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for you tonight. In his jam pack, Donald Trump wishes he was Hitler, your favorite streaming services, having a baby, and Joe By is the best or worst presidents in history. Plus Republican Senator Tim Scott is joining us on the show, and Natalie Manuel is here to talk about her brand new movie. So let's do these people. That's sound straight, Okay, all right. Before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things that are going
on in the world. First up, some international news. New Zealand maybe getting a new name. Yes, yeah, Maori politicians have launched the campaign to restore one of the country's original names, altar roa right, yeah, And I think we can all be honest, like they can put a lot of thought into naming it New Zealand in the first place. Yeah, like the colonize was so lad this is New Zealand.
There's New England, New York. Zero effort. It's like Pete Davidson Colley the next girl for a New Kim Terrible. It's not gonna work. Meanwhile, in health News, officials in New York say that hundreds of people in the States may be infected with polio because so many people are unvaccinated. Yeah, so I guess New York is back back in the nineteen fifties. And you know, I'll be honest with you. I don't care anymore. Yeah, I don't polio. You want
to come for me? Come ye, You're gonna have to fight for space in my body with COVID and monkey parks, just going on, just going at it, just going and hard. Oh and in uh. In politics, in politics, According to a new book about the Trump White House, President Trump complained that his national security team wasn't loyal enough to him, saying, quote, why can't you be like the German generals in World
War Two? Yeah, that's right. Fox News was out there every day, like these liberals are so over the top, always comparing Trump to Hitler. Meanwhile, Trump was going, why won't people treat me more like Hitler? Why not? Nad And it actually, it actually got even more alarming than that. Later in the same meeting, he told his generals to find the arc of the government before Indiana Jones got his hands on it. And I'm joking, but that's not even the real story. So this is the crazy part.
After Trump went off about how his generals should be as loyal as Hitlers were, General Kelly's response to him was, you do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off. And I don't know why, but I feel like I feel like that information didn't change Trump's opinion of the German generals. Like like knowing Trump, he was probably like those losers try to kill Hitler three times and they choked like a dog, like a dog, couldn't get it done. You know who, We're able to
kill Hitler in the first try, Hitler. It's called leadership, paper leadership. But anyway, let's move on to some of the beginning stories of the day, starting off with President Joe Biden, who had himself one hell of a weekend. First of all, he finally tested negative again for COVID. I was allowed to leave quarantine for the first time in eighteen days. Yeah, so he's back in as good as you or whatever he was when he went in. And in eighteen days is a long time in quarantine.
But I'm sure he'll get right back into the string of things, you know, because being president is a lot like you know, riding a big oh Joe done, don't do it. So the good news for Biden is that he's out of quarantine, and even more good news for Biden is that he's now in the history books. The historic vote in the Senate, major major victory tonight for the Democrats and for our planet. This morning, Democrats triumphant.
Every member of my caucus is elated about what happened because we've really, we've changed the world in a way that you rarely get an opportunit unity to do that, passing a sweeping climate, healthcare, and economic package after twenty two straight hours of dusk to don work over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote for Democrats to pass the bill, which boasts climate spending and billions and energy investments, also reducing prices of prescription drugs
by letting Medicare negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies, a major legislative victory for Democrats in Congress and for the Biden White House. Suddenly he is one of the most consequential legislative presidents since l VJ. In his first two years in office. Yeah, don't look now, people, but all of a sudden, Sleepy Joe has himself a pretty fat stack
of accomplishments. Yeah, in just the past few weeks, he'll have done lower prescription drug prices, the biggest investment in green energy ever, healthcare for veterans exposed to burncas investment, imputer computer shift production, and he kept the lead of el Kada while he was sunbathing. Think about whom safe you're like? This means if he keeps this up, his approval ratings gonna shoot all the way up to like
And he did all of this with COVID. I've been right now the White House doctors are trying to figure out how to give COVID back to the President. Again. Come on, guys, if we weren't even infected, maybe you'll end the one you craid and By the way, I know this is weird, but have you noticed that Joe
Biden seems to be the most successful whenever he disappears. No, I know, I know it's weird, but like, like during the campaign, right, he went and he hit in the basement, and nobody's showing for months, Everyone's where's Joe Biden, Where's Joe Biden? And then out of no where, they were like they announced that he was the president. Remember he even came out on election night. It was just like wait, really, okay, yeah,
I guess me. Then now gas prices crazy, Congress stuck, inflation wild, Joe Biden gets COVID, disappears into the basement again, and then when he comes out, they tell him that not only is he still the president, he is now one of the greatest presidents in the history of presidents. Gas practice went down, Congress is getting things done. The Choco Taco is coming back from that dam. So I don't know what's in that basement, but whatever it is, it's working. In fact, I want that basement to be
president basement to twenty four. And by the way, it's not like this bill was easy for Biden to get. Remember that because it's a right. The Democrats can't afford to lose a single vote. So first they spent a year convincing Joe Mansion to get on board, and he was like, look, I'll back your climate change stuff, but only if you let me squeeze baby seals to see if there's oil inside. And the Democrats were like sure, yeah, yeah,
whatever whatever. But then at the last minute they had to convince Kristen Cinema and she was like, okay, I'll sign on, but only if you let me squeeze hedge fund manager is to see if there's campaign donations inside. And I guess it worked. So let's move on, because no matter what you think about Joe Biden's acomplishments, we can all agree that he stole the election in Yeah, it was a landslide victory, but Donald Trump but sneaky Joe Byron Heckton to the matrix and turn all the
voting machines black. No one denies this, and on January six, a group of patriots tried to explain all of this to Mike Pence's neck, but instead of listening, the U. S. Government has been throwing them in jail. They've been locked away in those cold cells ever since, with only their fur hats to keep them warm. So over the weekend.
