The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Massive Maritime Drug Bust & Fallout Over Trump's Racist Tweetstorm | Nas

Episode Date: July 17, 2019

The U.S. Coast Guard makes a half-billion-dollar drug bust, the House votes to condemn President Trump's racist tweets, and rapper Nas discusses his album "The Lost Tapes 2." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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how many of them come out on Thursday. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. July 16, 2019. From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York. This is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Welcome to the Daily Show, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for coming out. Oh yeah, let's do this thing.

Let's do this thing. I'm Trevinoa. I'm Trevnoa. Thank you for coming out. Oh yeah, let's do this thing. Let's do this thing. I'm Treminoa. Our guest tonight is one of the greatest rappers of all time

here with a new album, The Lost Tapes 2, NARSIS is joining us everyone. It's going toto the moon. There's a lake that's turning into a person and why racism is not actually racism. So let's catch up on today's headlines. First up, let's talk about drugs. You guys want some? Just joking. Drugs are responsible for 18% of US imprisonments. And 35 percent of all shows on Netflix. Drugs are also responsible for the coolest bust videos you'll ever see. Now to that incredible video, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard riding a drug smuggler submarine in the Pacific Ocean.

The Coast Guard Ship Monroe intercepting a fully loaded drug smuggler's sub off South America, screaming out the smugglers to stop their boat. Oh, the tobacco! Then a brazen display of courage, riding the sub, pounding on the hatch. Finally, five men surrender. In all, three Coast Guard ships intercepted 14 narco vessels, confiscating 18 tons of cocaine and marijuana. Street value, half a billion dollars. God damn!

That is why I love America. Did you see what that guy was doing? He jumped on a submarine in the ocean and banged on the door until they opened it. That is the definition of America, fuck yeah, that's what that was. That was like the craziest thing. Like no other cop in the world would be that baller. I don't care what you say. Like, if African cops saw a drug deal, on a regular boat, forget a submarine. They saw a boat, they'd be like, ah, what am I supposed to do, huh? They'd be like, no, no, like, why did the drug smugglers open the hatch?

No, you're in a submarine. Just sail away, huh? Or do that thing people do when they're on the toilet? Just be like, bo, bob. There's someone in here. Now, you might be wondering, Trevor, why didn't the sub- descend? Well, this is a really interesting thing I didn't know, but apparently these drug submarines aren't really submarines. Like, they can't go under the water.

They can just skim the surface to stay under the radar of the Coast Guard, so that's where they are. Yeah, and it's like a weird thing to discover. Wouldn't it be funny if the drug Guard is here. We need to descend. Actually, Patron, this submarine can descend. What do you mean can descend? It's a submarine. Well, we say submarine, but like, you know, it's more like a low ride a boat, you know?

All right, moving on. While the American military was flexing in the water, the French military has been flexing in the water, the French military has been flexing in the sky. A stunning sight in the streets of Paris, this may be the soldier of the future. An inventor showed off his flyboard soaring over the streets with a rifle in hand. The leaders of France, Germany and other countries were watching down below as part of a steel day event. The French military is looking into possibly using these flyboards. All people, we're officially living in the future. Yeah, no, this, this, this, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thiboards. All right, people, we're officially living in the future. Yeah. No, because I mean, that's the future.

Flying hoverboards, like battles are about to get a lot more badass. Well, I mean, the fifth battle will be badass. And the first battle is just going to be soldiers like, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Well. Well. Well, like. Well, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it's crazy. Here's the thing I don't understand about humans, genuinely. We're building hoverboards to go to war now. We make so much technology to fight wars, invisible jets, bombs. Like, how come there's no technology to stop wars, you know? I was just think about, like, how come, like, America doesn't build like an anti-war device, you know like like like if Russia ever declared war

Then the American generals could just be like quickly send out the cuddly bear And the Russians just be like comrades prepet to oh, it's so cute. And don't get me wrong like I think we should keep the hoverboards But not to fight people I think with these hoverboards, humans can finally shit on pigeons. That's what we leave. Yeah. For centuries, for centuries, those sky rats have been shitting on us, and it's time we turned the tables, huh?

