s s. there it goes. [cheers and applause] he's really making a good go of it. what a wonderful day for canada, and therefore, of course, the world. ♪ ♪ >> trevor: hey, what's going on, everybody i'm trevor noah and this is the daily social distancing show. today is february 18th, and here is your vaccine tip of the day. if you are having trouble getting an appointment, here is what i recommend. apply to medical school as soon as possible, study hard and then become a doctor and seven year from now, boom, you get to skip the line. anyway on tonight's show the gritty origin story of tucker kaferlson. we dive in the debate over reopening schools and ted cruz takes the world's shortest string break. plus nba superstar russell westbrook is joining me on the show, so let's do this, welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> from trevor's couch in new

york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noahful. >> trevor: let's kick things off with the ongoing crisis in texas. where half a million residents were still without power today. and more than 200,000 were without clean water because treatment plants are failing and pipes are bursting. texans have been lining up for clean water from public spigots boiling their own or even trying to melt snow. yeah, melting snow for clean water. i mean you know that the infrastructure is screwed when your best option for water is to mug a snowman but the saddest part is that these people are the lucky ones. because it turns out one poor texan had to travel 800 miles just to get heat, water and electricity. >> senator ted cruz is now facing a whole lot of questions after he was spotted on a plane traveling to cancun, mexico in the midst of this unfolding

cries nis his home state of texas. >> you go on social media, will you see social media users posting multiple pictures of the senator and his family in the houston airport waiting to board their flight. >> ted cruz, no, man, you got to be shitting me, dude, your people are literally eating snow right now. and you're jet off to cancun? i'm not even mad that you were self in. i'm mad that you were so stupid. how can you be in politics for ten years and still have no idea how bad this would make you look. what were you thinking? >> i know my people are freezing and hungry right now. so what they need is a photo of my beach bod. because if they see me in a speedo, their eyes will burst into flames and the whole family request warm their hands over those flames. i mean look, i get that ted cruz is tired. the man deserves a break after trying to hard to overthrow the government. but this is not the time, ted! when your constituents said they need clean water, they didn't mean go find a wet t-shirt

contest in cancun. i mean seeing ted cruz skip town for the beach has been very frustrating for the people in texas. but on the other hand, it has been really exciting for the people in cancun who got to meet him on the street. wow, bro, i didn't know that senior frog was a real guy. that was awesome. >> and what is even worse is that when he got caught, instead of owning up to it and apologizing, he acted like a total ted cruz. >> breaking right now an update on the reports that texas senator ted cruz took a trip to cancun as the state was dealing with massive power outages, something that had many of you upset online, a statement from cruz saying in part with school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends, wanting to be a good dad, i flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. >> oh, i see. we all got the thing wrong. ted cruz wasn't going on vacation, people, he was just chaperoning his girls on the flight to cancun. so in some way this was like a

reverse taken. i want you to know that i am a man with absolutely no skills what is over. and i'm going to safely accompany my daughters on this trip. >> seriously, ted cruz is blaming his daughters for this is juster gross. being a good father means putting them on a bus, not throwing them under one. to be fair maybe ted cruz doesn't know what a good dad is. i mean his dad killed j.f.k. but let's move on now to the place people wish they could send ted cruz. mars. the next frontier in space, and home to a legendary pop star named bruno. well now scientists are about to find out if anyone else has lived there. >> this morning one giant leap toward finding out if there was life on mars within the mars rover persz veerns suk-- perseverance touched down t will kick off the most am by news mission yet. >> after traveling 300 million miles in severe ebb months will touch down on an ancient lake

