So even to this day on a really hot day the people still claim that they can smell molasses in boston. It [bleep] boston up. Arthur jell did not get fired. Arthur jell got promoted. That guy had a great [bleep] life while other people were dead because of him. [slurping] pinkies out cause were classy. This is a [bleep] tv show. Get it out there. Wewell kiss tips but thats a private thing for later. Oh, friendship is real. I know, its for reals. We like life. Mmhmm. And each others in it. Here, good night. [triumphant music] from comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor thank you so much, everybody. Welcome to the daily show. I am trevor noah. My guest tonight here to discuss his new book about Race Relations in america, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery is joining us. Its going to be really fun. Lets get right to. Donald trump is going to be president of america. When youre weak, by the way. laughter and the real president , not like those cool movie president preso do things like preparing the nation for an asteroid strike, or defending his own air force one. Get off my plane trevor uh, thats spill friendlier than spirit airlines. Turns out, donald trump has not yet mastered role of commander in chief. Predonald trump leaves the press behind for a private dinner with his family. The press wasnt too happy about it. The president elect ditches lockstanding protocol. President elect tried to sneak out of trump tower for dinner after trump told staffers he was in for the night. His motorcade was seen driving away from trump tower. laughter . Trevor im sorry, but americas elected a dumb ass. Im sorry. No, wait. This is. cheers and applause this is the same guy this is the same guy who said hes going to sneak up on isis . Yeah . The same man who thinks hes going to slip through midtown manhattan undetected with an eightlimo motorcade . How are you going to sneak out with the secret service, all those cars . Its like him going, all right, guys, shhh shhh woooo shhh look, i understand why the press and public would be concerned that america has basically elected a 70yearold Ferris Bueller who might at any time disappear. I mean, can you imagine how terrifying that would be . The nation is under attack, and you dont know where your president is. Just someone running into the oval office, mr. President , mr. President wait a second. This is just a suit stuffed with newspaper oh, no. Whats that . Oh, wow. Thats a great suggestion. Wow, why do you seem smarter, mr. President. Thats actually great. Weird. At least hes predictable, you know. You know, if this were any other president , him ditching his press pool would be something to get much madder over, but i feel that with donald trump, were going to have to practice preserving our rage. Because you realize its only been eight days. laughter and already, theres been, like, what, six scandals. Theres still 1,524 days left, people. Yes, yes. We have to pace ourselves. Even right now, theres a bigger story than where he is. Trump has to assemble an entire president ial cabinet. Hes working to put together an administration in 66 days, and he has more than 4,000 political appointees to hire. Sources close to the situation say the transition process is stalled. The words that have been used to describe this Transition Team and how its been working infighting, knife fight, turmoil, disarray, chaos. Trevor you know, basically every day. Thats what theyre saying. Why is anyone surprised its taking trump this long to hire his administration . This is the same guy who needed 13 weeks to fill one job. Maybe hes putting them through challenges. Maybe thats what hes doing. It seems like youd be a great continual, but first, i need you and Brandi Glanville to write a jingle for bud light limearitas. And you know for a guy who says he get all the best people tsure seems like trump got his team from the republican bargain bin. I mean, for attorney general, hes reportedly considering ted cruz. Which makes perfect sense. Who better for the countrys top Law Enforcement position than the person trump renamed lyin ted. What does day one even look like on that job . Welcome aboard, ted. First order of business, i need you to go after your dad for killing kennedy. So if an incurable liar is trumps choice for top law man, who would be trumps top choice for the top diplomats . I said islamic extremist terrorism you know who you are theres no black america. Theres no white america. There is just America Trevor aaarrghhh laughter yes. Trumps leading contender for secretary of state, former new york city mayor and human the scream portrait, rudy guiliani, who proved with his r. N. C. Performance that he could speak to the entire World Without a microphone. Guiliani, in my opinion, sounds less like a diplomat and more like a Mad Scientist who just merged black america with white america. There is just