November 15, 2021 • 31 mins
U.S. gas prices surge, Leo Deblin (Roy Wood Jr.) proposes a solution for an ICU bed shortage, and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie discusses "Republican Rescue."
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, does anyone Does anyone
celebrate Elon Musk here? Anyone? I don't know if you saw.
This was like a really interesting moment of like just
internet twitter beef. Bernie Sanders put it out a tweet
and he basically was like, you know, the usual thing,
billionaires need to pay their fair share of taxes, blah
blah blah, they're not paying enough whatever. And then Elon
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Musk jumped on and he was like, oh you I
didn't know you were still alive. And people are like
pistolf because now it's Bernie Bros. Versus Elon Bros. And like,
that's you know what I mean, that's the Internet essentially.
It's like the Reddit Royal Rumble. Now, like good luck
posting your wedding pictures when this ship is happening. It's
like gangs in the streets, but on the tweets, that's
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what's happening. Now. You're like, I love you my wife.
They're like, shut up. Elon's right about this thing, and Bernie,
you don't talk to Bernie like that. Everyone's mad losing
this ship. One thing I will say about Elon Musk
is like Elon musk is everything I thought a billionaire
was as a child. You do not watch TVs like
TV shows. As a kid, I was like, why do
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you want to be a billionaire. I'll be like, yeah,
so I can just tell everybody ship all the time.
You want to be like Scrooge McDuck. And then you
grow up and then billionaires are like they always talking
about business and doing bored like Jeff Bezos. The guy
has all the money of the world, and then still
he's like you know, if you'd be like, hey, what's
happening at your factories? Like we're gonna try to figure
things out? And you're like, what this is not like
billionaire swag? You know he works out? Why do you
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work out? Why? You guys, you don't need muscles if
you have billions of dollars. Muscles are for lifting things.
If you have billion dollars, you do not lift anything,
do you know what I mean? I would pay somebody
at the gym you're do another rep? Do no? I
still feel do another one? And then you'd be like yeah,
but Trevor, then you're gonna gain weight. You're gonna be
on I'll pay people to tell me that I'm healthy
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I'll pay them, and then you'd be like, but you
might die. Then I'll pay people to bring me back
from the dead. I'm billionaire. I'll buy your body, bitch,
Just buy somebody else's body. Come back next week and
be like, hey, like who you I'm Trevor. Yeah, I
bought your dad's body. What now? When I become a billionaire?
Map man. First thing that's going out of my life,
greetings and goodbyes, waste of my time as a human being.
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When I get a billion, you guys forget me saying
hello goodbye, wasting my time. You know I'm coming back.
You know you've seen me for the first time. Hello.
Why do I have to announce my arrival to you? Hello?
What are you? Useless? Thing? These are things for peasants.
When I get a billion, you guys don't even understand.
No more Hello's it's over. I'm just gonna walk up
to you. You're just gonna see me. He's just gonna
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have to be like he's here now, and then when
I leave, I'm just gonna go. We'll be talking. Yeah,
the thing you see the game twenty seven, And I'm
just gonna walk away, coming to you from the Hordle
comes in New York City, in only city in America,
it's the daily here Tonight is constantly the best way
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to avoid me. I see you good. Chris Christie's the show. Hey,
what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Danny Show. I'm
Trevor Noah. Joining me for today's headlines is the one
and only Roy Wood Junior. Roy Man We Love your Comedy,
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Special Life Comment Inside and Paramount plus Roy We Love. Yeah,
what's going on? Man? Go ahead? Yo? I saw quest
Love over the weekend at this thing, and he's really
inspired me to try and figure out this whole sidekick
the sidekick ship man, I usual, let me play an instrument? No, no,
but you're not like a sidekick. There's a difference. It's
like you're just keeping me company because we're here and
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we don't have an audience yet. You know, am I
over there? Am I on the side? Where am I
right now physically in relation to you? The side? And
am I kicking it? Are indeed? Okay? So then that's
what that's what it is. That's just let me play
an instrument or something. I guy. I played the flute
for two weeks in the sixth grade. That won't work.
I can't even audition. No. I think be in the
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flutes is the worst thing you can play. When somebody
tells a joke, Okay, tell a joke right now, You
tell a joke, all right, I'll knock knock as a mosquito. Alright.
Let's jump strange to today's headlines. We kick things off
with the ongoing investigation into the January six attack on
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the U. S. Capitol Building, also known as the most
successful Facebook meets up of all time. Right now, a
congressional committee is trying to determine if President Trump and
his allies were involved in the violent attempt to overturn
the election, and one of the people they most want
to hear from is Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor and
the only person who should maybe try Horst de Wermer.
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I mean, it couldn't hurt, but like any innocent person,
Trump has told all of his people not to cooperate
with law enforcement at all. So Bannon defied a congressional
subpoena to testify, and this morning he turned himself in,
arriving at an FBI office looking like he'd already served
ten years in prison. But if all of this activity
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has Donald Trump worried he's not showing it. In fact,
when asked whether he had tried to pressure my Pens
into overturning the election on January six, well Trump basically
admitted it in the most trumpy way possible. It had
been reported back in January by The New York Times.
Did Trump even pressured Pens on the morning of January
six with a crude phone call? When I interviewed Trump
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for betrayal, I asked him about that. There was a
report and excuse my language, not not mine hims in
the report that you talked to him that morning and
you said you could be a patriot or you can
be at it. Did you Did you really say that?
Or is that? Here's that an incorrect I wouldn't dispute it,
wouldn't dispute it. I wouldn't dispute it. Wow, Trump has
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gangster Why would I dispute it? The guy's a total pussy.
Why would I dispute it? You know what I love
about Trump is that even if he didn't say that,
he's the type of guy who would pretend he said
it just because it sounded cool, Like, yeah, that's a
good line. I totally said it. I said it patriot
or pussy. I love it. Also love how the reporter says,
excuse my language, excuse my language. So as if Donald
Trump is going to be offended, my man, it's Donald Trump.
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If anything, he'd be like pussy my favorite topic. Thank
you for bringing this up. Let's talk about it. And
by the way, can we can we also acknowledge that
don't be a pussy is the thing people only go
through in life when they don't have any other arguments.
You know, It's the last option when you have nothing
real to convince someone with. And yeah, it usually works
because no one wants to be a pussy. I mean
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that's probably how cliff jumping started. But sometimes it's good
to be a pussy. Oftentimes history is made by pussies.
