Coming out, lets do this thing, im trevor noah. Our guest tonight is one of the greatest rappers of all time here with a new album the lost tapes 2, nas is joining us, everyone. cheers and applause . Trevor it is going to be a imreat conversation. Also on tonights show america is going back to the moon. There is a lake that is turning in a person an why racism is not tallly racism so lets catch up on todays headlines. First up, lets talk about drugs. You guys want some . Just joking. Drugs are responsible for 18 percent of u. S. Imprisonment. And 35 percent of all shows on netflix. Drugs are also responsible for the coolest bust videoses you will ever see. Now to that incredible video. A member of the u. S. Coast guard riding a drug smul smuggler submarine. Intercepting a fully loaded drug smuggler sub off south america screaming at the smugglers to stop their boat. Then a brazen display of courage, riding the sub, pounding on the hatch. Finally five men surrender. In all three coast guard ships intercepted 14 narcovessels, confiscating 18 tons of cocaine anmar wanna. Street value, half a billion dollars. Trevor goddam that is why i love america. Did you see what that guy was doing. He jumped on a submarine in the ocean and banked on the door until they opened it. That is the definition of america [bleep] yeah, that is what that was. That was like the craziest thing. Like no other cop in the world would be that baller, i dont care what you say f african cops saw a drug deal on a regular boat, forget a submarine, they saw a boat they would be like what am i supposed to do huh, huh . They would be like no, no, no. This uniform is dry clean only, no, no, no, no. This is probably the wildest video i have ever seen. Also like why did the drug smugglers open the hatch. No, are you in a submarine, just sail away. Huh . Or do that thing people do when they are on the toilet. Bam bam bam bam, there is someone in here. laughter now you might be wondering, trevor, why didnt the sub just descend. Well, this is a really interesting thing i didnt know. But apparently these drug submarines arent really submarines, they cant go underwater, they request just skim the surface to stay under the radar of the coast guard so that is where they are. Stand weird foe discover. Wouldnt it be funny if the drug smuggler only discovered in that moments. The coast guard is here, we need to descend, actually patron, this submarine cant descend. What do you mean, it is a submarine. We say submarine but like you know, it is more like a low rider boat, you know . laughter all right, moving on. While the American Military was flexing in the water, the French Military has been flexing in the sky. A stunning sight in the streets of paris. This maybe the soldier of the future, an inventor showed off his fly board soaring over the streets with a rife nell hand, the leaders of france, germany and other countries were watching down below as part of a field day event. The French Military is looking too possibly using these fly boards. All right, people, we are officially living in the future. Yeah. Not because, i mean, that is the future, flying hover 3w0rds, like battles are about to get a lot more bad ass. I mean the fist battles will be bad ass and the first battle will be soldiers like whoa, whoa, whoa. But seriously, like its crazy. Here is the thing i dont understand about human, genuinely, we are building hoverboards to go to war now, we have so Much Technology to fight war, invisible jets, how come there is no technology to stop wars, you know . Think about it, how come america doesnt build like an antiwar device, like if russia ever declared war then the american generals can be like quickly, send out the cuddly bear and the russians would be like comrades prepare aahhh, so cute. And dont get me wrong. Like i think we should keep the hoverboards. But not just like with these hoverboards, humans can finally shit on pigeons. That is what we need. Yeah. For centuries those sky rats have been shitting on us, and it time we turn the tables now we can cat a pigeon whale they are walking to their car. And it would be like yeah, good luck, buddy. And finally, big news today for all of your favorite it trk v shows. Nominations for the 71st emmy awards have just been announced and as expected, hbos hit game of thrones leading the pack at the historic 32 nominations. Best drama series the nominees are better call saul, body guard, game of thrones, killing eve, ozark, pose, succession and this is us. Thats right, emmy nominations are out. And a lot of fan favorites, veep is back with nine nominations, ozark got nominated and game of thrones blew everyone away with 3 nominations, a record. Although you know what i say we should do. We should have the game of throarns people come to the awards but then we should give the award to best drama to sesame street, yeah. And they will be like what the hell, that doesnt make sense. And we will be like now you dont like endings that dont make sense, oh yeah, oh yeah . Now you dont like that . Oh, and there is one nomination that we are particularly excited about over here, in the category for outstanding variety show, the daily show was nominated, yes cheers and applause . Trevor thank you thank you. All of you, thank you. Thank you, like we truly could not have done it without you guys. Like thank you so much for supporting us, making this, i never take this for granted, all right, that is it for the headlines, lets move on to our main story. applause donald trump, i dont know if you remember but before he was elected, republicans told us that once he took office, he would calm down with the tweets. Remember that. Now here we are. Two and a half years later and his twitter tirades have only gotten worse. Right now the biggest story in the news is about a tweet the president sented stel t telling four democratic congresswomen