Now we can catch a pigeon in the morning while they're walking to their car, huh? That would be fun, yeah? And then be like, oh my God, it'd be like, yeah, it's good luck, buddy. And finally, big news today for all of your favorite TV shows. Nominations for the 71st of their announced and as expected HBO's hit Game of Thrones leading the pack with the historic 32 nominations for the best drama series the nominees are Better Call Soul bodyguard Game of Thrones killing Eve Ozark Poe succession and this is us. That's right

Emmy nominations are out and a lot of fan favorites are back. Vip is back with nine nominations. Ozark one of my favorite shows got nominated and Game of Thrones blew everyone away with 32 nominations, a record. Although, you're not I say we should do? We should have the Game of Thrones people come to the awards, but then we should give the award for best drama to Sesame Street. Yeah. And then they'll be like, what now you don't like endings that don't make sense? Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? Now you don't like that?

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All right, that's it for the headlines. Let's move on told us that once he took office, he would calm down with the tweets. Remember that? But now here we are. Two and a half years later, and his Twitter tirades have only gotten worse. Right now, the biggest story in the news is about a tweet the president sent telling four Democratic Congresswomen that they should go back to where they came from instead of telling the US how to run its governments.

Now this was weird for a number of reasons. First of all, three of the Congresswomen were born in America. And the fourth is a U.S. citizen. Secondly, they're Congresswomen. So Trump telling them to stay out of the government's business doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's like telling Spirit Airlines not to serve you peanuts that fell on the floor of other airlines. That's what they do.

Spirit Airlines, if you wanted to eat clean peanuts, you should have flown Delta. So, for two days, people have been speaking out against Trump's racist tweet. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their., their., their., their ss.s. Yeah. Yeah, their sa.s. Yeah, theirsea. Yeah, theirsea. Yeah, their ss. Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's theirsea. Yeah, it's. days, people have been speaking out against Trump's racist tweet, and now Nancy Pelosi is making it official. Tonight, the growing firestorm over two words by President Trump. Go back. House Republicans could be forced to take a public stand against President Trump. Nancy Pelosi plans a vote to condemn the president's racist attack on four members of Congress. These comments from the White House are disgraceful and disgusting and these comments are racist.

That's right. Congress is officially condemning Trump's racist tweets. And I've got to say it must be cool to me in Congress because you don't just have an opinion, you get to officially proclaim your opinion. Yeah, just come out like by a majority vote Congress hereby declares that Diet Coke and Coke Zero are basically the same thing. I don't even understand why they call them different things. Now the House Democrats might be happy to label the president's words officially as racist. But the House Democrats might be happy to label the president's words officially as racist, but the commander in tweets has come out and he's here to explain why these people are totally wrong.

President Trump says he has no regrets about his racist on democratic lawmakers, who are all women of color. Do you think the tweets were racist? Not at all. The new tweet from President Trump out just within the last couple of seconds here. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the, the, the, the, tf, tf, tf, twee, tweets, tweets, tweets tweets tweets twee, twee, twee, twee, twee, t, t, twee, twee, t, t, t, twee, t, twee, twee, twee, twee, twee, twee, t. t. t. But, t. But, t. And, t. But, t. And, ttttttf. And, tf. And, twea. And, twea, twea. And, twea. And, twea. And, twea. And, twea. And, twea, twea, twea, you think the tweets were racist? Not at all. The new tweet from President Trump out just within the last couple of seconds here and the president vociferously denying, as he says, I do not have a racist bone in my body. Not a racist bone in his body.

Well, to be fair, I've seen his body, and I don't think he has any bones. He's uh, you're sort of like that, sort of like that stranger things creature. You can just like melt down and slide under doors. I bet Trump would be the first person to fail an x-ray exam. That's what he looks like. And by the way, by the way, everyone always says, I don't have a racist bone in my body. But how do we know racism is in the bones sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp sp that it it it that it that it that it that it that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th, th, th th th th th th th th thi. It's, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, th. He's is, th. It is, th. It is, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th th th th th th th th th-s, th-s, th-s, th-huh, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-, by the way, everyone always says, I don't have a racist bone in my body. But how do we know racism is in the bones? Huh? Maybe it's in your spleen. We don't know, it could be anyway. Yeah, the only body part I know for a fact