I mean Gandhi total pussy. Yeah. Britain was like, are
you gonna fight us or are you a pussy? And
Gandhi said, I am a pussy. You must be the
pussy you wish to see in the world. That is
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what we need more of. You know what's messed up? Man?
I kind of way. I feel bad for Mike Pence
Man because he was like living at Christian life and
being all righteous and been like the last for or
five years. But he going to hell, like you're not
messing this to just do everything perfect. And then just
in the ninth in and oh I'm going to hell.
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I didn't do nothing wrong his whole life. He missed
all his good jack off years, all the good jack off.
Your jack off years is from fourteen to about forty
five forty six. And he didn't do nothing. Just a
pure man, didn't start hanging with Trump night go to
hill that we do. A patriot or a pussy just
messed up. I feel bad for Mike Pence Man. He's
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gonna be all right. All right, Let's move on to
our top story right now. Inflation is the one thing
people hate even more than Jake Gillenhall. It seems like
everything is more expensive these days. Groceries are more expensive,
cause are more expensive. Tied dollar sign is now tied
dollar fifty. I can't afford that ship anymore. But there's
one price that people notice more than anything, and that's
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the price of gas. More paint at the PALMP for drivers.
As we head into the busy holiday travel season, gas
prices keep going only one direction up gas prices rising
over six percent over the last month, up nearly fift
over the last year. Gas prices are at their highest
levels in seven years. According to Triple A, we're looking
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at three forty two a gallon on average. Right now.
Americans are spending four and thirty million dollars more every
day on gasoline than just one year ago. Today, every
time I fill up, it's close like nine. It's like, uh,
do you want to eat steak or you want to
fill up your taink? Yeah, that's a tough choice. Do
you want to eat steak? What do you want to
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pull gas in your car? I mean I I do
have to say, you don't have to choose. Yeah, you
just fill up your car and then drive it into
a cow then you get both. No. But for real, though,
this is a big problem. High gas prices affect so
many aspects of life, like from getting to work to
childcare to you know, all your friends who bike becoming
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even more smug about it. But the question is why
are gas prices going up so much? Well, like everything
in our life right now, it has a lot to
do with the pandemic. So let's talk about why this
is happening and what Joe Biden can do about it.
In another installment of getting Back to NORMALI ish thank
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back for a moment to spring of much of the
world had ground to a halt, which meant that people
weren't driving. They weren't visiting friends, or going into the office,
or hanging out of the passenger side of their best
friend's ride trying to holler at me. If you left
your home at all, it was probably to take a
sad walk around the block. I mean at least until
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you heard someone cough down the street and then you
ran your ass back inside. Now, because of all of that,
that meant that America's oil industry, which had been producing
more than any country in the world, basically shut down.
And even though society has ramped back up again, the
oil industry hasn't. Early in the pandemic, demand for gasoline
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dropped dramatically as workers were told to stay home. That
immediately walloped the oil and gas industry like nothing ever
in its history has ever hit them before. At one
point early on in the coronavirus crisis, the price of
a barrel of oil it cost less than zero dollars.
When prices dropped abruptly with the pandemic shutdown US shield
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producers dramatically slowed the drilling of new wells. Briggs were
taken out of service. In oil production in the US
dropped off significantly. They shut down production, They laid off
tens of thousands of workers to try and stay alive
during the pandemics. Just like everything else in our lives,
and the oil production has been impacted by COVID, it
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can't just flick a pitch out a refinery and operations
and have everything back normal. Yeah, one of the reasons
gas prices are so high is because America is making
less gas than it did before the pandemic because people
may be driving again. But that doesn't mean that it's
easy for gas producers to just instantly produce as much
as they were before. You've got to grow a whole
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new dinosaur and then smush it until the oil comes out.
That takes time, and it makes sense that it's going
to take them time to adjust. I mean, it's been
hard for all of us, right, every single one of us.
It's been hard for us to get back to normal
life after the pandemic. Do you remember the first time
you have to make small talk at the office nobody
knew what we were doing. Welcome to the elevator. Do
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you remember whether? Yeah? I do not. My wife is
leaving me. This is not my floor, but I'm getting
out now. If America isn't making enough oil to keep
up with demand, then why doesn't it just buy more
from the rest of the world. Well, it could, but
it turns out the people who control the oil in
the rest of the world, well, they just don't feel
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like sharing. Gas prices really not being driven up by
that demand on the horizon. It's really more about the supply.
Oil producing nations are actually constricting the supply a little
bit because they're trying to recoup their pandemic losses. There's
a cartel that controls the price of oil internationally, and
that cartel is called OPEC OPAQ. The biggest oil producing
nations aren't increasing the amount of oil they released into
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the global economy, so as demand rebounds in the US,
Americans are paying about sixteen dollars more to fill up
their tanks than a year ago. President Biden recently appealed
to OPEC and Russia to boost production, but received a
flat no. Wow. They received a flat no. I mean
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to be fair, every no coming out of a Russian
is a flat No. Have you ever talked to a
Russian person? They're never afraid of a flat no. Hey,
are you having a good day? No? Well, as there's
always tomorrow, right, No, And look, you can understand Opex
was Asian. I mean, how much longer is oil gonna
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be around? Right? They need to make money on the
ship now before we're all driving elon Musk's cause that
curse out Bernie Sanders when you hunked the horn. And
by the way, you also know what this means, right,
you realize that this is the first time America could
openly go to war for oil, because usually when America
goes into the Middle East, it's always like this isn't
about oil. My son is going over there to fight
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for freedom. But if prices go any higher, now Americans
can just be like Kevin, you get your butt in
that fighter jet because your dad is not paying six
dollars a gallon. That's my stake money. Now, the good
news is America is not going to war yet. But
asking OPEC nicely also didn't work. So the big question
is what can be done to lower gas prices? Well,
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the bad news for President Biden is not much. The
Biden administration is scrambling for solutions to one of his
biggest biggest political liabilities, soaring gas prices. Like presidents who
came before him, Joe Biden has you options when it
comes to combating high fuel prices. Nearly a dozen Senate
Democrats are calling on Biden to consider all the tools
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available at your disposal, even the extreme step of banning
American oil exports, which Goldman Sacks warned would be counterproductive
and could actually raise prices. The President also considering tapping
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, though industry experts have warned that
would do little to alleviate the problem. If you ask
the energy industry, they would say, well, the White House
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could cut environmental regulation and maybe that would help, and
it could maybe for next winter, but that would take
some time. President Biden does not have a magic wand
to dramatically lower gas prices, and if he did, judging
upon his sinking poll numbers, he would use that magic
wand well, I don't know about that. I mean, I
feel like even if Joe Biden did have a magic wand,
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he still needs to recite a spell based on what
we've all seen. I do not have confidence that he'd
be able to get it right. Alexand Abrica Abdul Jabbar,
one of one of the great negro You know the thing,
you know the thing? Did it work? What's tough of
Biden is that it doesn't matter what else he does
if the price of gas stays high. That's that he
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could sign old infrastructure bill as he wants. He could
get everyone to agree on abortion, but all people care
about is how much is the black goo from the
ground higher than before? Then get the outta here. So
it's not exaggerating to say that his whole presidency, his
entire presidency, could depend on where the gas prices stay
up or go down. And based on this new ps A,
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the Biden administration just put out they're willing to try
anything all across this great nation. Americans are feeling pain
at the pump, but help is on the way. We
at the Biden administration, No, you want nothing more than
for gas prices to go back to where they were
last year, which is why we're laser focused on the
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one method guarantee to make that happen. Creating a new
pandemic as we speak, our world class. Scientists are working
hard to develop the next big viral strain. They're experimenting
with expired wombat meat, iguanas, knees, droplets, and whatever they
can scrape off the New York City subway. We're throwing
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all of it into a big old blender and feeding
into a sick hippo. Trust me, if COVID twenty two
is out there somewhere, we're gonna find it. We're not
stopping until gas prices are the least of your problems.
