Michael Kosta Tackles the Israel-Hamas War | Ian Bremmer

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Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We are back on the air. Holy shit, it's been five months.

Man.

I love my family, but not for five months. This is my first night, and I'm very excited to be here. I've always wanted to host a late night show. I was hoping that it would be on a major network, but I'll take whatever channel this has gone. Now, we have a great show for you tonight. So let's get into the headlines. Obviously, there's one big story in the world right now that we have to cover, the Taylor Swift movie, and we'll get.

To that later.

But first I want to talk about something that stirs up almost as much passion.

The Middle East.

That's right, it's my big week as guest host, and I get Israel Palestine. I don't mean to complain, but as far as scheduling goes, this unspeakably tragic geopolitical crisis is not super convenient time for me right now, because no matter what I come up with, people are just going to say, this guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, and you're right. That's pretty much the only opinion everyone can agree on. Michael Costa is an idiot. What do I know about the Middle East. I'm from

And that sounds harsh, but.

At least I'm aware of it because I read a lot of your posts online and sometimes it's better not to pretend you know what you're talking about. I have friends on Facebook who have the whole Middle East figured out, when I know for a fact they can't even get car insurance.

Hey, Joe, interesting points. Don't you have three? Do you eyes? Maybe you should focus on you thankfully.

This is why later tonight I will bring on an actual expert, political scientist, Ian Bremer, will be here to help us make sense of that. But here's what I'll say for now, there's a cycle of violence here that feels like it's never ending. It's been going on my whole life, and apparently even longer than that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wishes that this cycle would end. And everyone has an opinion for who's responsible for it. It's Israel, it's Palestine, it's Netan, Yahoo, it's Hamas.

Everyone's taking a side.

But everyone is wrong because I spent the weekend reading two lengthy Wikipedia articles and I think it's pretty clear who we can blame for all of this mess.

The British.

Okay, wrong, you Britain and you're nursing home King. They're the ones who barred into the Middle East one hundred years ago and drew the borders.

That caused all this mess. And they did it all around the world.

By the way, like, how much of modern civilization is just undoing all of Britain's bad decisions. You want to know how bad They picked up maps they made Ireland to Ireland's it's an island. It didn't need borders. But the British were like, hey, gal, so maybe that's the best way we can find peace Israel and Palestine. It's time to put your grievances aside and joined together to invade Britain.

Now, who's an idiot?

Now?

All right?

Speaking of problems that won't go away, Donald Trump, as you all know, the former president is facing six thousand indictments, and he's.

Been complaining a lot about it.

But today a judge told him that, legally speaking, he needs to cram a sock in it.

The federal judge just imposed a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump, restricting what he can say about his federal election subversion case. He's now legally bored from attacking Special Council Jacksmith or his team, or assailing potential witnesses.

That's right, Donald Trump has a gag order. I guarantee he doesn't even know what that is. He probably thinks it means he can't deep throw to make rib anymore. But but good luck, good luck getting Donald Trump to stop talking. The guy is probably still spilling national secrets just out on the golf course, Like should I go with a four iron or a five iron? That reminds me four and five? First two numbers in the nuclear codes?

Let's me bought us a business news write aid.

The only pharmacy chain that hasn't refused to print my pictures, announced that it's filing for bankruptcy. Just when I was about to buy that one DVD player that's been sitting behind the register since two thousand and three.

Seriously, this news is shocking to me.

Are you telling me it's a bad business model to have one employee for every six stores. I mean, maybe they'd have more profit if their deodorant wasn't locked up in a maximum security prison. Of course, these guys are gonna go out of business. I mean, just look at their logo. They were mashing their medicines the old fashioned way. That's how I make guacamole. It's tragic, though, because as a part of this move, they sadly had to lay

Tailor Nation takeover at the weekend box office is Taylor Swift crushes the competition.

Audiences bringing that swifty spirit inside, dancing and singing in their seats, just like Taylor did at the premiere.

Okay, white people, we can't talk about black audiences being rowdy in movie theaters ever.

Again, that's all over, But.

It truly was the scene this weekend in movie theaters all around the country. So we sent our own Desi Leideck out there to capture the mood.

