The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Rick Gates Flips on Paul Manafort | Rob Corddry

Episode Date: August 8, 2018

The KKK tries to recruit children with candy, former Trump campaign official Rick Gates takes the stand to testify against Paul Manafort, and Rob Corddry stops by. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show is 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. August 7th, 2018. From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show'm Trevor Noah, thank you so much for tuning in.

Sit down, let's get into it. Sit down. Let's get into it, sit down. My guest tonight is an old friend of the show. Rob Cordry is here, everybody. I'm Trevor, thrown. to be talking about his show, HBO show, Ballers, and his new movie Dog Days.

But first, let's catch up on today's headlines. The Ku Klux Klan is not the powerhouse organization they once were, but they have a new plan to get back on top. KKK recruiters are trying to lure kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids their kids their kids their kids to to their to to their to to their to their to their to their their to to, but they have a new plan to get back on top. KKK recruiters are trying to lure kids in upstate New York with candy. Clan members have been reported meeting children as they make their way to the bus in the morning. Apparently they're handing out bags of flyers and Snickers candy. Oh, man. Now parents have to be extra worried if their kid comes home with candy. Parents are going to be like, Timmy, where did you get that candy?

You'd be like, from a pedophile? Oh, thank God. I thought it was the KKKK, oh my God. Oh, and you know, I think the KKKK is underestimates how smart kids are these days. Like if anything, the kids are going to end up to end the kids are the kids are thaker thak, thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to end to end to be like, to be like, to be like, 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. to be like, thi. ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. thai. thai. thai, thi, thi, thi, thi. these days. Like if anything, the kids are going to end up tricking the KKK. And you'd be like, thanks for the candy, mister. Now I hate Mexicans and blacks. Can I get more? Can I get more? And then he turns away, he's like, what a moron? Doesn't he know that the most effective racism is about dominating power structures, not running around in a bed, the border wall, it might want to pick up a spare. Illegal immigration from Canada is soaring. Last year, Border Patrol agents along the northern border caught 3,027 people who were

in the country illegally. Nearly half, 1,489 were from Mexico. Mexican citizens don't need a visa to enter Canada. And one-way flights to Toronto and Montreal only cost about $300. Yeah, you heard that right. Mexicans are coming in through the northern border now. Yo, poor Trump, man. I feel like he's going to be done with the wall.

He's going to lay the last brick on the wall with these bare hands, and he's going to be like, finally, my beautiful wall is complete. And then he turns around as a bunch of Mexicans like good job Mr. President! No! Also this is incredibly insulting to Canadians. Mexicans make it all the way to Canada and they still decide to keep going to the US. Like Canadians must be like hey but we have free health care low crime where would you go to America? And they're like, yo, if I'm being honest, man, I just want to be in a country where people

speak my language, man. In other news, if you're waiting for President Trump to get impeached, this might have to hold you over. The West Hollywood City Council is working on a plan to remove President Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star is still boarded up after a man took a pickaxe to it last month. It's been a magnet for protests, and each time it's damaged, the city pays to repair it. Okay, okay, first of all, who's walking around LA with a pickaxe? And look, don't get me wrong, I get the whole resistance thing. But if you really want to disrespect Trump, isn't a to to to to to to the to true true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the true, true, true, true, true, and, and, and, true, and, true, and, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, the th want to disrespect Trump, isn't a sidewalk in Los Angeles already the most disgusting place for his star? Why remove it? People are walking on it, they're throwing trash, they're peeing, they're pooping, and you

know they are. Like don't tell me you walk down Hollywood Boulevard and you feel confident that every shit a punishment, not a reward. You know, it's just for people like Trump and Cosby and Weinstein, all of them. And the only change is that what we should do is when they put their hands into the concrete, we just leave them there. Just leave them there. It's like, yeah, try grabbing a pussy now. All right, let's move on. Today is day six of the Paul Manifort trial.

Now remember, Paul Manifor is Donald Trump's former campaign manager and evil husband in a lifetime movie. Well, anyway, thanks to the Mueller investigation, he is now on trial for tax crimes and money laundering, and things aren't going well for him, because this week, prosecutors brought Rick Gates to the witness stand. And Gates has been Paul Manifort's right-hand man for years. And on top of that, he worked as the deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump. So he knows where the bodies are buried, and yesterday, he dug them up. Robert Mueller's star witness, Rick Gates,

against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Maniford. Rick Gates becoming the first Trump campaign official to confess his crimes on the witness stand. Asked by the prosecution, were you involved in any criminal activity with Mr. Manifort? His reply, yes. Yes. Asked did you commit any crimes with Mr. Manifort? Gates again responding, yes.

