cartman: everybody has dirty laundry. all it takes to find it is getting a little dirty yourself. the only question now is, how many other tokens are out there? how many others are afraid to say that "black panther" wasn't all that sweet because of the damage it could do to them? what do you mean? i mean, in a school of 200 students, there's already two who are covering up the truth. all token is doing by letting you cheat off him is keeping the whole thing quiet even longer. there are others out there... and even if it means failing, i'm their only damn hope. randy? we need to talk. sure, honey. there's been too much pain and suffering, and it has to stop. i know, sweetheart. i know. what i'm trying to say is... i've been very emotional lately, and maybe --

maybe i do overreact sometimes. waaaah? maybe i need to realize that my emotions can be hormonal and not just take things out on you. aaaah? aaaaah? randy... i'm...sorry. aaaah. aaaaaah. [ voice breaking ] thank you, sharon. i don't know what it's like to have periods, but i'll try to be more understanding from now on. [ cellphone rings ] sorry. sorry. one second. [ keypad beeps ] hello? yes. what? when? oh, my god. yes. yes. yes. okay. okay. [ keypad beeps ] what is it? there's been another school shooting. stan's been shot. should we get down there? [ sighs ] it's not the end of the world. aaaah. [ laughing ] i love you, sharon.

welcome to another episode of "the daily distancing show." i'm trevor noah, and on tonight's upsewed, ll cool j is going to join us on the show. i chat to kimberly jones about "black lives matter," and john bolton has a brand-new book out exposing president trump. but the joke's on you, bolton because trump can't read. let's catch up on today's headlines, welcome to "the daily distancing show." >> from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily distancing show" with trevor noah! ♪ ♪ >> trevor: let's kick it off with the supreme court, the second highest court in the land after judge judy. president trump has been counting on the court's 5-4 conservative majority to make all his policy dreams come true, but for the second time this week, the courts are saying not so fast.

>> we've got breaking news that comes from the supreme court, a decision that's going to impact so-called dreamers, these are people who were brought to this country as children by immigrant parents who were here illegally. their status has been in limbo tas the trump administration has tried to end a program known as daca, and the court has ruled. >> the supreme court has said that the trump administration wrongly tried to shut daca down, so daca is going to survive, and no one has ever disputed that if president trump wanted to, he could buy executive order shut it down, but that's not what the trump administration did. instead, the attorney general at the time, jeff sessions, said, in his opinion, daca was illegally started and, so, the department of homeland security, based on that guidance, ordered that daca should be shut down two years ago, and, toad, the supreme court, by a 5-4 decision, said they went about it the wrong way. >> trevor: wow! what a momentous week for the

supreme court. on monday, they ruled the lgbtq community are protected by the civil rights act, and then today they announced trump can't just arbitrarily decide to end protections for dreamers. at this rate, tomorrow they're going to announce trump has to retroactively serve in vietnam. what's interesting about the court's ruling is that it also said that trump does have the power to terminate daca but only in accordance with the process laid out by the administrative procedures act. basically to put that in terms that the president would understand, the court has said, you can color sebastian any color you want -- blue, yellow,. whatever -- but you have to color within the lines. and for the 650,000 daca recipients currently in limbo, this is truly one of the best pieces of news they could get because it means they can continue working in their jobs, paying taxes, going to school and not be afraid tomorrow randomly they could just get kicked out of the country. now, of course, president trump

isn't taking the news well. i mean, after the decision was announced, he tweeted that it was a "shotgun blast to the face of republicans," and then he asked, "do you get the impression that the supreme court doesn't like me?" which is craze -- the supreme court is not supposed to like you. they're supposed to like the constitution. but trump thinks everything is about him. when the sun goes down at night, he probably thinks it's because him and the sun have w beef. while trump is having a temper tantrum about the superior courts his real fury has been reserved for formal national security advisor and full-time got milk ad john bolton because, as you probably heard by now, bolton is about to release a tell-all book spilling all the tea from his time in the white house. and even though the book hasn't come out yet, it's already a riveting read. >> bolton confirms president trump explicitly