Once again, that's the Biden provids guys, Is this something
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all right? When we come back, COVID is still filling
up the icy us, But don't worry. We've got a solution,
so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
The Holidays are coming here in America, which means two things.
Turkeys are saying goodbye to their loved ones, and COVID
cases might shoot up again, which would be bad news
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because some parts of America are struggling to keep up
with the rona. Right now, this morning, nearly half the
country seeing new COVID cases soaring. Twenty one states reporting
a surge in infections and rising hospitalizations in seventeen states
and territories. Some rural communities with low vaccination rates and
limited resources, like Canyon City, Colorado being hit especially hard
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of the states. I see you beds are currently full,
the most they've seen in nearly a year. Yeah, Colorado's
I see you beds are packed, and I mean Willy
Wonka and the chocolate factory packed. Which, by the way,
what was happening in that movie? I remember watching that
as a kid, and I was I was thinking, like,
why all those old people in the same bed together,
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old day like I get at night if you pour.
But then like the whole day, I was like, are
they banging each other's movies about? But anyway, the big
worry is what if your hospital has no ICU beds
available and you suddenly need emergency care. Your life could
be in danger because too many people didn't want to
get the vaccine. Luckily, Leo Devlin has a solution for you.
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Now that's a deal, all right. When we come back,
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former Governor Chris Christie will be joining me right here
in the studio. You don't want to miss it. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the
former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. He's going to
discuss his new book and why he thinks the Republican
Party needs to be rescued. Chris Christie, Welcome to the
Day Show. Forever happy to be back. Before we start
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the interview, I want to know what type of interview
are we're having. Are we having like a legit conversation
or you're gonna are you gonna politician me? I only
ask you this because you're the one person who will
tell me the truth about whether you will awone. We'll goally, Okay,
let's let's do it. Let's do it. Um. I love
the title of your book, Chris Christie, Republican Rescue, Saving
the Party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous
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policies of Joe Biden. It seems like the Republicans need
to be rescued from a lot of things. Yeah, they do.
And and look, the biggest thing we need to be
rescued from where two is the truth. You know, if
we don't become the party of telling the truth again,
we got no hope for anybody to trusts us to
do anything. And when we get to these conspiracy theories
and truth deniers, it's just not gonna work. And so
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what I try to do on the book is to
go through like Q and On and Pizza Gate and
Birtherism and the election stuff and say here the real facts.
And I hope you after you read them, you'll come
to the conclusion there's no truth to any of this stuff,
and we need to focus on the important things that
are going on in the country right now. But surely
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you realize you are up against a monumental like issue
here because a lot of the Republican Party believes many
of these things. Yeah, well that's what leadership is all about, right,
I mean, in the end, if you want to try
to lead, which is what I'm trying to do, is
to help lead the party in another direction, then it's
involves some risk. Like if it were easy, you wouldn't
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be at the front of the parade, You'd be in
the middle of the parade. Right. So I'm taking a
chance here, I guess. But to me, it's a chance
on the best thing to take a chance on, which
is the truth. And you are not afraid of the
Donald Trump element. I mean because because you're not just
You're not just talking to Republican people here. You're talking
to Republicans, but you know one of your audience members
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is Donald J. Trump, who believes some of the things
that are in this book. And look, I've known him
for twenty years. It's unlike most people who are him
of recent vintage. I've known him personally for twenty years,
and now I'm not afraid of telling him the truth.
I've never been afraid of telling him the truth. Um,
all the time that I did things with him, ran
against him, and then helped to advise him preparing for debates,
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I was the guy he always brought in to give
him a hard time. And so the book falls in
that pattern. So let's talk about the relationship you have
with Trump and then the relationship that the republic and
Party has with Donald Trump. For many years, it was
the party, right, which is what many would argue good
politics is. It's about the party and it's about people
who vote for the party. Now it has become about Trump.
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People say I'm a Trumper. I vote for Donald Trump.
The Republican Party comes second to that. That means one
man can determine the vision and the mission that doesn't
necessarily coincide with conservatism, whatever that may be in this
day and age. So when when you you have a
relationship with Donald Trump, right, you guys talk. You haven't
talked in a while. Now I don't understand, but but
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you guys, but you guys talk. Do you see a
world where a he doesn't doesn't run for president and
then be a world where you can convince him to
not make the next election about this because you know
he's going to do that. Well, look, I think the
few things. First off, there's a really interesting new poll
today out of Iowa. Iowa Republicans being pulled by the
de moin Register and they're they're amongst the most conservative
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Republicans in America. UM, they asked, where's your loyalty the
most to the Republican Party order Donald Trump at the
Republican Party that Donald Trump in Iowa. So I think
things are changing, Trevor. I think as he's no longer
on Twitter, he's only been out of office for less
than ten months, and he dominated all the political oxygen
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in this country for five years, right, So we're in
instant gratification society. People expect things you know happened like that.
