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great show for you tonight. The Democrats are going back to black Boston is hosting another tea party, and Elon Musk is gonna be living rent free in all our heads. So let's do these people. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. All right, people, I'm gonna be honest with all the news that happened today. I don't think we have enough space in today's show. We just don't have the time. I even tried to squeeze it all into a corset,

but it's just made the news look sexy. And I've got a roll on bridgets in so there's still not enough time. But fortunately not enough time. It's just enough time for a segment week hall. Anybody got time for that? All right, let's kick things off. With the Democratic Party easily one of the top two parties in the United States. As you know, Democrats lost control of the House in last month's midterm elections, and as they get ready to be in the minority, they're making some big changes at

the top. Democrats in the House have made history with their new leadership. Congressman Kim Jeffries of Brooklyn has become the first black leader of either party in Congress. He will take over from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was you know it was, remaining in the House after stepping down from the top job. Jeffries is fifty two, thirty years younger than the outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A leader with the style all his own and a pension for weaving in the legacy of hip hop. That is why we

are here, Mr second Loan. And if you don't know, now, you know, I'm glad no one else in the room finished that lyric. And I don't know, as much as I enjoy it, I think it feels kind of weird to quote Biggie in such a serious and boring place like Congress. Like I love I love hip hop. I love hip hop, but I don't want to hear it everywhere, you know, Yeah, like I don't want my doctor shoehorning that ship in So, Mr Noah, what are your symptoms? Palm, sweaty,

kne's weak, arms are heavy. Please take this very seriously. I'm very ill. But that's right off the two nd. In fifty years, America finally has a minority minority leader, which is amazing. Although you will notice the Democrats only gave it to a black guy after they lost the house. Yeah, it's kind of like someone crashing their car and then being like, hey, keem, I know you've always wanted a BMW. You don't need to say thank you. Also, the cops want to talk to you by but no, you still

you still have to give credit to the Democrats. Right, Republicans haven't done this yet. I mean they still think minority Leader was the original title of black Panther. And this isn't just a big deal because Jeffries is black. Remember that this also marks a shift for the Democrats to a much younger generation of leaders. Although again, and we also don't really know, you know, because Kim Jeffreys

is black, so he could be like ninety. We don't actually know how old ears because you realize, even at fifty two, for a party leader in America, he's actually a young man. I mean, think about it this week. Joe Biden was in Congress when Hakim was literally in diapers, and now that Hakim is in Congress, Joe Biden is

the one in diapers. The circle of life. Now, if we had more time, we could talk about how the House Democrats are just a sideshow for the next two years, because the main events is whether Kevin McCarthy will be able to wrangle his clown cough crazy to get anything done. But we don't have the time to talk about that because while Kim Jeffreys is plotting to take over the House,

Elon Musk is plotting to take over our brains. Elon must said on Wednesday, a wireless device developed by his brainship company, neural Link, is expected to begin human clinical trials in six months. The company is developing brainship interfaces that it says could enable disabled patients to move and communicate. Again, We've been working hard to I be ready for our

first human. Essentially that it's sort of like having an Apple Watch or a fitbit, uh replacing a piece of skull with like a you know, a smart watch you have in your link device, like I could have in your link device, uh implanted right now, and you wouldn't You wouldn't even know. I mean, yeah, yeah, Ellen. If if you told us you were a part robot, all of us would be totally surprised. We would would be like,

I never saw that coming. Look, I will admit the idea of this technology sounds amazing, but in reality, the idea of an Apple Watch or a fitbit in my brain gives me a little pause because if have you ever used an Apple Watch or a fitbit? When it messes up on my roost, I'm just like, ah, when it messes up in my brain, then what all of a sudden, I'm on Alex Jones praising Hitler for inventing the microphone. Is that what's gonna happen? Just like ah?

And secondly, if I'm going to get a chip in my head, I don't know if I want Elon Musk to be in charge of it. You know, like a year ago, I would have been like the Tesla guy maybe maybe, But now I'm like the Twitter guy. I'll pay him eight dollars to stairway. Now, if we had more time, we could talk about how Elon previously promised that his brainship would be ready for human trials three years ago, or how he promised that Tesla's would be self driving by or how he built a high speed

underground training by or how he'd land on Mars by two. Basically, this dude to a guy in the strip club making it rain with io us. But we don't have time to talk about the techno king because some real royals have just rocked up to America's shows. It was a royal welcome for the Prince and Princess of Wales Wednesday, on their first US visit in eight years, here to present the earth Shot Prize, which honors environmentalists. They kicked off the trip by helping turn Boston City Hall green.

