He is risen [ laughter ] the the guy kept singing. [ laughter ] though the guy who played jesus burned to death. Luckily, he came back three days later, so. Be safe out there. Im jim jefferies. I think we can all do better. Good night. 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, everybody thank you so much for tuning in and thank you for coming out cheers and applause so good to be here our first show of the week im trevor noah. Our guest tonight is a Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist whose new book is called the nickel boys Colson Whitehead is joining us cheers and applause phenomenal author. Were going to have a great conversation with him. Also on tonights show, Elizabeth Warren is killing private insurance, a bombshell in the fast fort hood industry, and mexico is unbuilding the wall. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with mcdonalds, the Worlds Largest fast food chain and place where the ice cream machine always just stopped working. laughter well, now, the Mayer Corporation has ordered its c. E. O. To go. Change at the top of the most well known companies in the world, the board of mcdonalds, announcing they have fired the c. E. O. Steve easterbrook, the company saying in a statement he demonstrated poor judgment by having a relationship with an employee. Steve easterbrook calling the relationship a mistake. In a letter to all mcdonald staff, Easter Brooke says the relationship was consensual but says he violated company policy, writing this was a mistake, given the values of the company i agree with the board that it is time for me to move on. Trevor thats right, the c. E. O. Of mcdonalds has been fired after having a consensual relationship with an imleevment this is the biggest mcdonalds sex scannedle since we saw mayor mccheese parting with Jeffrey Epstein in the 90s. laughter this was awkward for the person dating the mcdonalds c. E. O. What did she tell her friends . He works at mcdonalds, but not like that, not like that. Hes the boss. Youre dating Ronald Mcdonald . No, the boss laughter also wonder if the mcdonalds c. E. O. Is as strict in the bathroom as mcdonalds was about breakfast. If she got home late, she would be, like, i missed you, baby, lets go to bed. Hes, like, its after 12 00, were not serving the sex anymore. Also my ice cream machine just stopped working laughter lets move on to another story in the news about fast food. Have you ever noticed in the last few years theyve added calorie counts to all the menus . Youre not alone if not. Youve seen the calorie counts added to the menu but do they help you watch your weight . A new study in the medical journal b. M. J. Shows a measure requiring large restaurant chains display calorie information may not be changing choices as much as you might think. The study analyzed 50 million purchases over three years and found at first people were cutting back an average of 60 calories but, after one year, just a 23calorie cutback, suggesting even with the facts right in our faces, its not quite enough to make us think twice. Trevor only 23 calories . Thats just the smell when you walk in. laughter but, yeah, turns out that calorie counts arent helping people make better food choices, which is no surprise. Lets be honest, none of us actually knows what those numbers are supposed to mean. How do you cultivate it . You might as well have hieroglyphics up there and people would be, like, wow, i didnt know the fries had raven eyeball dog man calories. Ill get the salad instead laughter i get theyre trying to help us eat healthier, but be honest, no one wants to see calories at these types of restaurants. Youre there to indulge. It would be like having a mandatory black light in a strip club, i know there are fluids there, i dont need proof. audience reacts if they want the people to order right the cashier should tell you the calories in a judgmental tone. Could i get a cheeseburger . Thats 700 calories anything else . Yeah, the cheese fries. Wow thats 1,000 calories. Anything else . Youre like, no, nothing else, thank you. laughter finally, were in a time where theres muse trust between police and the people they pull over and heres a new story thats not going to help. A New York Times investigation finds that breathalyzer tests give ton d. U. I. Suspects are often unreliable. The study found the devices found virtually in every Police Station in america skew the results with alarming frequency. Judges in massachusetts and new jersey alone have had to throw out more than 30,000 breath tests in just the past year. Trevor this is huge. The New York Times investigation has found that an Alarming Number of breathalyzer tests in america are inaccurate, which makes a lot of sense, all right, because one time i got pulled over and they told me i had seven beers, which was not true, i just had one beer from a giant boot. It was one, it wasnt seven. laughter and i will be honest, i think all the way they tes sew sobriee dumb. I cant walk with one foot in front of the other if im sober, or say the alphabet backregards, i dont know how to do it it doesnt make sense but still even though i dont agree with some of the testing, i think we can agree we dont want drunk drivers on the road. applause yeah, we dont. So we just need to find another way to test peoples sobriety. They