They don't sometimes and so as the emotion drains out
of this and you leave the facts, I think people
are gonna say a Republican party that's built on many
foundations is much more valuable than one that's built on one.
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And by the way, the president, the former president, can
be part of that if he wants to start talking
about tomorrow and stop talking about yesterday. So that's what
we should be thinking about, is how do we get
to the next step? And I think that that Iowa
poll starts to tell us it's not there yet, but
starts to tell us that people are starting to let
the emotions right out and say all right, so what
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are our options? Is this book your way of putting
yourself forward as an option? Is this? Is this you
planting the seeds for you running in the next election. No,
this is me planting the seeds for running somebody. Because
lots of people whisper this stuff to someone has to
say it out loud. Someone's got to be willing to
come forward and say here, that's here's the truth, and
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here's the path forward. It doesn't mean I won't run
in twenty four, okay, but you know I certainly will
think about it. Would you would you run if Trump runs?
So you'll run against Donald Trump? Where's a camera? Put
this camera in Chris Christmas face? You'll run against Donald Trump? Yes, okay,
well we're gonna keep that tape. Keep that baby, and
then let me tell you why you don't feel pressure
to not run against him, Because, I mean, we we've
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heard many Republicans say I would run if Donald Trump
doesn't run. The only one who I know openly hasn't
said this is run the scantists. And it seems interesting
that where he's going like I'm not saying anything, and
people believe that he could be a major contender, So
you're not you would run against Donald Trump? I would
if I decided I want to run for president. And listen,
I think anybody drever if you believe that you're the
best person to be president United States? Why doesn't matter
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who else runs, right, It's to me it's almost disqualifying
to say I'll defer to somebody else. Let's say Trump
runs again, and let's say he wins the nomination, are
you going to support him when he goes to be president? Look,
if he doesn't stop talking about this election is being stolen,
then I can't support anybody who winds up saying that
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our democracy didn't work. So apart from that, you would
support him, then No, I'm not going to get into
every issue. There's some things that I would agree on,
some things I wouldn't. But to me, this continued obsession
wrongly in an untrue way that the election was stolen.
It's just it's just something that's fundamentally eroding the country.
I can't be supportive unless there's something you can prove
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in court that went wrong and he tried and he
couldn't sixty plus times. Right, then you've got to be
a grown up about it and say the other guy
one like look Al Gore in two thousands, thought it
hard all the way the United State Supreme Court. But
when he law, he looked in the camera and he said,
George W. Bush is the president, and I'm conceding. It's
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the peaceful transition of power that has defined the America's
democracy for that long. And that's what he didn't do
with Donald Trump didn't do and that's why I got
so angry about it. The last part of this book
is what I find interesting, saving the party also from
the dangerous policies of Joe Biden. Now you argue in
the book that the problem with Joe Biden is that
he ran as a unifier, and you say that he
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hasn't done it. What do you mean by that? Well,
what I mean is that he ran not only as
a unifier but as a moderate right. Remember, he was
the guy in the primaries that Kamala Harris and Corey
Booker and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren we're all saying
wasn't liberal enough. He's too moderate. Now all of a sudden,
his policies are way left. But is it all of
a sudden? Though? If you remember he did say at
some point, if I win, we're going to put forward
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some of the most progressive policies this country's ever seen.
He did say that, but but he didn't campaign. The
theme of his campaign was not that he was going
to bring the country back together. You can't unify the
country by going away lefter way right, because most of
the country is not wayed after way right. But we
can't deny is that a guy who was elected president
with over three electoral votes just you know, a year ago,
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is now in a situation where his approval ratings are
in the low forties upside down twelve or fifteen points,
depending on the polls, And it doesn't seem to be
getting better anytime soon. And the real question is Joe Biden,
that's seventy eight years old, does he have the political
skills any longer to dig out of that hole? And
I think that's what We're gonna have to wait and see.
I don't know. I'm skeptical about it. And I think
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he had been much better off he had been the
Joe Biden that he had been all the years he
was in the Senate and tried to bring the country
together that way rather than trying to be FDR. Do
you think there was a Senate to bring together though?
Because this is the thing, this is the issue I
have just as as an observer of this thing. Mitch McConnell,
Whence will always say like, well, we've got to strict together,
we've got a direct together, and then what happens when
the time comes he blocks people. He like Mitch's is
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a genius when it comes to knowing how to you know,
figure things out. So was there a Senate to bring together?
Here's what I think and I'll tell you what I'll
add onto this. Look at the Republicans now who voted
for the infrastructure bill, for those thirteen Republicans who stepped
in and said this is a bipartisan thing we agreed upon,
and now Trump has come out against them. Multiple Republicans
have completed they betrayed the party. But they're going, no,
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it was bipartisan and that's how it got here. Well,
let me tell you the opposite side of that. Why
I think there is bipartisanship available in the center available
because in the Senate, you didn't see that happen. Nineteen
Republicans voted for that bill in the Senate including Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell voted for that bill. And so I think
there is a Senate that's available will be brought together
um and and look not on everything, but on this
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there was and what's going on in the House I
think is much more a symptom of the jerrymangoring that
we have right in the Senate. There's two for everybody
in this House. You've got these Jerrymander districts where some
of these people are in far right districts, are far
left districts. All they're ever worried about as the primary Trevor,
they're never worried about the general election, and so they
go running in the other direction. Both both part. We
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need to stop this gerrymandering in the country so that
there's more competitive districts that people care more about get
anything's done than they care about just pleasing you know,
any one particular constituency. I definitely agree with you on that.
Thank you for the time, thank you for joining me,
thank you for congratulations on the book. I'm excited. I
hope you run for two reasons. One because you make
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things interesting and too because you one of the few
people who on that stage is probably going to say
something real to Donald Trump. So I really hope you do.
Run well, Thank you and listen, and you know I'll
provide plenty of fodder for your program. Then you're gonna
You're gonna beach one day and I'll be there to
see it. Thank you so much for being on the
Governor Chris Christie's book, Republican Rescue is available right now.
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You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, does anyone Does anyone
celebrate Elon Musk here? Anyone? I don't know if you saw.