America Trevor its alive laughter now, luckily, trump hasnt made any of those appointments official yet. There is one decision, though, that he has confidently made hiring his chief strategist, steve bannon. Bannon, one of trumps first appointments and already, his most controversial. The new campaign keanu has been dubbed the most dangerous political operative in america. He has a following among the altright, among White Nationalists. Bannons got a lot of hes said some bad stuff. He is a very divisive figure. bleep . Trevor yes, the man who will be the top adviser to the future president of the united states, honey badger. If youre unfamiliar with the phrase, this is where he got it from. This is the honey badger. Watch it run in slow motion. Its pretty bad ass. Look, it runs all over the place. Oh, its got a snake . Watch this. The snakes up in the tree. Honey badger dont care. Honey badger dont give a bleep . Trevor but this steve bannon guy, hes no joke. Besides running trumps campaign, can steve bannon is most widely known for being the c. E. O. Of breitbart news, a web site bannon himself describes as a platform for the altright. These are the kind of people who think fox news is too diverse. Breitbart is infamous for writing articles that are misogynistic, antisemitic, and outright racist. And bannons appointment to the white house has energized a certain session. The White Nationalist. Richard spencer tweeted he is the best possible position for policy. And david duke called the choice excellent. The klan is so happy, they even jazzed up their hoods. And bannon may say hes not one of these people, but he happily provides them a megaphone. And in case all of that didnt turn you off. Campaign ceo steve bannon, in 1996, he faced misdemeanor Domestic Violence charges. His exwife and this santa monica, california, Police Report alleging he grabbed her, an incident that the officers said left red marks on her left wrist and the right side of her neck. Trevor look steve bannon is a reprehensible human being, and for him to be given an office two doors down from the oval is something that should scare everybody, even the honey badger is like, i dont give a bleep wait, wait, trumps appointing that guy . bleep bleep bleep . A man who at best say white supremacist enabler, has just been named chief strategist to the president. These are definitely not good times. Oh, bleep that, trevor. This is great, man this is great. Roy wood jr. , everyone. cheers and applause i just got here. I was so focused on that snuck up on you like a trump victory. Trevor yeah, and nate silver didnt even warn me. So steve bannon really doesnt bother you . Hell no. Trump and bannon, theyre theyre not like other republicans, man. Theyre not hiding their racism behind voter i. D. Or stopandfrisk policies. Its out in the open now. Finally, klan members wont need to hide their face. Theyre just going to be running around, im loud, and im proud, bleep . Trevor forgive me, im so confused. Confused . What are you confused about . Its not like this was a surprise. You shf known something was up when ben carson left. He saw steve bannon and got out of the white house like a blad blackdude in a horror movie. Amarosa next. Trevor i dont understand why having a White Nationalist in the whois could possibly be a good thing. Because we live in a country where people dont even want to admit that racism is a thing. Now were cutting to the chase. And we know who is chasing who. Now, instead trying to expose hidden racism. Its on display for everyone to see, and thats easier bleep to deal with. Trevor i never thought of it like that. Yeah. Its like, of the highest levels honestly, like, this is the stripper at the end of a lap dance level honesty. laughter you know, when that musk stops, they get as honest as hell. I thought you liked me. I did when you were making it rain. This is the situation were in, trevor. By electing trump, america bought a ticket on the racism train, so, hell, we might as well take the express. Trevor thanks. Roy wood jr. , everyone. Never thought of it like that. Good point. applause you know, right now, right now, people may feel helpless because, clearly, trump is unshamable, and so is bannon. So no matter how much noise you make about this appointment, theres a good chance they dont give a bleep . Ill tell you who we shouldnt forget about these two guys. Paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, the Republican Leaders who never had the spine to stand up to team trump. This is Senate Majority leader mcconnell who is being asked whether he thinks its appropriate for steve bannon to have the ear of the president taken a lot of flak. We want to know, are you comfortable with him having such a highlevel position in the Trump Administration . Good to see you guys today. So no defense of bannon then . That will do it. Thank you. laughter trevor im sorry that