And you just cant killanything. You understand . Dude, i dont understand hunting at all. Yeah, its stupid, lets go watch cartoons. Yeah, cartoons kick ass. Captions copyright 1997 Home Box Office a division of time warner entertainment company, l. P. Captioned by hbo Communications Center 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 im trevor noah thank you for tuning . my guest tonight is correspondent from the failing New York Times and author of the book about africas first female president Helene Cooper is joining us on the show lets begin with plan oat earth while its still here. Donald trump signing the executive order to cancel the obama administrations clean fowler plan. President trump taking a sledgehammer to environmental regulations. New order allows for new coal minus and rescinds six executive orders from president obama in regulating carbon emissions. Years of protecting the environment swept away in an instant. Trevor years away swept away in an instant much like the coast of florida. You know why i think donald trump hates the environment . Because he looks up to Mother Nature and hes like, you did this to me you did this to me laughter what the hell is donald trump doing . Just when weve begun to accept hes going to destroy america, now hes going to destroy the whole planet . People who had a plan b, theyre going, oh, all of them . All of them. He must really hate being president if hes willing to speed up the end of the world to get it over with. Thats what it feels like. Donald trump, please, drnld, think about whats going to happen if you destroy the environment. For one thing, where is don, jr. Going to sit awkwardly . Think about it. laughter just think about it. Thats a real picture. Thats trumps worst policy. What is that . Now, cutting regulations isnt the only way trump will be cooking the planet. Over the past few weeks, weve had a chance to look through trumps First FederalBudget Proposal where he cut huge amounts of funding for climate change, research, along with Everything Else that is holy and good. The white house is unveiling its federal Spending Priorities today and what it is touting as the americafirst budget. Slacker roughly 30 to the budget for the state department and the epia. P. Cut billions of dollars for teacher training, after school and summer programs. Cooperation for public broadcasting and public radio stations gone, National Endowment for the acts gone. Trevor giving a bleep for your fellow man, gone. America standing in the world, gone. Reasons to go on living, gone. President trump wants major cuts to almost every single department. Almost. President trump calling to boost military spend big 5 billion. You see what were doing with our military, bigger, better, stronger than ever before. Thats right. Trump wants more military spending. Even though america already spends more on defense than china, saudi arabia, russia, great britain, france, india, japan. The Denver Broncos and bill cosby combined. All of it. Now, these numbers may be hard to wrap your head around and luckily to help us see the numbers. Jordan klepper has prepared a presentation. Jordan klepper, everybody cheers and applause trevor, these cans represent americas Defense Budget and these cans are china, russia and our number one enemy, mexico. Now, you can see this comparison, and i know what youre thinking, America Needs more cans. Thats why trumps proposing to add more cans here by taking cans from other programs. So epa cans, our budget . Not anymore. We dont need clean water, we have soda. Im already starting to feel safer but not state of enough. We need to protect ourselves from threecan mexico right here, and theres no better shield than our childrens future. Education, what else do i need to learn . I already know i can drink soda instead of water. And the justice department, we can make some cuts there because collin is expanding now so i think were pretty good. Ill take safety wherever i can find it like the entirety of the public broadcasting budget. Now oh i feel so much safer. Trevor . Trevor wow, thanks, jordan. By the way, those were all his personal cans. So, in trumps mind, if its not military, it doesnt matter. Even if its a program like mealsonwheels, for instance, which provides food and companionship to lonely old people, but thats not how trump or his budget director see it. Cant spend money on programs just because they sound good and, great, meals meal mealsons sounds great. Thats a state decision to take federal money and give it to the states to say were going to give you money for something that doesnt work. Trevor the Trump Administration there defend putin, White Supremacists and Sexual Assault but delivering food to old people . Thats immoral ive got to look at my family at night, buddy, hey, hey laughter but all of this gave us an idea. If trump only wants to spend money on the military, then maybe we just have to make everything military. I have been with mealsonwheels since 1990. I get their meals three times a week, and i enjoy them very much. Im 98 years old and i do receive mealsonwheels, which i really depend on. Without it, i would probably wind up living on canned food. So i really do appreciate it. When we first heard President Trump was sending money to the military and cutting money from programs like mealsonwheels, the solutions was obvious, become militarized. Were now Meal Team Six. If we look and act like the military when delivering food, we can trick the president and protect mealsonwheels. We feed the elderly, the disabled, half a million veterans, over 2. 4 million americans. Listen up Meal Team Six, the survival of this unit is predicated on us delivering sustenance to those who need it. Im talking about milk im talking about bread im talking about protein im talking about the whole damn food pyramid now who row r you . Meals team six sir who are you . Meal team six, sir delicious its our duty to get food into these peoples homes and bellies. Its not food. They got locked doors and cats and some need their food before jeopardy starts. suspenseful music its a sandwich. Why cant they just ring the doorbell . Im always home and i have a cooler outside, if you put the food in the cooler, either one is good. Does it get intense . Hell, yeah, it gets intense im not gonna make it i got you, brother lets go we do our job and get people fed soft music crashing not every mission will be perfect. You have your good days and your bad. crying i forgot the cream cheese i forgot the cream cheese sobbing but you wake up the next day, you strap up your boots and keep tricking the president into thinking youre part of the military. Irene put the quesadillas on 320 for three minutes. Perfect temperature. I have a microwave on the counter. Outstanding. 100 better than no food at all. I would prefer this type of delivery than what kind of food do you want for dinner . Spaghetti or meet balls . Spaghetti do you have any gluten allergies . No, i dont. Good is this the perfect way to get fad to people . Probably not but at least its feeding folks like irene and peter and theyre veterans for gods sake. They fought for and alongside america. Its our duty to feed them. And if you mess with them or any other mealsonwheels recipients, you will see what Meal Team Six can do do not mess with us we are Meal Team Six cheers and applause trevor well be right back. Kids, juicy fruitmmmm with longerlasting flavor . Mmm zipping zipping rattling longerlasting juicy fruit. So sweet you cant help but chew and chew. Wand be less filling. Beer to have more taste, because we believe that if you compromise on taste, you can taste the compromise. Miller lite. Hold true. 