Tree arrived over the weekend, but not before making a brief stop outside trump tower. [ laughter ] donald trump is reportedly asked about getting top secret security clearance for his children, though i dont know why. If ivanka and donald jr. Want to know if aliens are real, they could just turn around. Top secret security clearance for his children. Even the top secret one. [ audience oohs ] according to reports three buildings in new york will drop the trump brand name after a petition demanded it be removed, because it is insulting. But to save money theyre just going to rearrange the letters. [ applause ] an anagram. Ivanka trump is facing criticism for using her appearance on 60 minutes this weekend, to promote a 10,000 bracelet from her fashion line. Meanwhile melania was sporting a dazzling 24 carat help me necklace. [ laughter ] dr. Ben carson has reportedly told donald trump that he isnt interested in serving in the trump administration. And just like at the debates, if his name is called, he wont an. [ laughter ] [ applause ] dr. Carson . Dr. Ben carson. Come on out dr. Carson. [ laughter ] High School Students across the country walked out of class today in protest of donald trump. Which is weird since hes living proof that you can do none of your homework and still become president. [ applause ] residents, residents of a small town in missouri this week, are next door to a church. The town filed a restraining order but that just got them more excited. [ laughter ] the card game uno this week, was inducted into the National Toy Hall of fame. Uno or as it will be called in trumps america, one. [ laughter ] and finally, a canadian man was arrested recently after he tri of gold out of his work place hidden in his rectum. Even crazier, he had a backpack. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we got a great show for you, tonight. [ cheers and applause ] from the new movie bad santa 2, one of my favorites Billy Bob Thornton will be here tonight. Shes the far of a fantastic new film, rules dont apply, the wonderful lily collins is here. And were very lucky to have chief medical correspondent from cnn, dr. Sanjay gupta is joining us this evening. [ cheers and applause ] so, really a good night. I as i mentioned before my wife and i now have an 8monthold, 8monthold son named ash. Very exciting time for us. We also have a seven pound, 5yearold italian greyhound, who up to this point, not super psyched about having a baby in the house. Frisbee went from getting all the atnt thats just how it goes. If any dogs are out there watching, thats just how it goes. [ laughter ] but, heres the thing, at night our dog sleeps in the bedroom, frisbee, and we close the door to our bedroom. And ash sleeps in his room. Hes got another room. But the problem is, our dog, being seven pounds, our dog goes to the bathroom this is embarrassing as a man to say, our dog goes to the bathroom on a pad inside. Thats just how it goes. Im sorry to be the one to break it to you. And so what happens is, i have ill open the bedroom door, and shell go. And she has to go into the babys room and she goes into that bathroom, and then she just comes right back. And then when she comes back, i close the door. Well, anyway shes been taking longer and longer to go to the bathroom, so finally last night i looked at the nanny cam while she was gone. And basically, she goes to the bathroom and then she just stands and just stares at the baby. [ audience aws ] this is some paranormal activity [ bleep ]. Oh, it gets creepier. [ laughter ] and then she just like, puts her head into the thing. And my wife and i were talking this morning and she was saying, what do you think frisbees doing . And i said, i think shes saying, you need to get the [ bleep ] out of here. [ laughter ] this place used to rule, and now its a hell hole. Get lost dude. [ light laughter ] see in my sleep every time i close my eyes. Look. [ laughter ] i guess we have the nanny cam set on devil. [ light laughter ] you should put it on the devil setting. As we mentioned yesterday, very little is known about how donald trump will actually govern as president. One way to glean what he might do is to look at his personnel choices. And when it comes to those personal choices there seems to be some internal divisions. For more on this its time for a closer look. . Seth remember trump had three Different Campaign managers over the course of the election. I guess, three is like a lucky number for him. And after a campaign, rife with internal divisions, the infighting seems to have continued into the trump transition. Transition turmoil. . Sources tell cnn that Donald TrumpsTransition Team is like a knife fight. Seth thats right a knife fight, and that might not be a metaphor. Rudy, chris, fight for my amusement. Now there already seem to be two centers of gravity in trump world