Over the weekend, conservatives gathered in Texas all right to raise awareness for just how badly the January six writers are being treated and and the way they did this was they held a very special tribute that is very moving and not at all hilarious. The Insurrection Fallout is front and center at Seapack, this year's most buzzed about booth. Is this a fake jail cell? What you're watching actually
happened at Seapack. It features a convicted January six rioter doing performance are in a cage wearing an orange jumpsuit. Visitors were offered headsets so they could listen to interviews with jail January six defendants while watching the actor weep. Some viewers wept along with him. Others threw money into the cage. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green enters this out
to pray with him. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, okay, just wait, help me understand, Help me understand the logic. Marjorie Taylor Green is praying for a fake prisoner. Well, there's a real thing. She's chance, She's like, who is this lady? Like America? This is a person who's actually part of running your country. She's in there morning with a fake praying for how does she function in the world. It's a fake person. She must have the hardest time
at Broadway shows. They killed Hamilton's I mean, I guess in her defense, this actor in the lobby of the Spack Convention already commits it to the rule because apparently he spent hours in that jail cell weeping the whole time just weeping, which, in a way is a powerful performance arc because isn't that what conservatism has turned to in America? Right? It's just people in maga hats acting like they're victims. There's fewer white people now than they
used to be. We still have all the power. By the way, the part that made me laugh the hardest it was how people were throwing money into the cave, like what what? What is that? This is like the only way they know how to interact with arts is the same way they interact with you know, just like
your freedom has been stolen from you. Shake that to shake that Now, you would think a story like this couldn't get any crazier but truly the best part of the story is this actor who played the defendants was an actual rioters on January six who reportedly avoided a prison sentence by snitching on the other rioters. Yeah. So, just so you understand, this dude is pretending to be a prisoner that he helped sent to prison, which doesn't say you snitched on your fellow rioters. They go to
jail and now you're in the streets. Credit. Man, I wish there was something I could have done this not they preferred to jail. I wish there's something I could have done. This is wild. All right, Let's move on to some major news out of the entertainment world. There's no denying that they all fall. Too many streaming services out there these days. People, it's just too much. There's Hulu, the Netflix, as you know, Prime Video, Apple TV Plus,
Disney Plus. It's getting out of hand. It's getting out of hand, especially when Paramount Plus gives you everything that you need in one place. You know this the Champions League as Rupo's drag Race, because the Daily Show, The South Park, the Star Trek, the Daily Show, Beavis and Buttet, and of course the Daily Show. What else do you need. So, Yes, there are way too many services, but luckily soon there's going to be one less. Soon you'll get a two
for one deal on streaming. HBO Max and Discovery Plus will merge next year. Subscribers will have various options between HBO scripted entertainment and Discoveries reality based programming. It comes as HBO Max struggles with performance and customer issues. The CEO of Warner brother says Discovery Plus has better technology and will become the core of the new service. No, no, no is enough. How many times people going to change his name? Huh? It was it was HBO Go and
then it was HBO Now on HBO Max. Like at this point, I feel like they're just missing with us. Next month they're gonna be like, on your name is HBO. Bitch As says what what ha? So yeah, Warner Brothers, Discovery and HBO emerging everything into one giant company. I know that's gonna be weird, but I for one cannot wait to see how all of these biggest shows combine. Coming up on House Hunter's Western Roast, Jerry is looking for a bigger space in King's Landing for his growing family. Okay,
first of all a sword chair. What is this like, seven guys, Let's switch that. Let's just switch that whole thing off, you know. Let's put in a cute ottoman, knock down some of these walls. Yeah, switch out the blood with a fresh coat of paint. Yeah, we gotta do that. We gotta fix the thermer staff. That's way too hot, way too hot. And also on the new HBOS, every stay tuned for the premiere of our new series ninety day Succession to fundamentally alter the nature of the
family on my wedding day. You have any consumption? How god, I'm so fish you are. I just want a green card. All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a quick break, let's checking on the stock market without finance expert Michael cost To everybody, this is wild mussel mergers, people coming together. What is happening in the market today. I am crushing it. I mean I
