Senator who is tuly willing to talk with us. Senator rand paul will be joining us, everything. Also, mutiny on a cruise ship. California goes back to the dark ages. And shockingly, theres a war in the middle east. Lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with the big news out of california. Last year around this time, falling power lines sparked major wildfires across the state. So with the winds picking up again, the Electric Company decided to play it safe and pull the plug. Tonight, californias largest utility taking an extraordinary move, cutting power to hundreds of thousands to avoid wildfires sparked by a windblown power lines, but many are furious. The Utility Company pg e just proactively shut power off across the region after power lines sparked a series of historically devastating wildfires. While residents stocked up on supplies, the lines crashing, leaving families like the garcias wondering how long they have to power through without electricity. I hope it doesnt last five days. Thats kinds of insane. Trevor thats right, california has turned off the employer for half a Million People to prevent wildfires. Can may be smart for safety, but obviously it sucks for the people without electricity. Because now they have to talk tow their families for the first time in ages. It will be so awkward. So, tommy, how is fourth grade . Dad, im in grad school. Oh, oh, man, when is touchdown coming back. You know what is not cool, the Power Company shut off power for 600,000 people, but they made sure Silicon Valley got to keep their electricity. Everyone else has like, they should have done the opposite. They should have only shut down Silicon Valley. Because we could use a break from social media. Come on now. Wouldnt that be nice . No twitter, no facebook. No one has to read their racist uncles Facebook Status or their racist president s tweets. It would be so much fun. cheers and applause you know who is winning so hard right now, you know who is winning hard . Amish people. Archbishop because they finally get a chance to act smug as hell, just rolling into town on their horse and buggy, singing old town road. Just like, well, well, well, feeling stressed art thou . Would love to stay and chat with you light bulbloving bleep . My butter aint going to churn itself. Jeremiah out this story is a reminder we made too many things electricity that we dont need. When the power goes out, youre like, how will i brush my teeth . Oh, no. How will i smoke my weed theyre like, we could have sex. I cant. My penis wont work without power. Alexa . Lets move on toes now from somewhere off the coast of norway. A boat load of people who thought they were embarking on an exciting cruise of the fjords of norway got a different kind of excitement. Mutiny on a cruise ship. Several say the toilet stopped working. The toilet does not flush. It smells. It leaks. Passengers got into tense confrontations with the crew. There is nothing you can say not one thing they dont want any of the video going viral theres no internet they shut down the internet. Norwegian cruiseline issued a statement apologizing for their guests inconvenience, blaming weather for the change in itinry. They offered passengers a 25 credit for a future trip. Trevor instead of a refund, the cruiseline is offering 25 off another crews . Thats hellagangsta, man. Imagine if the titanic did that . Pulling people into the lifeboats. Im so sorry your husband froze to death. Heres a coupon for a frozen margarita next time. I get the vacation wasnt perfect but im not going to lie, some people were being extreme. The toilets dont flush, but youre still on a cruise ship. You have slides expendless alcohol. The toilets dont work. The ocean is right there, natures original toilet. Do your thing, over the side, back to the pool. You know how i know things werent that bad is because people got together to make a group sign. That doesnt happen in a real disaster. laughter when shit is really going down, no one is like, were gog die who has pen and paper were all goana die were all gonna die. Wouldnt it be funny if the passengers take over. I want to see the captain. Imagine if they took over the ship and it became a pirate cruise, sailing around the seas attacking other cruises. Arrggh take the buffet. To a fun time in the air gone really long. Hot air balloon horror, flames erupting at one of the nations largest festivals. Fire falling from the skies. A hot air balloon engulfed in flames with a passenger and pilot on board. Just one in a string of balloons in stress during one of the nations largest festivals, the Albuquerque International balloon fiesta in new mexico. Authorities also rushing to help the passengers on this balloon after it goes flying into the cable line. And not frar there, a balloon crashed into a tree on a golf course and is ripped apart. Trevor okay, i am so happy everyone survived those crashes. And on top of that it is nice to see a story where i know no black people were hurt. laughter applause i dont even need to read the articles on this. So things didnt go as planned. What was the plan . Theyre balloons. You cant control them. Imagine if you got in your car and it just went in the direction the wind was blowing. All right, on my way to work. No it looks like im going into the lake i dont know about you, but im not getting into any mode of transportation built around a basket. Ive never been at a picnic and thought i want to do that in the sky. Thats it for the headlines. Lets move on to our top story. cheers and applause donald trump. President of the United States and joker understudy. laughter it feels like we say this a lot but the president is not having a good time. A new poll is out showing 51 of americans now support