celebrate women's history by repeating it back to women just a little louder as if we thought of it ourselves. anyway, on tonight's show: dr. seuss is canceled, governor cuomo is crashing weddings, and meet madison cawthorn, the hot new scandal of the republican party. so let's do this, people! welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> announcer: from trevor's couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is "the daily social distancing show," with trevor noah. >> trevor: let's kick things off with the coronavirus vaccine-- the reason your grandma just reactivated her tinder. over the weekend, johnson & johnson became the third company to get a vaccine approved for use in the united states. and in even more good news today, it was announced that one of johnson & johnson's rivals, the pharma company merck, will help produce the vaccination as a way to boost supply-- which is

amazing. two rival companies teaming up is rare, especially in the pharmaceutical world. i mean we all watch tv. is we've all seen those cialis ads. they never once said: "ask your doctor about cialis or viagra. the only thing we care about, is getting your old rusty dick working again!" and president biden says america will have a vaccine for every adult by the end of may, just two weeks earlier than predicted a week ago. which means you have to work at getting back in your jeans. i cut all my jeans up for toilet paper last april. bit let's move on to andrew cuomo. governor of new york and "shaved geico caveman." he's already spent this week fighting off accusations of sexual harassment, and yesterday, we found out about a third.

>> this morning, new york governor andrew cuomo facing new calls for resignation after a third woman has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment, anna ruch telling "the new york times" the governor tried to kiss her at a new york city wedding reception in 2019, and then sharing this photograph she says was captured on her cell phone that night by a friend, ruch saying that when governor cuomo put his hand on her bare lower back, she "promptly removed his hand with my hand." according to the paper, the governor remarked that she seemed aggressive and placed his hands on her cheeks, and he asked if he could kiss her. >> trevor: sweet jesus! man, what are you doing! i mean, on the one hand, asking a woman for consent before you kiss her is what you're supposed to do. but the other part of consent is waiting for them to answer! you don't just grab them by the face like a bear yanking on a bee hive! ( growling ) i mean, look at this photo. how can you not tell you're making this person uncomfortable? if you're doing something to someone that turns them into the ( sucking through teeth ) emoji, you have done something

wrong. and what's so brazen about it is that he's doing it right in front of everybody, in the middle of a wedding. i want to know, was he doing this the whole night? are the bride and groom going to be looking through their wedding photos like, "aw, here's you smear the cake on my face, and here's andrew cuomo licking the off. and it's not like this happened in 1992, either, and he could be like, "well, it was a different time." this was in 2019! if you're a public official doing this kind of thing after the "me too" movement, you either just can't help yourself, or you're so dumb you shouldn't be in office anyway. so in light of these allegations, cuomo is now facing even more calls to resign. although, if these allegations prove anything, it's that cuomo doesn't go away when you want him to. but let's move on, because while governor cuomo clearly hasn't adapted to the changing times, one of your favorite authors from childhood is trying to. >> breaking news: the

organization that preserves the legacy of author and illustrator dr. seuss says it will stop publishing six titles because of racist imagery. dr. seuss enterprises says the books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. >> the six books being banned include "and to think that i saw it on mulberry street," "if i ran the zoo," "mcelligot's pool," "on beyond zebra," "scrambled eggs super!" and "the cat's quizzer." >> there are some examples of racist imagery in those books. for example, there's a character that's described as a chinese man who eats with sticks, and the depiction of that character has a pointed hat, slanted slit eyes. in another book, two men said to be from africa, are shown shirtless, shoeless, wearing grass skirts as they carry exotic animals. >> trevor: wow. okay, so what, we're just going to cancel dr. seuss books just because they're racist? then what are the racist kids going to read, huh? you didn't think of that, did

you. you know the real problem with dr. seuss, is all of his made-up words sound like they could be racial words. i mean, "a zelf on the shelf?" "the nupboards in the cupboards?" i don't know what they mean, but if a white person called me that, we're throwing down. look, i know this is blowing up and trending on twitter, but there will always be people on twitter telling you that this is the end of civilization. because fanning the flames of the culture wars is how they get attention. but let's be honest about what's happening here: an organization is making a decision on its own that they don't want to be associated with their own outdated and offensive imagery. that's not being canceled. that's something that companies and organizations do all the time. like, at some point, coca-cola was like, "maybe putting cocaine in our drink is harmful to the public. maybe weashed stop doing that. nobody called that cancel culture.

