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From comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much, everybody my guest tonight is a Supreme Court correspondent for slate, Dahlia Lithwick is here, and im really excited that she is because were going to get her insight on americas possible new Supreme CourtJustice Neil Gorsuch yay but first, in america today, few people have more difficult job than press secretary and white house minion sean spicer. laughter his job is to communicate policy, serve as the administrations public face, and sometimes explain that just because somebody happens to be at their Vacation Home a lot doesnt mean that they are on vacation. In his first eight weeks in Office President trump has made at least ten trips to the golf course. He regularly used to criticize president obama for spending time on the course. How is his golf game any different . Well, i think two things. One, you saw him utilize this as an opportunity with Prime Minister ave to help foster deeper relationships in southeast asia. Secondly, we went to down to he had a mini Cabinet Meeting the other day down or two weekends ago down at his club in virginia. How you use the game of golf is something that hes talked about. laughter trevor am i the only one who noticed sean spicer looks like he needs to upgrade his operating system . laughter like, if you watch him closely, you can actually see the processor slowing down, um what we um uh shame, poor spice, he has too many lies going, hes starting to crash. He just wants to be invited to play golf. Hes like, i defended you so well, can i join you for one game . Trumps like immitating donald trump i told you to go to the arcade ill pick you up when its dark out laughter but i believe spicer, that trump is running his policy on the golf course partly because f. B. I. Is investigating whether trump learned golf through the series putting with putin. First you hack into your opponents clubs. There is within obstacle spicer can never get over, his boss. If youre at the white house and have so much work to do, why do you leave so much . I wont be playing golf because im going to be working for you, im not going to have time to play golf. I love golf and i have some of the greatest golf courses in the world, i own doral, turnbury in scotland but if i were ever in the white house, i dont think id ever see turnbury or doral again. I just want to stay in the white house and work my ass off. Trevor thats right, hit it work work work work work laughter oh, you know what . To be honest with you, if President Trump needs to play golf to chill and unwind, then let him, because if this is relaxed donald trump, goddam, i dont want to be around when hes stressed. Let him play golf. We could spend the show talking about golf and u. S. President s and how complaining about their time on the course is tradition. Republicans complain about democrats playing golf, democrats complain about republicans playing golf. Doesnt mean anything. There is no time to delve into half the stories. Before you can digest one, theres five more, which is why weve decided to handle it in a new segment called aint nobody got time for that. cheers and applause right now, we dont have the time to talk about president ial golf because this, morning, we woke up to this this morning, u. S. Officials taking the extraordinary step of banning electronics bigger than cell phones from the cabins of jet liners flying in from eight middle eastern countries, including several allies, egypt, saudi arabia, the gulf states. The u. S. Ban prevents laptops, cameras, d. V. D. Players and electronic games from entering the cabin. Trevor a laptop ban . I tell you right now, i the know whos behind this, its that go go inflight bull bleep , yeah, because they dont want us watching the movies we brought on and they want us to pay 39. 99 for two hours of wifi that goes out right after the airplane takes off. We see you, go go we see you ates violation of our its a violation of our basic human rights to take aa way things that didnt exist six years ago. By the way, if you thought you had problems with terrorism before, just wait until you see how parents react when they find out that they have to be on a long flight with their kids and cant use an ipad. Ive never seen someone radicalized so fast cheers and applause now, we could spend our time talking about what kind of threat there must be for governments around the world to suddenly bring us back to the 90s, but we dont have time for that, because, right now, the senate is Holding Hearings on Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch and, wow, is this dude white. Ill never forget my first day on the job, carrying a pile of briefs up the steps to the bench, i tripped on the hem of my robe. One of the jurors came up afterwards and said to me, son, youre a young perry mason. Whenever a lawyer just says im a lawyer from a small town, watch out. Beating chickens phon the county fair. Devising ways to keep our determined pet goat out of the garden. Gosh gosh i mean, golly gosh goodness oh, goodness knows oh, my goodness. Trevor gosh, gosh, oh, golly darn, gosh wow, that guys white. Except pore the goat thing. Even africans we relate to that. Neil gorsuch, i agree with you, the pet goat is so, so difficult i hear you, neil gorsuch i hear you completely, neil gorsuch applause now, the whole neil Gorsuch Nomination is a fascinating story because you have a judge who, on the surface, is more than qualified but, because of trumps taint can i say that by the way . The democrats want to block him, but they also want to kind of make out with him because good lord that guy is handsome. Look at that face. I could spend all night looking at his face. But there is no time to look at his face because of this earthquake in the Media Business conservative talk show host tommy lahren has been search rarely suspended from glen becks the Blaze Network after airing prochoice views last week. I am prochoice. I i am someone who loves the constitution and for limited government. So i cant be a hypocrite and say im for limited government but i cant decide what women do with