Check it out.

Ah, this cinema where researchers just recently discovered people will actually go watch stuff about women.

Who knew All right, are you actual huge swifties or are you just here celebrating women dominating the economy?

Or he exist we saw her in Met Life, Yeah, we're seeing her in Amsterdam.

Yes, we're seeing her in New Orleans.

This could actually make Taylor a billionaire.

And I know people get billionaires a hard time, but isn't it kind of cool when it's a girl.

I would say that it's better.

Yeah, but not great, Okay.

Because Kylie Jenner is a billionaire and it's it's still not that old, Okay, follow up question, why don't you support women?

We still support women's rights and wrongs.

When a woman does something right, it's like yay, like woman, and then.

When she does something wrong, it's a little more okay because she's a woman. Yeah.

So I built an entire brand on this. You don't have to explain it to me. Tell me about your friendship bracelets. I have all the eras, and what's your favorite one?

If you had to pick one, my favorite one had to be we have to be Hourshong.

My favorite era is my current era, which is tired and always loaded.

Do you want to switch?

No?

Do you still listen to the Scudo grand versions? Okay, she do? Sometimes they listened to the scooter braun version. They still listen to it. There's a lot of debate over whether to be standing or sitting, quiet or screaming. Will you be screaming?

I think I want like the full Rocky horror picture show experience, yet like the calls and responses.

You never get to scream in public, and now you.

Get to, well, you've never seen me in an orange Julius A safe space for women to gather and let loose. Sick dozen involve stationary bikes.

I'm in.

Sold out, totally sold out, it would have thought. So, how did you like the movie? No spoilers, but like, did she finish the concert?

Yes?

Which song did you use for a bathroom break? Be honest, we accidentally missed Andy Hero since you just have to learn to hold it in until you get a kidney infection. Oh my gosh. With everyone singing in there or totally silent.

I feel like I was kind of singing under my.

Breath less singing and more muttering and enchantment.

Yeah, like a prayer like in church.

Do you think Taylor should be taxic?

She's already altering local economies everywhere. The fans were crazy. Everybody was singing, everybody was standing.

The sound and the cinema.

It's amazing.

Although everyone was screaming, I could hear everywhere. I mean, this is truly a once in a lifetime experience.

Yeah, but I'm coming back tomorrow.

Oh, thanks to Marrow.

Okay, thank you.

Dousing everything a click great when we come back.

Jordan Klepper's a Trump rally. You don't want to miss it.

Welcome back to the Daily Show. Donald Trump is back out on the campaign.

Trail, which means Jordan Clepper is out on the trail with him for another installment of Fingers the Pulse.

The Daily Show is back on the air, and so I'm back in the field. Just last week I went to the shores of Beautiful Lake within a pazaki and hit up my first Trump rally in a while. The ex President has been busy campaigning and juggling certain legal commitments. Well, I've also been incredibly productive during these last few months. I've started four scripts, you know, a little bit of

Trump Smart, that's just started your boilerplate. You don't have to think through it. You've just given him that credit ability.

And it didn't take long to spot the new piece of must have Maga merch.

The mugshot never surrendered to the tyrony. What is Trump doing here on the shirt? This is his mugshaw? Gotcha?

So that was taken when he surrendered to authorities to have his picture taken.

Huh, this son's never surrendered.

Fick. Is that on the bat? Is the buttet let the back?

But Trump?

It's just Trump? So where's the where's the butt? Part? Is that? That's implied? Nick? Take me through your fit.

Well, I bought the socks in town.

These socks have Trump hair on it, Yes, sir.

How much did you pay for the sweatshirt? Forty dollars?

How much you pay for the hat twenty five? I think I get a hat at least once a month.

How many Trump hats do you have? Probably forty ors sold. How do you feel America's doing under Biden? Pick it not good?

I think you know, inflation and the gas price, everything is going up. Milk and eggs are just through the roof, like buying regular food is you know?

So you got to work for jobs, pay your rent.

Yeah, how much money have you spent on Trump's.

Well, a couple of thousand dollars.

Oh that's a lot. But people have had a hard time paying for the necessities right as the Donald rolled in, I wondered what fresh ideas I had missed on the campaign trail.