called jezero where ancient life may have been best preserved. the most dangerous part begins when the rover enters mars' atmosphere, the period known as seven minutes of terror. >> yes, the seven minutes of terror. and i would be terrified too if i spent three billion dollars on a roomba, please work, please work, best buy won't take this back, please. >> but luckily, it landed safely and now we're all getting a look at mars. which we need. because things aren't going so great here on earth. i mean you know shit is bad in your neighborhood when you look at glilo-- zillow listing for other planets although if you ask me, you don't need to be digging in the dirt and analyzing soil samples to find signs of life on mars. if you want to know if anyone live there gup there and shout cancel culture isn't real. someone will pop out from behind a rock like. >> even if they don't find life though, this is still a huge deal to land a new rover on the

red planet. >> the next step for human life is to send stacy abrams up there to turn it blue, you can do it, you can turn anything whether you, girl but let's move on now to our top story. covid may not be gone yet. but our patience for it definitely is. >> so as the vaccine rollout conditions, america is figuring out how to reopen its schools. and that heated debate is the topic of our brand mu segment, getting back to normallish. >> . >> one of the bigger tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic has been the school closings that have forced nearly all american students into online classes. and it impacts everyone. students, teachers, patients, next door neighbors who can hear your zoo school through the wall while they're trying to record a tv show! and after nearly a year of remote learning president biden

has made reopening schools one of his top priorities. sort of. >> president biden promised to have schools reopened in his first 100 days. >> i think it's time for school to reopen safely. >> but the white house is struggling to explain what they mean by schools being opened. >> the cdc rolled out it's guide lines for reopening schools much to the frustration of some stressed out patients and students who have been looking for a way back to in-person learning. the cdc guide lines focus on five strategies for in-person learning including universal mask wearing, physical distancing, hand washing, cleaning and contact tracing. but the cdc also recommended full in-person learning return only in places where levels of community transmission are low. the problem right now almost 90% of american children attend schools located in high community spread areas, so called red zones. >> okay. it's good to finally have guide lines for how to open schools during a pandemic.

but it's kind of discouraging that the guide lines are try not to have a pandemic in your area. cuz it's like yeah, that would be nice but we want to keep going to tgi fridays so what is your plan b. what did we expect? opening schools is so intertwooned with the global pandemic that it's bound to be difficult. if anything, it's a lesson to not make campaign promises. because if schools can't open in the first 100 days what is biden going to do, he has to wiggle wig il hess way out of this. i meant 100 business days, then schools will be open. although obviously no one should be inside the schools but the doors will be unlocked just like i promised. >> but joe bierden is right. safely reopening schools need to be a priefort. and you know that things are bad when even kids are complaining that schools are still closed. >> all across the country, students are facing unprecedented challenges. >> we're really struggling. >> i miss my friends and i feel

like i'm missing out on a big part of high school. i really only got to be in person for my freshman year. >> in the classroom things are comfortable and easy. but at home things are very difficult and intense. >> it's kind of hard to pay attention during class when you have to be like in front of a screen almost the entire day. >> i need a break from my mom. >> i just need to go back to school. >> one second grader wrote this for an assignment on martin luther king day. >> i have a dream. i want schools to open but i can't do anything about it. >> oh, that is so cute. oh my god. but it's not the point of the assignment. d mine us, read the instructions next time. >> i tallly feel bad for these students, no child is should have to spend six hours a day stairing at a boring screen, that is what your 20 through your late '60s are for. it is pretty weird to hear kids say that they want to go back to

school. and then again, this pandemic has done that to everybody. every adult i know now is like oh my god, i can't wait to sit on an airport, sitting in that middle sceet squashed between two people's armpits while the flight attendant tells me they are out of the good crackers. i can't wait. this is more than kids feeling cooped up. there is some evidence that their education is suffering and that their mental health definitely is. kids are stressed out. their's de pressed and not to mention having thepg on the computer at home is incredibly disruptive for the parents who have to work. i mean imagine presenting a sales meeting right when your kid's teacher is getting to the end of charlottes web. so as you can see, third quarter projections are really-- wait, she dies. >> so it's no surprise that many parents are saying schools should just open up no matter what. and when that doesn't happen, they're blaming the teachers. >> across the country, anger

