The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Scott Pruitt Takes Cabinet Scandals to a New Level | Tyra Banks

Episode Date: April 10, 2018

The FBI raids the office of Michael Cohen, EPA chief Scott Pruitt manages to out-scandal the rest of Trump's cabinet, and Tyra Banks chats about her book "Perfect Is Boring." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. What's going on, everybody? What's going on? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Tremonoa. Thank you so much for shooting in. Take a seat, y'all. Good to see you all. Good to see you all.

My guest tonight, Tyra Banks is here. The first, the first. Donald Trump's lawyer now needs to get a lawyer. This is CNN breaking news. The FBI raids the office of President Trump's personal lawyer and long-time fixer Michael Cohen. A source says some of the documents seized had to do with the porn star Stormy Daniels. Cohen's lawyer says the raid stems from a referral by the special counsel Robert Mueller. Damn, that breaking news was so long the violin guy in the background was like, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tin, tick, tick, tick, tick. Tin. Tick, tick. Tick campaign funds to buy a porn star's silence.

And you know, it's just nice knowing that in 20 years, teachers won't be able to give a history lesson without explaining what a pornographic actress is. You see children when a man pays a woman very much. But right now, Stormy Daniels and the FBI are the least of President Trump's problems. Because after Bashir al-Sad launched another chemical attack in Syria, the president was forced to respond. Tough talk from the White House on Syria, with President Trump denouncing Dictator Bashar al-Assad as an animal,

and vowing there will be a big price to pay. If it's Russia, if it's Syria, if it's Iran, if it's all of them together, we'll figure it out. He may, yeah, he may, and if he does, it's going to be very tough. Because folks, how do you hurt the ones you love? It's going to be so tough for me, folks. Look, the truth is, the situation in Syria is complicated, and Trump has to fix a problem that he inherited from President Obama.

And right now, he can't afford to inherit problems, because he already has so many of his own. Because every week, it feels like another Trump cabinet official is getting caught in a scandal. Ben Carson spent a fortune on furniture. Tom Price used private jets like they were Uber's. And of course, Betsy DeVos has that scandal, because she abandoned a bunch of kids on a school trip to the Grand Canyon.

Yeah, a lot of people think she shouldn't have done that. But recently, recently, everyone has been talking about Scott Pruitt. He's the head cabinet scandals to a whole new level. President Trump is standing by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt amid growing ethics scandals. Let me put up a list of all the other things that have come up. There's the condo that he rented from energy lobbyists. He approved raises apparently for two aid salaries after the White House had declined

the request. He asked security to use sirens to cut through traffic. He reassigned staffers after they raised concerns about his spending. He requested a 24-7 security detail on personal trips that racked up tens of thousands of dollars. Okay, hold up. Am I the only person who are shocked when they went goes to the second page, you're done fucked up. Like, that's so much scandal. Even Shonda Rimes would be like, okay, this is unrealistic, come on now. How much scandal for one person?

I mean, this list is so long that the CNN anchor literally has to pause to catch her breath. You spend $120,000 on a trip to the Vatican. He hired 12 more thousand $2 million per year for their salaries. He has all these flights in first class, totaling more than $100,000 in the first year of the administration. He has spent approximately $25,000 for a highly secure soundproof booth for Pruitt. He considered buying a $70,000 bulletproof desk replacement. You're okay with all that? No, I am not okay with that. And neither should anyone else. The head of the EPA is spending taxpayer money

like he just woke up in Chris Brown's body. Like, what is he doing? I mean, let's just look at some of the things that he did, right? He spent $120,000 to go high-five of the Pope, right? He also said that he was afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid afraid that he was afraid that he was afraid that he was afraid that he was afraid that he was afraid that he was afraid that people were listening to his phone conversations, so he spent $43,000 building a soundproof booth. Yeah, $43,000 on a soundproof booth. Mother's the thinnevering? I'm sorry.

And I'm sorry. Just listen to this one. Listen to this one. Scott Pruitt wanted to spend $75,000 on a bulletproof desk. Which I don't even understand, what's the point of a bulletproof desk? It only works if your assassin doesn't know how to walk around stuff. It's like, die! Oh, where do he go? Oh, man, this always happens. And also, why does the head of the EPA need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need need the the the the the the the 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, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the to, the the the the the the. to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, this always happens. And also, why does the head of the EPA need this level of security anyway?

Like, who's coming off to him? A polar bear coming for revenge? Like, he's like, hey Pruitt, you drowned my wife! Oh, and surprise, Scott Pruitt only flies first class, but the reason he gave is pretty great. Pruitt says he needs first class because of unpleasant interactions with passengers. What might be an example of that? According to the security office, an individual who approached Pruitt out of an airport yelling,

Scott Pruitt, you're effing up the environment. You're fixing up the environment? What does that mean? First of all, whoever said that to him in the airport is a hero. Okay. And, yeah, he is. And secondly, secondly, flying first class doesn't help you avoid angry passengers. Because now everyone on the plane is walking past you. Yeah, it's just going to be like a line of people just be like, you're effing up the environment. You're effing up the environment.

