The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Omarosa Drops a Secret White House Mixtape | Spike Lee

Episode Date: August 14, 2018

Former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault releases two of her secretly taped conversations from the White House Situation Room, and director Spike Lee discusses "BlacKkKlansman." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our guest tonight is one of America's greatest living director, Spike Lee, is here everyone. Our guest tonight is one of America's greatest living director, Spike Lee is here, everyone. We'll be talking about his new movie Black Clansman. But first, it is one of the great ironies of all time that the Trump presidency has given us more books than ever before. Which is a crazy thing because this is a guy whose favorite thing to read is the Hooters T-shirt. And this week, another Trump book hits the shelves. This one from former Trump Aid and Reality TV star, Omarosa, and it's safe to say it's making

major headlines. Omarosa's stunning, meet the press interview, where she tells all about her time in the White House, what she calls an insider's account of the Trump White House. They continue to deceive this nation by how their their their their their their their their their their, it is. their, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, thiiioleoun, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, is thi, is thi, is thi, is thi, is thi.eei.ei.ei.ean.ean.ean.ean.ean.ean. And is thiiiiiiii.ei. And is thi.ean. This is thi. Thisthe Trump White House. They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process complex information. This is a White House where everybody lies. Donald Trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities. He is truly a racist.

Omarosa. How can you say that about the president? Three years after we all said that about the president. How? Seriously, though? Omarosa had to spend a year in the White House to learn that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing. Like, I can't wait for her next book. Donald Trump, something's wrong with his hair. But the revelations in Omarosa's book aren't even the juicy part of this story.

Because it turns out that unlike James Comey, she wasn't just making notes, she was making tapes. Former presidential advisor Amarosa Managult Newman admitted that she secretly recorded Chief of Staff John Kelly firing her in the high security White House situation room. Can you ask you a couple questions? Does the president is president aware of this? Don't let's not go down the road. This is a non-negotiable discussion. I don't want to negotiate. I've never talked, I've had a chance to talk to you to know Kelly. So if this is my departure I'd like to have at least an opportunity to understand. We can talk another time. This has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations.

So I'll let it go with that. What's weird about this is that Omarosa is presenting these tapes as evidence that she was treated unfairly. But from what she released, John Kelly doesn't sound that bad. If anything, he just sounded like a guy who had a lot more important things to do, you know? He's just like like like like, th justthis conversation right now. The president accidentally swallowed the nuclear launch codes and we need to come up with some new ones ASAP. Like if anything, these tapes may have landed Omarosa in hot water because she took a recording device into the White House Situation Room. That's the room where presidents hold the most classified meetings, like highly classified. Things that are too secret for the Oval Office.

Like the Bin Laden raid was run from the situation room. I mean, I know now we don't know what they use that room for under Trump. I mean, I bet if we check the security cam footage now, we just see like Ben Carson sneaking in to take naps and Don Jr. Going in to practice his karate, you know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thus, that, that, that, that, and, that, that, and, and, and, that, that, th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. 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, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, thin, thin, th karate, you know. It's just like, the true master is one who can strike without waking me up. And as if taping the chief of stuff in the situation room wasn't scandalous enough, today, Omarosa dropped her latest mixtape. And this one features the president himself. Oh, and please listen to how Trump reacts when he finds out, Oh Morosa has been fired. Amarosa, what's going on? I just saw on news that you're thinking about leaving. What happened? General Kelly, General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave.

No, nobody even told me about it. No, you know, they run a big operation, but I didn't know it. I didn't know that. Damn it. I don't love you leaving at all. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. thea. the. thi. thea. thea. thea. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. t. te. te. tea. tea. to tea. to. tea. tea. tea. tea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. that. Yeah. Damn it. I don't love you leaving at all. I don't love you living at all. I just found out they run a big operation of Marasa. God damn it! You know for a man who lies as much as Trump, you think he'd be better at it? He's like, no, I'm so upset about this.

I wonder if he did this to people who got fired from the apprentice. If he also called him, he's like, hey Gary, I just saw last night's episode. What happened? What happened? God damn it, I didn't know. Now I'll be honest, what we've heard on the tapes is not particularly shocking, but what is shocking is how many people are secretly recording the President of the United States all the time. So many people are walking around the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.a.a.a.a.a''iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.a.a, thi.a, thi, the United States all the time. So many people are walking around the White House wearing a wire. I'm surprised that they aren't just feedback loops happening to everyone as they walk.