linked military aid in ukraine to investigations of former vice president joe biden, the stwral claim that led to the president being impeached. bolton alleges president trump express add willingness to halt criminal investigations, to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked, citing cases involving china and turkey. >> at one point telling the turkish president he would replace southern district of %-@h firm go away. %-@h >> foremost on trump's time at all times was reelection. one example says bolton, the president asking china's president xi to buy soybeans and wheat to help win the support of farmers, quote, pleading with xi to ensure he'd win. >> trevor: man, that is wild. according to bolton, trump's shady dealings with other countries went far beyond ukraine. he was promising to personally kill any investigations into turkish companies, and he was begging china to help him win

reelection. and, you know, that's not just corrupt, it's also really embarrassing. because bolton's book makes trump sound less like a president and more like a crackhead who's out of cash. come on, xi, just help me get one more term, and i'll -- did i tell you about my electoral college ratings? so strong. remember, jonlt is not some lefty hero of the resistance, he's a republican through and three. he worked with george w. bush and his father and ronald reagan. he also ran a major g.o.p. super pac and was a paid commentator on fox news, so he's as republican as an assault rifle giving a lecture on trick ol' down economics. so bolton revealing these things about trump should at least spark some concern because not only does he accuse trump of abusing the presidency to keep himself in power, but turns out trump might be even more ignorant than we thought. >> bolton paints a picture of a

highly uninformed and impulsive president. in excerpts of his book, the room where it happened, bolton says president trump did not know britain was a nuclear power and asked if finland was part of russia. >> trevor: sweet lord. how do you become the president of the united states without knowing if finland is its own country? i mean, i don't expect much from trump, but if he doesn't even know about the white countries, then what chance does new guinea have? not a surprise that there's a lot of stuff trump doesn't know, but don't let that fool you into thinking he doesn't know what he's doing because, in the book, bolton reveals how one shocking moment from trump's presidency was actually a carefully thought out plan. >> in november of 2018, trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of the saudi crown prince, lettered with explanation points over the killing of columnist jamal

khashoggi. the main goal was to take attention away from ivanka trump using her personal email for government business. here's the quote, "this will divert from i ivanka a," trump said, according to the book, "if i read the statement if person, that will take over the ivanka thing." >> trevor: that's right. bolton says trump chose to personally defend saudi arabia's dictator over the murder of a journalist just to take attention away from ivanka using a private email account for government business. that's like lighting yourself on fire to distract from the fact you farted. i get why trump wanted to distract from ivanka using a private email, aka pulling a hillary clinton, but if you just want to distract the media, there are way less horrifying ways to do it. like maybe streak across the white house lawn or eat a vegetable for the first time. >> breaking news, the president

has ingested a piece of broccoli. we'll bring you round-the-clock coverage as we wait to see how his body reacts. and i don't know about you, but i'll never be able to trust another trump scandal again. like does he actually think mexicans are rapists or was he trying to distract from the mustard on his shirt? i don't know. selling out your credibility and abandoning america's ideals just to get your daughter out of a james seems pretty awful to me, but, on the other hand, i don't remember shit about ivanka's email scandal, so, hey, i guess it worked. so just from the excerpts that we've seen, john bolton's book has painted trump as corrupt, dumb and amoral, but my favorite thing that has come out of this book so far, also showed us trump is, like, really weird. >> as "the washington post" reported today, quote, in the months following the summit, bolton described trump's inodinate interest in secretary of state mike pompeo delivering

a trump-autographed copy of elton john's rocket man on c.d. to kim during pompeo's fall low-on visit to north korea. trump used the term lill rocket man about the leader but tried to convince him it was a term of affection. >> trevor: you heard it right, the president of the united states obsessed with getting a c.d. to kim jong un like some teenager giving a mix tape to his crush. >> got to listen to track five. reminds me of the time when you said you were going to lose your nuclear weapons but then you didn't. so tricky. you know, this might actually explain why nuclear negotiations between america and north korea broke down because can you imagine being kim jong un and then getting a signed c.d. from elton john, but it's signed by donald trump? that's like getting an autographed michael jordan jersey but it's signed by donald