and despite what everyone is telling you, everybody does this all the time, including cpac, the home of freedom! just a couple weeks ago, when they canceled a speaker for his anti-semitic views. i guess that's just then looking out for the brand. it only becomes cancel culture when it's something you disagree with. but still, there may be room for compromise here. maybe instead of getting rid of the books completely, they can just update the imagery. for example, take that offensive drawing of the two african men, and put it in a tucker carlson thought bubble. that way we all understand: ah, this is racist. let's move on now to our main story: the other sexual harassment scandal taking over the political world right now. >> also tonight, serious questions are swirling around the youngest member of congress, an up-and-coming republican with an increasingly high profile. >> he is considered a rising star in the republican party, but congressman madison cawthorn's past and the political persona he has cultivated is littered with dark allegations.

cawthorn faced numerous allegations of sexual harassment while attending patrick henry college in virginia. just four years ago, caitlin coulter went to school with cawthorn and says she was taken on what he called a fun drive. >> his m.o. was to take vulnerable women out on these rides with him in the car and to make advances. >> cawthorn asked her about the purity ring and her sexual experiences. coulter says she felt something was off and shut down the conversation. >> he got really upset, and he whips the car around and started going back to campus at 70, 80 miles an hour, one-lane roads. and it was really scary. >> "there is a lot of sexual innuendo," leah petree told cnn, "it got really uncomfortable walking to and from class. he would yell out, "are you ready to take that fun drive today?" >> trevor: oh, damn. that guy doesn't sound fun at all. this guy sexually harassed women

while driving like a crazy person. he's like if mario kart let you play as harvey weinstein. and just to be clear, this wasn't just making a few people uncomfortable. no, cawthorn reportedly kissed women by force, put his hands up their skirts, and pulled one girl onto his lap and put his finger between her legs. in fact, it got so bad that r.a.s at the school started warning students to stay away from him. you know you're doing something wrong when you're in the same category as s.t.d.s and alcohol poisoning. but the question you may be asking is: who is madison cawthorn, and how did he go from college creep to congressman creep? let's find out in another episode of "fringe watching." one year ago, madison cawthorn was not expected to be the next congressional representative from north carolina. but he narrowly beat a more- established conservative in the republican primary by falsely smearing her as a "never

trumper" because, you see, at this point, "never trumper" is the worst insult you can say to a republican. it goes: expert, prius driver, and then "never trumper." that's the republican version of the n-word. "you never trumper." uc" eyou take that back! you don't use that word on me." "okay, but you don't like trump sometimes." but what really propelled cawthorn into office was his compelling personal story, even if it wasn't 100% his. >> fresh questions about his own account of the car accident that left him wheelchair-bound in 2014. >> he was my brother, my best friend. he leaves me in a car to die in a fiery tomb. >> bradley ledford, cawthorn's friend and the driver of the car, telling "the washington post" that cawthorn's accounting of the accident was not true. cawthorn's own parents, undercutting their son's story, too, saying the driver of the car rescued him. that accident went on to be the core part of the narrative

cawthorn weaved about himself as he ran for congress. >> he planned on serving his country in the navy with a nomination to the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, but all that changed in the spring of 2014 when tragedy struck. >> but in this 2017 deposition related to the accident, obtained by cnn, cawthorn admitted that he was rejected by the academy before the accident. >> trevor: so this guy got rejected by the naval academy, then got into a car crash, and then claimed the crash was why he got rejected? well, you know what they say: when life gives you lemons, blame the lemons for everything and hope no one checks. and, look, man, this is a horrible thing that cawthorn experienced, but it's tragic enough on its own, and it's also genuinely inspiring that he came back from it, which is why it's so weird he felt the need to lie about things, like his friend abandoning him to die.

