Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith the great. So i call this the june knee damage Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. My experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The hightech industry is a classic example. If
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. Thank you so much, everyone. Im trevor noah. We have two incredible guests, author of homegoing, yaa gyasi, and author Sharlto Copley. The two president ial candidates are dominating the news. The competition is so fierce its almost impossible for nonelection news to break through. For all we know the Supreme Court switched out their robs and are rocking track suits laughter because of trump well never know. Every now and again there is a story that like a track star from the bahamas manages to launch itself into the spotlight. You remember former congressman Anthony Weiner . Maybe not from that photo. Former congressman Anthony Weiner. Thats right, there he is. A few years ago, his career derailed with a couple of sexting scandals and now he may be back at it again, and by back at it, i mean probably never stopped. This time weiner was
laughter lighter story. Chinese olympian he zi was given a silver medal for diving and then her boyfriend proposed on the podium. Hes a romantic guy, right . Hes a selfish asshole. First, he waits to see if she won something before proposing then steals her moment. You couldnt wait till you got home . She spent her whole Life Training for this and driving into green sewage all week and you think youre the prize . There is only one silver medal, okay, buddy . Chinese guys . There is a billion of us to choose from. Wait a minute, you just said you were malaysian. My ethnicity is chinese, my nationality is malaysian. You gotta pick one, man. laughter oh, okay, africanamerican. audience reacts you should smile more. Lets go to trevor noah with the daily show. 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. Thank you so much, everyone. Im trevor noah. We have two incredible guests, author
Ive instituted a 12second purge in our office. I see you all support the purge. Everyone noticed you put up a new chandelier in your office. Had a good year. Remember, today allows people a relief of everything theyve had pent up inside them. Oh, look at the time. The purge starts in five seconds. It snuck up on me. No, no, no release the beasts. Tosh god, bless our new founding fathers. Turn the lights on and go back to work. With all that puking, youd think theyd be a lot skinnier. Good night. The 2016 the daily show summer games. Welcome back to our coverage of the 2016 summer games. Im roy wood, jr. And filling in for jordan klepper, im ronny chieng. Its good to have you here, ronny, especially with china doing so well in the games okay, but im malaysian. laughter i dont know what that is. laughter on to the news. The only thing louder than the crowds of rio have been the criticism of athletes on social media. Everybody telling Gabby Douglas that she needs to smile more. You should