thats not the response of a moral leader. Thats someones grandpa doing, like, a really bleep mannequin challenge. No defense of bannon, then . Trevor and by the way, lets not forget spineless Speaker Paul Ryan who asked asked about bannon, the man who has been running his partys president ial campaign, this is what he has to say . I never met the guy. I dont know steve bannon so i have no concerns. I trust donalds judgment. I think he will pick who will best serve him. Trevor get the bleep out of here, man. You trust Donald Trumps judgment . You trust Donald Trumps judgment . Since then . Donald trump, will you support him . Im not just not ready to do that at this point. I do not think a muslim ban is in our countrys interest. Claiming a person cant do a job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. House Speaker Paul Ryan wishes trump would drop out of the race. Ryan said on a Campaign Call he will not campaign for trump. He will not defend trump during the home stretch. Trevor shame on you, paul ryan. Shame. Im embarrassed to be in the my last name say First Name Club with you. Im embarrassed. laughter and i guess we know now, when it comes to putting his country first, paul ryan, well, he dont give a bleep . Well be right back. cheers and applause vo its black friday at verizon and people are ready. Because they know a deal is only as good as the network its on. Verizon gives you the best network and a lot more. Our best deals of the year on top android phones. Like the pixel, phone by google and the Samsung Galaxy s7. 10 per month and no tradein required. Or get an ipad mini 2 for 99. Shop our best deals early online thursday, and all day in stores on friday. Hurry, and get it all at verizon. cheers and applause . Trevor welcome back to the daily show. Now, trumps win last week has forced us to say gone to something many of us loved the notion that telling the truth matters . Because for several years now, politifacts has been Fact CheckingDonald Trumps political statements and they found that while less than 5 of them qualified as true, 70 were mostly all or completely false. So, were sad to see pacts go. Yet another casualty of 2016. And we wanted at the very least to give them a proper sendoff. Were factored here to mourn the passing of our District Attorney friend, facts. Now, we all know facts hadnt been doing too well. Thats no secret. We didnt know how bad it was until november 8, 2016. Then it was gone. Would any of you like to come up here and say a few words can about facts . You know, i always loved facts. I loved him. And as a kid i would spend all day on the toilet reading fun ones out of uncle johns great big basket reader. I wasnt very popular. When i was in grade school, tanya bustamonte used to call me four eyes. And i used to say, actually, tanya, its a severe astigmatism that affects 10 of kids our age. Facts always had my back. I just wish i appreciated facts while they were still here. All those times i went to the library. I didnt read any books. I was just jacking off in the computer room. Im sure they have it on video, but sighs it doesnt matter anymore. Nothing. Matters anymore. Should have respected facts more. I remember this one time, on my tinder profile, i said i was 61. Im 511 thats not true. I just lied right there. Im sor sorry, facts im so sorry. All right, this time id like for everyone to share with us some of their favorite facts they lost this year. Thousands of american muslims did not cheer for 9 11. Immigrants arent more criminal than citizens that are born here. Voter rates are lower now than they were in the 90s. Most factory jobs have been lost to robots. bleep there is no largescale voter fraud happening in america. all talking at once . Sorry. Its my favorite fact. church bells ringing cheers and applause trevor well be right back. This is the new 2017 chevy cruze. Im only going to show you half it. What do you think . I think it looks very sleek. The lights remind me of audi lights. And it starts at 22,190. Nice. But, theres another side to this car. Oh, wow. I love it. This is the firstever chevy cruze hatch. Well, thats pretty impressive. Wow. So check it out. Yeah, thats awesome. I do like it a lot. Now that you know its a hatchback, what does it make you think of . Young professional slash weekend warrior. The whole business in the front, party in the back sort of thing. Of bad breath germs for a 100 fresh mouth. Feeling 100 means you feel bold enough to. Assist a magician. Or dance. Listerine®. Bring out the bold™ cheers and applause trevor welcome back. My guest tonight is a pulitzer prizewinning reporter for the Washington Post when author whose new book is called they cant kill us all. Please welcome Wesley Lowery. cheers and applause welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Trevor first things first congratulations on winning the pulitzer prize. Thats an amazing honor