right now. Youve got incoming chief of staff and elf on the shelf, reince priebus, who comes from the establishment wing, and then chief strategist steve bannon. The former executive chairman of breitbart news. A website adored by white nationalists. And while the establishment may be relieved by the fact that priebus is the chief of staff, history indicates hell probably be less powerful than bannon. People in washington are comforted by the fact that priebus is c o as if thats like a good thing. But i urge them to look back at the Bush Administration when andy card was the chief of staff, and karl rove had the bannon job. Who was more powerful in that white house . Bannon is going to be number one in this white house. He will eat priebus for lunch. Seth are we sure he didnt already . [ laughter ] now, we told you about bannon yesterday, but republicans and democrats continue to criticize to white nationalist. And the more information that comes out, the more troubling the appointment seems. Even conservative commentator, glenn beck, had this to say about bannon. Steve bannon, wants to burn it down. Hes a nightmare. Bannon has a clear tie to white nationalists. Clear tie. He is a guy who has, wants to tear this system down, and replace it with a new system. He is a frightening no, seth you know the world has gone insane when glenn beck and Bernie Sanders are on the same page. [ laughter ] for them to be on the same page the book has to be one page long. [ laughter ] so far it seems, trumps closest advisers, just as during the campaign, will be three of his children. Ivanka, eric and don jr. This of course raises the question of conflicts of interest, because trumps children are also supposed to be running his Business Empire while he serves as president. The campaign, trump pledged to put his business in a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest. Although he clearly didnt know what that term actually meant. If i become president i couldnt care less about my company. I have ivanka and eric and don sitting there. Run the company kids. Have a good time. So youll put your assets in a blind trust . I would put it in a blind trust, well, i dont know if its a blind trust if ivanka, don, and eric run it. But, is that a blind trust . I dont know. Seth i dont know . For a guy whos always talking business, he sure doesnt seem to understand basic business terms. Blind trust, no thank you. I would never trust a blind person. For one thing, they wear sunglasses inside. Thats very shady if you ask me. But blind trust or not, trumps children already seem to be seizing on the opportunity to make money from their fathers administration. Because as the New York Times reported last night, ivanka trump turned her appearance sunday on 60 minutes with her father, into a marketing opportunity for her line of jewelry. With one of her employees urging 10,800 gold bangle bracelet, she wore during the interview. Did you hear that, disenfranchised White Working Class voters . For only 11,000 you can make your wrist great again. [ laughter ] so what we know so far about trumps transition, is that theres infighting among his advisors. And there may not be a firm division between his presidency and business. And then theres what seems to be trump back pedaling on some of his Biggest Campaign promises. For example, if you caught trump on the campaign trail at all, remember some very subtle hints he had about a wall. [ laughter ] you might also remember trumps promise that mexico would pay for that wall. Well, apparently both of those promises are a little more flexible than trump made them out to be. Theyre talking about a fence in the republican congress. Would you accept a fence . For certain areas i would. But certain areas a wall is more appropriate. Im very good at this. Its called construction. Could be could be some fencing. Newt gingrich speaking to a group of lawyers said this about building the wall. He said this, hell spend a lot of time controlling the border. He may not spend very much time trying to get mexico to pay for it, but it was a Great Campaign device. Seth a campaign device or in laymans terms a [ bleep ] lie. Hey [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] hey, honey now that were married im not going to give you ti was an engagement device. [ laughter ] so a wall that mexico is going to pay for is now a fence that were going to pay for. Even worse, it turns out, that hat had an asteriks on it. Great, as in, no way a legally binding term, customers shall assume responsibility for all consequences and liability that may result from making America Great again. Also for every one person that perceives something as great, there will be 10 to 15 people that perceive it as bad or terrible. Offer void in america. [ laughter ] so already, he seems to be softening on some of his Biggest Campaign promises, but even if he does attempt to make radical changes, it wont be easy. As president obama argued yesterday. The federal government and our democracy is not a speed boat, its a ocean liner. Seth thats reassuring. I mean, nothing bad ever happened to a massive ocean liner, right . [ laughter ] this has been a closer look. . [ cheers and applause ] Billy Bob Thornton, everybody. . [ cheers and applause ] for everyone to gather around. G and you know what else im thinking . Lights some help. Got it what do you think bullseye . 