Well, that was easy. They were like, did you guys do the crimes? And he was like, yeah. I'm not gonna lie. I was hoping for a bit more courtroom drama, you know? Like I thought, they'd tell him to confess and he'd deny it. And then they'd be like, well, we've got a surprise witness, your twin brother. Oh, like Tom Cruise would have shown up and be like, you can't handle the truth! And we'd be like, wow, Tom Cruise does his own stunts!

But the proceedings weren't that exciting. Although for Manifort, it must have been really wild, because every moment that Gates was on the stand, things just got worse and worse. Another stunning confession, Gates admitting he also stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Manifort while working for him. I'm sorry, for me this is hilarious. Like he's confessing to stealing from the same guy that he was committing crimes with.

Like Maniford must have been so mad but also at the same time so proud. You know? Yeah, because on the one hand, Gates stole money from him, but on the other hand he clearly learned everything that Manifor taught him. It's like if at the end of Karate Kid, Daniel's son kicked the shit out of Mr. Miyagi. He was like, waxed these nuts, old man! So like every day in this trial, there has been another explosive revelation. Just today, Gates confessed that he also may have stolen from Trump's inauguration committee. Yeah, and not just the money, I think he took some of the people too. How else did you explain that? How?

How? So much crazy shit has been going on in this trial that people didn't even notice that there's been a giant butt in the courtroom this entire time. Why isn't anyone talking about the giant butt? What is it doing in there? Is it twarking against the witness stand? Is it connected to Russia somehow? We need answers! All right, let's get back to Gates's testimony. So, with Gates. All right, one more thing, though. How come I can see through the butt?

Like, is it a ghost butt? How do you get rid of a ghost butt? Are they ghost buttsters? Or is it pronounced ghostbusters? I see butt people. Sorry, where was I? Now, uh, what's interesting about this trial is that it's not the Russia investigation. Don't forget that.

This is not the Russia investigation, but it came from the Russia investigation. And Robert Mueller is hoping that it'll lead back to the Russia investigation. Now, Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been hoping that Manifort would flip and offer to share anything he knew about alleged Russian involvement in the Trump campaign, but so far he has not been willing to cooperate. The main purpose of this trial from the overarching Mueller investigation is to get Paul Manifor to flip. Manor is cold-blooded. He doesn't even care about you. He's just catching the small fish as a way to get to Trump.

You know, this whole thing reminds me of a song, my mother used to sing to me to me to me to me to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the Russia investigation. The song used to go, they go, the Gates bones connected to the Manifort Bone, and the Maniford Bones connected to the Russia Bone and the Russia Bones connected to the Trump bone and Trump was bony, Stony Daniels, and that's my song. And that's my song. We had weird songs growing up. So as it stands, Mueller seems to have a tight case. Manifort's partner in crime has turned on him, and there is a butt in the courtroom. Or maybe balls. It doesn't matter though. The point is, why isn't Manifort snitching on Trump? Well, because it turns out, Manifort has a planafort.

Sources tell CBS News, Manifort expects a presidential pardon if he is found guilty. Ah, yes. The presidential pardon. We forget, Trump hands out pardons like a clan member handing out candy. He's pardoned Sheriff Alpio, Dinesh de Sousa, and just last week he let Thanos off the hook. He was like, he disintegrated people on both sides folks, both sides, fair a guy. So now the big question is, would Donald Trump rarely pardon a convicted criminal just to save his own ass and is it the same a task from the courtroom?

The answer to at least one of those questions is yes. 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 going to be talking about the election, earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to te just just just to to to to s questions to have to s questions to have the the the questions questions questions the questions questions questions questions questions questions the questions questions questions questions the questions the the the questions the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tomk about together together together 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 former Daily Show correspondent and actor who can be seen in the new film Dog Days and the HBO series, Ballers. Please welcome Rob Quadry. Welcome back to the show. Very nice. Good to have you here. Yeah, it's good to be here. I see you got your Obama tan suits on.

I got my Obama-you got your Obama-tanned suits on. I got my Obama-you had to explain that to me backstage. I didn't know he had the gall to wear a tan suit. Yeah, I was like, you know, I saw her Rob backstage and I was like, you got, you got, you got the you, you got the the you got the the you got that to me backstage. I didn't know he had the gall to wear a tan suit. Yeah, I was like, you know, I saw a rob backstage and I was like, oh, you got the tan suit. And he's like, the tan suit. I was like, what was it? I was like the biggest scandal of all time. I was like, Trevor, I'm wearing a fantastic summer suit. That's not presidential. And that's how we got Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Welcome back to the show. Thank you very much. Congratulations on everything you're doing. Let's chat first about ballers coming back season four. Yeah. Really popular show. Thank you. Yeah.