for you. cheers and applause and you deserve it as well. You and your team put together a really comprehensive database of police shootings. What surprises me is that one didnt exist before that. How is that possible . Its remarkable, right . When we started covering these stories i started covering women with ferguson, missouri and you would have the Police Unions say, this never happens. Most officers never fire their guns. This is rare. Everyone who gets killed deserves it. The civil rights activists would say, black men are getting gunned down, excuted every day. We said theres a fact here. One is true, one is not. At the time there were a few citizen journalists trying to do this, but the federal government doesnt keep this date doot so we started piecing it together day by day, via google searches, to try to figure out how many people were getting killed and under what circumstances. This has been happening in black and brown communities for all of americas history. Black and brown families have always known the police could go sideways. But we as a nation have refused to believe black and blown bloun people when they tell us these things. What cell phones cameras have done is expose our unwillingness to believe black people when they say, hey, sometimes the cops arent so nice to us. Sometimes they kill us, and we shouldnt be killed. We see video after video, stories after stories, there is some where there is a gray area, and others where a guy is clearly getting shot in the back. Before cell phone camera videos no one believed those things happened. Every dead black guy must deserve it, they would say. Trevor whats interesting about this book is youve taken a slightly different approach to strict journalism, and that is you have involved yourself, which is really personalized the stories, not just of the victims but of you being in this role. Because when you went out to ferguson, i dont think even you anticipated, from what i read in the book, how big this movement would become. I mean, at one point you were arrested for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. , of course, i was one of dozens of reporters who at some point knot arrested in ferguson. It was fascinating. When i first went to ferguson, i was a political reporter. I covered congress. I thought i would write a cute little story, maybe something for the expweekd thought i would be home by that weekend drinking with my buddies where we always go out. Instead i landed and could immediately sense like, you could feel it in the air, that this was something bigger, this anger has really boiled over in a way it had not previously. And we watch as we go from city to city, as new activists spring up, who get involved, new shootings occur. And you just have this feeling throughout these last two years that this is something bigger than just one story, than just an isolated incident, than just than just the story of Michael Brown or eric garner or sandra bland. It is part of a movement that is carmalizing. Trevor theres something fascinating you wrote here they connect you with. Theres no right way to approach these interviews. In the moment you are literally walking up to a heartbroken human. And asking them to find words to express those feelings and thoughts. And the 24hour news cycle doesnt help because its so often prompts reporters to ask either clicheed, leading sound bites or processed questions to which the response of the dead mans family is little. Which is a really strong indictment because what youre saying is essentially, because of cycle is based on entertainment, 24hour news needs something nais catchy and grabby. You cant ask a person how they feel. You need it to fit in one sentence. Of course. We are talking about th the fundamental issue at the basis of the foundation of this nation, right. Race in america, race and justice. And were walking up to you after your son has just been killed and were saying, how do you feel . Do you think youre going to get justice . And were cutting you off after 15 seconds to put you on the evening news. Were anything to a protest where you have been marching for five hours. Youve been crying. Youre carrying a sign. Maybe you have flown into town to participate in this this and were giving you half a sentence in the newspaper so why are you out here tonight . That is not a way to have a conversation about this. Trevor you have really captured this and one reason i would recommend everyone to read this book is it is not just statistics. It is not just the information but its the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you, trevor, i appreciate it . Trevor they cant kill us all is available now. Go out and get it. Wesley lowery, everybody. Well be right back. Trevor thats our show for tonight. Stay tuned for midnight. Stop body shaming the Supreme Leader of north korea. Thats what the Chinese Government is telling peo