This was like a really interesting moment of like just
internet twitter beef. Bernie Sanders put it out a tweet
and he basically was like, you know, the usual thing,
billionaires need to pay their fair share of taxes, blah
blah blah, they're not paying enough whatever. And then Elon
(00:23):
Musk jumped on and he was like, oh you I
didn't know you were still alive. And people are like
pistolf because now it's Bernie Bros. Versus Elon Bros. And like,
that's you know what I mean, that's the Internet essentially.
It's like the Reddit Royal Rumble. Now, like good luck
posting your wedding pictures when this ship is happening. It's
like gangs in the streets, but on the tweets, that's
(00:45):
what's happening. Now. You're like, I love you my wife.
They're like, shut up. Elon's right about this thing, and Bernie,
you don't talk to Bernie like that. Everyone's mad losing
this ship. One thing I will say about Elon Musk
is like Elon musk is everything I thought a billionaire
was as a child. You do not watch TVs like
TV shows. As a kid, I was like, why do
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you want to be a billionaire. I'll be like, yeah,
so I can just tell everybody ship all the time.
You want to be like Scrooge McDuck. And then you
grow up and then billionaires are like they always talking
about business and doing bored like Jeff Bezos. The guy
has all the money of the world, and then still
he's like you know, if you'd be like, hey, what's
happening at your factories? Like we're gonna try to figure
things out? And you're like, what this is not like
billionaire swag? You know he works out? Why do you
(01:29):
work out? Why? You guys, you don't need muscles if
you have billions of dollars. Muscles are for lifting things.
If you have billion dollars, you do not lift anything,
do you know what I mean? I would pay somebody
at the gym you're do another rep? Do no? I
still feel do another one? And then you'd be like yeah,
but Trevor, then you're gonna gain weight. You're gonna be
on I'll pay people to tell me that I'm healthy
(01:50):
I'll pay them, and then you'd be like, but you
might die. Then I'll pay people to bring me back
from the dead. I'm billionaire. I'll buy your body, bitch,
Just buy somebody else's body. Come back next week and
be like, hey, like who you I'm Trevor. Yeah, I
bought your dad's body. What now? When I become a billionaire?
Map man. First thing that's going out of my life,
greetings and goodbyes, waste of my time as a human being.
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When I get a billion, you guys forget me saying
hello goodbye, wasting my time. You know I'm coming back.
You know you've seen me for the first time. Hello.
Why do I have to announce my arrival to you? Hello?
What are you? Useless? Thing? These are things for peasants.
When I get a billion, you guys don't even understand.
No more Hello's it's over. I'm just gonna walk up
to you. You're just gonna see me. He's just gonna
(02:34):
have to be like he's here now, and then when
I leave, I'm just gonna go. We'll be talking. Yeah,
the thing you see the game twenty seven, And I'm
just gonna walk away, coming to you from the Hordle
comes in New York City, in only city in America,
it's the daily here Tonight is constantly the best way
(02:55):
to avoid me. I see you good. Chris Christie's the show. Hey,
what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Danny Show. I'm
Trevor Noah. Joining me for today's headlines is the one
and only Roy Wood Junior. Roy Man We Love your Comedy,
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Special Life Comment Inside and Paramount plus Roy We Love. Yeah,
what's going on? Man? Go ahead? Yo? I saw quest
Love over the weekend at this thing, and he's really
inspired me to try and figure out this whole sidekick
the sidekick ship man, I usual, let me play an instrument? No, no,
but you're not like a sidekick. There's a difference. It's
like you're just keeping me company because we're here and
(03:39):
we don't have an audience yet. You know, am I
over there? Am I on the side? Where am I
right now physically in relation to you? The side? And
am I kicking it? Are indeed? Okay? So then that's
what that's what it is. That's just let me play
an instrument or something. I guy. I played the flute
for two weeks in the sixth grade. That won't work.
I can't even audition. No. I think be in the
(04:00):
flutes is the worst thing you can play. When somebody
tells a joke, Okay, tell a joke right now, You
tell a joke, all right, I'll knock knock as a mosquito. Alright.
Let's jump strange to today's headlines. We kick things off
with the ongoing investigation into the January six attack on
(04:23):
the U. S. Capitol Building, also known as the most
successful Facebook meets up of all time. Right now, a
congressional committee is trying to determine if President Trump and
his allies were involved in the violent attempt to overturn
the election, and one of the people they most want
to hear from is Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor and
the only person who should maybe try Horst de Wermer.
(04:45):
I mean, it couldn't hurt, but like any innocent person,
Trump has told all of his people not to cooperate
with law enforcement at all. So Bannon defied a congressional
subpoena to testify, and this morning he turned himself in,
arriving at an FBI office looking like he'd already served
ten years in prison. But if all of this activity
(05:07):
has Donald Trump worried he's not showing it. In fact,
when asked whether he had tried to pressure my Pens
into overturning the election on January six, well Trump basically
admitted it in the most trumpy way possible. It had
been reported back in January by The New York Times.
Did Trump even pressured Pens on the morning of January
six with a crude phone call? When I interviewed Trump
(05:30):
for betrayal, I asked him about that. There was a
report and excuse my language, not not mine hims in
the report that you talked to him that morning and
you said you could be a patriot or you can
be at it. Did you Did you really say that?
Or is that? Here's that an incorrect I wouldn't dispute it,
wouldn't dispute it. I wouldn't dispute it. Wow, Trump has
(05:50):
gangster Why would I dispute it? The guy's a total pussy.
Why would I dispute it? You know what I love
about Trump is that even if he didn't say that,
he's the type of guy who would pretend he said
it just because it sounded cool, Like, yeah, that's a
good line. I totally said it. I said it patriot
or pussy. I love it. Also love how the reporter says,
excuse my language, excuse my language. So as if Donald
Trump is going to be offended, my man, it's Donald Trump.
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If anything, he'd be like pussy my favorite topic. Thank
you for bringing this up. Let's talk about it. And
by the way, can we can we also acknowledge that
don't be a pussy is the thing people only go
through in life when they don't have any other arguments.
You know, It's the last option when you have nothing
real to convince someone with. And yeah, it usually works
because no one wants to be a pussy. I mean
(06:34):
that's probably how cliff jumping started. But sometimes it's good
to be a pussy. Oftentimes history is made by pussies.