You drone my wife. Ah, he's back! Why did I check my desk in? I should have kept it. Hey, here's the thing. It's not just overspending. Everything Pruitt touches turns to shady. So shady, in fact, that even Fox News called him out. President Trump said he would drain the swamp. Is draining the swamp renting a apartment from the wife of a Washington lobbyist? I don't think 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 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. thi the environment thi, 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thii. I's. I's. I's. I'm th. Ic-Iu. te. te. th. th. the. the. their drain the swamp. Is draining the swamp renting an apartment from the wife of a Washington lobbyist? I don't think that that's even remotely fair to ask that question. Why did you go around the president and the White House to give pay raises to two staffers? I did not. My staff did and I found out about that yesterday and I changed it. So career person or a political person? I don't know.

You don't know. You don't know. You don't know who did. I think this is something needs to be corrected. And it was a mistake by my team. It was a mistake by my team. By your team. So do you take responsibility?

I'm fixing it. I bet Pruitt didn't expect those questions from that network. Like he was probably like, my dude, we're on Fox. What the hell are you doing? Come on, you ask me how big Trump's dick is. I say enormous, and then we throw to a reverse mortgage commercial. Come on, buddy, what's wrong with you? Now, before you get excited, before you get excited, thinking Pruitt is going to be Trump's next weekly firing. Remember one thing.

Pruitt may be an over-entitled self-dealing cabinet member, but he's really good at being bad for the environment. Pruitt's saving grace may be that he's seen by the president and other White House officials as Mr. Trump's most effective cabinet secretary. He started rolling back more than two dozen Obama-era environmental regulations, including Mr. Obama's signature vehicle emission standards and clean power plan. He also successfully advocated for the president to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. It's amazing how the only thing you need for Trump to consider you effective is to just hit delete on anything Obama did.

Like I wouldn't be shocked if the next cabinet's official is just a heavy pebble on a keyboard. That's all it's going to be. Basically with this whole scandal Trump is like, folks, I know Scott Pruitt is super dirty but thanks to his hard work unprotecting the environment soon we'll be every bit as dirty as he is. We'll be right back. 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 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 supermodel, an entrepreneur, and the creator and executive producer and host of America's Next Top Model. She's also written a new book with her mother called Perfect Is Boring.

Ten Things My Crazy Fierce Mama taught me about beauty, booty, and being a boss. Please welcome, Tyra Banks. Oh my gosh, so good to be here in person. Welcome to the show. Thank you. This is the's today. Oh my gosh, so good to be here in person. Welcome to the show. Thank you. This is so much fun.

I like seeing you in person. Do you? I like seeing you in person too. No, I was saying like, like, you said being you in person too. No, I'm just saying like, well, like you said being here in person and then it's like, I'm going to act like I'm not awkward at all. It's going to be like super professional. But it's so nice to see your dimples in person. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I see him on TV and you guys all do it on the TV, don't you? Don't you don't to Africa, people, goodbye.

Thank you very much. We're done, we're done. Welcome to the show. Thank you. It's so fun to have you here, and congratulations on the book. You are doing so many things. You're making TV. You're working on projects and film and everywhere else.

You also had time to write the book. Why did you want to write this book, th, th, the book, the book, the book, the book, the book, the book, the book, the book, the, the, the, the, the, the, the book. Perfect is boring. Yes. Why did you want to write this book? I wrote this book because Trevor, my mom and I have quite a unique relationship. It is raw, real unfiltered. My mama tells me anything, everything. And people come up to us and they're like, I want a relationship like you have with your mom. And it could be a dad and a son and a mom and a da. the da. to they. to, t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttm, tttree. tree. tm. tm. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. ttttttttttttthe. the. the. the. the. the. tr. tr. tr. ttr. tr. tr. tr. tr. tr. you know, my mom and I were like, let's write a book about that. And really, it starts with making your child blush. Making them blush. In what way? The uncomfortable conversations.

Oh, wow. Did your mama have the uncomfortable conversation? Oh, yeah. No, my mom, I blushed my entire. My tie. too. the birds. and said you did the birds and the bees talk. We did that already. Right. But now I'm going to give you the how it feels, how man will tou tou tou toub. the toughs will tough. the eight words he will whispered. the the words he will whispered, their the th book honey. And I wonder if you have whispered them. I'm sure you have. I know I know what the words are but I don't want to spoil it for anyone because I've read because I've read the

book. You did the homework. Have you said the words? I've read, I think every single guy in the world has said these words. Your mother teach you so many things. Your mother teach you so many things, but I wanted to know, like, you say here, Tyra and her mama, ten things, my crazy, fierce mama taught me about beauty, and being a boss. How did you write that your mama was crazy and not get an ass-whipping? How? Like, does she like, does she like, does she go, she's crazy? She knows that she's like, over my nieces and nephews and she plays the body accordion