Catherine and I are absolutely delighted to be with you today for our first engagement in a great city of Boston. The couple also took in an NBA game courtside, watching the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat. And then they hold this big star centered event on Friday night where they're going to hand out five prize is worth more than a million dollars each too folks who are trying to tackle the climate crisis. Okay, First of all, Prince William is clearly a liar, a right. No one has

ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? Oh I love chap lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans. How peachy you've been in December? And you might be saying, no, Trevor, they having a good time. They even have court sight seats. You think these people are impressed by court side seats. The man's regular seat is a throne. This man has never set on a folding chair in his life. He's probably like, look at this thing. This chair has a

mouth or something. Kates. Now, if we had the time, we could talk more about how great it is that Prince William and Kates are awarding money to people who are trying to solve climate change, or how shitty it is that they ignored my idea to plug in a bunch of air conditions neither glaciers would have worked. But we just don't have the time for that, because while these royals are having fun in America, the royals back home in the UK are not having a good time

at all Overshadowing the trip controversy. Back at bucking and Palate, the Prince's godmother, Lady Susan Hussy, resigning amid accusations of racism in Gosie Flani, the founder of a women's nonprofit and a black woman born in the UK, says Tuesday at the Palace, Hussey repeatedly asked where she was really from, implying she wasn't really British, and Gosie Floni tweeting the exchange, which reads in parts, what nationality are you? I am born here and I'm British? No, but where do you

really come from? Where do your people come from? Hussy also asking quote what parts of Africa are you from? After and goes he said she was from London tonight and I witnessed describing her shot at the exchange. If it goes he as a white woman, that line of questioning wouldn't have taken place. People, How many times do we have to go through this? There is only one socially acceptable way to find out someone's heritage. You swabbed their DNA while they're asleep. Okay, it's the polite thing

to do. This is like The first thing they teach you in avoidable racism one O one it is just never say the word from. That's it. A lot of racism includes the word from, so just avoid it all together. Where are you really from? Go back to where you came from? You see this clip from Tucker Carlson from just stay away from it? And I also love how this woman was given a chance to control our delete racism right, but instead she just copy pasted and carried

on where are you from? I'm born here and I'm British. No, no, no, you don't understand I'm being racist? How black are you? Show me on this map of Africa I brought with me, let me put it in once you understand Gang Ganga, gang Cook, Pottles stalling from the sky. Now, if we had more time, we can talk about how having a

racist godmother probably made Prince William even more popular in Boston. Oh, we can talk about how every scandal in the British monarchy is technically a spoiler for a future season of the Crown. But we just don't have time for that because I know where our shows money comes from, which is why we need to go to a commercial break. We'll be right back, walking back to the Daily Show.

After two years of votes, of fraud, accusations, and capital riots, it is no surprise that Americans have become less confidence in the elections. But, as Desilic discovers in her new series, America's election infrastructure maybe in even worse shape than you think. Hello again, I'm desiltic. When I first started this series on our election infrastructure, I was just hoping to boost my brand enough to ditch this job and get on

sixty Minutes. But over the last two installments, I've learned that our country is on the terrifying brink of election catastrophe. And that's sixty Minutes is looking for more of a Hoda copy type. I mean, what the hell I can go, Brennette. If that's what it takes, I don't mind anyway. Here's our final look at vote Demico are crumbling election infrastructure? Who cares? Just roll it? Well, America, we did it,

election accomplished. Despite a miroaud of election problems, including a paper shortage and a lack of poll workers, we successfully pull off an election thanks to my reporting. So I'm back with Tammy a Democracy Fund Tammy. Great times over. We gotta talk to debrief and collect my well earned thank you thanks to your work and also my reporting. Things are great, right, it did go mostly really well. Um, we had a couple of hiccups around the country, but

in general it did go fairly well. So we should take a moment and celebrate that. Tammy, I would love to bask with you. Let's bask. God, it feels good to bask. It's great to bask in the glory of competence and a well executed election. But we do still have challenges moving forward. Damn it, dammy. Since the election, election officials have been under attack. We know from a recent survey that one informable election officials in this country

have experienced threats of harassment and abuse. So they're going to be leaving the field unfortunately in large numbers. How many people are getting harassed? Are we talking like a handful or like a ship time? Unfortunately, I think it's closer to the ship tone. You heard Tammy's filthy mouth a ship time. And these threats from disgruntled election deniers ranged from local officials to secretaries of state, and Arizona elections official was moved to an undisclosed location because of

threats to his life. In Milwaukee, Elections executive director Claire wood All Vogue has been bombarded by hate. In Georgia, Secretary of State Bratt Raffinsburger his wife has gotten a barrage of threatening text messages. If you had to put your finger on it, what or who is responsible for this?