impeaching and removing him from office. And by the way, by the way, this was cheers and applause this was a fox news poll. Yeah. Which must have hurt. It must have hurt trump. Thats like if gayle said she was 51 against oprah. laughter while the ukraine scandal continues to engulf President Trump, Vice President mike pence is doing everything he can to stay clean i never discussed the issue of of the issue of the bidens with president zelensky what i can tell you is all of our discussions internally i mean, the president and our team in our context in my office with ukraine, were entirely focused on the broader issues of the lack of european support and corruption. But you were aware of the bidens being investigated and that being tied to aid to ukraine being held up. Thats your question. Let me be very clear. Trevor goddamn laughter oh, mike pence avoided that question like it was a woman with her ankles showing. That was extreme. laughter i like how he says, well, thats thats your question. Yeah. And now you answer. Thats how questions work. Mike pence is out here trying to pull conversion therapy on a question. Hes like, let the power of jesus rule cast out the demon in that question. Now, while the impeachment train is picking up steam, thats really not the big news today. The big news is turkey because earlier this week, President Trump ordered american troops to step aside in syria, allowing turkey to attack americas kurdish allies in the region. And guess what . Thats exactly what happened. Turkey tonight wasting no time launching a military attack on u. S. Kurdish allies inside syria just two days after receiving a Virtual Green light from President Trump. Dubbed operation peace spring by the turkish government. Turkish forces driving deeper into Northern Syria, attacking u. S. Allies, the kurds, with advancing troops on the ground, while pounding kurdish positions from the air. Another danger as kurdish fighters now rush to the front lines to defend themselves against turkey, they can no longer properly guard detention camps, packed with tens of thousands of isis members. Trevor what a shit show. Thanks to trumps impulsive decision, people are now fleeing syria. The turkish are now bombing the kurds. And over 10,000 isis fighters could be back on the loose. Yeah. Which is bad news for everyone. I mean, great news for truck dealers because isis guys love trucks, you know. And thats the only people who are winning. As soon as they escape theyll be like, were free, just in time for toyotathon. Yeah laughter so in the midst of this unfolding disaster, donald trump is responding in the only way he knows how by being petty as hell. Here is how President Trump defended his decision to abandon the kurds. The kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand, theyre fighting for their land. And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didnt help us in the second world war. They didnt help us with normandy, as an example. Trevor wait, what . Trump saying america shouldnt help its kurdish allies because they didnt help america in world war ii . I mean, to be fair, not helping in a war is one area president bone spurs has experience with, but still, this logic doesnt hold up. cheers and applause because the kurds are helping america fight isis right now. Imagine if your boss used that logic, just walked in like, bill, youve been a great employee for the last five years, but you shit your pants 30 years ago. We gotta let you go. But i was a baby back then. H. R. Still thinks its gross. Im sorry, man. laughter oh, and just by the way, by the way, the kurds actually did fight with the allies in world war ii. So the next time trump wants to bring up history he should check with his friend frederick douglass. Its not a real thing. So trump clearly has no regrets about america abandoning an ally that has lost 11,000 of their troops helping fight this war. He also doesnt give a damn about what could happen if those isis fighters escape. The president pressed, too, on those isis prisoners. Could isis pose a threat elsewhere . Well, they could be escaping to europe. Thats where they want to go. Trevor wow. So what . Trump doesnt care about isis fighter because he thinks theyre only going to go to europe . Thats really heartless. And, also, trump, you realize you need europe, right, because without europe, theres no romania. Without romania theres no vampires. Without vampires, you dont have a lawyer. laughter applause who would the f. B. I. Indict . I mean. Secondly, its really shortsighted, because if you let thousands of isis fighters regroup, they could come back bigger than ever. Its exactly what happened with the backstreet boys. We took our eyes off them, they regrouped, and now theyre touring all over the world. laughter im just saying it might seen right now like a few isis prisoners, but in a few years well be like oh, my god theyre back again laughter so, look, trumps decision to move american troops and allow this invasion could have truly disastrous consequences, and many people are wracking their brains trying to figure out why trump did this out of nowhere. But instead of guessing, maybe we should just be listening to trump himself. President trumps decision to pull troops from Northern Syria is once again raising questions about his business dealings. As the Washington Post points out, the first person to suggest donald trump would have a conflict of interest in dealing president erdogan was actually trump himself. Here he is, back in 2015 trevor two towers negotiate trevor two hours not one. Its one and another one. I call it two in istanbul. laughter yeah. I mean, this whole thing would make sense because for trump, its always about real estate. People think hes playing threedimensional chess. Maybe hes just playing monopoly. But whatever the reason is, trump is now dealing with a major world crisis in addition to his impeachment inquiry. So thats two scandals, not one, but two. Well be right back. cheers and applause the more things in your home you make yourself, the more it feels like your home. Theres something just really special about putting in our own time, sweat, blood, tears into our home. Were learning how to do these things as we go. