Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Welcome to the nightly show. Man, such a great audience. Normally you come to the show, people say, man, i hope i get listen, the audience i have a black lives matter bracelet, which is very nice. [ cheers and applause ] wilmore and it is very nice looking white gentleman a and said, yo larry, it is like, whoa. Black lives matter. I am like, all right. But, you know, thats exactly what he sounded hike. He asked if i would wear the bracelet and said he was over and colbert and gave him one too. My question is, does this guy have a job . White jobs matter too, you know . I am just saying. I am just saying. [ cheers and applause ] wilmore if a man wants to get out no. Very nice, very nice. I appreciate it. Oh, tonight was the second republican debate. Whoa fireworks, man. That was something, right . You guys see when trumps head opened up and that serpent came out . Did you see that . That was awesome, right . I did not see that coming. Right . I mean, i thought he would have answered that question on the economy completely differently. All right. I didnt see it. We taped before it aired. But we will have full coverage tomorrow, okay . Or as jeb exclamation point says, el tomorrow. I tell you what lets see what is happening with the predebate unblackening. Wilmore in the republican race to the white house, there are currently two front runners, donald trump and famed twin baby separator ben carson. Its a little story i like to call the tortoise and the hairdo. And new election polls, dr. Ben carson coming out of near obscurity to be in a statistical dead heat with donald trump. Moving from six percent in july to more than 20 percent today. Thats right, ben obscurity carson is in second place in the polls. You know, this is very upsetting you guys. No, no. Not just because carson said obamacare is the boston thing that happened since slavery. No, no, no, no. Or because carson thinks that after taking an ap history course most americans would be ready to join isis. No. Nope, nope, nope. This is upsetting because, because i might have to change my unblackening graphic. All right. Roll the new test graphic he in case we have another black president. Wilmore wow [ cheers and applause ] wilmore wow. Those white people are really scared. You would think the blob was coming or something. Are you ready for the reblackening, america . I mean, really ready . Now to be honest, i have been ignoring car son because i just thought he was her main cain 2 going 0. Just another bespectacled black man from bidness who seemed to come out of nowhere when actually they were both created in a secret lab where all black republicans are made. True. I am not making this up. Thats why i didnt take him seriously. So why are people suddenly so big on ben . Do people like the strong silent type . Does he have a scalpel sharp wit . I mean, is it because he was portrayed by cuba gooding, jr. In gifted hands, the ben carson story . This is a real movie. It is true. I did not make that title up. If i made it up it would have been called the baby separator, okay . Thats what i would have called it. It is just cleaner, you know. You know what, bleep that. I will call it snow dogs 2. That is better. Snow dogs 2, the ben carson story, does that make sense . Despite the cubappeal, apparently voters like carson for others reason. I think people think he is a more dignified alternative to donald trump. A more dignified alternative than donald trump . A rabid hedgehog is more dignified than donald trump. I mean all of the republican candidates are a dignified alternative to donald trump. What makes carson so special, i mean besides his eerily steady surgeon hahn. I think if you talk to a lot of people who support ben carson they like the fact that he doesnt have political experience. That is what they like . No political experience . Are you kidding me . What is this obsession republicans have with wanting unqualified people to lead the free world . [ cheers and applause ] wilmore i dont get it. I just dont understand it. No offense but i dont need my president to perform brain surgery, just like i dont need my brain surgeon to be president. Ben carson separated conjoined twins. Congratulations, wonderful. Let me say mr. Smarty pants this person this country needs somebody who can bring this country together, not somebody who is an expert at pulling them apart. I and i am not saying pulling is how you got them apart. I dont know i dont know your methods. All right, calm down, larry. Just give me one president ial attribute. I think people feel he is sincere. People like the fact that he is gracious, that he has gratitiude and he cares about people, and they like the way he communicates. Wilmore the way he communicates . It sounds like sometimes he is about to fall asleep. He has no energy. I have plenty of energy. You know, operating on people for 10, 12, sometimes greater than 20 hours at a time. Wilmore i have plenty of energy. Oh, i dont know why people say i dont. How do you think i separated twins . Energy. All right. Sorry. Here to help us understand the appeal of ben carsons Communication Style is our very own mike yard. Mike yard, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] wilmore mike please explain to me, what is going on here . I mean ben carson has no political experience, never held elected office, and frankly he puts me to sleep half the time. Thats exactly it, larry. Him putting you to sleep half the time. Thats his strategy. Softspoken brother. Wilmore wait. Thats his strategy . Softspoken brother . Yes. Larry, listen, a softspoken brother says everything in a way that is nonthreatening to a republican. Look at al sharpton, that brother is