It's been out in Iowa talking about When I was there, he was talking about how he changed the name from Crooked Hillary to Crooked Joe Biden.

Oh, so he's focusing on the issues. Yeah. Great.

Sadly the Donalds campaign appearances aren't the only thing on his schedule.

How many of demans we up to now? Georgia, Georgia?

Okay, great, that's New York City, New York City, that's the most.

The bankruptcy and New York is the bankruptcy one. Great. It's hard to keep them straight, right.

There's a lot of them.

There's a lot of it.

There's way too many.

I think they're just trying to throw them in jail. Yeah, to which hunt like what he said in New York?

Is that pre or post the first indictment?

I think that was right when the lady charges?

Wait, lady charges? Is that doorby Daniels lady charge? Or sexual assault? Sexual assault? Sexual assault? Yes? So I'm guilty of right, I think? So?

Are you one hundred percent sure you're voting for Donald Trump in the next election?

Yeah?

Yeah, No matter what happens with these trials, this election still comes down to their guy versus the other guy.

I mean Trump has done more than Biden will ever do.

And that's the other side of it. He shoot me in jail him and his kid for treason.

I mean they've taken money from other countries who were not really in favor.

Of saying that.

The fact that, like you could have a memory of your family get billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia is nuts.

Yeah, right, nothing but a big comrade.

Do you think you think Trump should be punished for all of that money that Ivanka.

And Jared got?

No, Nope, who are you talking about.

I'm talking about Biden with his kid.

Oh not that, Not that Jared and Ivanka money from Saudi Arabia.

No, does that bother you?

No?

Right, And when it comes to which candidate makes a better commander in chief, there's a clear winner.

Trump loves the veterans, Trump all the way. He's got my vote forever.

Trump is called for the execution of General Milly, does that rub you the wrong way as a veteran?

Well, I don't like Milly because he did the Afghanistan thing, Like all these generals are supposed to know what they're doing, and it was a complete disaster.

So you don't trust the generals? No, I don't. What are you must excited to see inside?

I just want to see him speak, see what he has to say about Israel.

I know Joe Biden was doing a barbecue with his people. We set a fleet of naval ships to Israel. Yes you're against that.

I am for that.

Oh that's good. Yeah, that's you get Biden credit for that. That's more of the generals making the calls. There. Can we trust those generals? I don't even know who's in anymore, So I don't.

Ultimately, I wondered would these maga faithful ever care about any of these criminal charges? Probably not Exhibit A. Just ask what their favorite rally was.

I think January sixth is probably my favorite one.

You were there, Oh yeah, that's your number one? What made it in your favorite one? What stood out from January sixth?

Well, aside from all the violence that was planned by the FPI and.

Such, do you think were they proud boys and oathkeepers?

No?

They were Antifa, Black Lives Matter, ISIS and MS thirteen.

Some of January six is perpetrated by isis.

I mean this is NEMEAS thirteen Black Lives Matter ANTIFA ices.

Yeah, can you say maca hey, anyone can put a MAGA hat on.

I mean, come on, guys, I hope you don't set any Antifa because there's a lot of Trump hats. I guess that means aias so good luck? Or what was your first rally?

H January six, twenty twenty DC.

If you're going to go to one, go to one? Do you make it inside? I can't say that for legal reasons. You may or may not been involved in it. He's in this activity. Yeah, well, can't get into that one. Sure, sure, we'll have fun.

Try not to overthrow any duly elected officials.

No, no, we'll be good today. Yeah, I trust him.

Thank you, Jordan. When we come back, Ian Bremmer will be joining on the show Don't Go Away. Welcome back to their show.

My guest to Night is a political scientist and author of the Power of Crisis. He helps business leaders, policymakers, and people like me make sense of the world. Please welcome Ian Bremer. All right, so thanks for coming. You help people like me make sense of the world. How can you help me make sense of what's happening right now? Why did Hamas attack right now? And how can we make sense of this?

