Mike Johnson's "Courage" On Ukraine Aid Bill | Rep. Andy Kim

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I truly am and We've got so much to talk about. Tonight, Congress finally passes a bill. Tennessee teachers are getting strapped, and pickleball is coming for your family. So let's get into adlines. Let's begin with a major announcement from the President of the United States.

It's a good day for America. It's a good day for Europe. It's a good day for world peace. A good day for world peace.

I'm one of those I wonder what happened.

Did the nations of the world finally banned together to outlaw war? Did they finally buy everyone in the world a coke?

Is there?

They're finally peace between Kendrick and Drake?

What is it?

Moments ago at the White House, President Biden signed a long.

Awaited aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan into law.

In total, about ninety five billion dollars. We'll go toward assisting Ukraine and Israel's war efforts and money to counter China's aggression in the Indo Pacific.

Oh oh world peace?

Okay, okay, it was peace.

The one with the tanks is that the one I went to public school that wasn't funded because they spent all that money on peace.

I mean, maybe he's being right, yeah, maybe maybe the President is being sarcastic, you know, like it's a good day for wold keise to everybody.

It's by right, yes, yes, yes, but yes.

After months of delay, President Biden today signed a military aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Yes, Taiwan.

Now they're not at war yet, but you got to book a reservation in advance just to save yours spots. And even though even though this bill passed easily, it had been held up for six months because right wing Republicans threatened to kick Speaker Mike Johnson from office.

He helped Ukraine.

But now that he let it go through, everyone's been talking about him like this.

I applaud Speaker Johnson's courage.

What you're witnessing here is moral courage.

A profile encourage is putting the nation above yourself and that's what he did.

Not only put this up for a vote, but he also separated the bills, which I thought was courageous.

Did the right thing, made his own decision, made his.

Own decision, put his job on the line. And that's courage.

Is courage in this case, that's courage.

Courage. The world is courage.

Both filing courage. There's a courage, curl courage.

So courage.

Yeah, okay, thank you. So apparently Mike Johnson is the hero here. Sure, a couple of Ukrainian cities fell while he decided whether or not to be courageous, but he got around to it. I mean, we're always praising the first responders. What about the eventual responders. Huh, the ones who jump in there firetruck and say, hey, let's stop for throw you on the way. Huh, where's their takeer tape parade?

I salute you, my Johnson. I mean now, but six months from now, I woke up the courage to do it. But moving on, because with all this money in Congress is sending overseas, you might be wondering, hey, when does Ronnie gallow taste of this? Now, where's the government gonna do a little something from me.

The Biden administration revealing new airline passenger rights protecting folks from hidden fees and other frustrations of flying, like the refund policy for flight delays.

Passengers must now get automatic cash refunds when a flight is canceled for any reason or delayed by more than three hours for domestic flights more than six hours for international.

Okay, cash refunds, that's something.

Yeah, I mean, I'm always happy airplane delays.

Yeah, that's pretty good. I mean, but but you know, delays is only a small pop of the problem. I mean, what if you know, you know, when airlines make you change airports, all they add connections, and they always just trying to screw over.

If the airline changes any of your airports, adds connections, downgrades your seat, or even changes the plane to one that's less successible.

To those with disabilities, those.

Are all new reasons for cast refunds.

Okay, I'm caustiously optimistic. It's good. I'm got my attention. It is pretty good. In fact, it feels a little too good to be true. But hey, I guess all I have to worry about now is losing my luggage and a shitty WiFi.

If your check bags aren't delivered within as little as twelve hours or your WiFi doesn't work, you're entitled to refunds.

This is the greatest thing the government has ever done in history.

I mean the New Deal, history in history.

Jordan, the man is refunding you for Wi Fi and the sky and it doesn't work. What more could you want?

I mean, you still gotta fix that thing with the doors falling off into that.

But thank you, Joe Biden, thank you for making my life better. And I'll just bring back rov waste so i'd have to sit next to a crying baby on a red eye. Okay, you're gonna chew.

Up for that's provided to a problem that America hasn't solved, gun violence. A lot of people think the answer is reducing the amount of guns, but Tennessee lawmakers are going in the opposite direction.

Chaos erupting in Tennessee state capital, where lawmakers just passed a bill that would allow teachers to carry concealed handguns in schools. If signed by the governor, the Tennessee law would allow teachers to carry guns and schools where top administrators agree the teachers would be required to have a permit, due training, and get a background check and mental health evaluation.

Congratulations, Now your shop teacher is going to have two stories about hey, how he accidentally lost a finger.

Look, I mean, can the students at least vote on which teacher gets the gun, because you know, my gym teacher was all do on a massive power trip and all he had was a whistle.

