which is the smithsonian national history museum. he is the curator of political history and that puts you at the intersection of public history and academic history. we are going to talk about the book you worked on. i wanted to start with your collection. you have told us in the past you always have to make difficult decisions of what to keep. in order to encapsulate a particular election. how large is the collection now and what periods are the most robust for you? jon: i have posters, signs, noisemakers, whatever captures the political moment. with every object we add to that collection, we have to think, does this reflect a moment? you put it behind glass, will this help explain the moments? it is a tough question and it makes you think like a historian in the future. susan: what percentage gets displayed? jon: a very small percentage. we use it all for context and to understand. every object is used in one way or another, but on the floor, seen by people, ice all percentage. -- a tiny percentage. susan: how much of it is digiti

the bible itself comes to the smithsonian in the 1890's. it was purchased by the librarian of the smithsonian for an exhibition in atlanta. since then it has been in our fascinatings a document people have come to look to over time. janice will tell you a lot more about the condition. there is something about this piece, which is almost a scrapbook. looking at the original does something that is different than what you would expect. this is something he makes. we really wanted the bible to be notssible to the public only through digital means and reproduction, but by making it possible for people to see on exhibition. we decided it was important to undertake this very important conservation effort project. >> the first thing we did is really look. we did a survey of all the features that we thought were interesting to vulnerability. that survey turned out to be 20,000 data points, where every page we look at all the different clippings and all the different papers. sourcebooks and he needed two copies of each. every single page are looking

[applause] the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] portraitherald, artist. [cheers and applause] wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mrs. michelle obama -- [cheers and applause] president barack obama -- [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium, the director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery. >> good morning. it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. every commissioned portrait involves four people. the personerson is with a larger-than-life persona, who may be curious to see how his are her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. in a spirit of building anticipation, i did a warm welcome to president barack obama and his wife, former first lady, michelle obama, who we honor today. [applause] the second person is the artist who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true to his or her own artistic style and still transmit a sense of the internal spirit to internal audiences. as much ays, reflection of themselves as an insight into t

we found these negatives that were here at the smithsonian. the smithsonian archives have them. when they heard about this exhibition, they called and asked if we would like to have the negatives transferred to our collection. of course, we said yes. the other thing to say about the -- to pay attention to about the exhibition, would be all of the colore. generally, with the civil rights exhibitions, we are accustomed to seeing photographs and media images in black and white. but what we are doing, which is pretty innovative, is showing the civil rights movement, particularly one that honors the memory of king's life and memory, we are showing them in color. i have been studying civil rights images for a long time. i have been studying civil rights images for a long time. it is rare to see so much colore in an exhibition. it also speaks to the importance of a visual culture, particularly at this time in our nation's history, 1968, a transformative period. and the visual culture reflects that. kinshasha: thank you. thank you all panelists. a couple of other people who are here. th

[applause] david skorton, the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] ms. amy sherald, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mr. kehinde wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mrs. michelle obama. [cheers and applause] president barack obama. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podium kim sajet, the director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery. >> good morning. it is my pleasure as director to welcome you to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. every commissioned portrait involves four people. the first person is the sitter, a person with a larger-than-life persona, who may be curious to see how his are her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. in a spirit of building anticipation, i bid a warm welcome to president barack obama and his wife, former first lady, michelle obama, who we honor today. [applause] the second person is the artist who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true to his or her own artistic style and still transmit a sense of the internal spirit to inter

the smithsonian. you do not know who is going to contact you with a question. it could be a six-year-old with a school project, it could be an academic. one of the beauties of the job is the american population interested. >> and you are still a working historian. i want to show the audience your thet, which is called virgin vote. you just won a spree to just prize -- you just won a prestigious prize at this sony and. the smithsonian. jon: it is about the hunt for adulthood and romance and jobs and the public political world and the private lives and how they were mixed up together. vote untilould not 21. so what made them interested in politics? could neverwho vote, women, african-americans, they could not vote but they were still interested. and children. politics is public culture at the time. it is a central entertainment culture at the time. there was no football. it was politics. political parties worked to get young people involved. it was entertainment. it would have torchlight rallies downtow