Starting in the two thousand and sixteen election, we had prominent candidates for the presidential office Trump who were running saying that the elections were rigged, that there was rampant fraud, that in fact it was illegitimate Donald and that carried into as well from Tom Trump. So that has created an environment that has provided both incentive as well as

support for people to target election officials. Okay, so Trump, But one of the things you might want to think about is in fact talking to somebody who was a local election official in right. Yeah, and someone should go do that. I couldn't agree more. Someone should definitely go talk to an election official. He did this twice before I did again after being bullied by Tammy to meet

with the harassed election official. I'm at City Hall in Philadelphia to speak with Al Schmidt, former Philadelphia City commissioner and Trump's biggest target during the election. In Philadelphia, the city commissioners are responsible for running anything election related, from voter registration to mail in ballots, to election day operations to the final tabulation and certification of the election result. I mean, election administrators are really referees in all of this.

Is it hard to be a referee in Philadelphia? Given Eagles fans? It certainly can be challenging, But we have the best fans in the country. Can you give some examples of the type of harassment that you received. Well, the threats were pretty general in nature leading up to election day, But in the days that followed, especially after the former president targeted me by name on Twitter, that's when the threats became much more specific and much more graphic.

And we're largely targeting my family. I'm sorry, that must have been terrifying. I fortunately had the Philadelphia Police Department looking after my family sort of night and day, so walking the dog, going to the grocery store. You know, when I took the kids sledding, the Philadelphia Police Department was right there alongside of us. Yeah, yeah, totally get it. I'm in the same boat. The police follow my family and I around at all times for different reasons. Is

their accountability for people who who asked election workers. I think there's really two types of accountability that are needed. One is for people who are making threats of violence and clearly breaking the law trying to coerce the people responsible for accounting voters votes. And also a different sort of accountability for elected officials who are spreading these lies that I would hope that voters hold them accountable. Harassers aside,

how do you make amends with election deniers? You know, water under the bridge? Excuse me, would under the bridge. I've really gone out of my way to make sure that I don't go to political meetings and answer questions that people have. And the most reason when I went to uh, there's an older gentleman in the back who leaned back and said, forget about the facts for a moment.

Biden lost Like that makes it a real challenge to convince someone when their belief system is completely independent of facts. And as an election official, you could take away that is vote right. I want him to vote, and I want him to vote in every election. Do you really do? Do you really do? Do you? Though? Most certainly every election? Damn? This guy was good, but with all the harassment civil servants like him are facing, I was beginning to worry that there was no way I could end this story

on a positive note. I think it's a very encouraging sign that we had more people step up to volunteer to work on election day in the mid terms than ever before. Great. Great, So it's fixed. I did it. I mean we did it. So there you have in America despite the problems we faced during thanks to al and election workers across the country, there's still hope that won't be a complete ship show because I can't do

another one of these. I can't thank you so much about because when we come back, the first black Governor of Maryland Westmore will be joining me right here on the show. So don't go away. Welcome back to the Data Show. My guest tonight is a combat veteran, best selling author, and former head of the anti poverty organization Robin Hood. He will soon be sworn in as the first black governor of the state of Maryland. Please welcome

Governor Elect Westmore. Ko than um, thank you, Governor Elect Westmore. Are you using that yet? I mean it's only gonna be a f a short amount of time. And then they'll be governor. Western War hasn't sunk in because you ran a campaign in a place where nobody expected a Democrat to be able to win the seats of governor. And yet here you are and you've done it. What does it feel like, Let's start with them. You know, Um,

it feels great because you're right. I mean, when we first started this race, we started a one percent uh you know, I say that I'm not voting was pulling higher than where I was pulling at it like people were not at first. And um, but I think what we did was we continue to show people we're gonna meet people where they were. We're gonna go to every part of the state, talk to every part of the state.