i mean, dude rescued him from a car, and in return, he threw him under the bus. and once people began digging into the rest of cawthorn's story, they began finding lies everywhere. for instance, he claimed he turned down princeton and harvard. that was not true. he claimed to be a successful business owner, even though his supposed investment company reported zero income and had only one employee-- himself. he even claimed repeatedly to be training for the 2020 paralympics, despite never being an elite athlete, something an actual paralympian compared to "a kid saying they want to play in the n.b.a. when they're on the fourth-grade basketball team." which would, obviously, be ridiculous. i mean, no fourth grader could play in the n.b.a., except maybe for the pistons. i mean they-- they need help.

so, madison cawthron has basically lied about every major event in his life. and he's lucky he's in politics, because there's no other career where you can be caught lying that much about your resume and still be allowed to keep your job. so instead of attending princeton or harvard, cawthorn went to a conservative christian college where he led a squad known on campus as "the douche crew." which is especially impressive when you think about how much competition there is for that name on a college campus. it's like working at a hedge fund and being known as "the guy with the coke problem." and after earning mostly "ds" cawthorn dropped out after one semester to see the world. >> this 2017 instagram post from a visit to adolf hitler's vacation home in germany, the eagle's nest, where cawthorne refers to hitler as "the fuhrer." >> posting, "the vacation house of the fuhrer. seeing the eagle's nest has been on my bucket list for a while. it did not disappoint." >> i'm definitely not a nazi, i'm not a white supremacist.

>> trevor: okay, you know you messed up if you need to follow your instagram post with, "i'm definitely not a nazi." i mean, nobody's posting kitten pictures like, "just to be clear, i definitely think the holocaust was bad!" meow! it's not even that he visited hitler's vacation home so much as how he wrote about it. he called it "the fuhrer's" house. i mean, that's an extra level of respect when you're using hitler's preferred pronouns. i mean, he even included the two dots over the "u." what is that, umlats? that takes effort! i don't even know how you do that. i think you need to buy a special keyboard. i can barely find the colon. where are you finding the umlats for hitler. but maybe the strangest part of the quote is, "it did not disappoint." the only way to make this post worst is if it did disappoint. scwt just got to the eagle's nest. bummer, not that hitlery."

so this was a little embarrassing, but it didn't stop cawthorn from getting the ultimate stamp of approval. >> where is madison? is he here? madison cawthorn, a real star. you'll be a star of the party. >> he rose to national prominence and then gained national attention at this summer's republican convention. >> when i'm elected this november, i'll be the youngest member of congress in over 200 years. and if you don't think young people can change the world, then you just don't know american history. george washington was 21 when he received his first military■ç commission. abe lincoln, 22 when he first ran for office. and my personal favorite: james madison was just 25 years old when he signed the declaration of independence. >> trevor: yes, that, my friends, is incredible. or it would be, if james madison had actually signed the declaration of independence, but he didn't. i guess cawthorn is so into lying that he's even padding other people's resumes now? sooner or later, this dude's going to get his alternate realities mixed up. ( cawthorne ) "and let's not forget thomas

jefferson, who left me for dead in that car accident." and, please, don't get me wrong. this isn't the biggest deal in the world. in fact, i'm almost impressed that cawthorn picked the one founding father who didn't sign the declaration of independence. look at those signatures. look at all those signatures. they were passing that thing around like an office birthday card. and so madison cawthorn made history as the youngest member of congress ever. and he celebrated this milestone in american democracy by immediately trying to undo american democracy. >> my first act as a member of congress will be to object to the electoral college certification of the 2020 election. if you don't start supporting election integrity, i'm coming after you. madison cawthorn's coming after you. everybody's coming after you. get on the phone, call your congressman, and feel free-- you can lightly threaten them. >> trevor: yes, just a few weeks before rioters stormed the capitol building, madison cawthorn was telling people to "lightly threaten" their congressmen.■ç which i guess is when you say

you're going to kill a dude, then throw in some funny memes to balance it out. but the republican party couldn't have asked for a better star to push their lie. unlike the paralympics, this is something he's actually been training for his whole life. so that's madison cawthorn: he claims the election was stolen, lies about everything in his life, and has dubious opinions about nazis, and a alleged history of sexual assault. what i'm saying is as soon as this guy can get a fake i.d. saying he's 35, my friends, he's going to be president. all right, when we come back, representative adam kinzinger will be joining us on the show to talk about taking a stand against the president of his open party. open party. you don't want to m