from parents is boiling over. >> figure it out. or get off the podium. >> much of their anger directed at the teachers union. >> our school board has forgot who the primary benefactors and the primary reason for their existence is. and that is the 187,000 students in this county. >> we can talk about teachers being afraid to go to work. are grocery worker as frayed, are doctors and nurses afraid to go to work. yes, but they go because it's an essential service. >> there are some teachers who are benefiting from teaching at home. and this may be a reason they don't want to go back. then there are the teachers that are posting on social media about going out to restaurants and other, and posting that they don't think schools are safe and don't want to go back. >> go to work. or quit. it's time to poop or get off the pot. >> trevor: it's such a shame that parents have to fight with teachers over the safety of our schools. makes you miss the days before the pandemic when all they fought over was teaching evolution. to you will a the parents out there, i know that these are unprecedented and scary times

but please don't forget, teachers are not the enemy, okay. your comirn are the enemy. if their dumb ass didn't need to be educated, nobody would be fighting at all. so is if kids are antsy and parents are angry, why aren't teachers going back to their classrooms? well, i mean maybe they there are some teachers who just like working from home. for one thing, it is a lot harder for a school shoolter to get you over zoom. and it definitely smells better than being in a class full of 8th graders. but most teachers want schools to reopen as much as anyone else. and they have seen the reports saying it should be done as safely as possible. the problem is that much like nude beaches, what sounds good in theory doesn't necessarily match the reality. >> in a recent cdc study say there is little evidence for transmission in schools where precautions are met but some teachers unions say school systems do not have these

covid-19 precautions in place for a safe reopening. >> we have very old ventilation systems in our building. and as you can see, there is not one fan installed in our building right now. >> just because there isn't much contribution of community transmission doesn't mean that there isn't individual risk to the teachers and staff who are working at the schools. >> i want to go back. but i don't-- i'm not risking my life, my family's life, the kids cannot just us. >> they say they should prioritize teacher vaccinations but should open the schools even if they can't. that is a problem for some teacher group was have been urging schools to vaccinate educators before sending them back into a classroom. >> teachers are being left to run around to make their own appointments at pharmacies to get vaccinated like some sort of bizarre hunger games situation. >> trevor: yeah, teachers are on the streets fighting for vaccines like it is the hunger games. and kudos to that guy for working in a reading lesson into his interview. because he is like i feel totally disillusioned with the

american dream much like the character in the great gatsby. and i'm not going to lie, all of this made me confused about what america actually believes in when it comes to supporting a teacher. because right now it feels like mixed messages. teachers need to carry guns so that they can keep themselves safe in schools. could we get a vaccine o so that we can be safe in the schools? hell no. suck it up you coward. >> but more importantly, if opening schools is a priority, then america should act like it. and it should give teachers the resources and the protection that they need. not only because it will get schools open again but because it's the least you can do for teachers in return for them explaining to your kids how sex works. all right, when we come back, we'll find out how tucker carlson got that way. and russell westbrook is still joining me on the show. so don't go away. need to get away from it all but only for like four hour, then come to cancun, the perfect

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sheelts a popular vacation spot for people's money. his stepmom was an airson to swanson frozen food, a heritage he still pays tribute to with his frozen facial expression. he has a brother buckly swanson carlson, you don't need to know anything about him but how about those names, huh. others might have tried to downplay their wealth but downplaying was never tucker's style. >> well, i'm like extraordinarily loaded just from like money i inherited. have i never needed to work. >> he didn't need to work. we could be living in a world where tucker bronson mccomad carlson isn't on tv every night but luckily for america, that didn't happen. >> after college tucker took his talents to journalism, rising to prom thens as the liberal's favorite conservative. everyone liked him. he seemed normal and unwhite supremacisty. tucker swan lake mcnortherlyson carlson took that palatable conservative to

