so please welcome ra feel mangual. (applause) welcome. exciting. >> trevor: oh yeah, this is great. i'm glad to have you here, you have written a really interesting book that in many ways argues you know, decarceration and depolicing is leading america down the wrong path, so i would love to know just what do you think people who want to defund the police and reallocate the resources or reduce incarceration what do you think they're getting wrong. >> i think they're getting a couple of things wrong, i think they misunderstand what the causes of crime are. the defund movement is kind of built around this idea that if we just divert this funding away were policing and incarceration and prosecution and give it to other community program, social spending programs, that we can reduce crime that way. but this assumes that the causes of crime, the root causes of crime are socioeconomic in nature. i don't think they are. i know it is counter to the sort of conventional wisdom but if you look at the new york city for example we were able to get cr

and rafael mangual. this is the daily show with trevor noah! and applause). >> trevor: what's going on, everybody, welcome to the daily show, i'm trevor noah thank you so much for tuning in, thank you for coming out. thank you so much for being here. thank you so much for being here, thank you so much for being here. we got a great show for you tonight. take a seats, everybody. let's do this thing. we've got a great show. it's really packed, nancy pelg osi is kick off world war three, we sent ronny chieng to idaho and kim kardashian is going to beat mark zuckerberg's ass, so let's do this, let's jump straight into today's headlines. >> okay. before we get into the big stories let's catch up on a few other things that are going on. first of all, president biden has officially tested negative for covid and he got his doctor's approval to come out of isolation. yes, swi great. really is great. it is also the only positive approval he has at the moment, you know. but that's a start, that's a start. in economic news the federal reserve has announced