doesn't contain racism is the appendix. Yeah, because I had my appendix removed. And I still think all Italian people are in the thi. thoom. tho. tho. to. toe. toe. toe. thi. thi. thi. toe. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thin. thi. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. thin. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th But Trump has insisted his bones are 100% racism free. And then he went on to say that not only was this whole thing not racism, it was patriotism. And just this morning he wrote, our country is free, beautiful, and very successful. If you hate our country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave. As far as I'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. And that's what I say all the time. That's what I said in a tweet,

which I guess some people think is controversial. Wow, if you're not happy in America, you can leave. You know what's interesting, right? Is that Trump says that now, but when he was running for president, his entire message was, America's failing, this country's not what it used to be, China's beating us,

instead of complaining, why didn't he just leave? Like, it doesn't make sense. No, but to get, like, logically, that's what he did. Make America Greater Granted. It's basically saying, America's shit, we need to fix it. But no one told him to leave. Like, just because you complain about your country

doesn't mean you don't love it. It's like sports. Fans want their team to be better. That's why they complained. picked out every fan who yelled at them to play better, Madison Square Garden would be emptier than Mike Pence's spice cabinet. That's what it would be. And just by the way, just by the way, if Trump's comments, here's the thing that gets me, right? If Trump's comments really had nothing to do with race,

nothing to do with race, nothe to the race, how come he's never said anything like thi........... Think about it. Bernie always talks about America and he always lists countries that are doing much better than America, but Trump has never, not even once, told Bernie to go back to where he comes from. Never. And I mean I guess that's partly because ancient Greece doesn't exist anymore, but that's not the point. Now, a surprising number of Republican officials have actually come out and said that they think Trump's tweet was racist. But what's been really fun to watch is Republicans like Mitt Romney trying to condemn

Trump for being racist without actually saying the word racist. Do you think that his tweets were racist towards those Congresswoman? You know, a lot of people have been using the word and my own view is that what was said and what was tweeted was destructive, was demeaning, was disunifying and and frankly it was very wrong. Another word with a D. It's almost like he was playing the game taboo. Yeah. And the forbidden word was racist. It's demeaning.

Uh, no, no, it's no specific people. Um, no disparaging. Um, times up. Ah! It was very wrong, guys. Racist, Aaron. So look, Romney clearly doesn't have the boss to say racism, but at least he acknowledges that Trump made a boo-boo. Most other Republicans, they've come up with

a talking point to try and justify what Trump said. The top Republican in the House Kevin McCarthy is defending the president. He says Mr. Trump isn't racist. He's just frustrated about these four Congresswomen and their political views. I think what you heard was a frustration that was not based on any religious preference, on any skin color or anything else. It's a frustration that we have a Congress that needs to act and they have an act. Come on, of course the president's not racist, but he's frustrated like so many

Americans are. Yes, my friends. The president wasn't being racist. He was just frustrated. It happens all the time, huh? You get frustrated and then just become racist. Like, I'm not gonna lie. I suffer from this. Like, every time I try and solve a rubic cube, it happens to me.

Like, I'll show you guys. I can't even control it out, because I know you're supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed to move you're supposed the to move the to move to me, like I'll show you guys. Like I can't even control it. Like I try and figure it out because I know you're supposed to move like once and then you see like the thing and it just doesn't, you know, niggers! Sorry, sorry, sorry, no no, no, I'm not racist. I swear, I'm not racist. Yeah, I'm not racist. I don't even see color, which is probably why I struggle with thagagagagagagagag. That's probably why I struggle with these things. Like I can't, that's why I can't figure it out.

Man, frustration doesn't make you racist, all right? If anything, it just lets your racism slip out. Same thing with being angry, drunk, hungry. None of that makes you say racist things. Because if it did, those candy bar commercials would be a lot different. I'll let him know. Jose wants to see you in his office. I don't trust this Mexican boss.