cnn and eventually becoming a poa bo tied cohost of cross fire, there he helped steer cable news away from meaningful discourse and more toward people shouting talking points at each other like a housewives reunion. it was going great until one day when a comedy central extremist infiltrated the set and wrecked havoc. >> you are partisan, what do you call it, hacks. >> no, this is theater. >> no, no, how old are you. >> 35. >> and you wear a bow tie. >> yeah, i do, i do. >> so after surviving that ugly attack, tucker made the difficult decision to move on. >> desperate times called for desperate tuckers so the butterfly emerged from yet another cocoon and flew to msnbc where he was both respected and likable. someone you could definitely trust lake matt lauer, you know who was pals with him back then, rachel maddow, weird to see now,

like palpatine going to lunch with baby yoda. >> it didn't last long, but his personal brand only grew stronger. he was not going to rest until the world knew all 36 of his names. >> having flunked out of tv twice tucker mcduck carlson began rebuilding his journalism career by working with someone of radio's most expected broadcasters bubba the love sponge and channel his inner shock shock jock. >> i love women, are you talking to a feminist, she is giving you a well, men need be to more sensitive, no, you just need to be quiet and do what you are told. >> i am not defending underage marriage at all. i just don't think it's the same thing exactly as pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting that child. the rapist in this case has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person, so it is a little different. >> iraq is a exrapy place filled with a bunch of semilit

mat-- literate primitive monkeys. >> she does seem a little beep bleep. >> you said it, i am just agreeing. >> one thing couldn't be denied, tucker carlson said all of that, . knowing other people would hear him. plenty of people would be proud to call woman the c word but not tucker, in 2010 he remade himself again as the public tetu dial's-- daily caller. soon he was ready for his most important role yet, fox news superhero. tucker vanderpump mcrib carlson was home. and this time he became something completely new. a man of the people. >> democrats will become the party of the elite professional class, lecture you about open borders global warming from their gated community. >> the most privileged people in our society shouting down at trump's voters, damn you working class americans. you must be quiet. >> tucker you went to the elite schools of this country. >> i did, i did, that is why.

>> its with a performance of a lifetime, an aristocrat who spent his entire adult life working in media acting as if he had crawled out of the coal mines and sat in front of a tv camera. in carlson wasn't afraid to use his clout to uplift the most needy among us. people who hate immigrants. >> our leaders worship multiculturalism because all culturals are equal except they are not. >> our civilization is superior and we need to defend it. >> latin american cultures are forcing demographic change on this country in a rate american voters say they don't want. >> we have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor even if it makes our own country poorer, dirtier and more divided. isn't krudding your country the fastest way to de spoil it, pollute itness with tucker swanson mcgraph carlson was like a beautiful reverse statue of liberty telling everyone to get s out of here. but any fox news host could hate immigrants. in fact most of them did so

tucker upped the ante. >> how precisely is diversity our strength. do you get along bet we are your neighbors or coworkers if you can't understand each other? or share no common values? >> like this say hoax, this may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through but it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you and at this rate they will. we have every right to fight to preserve our nation and our heritage and our cultural. >> the area associated with per missiveness, larger than any other-- subgroup on planet earth. >> tucker was on fire like a cross on a black family's lawn. but as 2021 began, he was once again restless for a change sow put on yet another hat, this time made of tinfoil. >> democrats rigged the election in front of all of us and nobody did anything about it. >> what about this vaccine. why are americans being discoveraged from asking simple

straight forward questions about it. questions like how affective are these drugs. are they safe? and by the way how much of the drug companies making off this stuff. the biden's affection is totally real trk is no no way part of a slick pr campaign di viced by clinical consultants determined to hide the president's sen ility by misdirection. not at all. >> a little-- well maybe but unlike the moon landing or a 44ier marriage, you can't fake raidings like-- ratings like this and while at least one person did sue for defamation a judge dismissed the case on the grounds that any reasonable viewer knows that even things tucker says are facts are not actual facts. so whatever the future holds for him, one thing we know is that tucker self everst mcfly carlson will do it with a smile, or whatever is going on there. >> all right, when we come back, nba legend russell westbrook tells me about his brand new documentary about one of america's most tragic moments.

