my guest tonight is a peabody award-winning journalist and author whose new book is called "beneath they of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of boko horam." please welcome isha sesay! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> trevor: welcome, welcome, welcome to "the daily show." >> thank you. >> trevor: it's been a while since i saw you. i see you at events. you know, for a long time, i watched you reporting on the news. you were on cnn, a familiar face. then you took a break, you just disappeared for -- you know, for a while, and it's because you were writing this book -- "beneath the tamarind tree: a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of boko haram." for me, it was a story of schoolgirls kidnapped in nigeria, training hashtag. -- a trending hashtag. >> yeah, bring back our girls. >> trevor: exactly, and it just disappeared. what happened since? >> april 20, 2014, the girls were taken 219 girls disappeared into the forest, and of them only 107 are back. so this story is far from over. these girls endured years in captivity and horrific days, weeks and months of torture, st

which won a george foster peabody award in 2012. mr. carter, we look forward to hearing from you. >> your microphone is not on. if you don't mind pushing this talk button. we will be able to hear you better. thank you. >> sure. thank you. good afternoon everyone. i want to thank the chairwoman for and other members of the commission for according me the honor of appearing before you. i have been asked to speak about my work on the history of the stonewall uprising, which is of course, the best known single event in the history of this movement. a rebellion that began as a result of a police raid on june 28, 1969 on the stonewall inn. a popularclub in greenwich village. the facts of the stonewall uprising, a well-established, general information about the stonewall club and how it operated. however, to understand the meaning of the event requires information. it goes beyond the sets of facts, including information that has not become integrated into media accounts, documentaries, and museum exhibitions. because one needs to be aware of a

just six blocks away, peabody elementary school is a very different population, and so we really see, you know, what you are doing is really being able to form relationships with students, and this has been a really great night for cultural appropriate art in our schools. i want to thank you both for lifting up this resolution. also, it has been a night where we lifted up the needs for our students with disabilities. this is really exciting for them because if they -- they need to develop strong relationships with their teachers. the art teacher can sit in on a meeting and be a really important part of an art therapy plan for a student with a disability who needs help. i want to commend both commissioners for bringing this forward. it is not lost on anyone in the community that you, time and time again, show leadership on this initiative and in so many other initiatives in our school district. we see your potential and you are really out there as model school board leaders. i thank you for that very much. thank you. >> hello again. i just want to say thank you to commissioner collins

carter was the consultant for a film that won a george foster peabody award in 2012. we look forward to hearing from you. your microphone is not on. good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank the chairwoman and other members of the commission for giving me the honor of appearing before you. i have been asked to speak about my work about the history of the stonewall uprising, the best-known single event in the history of this movement. a six-day rebellion that began as a result of a police raid in , a9 on the stonewall inn popular gay club in greenwich village. to understand the meaning of the event requires information that goes beyond these sets of facts, including information that has not become integrated into media accounts, documentaries and museum exhibitions. there is a much greater context of the history beyond the events of the uprising to interpret the meaning of the uprising and its historical implications accurately. i will not spend much time on the uprising itself, but on this larger context. beenexual acts have illegal since the founding of the nation. a

it won her and her team a peabody for their coverage and she is still fighting for them and telling theirr. she wrote a book about it. here it is. it is beautiful. breathtaking. congratulations. >> thank you. >> you've spent a lot of time with a number of the 164 girls who have been returned. you followed the journeys in this book specifically of priscilla and this uplifting tale of sisterhood and resilience. what do they want the world to know about them. >> they want the world to understand that they had the liberty taken from them, that these men tried to break them but they still are strong, they are still committed to their christian faith which is a very big part of how they endured this and they're still hungry to go to school. they're still hungry to be educated and make something of their lives. >> yeah, yeah. >> you spent time with the families of the 112 young girls, now women, young women, some of them, who remain missing. are they -- how are they coping first of all but are they maintaining hope about their fate as well. >> that was the most difficult part of researching this

folks, my first guest tonight is an emmy and peabody award- winning comedian who has just written a new cheers and applause ) >> hey, man! do you like this, by the way, the untucked shirt? >> stephen: let me see. is it one of those untucked shirt? >> no, it's just a regular shirt. but i'm going crazy! ( laughter ) it's not even an untucked shirt! you're meant to tuck it, i'm like, ( bleep ) you guys! ( laughter ) >> stephen: you see, i don't want to give in to the untucking thing, because then my belly wins. >> yeah. >> stephen: but if i stay tucked in, there's a certain amount of shame that will keep me from letting it all go. >> at a certain point in life all men have to either go, pants-wise, texas or florida. let me explain. texas: how you doin'? florida: hey, how you doin'? >> stephen: wow. ( cheers and applause ) >> texas or florida. >> stephen: under the navel or over the navel. >> under or over, texas or florida. >> stephen: no pants at all. no pants at all. >> you can do that, but that's more alabama. ( laughter ) i don't know why i said that. and now everybody in alabama is li