trump. there's no way to make it more of a joke. this is the joke. it's also weird that trump thinks kim jong un listens to c.d.s. dude, he's the president of north korea. the man listens to cassettes. so these are just some of the crazy details that have come out of this book. turns out there are many other things as well, like trump encouraging china to put their muslim population in a detainment camp, or saying journalists deserve to be executed, or even that invading venezuela would be, quote, cool" doesn't end. trump's response to all these revelations is pretty predictable. he claims bolton is lying and that he's just a disgruntled, boring fool, which is basically what he says about any former employees who criticized him. he's also suing bolton to try to prevent the book from being released because clearly trump is afraid this book will tarnish his reputation. but, mr. president, don't worry about that at all because whatever is in this book, i

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juneteenth either. now, i don't know why that's prizing, of course nobody around trump had heard of juneteenth, look at the people he has around him. look at them. mike pence doesn't even know what a cayenne pepper is. do you think he's going to know about black history? to be fair, trump is hardly alone. there are many americans who don't know what juneteenth is. and if you're one of those people, dulce sloan is here to explain it in her new suggest, dul-sayin'. ♪ ♪ >> tomorrow is juneteenth! the day we celebrate slavery officially ending in america, or if you're a gone with the wind fan, a day of mourning! now you might be thinking the end of slavery, so this is about the emancipation proclamation. nope! the emancipation proclamation of

1863 didn't end slavery. slavery didn't even end when the civil war was over in 1865. in reality, it took two months after the civil war ended for the union army to get in the slave states and free the states. when it came to our freedom white people ran on cp time, but on june 19th, 1865, general jordan grainger occupied texas the last slave state and declared all its slaves free. he's an american hero and looks like the barista at my coffee shop. i'm going to have to thank him next time i order a mack yado. even though texas was last to be emancipated, it had a ton of slaves. it was blacker than a family reunion in wakanda. that's because i slaves were shipped to texas to hide them. officer, i didn't know! i got this couch on craigslist!

it came with the weed! even though we celebrate juneteenth as the end of slavery, it took many more months and a military occupation to enforce it. it's one thing to tell people they can't have slaves, it's another thing to do door to door saying, you paying these guys? because if not this better be a big ass sleepover. this still didn't free slaves in union territories. that didn't happen till the 13th amendment. yeah, that's right. there were union states with slaves. imagine, living in new jersey and being a slave? that's one human rights violation on top of another. either way, black people in texas recognized juneteenth as a day they were liberated. they organized a first celebration of juneteenth and then, over time, it spread as black people migrated and today celebrated by black folks around the country. >> juneteenth celebrations have evolved and become a real way to pay homage to those who came before us.

>> it is a representation of our freedom where we can all come together on one street, close down the city to represent the culture. >> you see? that's why juneteenth is my favorite independent day. it goes juneteenth, independence day with will smith, then the fourth of july. fireworks, sounds like somebody's doing a drive-by on the sky. so if you ask me, we should make juneteenth a national holiday, because everybody -- everybody -- should celebrate the end of slavery, the beginning of freedom for black people and the long march toward america's founding ideals. also, we get the day off. i don't want to be stuck in the office in june. kevin keeps heating fish in the microwave because he's a vegetarian and keeps cooking all these eggs -- >> trevor: thank you so much, dulce. we'll talk to actress kimberly jones and ll cool j still to

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not dying with you tonight." >> you broke the contract for 400 years. we played your game and built your wealth. you broke the contract when we built your wealth again on our boot straps in tulsa and you dropped bombs on us. when we built it in rose wood and you came in and slaughtered us. you broke the contract, so (~bleep ) your target! (~bleep ) your hall of fame! as far as i'm concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn't be enough, and they are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge. >> trevor: kimberly jones, welcome to "the daily distancing show." ( laughter ) >> i'm so happy to be here with you. >> trevor: let's get straight into that video that went viral in a way that few videos can. what was interesting about this video is so many people have been talking about what's going on in america, but this