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Ill have that goat cheese garden salad. That gentleman got the last one. Sir, you give me that salad and i will pay for your movie and one snack box. Can i keep the walnuts . Sold. But i get to pick your movie. Cash back on the side. With the blue cash everyday card from american express, you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. Throw. Its more than cash back. . [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back, everybody. Please give it up for the 8g band right over there. [ cheers and applause ] alsour for one of my favorite bands against me whos latest shape shift with me is out now. Say hello to atom willard everybody. [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much for being back atom. Thanks for having me. Seth such a pleasure to have you. Very excited about this. Our first guest tonight is an Academy Award winner you know from the fx series fargo. In such films as sling blade, monsters ball, and bad santa. You can see him in the sequel bad santa 2. Which opens in theaters november 23rd. Lets take a look. We all participate, volunteers and staff. Damn mind . I aint dancing around a bunch of candy canes and [ bleep ]. Because im all about the birth of christmas. You know the wise guys kicked him out of the hotel. The ejculate conception, and then the drummer who didnt have [ bleep ]. Giving him some perfume. And king midas or one of them threatened to cut the kid in half. Turn him into gold, and its a heavy deal for me. Pretty damn heavy. Exactly. Seth please welcome to the show Billy Bob Thornton, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] . Seth how are you . Not bad. Seth im really, really happy to have you here. Im glad to be here. 15 years. Seth the last time we saw each other was in this building. You hosted snl the thanksgiving episode 2001. Thats exactly right. Seth yeah. And we did some fun skits together. Seth we did some fun skits. And you were just a fledgling at the point. Seth i was i did not know what was going on. And i was terrified. Seth you were and its weird thats so funny to hear because you do not ever give off, i think, a terrified vibe. Well let me tell you, that Live Television deal. I had had friends who were afraid of it too. Seth yeah. They said its really scary. Seth yeah. Seth did you when it was over did you feel great relief . Yes it was exactly like you guys said it would be. You said all week long youre not going to know what youre doing. And were going to look like we dont know what were doing. And were not going to tell you what youre going to do. And the show is going to fly by and as soon as its over youre going to want to do it again. Seth yeah. And thats exactly what it was like. Seth that i think is yeah. Seth i hear that over and over again. It was fantastic. Seth so, this is very exciting for me. Santa comes out there seems to be a sequel window. Right. Seth and it feels like were past the window and yet here we are now with bad santa 2. Thats right. Thats right. [ laughter ] seth but its very exciting because you have the original the kid, thurman is back, and hes a grown man. Oh yeah. And its creepy. Yeah. Seth did you always was this something you were always planning on doing. Having a second one . We always talked about it. I mean, we were pretty sure we would make a sequel at some point but, you know, the studio kind of changed hands a couple of times. And then the studio came back in the red tape was done they said you could we were clear to do one and all of that. And took three or four years to get the right story and the right script. Because we didnt want to just throw one out there, you know. Seth right. I think a lot of times when comedies have sequels they think well how can we make this one different and yet the same . So they just make it broader. Seth sure. And we just made this one creepier. Seth i think your fans will enjoy it. Yeah. Seth well it is so funny you mention that its creepy but it films that families will watch every year. Its like a modern miracle on 34th street with just awful people in it. Exactly. Seth yeah. Its got seth are you surprised at the age of people who have told you they have seen this film . Oh yeah its shocking. I mean grandmothers come up to me all the time. You know, people i