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surprising, you know. but, so, i look at it and i say i have a great family, some closer than-- may disagree with me that aren't going to send me a devil's army conscription form. it was pretty crazy. i didn't release it. she sent it so far and wide, the reporter was able to find it. it kind of shows people what's going on in families today. >> trevor: but your own family thinks that you have betrayed donald trump, and you are betraying the republican party, by saying that donald trump didn't in fact win the election, and there was no giant steal-- a.k.a., the big lie. if a republican cannot convince his republican family of these things what, hope is there for america? >> well, i do think there's hope. and when you think about it, look at how long it took to really go from-- when donald trump announced. he came down the escalator. he had 10% support and everybody thought he was a joke. then over time when he was talking, he eventually kind of led to this movement that we have. so it's going to take some time to pull people out of that. but i think up to this we have

had no competing narrative. if you don't hear anybody saying the election wasn't stolen and 74 million people who voted for trump weren't disenfranchised, they were just outnumbered, until somebody says that aggressively, you'll believe it. there is a culture war brewing where it's all about owning the other side, and i still want to go out and fight for principles. and that's where i think the pivot needs to happen that actually is going to save, not just the republican party, but the country-- is if we actually start talking about policy, principle again, how to bring people up from poverty, what defending the country means. those are the kinds of things that i think americans are actually desperate for. they're just not the loudest ones tweeting. >> trevor: when we look at that now, i mean, america is going through one of its toughest periods. i mean, the world is. we've never seen anything like it. joe biden is trying to pass his $1.9 trillion relief bill for covid. there's been a lot of back-and-forth on this. you are a congress person. i would love to know from your perspective why you're opposed

to joe biden's $1.9 trillion plan. >> look, there was no effort to reach out. i never had a conversation with anybody in the white house about it. no effort to say, "what does it take to bring you on board?" i'm desperate to have a compromise on this. i'm hoping when it comes back from the senate there will be some changes, actually making sure that we're giving the amount of money that these states need, and not just writing a blank check, and that some of the money towards education, for instance, is actually done this year. a lot of it is next year. and there actually needs to be more money for medicine and research. look, i'm one of the ones that's eager to say, "let's do this. let's work on things together, and that we both judge vuft to be willing to do it." so i'm not going to blame the president for not reaching out to republicans. they make a decision. but i do think if somehow it gets blocked up in the senate we have an opportunity to get it done. >> trevor: the bill has quite a few proposals. it touches on everything from raising the minimum wage-- which is now probably out of the conversation-- you know, to getting funding to people who work in restaurants and bars and making sure people get

vaccinated and providing p.p.e., et cetera. what would you change in that bill? what do you think it's missing, if they had come and spoken to you? >> i don't know if it's missing anything. i do think we can come to a compromise on the minimum wage, for instance. like, i'm for increasing the minimum wage. i just thing doing it at this moment, 15 bucks over a short period, when businesses are struggling is the wrong time. so i would like it see an increase. but on things like opening schools, there is over $300 billion. most of it doesn't go in until next year. and you look at things like vaccine research for the future. you look at things like helping hospitals now. and then the fact, you know, illinois, for instance, which has had this huge, systemic problem of fiscal mismanagement, just gets a ton of money from the federal government. i want it to be more based on need instead of just based on number. >> trevor: when you look at that, though, america has a history of under-preparing for these situations. you know, if you go back, every time there's a stimulus bill, every time, it falls short of mark. and in hindsight, economists go,