that they should go back to where they came from instead of telling the u. S. How to run its government. Now this is weird for a number of reasons. First of all three of the Congress Women were born in america. And the fourth is a u. S. Citizen. Secondly, they are Congress Women, so trump telling them to stay out of the governments business doesnt make any sense. Yeah. It is like telling Spirit Airlines not to serve you peanuts that fell on the floor of other airlines. Thats what they do. Spirit airlines, if you wanted to eat clean peanuts you should have flown delta. laughter applause so for two days, people have been speaking out against trumps racist tweet and now nancy pelosi is making it official. Tonight the growing firestorm over two words by President Trump, go back. House republicans could be forced to take a public stand against President Trump. Nance hee pelosi plans a vote to condemn the president s raitszist attack on four members of congress. These comerchlts from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting. And the comments are racist. Trevor thats right. Congress is officially condemning trumps racist tweets. And i got to say, it must be cool to be in congress because you dont just have an opinion, you get to officially proclaim your opinion. Yeah. Just come outlining by a majority vote, congress hereby declares that diet coke and coke zero are basically the same thing i dont even understand why they call them Different Things now the House Democrats might be happy to label the president s words officially as racist. But the commander in tweet has come out and he is here to explain why these people are totally wrong. President trump says he has no regrets about his racist attacks on democratic lawmakers. Who are all women of color. Trump claims is he not being racist. Do you think the tweets are racist . Not at all. The new tweet from President Trump out just within the last couple of seconds here. And the president vociferously denying as he says i do not have a racist bone in my body. Trevor not a racist bone in his body. Well, to be fair, i have seen his body, and i dont think he has any bones. laughter applause he is sort of like that, sort of like that Stranger Things creature. Like melt down and slide under doors. I bet trump would be the first person to fail an xray exam, that is what he looks like. And by the way, by the way, everyone always says i dont have a racist bone in my body. But how do we know racism is in the bones, huh . Maybe it is in your spleen, we dont know, it could be anywhere. The only body part i know for a fact doesnt contain racism is the appendix, yeah, because i had my append, removed and i till think all italian people are in the mafia. It didnt change anything. laughter but trump has insisted his bones are 100 racism free. And then he went on to say that not only was this whole thing not racism, it was patriotism. And just this morning he wrote our country is free, beautiful and very successful. If you hate our country or if you are not happy here, you can leave. As far as im concerned, if you hate our country, if you are not happy here, you can leave. And thats what i say all the time. That is what i said in a tweet which i guess some people think is controversial. Trevor wow, if you are not happy in america, you can leave. You know what is interesting, right, is that trump says that now. But when he was running for president , his entire message was america is failing. This country is not what it used to be. China is beating us. Instead of complaining, why didnt he just leave . Like it doesnt make sense. cheers and applause . Trevor like logically, that is what he did. Make America Great again is basically saying america is shit, we need to fix it. But no one told him to leave. Just because you complain about your country, doesnt mean you dont love it. It like sports, fans want their teams to be better, that is why they complain, right. If the knicks kicked out every fan who yelled at them to play better, Madison Square garden would be emier than mike pences spice cabinet, that is what it would be. And just by the way, just by the way, if trumps comment, here is the thing that gets me, if trumps comments really had nothing to do with racism, nothing to do with race, how come he never said anything like this to bernie sanders. Think about it. Bernie always talks about america. And he always lists countries that are doing much better than america. But trump has never, not even once, told bernie to go back to where he comes from. Never. And i mean i get that spartly because ancient greece doesnt exist any more, but that is not the point. laughter now a surprising number of republican officials have actually come out and said that they think trumps tweet was racist. But what has been fun to watch is republicans like mitt romney trying to condemn trump for being racist, without actually saying the word racist. Do you think that his tweets were racist toward the congresswomen . You know, a lot of people have been using the word and my own view is that what was said and what was tweeted was drukive, was de meaning, was disunifying and frankly was very wrong. Trevor another word with a d, uh, uh, it is almost like he was playing the game taboo and the forbidden word was racist. Its de meaning, no, no, its ksh no, sperveg specific people, no, disparaging. Times up. Aahhh. Trevor it was very wrong, guys, racism, romney clearly doesnt have the balls to say racism, but at least he acknowledges that trump made a boo boo. Most other republicans have come up with a talking point to try and justify what trump said. The Top Republican in the house Kevin Mccarthy is de fending the president. He says mr. Trump isnt racist, hes just frustrated about these four Congress Women and their political views. I think what you heard was a frustration that was not based on any religious