The Daily Show: Ears Edition - George Santos Faces Expulsion | Mehdi Hasan

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

Michelle Wolf covers George Santos refusing to resign despite facing expulsion as well as Nikki Haley picking up an endorsement from the Koch brothers. Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt joins Michelle to discuss all things Buy Buy Baby. Why saddle your kids with debt when you can saddle them with debt AND a horse? Michelle Wolf is here to sell you an upgraded reverse mortgage with AGG (American Geriatric Grift). And MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan speaks on the need for human empathy during the Israel-Hamas conflict, and how his goal in covering the war has been to platform as many voices as possible. He also discusses how his book “Win Every Argument” is meant to provide people with skills and rhetorical tricks and techniques to push back against the bullies, bigots, and gas lighters who have taken over our public square.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show. It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday?

I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to the Daily Show. I'm Michelle Wolf, and I am back again. Welcome, welcome to the Daily Show. Welcome, welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Michelle Wolf and I am back again. Yes, yes, apparently for every hostage freed in the Daily Show. I'm Michelle Wolf, and I am back again. Yes, yes. Apparently, for every hostage-free in the Middle East, I get to host one extra

night. I don't know how my agent sneaked out into the ceasefire deal, but here we are. And we've got a great show for you tonight, so let's get into the headlines. Let's begin with our friend George Santos, the It's Pat of Congress. I'm sorry, but what is he? Is he a man, a woman, Asian, Latino, Latina, several children stacked on top of each other, an old woman from the future? But one thing we know for sure, he'll be a congressman for at least a few more hours. The clock is now ticking on the brief tumultuous congressional career of New York Republican George Santos.

The House could vote as early as tomorrow on whether to expel the embattled Republican after an investigation found evidence of flagrant ethics violations, but he's not going down quietly. I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they're going to screw and pretend like none of us know what's going on. This happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations and that? Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there's felons galore.

There's people with all sorts of shysty backgrounds, and all of a sudden, George Santos is the Mary Magdalene of United States Congress. Yes. The Mary Magdalene of Congress. This is just like George Santos. You know which biblical sinner I am? The hat one. But let's make one thing very clear. If any Republican is Mary Magdalene, it's Ron DeSantis.

I mean with those hooker boots, come on. He's clearly working the streets at night. He's like, I'll sec you dick if you teach me how to smile normal. Well, okay, where was I? Yeah, George Santos, he's about to be just a six person in history to get thrown out of Congress. And he thinks it's unfair because everyone else is corrupt too, which, yeah, definitely. We know the government is corrupt and all these guys are doing the same thing you do, George. The difference is they're doing it way better than you.

It's so easy to figure out your crimes. It's not even fun. It's like doing an escape room in a gazebo. And the thing is, the thing is, I do believe you, George. I do believe that congressmen are getting drunk, sleeping with lobbyists, and profiting as much as possible at the expense of the people. We all know that already. What we don't know are the specifics. Tell us who, what, where, which orifice? We need you, George. Snitch, snitch, my sweater-vested friend.

In fact, we'll make a deal right, we'll make a deal with you right now. You can stay in Congress if you're our inside guy. You know our little congressional T.M.Z. I'll even move to your district to vote for you. Where is this district? It's Long Island? Okay. I will t to your district to vote for you. Where is his district? It's Long Island? Okay. I will tell people to move to your district. And just by the way, if you want to survive this expulsion vote, maybe try. Just try to take one photo where you don't look like you were caught while committing a crime. This little guy. It looks like he's rifling through Nancy Pelosi's purse while she's in the bathroom. Or like he's saying, don't mind me just duct tape and a knife under this chair for no reason.

That's the look I give when someone in the second floor window sees me peeing in an alley. That's the kind of photo they tape up next to the Sifora Register. Like this guy can't come back he keeps licking the testers. But let's move on to some big news out of the 2024 election. Our 2024 lead, come on guys, cue the music. You know I love the election. Thank you. It's like Elvis Costello to me. Hold on. Come on guys, cue the music, you know I love the election. Thank you. It's like Elvis Costello to me. Hold on. Come on, Tapper.