normally wouldnt mention the movie to. And they do it all the time. Sometimes ill be out, you know, in the Glendale Galleria as i do. Seth sure, yeah. And for the purposes of this story im at the Glendale Galleria. Seth gotcha. And like a little kid will say mommy thats bad santa. Like a little kid, you know. And im like what kind of parents are you anyway . Seth thats not age appropriate. Yeah. Its weird. Seth is it true that sometimes people take issue with the fact that you have taken the sacred holiday of christmas and your film has ruined it. Yeah. Theres actually an instance on we were doing a q and a at some kind of film festival, i dont know where it was. But there was a lady in the back, a very severe school marm type, and she stood up and said how do you feel about ruining the name of santa and jesus and the bible . And a lot of things like that. She seemed pretty upset. Seth yeah. And i said well maam let me straighten a few things out here. First of all ive read the bible. Santa claus aint in it. I mean you can go all through it ecclesiastes and deuteronomy and all of it. Seth he doesnt even have a cameo. Nothing. Hes not in it. Nobody even talks about it. So santy claus is not in there and second of all, you know, im not playing santa claus. Seth yeah. All youve got to do is watch the movie. I dont play santa claus. I play a criminal who dresses up like santa claus. So in other word you know those bank robbery movies where a guy wears a Richard Nixon mask . Seth yeah. Same thing. Right, people shouldnt stand up in the back and say Richard Nixon never robbed banks. Exactly, how do you feel about ruining the good name of Richard Nixon . Seth yeah. Also not in the bible. Interesting fact, Richard Nixon did not turn up there either. No. Seth so you have a lot of the original cast and then some new people. We saw Christina Hendricks in that clip. And then kathy bates plays your mother in the film. Plays my mom, yes. Seth and i think we find out a lot about why youve turned into a bad person because she is a horrifying person. Absolutely. S m no question about it. I mean, thats the thing about the new movie. This one pushed the raunchy stuff a little further. I mean its not, theres not more profanity in this one. Its just were more descriptive about things and also in terms of the emotion you actually find out why willy is the way he is. How he got the way he is and that kind of thing. At the end of the day hes an abused, neglected kid whos afraid to have anything or love anybody. Seth there you go. Yeah. Seth perfect christmas story. Its a great christmas story. One some of us know very well. And by the way, your drummer, who you were talking about earlier, looks like joel cohen. Seth yeah he does look like joel cohen. One of the cohen brothers. Yeah. Seth yeah. Ill take that. Yeah. Seth i wanna we were talking backstage you are on this fantastic new show called goliath on amazon. Right. Seth which i really like. But also last, i guess now two years ago, or so you were in fargo. Weve been mentioning [ cheers and applause ] seth a fantastic show. Thank you. Seth and i loved it for a lot of reasons but here is your this is a very unique look. Oh yeah. Seth for those that havent seen it. You play a cold hearted hit man and thats not what you think, when you thats a weird hair cut. Yeah. What happened was i got a bad hair cut. Seth in real life. Yeah, in real life. Seth by accident . Yeah. I didnt like it at all and of course i dyed my hair as you can tell. Its normally this color. But anyway so i looked at myself in the mirror before we started this thing one day and i was growing the beard out like that and i thought, you know what, this has an iconic look. Seth yeah. And thats something youre going to remember and if this cat comes out of the snow at you its like is this o the beatles, or something you know . Seth yeah. I thought it would be an interesting look for a killer. Seth and the thing i loved of course when you hosted snl you met the great lorne michaels. Thats right. Seth your killers name was lorne melvo. Lorne melvo. Seth i really enjoyed that there was a coldhearted killer named lorne. I want to ask about this as well. You ive heard you mention in interviews. That you and your daughter, whos 12 is that correct . Yes. Seth you guys watch my [ laughter ] are you a fan of it . You know. Here goes my reputation. But, yes. Seth i put the coldhearted hit man first. Oh good, way to go. Seth and then we transition into this. Thats right. No, actually my daughter and i, we read my little pony books. Theres a its complicated we dont have time but theres the little kid version seth sure. Of my little pony but now theres this other ver seth my little pony like after dark . Like what . Yeah, yeah. Exactly. But, we can go so many ways. Seth yeah. But one way or the other we found one of her old books