But like people just having conversations like, hey, I was just, whooer-loo-l. Hey, your recordings interfering with my recording, man. Come on, come on. Yeah, just give me your recording of the president. Omarosa has one. Michael Cohen, even shock jocks are getting him at this point. Like, there just needs to be a Grammy category for these at this point. This is gonna be like, and the award goes to, oh, Adele. Surprise, it's Adele, actually. Now, as usual, when one of Trump's people turns on him,

the White House always been trash. With Omarosa, they've dismissed her as a lying, publicity-hungry reality star who only cares about enriching herself. And when Trump heard that, he was like, are you guys looking at my resume? Are you? For more on this, we turn to our senior political analyst, Ronnie Chang, everybody! Ronnie, Ronnie, what have we learned from thrown from Omeros' Good morning. What have we learned from Omaros' new book? Well I'll tell you what I've learned, Trevor. There is nothing more profitable than working for Donald Trump, okay?

Because everyone who gets fired by this guy gets a book deal. I'm waiting for him to fire his chef so we can get a cookbook called 32 burger recipes our fat liar president likes. And I'll tell you what else Omar says Tommy is that I'm doing the right to fire his chef so we can get a cookbook called 32 burger recipes our fat liar president likes. And I'll tell you what else Omar says Tommy is that I'm doing the right thing because I'm also secretly taping everyone's conversations in this office. Wait what? You've been recording people at the daily show? Yeah, yeah that's how you get dirt on everybody so you can write a bestseller after you leave. Ronnie, I feel like that's such a violation of people's trust. Yeah, okay, Mr. Ethics.

Maybe you'll think differently once you hear what Roywood Jr. really says about you. Hey, Roy, what do you think about Trevor? Yeah, he's all right. Hey, man, th I'm sorry, I'm th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, that, that, 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 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, 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, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi th th thi thi thi thi. that's that's thi. th? Yeah, she died, right? No, no, no, no. I just didn't want to come into work, so I like that she died. Oh, that's what's up. Cool.

You hear that, Trevor? Roy thinks you're just all right. Doesn't sound like a team player to me. What the hell, Ronnie, I gave you the the the the the the the the the the the the the the alive. Although the doctors say she's probably going to die soon, I'm thinking like maybe Tuesday after Labor Day, you know, four-day weekend. Honey, I'm disappointed in you, man. Oh, okay, I'm the bad guy. I bet you wish I was more like Desi, huh?

You think she's so sweet? Maybe you'll think twice about her when you hear what she says about you. Hey, uh, Desi, don't you think Trevor has some flaws? I guess nobody's perfect. Hey, why are you Xeroxing a passport? Uh, I'm forging some documents because I'm in the country illegally. Ha, suck it, Desi, now who's America's favorite blonde? Me. Ronnie, I don't think these tapes are busting who you think they're busting. Oh, yeah, you would say that, Trevor, but don't forget why I got on you. Ronnie, are you doing drugs in the office?

My own business. Hey, what do you think of Trevor Noah? I'm Trevor Noah. Yeah, he sucks. Wow, the great Trevor Noah, hang out with drug users. Ronnie Chang, this is... Like your taste but you. Don't forget, don't forget to watch a sneak peek of the first episode of Ronnie Chang the international student premiering tonight right after the Daily Show.

Also, the entire series is streaming right now on the Comedy episode of Ronnie Chang International Student premiering tonight right after the Davy Show. Also, the entire series is streaming right now on the Comedy Central Lab. Ronnie Chang, everybody. We'll be right back. Hey, everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show coming out every Thursday. We're gonna 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 writer and director whose critically acclaimed new film is called Black Clansman. Please welcome, Spike Lee! Welcome back to the show. Glad to be here. Is Brooklyn in the house? Great to see you again. Let me start by saying this.

I have been in many a movie theater. I have watched many movies, Spike Lee. Great to see you again. And let me start by saying this. I have been in many a movie theater. I have watched many movies, Spike Lee. And I will tell you this I this I this I this I th you th you th I have th. I have th. I have th. I have never th. I have never th. I have ater. I have watched many movies Spike Lee. And I will tell you this, I have never experienced what I experienced watching this movie. I watched this movie in Connecticut this weekend, and the cinema was completely filled with old white people,

the area I was in. I was Mystic Lake or something like that, right? And the movie plays end-to-end, think, two hours and eight minutes, and we sit there and nobody gets up. Like, credit start rolling, nobody moves. And then I stood up, and we're like in the middle, and then all the white people around me were just like, yeah, yeah, you're just kidding. And then like, even when we were walking out, people were just, yeah, no, you first, you first. Like, everyone, it's a, it's a powerful film. Are you feeling that in the response to you get from people? I'm feeling, I'm on Instagram, man.