I would like, when I watched the first season of ballers, I was like, oh, like, how much sports are they going to do, how deep are they going to go, but now the show has really become about your relationship. It's about me, it's what you're saying. Yeah, it's your relationship with Dwayne Johnson's character. And it's like, it's a really, it's like two guys really just struggling in the most glamorous world ever. Because I've never seen two more every time I have a line like that, I'm always like, wait, my character must make a good salary. Like, am I really that bad off?

Yeah, I look, like, you jump out of a Ferrari and you'll be like, man, we have to pay back the loan, we I'm doing okay. No, no, you're in massive debt, Rob. Compared to like the football players, I guess. Who are also in massive debt in some of the story. They're all a massive debt. That's what I like about ballers, I feel like it's a very realistic show. It's like, this is the glam of America and a rap. It's a very realistic show. That's right. That's right. Now you move from Miami to LA, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the best part, right? Because it's such a fun show to work on.

The only, and with all apologies, I'll do respect to our friends in Miami, it was the only, it was hard to shoot there, you know, because I live in LA, my family is in L. I am 47, so if you're not 20 or 85, there's not a lot going on for you by having. So what I would literally do, this is not a lie. I would leave work and I would go back to the place I was renting and do jigsaw puzzles in my underwear. And if it couldn't get worse, drink white wine. A sensible white wine.

So that was, yeah, we did my, then we were in LA for season 3. Right. And then now, but we pretended it was Miami. Like a lot of green screens. Yes, yes, now we just dropped all pretense. You were like, we just put in Miami now. Who cares? Do you feel like you could be a sports agent with all the sports agency stuff you talked about? Why, you're looking for representation or? Well, I mean, I don't, like, yeah, I mean, you're pretty baddest at badminton. I'm really good. Yeah, you play, you play, you play, you play mitten? I was really, really good. Yeah, we might be looking for a couple guys. I rock the shuttle, call our stable.

Yeah, I was really good. I was just like, I'm, and then the sport just like disappeared from my life. Yeah, sorry, you should get back. There's places you can play. It's hard to find pick up games though. Yeah, you don't find people.. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. It. No. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's just. No. It's just. It's just. No. No. No. the show. He brought his own racket. That's how I roll. Custom-made racket to the badminton game.

Let's talk about the movie. You have a new movie coming out. Dog Days. Yes. Which is a really great movie because it speaks to my experience of what I've learned in America and that is, it is easier to meet people if you meet them through their dogs. Yeah, yeah. That's really what this movie's about.

I guess you're right, right? I mean like I actually never thought about it that way but in college everybody was like, dude you either need a, you need to play guitar, have a hacky sack or have a dog. Right. or you're not going to meet ladies. Right. And I had none of those things. I'm glad you didn't have the hecky sack. Oh! No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, I had nothing. Do you have a dog now? No, no, Mike. I don't. You know, only because I have children. Which are like dogs that can talk. You know, dogs that can reason with you. It's just so much work. And also, like, my youngest daughter's allergic to everything.

And so it's a good excuse not to get one. I'd take one, though, if you were giving me one right now as a surprise. Well, it's funny you say that. Oh my gosh. You put out a huge great date. You guys are waiting for a dog? I'm gonna put a dog under my desk? What do you think this is?

No one's ever done that? What do you think this is? No one's ever done that? Yeah, but it's a really cool. It's a rom. It's a rom. Even in New York, don't talk to people and talk to the dogs. To meet someone in the street, you go like, Hey, little guy, and the person, that's what I do. I go, hey, little guy, hey little guy, you go high pitch. You always go high pitch.

Like, I remember, in my building. Oh, that's true. I do this, I go with that voice. I thought, what are you today? I had a conversation once with my neighbor. And she wouldn't, like, my neighbor in my building would not speak to me every time in the elevator. And then one day I just cracked and I just cracked.

And then I was just like, what are yeah when I watched the movie I was like this is basically it yeah this is so you need to get you need to get a dog I don't I don't I don't want to talk to more people I got enough people in my light I I want to shrink my world not get it bigger who who need I'm not taking applications well in that case get a heck he's sack I'll pull a muscle dude thank thank you you you you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th you th th th th th th th. th. th. th. I that that. I that. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not theeee. I'm not thee. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not the. I get a hacky sack. I'll pull a muscle. Dude, thank you so much for being on the show. Always a pleasure, man. Doug Davis, we'll be in theater for August 8. And season 4 borders premieres on comedy trumpet and

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