Show with Trevor Noah Trevor okay. Before we get into the serious news, i wanted to kick things off with an adorable story that will almost definitely be turned into a secondrate Christmas Special next year. Well, it may just be new yorks unofficial new holiday mascot. A small owl found inside the Rockefeller Christmas tree tree. A worker found it tucked away in the branches. Its a small bird called a saw wood owl, the smallest in the northeast, recovering at the ravens beard wildlife center. Its getting lots of love and attention and has its own twitter page. Very nice, and its own little turtleneck, too. Trevor oh my god can we take a second to appreciate how frickin cute this owl is . Baby yoda probably put a hit on him as we speak. Hes so cute, i want one. I want to go get a little owl right now. Aaahhh that was a mistake. Owls are not pets. But, still, what a fun story, an owl hitched a ride to new york city although i guess it looks different if youre an owl. From the owls perspe
Steadily as more and more councilman coming in President Trump has been eating into that margin. And at last there was only about 47,000 vote difference between President Trump and Vice President biden so well see what the new update reveals lets go to David Mckeown because he is a Political Science expert we are watching. The votes come in a lot of people have a lot of questions about how this is all being conducted good morning. Pleasure to be here with and to you so that im sure you heard the president yesterday as he was saying that there are all these irregularities and shenanigans as he said not not pointing to any concrete examples but just kind of a blanket statement. You can say that but when it comes to actually launching some kind of an appeal. You have to have more than just a general acts like a chanel. Yeah, i mean if you think about this what the president and his team of put forward his Political Team and his legal team and hes joining those 2 operations they want votes
Make your voices heard. Ah. And i know times have been challenging especially the last several months the grief sorrow and pain the worries and the struggles but we have also witnessed your courage your resilience and the generosity of your spirit. For 4 years you marched and organized for equality and justice for our lives and for our planet and then you voted. Was. And you delivered a clear message you chose hope. And unity decency science and yes shrewd odd. You shallows joe biden as the next president of my. Job as a healer a united are a tested and steady hand a person whose own experience of loss gives him a sense of purpose that will help us as a nation reclaim our own sense of purpose and a man with a big heart who loves with abandon its his love for jill wholl be an incredible 1st lady the. Its his love for hunter and ashley and his grandchildren and the entire bible family of the of them. And while i 1st knew joe as Vice President i really got to know him as the father who lo
Against the Electoral College. It is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. Which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. I do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. If you take a course on the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process is used to select how our chief executive officer works. Also because of how it structures have elections turns out. Just like how we started our discussion on president ial nominations by talking about the history and processes and a deep dive into the process rules, the rule nominations today. We should start a president ial election the same way by taking on how we select a president. Youre reading for this week was George C Edwards book on why the Electoral College is bad for america. It is in its third edition, after all. In the book, edwards explains how the El
Owls are not pets. But, still, what a fun story, an owl hitched a ride to new york city although i guess it looks different if youre an owl. From the owls perspective, we moved his house. One night hes living in the woods, next morning hes paying manhattan rent. Hes used to snacking on field mice but in new york the only thing to hunt are the rats which are ten times the size of that owl. The rat will be saying, just to be clear, whos eating who . I dont like the idea of getting the owl a twitter account. We like him now. Once we start riding the tweets, wow, owl lives matter . Unfollow lets move on to Donald Joe Biden beat my ass trump. None of his legal efforts to undo the election have been working, so now hes trying a different approach. You might remembert that, yesterday, two republican Election Officials in michigan tried to throw out votes from the entire city of detroit, and then they have to be shamed into backing down. Turns out that wasnt the end of the story. Breaking over