[applause] >> david's course and, second -- david, secretary of the smithsonian institution. miss amy, portrait artist. mr. wiley, portrait artist. mrs. michelle obama. [applause] president barack obama. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please theome to the podium director of the smithsonian national portrait gallery. [applause] >> good morning. and it is mym, pleasure as director to welcome you to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. every commissioned portrait involves four people. is the s person itter who may be curious to see how his or her likeness will be captured in perpetuity. in a spirit of building allcipation, i did a warm come to the 44th president of the united states, barack obama, and his wife, former first lady, michelle obama, who be honored today. [applause] the second person as the artists, who tries in the face of public scrutiny to stay true to his or her own artistic style and still transmit a sense of the internal spirit to external audiences. in many ways, it is as much a reflection of themselves as insight into their subje

we found the negatives at the smithsonian. when they heard about this exhibition, they called and asked if we would like to have the negatives transferred to our collection. of course we said yes. the other thing to pay attention to is with all of the color. with civil rights exhibitions, we are accustomed to seeing photographs and media images in black and white. what we are doing, which i think is innovative, is showing the civil rights movement. we are honoring the memory of king's life and memory. we are showing images in color. that is incredible. studying civil rights images for a long time, it is rare to see so much color in a neck's omission. i think it speaks to the importance of visual culture, particularly at this time in our nation's history. 1968 was a transformative period . i think the visual culture represents that. kinshasha: thank you. thank you all panelists. a couple of other people who are ken jaden, here. the lead architect for resurrection city, and the -- one of the young folks who helped out that day.

a panel of activists and smithsonian museum staff look at this legacy. this is about one hour. >> it is our pleasure to welcome you to this meeting events for city of hope. you are in for a wonderful discussion from some brilliant people. it is my pleasure to be the deputy director of the national museum of african american history and culture. we are going to get started in a moment. i want you to know who these lovely young men are. they are both named mark. mark mario, distinguished president of the national urban steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. you will hear a lot more from him. they will be joined by more people you will see shortly. started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. he is a distinguished leader of this institution. his official title is the elizabeth mcmillan director of the smithsonian national museum of american history. he is part of our top collaborators in the work that we do, particularly with the exhibition space we have at th

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[applause] david skorton, the secretary of the smithsonian institution. [applause] ms. amy sherald, portrait artist. [cheers and applause] mr. kehinde wiley, portrait artist. [cheers and applause]

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and my guests at the unveiling in washington's smithsonian museum. >> plus, a olympic efforts at nuclear diplomacy, as the the u.s. vice president hints that america is open to direct talks with north korea. >> investigative journalist sooki kim on pyongyang's real quest for gold. >> announcer: "anpour"n pbs by the generous support of rosalynn p. walter. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london with the global perspective. during the turbulent first year of the trump presidency his predecessor barack obama has kept traditional distance. speaking up only on matters of vital importance. calling out racism. supporting freedom of the press. but today the former president was back in the spotlight in washington. looking relaxed and happy unveiling his official portrait. the painting was done by an artist known for depicting ordinary people, usually, african-americans, and placing them in positions of power, using bold colors, and historical scenes. >> i want to say that it was a, although, those, michelle always used to joke. i am not somebody

dallas cowboy cheerleading uniform is now part of the smithsonian musuem of american history.. >>> new at noon, the iconic dallas cowboy cheer leading uniform is now part of the smithsonian museum of american history. two outfits were donated this week. one of them from the 80s, featuring that familiar blue sequins and white go go boots. another version created for the 2011 season, evoked in more western style. the warriors are in the nation's capitol this afternoon, but unlike past championship teams, the reigning nba champs be visiting the white house. the warriors snubbed the visit after winning the title last june, so the president disinvited them. on their day off today, they planned to meet with local kids. the warriors are in town to play the wizards tomorrow. >>> as sports fans across the country gear up for march madness here on cbs employers might not be as enthusiastic. a new study released overnight says employees spent over a half hour on college basketball playoffs during the workday and with the tournament spread across 15 workdays, that's a total of 6 hours. checking ga