am crushing it. So yeah, you're crushing it too. You know, you're crushing And you're an excellent boss, you know, and and and I'm loyal to you, Trevor, unlike unlike those Trump generals, you know, you're my hitler. Trevor. I'm sorry. Well, I'm serious. When when you look at Trevor, no, I want you to think of a off hitler, I don't. I don't think that's doing what you think it is. I got a hot tip for you. I got hot tip. You make some money like I make some money, I
gotta tip you pay attention. So behind me right here, this is the Warner Brothers stock after the streaming merger between HBO max In Discovery Plus and what you want to pay attention to here? Okay, actually, just for a second, that story about President Biden, Well he's just accomplishing so much, crushing it with COVID, right, Apparently you can get a lot done with COVID. I mean me, I'm crushing this segment, and I've got COVID too, you know what I'm saying.
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I have polio. But let's get back to judge me by time. As a financial expert, I'm here to offer this. Mergers are tricky, all right. What's the most dangerous part of driving? Right? Merging? I can't tell you how many times I've just plowed into people. Right, What's what's the worst part of a birthday party. Merging separate groups of friends, you know, work friends, college friends. Both groups have stories you don't want the
other side to know about. Business merging is no different, Okay, mergers, Trevor, They're not like relationships. Right at first, it's two single companies just having fun. You're like, hey, maybe we should have fun together, you know, combine our assets like like a marriage. In fact, that's why it's called a merger, because merge sounds so much like merge. Okay, But next thing, you know, after the merge, the arguing starts. Are we HBO Discovery? Are we Discovery HBO? How many subsidiaries are
we gonna have? Because I want one but she wants three? Where are we going to spend the holidays? Why does Discovery plus keep my best friend? Okay? And then and then that's when this happens, Michael, I think getting off just can you just give us the hotivities hot to? Oh yeah, um, you should get tested for polio. Honestly, I think I have this. Well, thank you so much for that, Michael. Cost everybody you should get it checked out.
Don't go away because when we come back. Republican Senator Tim Scott will be joining me right here on the show. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My first guest is a Republican from South Carolina serving in the United States Senate. He's here to talk about his new memoir, America, A Redemption Story. Please welcome Senator Tim Scott brought them back. Senator Scott, are welcome back to the show. Thank it's gonna be back. It's good
to have you here. It's very read that Republicans drop in when they are still in office and not like on their way out. This is fun. Um, No, it really is, because you know, you've always been somebody who comes on the show and we talked about everything, and I appreciate that. It's times a little different. You've written a book about your life, and honestly, there's there's a lot in this book that I didn't know about you as a human being. You know, and let's let's start
in the beginning. In many ways, the book talks about your journey of how you got to where you got to today. You know, many people have referred to as many different things, the unicorn, you know, the loan black senator in the Republican Party. People have referred to you as the outlier. But what's really interesting in the book is you talk about how you got there with family who will also democrats talk talk me through that experience of you know, what was like being in a family
where people were voting differently. Absolutely well, I think the most important part of my story really is the devastation of divorce, being raised by a single mom who worked sixteen hours a day, three days a week, and eight hours a day two days a week as a nurse's aid, just changing bedpans and rolling patients. So see my mother occur butt off to try to keep food on the table, and then moving in with my grandparents, my grandfather born in in Sally, South Carolina, having to get off the
sidewalk when white folks were coming. Just the humiliation and the devastation that he experienced, and that passed down to my mother, and then it impacted me too. Sometimes we forget to tell both sides of the story when we're
having conversations. I wanted to make sure that people had a full perspective of my journey to becoming who I am, because much of it was built on the shoulders of people who paid a very high price for you and I'd have this conversation, and sometimes we forget to say thank you to those who went before us, right on
the shoulders of giants. I mean, you know, it's interesting that you say telling all sides of the story because you talk about your father very early on in the book, and what I appreciate is how you talk about the negative impact he had on you, but you appreciate all of the positive as well. You talk about how he comes back from adding a wolf for America, and yet America doesn't want him. People split at him, he doesn't
get treated as a as a first class citizen. What what what impact did that have on you growing up knowing this? You know, I learned a lot more about my father's story while I was writing the book. Truly, to tell you the truth, my father was not close for about thirty years after the divorce. We went in the separate ways, and uh, it was in my late twenties early thirties when I first started getting back with him.