recently and we started watching the show. Seth yeah. And the themes, actually underlying themes were pretty heavy. I mean like, there was one about like big brother and 1984 and all of that kind of thing, its really cool. Show called equestria girls. Its the pony characters but theyre in another dimension and theyre now teenage girls who go to high school and guys, you know. Seth but like girl ponies. Theyre the same characters only now theyre girls theyre not horses. Seth oh my goodness. Yeah. And so now that shes 12 we watch that mostly and she likes twilight sparkle. Seth okay. Do you have a favorite . I like rainbow dash and fluttershy because she talks like marilyn monroe. Seth right, right. Thats great. [ cheers and applause ] seth thats a nice thing for a father and daughter to do together. Absolutely. Seth thank you so much for being here. Lets not make it 15 years until we cross paths again. Billy bob thornton everybody. Bad santa 2 is in theaters november 24th. Well be right back with lily collins. During the ford year end event, discover why ford is americas bestselling brand. . Im on top of the world, hey . With the most 5star ratings. Awardwinning value. And the highest owner loyalty. Giving drivers what matters most. Thats how you become americas bestselling brand. During the ford year end event get an extra thousand dollars black friday bonus cash on top of all other great offers. Its an amazing time to visit your ford dealer. . . 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I mean wouldnt you say in hollywood as a rule when youve been here as long as i have that you should have already more or less shown what you can do. Lets be honest. Maybe im not the right girl for this. I mean, arent you supposed to have big bosoms and be sexual and casual about everything. Im a square. I cant really act, i cant dance, i can write songs but i cant really sing. A Movie Actress should sing songs and not write them. Wouldnt you say thats true . I mean as a rule i mean in this town arent those the what . Come on, frank, you know the rules. Seth please welcome to the show lily collins, everybody. . [ applause ] seth im so very happy to have you here. Im so happy. Finally. Seth finally. Over the past couple years and every time, its like please have me on. Seth i know, i beg you. I beg you. No, its me begging you. I just havent had something, i dont know. Seth im so sorry that i have said no every time. [ laughter ] its horrible. Seth i have this and i say, no i dont like that, come up with something better. Yeah, like its not really appropriate for our show. Seth yeah and im so glad this is. Seth this is so exciting as i feel like any actor involved in this project. This is the first film Warren Beatty has directed since bulworth and its a film he has been working on for 30 years and is someone who is a perfectionist and wants to get things just right. What was the audition process like to get a part that is so central to this . Well, it wasnt really an audition. Seth okay. I didnt think it was an audition. I guess it was kind of a life audition for warren. He had he had my agent call me and give me his phone number and told me to call him at home, which i thought was bizarre anyway. Seth yeah, right. So i called warren at home and he picked up and hes like, i told you never to call here. And i was like, oh my god, like what. Kidding. Whats up . [ laughter ] i was like okay, this has some really comedic tone. All right, were good. It went on like that for a couple of months. It was just phone calls and lunches and dinners. Sometimes at their house with their kids with annette and their kids. Sometimes wed go out for sushi or like italian and we ran into aaron sorkin and Kathryn Bigelow and we were just like, hey, whatre you doing. And we hadnt talked about the movie yet so i was just like, im just having lunch with warren. He never brought up the movie. Seth and i def i would think that if it was any other director at some point you would yeah, like, why do you want to hang out . [ laughter ] seth right. I was just terrified that if i was the one to bring it up that either i wasnt supposed to know about it or he would be like, next. Seth right. So i was like hanging on for dear life. Seth and so was it like a weekend of shooting when you realized, oh, im in this movie . Kind of. [ laughter ] seth really . No, we did this for a couple of months and finally one day he was like, well, do you want to meet alden . And i knew alden had been attached for five years. Seth alden, your costar on the screen. My costar and i said, yeah id like to meet alden. Want to just like read a couple of lines maybe out loud. And i was like, sure do you mean from the movie . [ laughter ] like the script that you made me read in your library locked away. Seth oh, so then so like the fifth meeting, he finally was like, heres