And that also meant even places where there weren't a lot of Democrats, and people would literally say to me, They're like, you're coming to a lot of places not a lot of Democrats, And I'm like, yeah, but there's a lot of Marylanders and I plan on being their governor too. And I think the people show that that mattered. When you're able, when you're willing to put in the work and earn it, then the people respond. That is

something that many people spoke about in your campaign. They it was very apparent, very early on that that you ran a different race to what many establishment politicians run. You you didn't pander to a base. You know, you spoke to the people of Maryland. You didn't make the race national unnecessarily. You spoke to the issues that were actually happening in your states. And I'd love to talk

a little bit, a little bit about that. You know, I think i'll paraphrase you, and that you you said at one point you don't understand why patriotism is somehow like owned now by Republicans, when everyone can be a patriot and everyone can love their country and still want to fix it. Talk me through how you came to this understanding and whether or not serving in the military and your life that led up to this contributor to

thinking that way. Well, you know, it's it's it's will because I would hear people talk about this term of patriotism and I became so bothered by because I'm like, you haven't earned that right. Where where I I think about this this contint where where my definition of patriotism was when I left my family and I put on

the uniform of this country. And I served with the eighty second Airborne Division overseas in Afghanistan, and I was literally hearing people talk about patriots whose definition of patriotism was putting on a baseball cap and and storming the capital and trying to take down democracy. And so I think about it in my own life. I come from a family of patriots, because I come from a family of educators. I come from a family of people who were served as engineers and made this country with their

hands I've served from. I come from a family of ministers. Right, these are patriots, and so and so I refused to be lectured, nor should anybody allow anybody to try to bastardize that term of patriotism, because we come from a place where I understand what it means to love your country, even when your country doesn't love it back, but you still love it. Wow. So for many people, they love the country. Many people love what they want the country to be. They have the ideas of what they want

to do to fix it. You will actually now going to be in that position at a really interesting time in America, at an interesting time, you know, for your state, because you have a two billion dollar Circlus. You're in a position where you're going to be able to spend money to make ideas a reality, which is not often the case. Talk me through some of your plans. You know, for instance, reading through your life, there are many people

who've read your book and they know the story. But for those who don't, you know, your your grandmother left Cuba, you know, and moved to Jamaica, Your mom left Jamaica and came to the United States, and so you you have a family that is from many different places in the world, you know, and so and so. You know, it's informed how you see healthcare because of you know, how young you were when your father died. It's informed how you think about education, how you think about basic services.

So let's let's start. You know, one of the more basic ideas, losing your father at such a young age because he couldn't get the health care he needed, means you are now in a position to change that. What are you planning to change for the people in your

states who may be in that same position? You know, I think about where everything that I am and everything we ran on has been influenced by my life, right where my life has been consistently the consequences of broken policies and how it leaves people, how it leaves people behind. So when we talk about leave no one behind, which I learned in the military when I was seventeen years old, leave no one behind is not just a mantra, that

is a value statement. And so my earliest memories were watching my father die in front of me when I was three years old because he didn't get the healthcare that he needed. That one of my earliest memories was when I was eleven years old when I felt handcuffs my wrists because I came up in a community that was over policed and we knew it that my mother was four I was fourteen years old when my mother got her first job that gave her benefits. And by the way, however, this is a woman who went on

to earn a master's degree. So when we're having conversations, so when we're having conversations about about inequitable pay between men and women, or equitable pay between people color and non this is not an academic exercise. To me, I don't need a white paper to explain this. I've seen this. And so when we say that our my entire platform that what we're gonna do is build pathways for work,

wages and wealth for all Marylanders. We mean that, and when we talk about work, it means having an education system that's teaching our students how not just to be employees, but how to be employers. When you're talking about when you're talking about wages, it means making sure that people getting are getting paid a fair wage, because gone should be the days when we have people who are working jobs and in some cases multiple jobs, and still living

at or below a poverty line. And then making sure we're focusing on wealth and that's simply the idea that you should own more than you owe, and that means doing things like being able to address unfair appraisal values and historically red line neighborhoods because housing is one of the greatest ways to generate wealth, and unfair appraisal vius has been one of the greatest wealth thefts that we

have seen in our society. And it means getting a chance for people to have a sense of ownership, increasing liquidity to our small businesses or minority owned businesses, women owned businesses, really creating a platform and a pathway for people to passing onto your children besides debt. So this is about work, wages, and wealth. It's it's a it's a total task. You know, you seem like you're up for the job. You you're really motivated, and you know

what you want to do about it. Let's talk a little bit about you know, being handcuffed when you are eleven years old. It means that you have a view of the quote unquote justice system that is particularly unjust.