Is this really what news is now? Are you just trying to be relatable? I don't want relatable. I want reliable. If I want relatableable, shit, I'll go on Tick Tock who gets a guy that's like, what's up fam? I'm gonna give you the lowdown on whitebound and bin Laden is a milf. Let's try again with someone else because this is big news. It looks like some of America's most influential billionaire election meddlers have just made a brand new purchase. Big news today in the 2024 presidential election Nikki Haley picked up the endorsement

of the political action network founded by the billionaire Koch brothers in the Republican primary. The influential group is launching a multi-million dollar ad campaign this week in all early voting states, and this gives the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador a major boost less than seven weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Oh, Nikki Haley, shattering the glass ceiling of dark money. You go girl.

Seriously, this is a big get for her. With the backing of the Koch network, she could go from losing to Trump and DeSantis to just losing to Trump. This is like giving someone a stepstool to install a light bulb. I mean, yeah, you're closer, but you're still going to need like three Polish people. What do you want, guys? I got one more day here, okay? Let's do more jokes to get mad about. And don't get me wrong. I'm glad that a gross old billionaire is giving money to a woman, and it's not to shit on his chest. Because that, that feels like progress. But Nikki Haley, are you picturing it?

Is it steaming in your mind? It's hot poop and it's a very cold chip. More? Okay. Nickie, she's literally down 50 points to Donald Trump. She has less chance of being president than Hillary Clinton. Nikki Haley, she's literally down 50 points to Donald Trump. She has less chance of being president than Hillary Clinton. Yeah I know it's sad. Should have gone to Wisconsin Hillary. It's a direct flight you could have gone. Look Republicans voters

have been very clear. They want Donald Trump and Democratic voters have been very not clear. They're just like, I don't know man, do you know a guy? Maybe someone young, you know, someone 78, 79. But Trump is going to be the Republican nominee. So it doesn't matter how much money billionaires spend propping up other candidates. It's all a waste of money. I almost feel bad for these guys. They're so used to being able to buy the president and this time they're sitting on their yacht going, what's wrong with our money button? It's not working. I think it's stuck Charles to just spluge?

And the crazy thing is, I actually wish it would work this time. I wish they could buy the election. Listen, in a perfect world, billionaires wouldn't influence elections. But we're clearly not in a perfect world, because Donald Trump is winning. So billionaires, get your act together and buy this election. Buy this election. Buy this election. Buy this election. Oh my gosh, you guys are a bunch of sheep. And finally, in business news, bye bye baby is reopening stores again after going bankrupt earlier this year. And when I heard this news, at first I got very excited

because I heard Bye-By-Baby is back and I thought for a second that meant abortion was legal again. But unfortunately, it's just a store. So, for more on the revival of Bye-By-By-Baby, let's go to live now, Grace, Grace Kulinsmith. Now, great, Grace, this is great news for young parents like me. Oh, is it? How about you think of someone besides yourself or what's in your goddamn life?

Like, I don't know. Someone who had the genius idea of moving into a Bye-By- three months ago and now has nowhere to go? Grace have you been living in an abandoned bye-by-baby? Not initially. At first I was just hired to come in and clean out the rat traps but once I got in here I realized it's the perfect house. It's close to work, it's spacious and baby wipes are basically the same thing at showering. Plus, there's so many squeezy applesaces and mushed carrots. I may never have to chew food again. Grace, sweetie, put that down. It's not snack time. But I'm hungry! And now that the store is coming back, what am I going to do? I don't know, you could get an apartment, like an adult who's not a baby baby. tie. th. th. th. that the store is coming back, what am I gonna do? I don't know, you could get an apartment like an adult who's not a baby? Get an apartment? Why?

