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Some of you, perhaps a few of you in the media, came here today to see if I'm dropping out of the race.

Well I'm not.

Okay, we'll just wait another week then.

Do what you want.

But it's not a good sign for your campaign if you have to keep announcing that you're not dropping out of the race. Nikki Haley's campaign has reached the guest who doesn't know when to leave the party stage. Republican voters are like, ooh, oh god, I got to wake up early tomorrow, and Nikki's like, oh.

Let's start a game of risk.

And if this speech was supposed to convince people that she should stay in the race, I'm.

Not really sure it did.

We've all heard the calls from me to drop out. The argument is familiar. They say I haven't won a state, that my path to victory is slim. They point to the primary polls and say, I'm only delaying the inevitable. Why keep fighting when the battle was apparently over after Iowa.

She's making a really good case against herself. They say my campaign is making everyone sad, that I'm a born loser whose own mother wouldn't vote for her. They claim I have a fourteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes and I'm.

Not even a movie anyway. What were we talking about?

Although, look, if Haley wants to stay in, it's her right. If her strategy is to just hope that Donald Trump goes to prison for life, she wouldn't be the only one.

Game recognize game.

Speaking of Donald Trump, it's been a week now since Russian dissident Alexi Navalney mysteriously died in prison after devoting his life to fighting Vladimir Putin's dictatorship, and Donald Trump honored him in the only way he knows how, by making it about himself.

The former president, for his part, weighed in yesterday evening. What he did was he shared an opinion piece on his social media website that compares President Biden with Vladimir Putin and compares himself with Alexi Navalney.

This is utterly disgusting. But I have to give Trump credit. I didn't realize he could make analogies way that He's got the double Collins and everything. My little guys ready for the SATs. But yes, it is unacceptable to compare Navalney with Trump. Navalney sacrificed his life for democracy. Donald Trump tried to sacrifice Mike Pence's life.

To kill democracy.

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Donald Trump introducing a new sneaker line at a shoe conference in Philly over the weekend.

This is that big crowd appearing at sneaker Con in Philadelphia.

We're going to remember the young people, and we're going to remember sneaker Con, your sneakerheads.

Ryan, the former president, took today to promote a money making deal, having struck a naming rights agreement for a limited edition sneaker line, the most expensive pair in the series, selling for three hundred and ninety nine dollars.

That's the real deal.

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Finally, a sneaker that won't make me feel bad when I accidentally step and shit, No, I'm kidding. What is actually the perfect shoe to tell the world you're about to lose a game of one on one by fifty points. To be fair, though, at least when you give money to Trump you actually get something in return.

If you give money to Democrats.

All you get is fifty thousand emails asking for more money send me a body spray Nancy, but I don't know who am I to judge. I'm still wearing crocs from the first time they were popular. To find out what real sneaker heads think about these shoes, we sent our very own Josh Johnson to investigate what's up world?

I'm Josh Johnson, and Donald Trump just released his new Never Surrender high tops. There's only one thousand being released and four hundred bucks a pop. They will probably not put a dint in the judgment against him. So I hit the streets today and talk some real sneaker heads to see if these.

Are cops or dropped they know.

Now, what do you.

Think of these sneakers?

You know, it's very patriotic.

I think that there's no rules in fashion.

Okay, were whatever you want, but me, Percy, I would not. Would you copies you? You wouldn't know hard past. It looks very two thousand and nine dated. Actually they look like they don't bend. What are your thoughts on this shoe?

Trying to be sheep? Okay?

Well, also very nationalistic?

Gotcha?

Now?

Would you wear the shoe though? Okay?

So you think if you wore these two school you might get like roasted up? Yeah, because like, what great are you in seventh You're in seventh grade?

Yeah?

How tall? Six to one? I played basketball?

You should do you think there's a sort of like mic situation where as soon as you put them on, you get indicted, probably if.

It's not indicted by the judicial system, if you indicted by society.

Do you think they go up even higher or they go down if he goes to jail.

I think if you go together, probably going like twenty k sign crazli. Really, people are nothing like that.

I'm wearing these, right, I get robbed, they get taken off.

You're not gonna get rout for those brothers.