the smithsonian unveiled its portraits of former president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama today. and just to be clear, because there has been some confusion about this, there are two sets of portraits that are typically commissioned for president. the official white house portrait like the one at the left of george w. bush, which tends to be stately and traditional, and the one for the national portrait gallery, the smithsonian, which often take morse artistic license like with one of bush lounging on the sofa. now this sympathetic version of president nixon. elaine dekoenig painted this abstract of john f. kennedy and even a few sculptures like this unusual mask of ford and this of a gangly george w. bush tossing horseshoes. but even against that backdrop, the portrait of barack obama created quite a stir. the former president's account of how that came to be and the artist's own surprising take, that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> so the portraits of the first african american president and first lady, barack and michelle obama were revealed today at the smithsonian

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the lowest prices. ♪ >> tucker: michelle and barack obama's smithsonian portraits were unveiled todaypresident's portrait shows him stuck to a wall of foliage like you were glued to the outfield at wrigley field in chicago. michelle obama's portrait was less weird come with some question whether it look like her. the portraits l l were painted y kehinde wiley, her previous paintings include racially fraught works of white people being decapitated. mark steyn is an author and columnist and he joins us tonight. i don't know if you're familiar with her ouvre, but i will put them on theit screen for the viewers who aren't familiar. here is one of them. the famous decapitation, the racially fraught decapitation portrait. i wonder, you don't have to be creative, if you flip this around, that is pretty heavy-duty thing, isn't it? there's another one. this is a person. painting the obama's portraits? >> yeah, i think this is what happens when you try to be up to the moment. clearly, the apartments didn't want to -- my advice, if anyone wants to do a formal, official portrait, is to just climb

they're attending the formal unveiling of their portraits at the smithsonian. we'll take you there live as it happens. let's start, though, with the current administration. the sense of confusion as reported by our very own cnn's kaitlan collins who is there. >> reporter: that's right, john. it has been six days since rob porter first resigned. there has been a myriad of questions over the white house's handling of this and which officials knew about the allegations long before they became public. but now we're also getting a lot of questions as to where the president truly stands on this issue because if you look at his public statements, he's been very dismissive of the allegations and defensive of rob porter, but aides say the president is actually quite critical of rob porter in private, calling him a sick puppy, but now aides are wondering why there are those two different conflicting stances from the president, one in public, and one in private. and aides are telling me they're wondering where the president true ly stands on this issue. and if so he's cri

a panel of activists and smithsonian museum staff look at this legacy. this is about one hour. >> it is our pleasure to welcome you to this meeting events for city of hope. you are in for a wonderful discussion from some brilliant people. my name, because they told me, -- it is my pleasure to be the deputy director of the national museum of african american history and culture. we are going to get started in a mo.

is in thetoday possession of the smithsonian institute. leonard wood has a strong connection to this area and that for leonard wood is a major army installation in missouri and a number of american servicemen and women have gone through basic training there. we hope that visitors gain an appreciation for the role that firearms have played in american history. we hope they enjoyed the hollywood guns we display. we are wanting education. we are wanting enjoyment and entertainment along with the. -- that. >> i began research and 1998. iran across one of the township records and some of the field notes denoting the location of what became known as delaware village. i believe it was 400 square miles. it included springfield. over the course of five different seasons, we documented 1822-1830.es between they were probably were americanized. they had been in contact with euro americans very early. delaware valley. the probably sign for treaties than any other group and was pushed further and further west. missouriy in southwest was short-lived. le

they are in the smithsonian national portrait gallery. what do you make of them?s. they are a departure from what we have seen previously —— i really like these. it was taken aback by the artist who did michelle obama, saying she had chosen the grey skin tone to neutralise the idea of colour. i think they are pretty cool. a lot of people relate to the obama ‘s. think they are pretty cool. a lot of people relate to the obama 's. they are not the old stuffy images we have seen, they are a departure from that —— obamas. have seen, they are a departure from that -- obamas. it shows the social and public feel they had across different demographics. i am sure they will cherish this for many decades to come. what do you think about the fact that much is being made of the first black president and first black first lady, and they have chosen like artists to portray them? really, really strong significance. art is a great way to perpetuate that image. this will inspire people going forward long after what was a pretty historic presidency. what you think of the picture of m