You can see how it can go wrong so fast. However, in America, I've noticed a really interesting trend whereby it is almost impossible to criticize constructively a police force without being labeled as being anti police, you know, and then people say, you're not your anti law and order, you don't want anything to happen, when ironically many police men and women will complain about their unions and the jobs

they do, et cetera. How do you find that balance then, between saying to the people of your states in Maryland, my job is to keep you safe. My job is to address what is happening on the ground that leads to crime. But at the same time, my job is to repair a police force that has lost trust in many communities and lost trusts, you know, in the public in general. You know, and I think about with our

race and our campaign. Our campaign was endorsed by both Progressive Maryland and the Police Union, and people say, how in the world did you pull that one off? Because basically it's the idea is this is that I was offering the same thing to both sides, a seat at the table, that if we are going to actually address these issues, we have to make sure that we're doing it collectively, and that we have to have a police force that is going to move with appropriate intensity and

absolute integrity and full accountability. But we need to have the police force at the table to be able to make sure that happens. That we have to make sure that yes, we had to get violent offenders off of our streets and offer and out of our communities because no child, no child should have to compet the neighborhood they are afraid of, and we have to get these illegal guns out of our neighborhoods. But it's also but it also means but we also have to be very

clear on this too. You're not going to rest your way out of this, and you're not going to militarize your way out of this. And I do think about it from the context where at eleven years old, I felt handcuffed my risk. And if someone would have said to that eleven year old kid, you know, one day you could be the opener, I would have never believed them. So we've got to make sure we're investing our kids and when we say things like that, that they actually

believe us. Because if a kid thinks that you don't care, they don't care what you think. And so we've got to make sure we're coming up with pathways, true pathways for all of our children to understand that the future of our society, it isn't real unless they're a part of it. Oh, I would love to know for me

as as somebody who's coming into politics. You know, you see so many politicians come in with with really clear ideas of what they want to do and how they want to be, and very quickly they get slowed down in the sludge that is politics, whether it be you know, outside money, big you know organizations, d n C, R n C, whatever it may be. You see them slowing down and then they care more about being reelected than

doing the job that they were elected to do. So so I would start with this in the most honest way, what would you say is the biggest challenged that you will have to face? That people don't understand how challenging it is because oftentimes politicians we have to fix this,

We have to fix the best to fix this. But I think it will be interesting for policies to say this part here is going to be extremely difficult to fix because of X Y Z or Z as you say here, like like genuinely, when you say, what do you say? What would you say is the toughest issue facing Maryland right now? UM? I still think it comes back to economics because I still think people feel a very real sense of an ease and economic uncertainty about

where things are. UM. But I think that what we've got to do is, first of all, we have to let people know and and make sure they can believe that we can actually get this done important, it's really important. And then also put the concrete plans in place about the things we're gonna to do to be able to address that. And it means things like when we say we're going to invest to get people back to work, it means we have to be able to do that

in job reskilling and job retraining. Where you know, right now, in the state of Maryland, we have two available jobs for every single person filing for unemployment. And people say, well, how does that make sense? Is because we have a dynamic economy in the state of Maryland. We're just not preparing people to be able to participate in that economy, right, So being able to put together the concrete practical plans in order to do that, it means being able to

start earlier. And again, as a leader, I am data driven in heart led, right, I wear my heart on my sleeve and I acknowledge that. But data matters, and I don't move without data. And I know this is that of brain development happens in a child by the time that child is five years old. So why we have children starting school of five makes absolutely no sense. We have to make sure we have pre K for every single child and meet in the state of Maryland. And so it really is saying we know what works.

And again I have I've been a public servant for my entire life. I just haven't been a politician, right, but I've had a chance. I've led soldiers in combat. I let a successful small business helping first generation students go to and through college, and then I had a chance to lead one of the largest poverty finding organizations in this country. I know what works. We know what works.

Now the question is can we derive the political will and the political and the political focus and intentionality to actually bring these things to scale. And that's where I think we had a unique value proposition that allowed the people of Maryland to say, let's go, let's go win this decade. Oh. If there's one thing even your worst detractors cannot argue is that you're not focused and you're not driven. You genuinely all thank you so much for joining me on the show, having and look forward to

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