. >> joining us now is liz winstead, the co-creator of "the daily show" on comedy central.ou. >> hey, good to see you. liz, let's place t"the daily show" somewhere along the evolution of late night tv. it's my impression, tell me if i'm right, that's that's what you are eared in the kind of biting political satire that we have now and before that it was more celebrity driven and interview driven and more benign jokes, and "the daily show" was the tipping point. where do you see it flitting? >> yeah, i think, that you know, i never looked at it as a traditional late night show in the sense of cultivating guests and being silly. it really to me was a reflection of the media and of the news-makers, right, so we did sort of two things, right? we launched in 1996, and i think a lot of people forgot. we launched in july of 1996. cnn was the only game in town. at the end of the show msnbc launched and then fox launched in october so we were kind of focusing on the explosion of news magazines and sat rising that and local news, and then all of a sudden there were three cable news c

climate protection has a long tradition in winstead since the late 1990 s. when we even had a department in the city administration devoted to the climate and energy and we engage the public in discussions on these issues issues such as wind turbines we have our own combined cycle power plant and funding programs for solar energy so it is a central focus in the mideast is considered a green city how much is that the result of citizen involvement. we're very interested in discussing and even deciding fundamental questions with our citizens that's also because we have a very young city with many university students but also a very committed city which weighs in on many social issues and we're quite proud of that. are you always bike or do you have a car if you have a car very rarely i drive less than 5000 kilometers a year thanks for your time. and off we go. well and now we have to go to the wild major of canada from ottawa was traveling with some friends to newfoundland and has captured his impressions of this green island in a video here's our weekly view m

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liz winstead, thank you so much, and, again, "the story of late night" premiers sunday at 9:00 right here on cnn. certainly we'll be looking forward to that. >> great to talk to liz. >> thanks for watching. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> a new covid catastrophe now having a ripple effect in the united states. "the lead" starts right now. breaking today. the white house will start restricting travel from india as bodies are burned in mass cremations during a crippling outbreak there. >>> the investigation into rudy giuliani ramping up in a big way. now we're learning it might all be about one specific official whom president trump fired. >>> plus, another state in the united states on the verge of passing a law adding new limits to mail-in voting, and it's a battleground state that trump won in 2020. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in the health lead. the white house just announced that the u.s. will start restricting travel to the u.s. from india because the covid crisis there in india is so devastating. cnn's kaitlan collins join