I mean Gandhi total pussy. Yeah. Britain was like, are
you gonna fight us or are you a pussy? And
Gandhi said, I am a pussy. You must be the
pussy you wish to see in the world. That is
(06:55):
what we need more of. You know what's messed up? Man?
I kind of way. I feel bad for Mike Pence
Man because he was like living at Christian life and
being all righteous and been like the last for or
five years. But he going to hell, like you're not
messing this to just do everything perfect. And then just
in the ninth in and oh I'm going to hell.
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I didn't do nothing wrong his whole life. He missed
all his good jack off years, all the good jack off.
Your jack off years is from fourteen to about forty
five forty six. And he didn't do nothing. Just a
pure man, didn't start hanging with Trump night go to
hill that we do. A patriot or a pussy just
messed up. I feel bad for Mike Pence Man. He's
(07:37):
gonna be all right. All right, Let's move on to
our top story right now. Inflation is the one thing
people hate even more than Jake Gillenhall. It seems like
everything is more expensive these days. Groceries are more expensive,
cause are more expensive. Tied dollar sign is now tied
dollar fifty. I can't afford that ship anymore. But there's
one price that people notice more than anything, and that's
(08:01):
the price of gas. More paint at the PALMP for drivers.
As we head into the busy holiday travel season, gas
prices keep going only one direction up gas prices rising
over six percent over the last month, up nearly fift
over the last year. Gas prices are at their highest
levels in seven years. According to Triple A, we're looking
(08:21):
at three forty two a gallon on average. Right now.
Americans are spending four and thirty million dollars more every
day on gasoline than just one year ago. Today, every
time I fill up, it's close like nine. It's like, uh,
do you want to eat steak or you want to
fill up your taink? Yeah, that's a tough choice. Do
you want to eat steak? What do you want to
(08:42):
pull gas in your car? I mean I I do
have to say, you don't have to choose. Yeah, you
just fill up your car and then drive it into
a cow then you get both. No. But for real, though,
this is a big problem. High gas prices affect so
many aspects of life, like from getting to work to
childcare to you know, all your friends who bike becoming
(09:03):
even more smug about it. But the question is why
are gas prices going up so much? Well, like everything
in our life right now, it has a lot to
do with the pandemic. So let's talk about why this
is happening and what Joe Biden can do about it.
In another installment of getting Back to NORMALI ish thank
(09:29):
back for a moment to spring of much of the
world had ground to a halt, which meant that people
weren't driving. They weren't visiting friends, or going into the office,
or hanging out of the passenger side of their best
friend's ride trying to holler at me. If you left
your home at all, it was probably to take a
sad walk around the block. I mean at least until
(09:51):
you heard someone cough down the street and then you
ran your ass back inside. Now, because of all of that,
that meant that America's oil industry, which had been producing
more than any country in the world, basically shut down.
And even though society has ramped back up again, the
oil industry hasn't. Early in the pandemic, demand for gasoline
(10:12):
dropped dramatically as workers were told to stay home. That
immediately walloped the oil and gas industry like nothing ever
in its history has ever hit them before. At one
point early on in the coronavirus crisis, the price of
a barrel of oil it cost less than zero dollars.
When prices dropped abruptly with the pandemic shutdown US shield
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producers dramatically slowed the drilling of new wells. Briggs were
taken out of service. In oil production in the US
dropped off significantly. They shut down production, They laid off
tens of thousands of workers to try and stay alive
during the pandemics. Just like everything else in our lives,
and the oil production has been impacted by COVID, it
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can't just flick a pitch out a refinery and operations
and have everything back normal. Yeah, one of the reasons
gas prices are so high is because America is making
less gas than it did before the pandemic because people
may be driving again. But that doesn't mean that it's
easy for gas producers to just instantly produce as much
as they were before. You've got to grow a whole
(11:14):
new dinosaur and then smush it until the oil comes out.
That takes time, and it makes sense that it's going
to take them time to adjust. I mean, it's been
hard for all of us, right, every single one of us.
It's been hard for us to get back to normal
life after the pandemic. Do you remember the first time
you have to make small talk at the office nobody
knew what we were doing. Welcome to the elevator. Do
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you remember whether? Yeah? I do not. My wife is
leaving me. This is not my floor, but I'm getting
out now. If America isn't making enough oil to keep
up with demand, then why doesn't it just buy more
from the rest of the world. Well, it could, but
it turns out the people who control the oil in
the rest of the world, well, they just don't feel
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like sharing. Gas prices really not being driven up by
that demand on the horizon. It's really more about the supply.
Oil producing nations are actually constricting the supply a little
bit because they're trying to recoup their pandemic losses. There's
a cartel that controls the price of oil internationally, and
that cartel is called OPEC OPAQ. The biggest oil producing
nations aren't increasing the amount of oil they released into
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the global economy, so as demand rebounds in the US,
Americans are paying about sixteen dollars more to fill up
their tanks than a year ago. President Biden recently appealed
to OPEC and Russia to boost production, but received a
flat no. Wow. They received a flat no. I mean
(12:42):
to be fair, every no coming out of a Russian
is a flat No. Have you ever talked to a
Russian person? They're never afraid of a flat no. Hey,
are you having a good day? No? Well, as there's
always tomorrow, right, No, And look, you can understand Opex
was Asian. I mean, how much longer is oil gonna
(13:02):
be around? Right? They need to make money on the
ship now before we're all driving elon Musk's cause that
curse out Bernie Sanders when you hunked the horn. And
by the way, you also know what this means, right,
you realize that this is the first time America could
openly go to war for oil, because usually when America
goes into the Middle East, it's always like this isn't
about oil. My son is going over there to fight
(13:24):
for freedom. But if prices go any higher, now Americans
can just be like Kevin, you get your butt in
that fighter jet because your dad is not paying six
dollars a gallon. That's my stake money. Now, the good
news is America is not going to war yet. But
asking OPEC nicely also didn't work. So the big question
is what can be done to lower gas prices? Well,
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the bad news for President Biden is not much. The
Biden administration is scrambling for solutions to one of his
biggest biggest political liabilities, soaring gas prices. Like presidents who
came before him, Joe Biden has you options when it
comes to combating high fuel prices. Nearly a dozen Senate
Democrats are calling on Biden to consider all the tools
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available at your disposal, even the extreme step of banning
American oil exports, which Goldman Sacks warned would be counterproductive
and could actually raise prices. The President also considering tapping
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, though industry experts have warned that
would do little to alleviate the problem. If you ask
the energy industry, they would say, well, the White House
(14:29):
could cut environmental regulation and maybe that would help, and
it could maybe for next winter, but that would take
some time. President Biden does not have a magic wand
to dramatically lower gas prices, and if he did, judging
upon his sinking poll numbers, he would use that magic
wand well, I don't know about that. I mean, I
feel like even if Joe Biden did have a magic wand,
(14:49):
he still needs to recite a spell based on what
we've all seen. I do not have confidence that he'd
be able to get it right. Alexand Abrica Abdul Jabbar,
one of one of the great negro You know the thing,
you know the thing? Did it work? What's tough of
Biden is that it doesn't matter what else he does
if the price of gas stays high. That's that he
(15:11):
could sign old infrastructure bill as he wants. He could
get everyone to agree on abortion, but all people care
about is how much is the black goo from the
ground higher than before? Then get the outta here. So
it's not exaggerating to say that his whole presidency, his
entire presidency, could depend on where the gas prices stay
up or go down. And based on this new ps A,
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the Biden administration just put out they're willing to try
anything all across this great nation. Americans are feeling pain
at the pump, but help is on the way. We
at the Biden administration, No, you want nothing more than
for gas prices to go back to where they were
last year, which is why we're laser focused on the
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one method guarantee to make that happen. Creating a new
pandemic as we speak, our world class. Scientists are working
hard to develop the next big viral strain. They're experimenting
with expired wombat meat, iguanas, knees, droplets, and whatever they
can scrape off the New York City subway. We're throwing
(16:18):
all of it into a big old blender and feeding
into a sick hippo. Trust me, if COVID twenty two
is out there somewhere, we're gonna find it. We're not
stopping until gas prices are the least of your problems.