Okay, that's good to know. So this is really like robbery repellent right here.

So people might try to give you tips on fashion, like why are you wearing those?

Okay, shoes are very symbolic of who you are as a person, So if you have dumb shoes, might be a person.

Yeah, those are pretty bad.

But what about your shoes, Doug, What those are some dirty ass shoes?

Bro steak asshoes. Hell, no, beut to run a marathon it's really about It's really about traumpa, is it?

You're lucky bigger than me?

Man.

When we come back, we'll find out the last way Alabama has made history.

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Welcome man to.

The Daily Show. Ever since Roe v.

Wade was overturned two years ago, women have been predicting that conservatives would go after other reproductive rights next, and people said, ha, there go those hysterical women being hysterical again.

Well guess what this.

Morning a first of its kind decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that could put families access to fertility treatments in the post row era at risk. The case in question involved a patient who managed to access the freezer storing frozen embryos at an Alabama fertility clinic. The patient picked up multiple embryos and mistakenly dropped and destroyed them. The state's high court says that patient can now be

That's right. The bar has been moved again.

From now on in Alabama life begins when a man notices his first cousin is hot. Just to clarify what's happening here, tens of thousands of women have children using IVF every year, and since it's not possible to do that without creating some excess embryos, the state of Alabama has now ruled that starting a family is basically murder, you know, pro life. And the way this ruling happened is so crazy. This wasn't even intentional. They just dropped a test tube.

You know.

Back in my day, we had something called the five second rule and it was sacred. And I'm sorry, but it's just weird to say that frozen embryos are legally the same as children.

Last time I checked, you're not allowed to store kids in the freezer.

And yeah, yeah, I have checked, And now I'm on some kind of CPS watch list. Don't get me wrong, embryos are extremely precious to potential parents, but technically they're just jiz and eggs. That's not a child, that's an appetizer. At a very avant garde Brooklyn Ressant. For more on this court decision, We go live to an IVF clinic in Alabama with our very own Ronnie chain, Ronnie, Ronnie.

What do you think the fallout will be of this?

I'll tell you what the fallout is, DESSI turns out I'm a father. Now that's ry. I say hello to little Ronnie Junior. I love, he's gouts, Dad's eyes rocking my baby. I don't know the rest of the lyrics to that.

Okay, okay, I can tell you're running a scam. I just don't know how yet.

No, no, no, this is not a scam.

Okay.

This is a eagle child into state of Alabama, which means I get all the benefits of being a dad without having to be a dad. I get to claim him on my taxes, I got paternity leave, I gotta hang out at the McDonald's ball pit without getting hassled. I mean, best of all, he's my excuse to get off shit I don't want to do, which reminds me, hey, can we wrap this Uparadi, because I gotta go feed my son.

Wait, how do you feed an embryo?

You just pour a little fish food in here.

Look, lor Lork, here comes the play.

Don't don't worry.

It's organic.

My god, Ronnie dropped the act. I know you hate kids.

No, no, I just hate your kids.

Okay.

It was like waving at me, hello, goodbye, not for ready.

I get it, Donnie, you're making a mockery of parenthood.

Hey, well, okay, we'll take care of the stave of alib them out, okay, because according to them, this is a human life and it's so precious that people might go to prison for messing with it. So that means I'm a dad free and clip.

Oh no, Ronnie Junior, Oh.

Shit, oh shit, that's the cops.

Okay, I thought we defunded those guys. Deessy, I gotta flee the state, okay, you Jessey shit, Okay, all right.

Good Mark, Ronnie, Ronnie Jay, everyone, we come back tonight. Gerrera will be joining us, so don't go away.

Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is.

An actor and playwright who's the co creator and star of the new AMC mini series The Walking Dead The Ones Who Live. Please welcome Deny Guerrera.

Thank Carol, Oh my women. That's a good welcome.

Yeah, beautiful guys, Thank you, guys.

We're happy to be you and.

I'm happy to see you.

Thank you so much for being here I am I being such a fan of your work. You're an incredible actress, and you command such a presence every time you're on screen. These roles that you play, you play these extraordinary, powerful, resilient, katana wielding women. Do you ever feel like you just want to like take a break and play Linda from HR?