way too loud to ever get elected. Wilmore so softspoken brother is why he is surging in the polls . But what about his lack of experience . It doesnt matter. Okay . They respect him because he specializes in something nobody understand understands. Okay . Separating babies heads, come on, republicans dont understand that. Wilmore so they are voting for him because they dont understand what he does . Larry, where do you think respect comes from . Okay, it is like how black people will fight anybody but we will think twice about fighting an asian dude because we respect the fact that he might know karate. Yes. [ applause ] or some other exotic fighting method that i dont understand. You know what i mean . It is respect. Wilmore that is not respect. That makes no sense a at all too me. Plus larry sea black shield. Wilmore black shield . Yes. He can make any criticism about obama and nobody can claim racism because a black guy said it. Bfnlg care is worse than slavery . Shielded. Wilmore i dont know, mike. But look if you are going to win america you have to win the black vote and most black people vote democrat. Oh, larry, black people will be happy with him. Trust me. I put all his mumbly talk through a black scope so you can hear exactly what the brother is really saying. Wilmore a black scope . A black scope. Ben carson, people think that doctor only know med and i like to point out the fact that. bleep all you mother bleep ers when i am in the white house i am going to do whatever i want. Thats what he said. bleep you, matter. That sounded like you. It is my black scope, larry. Wilmore mike yard, everybody. Black to black 2016. Wilmore we will be right back. Back. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Well, well. If it isnt the belle of the ball. Gentlemen. You look well. Whats new, flo . Well, a name your price tool went missing last week. Name your what, now . It gives you Coverage Options based on your budget. 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A High School Student near dallas has been arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, 14yearold Ahmed Mohammed entitle clock over the weekend to show his engineering teach. At least three teachers thought it was a bomb and they called police. Oh, my god. This story is just awful. The kid made a clock and he got arrested for it . And look at this, they handcuffed the poor kid in his nasa tshirt. That is ridiculous and check out the brother cop in the back. He cant even believe it. All right . He is just like ah there it was, the last little part of my soul just died. So how did the questioning of this temporal master mind go . School resource officers questioned the student about his intentions. The student would only say it was a clock and was not forthcoming at that time about any other details. Wilmore thats ball there were no other details. Its a clock. And it tells time because its a clock. This story is a gut punch, man. I mean, i was a nerd. This kid looks kind of like me. Actually, i looked way nerdier than ahmed. Ahmed could could young larrys ass to be honest. But look here is a kid who was doing everything right, excelling in school, building clocks in his free time, that is what he likes to do, and new york city is about to spend 80 million to get kids interested in Computer Science and here is a kid who is already interested for free. All right, well let me see what in clock looks like. Hmm. All right. Well, it might look like something jack bauer might have to disarm, maybe. But once we determine the fact it is a clock that doesnt count down how does he end up in handcuffs. Lets just say it. There is no way the school would have done this if he wasnt muslim. Keep it 100. I mean, seriously, in texas you can drive through chill filet, chickfila sporting an ar15 and nobody bats an eye. They just ask if you would like waffle fries wit, right . But look this is the nightly show we have to be fair. Which is why its time for our new segment, five reasons this might not have been completely islamophobia. I have no idea what that music is. That is so weird. I think it is middle eastern, i really do. Okay look guys there are plenty of valid reasons this may not have been an islamophobia arrest. Like number one, the teachers thought that his clock was a time machine and this kid was trying to go back in time and protect baby hitler. Its possible or number 2, 1 of the students friends is a fan of the nineties slang and said hey that clock is da bomb, which the teachers just misheard. Maybe. All right. Number 3, reason why this may not have been just complete 100 percent no holds barred balls to the wall islamophobia. The arresting officers walked in on his wife doing something unholy with a swatch watch and now he has got an unstoppable vendetta against in and alltime pieces. Maybe . A little bit. Okay. That one is possible. That one is bobble. The number 4 reason it may not have been islamophobia. Weird kids who are good with gadgets always grow up to be super villains, villains. Did you not see the incredibles all right . It is possible. It is possible. And finally, the number 5 reason why arresting a kid with a clock could have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that hes muslim, in texas, i it actuallys illegal to make anything that acknowledges that time moves forward. We will be right back. in a french accent were changing. Old navy. Old navy. speaking in french gibberish distressed . All jeans are on sale for 15. in her own american accent im going to put you guys in charge for like 20 minutes while i pop out to old navy. Okay, you cool with that . in her french accent, again ill be right back allon zi its time to cut the cord with your refrigerator. With portable coffeemate 2 go. A couple of sqeezes gives you big flavor with no need to refrigerate. Coffeemate 2 go. In the coffee aisle. Weve been compromised . 