their bodies. Trevor shes talking so fast, how do you hear what shes saying . But jokes assayed, honestly, this is not cool. If youre a conservative network that preaches day in and day out, you politically correct snowflakes get offended too easily when anyone says something you disagree with. Then tommy comes out and speaks her truth, says shes prochoice and suddenly her bosses go, oh, you like choices . Well how about you choose a new job . Thats not cool. I was offended by the hypocris, so offended that i wanted to protest it. Unfortunately, there is no type of black people protest that tommy is comfortable with. So cheers and applause i guess we should just move on. Because you know what they say when god fires one white woman, he employs another. First daughter ivanka trump is getting her own office in the west wing of the white house. Shes also getting security clearance to access classified information. Ivanka trump is getting all this even though shes not an official Government Employee and will have no official title. An ethics advisor says ivanka will follow all ethics rules. Trevor its official, people. The white house has lower standards of who they will bring in than nordstrom. applause and by the way, ivanka says shell follow all the ethics rules. I feel like the first rule of ethics club is dont hire your daughter. The simplest and first rule. applause you know, this is one of those stories that goes so deep, nepotism, possible conflicts of incest, compromise of National Security i mean, we should be digging into the details of a job with no title. What does that mean . But the truth, is we cant. Because in the world were living in right now, aint nobody got time for that. Unsurprisingly, weve still got time for ads. Well be right back. cheers and applause my new georgia gold chicken tenders at kfc make regular gold jealous. My georgia gold is hand prepared with tangy Honey Mustard barbecue sauce. And gold is only gold. Get it as a chicken little sandwich, extra crispy tenders or extra Crispy Chicken for a limited time. Kfc. Its Finger Lickin gold. [music beatbox vocals playing] youre gonna rock the party rock this party up say hello to at ts best, unlimited data deal ever. Its a total gamechanger. 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As the daily shows only white guy, i have been sent into Trump Country to Chronicle Campaign rallies, the inauguration and victory tours. But now something different. The cam pan rally in nashville. Paid for by his 2020 reelection commity. Campaign rallies again. This is still happening why is this still happening . Because Donald Trumps the man running for president while hes president without doing president ial bleep . Dont say that. Hes done a lot of president ial bleep . I support him in 2020. Feels like old times. Feels like were on the campaign trail, doesnt it . It does. Why are we still on the campaign trail . Reason one, making money that goes into the campaign. Two, not a public event guaranteeing these are his people in other words, a classic trump rally full of mo song n. I. S. Ic tshirts, minorities getting the bleep kicked out and Trump Supporters like this reacting to minority protesters. Weve named these guys the black cocker roach ninjas. You dont even try to hide the racism anymore. What . Youre at a trump rally. I know it. But todays rally is about looking for the future. Who will we lock up in 2020. Anyone who runs against him. If cory booker decides to run against him . Booker the crooker. Based on anything. No. Just bleep . No, it is based on something, the democrats are crooks. Who are we locking up in 2020. Hopefully hillary. Youre still on the hillary tip . Yes. Thats so 2016. Donald trump doesnt even want to lock up hillary in 2 2017. You could start with obama. What for . Sedition and treason. What did he do that was treason. The guns sold in fast and furious. Youre thinking of tyrese, not obama. No. But 2020 is more than just locking up the opposition. We want to keep islam out of this country because its evil. Theres goals to come over here and make it like the middle east is what theyre trying to do. Thats happening . I got a cousin in must haveriesboro whos married to a muslim and i know what they do. Murfreesboro is about as middle east as you can get. Maybe im too hard on the people. Maybe they have good ideas for the future. What are the issues for 2020 . We need to focus on getting the homeless off the street and get them in housing. Thank god. And michele, thats a man. What did you say . Micheles a man. Michelle obama is a man . Yeah, a shemale. Okay, what proof do you have . You see it all over the in the media, in pictures, even on the degenerate show. God, theres just so much to unpack right here. First of all, you watch ellen . No, no, i dont watch no lesbians. Even this is a campaign rally, trump is also using it for an turn to to sell his healthcare plan. If trump gets this through, signs it, everybody will be happy. But its like the obamacare, they shoved that down our throats. Mmhmm. Nobody didnt get a chance to look that. Anecdotal evidence . It was pushed too fast. It was less than a week, i can tell you that. Thats not right but it feels that way. Yeah. Know so much about trumpcare. Better than obamacare. Trumpcare sounds better. Literally sounds better . Yeah, if it sounds better, its better. The trump is the important part. As long as its trump, you wont think how bad it is. There is a slogan for 2020, as long as it says trump, you wont be thinking about how bad it is. Yeah. There you have it, america, your rallying cry for 2020. cheers and applause Trevor Donald trump, everybody well be right back this beer is tough. But fair. Coors banquet. Thats how its done. Man, im really craving a dr pepper. Craverider he always has a dr pepper. Heads up. When youre craving dr pepper craverider, hit me. Sorry, man, that was my last one. But your song just said you always have dr pepper . I got you. Craverider hes spraying dr pepper cause hes out of dr pepper see you guys. Woo the one you crave. Heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho its off to work we go heres to all of you early