So for more on the new Tennessee law, we go live to the State House in Nashville with Grace Coolan Schmidt. Grace, Grace, aren't legislators worried that giving teachers guns will just lead to more gun violence?

Oh?

You silly, scarecrow of a man. The lawmakers here are putting teachers through a lot training, permits, background checks, mental health evaluations. You don't want to give teachers guns without making sure they're responsible.

That actually raises a good point, Grace. If they're going to require teachers to go through all that, why don't they require it for every gun owner.

I'm not following, I'm.

I'm just saying if all that training is good for teachers, it's equally good.

For all gun owners. But they aren't all teachers, right, Yes, but they all own guns. Rock and roll. Good for that.

Okay, Hello, let me try again. Let's say you walk into my classroom.

Hello, mister slender man.

Okay, fine, Now you see I have a gun.

How do you feel?

I'm glad because I know that you received firearms training.

Okay.

Now, instead, you walk into my bar and you see I have a gun.

Now, how do you feel you're my teacher?

Why do you own a bar?

I guess I'll have a beer. I'm only in eighth grade.

No, I know I did not make you.

I didn't make you in eighth grade. And that's not what I said, Jordan.

Analogies are stupid. Okay, let me let me try. Great. So, you know how everybody needs a license to drive a car? No, you don't.

Who's checking the.

Government?

They're all in DC.

I'm a peak. Okay, yes, she's not getting it.

Hold on, let me try to do one.

Okay.

You know how on Love.

Is Blind there's two different people and they talk to each other without seeing each other, but then eventually the walls come down and they see if they're still in love?

Uh yeah, yeah maybe. Okay, that's a great show.

What is the analogy?

Oh that's what you guys?

Were doing.

I thought we were just making up situations.

Grace.

We're saying if teachers need training to have a gun, then it's only fair if the entire population has training to have a gun.

You're right, it doesn't make sense that some people should get training while other people don't get training. Let's make it fair and remove the training for everyone.

Oh my god, we were so close, so close, we were we were, Yes, Grace Coolichman, everybody.

We come back.

Michael Costa takes on its great at enemy you don't want to offer. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Now that spring is here, people are back outside having fun again, whether it's sneezing in the park, or sneezing in a cafe, or dodging angry stares from a mother who's child you sneezed on at the playgrounds.

But there's one activity that Michael Costa wants you to stop enjoying. Hi.

I'm Michael Costa Daily Show correspondent, an intrepid journalist.

But this story is not about me.

It's about him.

Michael Costa, former professional tennis player once ranked eight one hundred and sixty four.

In the world.

Because right now, there's a serious threat to tennis enthusiasts like him, slash me.

I'm talking about pickleball.

And it needs to be.

Stopped now the battleover court space between tennis and pickleball players can both.

Use the tennis courts and both are fighting for space.

Pickball is the fastest crewing sports. Sorry for.

To discuss the monstrosity these picklers are imposing on my beloved sport. I sat down with legendary professional tennis champ McEnroe.

You cannot be serious.

No, No, not that one. The other one his brother Patrick, also a former tennis champion and current sports commentator.

From one pro to another, tell me what yearbook pro. We've crossed paths many times. I've said, hike to you at the tournaments and stuff.

Were you were you like a ball boy or something?

Or I was ranked eight hundred and sixty four in the world.

We don't be ranked that high. I made eleven thousand dollars over four years. On we go, Let's talk about pickleball. What is this craze? I can't believe he didn't know who I was.

Well, the thing that annoys me about it, Michael, is that the pickleball courts are taking over thirty five percent or so of the tennis courts here in the US and in Canada. Hey, get off, aren't tennis turf?

Let's just discuss the differences. And here's a can of tennis balls. Is there anything better than this?

Ready to listen to this?

I'm here, Yeah, I love the smell.

Give me that.

Oh my give god. It's like a fine wine.

And now let's just contrast that with this.

Oh my god, what the hell is that?

This looks like an old guy's ball sack.

You can't compare it to It's loud, it's obnoxious. Tennis is elegant, it's classy. Well, there's this sweet Look at this tennis it's just look at that. Isn't that a beautiful thing you want? And then pick a ball?

It's like a car crash. What's the solution for the turf wars?

And the great Martina Navtolovo said, build your own pickleball courts? And the truth is pickleball get out of my yard.

The one person who needs to take that note is this guy. He may look like a yodler on a bike, but don't be fooled. Every morning he electronically pedals little pickaball bike to set up his little pickaball nets on our turf, and he's known as Albert the pickleball Doctor.

Why do you think that pickleball deserves that overtake a tennis court?

I think you guys have too many tennis courts.

You can get two pickable course and a tennis court.

So is your answer then to eliminate tennis courts for pickleball?