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt, but its really fun. We want to create a place for more people than just ourselves. Im candida. Im jeff. And were airbnb hosts. This is an ad for a chip we dont need a logo. Its the threesided crunch. You know, that cheesy, spicy, crispycrunchy, flavor packed bodega snack that rhymes with. I need those. An ad with no logo . Its another level. Morning fred. [bark] [silence] sorry, sorry. cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight is a physician and republican lawmaker from kentucky who has a new book called the case against socialism. Please welcome senator rand paul. cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. Its good to be here. I cant believe more republicans dont want to come on. Trevor its weird, right . It must hurt you right here. Trevor it hurts me so you know why . Because more republicans came to the show than democrats before trump was president. And then trump won, and then all of a sudden, you guys, its almost like you were afraid to come back. You think theres a cause and of affordable twfer are are effect between the two. Trevor wait, youre afraid of what trump will think if you come here . Is that what it is . laughter applause no, regardless, can i tell you, i appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate you coming here because i love having conversations. Were going to talk about the book the case against socialism. But i would be remiss if i didnt talk about the news of the day, donald trump pulling the troops out of the region in syria. You supported trumps decision to withdraw the troops. Why . As you and i have talked about before, ive been opposed to regime change and war in the middle east for a long time. I agreed with president obamas decision to come out of iraq. I never thought the iraq war was a good idea to begin with. I think it was one of the reasons he beat hillary clinton. I think its also been one of the things where there could be some agreement between right and left. But i think people kind of got distracted with the things they dont like about President Trump. But do we really want another war in syria . There are, like, five Different Countries fighting, and are 50 soldiers going to stop the advance of tens of thousands of turkish troops . Trevor but they did though. They did, and they were. Lets argue it this way there were 50odd american troops in that region, right . And the Turkish Forces werent attacking the kurdish forces. But no, they were gettiers my po trevor so youre saying President Trump did that to protect the troops because that was about to happen. I think so. Trevor you think so or know so . Honestly, im asking. I havent had a discussion with the president about it. But what i would say is i think 50 troops are not what you really go to war with. So if you talk to our generals or you talk to our soldiers theyre of the belief if america is going to go to war, lets go to war, but you dont go to war with the 50 people. Right and left agree forward a long time regime change didnt help us in iraq. It didnt help us in libya. Maybe its not the job of america to always decide who runs every country. Trevor thats an interesting standpoint. Let me let me ask you this with regards to news that is happening now, aside from turkey. The impeachment scandal is growing every single day. You you know, youve had your points of view, and youve said, you know, you think the bidens should be investigated. You think that america should be looking into what trump donald trump has said is a corruption that is happening somewhere there. So i understand your standpoint and im not ignoring it. That aside, though, do you think that donald trump was appropriate in the way he handled that . Do you think he did it in the right way . Because if he believed there was a corruption, why did he not go through the f. B. I. . Why would he put pressure on a foreign leader with the promise of american aid . Most people in america want people to be judged with the same sort of law. Soy if it looks like were going to judge trump with one law and were going to judge biden with another law. Some people are going to say thats unfair. Some people retreat into a corner trevor if youre with those people, would you support both of them being judged, if they have both done something wrong . No, what i would say is yes. I would say that we can judge what they did whether it was right or wrong. I think there are a lot of different viewpoints on this, i think whose going to happen with the impeachment thing is people will retreat into their camps and finally make a judgment is it fair to treat people differently . Is it fair, or do we dislike other things about the president enough were fine going on this. I think there is a danger i think special prosecutors have too much power. And when the democrats win, theyll go after republicans, when the republicans win, theyll go after the democrats. I think theres a real danger to become our country where everything will be criminalized. Were going to have an election in a year. Can we wait a year to decide who the run the government . Audience no. 