preference, on any skin color or anything else. It is a frustration that we have, a congress that needs to act and they havent acted. Come on, of course the president is not racist but he is frustrated like so Many Americans are. Trevor yes, may friends, the president wasnt being racist. He was just frustrated. It happens all the time. Huh . You get frustrated and you just become racist. Like im mot being to lie, i suffer from this, like every time a try and solve a rubiks rubix cube it happens to me, i will show you, i cant even control, i know are you supposed to move like one and then you see, and it just just nigger sorry, sorry, sorry, no, no, im not racist, i swear, i swear, im not racist. Im not racist. I dont even see color. Which is probably why i struggle with these things, like i cant that is why i cant figure it out. Plaws plawls frustration doesnt make you racist. All right f anything it just lets your racism slip out. Same thing with being angryk drunk, hungary, none of that makes you say racist things. Because if it did, those candy bar commercials would be a lot different. Ill let him know, jose wants to see you in his office. I dont trust this mexican. The only reason they get pinatas is so they can practice beating up white people. Look, no offense, but black people have to learn how to parallel park. Asians, they dont even know how to tag people on instagram. Dude, eat a snax bar. Why. Because are you a little racist when are you hungary. Bet sner. Better. Am i right . applause . Trevor well be right back. applause you got your homework . Yeah. Yeah . Hey, give me a kiss. [ kisses ] announcer whats the role of a car company . Go announcer to take your kids to and from school . Mari. Yes . What are you doing . Dont forget your science project. Announcer we think it can be something bigger. Announcer this summer, during our drive bigger event, announcer volkswagen is supporting americas teachers. Announcer join us, announcer and drive something bigger than yourself. 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But when disaster struck lake erie the residents of toledo ohio decided enough is enough. Michael kosta has more. Right now im standing on top of lake erie. Well, im actually on a boat that is on you know how that, withouts. Recently the residents of toledo ohio voted to make lake erie a person. What does that even mean . Already k we go back, i think im going to puke. Local activist marky mill certificate one of the human people responsible for getting the lake erie personhood i nish it tiff passed. Our premise was to change the notion that nature is merely property and that if you own the permit, that you get to deses troy it, harm it. So by giving lake erie its own set of rights, we have a better way of enforcing proterkses. How far can this go . A lake is a person . What is next, the Swimming Pool a person . Is a dog a person . Is a child a person . Do you see how slippery this slope is. Much like, you know, a child we often have someone else speak on their behalf. And i think that tends to be our relationship with lake erie that we become trusties of this lake. You can be honest here, im from michigan. Anyone that has been down here knows that people here kind of march to their own drummer. Sure. Is this a sexer thing . Definitely not at all. So making a lake into a person is clearly a weird sex thing. But markie and her fellow conservationists have even more selfish motivations. The toxic water situation in ohio that prompted the governor it declare a state of emergency. Lake erie a major source of Drinking Water serves 400,000 people. We lost access to our Drinking Water for three days. It impacted 500,000 people. They couldnt bathe, they couldnt touch the water. Couldnt do your laundie, wash your dishes. Water became a really scares commodity. It wasnt available. Oh, goddam that is good. We realized how vulnerable we were. And how precious the resource was. That it could be taken away just like that. It is something that we enjoy, isnt it. Yeah. Do you mind if i just. But if turning your lake into a person really the best way to protect it . Apparently so. According to the Community EnvironmentalLegal Defense fund which has successfully turned nature into persons in places as exotic at ecuador, new zealand and pennsylvania. Well, we describe it more as the right to live, to flourish, exist, be healthy but yeah, in our legal world we are use personhood rights. I mean what, what is a person, tish. Is this lake a person . St living. It is living, okay. What about that river. Yeah, its living and there is life all around it and in it and it is living. Is this a person . Oh my god, jesus, sorry, why was that there . Why was that in there . What do you say to your critics that say this is absolutely bat shit [bleep] crazy. I dont find it crazy, kormings have personhood right, they are not even a living entity and yet nature that we depend on is not considered having the same rights that we do or that corporations do. And there is tons of opposition to giving lake erie the rights of a person from farmts, to state government, fisherman with ibs. Basically anyone else trying to get rid of their toxic dumps. Found out that bp was basically the sole funder of the campaign against the bill of rights. Bp. Black people, you know, i always knew that. British petroleum. British petroleum, can we put that . Can we put that part out . British petroleum. They do have a refinery not far up in toledo but i think it was more about you know, not wanting this idea of rights of nature to take off. But you know, we do live here. And were not going to sit back and be poisoned. You know, markie, i have to admit when i came here i thought, i thought it was bullshit, marky. I kind of thought you were this crazy woman who decided to make laker yea a person. But here you are on the battlegrounds, every day, fighting against