Pete Hegseth Grilled in Senate Hearing, Boyd Holbrook on Playing Johnny Cash

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jordan Klepper recaps Pete Hegseth's contentious Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense. Desi Lydic teaches Jordan Klepper a lesson on digging too deeply into Trump's cabinet selects. Plus, a new Daily Showography | Pete Hegseth: Overserved with Honor. Actor Boyd Holbrook sits down with Jordan Klepper to talk about his experience playing Johnny Cash in the new film, “A Complete Unknown.” They discuss working with director James Mangold on the legacy of playing Johnny Cash, Cash’s letters to Bob Dylan on the back of airplane barf bags, the pressures of portraying a real person on film, and how Christian Bale threw him a bone early in his career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
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0:14.0	This is The Daily Show with your host, Jordan Clever.
0:18.3	Thank you. Jordan Clapper.
0:32.8	Welcome to the other show.
0:34.8	We got a mixed show tonight.
0:36.2	Congress is super horny.
0:41.6	Republicans pretend to vet Trump's cabinet, and we get mixology tips from Pete Hegseth.
0:47.2	So, let's get into another installment of Trump 2.0 coming for the White House.
0:50.6	I'm going to come. I truly gonna come.
0:58.8	I truly hate that.
1:03.0	So Donald Trump becomes president on Monday,
1:05.8	and that means... I know.
1:07.3	I hate Mondays, too.
1:10.5	But it means we're invading Greenland on Tuesday.
1:13.9	So, we got to decide who is going to lead the armada,
1:18.5	which is why today the Senate held its first confirmation hearing.
1:22.6	For Pete Higgseth, Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary,
1:25.7	and dude who makes sure everyone at the frat house has their stories straight.
1:30.6	Now, since he was nominated a couple months ago, we found out a lot about Hegg Seth, and most of it does not inspire confidence.
1:37.6	He's been accused of sexual assault.
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