Once again, that's the Biden provids guys, Is this something
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all right? When we come back, COVID is still filling
up the icy us, But don't worry. We've got a solution,
so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
The Holidays are coming here in America, which means two things.
Turkeys are saying goodbye to their loved ones, and COVID
cases might shoot up again, which would be bad news
(17:00):
because some parts of America are struggling to keep up
with the rona. Right now, this morning, nearly half the
country seeing new COVID cases soaring. Twenty one states reporting
a surge in infections and rising hospitalizations in seventeen states
and territories. Some rural communities with low vaccination rates and
limited resources, like Canyon City, Colorado being hit especially hard
(17:25):
of the states. I see you beds are currently full,
the most they've seen in nearly a year. Yeah, Colorado's
I see you beds are packed, and I mean Willy
Wonka and the chocolate factory packed. Which, by the way,
what was happening in that movie? I remember watching that
as a kid, and I was I was thinking, like,
why all those old people in the same bed together,
(17:46):
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But then like the whole day, I was like, are
they banging each other's movies about? But anyway, the big
worry is what if your hospital has no ICU beds
available and you suddenly need emergency care. Your life could
be in danger because too many people didn't want to
get the vaccine. Luckily, Leo Devlin has a solution for you.
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Now that's a deal, all right. When we come back,
(20:21):
former Governor Chris Christie will be joining me right here
in the studio. You don't want to miss it. Welcome
back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the
former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. He's going to
discuss his new book and why he thinks the Republican
Party needs to be rescued. Chris Christie, Welcome to the
Day Show. Forever happy to be back. Before we start
(20:43):
the interview, I want to know what type of interview
are we're having. Are we having like a legit conversation
or you're gonna are you gonna politician me? I only
ask you this because you're the one person who will
tell me the truth about whether you will awone. We'll goally, Okay,
let's let's do it. Let's do it. Um. I love
the title of your book, Chris Christie, Republican Rescue, Saving
the Party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous
(21:04):
policies of Joe Biden. It seems like the Republicans need
to be rescued from a lot of things. Yeah, they do.
And and look, the biggest thing we need to be
rescued from where two is the truth. You know, if
we don't become the party of telling the truth again,
we got no hope for anybody to trusts us to
do anything. And when we get to these conspiracy theories
and truth deniers, it's just not gonna work. And so
(21:26):
what I try to do on the book is to
go through like Q and On and Pizza Gate and
Birtherism and the election stuff and say here the real facts.
And I hope you after you read them, you'll come
to the conclusion there's no truth to any of this stuff,
and we need to focus on the important things that
are going on in the country right now. But surely
(21:46):
you realize you are up against a monumental like issue
here because a lot of the Republican Party believes many
of these things. Yeah, well that's what leadership is all about, right,
I mean, in the end, if you want to try
to lead, which is what I'm trying to do, is
to help lead the party in another direction, then it's
involves some risk. Like if it were easy, you wouldn't
(22:06):
be at the front of the parade, You'd be in
the middle of the parade. Right. So I'm taking a
chance here, I guess. But to me, it's a chance
on the best thing to take a chance on, which
is the truth. And you are not afraid of the
Donald Trump element. I mean because because you're not just
You're not just talking to Republican people here. You're talking
to Republicans, but you know one of your audience members
(22:28):
is Donald J. Trump, who believes some of the things
that are in this book. And look, I've known him
for twenty years. It's unlike most people who are him
of recent vintage. I've known him personally for twenty years,
and now I'm not afraid of telling him the truth.
I've never been afraid of telling him the truth. Um,
all the time that I did things with him, ran
against him, and then helped to advise him preparing for debates,
(22:50):
I was the guy he always brought in to give
him a hard time. And so the book falls in
that pattern. So let's talk about the relationship you have
with Trump and then the relationship that the republic and
Party has with Donald Trump. For many years, it was
the party, right, which is what many would argue good
politics is. It's about the party and it's about people
who vote for the party. Now it has become about Trump.
(23:11):
People say I'm a Trumper. I vote for Donald Trump.
The Republican Party comes second to that. That means one
man can determine the vision and the mission that doesn't
necessarily coincide with conservatism, whatever that may be in this
day and age. So when when you you have a
relationship with Donald Trump, right, you guys talk. You haven't
talked in a while. Now I don't understand, but but
(23:32):
you guys, but you guys talk. Do you see a
world where a he doesn't doesn't run for president and
then be a world where you can convince him to
not make the next election about this because you know
he's going to do that. Well, look, I think the
few things. First off, there's a really interesting new poll
today out of Iowa. Iowa Republicans being pulled by the
de moin Register and they're they're amongst the most conservative
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Republicans in America. UM, they asked, where's your loyalty the
most to the Republican Party order Donald Trump at the
Republican Party that Donald Trump in Iowa. So I think
things are changing, Trevor. I think as he's no longer
on Twitter, he's only been out of office for less
than ten months, and he dominated all the political oxygen
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in this country for five years, right, So we're in
instant gratification society. People expect things you know happened like that.
