Profiles in Tremendousness - Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker | Swizz Beatz
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Daily Show, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm Trevor Noah. |
| 0:48.0 | I will guess tonight. I will guess tonight. Here to talk about his new album, Poison Rapper and |
| 0:55.0 | Business Man, New York's very own Swiss Beach, everybody. He's going to be Johnny Loft. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm really excited because I'm half Swiss. But first, let's catch up on today's headlines. |
| 1:07.0 | If you watched President Trump's crazy press conference yesterday, I'm sorry, and you probably know by now that he got |
| 1:15.0 | a big argument with CNN reporter Jim Acosta, which happens all the time, right? They're like the 50 cents |
| 1:20.0 | in jar rule of politics. But what's new is that after the press conference, the White House banned |
| 1:26.0 | Jim Acosta from the press room because they say that he assaulted the intern who tried to take his |
| 1:32.0 | microphone away from him. Yeah, and this White House does not tolerate grabbing women by the arm. |
| 1:37.0 | It's only okay to grab them by the pussy, like a gentleman. And the problem with the White House |
| 1:43.0 | explanation is that everybody saw that Acosta did not assault the intern. |
| 1:48.0 | So the White House had to get a little creative with their evidence. |
| 1:52.0 | A White House aide tried to grab the microphone and Acosta appeared to brush her arm. |
| 1:57.0 | Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out a different video, one that was sent out by InfoWars, |
| 2:02.0 | which is a far-right conspiracy theory website that has been known to push far-right extremist propaganda. |
| 2:09.0 | And this video was edited. It was sped up. |
| 2:13.0 | They have been manipulated, too. |
| 2:15.0 | That's right. Donald Trump used a sped-up video from InfoWars, |
| 2:20.0 | the conspiracy website run by Alex Jones. Now, just for context, they've been banned by Twitter, |
| 2:25.0 | YouTube, and Spotify, and every other website. But the White House is like, we got you, man. |
| 2:29.0 | We got you. |
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