the script. Go in my library and they closed all the doors and i had like little sticky notes and a pen and it was like take notes. And i was like, i havent even read the script yet. Like take notes . Like youre Warren Beatty what am i going to take notes on. Seth that would be great if he said what you think he was saying, i have a lot of notes. [ laughter ] i did have a lot of notes. Seem like i really, you know, i did my due diligence. Seth i want a library that i can make people go read my writing in. [ laughter ] right. Seth also, i want a library with enough doors that i can close all the doors. [ laughter ] i dont just want a one door library. There were a lot of doors and there was an intercom and occasionally it would be like the intercom would ring and be like, you doing okay in there . [ laughter ] i was like, where is it coming from . [ laughter ] yeah. I was like, is the script talking to me . I mean, eventually when we did get a script, it was like silver mylar that you basically with because he didnt want it to be photocopied. Seth oh wow. So id like sit there with my scripts like tanning. [ laughter ] so it was just crazy. Seth and this is a film about Howard Hughes and warren plays Howard Hughes and in scenes where he was directing and in them was he then directing as Howard Hughes . Yeah, which was so strange. I have never seen in a scene with an actor who is also the director, so i thought, this is going to get really confusing. And when hes just director, he is either sitting behind the monitor or sometimes hed sit and be like sitting like this watching me and im like, i love you but like can you get out of my eye line please . Seth yeah. I cant really like alden is there and youre there and then when it would be warren and i in a scene though, he would talk as Howard Hughes and ask me to repeat things and be like, i cant im sorry i cant hear you. What was that . He was like, are you mad at me . And i was like, no. Hes like, are you mad at me . Do you want to get madder . Do you want to repeat that . And hed like get me really aggravated to get a different type of performance. Seth that is so its so inda directed by Warren Beatty. The idea of Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes is like beyond. Very intimidating but my character was super intimidated by him the whole time so i was just kind of like living along with my character. Seth thats perfect, thats a perfect way to go. And then annette benning, who is such a fantastic actor as well, she plays your mother in this film. Yes. Seth was it different for warren when his wife was on set . Was he a different director . It was interesting because this is the first time annette has been directed by warren and she talks about that a lot about how interesting that was for her. Because so shes his wife and she really cares about him as a person. And, you know, on our first day of shooting, it was really hot out. And so theres one side where shes like, honey, do you have enough sunscreen on . Are you drinking enough water . And then wed all be sitting there and shes like, honey, your actors are getting tired, like, were ready to shoot now. [ laughter ] lets shoot. So we would shoot and then shes like, i think were done. [ laughter ] i think we got the scene. I think we did enough takes. Were really good and so on annettes last day i was like, annette, please dont leave. Come back and visit. And she was like, honey, just hold down the fort. You can do it. Im like, im not married to him. [ laughter ] i cant get away with everything you do. I want to be as polite as possible and just kind of like, do it but it was nice to have her around. [ laughter ] seth well and the work certainly turned out fantastic. Thank you. Seth congratulations on being in such a special film. Thank you. Seth its so great to have you here. Give it up for lily collins, everybody. Rules dont apply opening in theaters on november 23rd. Well be right back with dr. Sanjay gupta. [ cheers and applause ] . So we are going. Modern life deserves a modern way to pay. Well end up uh. In venice oh venice lets get the check nope, i got it you can use it online. Whats with this one . And on your phone. Taking care of the check, its all masterpassed. First impressions priceless well thank you so where to now . Well were thinking shoe shopping masterpass the secure way to pay from your bank. Dont just buy it masterpass it. Mr. Brady, weve been expecting you. Will you be needing anything else . Not a thing. Beautyrest black. Get your beautyrest. Beautyrest black. . The candy man can . . cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good . . [ cheers and applause ] everybody. Our next guest is cnns chief medical correspondent. Please welcome to the show dr. Sanjay gupta. [ applause ] . Seth how are you doing . Im doing great. Glad to be here. Seth i am so happy to