"ah, we just didn't spend enough money. we didn't give the people enough money." i mean, 70% of americans are saying we want this bill. we want these checks. we need this help." don't you think it's better to err on the side of caution and go, "let's maybe overspend but let's get the economy going and let's get people out of their houses and let's get people eat, again." >> look, i think it's a good point to make. i think for the last year we have been doing that. there have been a lot of pretty sizable amounts of money we've been spending on things like the payroll protection program, et cetera. but, look, if you want to reach out to me for that input, i'm happy to chat with the administration about it. but they didn't, and the numbers i saw were like, we're going to spend a lot of money. but we still have to understand what we're doing with it. because this money has to be paid back at some point. again, my hope is, with the senate, if it hits a bottleneck there we can have an opportunity for bipartisan, because things like infrastructure going forward. this country deserve people

having a conversation, like you and i are having on this issue, without hating each other. >> trevor: my person opinion is the two-party system will in some way, shape, or form destroy america. that's my personal view upon. it doesn't give people enough room to be more than one of two sides. right now, the republican party is in an interesting place. are you a conservative? and do you have these beliefs? or do you raise a flag that says, "donald trump." and it feels like more republicans are saying, "forget, republican. we are trump." where do you then go from there? >> yes, so that's what the battle is right now. i think that's going a lot of good ideas... i think donald trump is going to continue to be lesas every day goes on because americans, we don't always solve challenges, but we move on from them, and we move on to the next president. that's where i started countryfirst.com, especially for republicans, independents, and even democrats saying we need a healthy republican party to have a place to go to fight for the narrative of the republican

party. i'll tell you what, the two-party system won't destroy the country if you have a healthy opportunity for debate and an open tent. we should have people that disagree in the republican party, as the democrats do in their party. >> trevor: you are in for the ride of your life. it is going to be extremely vicious. it is going to be extreme, as you've seen from within your own family. so we'll be watching. and, yeah, good luck to you versus donald trump. >> thank you. you know what? some things you have to put it all on the line for, and i'm willing to. >> trevor: i hear you there, thank you so much for taking the time, congressman. >> you get. >> trevor: thanks again to congressman kinzinger for joining us on the show. when we come back, the amazing h.e.r. will be joining me on the show. we'll talk abo

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daily social distancing show." earlier today, i spoke with grammy award-winning musician h.e.r. we talked about making music during the pandemic, being short-listed for an oscar, and

who the person is behind the mysterious name. h.e.r., welcome to "the daily social distancing show." >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> trevor: it is an absolute pleasure having you on, because you have become just the soundtrack, not the soundtrack of life, not the soundtrack of the pandemic, just the soundtrack. that is what i feel like when i think of h.e.r. before we get into the music itself, though, i would thereof know the story behind h.e.r. because it is one of the most unique artist names i've ever come across. >> thank you, thank you. yeah, you know, i've just always loved music since i was a little girl. it's always kind of been a given to me just doing music. and i got signed very young. but i was making this very honest music in high school that kind of just represented what i like to call "the revolution of woman," and me becoming a young woman and going through different things and, you know, changing and vulnerability. and i guess, you know, even if it wasn't that deep, it was always that deep for me.

so i was writing this music that was kind of heavy and created this e.p., "volume 1" and i really wanted the project to just be it's cover of the project to just be a silhouette, where nobody knew what i looked like or, you know, anything about me. and i wanted to have everything revealed in the music and not what we sometimes focus on with social media. because i'm really about the music, and that's where it came from. >> trevor: yeah, i feel like more than most artists, you really, really, really focused on not just the music but on keeping the music separate from your life. and it feels like it's really intentional, where you've gone, "i don't want you to know the person behind this. i want you to know what the person is giving you." why was that such a big deal for you? and is that a correct assertion? >> absolutely. it's a big deal for me because i think music is the foundation and music is the main part of it. we get so caught up in what everybody else is is doing. and sometimes we get disappointed because at the end