connected with people who maybe didn't understand what was happening before or didn't grasp the subject. i had a friend personally who was, like, i don't know, and he sent me your video and said for the first time i truly understand. i was, like, wow, what am i, chopped liver? talk me through the video because it seemed organic. it seemed like you were in the midst of it looked like protests or something that happened. talk me through how that video came to be. >> my friend david david was working on a documentary, he and i had both been out at the protests separately and he had taken his camera out and was recording, and, so, he called me that sunday morning and said, hey, you're really good at man on the street stuff, can you do man on the street for me? i was, like, sure. we stayed all day, we ended up being at a protest later the day. at a time in which the video was reported, people were cleaning up downtown atlanta. there was a large group of african-american people downtown

cleaning up downtown and they spent their own money purchasing cleaning items and things like that, and i kept interviewing these people and the consistent notion was that, you know, the focus was on the looting, and they were focused on the looting and they were focused on what that was going to do to the narrative and it just struck me in a really odd way that i felt like this is the direction that the narrative is going, that everyone was going to center the looting and lose focus on the real issue at hand. so i just started talking and david hit record on his camera, and almost seven-minute video is what came out. >> trevor: yeah, i have to a really wonderful analogy in the way it captured a story so many people have struggled to tell about america and in many ways the world. using monopoly was the perfect metaphor because that's what monopoly is, it's a game where the rich get richer and some people you end up in jail and you don't get your 200 and, i mean, most monopoly games i know

of end up with people flipping the board and hating each other. do you think people are flipping the board and saying i don't want to play because the game isn't fair? >> i think that's exactly where people are. i think people are saying it's a game that's fixed and i think people are finally waking up and being empathetic to that and saying i have been on the board and i've watched what's happened to you and, you know, now i'm recognizing, too, that the game is fixed and, like, i'm outraged observe your behalf. i'm not even, you know, i'm not surprised even a little bit that this outrage has come on the back of a pandemic, because i think it's the first time that people have been still and they've actually -- they're not, like, taking the kid to soccer and going to work and doing all these things, so they actually had to time to sit down and grapple with the issues because -- >> trevor: right. >> -- growth only comes from discomfort, so you can't avoid something that's going to make you uncomfortable if you're sitting on the couch stuck with it. >> trevor: one of the lines that struck me most and stuck

with me ever since is when you said to people who were watching the video, you said these people, and i'll paraphrase it, you basically said these people should be grateful that black people want justice and not revenge. and that struck me because maybe because of south africa's narrative as well. so many people assume that what black people want is revenge or an advantage as opposed to an equality. that struck a note with so many people. what do you think some people don't understand about the struggle? >> i think, you know, one of the bigger issues that people don't understand is we talk a lot about the murders and we should because they're devastating and we have to get the crimesvolved and have to have a better way of handling the situations but one thing people don't talk about are the daily indigties people offer in this country at the hand of police. they're sent to marginalized neighborhood to do excessive ticketing where you know people

are economically disadvantaged and going through extenuating circumstances that are going to cause them not to have registration and insurances in place and you put them in a system where they have these huge ticket they can't pay and now they're on probation and it's like this ability to feed the penal system, but, again, for me, that's why i made the monopoly analogy because it's economically based, and that economic disadvantage allows people to continue to brutalize people, and, so, if you don't see the daily indigties, you think these occasional murders that make the news, which for the record there are tons of them, tons of murders, like the cases like jamarian robinson who don't make national news, but there's like a daily -- it's like this bully that lives in our community and nobody else sees it. >> trevor: what's really powerful about just your analysis of the situation is it very aptly captures what's happening not just in america

but specifically in atlanta right now. atlanta has become a hot bed of these issues, you know, and the killing of rayshard brooks has been one of the more interesting ones because i've always felt like, you know, it incapsulates everything that's happening wrong in america, you know, everything wrong that's going on. it's interesting that he even had a video of him a few years ago where he talked about what it's like to be somebody who's served time but has no opportunity to get back into society and how that then traps you in a cycle of always going back as you said into the carceral system. the news came out now of the police officer who shot him, kicking him afterwards, and, you know, if anything, people, i think, were reacting to the fact it was a further dehumanizing of the person. it wasn't you just killed the person but are kicking them while they're down. what is the essence of what people in atlanta are feeling and saying right now? >> i think people in atlanta are super upset because the original