So you know that story of the frog in the boiling pot, Yes, and you turn it up a little bit hotter, and the frog doesn't move, doesn't jump out. Just yes. Whoever came up with that story has never been a gaza. Okay, okay. I mean what has happened over the past years is that Israel has gotten itself in a much stronger position. They're creating diplomatic deals with other countries around the region that want to work with them on investment and trade and tourism and even national security.

So, I mean, the.

Fact is that you've got an impossible situation, especially in Gaza, with over two million Palestinians who are living in atrocious conditions, and everyone has forgotten about them. And that, by the way, includes here in the United States. So was it going to happen, you know, this last two weeks or was it going to happen another month or three months? You weren't going to keep this stable. The lesson we've learned is it turns out you can't actually forget about the Palestinians.

When you say when you're talking about Gaza. You know, man social media right now, right, I don't. I'm scrolling it's the you know, I hear it's an open air prison. Is that a safe description of how it's controlled by Israel?

What's it like?

It's also how it's controlled by Hamas. I mean, you've got two point three million people and they're in a territory that is about twice as big as Washington, DC, fifty percent hungry, ninety percent without access to clean water, and that was before the bombing. It was before the last two weeks. Now Israel has said we want everyone in the north to evacuate because we're going to go and attack Hamas. We're going to destroy them, to remove them.

That's inconceivable when they offer the directive of evacuation. You said one point one million Palestinians in the northern Angaza, I mean where do they go?

Where do they go?

Is anyone else accepting them?

I mean, as of right now, no one else is accepting them. The Egyptians are the one country that actually has a border. That border is still as of now shut. So those homeless, those displaced, the over one million Palestinians have been displaced in the last ten days. They're not going anywhere except to the south where the infrastructure isn't there right now, no food yet getting in water has been turned on, but the power to make that occur is really spotty, and a lot of it's been blown up.

Let's try to turn maybe to something potentially positive. You have a lot of young Palestinians who didn't vote for is hamas voted. Was it a true election that they were voted into power as long time ago? So you have so many young Palestinians who maybe didn't vote for this. You have so many young Israelis who prior to all this were massively protesting their own government over the potential

Did you say you were looking for good news in this story? Yes? Okay, so I can give you some good news, but that is in the end. Okay, now that you're the guests, Well, I'm just asking the host we are seeing right now for Israel, not Yaho is being blamed for this because he was Israel supposed to have the gold standard border scirity. Isn't like US Mexico, right yeah, this is mister security, right yeah, And so he failed and that's on him, and the Israelis blame him.

What can an American who is I'm trying to be a global citizen. I'm trying. I can't plead ignorance anymore to this part of the world. It was convenient for me.

For a while.

What can I do? What can anybody do.

I mean, what other than just hear these sad stories are like something on Instagram?

Is there any action? How can I educate myself further?

Let's say, spend less time on social media. Okay, it's dehumanizing, it's disinformation, it's actively destroying our democracy and others around the world. It is making algorithmically, it's taking people and it's making them angrier and more hateful than anything they

You need to do.

Really simple question, not to be insensitive, but for so many Americans that see this as something so far away, why should they care about what's happening?

Because in principle, we the United States, stand for something beyond just ourselves. I mean, maybe America first doesn't quite say that, but the Statue of liberty. Does we all came from somewhere, right? I mean, the Jews and the Palestinians are the same people. They came from the same place, They've grown up in the same home. And we as Americans who have historically represented that ethos better than anyone

Is it a cop out if I say I'm just anti suffering?

Yeah, it's a cop out because I see that one, and I can kind of like that one. Everyone's paralyzed by this discussion. They're afraid to talk about this. Maybe you can see some of my paralyzation in my face right now. But why is that a cop out?

Well?

I don't think it's a cop out for a former tennis pro right.

I mean, I think if.

Justin Bieber said that, I'd be happy with that. I mean, that's a low ball. But for you and I having this conversation, no, it can't just be about I'm anti suffering, because there are responsibilities. We have dropped the ball on this part of the world. You remember the pivot to Asia, just like we don't need to worry about the Middle East. Then the Russians have made Ukraine. Okay, we'll focus on Europe a little bit. The Middle East is unfinished. Business

Thank you very much for talking with the appreciative watch Ian.

Bremmer on J zero World.

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