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[ cheers and applause ] wilmore and he is a rapper and very popular law and order svu, premiering september 23rd on nbc, Everybody Knows him, ice t. [ cheers and applause ] wilmore okay. This story blown, blowing up all over the internet, this kid who who built a bomb, i mean a clock. Okay, does any part of this make sense to anybody . I mean this is obviously i actually have been arrested for the same offense. Wilmore for a fake building of a bomb . All right. Can i tell the story . Yes. Please. I was on tour and i was in colorado and i went to a gift store like a little novelty store and i bought this thing that looked like a bomb but a chock on the front of it and they sold it at the store at the mall and it had six fake and it had a bomb and the cool thing about it when it touched it would go, beep, beep, beep. It was legal. I bought it. Okay. And so i got it and said this is cool. I am going to take this put this on my mantel i like this stuff and i had it in my hotel room in the suitcase and i went up to the roof for dinner and when i came back down, by key didnt work so i went downstairs it could be i am in the room. Oh, sir. You are in 70 what . They took me in the back and the cops were there and they said, do you know what was in your room . I said my luggage, and you know what else . I figured it out. From when the lady went to turn down the room, she found it, she called the security, the cops. This is a few years ago. Wilmore post 9 11. Yes. Called the cops. The cops, exactly, evacuated five floors of the hotel, and so they tell me, i am hike okay you know it is not a bomb, whatever you guys made a mistake, they said no you are under arrest and i said for what. They said for possession of a hoax device. Whoa. And i am like i didnt go into the lobby and the say allah akbar, so think way, this is a mistake they made dealing with ice t, they said we essentially know who you are, you are under arrest but let you show up in Court Tomorrow and they took my it and they said, just show up in the Court Tomorrow and we will clear it out. Hold on a second, they knew who you were. Right. Someone went in they dont know who i was because once they told me i would show up in Court Tomorrow i am from the old school, the catch comes before the hanging i was the hell out of colorado, i left and they never saw me again. I probably got warrants there now. I was out. Thats how they didnt know who you were. They didnt know that part about you. Oh, i am under arrest but all you are taking my id, watch this player, watch this. Wilmore but this is really i think if this kid isnt muslim we dont have a problem. Absolutely. I disagree. Wilmore you disagree with that . Yes. The kid had a briefcase with a clock in it. It is insane. If your child is that classroom would you just be cool with that. Wilmore of course. It is just a clock. Come on, be serious. A white kid walked in with that it got, they dont think it would be a bomb. I dont agree with that at all. Wilmore are you serious . I mean white kids shoot up schools all the time, thats their bleep . Wilmore but there is no bomb, there is no bomb, you look at it and see there is no did you see the picture of it. Wilmore do you understand what a bomb looks like. No, i dont. I dont. I am sorry, i dont. I ai am not in touch with the b, with the engineering teacher saw it first and said oh that is a nice bomb. You call the bomb squad and let them look at it. You call a bomb squad and the police didnt do that. They interrogated this kid and keep him in the office, he is a ninth grader. He is a kid who just made a clock and they are interrogating him because he is a muslim asking him if he is if he knew karate like he is on bleep and pull guns or something out . Wilmore but dont call the bomb squad. You find out it is a clock and determine it is a clock. Okay . Who was the teach tore say it is a clock . Wilmore the engineering teacher said it is a clock. But the engineering told them not to take it out of the case. In fact, you are allowed to walk around with a gun but you cant have a clock. In texas. [ cheers and applause ] wilmore okay, so now, do black parent have to talk to their kids about police and now islamic parents have to talk to their kids about clocks. Every kid says how you have to be safe and not to walk around with objects that tick. Black parents have to tell their kids not to walk around in public with toy guns and white parents have to tell their kids to stay away from muslim kids that tick and black kids with guns. Wilmore you think it is suspicious that somebody young might actually do Something Like this, even though he went to the teachers himself. The kid went to the teacher himself and said look what i made. And they are saying to him, he did this all through middle school. He is one of those nerdy kids in robotics. A smart kid. Wilmore absolutely so he invent all the time this is one of his inventions and showed it to the teacher, this is great. And in his backpack. He should never, he should never have made it to the handcuffs. The reason they handcuff you. You dont have to be under arrest but they have to feel you are a danger. Five people will say we will cuff you while we ask you the questions. Why was in in the cuffs . I dont agree with the cuffs and dont think you should cuff a kid that weighs 90pounds but at the same time i think this is a clock, what time is it . Are you going to open a gosh darn briefcase every time . He had to bring it to school in something. 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