should pull up your exs face on facebook and ask if you want to send him a message yeah, i miss him so much get in the car, youre drink cheers and applause lets move on to the stop stories cheers and applause donald trump, the 45t 45th president of the United States and the only president to wear a weave. laughter during his time in office, there have been several issues that he has been intently focused on, things like cutting regulations, pulling out of iran and legalizing flag marriage. laughter but the one issue he cares about more than anyone else is his big, beautiful border wall. You know, build the wall build the wall in many ways the wall is the son trump always wanted taller, stronger and somehow smarter. laughter and now, the president is trying to groom the next generation of border wall lovers. A White House Halloween Party reportedly featured a station where children were encouraged to help build the wall with their own personalized bricks. Who knew said the party took place at Eisenhower Executive Office building used by white house staff. Trevor people might be pissed off about that but wait till you find the kids were also encouraged to find dirt on the bidens. Trump is like i have a kit kat for anyone who brings me Hunter Bidens password, i call it kit pro quo. laughter i think we can all agree children on halloween should not be building a border wall. The only way is if its over Rudy Giulianis office tore, then it works. So that was on halloween. applause but it seemed like this was a wallthemed weekend for trump because on friday at a rally in mississippi, the president was boasting once again about how impenetrable his border wall is. This is a very serious wall. This is is exact everything they wanted. I said give me the specification force the wall. They said, well, sir, wed like steel, but we would also like concrete and we would also like rebar. I said, well, what do you want . Which one . So i did all three. cheers and applause because its a different form of cutting. You can cut through steel but you cant through the concrete and then you cant through the hardened rebar. Weve got it all. And we also need seethrough, sir. Got to see whos on the other side. That makes sense, right . Trevor yeah, that makes sense. Youve got to have a seethrough wall because if the wall is not seethrough, the only way to know whats on the other side is by yelling marco and hope they yell polo thats the only way laughter applause but some mexicans arent named marco. A lot of people dont know that, folks. A lot of people dont know that. laughter but, yes, on friday night, trump gave his usual unhumble brag about how nothing can get through his wall and you know how, in a sitcom, when they cut right to the next scene . Well, cut right to the next scene. According to the washington post, mexican smuggling gangs have repeatedly sawed through sections of trumps new border wall. Smugglers are using a reciprocating saw that pretty much sells at Hardware Stores for as little as 100 and when fit with specialized blades the tool can slice through steel and concrete barriers in minutes. laughter trevor just after trump bragged ant his superwall, we learned smugglers have been cutting through the new border wall with basic tools you can buy at any hardware store. I wouldnt be shocked if the guys at home depot showed the smugglers how to do it because those guys will help you with any project that. They dont judge. Hey, buddy, need help . I want to open a safe thats not in my house. Aisle seven. Wait, a bank safe . Yeah, then aisle 5. Also zip guards for the tools. Aisle 2. My man applause you might think that trump would be humiliated by the news, but you dont know trump. When asked if he was concerned that people were able to cut through the border wall he has been touting for so long, this was the president s response. I havent heard that. We have a very powerful wall, but no matter how powerful, you can cut through anything, in all fairness. Cutting is one thing, but its easily fixed. One of the reasons we did it the way we did it, its very easily fixed to put the chunk back in. But we have a very powerful wall. Trevor hold on. He said it would be empen central. But now hes like of course, you can cut through anything. In a span of a few hours the wall went from dwayne the rock johnson to literally any other guy named dwayne. Thats what just happened there. What happened . Huh . cheers and applause and, also, if trump is saying he built it on purpose to be something thats easy to open and then close, it isnt a wall. My man, youve built a door. laughter i feel like thats where this is headed. Trump will come out, like, we put a door on the southern bored. So much easier. They can open it but afterwards it can also be closed. And whos gonna close it . 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You know, due to low polling, due to fundraising problems, and partly because of that lion that keeps picking off the trailing candidates. They need to do something about that. This weekend came came the biggest name to drop out so far, beto orourke, former texas congressman and inflatable man outside a dar dealership. His dropout speech was very moving. It is with a very heavy heart i announced my campaign is ~bleep finished, bro. laughter on the opposite spectrum is Elizabeth Warren who has been surging in the polls, right behind biden nationally, leading in iowa and polling at 100 among registered cardigans. laughter but the one big criticism of warren is that she hasnt explained how she would pay for her medicare for all Healthcare Plan without taxing the middle class specifically. This weekend she showed us the money. Elizabeth warren is putting a price tag on medicare for all, 20. 