and gabrielle union! "the daily show with trevor noah." ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> trevor: what's going on, everybody? welcome to "the daily show." thank you so much for tuning in. thank you coming out in person. i'm trevor noah. good to see you, everyone. we've got a great show for you tonight. take a seat, everybody. let's get into it, let's do it. we've got a great show for you. san francisco is using tech to fight crime, herschel walker is using gibberish to solve immigration and elon musk is using free speech to kill us all. so let's do this, people. let's jump straight into today's headlines. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] all right, before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. starting with the fact that today is spotify wrapped day! [cheers and applause] yeah. the day that spotify looks at our music and reminds us that we're all a basic bitch. i was thinking, thank god tinder doesn't do this. just to remind you of all the te

actor gabriel union, actors will be goldberg and billy porter were in the house last night, along withd this week, we thought filmmaker tyler perry have stepped up to buy some showings. and as a result, the show will go on at least through december 23rd. as a black creator in performer, what does it mean to you to see these heavy hitters go to bat in a different way, and in different ways for your creation? >> literally, it is unprecedented. i am so honored and humbled that they believe in the work that much, and that they are willing to jump into the battlefield like that and put their money where their mouth is. literally. you know, it is hard for broadway period, life theater right now after the pandemic. and especially hard for shows of color when we don't have those things that i talked about earlier. and i think that we have a marketing system in the broadway community that are the same tools that they use for every show. and, this is a play that i didn't necessarily right for the same audience that would go to a normal broadway show. so, the problem was that we didn't really hav

gabriel raines was heavily criticized in june of 1862. one month later, when general mcclellan, the head of the union forces, said, this is inhumane and uncivilized. this weapon should not be used. and general johnson and the confederates agreed with them. this is inhumane and shouldn't be used. general longstreet ordered raines do not use land mines. they're inhumane. they're uncivilized. they're overruled by defense secretary of the war. secretary randolph and jefferson davis, who said mines could be used with military purposes. gabriel raines his argument for land mines proved justified when in november of 1862, the confederate congress gave him $100,000. in 1860 $3 to set up the first ever mine bureau to develop mines. it was there's not a lot known about it because it's called a torpedo bureau. burrows under was called the conscription bureau under the confederate secret service to keep it a secret. port hudson, louisiana, 1863. the longest siege in american history. military history to date, 48 days. the confederate defenders were completely surrounded by union forces. general banks, the confederates ran out of food or running out of food o