have you here, i have to ask, you are one of the most recognizable does that mean that your life is constantly people coming up to you and asking for medical advice . Yes. That happens quite a bit. Its often times in airports. Seth sure. I i got a rash over here or Something Like that. Youre trying to catch your plane. [ laughter ] by the way, billy bob just now backstage. A couple of medical questions. [ laughter ] seth really . No lie. No lie. True. True. Seth billy bob wanted to take advantage of the free doctor. Doctor, can you [ laughter ] seth thats great and of course when youre at an airport, cnn is basically always on. Seth so even if theyre not sure its you, they can just check a screen and verify it. [ laughter ] right. Seth but i would imagine worse would be once you get on your plane if the person sitting next to you recognizes you. Yeah, then it gets into the Family History and all kinds of stuff. [ laughter ] but you know its im happy to do it, though. Im a doctor. So if people have medical questions i try to help as much as i can. What is interesting sometimes, youll appreciate this, i go out to dinner very occasionally with my wife and we dont get a chance to do that very much. Were having a dinner at a nice restaurant with table cloths and everything and somebody will come up and sorry to bother you but im wondering if i can ask you a question. And then theyll turn around and show me their back pain may be and how its going down the leg and all this sort of stuff. This actually happened once and my wife was listening and i was watching her because i knew she was going to yell at me for some reason after this. [ laughter ] and she said, its an l4, 5 disk. She says to the guy. [ laughter ] i said, sweety, i think he was asking me. She said, ne seth she just like now has learned enough about the human body by being next to you. Is that basically whats happened . Yeah, i think thats what it is. Osmosis, you know, just in the middle of the night, taking all of the calls. Seth so you still do you still perform surgeries . I do. Seth well and ive always wanted to ask this as well. Ive heard that you have a play list of songs that you play during surgeries. I do. Seth and what are some of the songs that you like to play that you can hear before a surgery . I have so neurosurgeons do for the brain surgery and brain surgery seth you have different play lists depending on if its brain or spine . Yeah, depending on brain or spine. Brain is more gentle and spine is a little bit more rockus, so it depends, yes. But yeah, theres a story to my playlists seth when a party when im at a party thats getting really good, we put on dr. Sanjays spine mix. [ laughter ] thats right. The closing spine list, yes. Seth so what are some of the songs . Well i got fix you by coldplay. Seems like a good you know, fix you. Seth yeah, thats right. Seth comfortably numb, pink floyd. There you go, these a [ laughter ] if im doing a tumor and im zeroing in on it, i like i can see clearly now by johnny nash. [ laughter ] seth fantastic. A tumor when a tumor hears that he starts getting worried. Thats right, exactly. Seth oh, here comes dr. Gupta. When were winding down, staying alive by the beegees. Seth oh really . Yes. Seth i will say this, if i woke up during a surgery and that was what you were rocking out to, i dont know how happy i would be. [ laughter ] i mean like, he needs a song . Well, better than another one bites the dust. [ cheers and applause ] do patients ever ask you, do they ever say, hey id love to listen to some music. Yeah. Yeah, they we will give patients the first preference and before they drift off to sleep they can listen to whatever they want. Neurosurgeons, sometimes we do operation with patients awake as well. So they have very select tastes in terms of what they want. Some like classical music. Some people like just a more upbeat whatever makes them comfortable. Seth once they go out once they go under, do you turn off their music immediately and pu then its us again. [ laughter ] seth yeah, youre like, i dont want to listen to this person anymore. They wont remember anything after. Seth so obviously we had this election last week. And one of the things that was very interesting in the medical community was, all of a sudden Recreational Marijuana was legalized in so many states. You were someone who originally did not think that was a good idea. Youve changed your mind. What lead to that . Well, you know, a Medicinal Marijuana. There were several states that voted on this and it got lost in very important. Seth yeah. I believe that marijuana can be a medicine and youre right for a long time i would look at the literature, im a very fastidious guy in terms of looking at data. And when i would look at the data around medical marijuana in the past i didnt find it particularly compelling. But what i