it is special it is done by african-american artists to pick to do this so they can get in the smithsoniant is cool too. >> you ever go the two union league. >> yes. >> all of those portraits, everyone looks exactly the same. >> i om a women's board, and we have our meetings at a hospital wherever person in the roomies a white man. sitting around sitting around the white men thing and it is interesting discussion because we are all women having this discussion about with men's issues, so it goodies to have representation in the room. >> it feels good to be surrounded by a bunch of white guys, right. >> i love you mike. i love it oh, lord. >> lets look at our piece of art by bobby clarke, a guy by the name of robert clark. he change his name to robert indiana. he came up with this love sculpture in philadelphia and they took it down refurbished the park and refurbished the sculpture itself. they have sanded it down to white, gray tones and repainted it, and it is now in north philadelphia about to start on a parade of its own, to the ben franklin parkway. if you want to see it gets over to

all former president's and first ladies.the portraits of the obamas...officially unveiled at the smithsonian today the portraits of former president obama and first lady michelle obama were unveiled at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery.that's where the portraits of all former presidents are exhibited.the obamas commissioned two artists...kehinde wiley and amy sheral.mister obama's portrait features three types of flowers in the background. they pay tribute to his hometown of chicago, to hawaii where he grew up...and to his late father. (catherine) that wraps up kron 4 news at 8.(steve) vicki liviakis joins us and has has what we're working on kron 4 news at 9. (vicki) that's right steve and catherine... a teenagers dying words help police track down her suspected killers... after she was stabbed and left for dead on the side of the road in the east bay... tonight - we continue to learn more about the suspects... in a live report... plus... a shocking story in san francisco... a man is behind bars tonight accused of breaking into a car and killing a small dog in a popular tourist ar

which will hang in the smithsonian's national portrait gallery in washington, d.c.wanted to end today's show with the powerful point made by michelle obama about the impact these portraits will hopefully have on every young person who sees them. >> i'm also thinking about all of the young people, particularly girls and girls of color. who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great american institution. [ applause ] >> that will wrap things up for this hour. ali velshi picks things up. if i said 45th president, i meant 44th president. >> yeah. >> and then i like the portraits. i think they are -- >> they are different. >> they are modern, but the obama one reminds me of homer simpson fading into the hedges. >> so the flowers are all significant to him in his background. there is a kenyan flower, a hawaiian flower, the chicago's flower in it. so it is all -- it is sort of hidden in that shrubbery. >> it is a nice departure from tradition and a good way to cele

these are going in the smithsonian, right, in the national portrait gallery?the first time obviously that a black president has been there by definition, so it is a breakthrough in that sense. we have two corletto day there. thank you so much rejoining us. come back again —— we have to call it a day. that is it for the paper tonight. don't forget, you considerfront pages for the paper tonight. don't forget, you consider front pages online, for the paper tonight. don't forget, you considerfront pages online, on the bbc news website, seven days a week. if you missed the programme you can watch it later on bbc iplayer, any evening. hello. there is some snow in the forecast through the next 2a hours. in fact, enough snow to cause some disruption in places was that we have already had a significant covering across some parts of the country. that was how it looked for a weather watcher close to belfast earlier today. here comes our next weather system, this next curl of cloud pushing in from the atlantic. that will bring rain for some and snow fathers. ahead of that

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many much the artifacts will be on loan to the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culturen washington, d.c. >> when we come back winter olympics 2018. world class skiing, skating and international politics? >> the politics have been there ever since the nazi olympics of 19 1936. >> how the games being played behind the scenes can be more daring than the actual sporting events. and what is in the bag? there's a mob leaving kindness in public soledad: the winter olympics begin in south korea with the opening ceremony on friday and while the olympic charter expressly prohibits politics or propaganda at the games, the modern olympics have often navigated political statements. for example this famous photo from the 1968 summer games in mexico city americans tommie smith and johncarlos with the black power salute during the national anthem to protest racism in the u.s.a. the 1972 games in munich remembered for the terror attack by palestinian gunmen that ended with 11 israeli athletes dead. the upcoming games are taking place in pyeongchang just 50 miles from the border with nor