I got several, people telling me that they were, you know, not one or two black people in the theater. And then after the film, when the lights finally go up, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the white, the, the, the, the, the theater. And then after the film, when the lights finally go up, the white people who loved the film, they were hugging them. They're hugging the black folks in theater saying, I'm sorry, I apologize. I've never heard anything like that before, my life. It's a beautiful film. And just to those who don't know anything about the story, black clansmen is inspired by the true story of Ron Stallworth, right, right, right, right, right, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the th, th, the thi, the thi, thi, the thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the white, the white, the white, the white, the the the the the the the the the the the th. th, th, th, th, th, the the the th, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, the, theateateateateat, thogui, thogui, thogui, thea, the white, the white, the white, the who don't know anything about the story, Black Klansmansmen is inspired by the true story of Ron Stallworth, right? He's an African-American detective in the 1970s. The first? First police officer in Cotero Springs. Right.

And this is a black man who gets into a police department. And I mean, from the get go, let's start with that part of that part of that part, that part, that part, that part, that part, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, the story, to, their, to, their, to to to too, too, too, too, too, too, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, is, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the.e.e. their, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, their, their, their, the story, you lay out how difficult it is to play that role of being a black man and a police officer. And this is in the 1970s, but in some ways it feels like it hasn't changed. Well what we try to do was even though it takes place in the 70s, I still wanted to be contemporary. So there are many things that my co-writer, Kevin Wilmot and I put in so people, it would click like, you know, right? This stuff is still happening today. And then it, I know, I'm not trying to explain to us out already, right. But the ending that really hammers home where we are in this world today. It's a story that connects with you on so many levels.

So you know, you have Adam Driver's character, who's a policeman who has for so long passed as white, just plain wasp white in his neighborhood. And in the story, Ron Stallweth is a black man who goes undercover as a clan member, which is, I mean, the premise sounds ridiculous. If you don't tell me that it's based on a true story, I'd be like, this is the wildest thing from the imagination. that. That's that. That's that's that's el called me. And he said, so he says to you, this is the story, and... Six words, black men infiltrates Clu Klux Klan.

High concepts! You can't get more high than that. Right, but the real Ron Stoll with, like, he did this. And David Duke got bamboozled by him. Yep. And what I, you know what I, here's the thing, what I found fantastic about it is in your film, it illuminates the ludicrous nature of racism because David Duke becomes friends with a black man because he doesn't know that he's a black man. Or with a phone. Right. Like, and you show that these, like, it's a human being.

Like, maybe that's the biggest thing for me is, how were you able to make a film where you seem to approach it with a certain level of empathy where you don't paint these people as caricatures. You see different people in the clan. You see human beings who are doing what they believe is the divine, their God-given like like how do you how do you begin that journey when creating that character starts with the script but without I mean without Ron's book I mean that's what makes it insane and is true right so when Jordan Pills said I said it's automatically I thought that David Chappels get right right he said it's true

and then I read the book. And it was a great opportunity for me, even though it took place, even though the story took place to seven, I still thought it was a great opportunity to comment on the world we live today with Agent Orange at a white house. you this. I don't say his name. Shout out to Buster Rines that's why I got it from. Buster! Let me ask you this. Why do you think a story about the 1970s and the Klan and a black man in the police force comments on what's happening today in America? Because I don't like to say, I think one of the mistakes people making, I feel, is that they're saying

this is just an American phenomenon. The rise that are right, this has happened globally. And when this guy in the White House, he's made it okay for these supremacists, white spreads, they come out in the rocks and he's legitimized them. And I would even call it dog whistles. He's like on a bullhorn. Have you seen anything like this? I mean, you've been making movies that speak to what's happening in America for a long time. Have you seen anything like this? Not in my 61 years on this earth. I mean, this is, this is, as I say, this is bananas. This is insane, it's topsy-turvy.