joining me now to discuss this is npr coordinator and two-time peabody winning journalist, kelly, thank you for joining me. first of all, do you think a democrat can beat mitch mcconnell? can amy mcgrath beat him? can any democrat beat him? >> anybody can win any race. as you said, mitch mcconnell has been re-elected to the senate five times. he's been in his seat six times total. it's not just that he's been unpopular in kentucky now, he's been unhappy before. as he has told me many times, when he takes his case to the people of kentucky, he figures out a way to win. how does he do that? he raises a lot of money for one thing. he's very good at that. he figures out who his opponents are and who his allies are. for instance in the last race he was running in 2014. this was a time when he made the race very much about barack obama, right, and tapping into a voting public that was to some degree disillusioned with the president at the time. what's he going to do in 2020 make his shadow running mate basically donald trump who, guess what, is very popular in the state of kentucky. so i thin

just saying that but it's very kind [ laughter ] our first guest tonight is the host of the emmy and peabodylast week tonight," which airs sunday nights on hbo please welcome back to the show our friend, john oliver, everybody. [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ >> seth: i - >> oh. >> seth: i want to congratulate you. [ cheers and applause um - >> okay. >> seth: congratulations on a couple of things congratulations on your emmy nomination >> oh, thank you and you. >> seth: well-deserved thank you very much. and more importantly, congratulations on boris johnson. i know he's an old friend. >> oh. yes. [ laughter ] you're stretching the -- the term "friend" to a shattering point there, but yes yes. britain has done it. well, i mean not really britain, so much as 100,000 members of the conservative party have decided that he's the best answer the question, "how do you un[ bleep ] this situation?" [ laughter ] yeah >> seth: you've -- obviously a lot of people have drawn the parallel between trump and johnson. and yet -- >> sure. >> seth: you've pointed out that the difference is that -- that boris is onl

this is us," hugh grant for "a very english scandal," amy adams for "sharp objects," a nod to the peabodyaturday night live," becoming the most emmy-nominated show of all time with a nomination for outstanding variety sketch series. and hbo setting a network record with its 137 noms, thanks in part to "veep." the final season is back in the running this year. >> and i proudly accept your nomination. >> reporter: julia louis-dreyfus, who won six best emmys for "veep." but one veteran, norman lear, becomes the oldest emmy nominee ever at 96 for abc's "live in front of a studio audience." ♪ those were the days also on the home team for abc, anthony anderson received a nomination for lead actor in "black-ish." >> proud of you and your new summer job as a twitter nerd. >> reporter: and viola davis getting her fourth lead actress nomination for her role in "how to get away with murder." >> you couldn't win him over, could you, because it's too easy to play you. >> reporter: posting the news on instagram, adding that she's very grateful. and season six of "how to get away with murder" kicks off

like to introduce our guest, starting with david carter, the film stonewall uprising which won a peabody award. also with us is brian downey, the president of the officers actually goal of new york which addresses the need and issues and concerns of the lgbtq community. also, lieutenant brett parson, a district native per coming years on the force? >> almost 26. >> 26 years. he manages the departments lesbian, , bisexual liaison unit. >> and then mr. lewis prescott. he is a novelist and a writer and a common list. i'm looking forward to learning a lot and looking back with you through your eyes and perspectives on where we were 50 years ago. it is hard to believe, i would like to start with you david if we can. what was new york like? what was america like for , lesbian, transgendered citizens before the stonewall rights? what was it like for the lgbtq community >> well, it is, or intuitive because there is a common tendency to assume that the further we go back in history, the worst things will be. but, actually the whole history of, three entirety of u.s. history, the 60s and 50s were

peabody award winner "pose" could earn its first nomination. >> we're about to go mainstream. >> reporterlast year's winner, "the marvelous mrs. maisel," likely to get another bite of the apple along with the final season of "veep." star phoebe waller-bridge likely to stand alongside moms allison janney and emmy o.g. julia louis-dreyfus as best comedy actress. >> the chinese are ready to fix this whole damn election. >> reporter: best comedy actor, returning champ bill hader from "barry" may vie against don cheadle from "black monday" and anthony anderson of "black-ish." >> i'm proud of you and your new summer job as a twitter nerd. >> reporter: can sandra oh from "killing eve" win best actress? laura linney from "ozark" wasn't mentioned. here's a knife fight with haunting "chernobyl." ava duvernay's instant sensation "when they see us" and the dazzling "fosse verdon" all eligible. one name that no one has heard yet, that of a host for the emmys, leading to speculation the television academy may take a page from the oscar script and just do without. and remember that "the handmaid's tale,

it‘s all very well if you have the money but if you don‘t have a peabody you won‘t get that far, educationloyers needs, making students jobs curriculum to work to be employers needs, making studentsjobs ready, so needs, making studentsjobs ready, so don‘t adopt when you say you work to employers needs, how do you know what those needs are? how do you find out about that and how do you find out about that and how do you find employees who say we want people to work this august? something unique about the city of plymouth as it works as a community and works collaboratively together and works collaboratively together and whether it‘s the council, the schools, the educational organisation or and local stakeholders and employers, we all work together through various boards to ensure that we have a bespoke provision to that employers needs, employer forums that the employers say what they need. give me an example, what sort of things today say? they would need a particular subject in a practical skill, and if that was something we didn‘t deliver right now we would actually change a curriculum t