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Think about it every subject he touches exposes the loopholes. H he did it with tax returns. Everyone assumed president ial candidates had to release their tax returns. Trump comes along and hes like sad and now he exposed its not actually a law. You dont have to do it. Same happened for hiring family members to work at the white house. Its not actually illegal, its just strong frowned on, and a strong frown is trumps whole look so hes fine with that. laughter congressional oversight committees, theyre designed to hold the executive branch accountable. Once again, thanks to trumps black light, were realizing how flimsy that premise is. Look at the story in the news now, devin nunes, the man leading the House Intelligence Committees investigation of trumps false claim that Obama Wiretapped him. Now, we assume that someone investigating the white house would be independent of the white house, yes . buzzer sound an evidence bomb shelter report, House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes goes straight to the president with emails and details about intercepted information involving the trump transition team. Chairman nunes went to the white house to brief President Trump on the information he had received before discussing with other members of the intelligence community. Trevor i mean, wow, this guy sees not even trying to act like an investigator. Who shares evidence with someone involved in the case . Who does that . Its like if marsha clark was, hey, o. J. , found a glove i want you to try on tomorrow. Get ready for that. Okay, byebye, now. Im not the only one who assumed you wouldnt show someone involved in an investigation the evidence. Black light. What makes the story worse is the evidence nunes says help trumps seems to have come from the house that trump lives in. Devin nunes revealed yesterday that he met with an unnamed source and reviewed classified documents last week on the white house grounds. Trevor okay, now im just confused. So this is what nunes says. He says he found evidence that backed up trump and found this evidence at the white house. Then after that he left the white house and then came back to the white house to tell trump about the evidence. Why not just tell trump why youre at the white house. Why leaving and going . Have a secret job for postmates . Got to ah taco bowl, there steve bannon what are you doing . So shady. You would think nunes shadiness would make him lose his spot. 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Please welcome Helene Cooper, everybody cheers and applause thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Trevor first of all, lets get into the why. I mean, it seems pretty obvious on the surface why you would write about africas first female president , but why was the story so close to you . Im from liberia, so i grew up there, and my family moved to the u. S. As refugees, actually, in 1980, and i was working in the New York Times office in new york in 2005 on the editorial page when liberian women staged this democratic coup and actually got a woman elected president for the First Time Ever on the african continent, and ei knew right away that i wanted to write about this. This is something that i instantly wanted to bring write about. So for years after that, i sort of put it aside and thought when am i going to get around to this . I eventually did, so i have been really excited. Trevor what made it special as well is this was not a foregone conclusion. Not only was it not only a woman running for president , but people calling her names, shes a grandma, boring, out of touch, she was running against someone who was really popular and, like you said, it was a democratic coup. What does it mean when you say that, though . What the women did was so extraordinary. You have to remember liberia had just come out of 14 years of civil war, and were talking horrific civil war. I mean, the kind of stuff that would make what you guys do here im saying you guys here in america look like childs play. We had soldiers dressed up in wedding gowns and blonde wigs kidnapping kids from their mothers and turning them into child soldiers. It was horrific. After this the women of liberia who really carried this country on their backs during this entire civil war were so fed up that they determined that they were not going to tolerate, you know, having another and they blame the men for the war, so they were going to vote for a woman president any way that they could, which meant for them that they were going to get as down and dirty as the men had been in the past, and trevor yeah they really got down and dirty. There are some stories in the book where you say they would go to bars and they would trade the men beers for their voter i. D. S. Yeah, because why not . Trevor thats a pretty slick level of being, yeah, were going to disenfranchise these people. Thats not all they did. There were moms who stole their sons photo i. D. Cars. Ellen was running against a professional Football Player, a harvardeducated i. M. F. , work for the u. N. , minister of finance, she had experience oozing out of every pore, 67 years old at the time, versus a Football Player, george w. Ia who had never worked in government before, had never run a business, but had been a big star for the italian team a. C. Milan. So many of the young boys in liberia were so excited the idea of Football Player as a president whereas their moms were outraged that after the country has gone through this war you are now going to turn around and give this country to a Football Player . So they said, no, were not going to tolerate this. I talked to one woman who actually went into her sons bedroom in the middle of the night, stole his wallet, took his voter i. D. Card out and buried it in the yard. applause trevor its a pretty insane story that they went to these lengths. One of my favorite moments was one of the grandmas in the book, when youre talking about it, and you know these grandmothers who say why would you do that and they go, well, i raised my kid for nine months, i know better than them. Absolutely. She said it to me in straight librarian english, you take speaking in accent did you understand that . Trevor io i didnt. Youve lost your african. Trevor africa isnt a country why would you do that to me . We have a different accent where im from laughter you cannot deny the parallels between Elen Johnson Sirleaf and hillary clinton. Other than winning the presidency, you have someone who spent her entire life in public service, someone who was plagued by scandals, someone who was seen as being too old and, you know, too weak and too boring. Trevor and too boring. Not charismatic. Trevor yeah, and how has that worked out since . Well, shes done Elen Johnson Sirleaf has smoked all the men who came before her, but thats not hard to do because the men were like charles taylor, samuel do convicted of war crimes, so its a pretty easy comparison. As a presid