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social distancing show. earlier today i spoke with nba superstar and philanthropist russell westbrook, we talked about his foundation, his new docuseries on the tulsa massacre and so much more. welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> thank you, man, thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> trevor: i appreciate it, man. you are easily one of the most electric nba players of all time. you are on a new team now and living in a new city. i would love to know two things. one, what it it like moving to a new city during covid, and two, do you ever get used to living in new places? >> well, you know, the first thick is moving during covid has been crazy. unfortunately my wife probably had to take more of the responsibility of getting the kids and everything acclimated,

finding a new place to stay, making sure we are traveling safely app make sure we do all the right things. it can be a little crazy. because the kids don't make it easy, to keep the schedule. that is my main concern, is that the family are doing great and that is, i can kind of manage and figure iting out. but the kids is the most important part. >> trevor: do you ever get used to just living in a new city. >> you know what, it is crazy cuz the last three, two years for me have been very different than the past. i was in oklahoma for 11 years, 11 years and i went to houston for a year and then covid hit and i went back to l.a and got traded to d.c.. and it has been very different for me, kind of everybody around me, i am a very routine kind of person and want to be in the same place all the time. and it's been difficult for me at times but i'm happy i got my family here, it makes it easy to

transition easy and the team and organization has been amazing and the people have been great. >> trevor: that's dope. let's talk about that ryu teeb. the routine before you play a game is one of the most interesting parts of your life for me. and that is what russell westbrook is going to wear before a game. you are literally a walking fashion ramp, like paris fashion week all the time. who is dressing you and how do you stay ahead of the trends like you do. it is never boring, no, no, he is always ahead of the curve. >> well, you know, i'm dressing myself, i think that is it, to me that is the most unique thing about it, is that i wake up, and i can go for what i feel. something that i love to do. and embrace it, the able to express myself through clothes. i wake up, i can be like oh, i want to be-- i want to wear yellow or pink or green, i want to wear baggy clothes. i want to wear a suit. that is the best and i just go

with it. >> i think that is part of what makes russell westbrook such an interesting character. for so many athletes we only know them in the sport and so what i have always enjoyed about getting to know you as a person, some of the things you do, whether it is the love of fashion, the love of your community, you talk about oklahoma for instance, 11 years in oklahoma, what i appreciated was you loved oklahoma, oklahoma loved you. you learned about the city, you ingratiated yourself to the people. and now you have taken that a step further and you are going to be creating a film about the story of what happened in tulsa, the burning of tulsa. talk me through a little bit about that and why you felt it was so important for you to get involved in telling that story. >> yeah man, it's crazy. because being in oklahoma like you mentioned for 11 years, so i was able to kind of connect with the team and connect with the history of the community. and to me that is the most important part, being able to travel to tulsa, through my years there. i didn't know anything about the

black wall street, until a got there. and once i heard about it i was in shock because i was surprised that nobody, especially our african-american communities, people that have black owned businesses don't understand and didn't understand the impact the massacre had on the world and how it can change our future. and i was lucky enough to connect and be able to create and with the history, and the docuseries to not just show what happened but educate ourselves to deal with it, and in the future find ways to be able to help impact our community and especially our black-owned businesses to uplift them. >> you definitely have done that with your own foundation. my favorite foundation name, the why not foundation. i love it. cuz it's just about why not, it feels like russell westbrook, why not, why can't we do t why can't we be better, why not do these things, you have always believed in going into communities, finding youth that have bb left behind, finding

youth that don't have opportunity. educating them and what you are doing now with the foundation is working really hard to get kids involved in tech and computer literacy which is a slightly new direction for you. >> yeah, i think the biggest part, especially with the foundation, we started in 2012. and i wanted to start an education and make sure i use resources, as i got older, and been able to see what is important, in our society is moving, i wanted to find ways to be able to enhance the foundation and find different avenues and move forward. we have been like you mentioned working in tech and working in workforce development, working on the mental health and wellness side as well, the foundation, to me it is very, very important because a lot of people a you can do anything, if you are a kid in the city, and you don't actually feel that impact or that insurance operation t doesn't really change your life, i know that personally because i lived it. to me i want to make sure i can