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a panel of activists and smithsonian museum staff look at this legacy.it is our pleasure to welcome you to this meeting events for city of hope. you are in for a wonderful discussion from some brilliant people. my name, because they told me, -- it is my pleasure to be the deputy director of the national museum of african american history and

those will now hang in the national portrait gallery, part of the smithsonian group of museums along with the complete collection of presidential portraits. by the way, today's unveiling had some pretty famous guests in the audience including director steven spielberg, tom hanks and rita wilson. >> thank you. >>> a disastrous end to a birthday vacation when a helicopter crashed in the grand canyon killing three people on board. this morning we're learning more about the victims. >>> and a new hotel is coming to the vegas strip. how this development is a sign a strengthening economy. >>> a lot of us have been pining for an average winter day. we have it today. at least temperaturewise. check out where we're going to end up. either spot on or within a degree of average highs. my accuweather seven-day forecast we'll look at by living off the grid. completely. or... set the washing machine to cold. do your thing. energy upgrade california. >>> happening right now. we are watching wall street again. remember last week was kind of crazy, ups and downs. the dow jones is surging. this mornin

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happening today in washington former president barack obama will be immortalized on canvas at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery he and his former first lady mitial obama will attend the availing of the portrait. the national portrait gallery is the only museum with a complete collection of presidential portraits outside of the white house. >>> 4:47. we're tracking showers moving through south jersey and delaware this morning. here's a look at what heavy showers did to philadelphia in the suburbs over the weekend. water, water everywhere. several roads were shutdown. amon martin luther king which just reopened to traffic. yesterday was the third sunday in a row rain had soaked our area. we will dry out later this morning. that will be welcome. >> i mean so much rain over the weekend i was like can you make it stop. but again a good excuse to sit down and do absolutely nothing if you have that option. >> the good news is you didn't have to do any shoveling. it was just rain that came through, and it's moving out. and we will be drying out during the day, and this is going to dry us out

kim sajet is director of the smithsonian's national portrait gallery. >> thank you. >> brangham: so let's talk about this case of chuck close. the national gallery of art said in light of these allegations we are going to put off this exhibition of his work. i know you have a piece of his gallery.our how do you all reckon with this? these accusations exist, the man is a great artist, what do we >> i just came from a meeting of the american directors association, we were inant talking about this and i think we're all trying to get it right. we're all trying to think about it. i would say that the fact that -- let's say the pennsylvania academy of the fine cts has an exhibition up right now uck close's photographs, and i think the director has donly exacthe right thing. they didn't have a knee jerk reaction. they stopped, thought about it and said let'sy reave a conversation. now, of course, the pennsylvania academy to have the fin arts is an art school. it has students, and they have a very strong tradtion of drawing from live models. so for them it also has t extra dimension, and they've

portrait this morning, the first african-american art toys paint a presidential commission for the smithsonian port rat gahm i. the president's portrait and portrait of former first lady michelle obama, done by baltimore based artist, amy cheryl, are on display beginning today. >> well, it is spectacle that millions of americans will most likely watch on tv. >> coming up: planes unveiled for this spring's royal wedding. >> love, marriage, and a very long horse and carriage ride. outside windsor castle, i'll tell you how prince harry and megan markle plan to spend their big day, how you should set your alarm to watch. >> back on cbs-3 "eyewitness news" at noon with a celebration of the 100 day of school. young author lauren berks red her book my 100 hands go to school for pre k and kinder garden student at the anna b day elementary school, she started writing books when she was just five years old. student liked the opportunity to meet a real author specially one not much older than they are. >> well, britain's prince harry and his bride to be have released new details about their royal wedding

their official portraits were unveiled at smithsonian's national portrait gallery.former president says he tried to negotiate less gray hair in the rendering. >> his speech was funny afterwards. >> it was. >>> getting to the weather now, we are looking at more sunshine and the temperatures are at least cooler than last week. >> still waiting for some rain. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> at least it felt like winter today for a change. temperatures came down to at average or just below. i do want to show you the sunset tonight. it was just a stunning sunset as we saw a few clouds pass through the bay area when the sun went down. but at least it's starting to feel like winter. live doppler 7 hd right now showing you passing clouds and in southern california, we are seeing showers at the lower elevations. snow showers at the higher elevations. it is encouraging to see some rain and some snow in the state of california. look at our rainfall deficit. san francisco just over six inches. santa rosa, staggering. we need over ten inches of rain, ju