of the day we're all human. we all go through things, and we all have stuff we deal with outside of our art. and i really just wanted to focus on the art and, you know, have kind of a sense of privacy, i guess. but, you know, the music is the message. it makes you want to fall in love. it makes you sad. it tells you what is going on. it's just a lot of things that music does, and i think we forgot about that. we forgot about the substance that is the art of music, and that's what i'm about. >> trevor: you remind me of some of the greatest artists of my parents' generation where you can make beautiful music about anything, but there are moments when you take your time to make a song about the pain people are experiencing in life and, you know, one of the most famous songs in that regard is "i can't breathe,", you know, a song that came out during the height of protests in america during the height of many people's pain in america. you wrote another song recent about fred hampton for "judas and the black messiah." another song nominated. and all of these songs are really painful, but at the same time, it feels like you're trying to inspire us to

something. you know, it doesn't feel like it's a hopeless song. it feels like it's hopeful, despite the stories ending the way that they did. when you're making that music, do you-- do you think about the thing first eor does-- does the event inspire you? i'd love to know what that process is or how it comes about for you, because it really connects with people? >> oh, thank you. it really depends. you know, when it came to a song like "i can't breathe," it was the heat of the moment. iit was like okay i'm literally looking outside my window in new york city, and seeing a huge crowd of people protesting. and i'm seeing all these things on the news, on social media. it's everywhere we look. and it's great that it's everywhere we look now, because now there is kind of this awakening i think going on. >> trevor: right. >> and a lot is being exposed and we've had time to be still. and i've had time to be still and look at the world around me and really sit with this pain

and this kind of anxiety, like, okay some of the lyrics are like, "how do we cope when we don't love each other? what is a gun to a man who surrenders? how do we judge off of color? all of these things that i said really was just like, why, why, why, why? and we have to live in fear. why does this keep happening. there are songs like, you know, from the whole other time, you know, back in the day. there are songs that sly and the family stone were writing, marvin gay, and people like that were writing that are still relevant to today, and it's kind of like continuing that thought of like, "why is this still happening?" and that pain and the goal is always to make people hopeful and to also educate through music and let people know what's going on and that we have a responsibility to try to make a change. and i'll never forget a call they received from somebody, and they said that their 70-year-old jewish father listened to my song and told the person that called me, and they were like,

"yo, have you heard this song by this girl? it really made me think differently." >> trevor: wow! >> yeah, and at that moment, i knew, oh, my gosh, this is so much bigger than me expressing my feelings on a page. now it's changing the way that people think. >> trevor: right. >> the way that people see things, and that's what music is supposed to do. so the fact that i can do that, you know, just off of what i feel. >> trevor: right. >> and the responsibility that i now feel to express what's going on today. >> trevor: as much as you maintain your anonymity and your privacy, you also share yourself in one of the most vulnerable ways i've ever come across, you know. we're used to seeing artists on stage. we're used to seeing these big, lavish performances. but once the pandemic struck, we saw h.e.r. in a completely different way. you started hosting really intimate performances, you know, from a room in your house, whether it was on instagram live or whether it was a zoom performance. and it felt like you were sharing a different side of yourself. it felt like you were sharing

the pandemic with us, and then your thoughts about what we were experiencing in real time. what inspired that? and were you ever worried about, like, almost being too vulnerable and not being, like, prepared? you know a lot of people have the veneer. but you were like, "no, this is me. let's do this." >> in the beginning evidence like, whoa-- one of my first times going on instagram live was during the pandemic and i'm in my house with my hair in a messy bun, and i had just moved, so the room was completely empty. there was all this great reverb. and i was like let me get into it. let me sing for the people. it was a way for me to stay connected and keep people updated on what i'm doing, what i'm trying to do with my ayerstry and creativity. also, boredom. i really love music genuinely and wanted an opportunity to be able to still do my thing. and i think instagram live was a good place to do it. i started a series called "girls with guitars." and i was like now i can jam with other people on "live,"

which is even better. it turned into something great. it was just something i wanted to do. >> trevor: good luck for the agreements. good luck for the rest of the journey. it's going to be a crazy exciting one. and i' i'm excited to see whereu go. >> thank you so much. >> trevor: "judas and the black messiah" is in theatres and streaming now on hbo max, and the soundtrack, featuring h.e.r.'s song, "fight for you," is available now. okay, we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.

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