narrative that came out was that this doesn't happen in atlanta, that was the narrative the people in charge put out, and people who are experiencing this on a daily basis were completely insulted by that, and they didn't respond well to that because they were, like, we could name situations. have you guys forgotten about mr. arbery right before this, with the vigilantes? but in terms of the police, people like jamarian robinson, four years after his murder where 90 rounds were fired at him and 76 rounds hit his body, his mother still has not received any justice for that. there have been not been any arrests in that case. this is something that happened here, too. people were feeling that at the time this happened and, now, to have this happen with rayshard brooks right on the heels of this -- and here's the thing, the disconnect that you would even think to draw and use your firearm in the midst of this heightened state just goes to

show you how much there is a back of concern for the black form in this country and how aggressive and how we have created the warrior cop instead of the guardian of the community that we actually deserve because, at the end of the day, i don't care what the circumstances were around that, the sentence for what was going on in that video was not death, and we cannot allow officers to be judge, jury and executioner in the street. that is not how this works. that is not the social contract that we all agreed to, and i so eloquently stole from you. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i will say, i've stolen most of my things from a black woman who i call my mom, so i guess it's just a cycle that goes around. let's talk a little bit about your work that, you know, i guess, as fate would have it, is tied to everything that's going on now. you co-authored a book entitled

"i'm not dying with you tonight," and the book is a novel that is inspired by the civil unrest in baltimore after what happened to freddie gray. so tell me about the book and why you decided to write a novel, you know, a book that lives in a fictitious world about something that's really real that's happening in america today. >> my co-author saw this clip in the news that the news brushed over real quickly during the baltimore unrest about a group of kids who were caught behind a police barricade because they did some really stupid things, right. so they shut down schools, told kids to go home early and disburse, but they shut down public transportation, and most kids at the high school took public transportation and couldn't get home, so there was this quick story about them getting trapped behind a police barricade. we called and coulden find out what happened with the kids. we were moms and we were concerned.

we coulden get any answers. we decided to write this book because we're writers and that's the way we practice things, because kids are experiencing these moments at the same time in which we are, but we're not having real conversations with them, and i think we're underestimating their ability to not only have these conversations and grapple with these moments but actually to have some insights, really fresh ideas and new energy that could help us wrap our heads around this situation, so we wanted to write something for the kids to give them a moment. we were at a teachers conference and a teacher from ferguson came up to us and said some kids were in middle school when the ferguson unrest happened now we're in high school and i gave them your book and your book is the statement and it's the first time they were able to process their thoughts and utilize the big to help them do that so i hope it's allowing kids to enter into really hard conversations. >> it is, as you say, with hard conversations, but with tools like your book, i hope more kids can get into it.

it's called "i'm not dying with you tonight." it's a beautiful story of what's happening in america through the lens of young people which connects with people more. kimberly jones, don't be a stranger. hope to see you again. thanks for being on the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: stay safe. thank you so much for that, kimberly. right after the break i talk to the one and only ll cool j. stick around.ing show."

my next guest is legendary rapper and actor ll cool j. i spoke to him about the "black lives matter" movement and how he's expanding his "rock the bells" platform to put hip-hop culture and ownership in the hands of the black community. ll cool j, welcome to "the daily

distancing show." >> thank you, man. yeah, we are socially distanced, following the protocol, you know what i'm sayin'. >> trevor: that's what we're doing. thank you so much for being on the show, man. you are a legend. you are a legend who's been there from the very beginning, and what i loved about touching base with ll cool j again during this time was seeing how you're one of the few people who hasn't decided to completely try and gravitate towards the young and the new, you've gone, no, i want to take what people consider the old and show them how fresh it is with "rock the bells." tell me why you've chosen to focus on classic hip-hop, keeping the culture and the creators of that culture alive. >> quite frankly, this is an art form, and i didn't want these artists to be treated like commodities. i feel like these are people who made a huge contribution to the world, have changed culture and influenced culture globally, and