America is littered with giant carcasses of retail chains that were bled dry by private equity. I should get to live here before the raccoons do. Plus, have you seen the housing market? Low inventory, sky high interest rates. And once you move in, there's all kinds of sharp corners and exposed outlets. It's scary, Grace. But you had to know you couldn't live in a store forever. It's not just my house.

It's also my income. I have a very successful Only Fans accounts just from living here. You have no idea how many people will pay an adult woman to do tummy time. This nation has problems. Yeah, it certainly does. So how are you going to stop Bye-bye baby from moving back in? Luckily, if there's one thing I learned, it's that if I shut my eyes, the problem will disappear.

Grace, you have object permanence. No, I don't. No, I don't. You're wrong, you're wrong. Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Grace, we're going to talk about this later, Grace. Grace Coolin Schmidt, everybody.

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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight hosts the Betty Hassan show on MSNBC. He's the author of the New York Times best-selling, win-ever argument. Welcome back to The New York Times Best Selling Win Every every argument. Please welcome, Medi Hassan. Madi. It is great to have you here. Thank you. It is great to have you here. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me.

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time in the world. And in particular, there's been a lot of censorship around Palestinian voices and people who are even pushing against what Israel's actions in Gaza, you know, in real censorship too, you know, like on meta platforms, you know, being prohibited from saying anything on, I don't know, satirical news programs. So how are you supposed to argue or debate or even advocate for people if you're not even allowed to speak on it? It's a great question. And one of the reasons I wrote the book was because we have not just a lot of censorship right now

in the world, in our societies, in the press, but of course foreign conflicts, domestic politics. We have a former president who threatens the network I work for, threatens the free press every day. And one of the reasons I wrote the book was because I wanted to equip ordinary people people people people people people people people people people people people people people people people people the the book the book the book the book the book the book the book the book the book the book was because I wanted to equip ordinary people, good people, good faith actors, decent people with the skills and the rhetorical tricks and techniques to push back against the bullies and the bigots and the authoritarians and the gas lighters because there's so many of them these days. They've taken over our public square. They've taken over some of our foreign policy debates. And therefore you can't just put your head in the sand and operate in the old way or run away from this stuff.

And I have a whole chapter in the book about how you deal with what I call gish-gallopers, people who just want to overload you with BS. Just, we all know people like that in our public squares. So I'm trying to equip people with the skills to say, the skills, the skills, with, with, with, with, with the skills, with the skills, with the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, to say, the skills, the skills, to say, the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, the skills, to say, the skills, the skills, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, you know what, when I'm confronted with someone who lies or cuts me off or tries to talk over me or gas lights, I have the skills, I have the rhetorical techniques going back centuries to be able to say, no, no, we're going to speak out. And I think, look, on the conflict you mentioned, I am someone who has a show on television, you know, sometimes I'm on social media, and sometimes I'm on social, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, I'm on social, sometimes, I'm on, I'm on, I'm the the the the thia, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the the the the the the their, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tha, the tha, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the? I'm like, well I'm the media, right? Maybe I can do something different and I do a show on MSNBC, I do a show on Peacock, and my thing is, okay I'm going to try and platform as many voices as possible. So on my show we have Israeli government officials. We have, we've had people who lost people to Hamas on October the 7th as we should because what happened

October 7th was horrific but we don't always as a media especially in the United States and the West also humanize the Palestinian people so I've tried to get people from all walks of life Palestinian analysts, journalists, doctors, real people and I think if you dehumanize a people, any people, we're seeing that in America right now, rising anti-Semitism, rising Islamophobia. If you dehumanize a people, you end up with what happened in Vermont over the weekend. Three young men of Palestinian descent shot in what's being looked out as a hate crime. A six-year-old boy in Illinois, Wadiya Alphayum stabbed to death 26 times in front of his mother in what is being charged as a hate crime.

