his name i is bassem youssef.."the daily show" of the arab world for its satire of politics in egypt and the middle east. the program was launched after former e egyptian president hosi mobarak was ousted from m powern the 2011 uprising. it bececame the mostst popular v series in egypt's history, with as many as 30 million views per episode. during muhammed morsi's presidencycy, the prorogram came under increaeasing pressure e a, in 2 2013, an arrest warrant w s issued for yououssef for allegey insulting islam and momorsi. youssef was interrogated a and subsequentlyly released on bail, but the e pressure continued unr the next regime and, in 2014, youssef announced he was taking the program off the aiair, just days after general abdel fattah el-sisi was elected president. bassem youssef has nowow startea new comedy p program, but it focuses on the united states. in the opening to the show called "demomocracy handndbook," youssef explains why he left egypt. bassem: my naname i is bassem youssef. i created a comedy s

i am larry, larry, larry larry. [ laughter ] our good friend bassem youssef is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] he good, y'all. he good. [ laughter ] all right. so this morning, i'm having a little "morning joe. i'm watching a little "morning joe," and i had a little moment of whoa! [ laughter ] guys, they put together a montage of hillary's statements about her emails from a year ago with the fbi director's statements from yesterday. ooh, enscwroip --enjoy. >> i thought it would be easier to carry just one device. >> she also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email. >> so that the emails were immediately captured and preserved. >> there was no archiving at all of her emails. >> there were no security breaches. >> it is possible that hostile actors gained access. >> there is no classified materials. >> 110 emails contained classified information. [ laughter ] >> good morning. [ laughter ] >> larry: yes! good morning! [ laughter ] oh, my god. if they were that rough on hillary on msnbc, i can't imagine what they were doing over at fox. [ laughter ] right? you know,

gone. >> larry: thanks to my panelists -- mike yard, rory albanese, and bassem youssef.good night everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ptioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org 11:59 and 59 seconds. this happened on twitter.com! the twitter account for nasa's kepler mission regularly tweets out beautiful, awe-inspiring images from the deepest recesses of space. well, the account was apparently hacked today and tweeted an image that was beautiful and awe-inspiring, but from from other deep rec

please welcome, bassem youssef! >> thank you so much!. >> that's amazing. who the hell is this guy? and they're very nice. thank you, thank you very much. >> stephen: they're very friendly people. >> i know. >> stephen: i first met you through our mutual friend jon stewart. >> yes. >> stephen: people have sort of called you the jon stewart of egypt. you're not in egypt anymore. you're here. >> yes. >> stephen: did you come here to also open an animal rescue farm like jon did. >> that was the plan until i saw your elections and i said, "i'm back in business, baby, yes!" is there you lived underab actual dictator. when you see americans complaining about the obama administration being a dictatorship, do we sound like babies to you? >> yes. it's like, i mean, we have dictators who stay in power for 30 or 40 years, and we call them by the way first term. and then-- but it's predictable, because you just have one election-- elections-- and he's there forever. >> stephen: it's very cost efficient. >> yeah, you do it every four year. this year,

bassem youssef, good morning. >> good morning. >> you picked an interesting year to come to america.e making a lot of money. people coming in and buying tickets. it's one way to profit out of this mess. >> so what do you make of that? you saw obviously so much turmoil and strife where you came from. >> yes. >> and switched gears dramatically. but this is a fascinating time a new visitor in this country. >> it's great. the thing is when i went out in the field and i spoke, for example, to trump supporters it kind of like resonated with me. because i heard the same exact things back home with the patriotism demagogue speeches. like we are talking in an echo chamber. it doesn't make sense. but it does for them. >> you said it maybe be such a bad thing if he was elected president. why did you say that? >> well i maybe meant it's not the worst thing. i'm not worried about trump. i'm worried about what's behind trump. trump is one person. but the support that he has masked what he is coming from. if trump is saying racist stupid stuff out of making a show there are other people in his part

bassem youssef, good morning.es? >> if the election was a broadway play, you guy be making a lot of money. people coming in and buying tickets. i mean, it's one out of this mess. >> what do you make of it? you saw, obviously, so much turmoil and strife where you came from and switched careers dramatically. we are not equating these two countries in any way necessarily but this is a fascinating time to be a new visitor in this country. >> yeah. it's great. and the thing is when i went out in the field and i talked to trump supporters and kind of like resonated with me because i heard the same exact things back home with the mt fake patriotism. anti-rhetoric and like we were talking in a chamber. it doesn't make sense but it does for them. >> you actually said that it wouldn't maybe such be a bad thing if he was elected president. why did you say that? >> i maybe meant that it's not the worst thing because i'm not i'rried about trump. trump. i mean, trump is one person, but the support that he has massed what he is

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youssef. >> and i'm anna edwards. it is good to see you, angie.'s talk about what is coming up on u.k. programming today. i say u.k., but it is still very dominated by the brexit. george osborne is embarking on a world tour. he is first going to wall street to shore up confidence. and to then go to china singapore. the message he is going to be taking around the world is, britain might be leaving the eu, but we are not quitting the world. it is going to be a hard sell, of course, when you consider what has happened to u.k. assets. the pound has hit a 31 year low against the u.s. dollar, and there has been stressed in the real estate funds. various funds have had to be frozen to prevent assets from being put into some sort of fire sale. a nine weeko h wait in front of us to see who will be the next prime minister. it seems we are getting no closer to a resolution of the political vacuum. twoesa may, one of the candidates that could succeed david cameron, writing an article in the "times." perhaps she will try to move away from the fiscal stimulus t