5 trillion in new spending over ten years paid for by taxing billionaires and big business. I have a plan that shows how we can have medicare for all without raising taxes one cent on middle class families. Warren would eliminate all private employer based insurance. Employers would pay the government almost 9 trillion over ten years, similar to what they now spend on employees healthcare. She would boost billionaires tax, higher taxes on investment gains for the top 1 and cut military spending. We, to pay for her plan, warren plans to raise taxes on the ultra wealthy and cut military spending, which if you think about it actually doubles the Healthcare Benefits because all americans would get healthcare and people in afghanistan wont get droned. I feel so much healthier now that i havent been blown up, yay and if youre a billionaire youre probably not happy to pay more taxes. Warren should try to sweeten the deal and let super rich get naming rights over the healthcare they helped pay for. Jeff bezos presents a heart laughter thats warrens plan. The democratic opponents responded the way sean spires does to a beat. Hearing none of it. Elizabeth warren defending her plan for medicare for all under attack. Pete buttigieg is its controversial. Benders says i think the approach i have will be more progressive. Former Vice President joe biden calls warren marines unrealistic. I promise you you couldnt even get a penny. Trevor even when joe biden isnt giving you a massage he looks like his eyes are giving you a massage. Warrens democratic rivals have issues with her plan. Biden says it goes too far. Sanders said it does gotten too much. It might be hard to know whether warrens plan is achievable or not unless youre an economist. Whats easy is to understand the effect on the industry. 385,000 people estimated could lose their job under her plan. Warren says theyll land on their feet. Some of the people currently working in Health Insurance will work in other parts of insurance and Life Insurance and Auto Insurance and car insurance. Some will work for medicaid. Trevor da damn, warren doesnt mess around. Shes just going to move people around to another job . I dont think its going to be that easy. Someone who works in Health Insurance now is the next day going to be dealing with cars . Confusing. Hi, im calling to let you know youre fully covered for yore recent prostate exam. My oil change . Hey, its your body, whatever you want to call it, thats your decision. laughter now, i feel bad for anyone in private insurance whos scared of losing their job, but, on the other hand, screw private insurance im sorry, Insurance Companies are assholes, man, not the people who work for them but the company. They ask you whats wrong with you so they can charge you more then they wont even cover your appendix surgery then you say why did i get my appendics enlarged in the first place, makes me feel nor confident but is it worth it . I dont know. What makes me feel more confident is Elizabeth Warrens plan has been dissected from every angle. Everyone is dissecting the thing, which is good, but whats funny is that trump ran for president , and he got in to office and his Healthcare Plan was a lot less specific. We have to come up with and we can come up with many different plans, in fact plans that you dont even know about will be devised. I am going to take care of everybody. You will have the best healthcare youve ever ever had. Were going to bring down the price of healthcare, bring it down big league, big, big league. Its a complicated process but actually its very simple. Its called good healthcare. Trevor yep, you cant argue with those numbers. Well be right back. cheers and applause hey, is this yall . We have to go. Im not a criminal. Are yall the new black panthers . We didnt have a choice. It was selfdefense. Its an honor to meet yall. Yall really gave us something to believe in. How you gonna outrun the police . 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My guest tonight is the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book awardwinning novel, the underground railroad. His latest book is called the nickel boys. Please welcome Colson Whitehead. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Trevor you have written yet another book, and this book many are saying, once again, the one of the most painful examinations of a true story illustrated and told in in a fictitious way. The nickel boys is based on what some call a Rehabilitation School and some call dozier school. Why did you tell the story this way . It was based ton dozier school, a Reform School in florida operated for 110 ten years. Instead of locking up kids with grown offenders, they would be given at teaching one day and work the next and will woman com out and be rehabilitated. But three years into its being opened, there were kids as young as six being shackled, but in solita