That's a good idea.

You are unhinged and worse than pickleball is their terminology. I'm hearing kitchen dink adyl flawful.

I mean, is it a sport or is it a food truck? So I say, look, a universal game. It might be more universal than tennis.

Tennis doesn't have stupid made up words. Yeah, deuce when you're tied and zero is love and we score by forties and fifteens.

But that stuff makes sense.

Won't you just try it?

You want me to try pick a ball? You know what that means to be eight hundred and sixty four in the world in tennis, it means I'm the number one pick a ball player right now.

Why don't we do a little head to head.

How about that?

I'm gonna whip your butt.

I'll see your geriatric ass in the kitchen. Okay, but dink time baby.

All right, welcome to what is sure to be a waste of everyone's time. But here we are. I'm Patrick mcner, reported live through the losing of bet to cover a most unanticipated game of pickleball.

On one side, we have.

The handsome and the one and a half time employee of the month at the Daily Show, Michael Costa. Okay, clearly he wrote this, Costa will be playing against Albert doctor of pickleball.

And what's this?

He's got a twin? Will Costa go for the obvious doubles joke?

So I guess doubles is literally doubles.

There is my twin, brother Gil. You know what, I got my own sacred weapon. Ronnie, Ronnie Ronnie. Why let's go, dude, we're the pickles. We're playing pickleball. You said to be food.

And for his doubles partner, Costa has Ronnie Chang, who seems to have been tricked into being here.

That makes two of us? Is it two of the same people? That was a surprise for me too.

So here we go, Costa and Chang versus the pickle twins. And Costa blows it.

Dah, let's go. We can't lose to the double of the twins. Let's get over the net yet a word?

Dah, take back, grass hop up.

Oh.

Never before the history of commentating have I heard more vicious words spoken on a court.

These guys take it.

Oh my god, this changes everything.

I've never had siachrameow in a sandwich before.

What's the score?

I wasn't even watching take that.

Yeah, I hope we've got a feeding June. I was shoving ship down your throw all day. That's what I'm talking about, right here, right here.

Finally they're coming together as a team.

Michael, I think you're having fun here? No, yes, yes, I'm not having fun.

Three two Nobody, I mean nobody saw this coming because nobody's even watching.

Yes, that's illegal. You disqualify, not disqualified.

Shut up, get out of here, Grasshoppa.

Let's go, but they just qualified its let's go. Uh, let's go now. It's like I'll meet up with you later. Hey, you guys want keep going?

Yeah, there are no winners in this game tonight. In fact, I think it's safe to say after watching this game, we all feel like losers. This is Patrick McKinnon reporting Homwark Srwin. This is rock body of my career.

Thank you, Michael Cossa. When we come back, Representative Andy Kim be joining us from the show, so don't the way.

Welcome back to the Daily Show.

Our guest tonight is the third term congressman from New Jersey who's.

Running for US Senate.

Please welcome Representative Andy Kim.

Thank you. It's nice to Asian representative. Thank you, and Kim House representatives you're currently running to replace. Are you writing for Senate? That's right, to replace the previous guy in New Jersey who got caught with gold Boss in his house? That's right, right, So yeah, I guess.

That's a big no no in politics, right.

What do you have against gold Boss?

Yeah, apparently I'm anti gold bars.

Anti Federal Reserve guys, your platform.

Okay, this is getting a heated into interviewing right out of the gate here.

But what you're right for Senate?

Yeah, Look, I mean it's not something I planned to do. You know, I'm a three term member of the House of Representatives. I got a six year old, eight year old, two little boys at home, so I would not you know, planning to take on a statewide election. But look, I mean, right now, I mean, I'm sure that the audience feels too.

Well they were kind of validated?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you're so you're wondering what's wrong with the other sixteen percent?

Right, Yeah, They're just not that educated.

Now, look, I mean we have to I believe that the opposite of democracies is apathy. It's if people give up on this, it feel like they're elected officials are not in it for the right reasons. So I just I feel like at this critical moment, we have to restore a sense of integrity back into our politics and try to do our best to give the people New Jersey a choice.

Sure, and yeah, yeah, I mean you you're running in a district. If I'm not wrong, voted for Donald Trump twice.

Well my congressional district.

Yeah.

In twenty eighteen, I was part of the class of twenty eighteen that flipped the House of Representatives tried, you know, take that away from Donald Trump. And I won a district that Trump one, And in twenty twenty, I was one of only seven Democrats in the entire country that want a district Trump one.

So yeah, and you're like, so it's you want in a district at Trump one and your I'm assuming a minority in that district both in race.