i felt like, you know, look, if bob die dylan be upheld, why not them. i want to lift up the women from all different elements of the culture. i wanted to make sure these people were represented in the proper way. the flip side is it's funny, generation x is the lost child. gen x, we're, like, forgotten about. i felt like, yo, there are still people out there who love public enemy, who love the beast beastie boys, ll cool j, big daddy kane and it's, like, why can't these artists be

celebrated in a major way? so when i started the radio station, when i took over the channel on sirius xm, i realized in taking theefort channel the fans of this culture were really underserved. like gen x was completely underserved, and i also realized every time they did get presented with classic hip-hop or stuff from this era, it was delivered dusty, it wasn't modern, it wasn't fresh, and the thing about this is i didn't -- i know what year it is, it's 2020, right, i didn't forget to take my '90s or '80s high school ring off, right. i'm clear about the date but i feel like, yo, we can look at this thing through the lens of modern culture. when you go to the louvre in paris or the prado or if you're blessed to do that kind of fancy stuff or the museum, the mona lisa is sitting there, and we don't focus on the age, it's art. that was the thinking behind it. >> trevor: what you've done in

response to what's happening is you stepped up your efforts. it was about enriching the culture and getting this message out there and keeping it live. you stepped up and said, you see what's happening, you want to push the envelope even more and you've gone this is about pushing black-owned pieces of hip-hop, you know, you want to get artists and deejays, you want to get them into the space where they are owning the black culture that they have created for so long but haven't owned, why is that such a big deal to you? >> because i feel like for so many years i was the meg gray billionaire, trillionaire, billionaire corporation capturing all to have the value. pieo near as -- society is notorious for capturing value and taking it from pioneers, especially black pioneers. i want these artists that actually pioneered it to capture the value. so even in some instances where we are acting as a middle man, at least now when you buy here you know that at least some of

the value is captured by our community, you know, and i think that that is, to me, extremely important because 200, 300 years from now, history is written by the winners, so we need to win so that we can control the narrative so that 200, 300 years from now, we leave something on this planet that is of value, that tells a true story about who we are and the contributions that we made. when you look at the world in general, you realize that art -- art is a huge part of what people remember in this world, and we have to get that narrative right so that it doesn't just become a "best of." this is ant "greatest hits" genre. you know what i'm saying? there are people who matter who may not be the most famous or most popular, but they had an influence and effect on our culture. >> trevor: in this video, i saw a ll cool j i hadn't seen in a long time and it was when you made a video responding to what was happening in the streets talking about george floyd, talking about "black lives matter," talking about police

brutality. it was raw, it was you be filtered and it was really authentic in the way that you connected. that like to me it was a reminder of where hip-hop came from. hip-hop was fundamentally about speaking to this situation. is that what you dug into? is that how and why you made that video? >> it is the first principles of hip-hop. i tossed and turned all night after, you know, seeing what had happened and looking at the responses online and just seeing how people -- the personal pain i was feeling, and i just could not -- this is one of those moments where you've got to choose sides. there is no -- none of that -- all of that being new central or the hollywood two-step, trying to not to offend someone. no. this was clearly wrong. the way we have been treated is wrong, and i had to step up and just say, you know what? i'm a black man first. don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to lump all people into

one barrel saying all white people are bad, i do not feel like that, because there are a lot of people that are observe the right side of history, but i had to stand up as a black man and say, yo, this is what i'm feeling, this is my personal truth, and from that specificity, it becomes universals because so many people are feeling the exact same thing. you know what i mean? yeah, i have been down the commercial lane, i've done the smooth thing. you know, there was a time when we couldn't get played on the radio, so we had to adjust our music to get played, and that had an effect on the style of the music i created because i didn't have an internet, right. so while some artists like ice cube and mwa, they went the raw path from the beginning, being from new york, coming from where i came from, the circumstances were different, so i chose the more diplomatic route and it got me where it got me. but there comes a point where you have to draw the line, when you have to defend the honor of your people, when you you have to stand up and speak