You know, the only reason they hit piñatas is so they can practice beating up white people. And look, no offense, but black people have to learn how to parallel park. Asians, they don't learn how to parallel park. Asians, they don't even how to tag people on Instagram. Dude, eat a snacks bar. Why? Because you're a little racist when you're hungry. Better? Better.

Better. Oh, Ben's lunch. Am I right? We'll be right. We'll be right back. Hey everybody here. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show coming out every Thursday. We're going to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, coming out every Thursday. We're going to be talking about the election, earnings calls.

What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient-to-bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight is a Grammy-nominated rapper and hip-hop icon, whose new album is called The Lost Tapes 2. Please welcome, Nars. Welcome, NARS. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thanks for having. I'm such a big fan of yours and I'm so excited for this new album. What's weird to me is the the first time I met you was in Russia. Russia yeah. Which is very, we were both there for the World Cup. Yeah. It's very strange, like I'm in Russia and I turn around and I'm not expecting to see anybody who is black. And then I'm like, wow, that guy looks like Nas. And it was you, do you enjoy it out there? Was that your first World Cup? It's my first World Cup?

Yeah. First time in Russia. I didn't know at the time was working on it for a couple of years. And I really didn't know what to do with these songs because they weren't really the songs that I wanted to put on the record. So they were just sitting there and I always thought like I'd come back to them and finish them up later but it never happened. So I'm sitting here with all these songs start to pile up and I'm like, oh I did a Lost Tapes album 17

years ago. I think it's time to, for another one. Yeah, but Lost Tapes was one of the most iconic albums where people said like, oh, Nas came out with this music that you know, is a collection of ideas and you put it together. It is an interesting idea as a musician to say these songs didn't have a space on an album, but I still love what I've created. I'm still trying to do something different. And so it's a mix with some people actually enjoy more because it has such a varied sense. When people listen to it, is there an order for lost tape?

Do you just, do you just like play the songs? Does it matter? Is it like five, seven, two,? Oh, that's nice It's like a guessing game's yeah Some of the songs are like 10 years old 12 years old and some of them are like as early as like a year and a half ago That's dope you are seen as a music mogul now you're seen as a businessman, but I'm interested in some of the things that you started doing that people don't expect For instance like, like you're? You're th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the thi thi th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the thi the thi the thi the thi the thi thi thi the the th. th. the the th. the th. the th. the th. the the the thi the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thee thour now with Mary J. Blage, and that's exciting. Yes. Right? People are really excited about that. It's an honor. It's an honor. I'm a huge fan of Mary J. Blodge, so yeah. It's an honor. The royalty tour, check it out. That's going to be insane on that this year. We plan to build it in the Bronx by 2022.

Is it interesting for you to look at hip hop and how it's changed because some rappers came into the game when hip-hop was completely bona fide and people like, yeah, it's mainstream. You've seen the change from being considered hoodlims on the side to the mainstream. Now, did you ever think that hip hop would get to this point? I thought it, but I didn't know it would be reality. But I did, I was hopeful that it would turn out to be this way and I would be around to see it happen and thank God I am because it's a great time. It's a great time to be a hip-hop artist. A hip-hop artist, a mogul, a part of a museum going on tour, and one of the most interesting aspects of your life right

now is you are releasing a children's book. Yeah, called I Know I Can. Yeah. Yeah, that is a completely different... Now that I didn't see happening. I didn't see that one. But I do have a song, an important song in my catalog called I Can. So, you know, I'm into education for kids. You know, I have two kids, so I want to see the best for our kids out here.

So putting together this book, I'm still writing it, so it'll be out this year. You know what I'm excited about the the the the the the tha thiiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's, I'm that's, I'm that's, I'm that's, I'm that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thin. the the the the an the an the an the an theat the an theat theat the an that's that's that's that's the an the an the putting together this book I'm still writing it so right it'll be out this year you know what I'm excited about the most is there's gonna be now another generation that's gonna grow up and be like oh no's yeah I'm in one of the greatest children's books writers of all time I'd be like he rapes right it's gonna be amazing thank you so much for being on the show my dude appreciate it the last take two we will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will will We'll be out July 19th. Nodd, everybody. The Daily Show with Covernoa, the Daily Show with Covernoa, Ears Edition.

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