risers, whats up man . Gogetters, and shouldbe sleepers. From all of us at delta, because the ones who truly change the world, are the ones who cant wait to get out in it. Becaum, i cant have happen what happened t time. Ahem. Heres my card. Im sure you know your profits are down 8 . So, just let me know if you want to change that. I believe in you break through , break through ba babababababa turn up the lights in here, baby. Extra bright, i want yall to see this turn up the lights in here, baby. You know what i mean, want to see everything. Want you to see all of the lights okay, okay, you know we going all the way this time. Lets go lets go lets feast cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight is a Supreme Court correspondent for slate. Please welcome Dahlia Lithwick cheers and applause great to have you back, dahlia. Thank you for having me back. Trevor what a time to have you back. This is like your super bowl. Except so depressing its like the worlds saddest super bowl. Trevor so its like your Atlanta Falcons supporting super bowl. Yeah, its like sitting in a room, trapped in a room with the oldest people in the world on the senate. Somebody, i think jeff toobin tweeted the combined age of the first four questioners in the senate this morning was, like, 2,000 years old. Really old trevor for those of you who dont know, you are really an expert who has dedicated your time to the Supreme Court. We havent seen a more exciting time in the Supreme Court, and neil gorsuch has really upped the stakes because he is trumps pick. On the surface, hes qualified, yet the democrats dont know what to do. Do they block him and lose . Or do they not block him and lose . Right. I mean, i think its, like, do we get rolled today . Or do we get rolled in a couple of years when get rolled again when Justice Kennedy or ginsburg steps down, or do we get rolled both times . There is this tension about, is this the hill we want to die on, filibuster, cloture, words i dont understand, threedimensional chess, and as you probably noticed he is sailing through. Trevor hes having a great time. I wondered when watching today, do the questions actually matter and does the hearing actually matter . Is there ever a senator who goes, you just changed my mind . Lindsey graham is a force of nature and he likes to talk about how he one time voted for Sonia Sotomayor even though hes a republican and everybody should be like him. So thats generally his posture is everybody here is terrible, i am outstanding because, one time, i voted for sotomayor, he calls her. Trevor thats the line he keeps going back to. Doesnt seem like a lot of people will change their minds. Gorsuch is sailing through, does that mean he doesnt have skeletons or he knows what hes talking about . One of my favorite moments is Chuck Grassley the chairman to have the jiewrkd committee from the republican side, said i dont want you to talk about youve ever decided or you will decide, anything thats political or not political, dont let them drag you into talking atnt your record or other peoples records. Dont talk about anything because theyre going to try to trick you and then neil gorsuch has absolutely followed those instructions. So what he talks about, you know, when they ask him a question about precedent, cant describe it, when they say is roe binding precedent on the court, he says it was decided one time. You know, i think hes really just saying over and over, and they say to him, its so funny, youve written articles about this, a whole book about this issue you know, hes done a lot of sort of extracurricular chitchat about those things and he cant talk about those either. Trevor Merrick Garland was meant to be in that seat. Merrick garland was someone who was picked by a president. Hes a judge that was picked by a president who had every right to pick him. Republicans came out and said, we cant pick him because obama is a lame duck, which was insane. But gorsuch taking this job, what does that mean for the Supreme Court as an institution Going Forward . Well, i want to just start by telling you that senator al franken directly asked him what he thinks about the politicization of garland and whether he thinks garland is mistreated and it wouldnt surprise you at all to hear gorsuch couldnt talk about that. laughter we dont know what he thinks. We know that this is unperes centd. Weve had a vacancy more than a year. Justice scalia died february, and obama tapped someone to replace him. The republicans on the senate said no hearing, no vote, not even courtesy hearing with Merrick Garland because president obama doesnt get to pick someone in his third year by some metric that we still dont know what that rule is but its like a thing now. Trevor yeah. So that became the rule. And when there were only eight people on the court which there have now been for a year and things get deadlocked and we have 44 ties and the Court Refuses to take interesting cases because they cant decide things, its really pampering the work of the court and politicizing the court. Yesterday, republicans on the Judiciary Committee having blocked Merrick Garland for a year turned around and were, like, weve got to hurry this thing up. Its unseemly that the court is not being treated as a judicial enterprise, it has its integrity and we have to revere that and depoliticize this right now it was really crazy because just the complete you know, theyve completely changed the rules and, now that its their turn to have their guy up, theyre, like, we should really go to told rules where people get fast and respectful hearings. Trevor can i ask you a question . You are in the room when this is happening. How are you quiet . laughter do you not at any point want to be like, bull bleep bull bleep cheers and applause youre a professional, im going to give you that. Were loving your writing and following everything youre talking about. Thank you so much for joining us on the show. Good luck with gorsuch and im glad you can talk about it. Thank you for having me. Trevor thank you so much for being here, again. Dahlia lithwick, everybody. 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