And yeah, my district is eighty five percent white, less than three percent Asian. When I was first elected, there were zero Korean Americans in Congress, and I had a lot of people tell me there's no way that Asian American can win a district the vast, vast majority of how.

Did you win it? No, seriously, did you win because you want it? Then?

Well, look what I'll say is no, no offense. Yeah, I mean no. Look, I think what I learned is that, like, I'm not going to let other people determine what I am or am not capable of accomplishing simply because of the color of my skin. In my last name, you know, this was.

This was.

This is the district where I you know, I grew up. I did my entire kindergarten through twelve in the public school systems of my congressional district. I'm raising, you know, two little boys in that school system. Like I have every bit as much right to represent that district as anybody else, and I have every bit as much right to represent my state as anybody else.

I will say that is that.

Is both inspiring to hear and a little gross.

That's a lot of time in New Jersey. I just I guess it says wow, that you're really New Jersey. Yeah, God, bless well.

I think you talk about this feeling in America right now we feel very divided. Yeah, but in the House, you guys just had you just passed this bipartisan bill funding for Ukraine, Taiwan. We had the TikTok bill in there as well. Mike Johnson seemed to want across the aisle and work.

With you guys. What is this?

Is this the beginning of some sort of bipartisan coalition or is this a one time spring fling.

Now, look, I think what he realized is he has no other choice. He can either be a speaker that gets zero things done for the entire time that he has speak. Everything that he's done, whether it's passing our government's funding or anything else, it's required us on the Democrats side to be there with it. I'm basically, you know, he and Hkem Jeffries are co Speakers of the House

You know.

It's just like, well, speaking of that, I mean you are on the ground there, you know you presumably you talk with these people every day, if not all the time, you know. So I guess my question is like, how is it different to what we're seeing on TV you'll vibe on the ground in Congress. Is it as divisive as what we think it looks like on Instagram? Or is it when you guys are in the same room, is it more like, hey, you know finger guns tell us, Yeah.

How did you know that's it's like no, I mean, look, it's it's very frustrated. I'm not gonna you know, and I say that as someone who's never thought that i'd be in politics. I don't enjoy that aspect of it so much. But I mean, look, you know one of my one of my colleagues, I guess I call him that, Matt Gates, for instance. You know, he has his line where he says, you know, if you're not making news, you're not governing. And I just think that is so

That being said, just alder kid.

Picked every single one of them to come in from Jersey.

You never chase attention. But we do appreciate you coming on our television show.

It's not about life, no, no, this is I'm a humble many central appreciation.

I am curious.

Democratic Party is an interesting place right now. And I think this last bill that just got passed had funding for Israel with very few conditions put upon it. The more progressive wing of the Democratic Party wants there to be more conditions with Israel funding.

How do you balance that? Right now? It seems as if the.

Progressive side of the Democratic wing is wants more from a Democratic Party that's not willing to give it.

Yeah, No, Look, I mean I think what we need is to be able to move forward and have as much leverage as possible. What we see is that, you know, Netan Yahoo is taking a path forward that I think is very dangerous, you know, dangerous for Israel, dangerous for our world, and we need to make sure that we're stepping up to be able to have as much strength as possible, to be able to end this violence as soon as possible. And I'll be honest with you, a lot of Democrats feel that same way. A lot of

I'll say, also, some of your colleagues made news talking about in regards to this Ukraine funding bill, that they're seeing Russian propaganda being echoed and talked about on the House floor. Are you seeing colleagues, colleagues echo this Russian propaganda in terms of whether or not we should be funding Ukraine?

Absolutely, I mean, you know, it's it's scary. It's scary to see how you know, what we're seeing right now is basically a new movement of neo isolationism, you know, something that's really about weakening America's position in the world and just turning not even just turning a blind eye to Vladimir Putin, but actually enabling him. And you know, when I think about leaders in other countries, when they talk to me about what's happening, first they ask, you know,

Right and what you know, just on that note, like to solve a lot of problems that you know are facing the point to me point like I can't help with that Asian dog, you know, making it happen. But

When I came into Congress, a lot of people ask me, like do they really believe what they say? And when I first came in, I kind of came up with category three categories. You know, there are sort of the traditional conservatives, of which there are very few of them left. There are the crazies and you can you know, mad libs, fill in the blank, whatever name you want. And then they're the cowards, you know, the people who know better, but just you know, for their own purposes of staying

You know.

So we have to try to find a way to be able to stop it. But part of their plan is to try to make government so toxic, politics so toxic that reasonable decent you know, people don't want to participate, and that just leaves it for them.

All right, Well, good laugh, Thank you, PREMI your time, and as far as from what I'm hearing from you, I just think that we just need more Asian people to be running into everything representative and you Kim everybody, we'll go tell you a quick break, but we'll be right back.

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