So dehumanization is the thing we all have to avoid even in the most toughest and heated of debates. Yeah, because we are, I mean, obviously we're all people and it's important to, like you said. It's not obvious to everyone, sadly. Yeah, sadly, it's not obvious. And we should be able to talk to people from the other the other the other the other people from people from people from people from people from people from people from people from people from people from people from people from the other the other the other the other the other the other the other to to to to the other the other to to to to the other to the other to be to be to be to be to be to be be able to talk to people from the other side and you know as you have people from every side on your show I would like to see other shows follow suit and have you know talked to everybody who's involved in everything. 100%. And if we are going to, you know, we talked about how there is misinformation everywhere, you know, we have everyone has lied, you know

that we've we've got the media lying, we've got our government lying, we've got the IDF lying, we've gotten Hamas lying, you know, social media is a conveyor belt of lies. Where can people actually go to find what is actually happening? Well obviously Sunday 8 p.m. live MSNBC. There's a show called the Mady Hassan show, which is very opinionated but very factual. No, look, it's a real problem. And I, I don't think any journalist can honestly sit here and tell you, Michaud,

it's not a problem that we don't all grapple with, that we're trying to hold ourselves to the highest of standards, but also seeing that social media is a double-edged sword. It's been an amazing tool for voiceless people to get their voices out. Half of the stuff we know about what's coming out of Gaza is because of Instagram and social media, because a lot of foreign media wasn't allowed in for a long time. So it's been very powerful in getting voice. But, of course, it also comes with so much some conspiracy theory about the Palestinians or some conspiracy theory about the Israelis. So look, I wish that we taught our kids from a very young age about digital social media, about the importance of news media. As I said, I mentioned a moment ago.

We have a former president, possibly the next president, threatening the free press. We don't talk enough about the importance of the free press and how to understand how to navigate the media. A lot of people just forward a lot of nonsense. And I think we've all got to hold ourselves to higher standards, whether we are producers of news or whether we're consumers of news, we all have a role to play. And one thing I would just say on the lying front, when we say like everyone lies. And I work in political news. My worry with that argument, it takes you to a very dark place because if everyone lies,

then you just become a nihilist. You don't believe anyone or anything. And that only helps one group of people, which are the fascists, the authoritarianians. Donald Trump doesn't lie because he wants you to believe him over the Democrat. He lies because he wants you to believe no one. And when you don't believe anyone, that's when the strong man arises. That's when authoritarianism comes. So we still have to remind us of there are people telling the truth, there are people trying to get the facts out. It's our job to try and find them and support them. Yes. Yes. I feel like we're really leaning heavily on hoping the bullies and the bigots don't read the book. And you know when we talk about you know you say what if two people from both

sides do know how to do an argument. They say they do read your book. Yeah. What what happens? Do we fall into a black hole? It's a great question. What happens if two people buy the book? And they get into an argument using the techniques that I lay out in the book? I the book? What happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens happens the the their their their their their their their their their their. What happens. What their their their their their their their their their their their their their. What. their their to to their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the, the, the, the. the, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. their. their. their, te. te. te. te. te. te.e.e.e.e. te.e.e. te.e. te.e. te. their, their, their, two people buy the book and then get into an argument using the techniques that I lay out in the book? I would say it all depends which of them has read chapter 14. Chapter 14 is a very important chapter book. It's called practice makes perfect. Practice is what we do.

And one thing that we don't do as public speakers, as debaters, as people out there, and you know this as a brilliant comedian, you don't just get up and just blah blah blah blah, right? You have to prepare and practice and people don't do that and then they wonder why they lose arguments or losing debates or aren't good at public speaking because you have to prepare. You spend, I'm sure, I'm sure, weeks, months, years, preparing for one piece of work. a lot of time on the book on my TV show. You know, I always remember Winston Churchill has this saying attributed to church. He says, if you ask me to give you a two-hour presentation, I can do it right now. But if you asked me to give you a five-minute speech, I need two weeks to prepare. People don't realize, to be brief, to be direct, to get your points across, requires a lot of hard work, and we don't to to to to to to to to to to to to to put, and we don't to to to put, and we don't to to to to to to give, and we don't to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a lot a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot a lot a lot a lot a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to give a to a to a to a to a to a to a to a toa toa, a toa, a toa, a 2., a 2.au., a 2.a'eru., a 2., a 2.a'eru., a 2. to a 2. too taxes to an accountant who's just winging it. You wouldn't go under the knife with a doctor who's just winging it. But for some reason we think when it comes to public speaking or addressing we can just

