song perfect way to die which speaks to everything that is happening in america right now. and we got to talk about how she's using her platform to raise awareness about breonna taylor. check it out. alicia keys. welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> thank you, thank you, how has it been for you? how have you been feeling with all of this conversation, communication so far away? >> trevor: i feel more connected and disconnected than ever before. i don't know if you are feeling the same thing. you know, because everything we do is like this now. but then like you know, you are talking to someone but they're not there, and i'm trying to see your face but then i see my face in the corner, because there's another picture, another camera and it is like how are you dealing with it? are you coping? >> yeah, i mean you know, first of all, the family is healthy, the family is good. so that's one. i think i definitely have gotten

more used to communicating in this more digital space where at first i was completely weirded out by it. but now i'm embracing it and i feel like i get it. so it's working out. >> trevor: you have written a new song and again, you know, alicia keys rights songs about love, alicia keys writes songs about the journey of fawing in love, heartbreak, et cetera. but this is a different type of heartbreak. you have written a song and the title of the song is perfect way to die. tell me a little bit about the why of the song, why did you write the song and what does it signify to you? >> weights until you hear it i mean oh my gosh, it-- it really started, the cat list for the song was-- cat list was mike brown and sandra bland and so you hear these stories and you hear their store-- stories and these in these lyrics. and the devastating thing is

that it is never not going to be relevant. and where we are right now in this world and in this country and in america in particularly, we are in a real, a real place that we can all see, that there is a major, this is the most major pandemic of all. you know, this deeply rooted racism, this police brutality, this treatment of black people that is just completely unacceptable to the point where daily we are seeing, you know, lives lost, people murdered, for nothing, for being black, you know. and so this song really does encapsulate that and also the fire of the city that we're all in, the fire of energy of the rallies and prot tests being and the outrage and the place where

we will not be silent any more. and it says i guess you picked the perfect way to die, is there a perfect way it die? it is so powerful, and i'm just honored that this song can be alive in this time when you know we really are on the precipice of great change. >> trevor: that's really amazing. it. >> i would argue, you know, you are one of the people i have seen really mobilizing every resource that you have to make change happen. your music, your networks, you know, the spaces that you inhabit. because for some the music would be enough. but you are part of an initiative that is really beautiful where you put together this group of women, sisters in the industry who all have a voice, everyone from yourself to cardi wees, tracy ellis ross and just amazing women in this space who you brought together and

have worked with to come together and say hey, let's speak out specifically not just about the issue but specifically about what happens to breonna taylor. a woman who was killed in her bed because police knocked on the wrong door, broke down the wrong door and killed her as she slept. and i mean as we are speaking now there still have been no arrests. the only person arrested was her boyfriend who was protecting his life because people just came in with guns. and you have been working on this, i believe, with breonna taylor's plotter as well. tell me about the initiative and tell me what you are trying to achieve. >> yeah, i talked to her family, her mother, her sister who actually had a bedroom right next to breonna. and for whatever reason, thank god that night she wasn't there. could you imagine this mom, would have buried two daughters. two. and it is terrible that she had to bury one. and that has been months that this has been going on. and to your point, no charges, no arrests, no firings.

and st outrageous. so we got together. we did a simple thing saying do you know breonna taylor's story. and so we also knew that her city louisville was voting on banning this no knock warrant which is the reason why all of this happened. and so we will to be very timely because of what was happening on thursday and i believe our collective kind of voices and our post came out on tuesday. and so on thursday sure enough along with everybody else has been doing so much work around this, sure enough it was a unanimous vote that they banned. so i think that's one step, obviously, those officers need to be charged, need to be arrested, need to be convicted. and so on the website there is a clear outline of who you can call, the mayors, the attorney general, the general attorney there say nice list of people you can call so no matter where you live, why where you are

from, it is continuing, be relentless is part of all of the justices that we want to see. >> trevor: before i let you go, you know, part of the journey of being a black person is living between two states of pain and joy. and for this juneteenth you are going to be is it piano battling against john legend? do i understand this? is there going to be a battle, and wean-- yes, a piano battle, i have never heard of this, this is like the most highbrow like hood thing that i have ever heard of. because i love battles but it is going to be pianos. tell me a little bit about the juneteenth john legend alicia keys piano battle. >> well, you know my husband created this forum which is really a celebration of greatness, you know, where two really awesome artists will come together and battle, have a versus opportunity to share their music, to share their

moment and it has been incredible. and especially during this time of covid and us being so kind of confined to our spaces. i think it's really been something that so many people look forward to, so juneteenth is happening on june 19th and it is really commemorates and is a celebration to commemorate the liberation of the last enslaved people in america. and to me, it is far more accurate of a time to celebrate than a july 4th which still has many people who were not free and were not-- were not liberated. and so i think, st what we are celebrating. so me and john, we do come together four verses and we are going to have a beautiful battling celebration of music, piano, songs, i'm excited. i mean i don't know what is

going to happen. i myself don't know what is going to happen. >> trevor: i think nobody knows what those versus bealts which is exciting. >> that is what i am saying. i am execs sielted to have this moments it helps so much with all that we have coming forward. >> trevor: alicia keys, thank you so much for your time today. we'll tune in to the juneteenth battle and congratulations on all the work that you are doing. we'll make sure we direct everybody to try and help. >> thank you, and you too, so much love, thank you for all that you are doing. thank you to everybody who is watching for just being awake, aware, and open to you know, the great change that we all want to vee. >> trevor: thank you so much, have a wonderful day. >> you too. >> trevor: thank you so much again, alicia keys. that is our show for tonight. but before we g "the daily show" and comedy central have been donating to three groups who are fighting against police brutality and systemic racism. the n.a.a.c.p. equal defense fund, equal justice initiative and the bail proect ject. if you week loo help and have anything to give go to the following links and donate whatever you can.