Are you know?

As long as you dresses cute, Yes, that's.

What I missed. I miss wearing cute clothes when.

I go to work.

Oh my god, I don't even think about that. Not just not having blood smeared everywhere.

Yeah, like that's the makeup. You know, you still go smearing and like dust. Get some more dust on here, get some more dirt.

That's perfect.

Now.

Yeah, you still want to kill zombies?

Yeah, don't take away the katana now, No, let me hold.

On to that.

I think you're managing it. You managed to kill zombies.

I mean in HR with a katana?

Sure, Hey, I think it's an asset. You know, we don't even have HR here, so our budget got cut.

That's not true. We'll edit that part out. You.

What's so interesting to me about this series is that you're not only acting in it, but you executive produce, you co created it, you write on it. Was it challenging just juggling all the hats and one project, Well.

It was actually it was really cool because from where you start you get a role like what was that like twelve years ago, and it's in this show that was massive at the time, and it was just like, I'm just hoping I can keep this Katana in my hand and not drop it and when they're shooting, and then to go through this whole arc with the character and the journey she's had, which has been tremendous and

It's all her.

And you know, there are times I'm like in this very intense episode and then I noticed that the corpse and the scene doesn't look dead enough, and I'm like special effects makeup. Can you just help me with this a little bit? So I have to jump out I'm the shown and make sure she looks good in three weeks did and then and then jump back into the role.

Of course, the Walking Dead fans are going to devour this like a zombieyond flesh, But truly it stands on its own. If you haven't watched the series, it's it's its own beast.

Yeah, thank you. I think I think that's true because it really is the epic love story of the series.

And if you.

Haven't watched it, you can really just latch in because you can see what's happened to Rick and what's happening with Micheown and how they come together and what happens there. So it really kind of stands on its own.

And yeah, it was.

It was an interesting journey to actually get the opportunity because Walking Dead was such a jogonnaut of various narratives, big villains, and lots of things going on. So to actually step into just these two and their journey and a love story in the apocalypse was it was. It was really really fun and intense.

Yes, you can feel that I can't wait to maybe you would consider sneaking me the rest of the episodes because I don't think I can wait until they come out.

You don't mind.

Yeah, Now, the Walking Dead franchise is considered a sci fi zombie apocalypse. But are you concerned when you look at the state of the world, is it becoming a little bit more of a political drama.

I think they've been neck and neck for like ten years.

Yeah.

I mean what I love about The Walking Dead and what attracts me to because I was scared out of my mind of horror. But what attracted me to it when I was asked to audition for it in like twenty twelve was the fact that you know, it was about people, characters like who would and everyone was like what would I Who would I be if the world end and if everything that was convenient to me and normal to me just was gone and everything was just totally upended? Who would I become? And I think that

And preppers jes Day preppers.

What's the craziest thing that a prepper has ever told you that they're collecting.

Wow, that's a good question. I mean, you know, I've heard a lot about peanut butter. Yeah, people like their peanut butter.

Yeah, people love peanut butter. Yeah.

I collect that just jars and tubs. I hide it under my bed just in case I want a midnight stack.

Listen, there's nothing like a good speed of peanut butter. I have some under this desk. You want some?

Share your birthday? Just past Happy birthday? Her birthday's on valid? Yes, to celebrate you wrote this beautiful post. What was behind that message? And tell us a little bit about the foundation.

Yeah. I created Love our Girls because I just think Valentine's Day is just it's just such a sucky holiday.

What is it?

Right?

You know, people are expecting things like give me roses and candy and like, you know what I mean. But I think it is beautiful in the sense that it's about love and would I was trying to like repurpose it about six seven, eight years ago when I had a show on Broadway and it was an all women play, and I just wanted to, like say, what if this day that has always been associated with the dye was

Oh so beautiful.

Thank you so much for the work that you do, all of the work, and I cannot wait to finish the series.

You're incredible in it.

The Walking Dead The Ones Who Live premieres February twenty fifth on AMC and AMC plus Deny Guerrera.

So we'll be right back after this. That's our show for tonight.

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