big agriculture, fighting against the state of ohio, fighting for this beautiful body of water. But the real hero here, yeah, you a little bit, but even more so than that, i am the one who is showcasing you. So if anything, i am the hero. And that is why i love this story. So maybe a person can make a difference. And maybe a lake can become a person. And maybe it it can even get married to the handsome, sensitive correspondent who saved it. I do. Because true love is pure, it is deep, it is clear, it is perfect and it tastes sweet. Aaah, bla imrks gh, why didnt you tell me there is something wrong with this water. applause . Trevor michael kosta, everyone. Well be right back. Well be right back. cheers and applause introducing a boost to your workout water. Electrolytes, meet vitamins b, c and e. With no artificial sweeteners, this is the new propel vitamin boost. With no artificial sweeteners, tell him were flexible. Dont worry. My dutch is ok. Just ok . in dutch tell him we need this merger. in dutch its happening. just ok is not ok. Especially when it comes to your network. 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Im sump a big fan of yours and so excited for this new album, what is weird to me is the first time i met you was in russia. Yes. Which we were both there for the world cup. Yeah. Like i am in russia and i turn around and im not expecting to see anybody who is black and then im like wow, that guy looks like nas and it was you, do you enjoy it out there, was that your first world cup. My first world cup, and first time in russia. I didnt know at the time though that you were planning to drop an album. You didnt tell me, you didnt even slip it in or give me the inside scoop. I didnt even know. It was, we was working on it for a couple of years and i, i really didnt know what to do with these songs because they werent really, the songs that i wanted to put on the record, they were just sitting there and i always thought like i would come back to them and finish them up later but it never happened. So i am sitting there with all of these songs starting to pile up. And im like oh, i did a lost tapes album 17 years ago. I think it is time for another one. Yeah, but lost tapes is one of the most iconic albums where people said nas came out with this music, this collection of ideas and you put it together. It is an interesting idea as a musician to say these songs didnt have a space on an album but i still love what i have created, im still trying to do something different. So it is a mix, some people actually enjoy more because it has such a varied sense. When people listen to it, is there an order for lost tapes, do you just play the song . Does it mat sner is it like five, seven, two, three, one. No, you just play them, you kind of have got to guess like what year did he make this. Trevor that is nice, like a gesessing game. Yeah. Some of the songs are like ten years old, 12 years old, and some of them are like as early as a year and a half ago. Trevor thaks thats dope. You are seen as a music mogul now, as a businessman but i am interested in some of the things that you started doing that people dont expect. Like you are going on tour now with mary j bliej, and that is blige, and that is exciting. Yes. applause it is an honor it is an honor. Im a huge fan of mary jblige, royalty tour, check it out. Trevor that is going to be insane. And then you are part of a hiphop museum. Yeah, we hope to break ground on that this year. We plan to build it in the bronx by 2022 it. Trevor is it interesting to look at hiphop and how it changed because some rappers came into the imaim when hiphop was completely bonaified and people are like yeah, mainstream. You have seen the change from being considered the hoodlums on the side to the mainstream, now did you ever think that hiphop would get to this point . I thought it but i didnt know it would be reality, but i did, i was hopeful that it would turn out to be this way and that i would be around to see it happen, thank god i am. Because it is a great time. Right. A great time to be a hiphop artist. Trevor hiphop artist, a mogul, part of a museum, going on tour, and one of the most interesting as pects of your life right now is you are releasing a childrens book, yeah, called i know i can. applause yes. It. Trevor that say completely different. Now that i didnt see happening. laughter i didnt see that one. But i do have a song, an important song in my catalog called i can. So you know, it im into education for kids, i have two kids so i want to see the best for our kids out here so putting together this book, im still writing it it, it should be out this year. Trevor you know what i am excited about the most is there is going to be another generation that will grow up and be like nas, one of the greatest quhirns book writers of all time. Be like, he raps . It will be amazing, thank you so much for being on the show. Appreciate it. The lost tapes 2. Will be out july 19th. Nas, everybody, well be right back. Im truly amazed at the effect that it has on people. Thank you, bob rates vehicles for safety, andr hsome reach a level of top safety pick. But only a select few of the very safest vehicles are awarded a top safety pick plus. The highest level of safety possible. How many 2019 top safety pick pluswinning vehicles does your brand have . One. Two. How about eight . Subaru has more 2019 top safety pick plus awards than honda and toyota brands combined. Theres safe, and then theres subaru safe. See . Romance isnt dead but it is here. Thanks, captain obvious. Dont hatelike their trip, book yours with hotels. Com and get rewarded basically everywhere. Why are you here . Why are you here . Why are either of you here . hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. I can taste your beer. I want to taste his beer. 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