They don't sometimes and so as the emotion drains out
of this and you leave the facts, I think people
are gonna say a Republican party that's built on many
foundations is much more valuable than one that's built on one.
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And by the way, the president, the former president, can
be part of that if he wants to start talking
about tomorrow and stop talking about yesterday. So that's what
we should be thinking about, is how do we get
to the next step? And I think that that Iowa
poll starts to tell us it's not there yet, but
starts to tell us that people are starting to let
the emotions right out and say all right, so what
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are our options? Is this book your way of putting
yourself forward as an option? Is this? Is this you
planting the seeds for you running in the next election. No,
this is me planting the seeds for running somebody. Because
lots of people whisper this stuff to someone has to
say it out loud. Someone's got to be willing to
come forward and say here, that's here's the truth, and
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here's the path forward. It doesn't mean I won't run
in twenty four, okay, but you know I certainly will
think about it. Would you would you run if Trump runs?
So you'll run against Donald Trump? Where's a camera? Put
this camera in Chris Christmas face? You'll run against Donald Trump? Yes, okay,
well we're gonna keep that tape. Keep that baby, and
then let me tell you why you don't feel pressure
to not run against him, Because, I mean, we we've
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heard many Republicans say I would run if Donald Trump
doesn't run. The only one who I know openly hasn't
said this is run the scantists. And it seems interesting
that where he's going like I'm not saying anything, and
people believe that he could be a major contender, So
you're not you would run against Donald Trump? I would
if I decided I want to run for president. And listen,
I think anybody drever if you believe that you're the
best person to be president United States? Why doesn't matter
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who else runs, right, It's to me it's almost disqualifying
to say I'll defer to somebody else. Let's say Trump
runs again, and let's say he wins the nomination, are
you going to support him when he goes to be president? Look,
if he doesn't stop talking about this election is being stolen,
then I can't support anybody who winds up saying that
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our democracy didn't work. So apart from that, you would
support him, then No, I'm not going to get into
every issue. There's some things that I would agree on,
some things I wouldn't. But to me, this continued obsession
wrongly in an untrue way that the election was stolen.
It's just it's just something that's fundamentally eroding the country.
I can't be supportive unless there's something you can prove
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in court that went wrong and he tried and he
couldn't sixty plus times. Right, then you've got to be
a grown up about it and say the other guy
one like look Al Gore in two thousands, thought it
hard all the way the United State Supreme Court. But
when he law, he looked in the camera and he said,
George W. Bush is the president, and I'm conceding. It's
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the peaceful transition of power that has defined the America's
democracy for that long. And that's what he didn't do
with Donald Trump didn't do and that's why I got
so angry about it. The last part of this book
is what I find interesting, saving the party also from
the dangerous policies of Joe Biden. Now you argue in
the book that the problem with Joe Biden is that
he ran as a unifier, and you say that he
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hasn't done it. What do you mean by that? Well,
what I mean is that he ran not only as
a unifier but as a moderate right. Remember, he was
the guy in the primaries that Kamala Harris and Corey
Booker and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren we're all saying
wasn't liberal enough. He's too moderate. Now all of a sudden,
his policies are way left. But is it all of
a sudden? Though? If you remember he did say at
some point, if I win, we're going to put forward
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some of the most progressive policies this country's ever seen.
He did say that, but but he didn't campaign. The
theme of his campaign was not that he was going
to bring the country back together. You can't unify the
country by going away lefter way right, because most of
the country is not wayed after way right. But we
can't deny is that a guy who was elected president
with over three electoral votes just you know, a year ago,
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is now in a situation where his approval ratings are
in the low forties upside down twelve or fifteen points,
depending on the polls, And it doesn't seem to be
getting better anytime soon. And the real question is Joe Biden,
that's seventy eight years old, does he have the political
skills any longer to dig out of that hole? And
I think that's what We're gonna have to wait and see.
I don't know. I'm skeptical about it. And I think
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he had been much better off he had been the
Joe Biden that he had been all the years he
was in the Senate and tried to bring the country
together that way rather than trying to be FDR. Do
you think there was a Senate to bring together though?
Because this is the thing, this is the issue I
have just as as an observer of this thing. Mitch McConnell,
Whence will always say like, well, we've got to strict together,
we've got a direct together, and then what happens when
the time comes he blocks people. He like Mitch's is
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a genius when it comes to knowing how to you know,
figure things out. So was there a Senate to bring together?
Here's what I think and I'll tell you what I'll
add onto this. Look at the Republicans now who voted
for the infrastructure bill, for those thirteen Republicans who stepped
in and said this is a bipartisan thing we agreed upon,
and now Trump has come out against them. Multiple Republicans
have completed they betrayed the party. But they're going, no,
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it was bipartisan and that's how it got here. Well,
let me tell you the opposite side of that. Why
I think there is bipartisanship available in the center available
because in the Senate, you didn't see that happen. Nineteen
Republicans voted for that bill in the Senate including Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell voted for that bill. And so I think
there is a Senate that's available will be brought together
um and and look not on everything, but on this
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there was and what's going on in the House I
think is much more a symptom of the jerrymangoring that
we have right in the Senate. There's two for everybody
in this House. You've got these Jerrymander districts where some
of these people are in far right districts, are far
left districts. All they're ever worried about as the primary Trevor,
they're never worried about the general election, and so they
go running in the other direction. Both both part. We
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need to stop this gerrymandering in the country so that
there's more competitive districts that people care more about get
anything's done than they care about just pleasing you know,
any one particular constituency. I definitely agree with you on that.
Thank you for the time, thank you for joining me,
thank you for congratulations on the book. I'm excited. I
hope you run for two reasons. One because you make
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things interesting and too because you one of the few
people who on that stage is probably going to say
something real to Donald Trump. So I really hope you do.
Run well, Thank you and listen, and you know I'll
provide plenty of fodder for your program. Then you're gonna
You're gonna beach one day and I'll be there to
see it. Thank you so much for being on the
Governor Chris Christie's book, Republican Rescue is available right now.
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