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Time among other things . [ song johnny cash, th sthese are my people these are the ones who will reach for the stars these are my people by the light of the earth, you can tell they are ours a new step to take and a new day will break yes, these are my people cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. Were joined by senator rand paul. Your book is selfexplanatory the case against socialism. Straight into it you are clearly against it. The question is why . When you look at the cases of socialism over the last 100 years, whether it be hitler or stalin or mao or pol pot or what you see is famine. What you see is a disaster of epic proportions. And i think we have to be careful that we dont somehow think, well, its going to be different this time. One of the greatest principles we didnt like a king, we didnt like a powerful president. And we still resist the idea and we promote the idea of separation of power and checks and balances. Gll could one not argue that capitalism has gotten to the point in america where you do in fact have kings and rulers . You do have people who define how other people can live. Lets talk about the medicine industry in america. Weve seen opioids, they know how to get the people, youre in a word where you dont have a choice anymore. Its a corrupt system masquerading as pure free markets. When you have honest capitalism, people get rich based on merit and based on selling something consumers want, sam walton, for example. There are examples of crony capitalism as well where the system has been corrupted. But the system has been corrupted by people taking and using government to their advantage. Big pharma and pharmaceutical industry has done that. Im not a big fan of that. I think they have really corrupted the patent system. I think they have abused the patent system. And that needs to be fixed. Thats not real capitalism. Thats people using government to corrupt the system. Trevor i agree. When you look at america, lets just look at republicans in america. Look how many people voted for donald trump. And why did they vote for him . They said because they havent moved in their lives. Their wages are stagnant. They have no money. Factories have moved to country wheres it is cheaper to make things. Companies have found ways to pay less, and wages in america have been stagnant for half a century, essentially. But the interesting thing trevor but is that not capitalism . If we go socialism bad, but is capitalism great . The interesting thing since President Trump was elected the median wage has been up 4,000. Unemployment is at historic lows. We have become so polarized people are unwilling to look at that. But thing are better. Trevor no, unemployment people have acknowledged. But in terms of wages in america. Wages are stagnant in america. People are not better off they absolutely off. Trevor more people live at home than ever before. They cant buy their own houses. The. The statistics are overwhelming. 100 years ago if you were to take a certain amount of money, an average workers pay and buy goods, you would get one basket of goods, one container of goods. You get seven times as much for the same price now. The amount that trevor no, no, this is true. Yes, thats true the amount of your income that you paid as a percentage of your income for food in 1919 was, like, 35 . Trevor right. Its down to 12 . Trevor but then the difference as well is the amount of income that you pay for medical care and essentials now has also gone up an insane amount versus that time. Exactly, exactly. applause trevor so then the arguments is basically having no, im with you. But the argument but the one thing im have having with you and we cant talk about it forever. We have the book. We want people to read it. Im just asking you this then the next argument. Trevor i want to ask you this. But the next laughter before you get away from health care, yes, health care has risen. Over 50 of health care is provided by the government now. The prices are fixed between Big Government and insurance companies. Since we passed obamacare, the profits have gone from 6 billion tow 16 billion. They know how to play the system. Trevor the book is fascinating. I love having you on the show because we argue, we just go back and forth. I appreciate you coming on the show again. The case against socialism is in bookstores now. Rand pau this is an ad for a chip so iconic. We dont need a logo. Its the threesided crunch. You know, that cheesy, spicy, crispycrunchy, flavor packed bodega snack that rhymes with. I need those. An ad with no logo . Its another level. Take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. So you dont have to stash antacids here. Here. Or, here. Kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. One pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. cheers and applause trevor thats our show for tonight. Before we gbefore we go, youve probably heard trump say that he had a perfect call with ukraines president. You know the call held with military aid in exchange for joe biden, that perfect call. Well, we made it possible for you at home to have your own perfect call with the president. Yeah, with the the daily shows donald j. Trump before call hotline. If you call 95444trump right now, the president is standing by. And you can have a perfect call with him. All right, now here it is, your moment of zen. Were back with the breaking news. Energy secretary rick perry was just subpoenaed by the house impeachment inquiry chairman for documents related to the ukraine scandal. Uno, dos, tres, quatro uno, dos, tres, quatro cheers and applause david on their trip to armenia, courtney car dashons 4yearold son flipped the bird to fans. I finally have a favorite kardashian now. ~bleep you armenia. 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