And what I want, the one thing I like to say is the audience and the people watching tonight, if we don't, if what has happened the last 18 months, that doesn't mobilize, the register to vote, I don't know what will. We have to get ready for these midterms. And after that, he's got to be one-term president. No, we have to. Because we're going for the flim flam, the snake oil salesman, and the oki-dope.

And another thing, we can't get salesman, and the oki-dope. And another thing, we can't get distracted by these tweets. That's like a misdirection play in the football, American football. And we just, we know it's coming, then we just should just like, and keep focus what we got to do. That's my opinion. That's what I feel. When you're making a story about a black man who becomes the first black police officer to work in a police force, you deal with so many issues that are relatable to what's happening today, there's a powerful line in the movie where he stumbles upon an officer who has done something that's bad.

He's a repeatedly bad offender. He's killed a black kid in the story, shot him and claimed that he had a gun. And one of the other officers who's a good guy says to him, well, the reason we haven't out at him is because we're a family. We and the police are a family. And the blue wall of science. Right. And you portray these people as being well-intentioned and flawed at the same time. Was it important for you? Right. Was it important for you to show it in that way where... Because I didn't walk away from the film going like, oh, I hate these police,

but I walked away going like, I see the dilemma that these people are facing I don't agree with the decision many of them are making but was that important to you? Yes because as an artist just for myself I try to be tell the truth the best why I can the best why I know it and that's something I've been doing for 32 years right and well how do you think you told the truth when it came to these police officers? That no one's black or white. There's shades of gray and people do things for different reasons. And so I really, what I like to do my films is show repercussions of decisions people make. Right. That's the interesting thing for me. here go here and there's good repercussion here Rebcussion this way you have a scene in the movie

Where Harry Belafonte is on screen give it up and? Honestly, one of the most powerful moments in cinema. He's on the screen and you can feel everyone in that cinema. You can feel the goosebumps as he tells a tale. Recounting and lynching. A real lynching. It took a Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, I think, 19, 15 and 16.

And his character was his friend who hid and saw this lynching. When you are making a movie and you're telling that story how hard is it for you to not like skew the way you tell the story to make the bad guys seem even badder than then than they were in the film? Like how do you... just just tell the to make the bad guys seem even bad up than they were in the film. Like how do you... Just tell the truth and I just like to say, because I remember it, that scene, we shot Mr. B. Harry Belafonte was the last day of the shoot. And so no one knew who was going to play this role. I kept in on a low low low. I told everybody in the crew when you come to work that day the last day to shoot wear

Suit and tie Ladies we were clean because he deserved that right you walked on the set we were sharp We had to give respect freedom fighter with Dr. King all throughout, always the Freedom Fighter And we had to give love. Everybody was dressed to the ninth. Before I let you go, the film ends, and I won't, I won't spoil the ending of the film for you, but the film ends. Yeah, go ahead.

Not the ending, because I still want people to enjoy, this is a magical ending. It's a beautiful film. But what happens post the movie part is, we get thrust into modern day. We go from the 1970s to 2017. We go to a Charlotte school. You go to a year ago what happened, a year ago yesterday. Right.

And again, I could feel an audience that was taken from a world of make-believe, which was real, to like very much what you don't want to believe is real. When you are putting that on screen, when did you make that decision, because this movie you had been creating, when did you make the decision to put current day Charlottesville into a 1970s film about the Klan? We didn't start shooting to the fall. So always in my summer home of Mother's Vineyard and it hit me just like that. This has to be the ending. But I got Susan Broe's number, the mother

of Heather, who was murdered, and I got her blessing so she gave me the permission to use her daughter's photo at Brian. So that was a year ago yesterday. She was murdered and it was nothing but Trevor. It was nothing but American homegrown act of terrorism. When that car drove down, that's Crowder Street, and it murdered her. That's a fact. And the President of the United States had an opportunity to tell the world that we are not for hate and he did not denounce the KK he didn't do it.

And he did not denounce the KK he didn't do it. And a lot of times for me, I found like, you know, who say something, and then they pull him on the back and say, you gotta change it. Then he says, you know, he, but what I feel, whatever comes out of his mouth the first time, that's the truth, and thank you for making another amazing film. Thank you so much for being on the show. Black Clamsman is in the theaters now. You want to watch this movie Spike Lee, everybody. The Daily Show with Cover Noa, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and the Comedy Central Act. Watch full episodes and videos at

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