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. >> these are the first presidential portraits at the smithsonian painted by black artists. >>> prince harry and his fiancee los angeles native meghan markle are revealing new details about their upcoming royal wedding at noon, may 19th at st. george's chapel in windsor, england. most recently prince charles walked down the aisle to get his marriage blessed in 2005. the newlyweds will leave in a horse and carriage and travel along windsor's main street. then down the so-called long walk before arriving back at windsor castle giving thousands of spectators a chance to see the couple along the way. and meghan when ow would >> they want to be able to give the public a chance to share their celebrations of them, be part of the day. that was very, very important to harry and meghan when they first got engaged, how would they do that. >> carriage rides are a royal tradition. prince william and kate rode in one after their 2011 ceremony, as did prince charles and lady diana before them. the royal couple is not sticking with all traditions, though. they're having their wedding on saturday inst

the portraits will hang oat the national portrait gallery in n smithsonian. beautiful. >> comfortable weather. clouds increasing. we are dry through the weekend. next monday we are tracking low snow, maybe down to 1,000 feet. spotty showers there at the lowest elevation. for some of the hills next monday may get a dusting. we'll keep an eye on it. >> thanks for joining us at 3:00. we'll see you at 4:00. >> bye. >>> tonight, olympic surprises, and an american medal rush. >> she has to go right up and do it. yes! >> boom! wow. >> holy cow. >>> history on the ice and snow as powerful winds blow the schedule up in the air. >>> security under scrutiny as the white house's story keeps changing about how it handled the abuse allegation scandal and dozens of white house officials operating without permanent security clearances. including jared kushner. >>> also tonight, a terrifying scare for president trump's family. his daughter-in-law rushed to the hospital after opening a letter filled with white powder. >>> facebook under fire. losing younger viewers as a major

. >> starting today you can see the portraits of barack obama and michelle obama at the smithsonian port rat galley. the 44th president and the first lady that for the unveiling, the president chose artist while i for his painting, the first african-american artist to paint a presidential portrait for the gallery, former president calls the painting of his likeness, quote, pretty sharp. >> well today is mardi gras or fat tuesday. the last day before lent. the christian season of sacrifice. >> the celebrations continue in new orleans where the party will go on right through today and tonight. partiers create large crowds, here is live look at burbon street, celebrations winding down for little bit. the party ends at midnight tonight. tomorrow is known as ash wednesday. >> still ahead will it be a collie or a bulldog, the prize pooches get ready to compete for the top dog tight until one of the worlds' most prestigious k9 competitions. >> dramatic dog rescue captured on camera. worker, terrified, under 12 feet of rock. >> welcome to the show. 9375. >> young athlete continue to impress at t

- hey, come on, we should take a tour of the smithsonian before we head back. - no! we still have to fight! - lincoln and davis signed a treaty, general. the war is over. - no! - it's finally over cartman. you lost! - yeah, and now you can take that stupid beard off. [tears] [screaming in pain] [scream echoing] - boys, as president of the united states, i want to commend you for stopping the rebel uprising. - don't touch me. - well, cartman, the south lost. that means you're our slave for a month. - damn it! damn it! i was so close. damn it! - now, the first thing i want you to do for us is-- - wait a minute. i don't have to be your slave. - what? - the north still won the civil war. that means slavery is abolished! - he's right, boys. slavery is illegal and immoral, partially in thanks to the north winning the civil war. - aw! - [mocking laughter] - aw, to hell with it. let's just go home. thanks a lot, bill clinton. - yeah, thanks, dick. >> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause )