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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Between the Scenes - Everyone's Politicking in America

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

As a solution to Trump's policy of separating migrant families, Trevor calls for less partisan squabbling and more compromise between Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

It really is interesting how when you remove the optics of the politics themselves like

0:11.7

Republican or Democrat, all of a sudden people vote for a person and an idea as opposed

0:17.4

to the color, you know?

0:27.0

And that sadly feels like the space America's dangerously weighted into is now it's become

0:34.3

do I like the idea?

0:35.6

Well I'll tell you off I know where it came from.

0:39.0

Which is not how politics is supposed to work.

0:40.8

I think as a person you should be judging by what you want, what you think is right, what

0:44.8

you think moves the world forward.

0:47.9

And then you go by which candidates ticks most of the boxes that you wish to go with.

0:52.8

But if you just go by red or blue, I mean it never ends.

0:56.4

Like even now the fact that they're having in Congress about the bill, I'm a little bit

0:59.6

disappointed at how Republicans and Democrats seem to be having this back and forth.

1:04.8

And I mean this is Trump's issue, don't get me wrong.

1:06.7

Like he can end the policy like that with the kids.

1:09.2

But it is disheartening that for a long time the Democrats had a bill they were like here

1:12.4

we can do something and Republicans were like, oh no, no, no, no, no.

1:15.9

And you get angry at the Republicans.

1:17.4

But then the Republicans go, okay, here's a bill.

1:19.0

What we'll do is we'll build bigger senses, we'll build more places to house these people.

1:22.3

We won't separate the kids from the parents anymore and we'll get more judges in to adjudicate

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