The what the body accordion which is the like you know she has a bra on and she has her little skirt on and she'll go We're like man aunt auntie auntie Carolyn play the body accordion she's like you're ready Yeah, so that's my mom she's fun, but she's raw. She's real and and and she helped you I guess like that story is interesting. I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the body. I?????? the the the body. I? I the body. I the body. I the body. I the body. I the body? I the body. I the body. I the body. I'm the body. The body. I'm the body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body???? the body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. The body. I? the body. I? the body. I? the body. I? the body. I? the body. I? I? I? I? I? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the body. the body. the body. the's my mom. She's fun, but she's raw, she's real. And she helped you, I guess like that story is interesting and it ties into the idea in the book, which I didn't know. And that is she helped you get over your body as a person, which I never thought of. I never thought that Tarabanks had to get over her body in any way shape or form. Oh yeah, I have been on both sides. I have been on being very, very skinny, 98 pounds and 5.9. You can imagine that. Wow. And there is nothing that I could do to gain weight. I was very sad, very depressed. I would stuff my face. Nothing happened. But my mother helped me through that dark time. Right. And then, cut two years later, I'm a supermodel. And they're saying my booty is too big too too too too too too. too. too. too. too. 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 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 to to to to to to to the weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight weight. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. to to to to to to to to to to to to to they did. My Italian... There was a time when booties were too big? Oh, yes, and they still are too big for the runway. They're not too big for the Instagram way. I see. They are too big for the runway. And so that happens and you

feel like your world has ended and it's a really beautiful story in the book where you talk about your mom, like you go, this is it, my life is over, thi... the, my, my, my life, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, the, the, the, the, 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, 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, th. th. th. th. th. their, th. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to work. Yes, she said you know what we're going to do right now through my tears she says we're going to eat pizza and over pizza in Milano Italy on like a butcher paper of white paper she pizza in one hand she put a pin in the other and said you write down every client in this modeling industry that likes ass. She said because my baby's ass is getting bigger and I'd be damn if she starves for this industry so through tears I I I I their their their to to to their to to to to their their to their too. too. too. too. their. She's too. She's too. She's too. She's to to to to to to to too. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's. She's to me me me. She's to me. She's toe. She's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe's toe. I's toe. She and I'd be damn if she starves for this industry. So through tears, I'm like, Victoria's Secret. And she's like, write it down. Oh, man. Sports Illustrated. Write it down.

And then she's like, who has an ass? I'm like, Cindy Crawford? And she's like, write it down. And she's like, write it down. the models who you're going to emulate and those are your future clients. Now you take that and you go give it to your agency and then here I am today. That is amazing. And then the Korean secret contract with the truth. That is absolutely amazing. That's absolutely amazing.

So, it's a lot. What I appreciate in the book is, you say, perfect in the book, is it, you say, perfect the book,the other. So some people go, accept yourself the way you are. Don't change anything. And then other people are like, oh no, if you change something, then you don't love yourself except. But you're in the book going, hey, just love yourself and do what you need to do. Yeah, I say, fix it or flaunt it. Right. I mean, there's, I their, I their, their, tha, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th and then, th and then, th and then, th and then, th and, th and, th and, th and, th, th, th, th. th. tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thr. thr. thr. thrown, and, throoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. tha, and fake lips and mine are real by the way. But like all that kind of stuff and I talk about getting my nose done when I was very young. I broke my nose when I was three years old started growing crooked it was it was very young.

It was thrown crooked it was it was this makeup. And she said tire your nose is growing crooked. It's growing sideways and I feel shodd of like, that's not really solid Avergain really. No, that's British. But yeah, but she was British. Yeah, it's colonial enough. I'm with you. She was British. Yeah. And she told me that my nose was kind of growing sideways and used to itch all the time. And I went to this one doctor, and this doctor tried to make what it should have been and you never broke it.

You know, but I want to tell girls that. Like, this knows, maybe it was the one that I would have had? Maybe not. I don't know, but the thing is to fix it or flaunt it. It's all fine. Let's stop like saying, um... One of the joys of America's next top model is you've broken in many ways the mold of what people believe a model should be. We've seen people evolve. We've seen the evolution of the idea of a model. When you are looking at models, when you are looking at the modeling industry,

what is your end goal, what do you dream of seeing change in the modeling industry? I want diversity to be to just to just to just to just to just to just to just to just to just to just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just to just to just to just to just 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 the the their their industry as a whole. What is your end goal? What do you dream of seeing change in the modeling industry? I want diversity to be boring. I wanted to just, you had Ashley Graham here, I saw her on the show. I don't want it to be like, oh, Kirby, plus size model, Ashley Graham. I want it to be Ashley Graham. She just so happens to be just all is beautiful and all is boring.

I want diversity to be boring. Diversity to be boring. That's exciting. Perfect is boring. The book is definitely not. You and your mom are amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Perfect is boring. It's available now. The season's come out of America's next top model airs. as April 10th at 8 p.m. on VH1. Pirabanks, everybody. the today. The Daily Show with Trevor No. Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11.10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central app. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. And follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and more.

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