be the voice, be the person that tells kids, our youth can look to and say he came back to our community. he helped us. he gave us the ability to change our lives an change the world we live in. so. >> trevor: one of the saddest stories of professional sports sometimes even entertainment industry, so many black people or even people from just you know poorer communities get a lot of money and a little bit of time. and then a fet years after their career ends it's all gone and they are broke and the cycle continues. like man, what happened. there was an opportunity there that is lost. now that-happens be a smaller level as well just every day in communities. managing money, learning how to create money, learning how to grow money. it's something that not everyone is taught. you're passionate about that and you are teaming up right now to work on that, walk me through what you will be doing and why this was what you wanted to get into. >> yeah, man, honestly, i'm so grateful for borrow because we have been trying to figure out

the right partners to be able to get and understand financial literacy, understand the financial gap in our society, understanding the sphimmic financial inequality that he which face today especially in the finance world, under believable partner, being the first digital bank with the national charter which is important because it allows them to be able to help everybody, not just one particular dwrary. allows them to be able to help people and about their savings and credit card but educate thm on exactly what is happening. because as we know, and as you mentioned our underserved communities and communities of color have struggled with that over many, many years and have practicinged us. to me i want to make sure i can be the person person to step into that space and partner with an unbelievable partner like borrow that has the mission in mind to help our underserved and unbanked communities. so me i believe st an

unbelievable opportunity and i'm very excited about it. >> you know, it's funny, i was quhatting to a friend of mine .bout all the things that you i was like yeah, russell westbrook will be on the show. >> oh what is he coming on for, my prend said the funniest thing ever. i thought russell westbrook san asshole, is he are i really dope guy. i was just like do you ever have that, where people see you on the court and you got that game face and you go like you don't want to talk to russell westbrook, but are you a soft guy that loves helping people. do you get that. >> trevor, it's crazy, i get that every day, that is-- my biggest-- it is crazy t is honestly the biggest challenge of my life because i play the game with so much passion and aggression, i want to do great. i want to be the best at the game but at the same time i want to be the best off the court and helping as many people as possible and being impactful. i don't want to just talk about it and say doing this and that, i want to be the one to changer our world in many directions as

we talk about the finances and education, mental health, workforce development, i want to put my hands in everything. there is nothing i feel like i can't do. that is where the mentality comes from, but every day it is a challenge for me to change the narrative, hey guys, i'm a human beingk niem's normal. i want to help. i want to do the right thing to me my main job is to make sure that i stay humble and understanding that i have been gifted with this platform, to be able to give back to as many people as possible. and i will find ways to do that with every avenue that i can as long as god has blessed me with this opportunity, i will make sure i can help as many people as possible. >> trevor: that is why you are an mvp both on and off the court. i appreciate you taking the time. take care of yourself. >> appreciate it, thank you. >> for more information on the russell westbrook why not foundation please check out the website below. we're going to take a quick break but we will be right back after tor

tonight, but before we go, please people, you though this, and if you don't i'm going to say it again, texas needs all the help they can get right now. the blackout isn't just causing power and heating failures, it's

literally causing food incuter all over the state. now one organization is on the ground in houston, they're call the the houston food bank. they're leading hunger relief in 18 southeast texas county, so if you can help them out, please donate whatever you can at the link below. until tomorrow stay safe out there. wear a mask, and remember, when times are at their darkest, and you only see one set of footprints in the sand, those are ted cruz's cuz he's in cancun. now here it is your moment of zen. >> its he's really asleep. >> i don't think we're being good cohosts right now. (laughter) >> good to see you. >> good to see you. welcome to fox and friends.

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