started to learn, seth, was that if you looked at all the studies, what you came to learn was that most of the studies were designed to look for harm as opposed to designed to look for benefit. Five year period were designed to look for harm as opposed to benefits. So the whole system was sort of looking for that harm as opposed to saying this could be a legitimate medicine. I started to travel around the world and went to other countries. I started to look at laboratories that were not funded by the u. S. Government and a different picture started to emerge. I mean i used to believe that people in favor of Medicinal Marijuana were just malingering and wanting to get high. Seth yeah. But the truth is that i think for certain people not only does thing that works and it would be immoral perhaps even to withhold that. If its a therapy, i think it could actually benefit people. So, thats where i its been very heartening to see states like florida, arkansas, wouldnt have dreamed five years that they would pass Medicinal Marijuana in some of these states and now its happening. Seth and so this seems like a wave that is not going to be turned back and were basically going to be a country that has legal Medicinal Marijuana in all 50 states it seems impossible prohibition on medical marijuana. We do, we still have it. Seth yeah. But it seems it just seems improbable that it exists. What i will tell you, seth, is that this is the only substance that has been sort of approved by the people, not the fda. Typically all the medications you have are approved by the fda and that can be a good system but the people in this case have said, look, we dont know why this substance has been demonized. We dont know why its landed in the place that its landed but it can help people and states all across the country are looking at the data and i just encourage other people to do the same thing. Seth all right, excellent. Thats very exciting news. The other thing of course that donald trump ran on was this repealing and replacing of obamacare. What is your as a doctor, how do you feel about where obamacare is right now and the risk of it going away. You know, its an amazing thing. We have 20 million or so more people who have Health Care Insurance that didnt before. I think that if you are a martian traveling to earth and looking at it youd say, wow that is an incredible thing. We have an Incredible Health care system in the United States and for so long people who really needed it, didnt have access to it and now 20 million more people do. I mean that i think that everyone agrees that thats a good thing. The concern i think now and we dont know as youve been pointing out nightly on your show. We dont know exactly where this is going. Seth right. So its hard to speculate but seth thats why we have thats the real reason. Seth yeah, exactly. But, you know, its interesting to me, if you look at some of the plans that have been put forth, you could run into a situation where youd actually be spending tens of billions of dollars more money and insuring millions fewer people and regardless of politics, your partisanship, whatever it may be, how is that a good idea . How is it good to spend more money and get even less for it in the name of politics . Dont think anybody thinks thats a good idea. Seth yeah, well hopefully common sense will prevail because its certainly there have been faults. I dont think anyone says its a perfect system but no one can argue with the fact that 20 million more people are receiving Health Insurance and thats a good thing. Yeah, i think so and youre right, its still a very expensive system. We still have a long ways to go in terms of improving the Health Overall of the country, we still have a long way to go. But, you know, you talk about going backwards. What does going backwards really mean . Throwing that term around. Seth sure. This could be what it means. Going backwards could mean that we spend even more money and ensure even fewer people. I hope that doesnt happen. Seth i hope it doesnt happen as well. I loved having you here. Thank you so much, doctor. Thank a lot. Appreciate it. Seth dr. Sanjay gupta, everybody. Well be right back. [ applause ] . You work at ge . Yeah, i do. Worldchanging machines. Well, not me specifically. I work on the industrial side. So i build the worldchanging machines. I get it. You cant talk because its super highlevel. No, i actually do build the machines. Blink if what youre doing involves encrypted data transfer. Wait, what . Wowwww. Wow . What wow . There is no wow. The ultimate surprise. For your eyes. New olay eyes ultimate eye cream. For instant results of the number one prestige eye cream, show your amazement, not your age. With new olay eyes. Ageless. Simulation initiated. . [beeping] rogue one a star wars story. 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