wing it. Nobody wins it. Even the greatest public speakers, and I say in the book, Churchill, Martin Luther King, all of them, JFK, all of them practiced, prepared, put in the time to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, to, their, their, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but their, but for their, but for some, but for some, but for some some, but for some, but, but for some, but, but for to some, but, but, but, but, but to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their, but their, but their, but their...... their, for their, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some, for some some. the the the the the the the to some some some. to some. to some. to some don't do these days is put in time or effort. It's a very brief transitory culture. I want to talk a little bit more about what's going on in the Middle East. One of the things I've been wondering about is if the leaders of the Hamas are in the four seasons in Qatar. And Israel wants to rid the world of Hamas, and as much as I love a four seasons. Why the constant bombardment of Gaza and why not go to them?

I mean, I have to say, I don't know if you saw, I think it was the four season to put out a tweet saying, we have no guests here who are part of Hamas. And look, Twitter has very few roles left under Elon Musk, but like preventing a prominent hotel chain from getting droned is a pretty good use of Twitter. Look, a lot of people miss, I've got to be there. A lot of people misunderstand what's happening in Qatar, right? The negotiations that happen, a lot of Republicans have been like,

look at Qatar, they're not really an ally. They're host Hamas and the Taliban. The Taliban. The the Talibanary for you to negotiate with these groups, just like we used to negotiate with the Taliban, Trump did it. And now we're having these hostage negotiations to try and get all those poor hostages out. And hostage taking is a clear war crime, and we want don't think there are military solutions to political problems. I'm someone who covered Afghanistan for 20 years, where we went in with righteous rage, having been the victims of a horrific crime. We didn't think about what's going to happen the day after. We didn't think about what's the long-term plan.

We didn't think other people going to welcome us. Twenty years later, we left with our tail between our legs, loads of people dead, and the Taliban still run Afghanistan. So I would say let's be careful before we just decide that the solution to every problem is we can drop a bomb or we can fire a bullet. This is a political problem, it's a problem of occupation, it's a problem of injustice, it's a problem that goes back decades, right? And you cannot resolve it with dropping, what, 6,000 pounds of bombs or whatever it is in the space of a few weeks and look I just want to say one important point on this People you know in times like this we get into our teams We take up sides everyone's in a polarized moment arguing At a time like this the number one bias we should have is not political or religious it should be humanitarian. It should be human It should be human. What is happening. What is happening? What is happening care whether you're Muslim, Christian, Jewish, whatever.

The UN are saying it's the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. The committee to protect journalists says it's the deadliest conflict on record for journalists. The UN Secretary General says more UN employees have been killed in Gaza than any conflict in the UN's history. The Pope is calling it terrorism now, which his word, not my word. I don't know if he's getting a cancel for that. He probably won't be in the next screen movie. But people, it's really, really bad. I don't know, with a hat like that. Maybe. You're giving them ideas now. But what it's so bad right now. People are talking about the brink of famine, dysentery,

dicentry, disease, countless death. Let us first be biased as human beings before we are biased as Israelis, Palestinians, Muslims, Jews, Christians, America. For me right now that's the priority. Yeah, I 100% agree. I think this is a moment to be completely human and realized that you know it's we should be able to talk with our mouths instead of bombing with our bombs. And and if you need a book to help you talk with your mouths. When you're arson, I'm shameless. You got, when you have a book you got to.

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