Truth is that the more I understood about the pain and the misery and the devastation that happened during the Vietnam conflict for him, as well as coming back as a black Vietnam veteran very very very painful experience, and then the altercations that he had with other members of the service just because he was black, and how that painted in stained him, and how that caused him to spiral some and being the recipient of that, you see it differently. As you grow older, you get looking backwards.
And so my father is now a good man and a solid man that I have much respect for, And having walked that journey together has made me such a better person, and it gives me a perspective that I would not have had had I not taken the time to listen. Because sometimes when we go through pain and suffering, we put our finger towards a person we think caused us that pain, and we literally turn our backs. I think sometimes the best thing we can do is listen,
even to the people we feel like hurt us. The scripture and Matthew five, the love your enemies, to pray for those who persecute you. And I gotta say that South Carolina, we've had more than our share. And I talked about Mother Emmanuel Church shooting those amazing people. MHM forgave the killer the racist who walked into the church, sat through a Bible study. And when you hear stories like that and you understand the magnitude of their power
to bring light into a dark place. The least I could do is learned to listen to people who may disagree for me. You've always done that, you know, You've always had conversations with people you don't agree with um. You You've often faced criticism as well. You know, many, many people have said, how can you be a black man in the Republican Party? Look at what the Republican Party is doing, look at the policies that the Republican Party enacts, and and some people haven't been you know,
haven't said it's you in the nicest way. You know, you're talking the book about how people call you uncle Tim when you when you you know, you responded to the president's address. How do you how do you reconcile you know that that that narrative, or how do you reconcile the conflict of being a black man in a party that is predominantly white and black people are predominantly Democrats and saying no, no, no, I can still believe in this and not be you know, a race traitor,
which I don't. I don't believe in any way, But I'm you know whatever, we'll breaking news here. You're ready, I'm ready. I think the black community is a conservative community, so I think I'm just being consistent with who I am. Let me give you a couple of examples of policy positions that I think the most most people don't understand
or appreciate or have ever even heard that. While we were in the majority, we invested more money in historically black colleges and universities than any other time in American history. We made the funding for HBC use permanent for the first time in American history. We put a billion dollars in the middle of the pandemic, specifically targeting HBCUs. My office, we led the charge on sick of cell anemia research and passed legislation to make sure that it would be easier.
Unemployment twenty we have the lowest unemployment in the history of the country for African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, a seventy year low for women. We created seven million jobs to thirds were African Americans and Hispanics. So, but my point is that when you think about the policy positions that I have fought for, not to even talk about opportunity zones.
The fact is that as a sitting conservative Republican, I fought for those issues that had the greatest impact in the communities where I come from, because it's like common sense. But but here's but here's the thing that I find interesting. And by the way, you're not an outlier in doing this. I I find it interesting to see how American politicians choose to measure time or effect. Because what you said was true. There was a man by the name of Barack Obama who was president up until six and as
you know in economics can take a while. You've heard of the name, right, and so no, so here's a fine. Here's the thing. I don't think. I don't think I'm you know, and you know we've had conversations. I've accusing you of betraying anybody. I'm not accusing you that. I think. Sometimes what becomes confusing for people is how it seems like the Republican Party and conservatives at large seem to have an idea of you know, victimhood. Let's let's put
it this way. So I'll see people saying, oh, we're sick and tired of people talking about racism. That's over. We're sick and tired of people talking about oppression. That's over. Minorities need to learn to do right. But what it seems like, and you'll you'll you'll tell me how you
see it as it seems like. Oftentimes, in order for people of color to be accepted into the Republican Party, they have to ignore all of the systemic things that happened to them in the country, and then the people who are in the Republican parties go with the victims. We're the real people being oppressed. We're being replaced, We're being oppressed. This is what's actually happening because we are white. And I find that you do not find that there's
a weird disparity. At times. I hear what you're saying, But can I point out one thing, of course, the online don't ask a question you don't know the answer to the people I don't know bad my bad. In my book, one thing you'll learn very quickly. I don't sidestep the issue of race at all. That's what I said with you. I agree with that, and I talked about the twenty plus times that I've been stopped in
the last two decades for just driving while black. I talked about the race riot that happened at the high school I was going to attend it when I was in the eighth grade. I talked about the challenges that so many people in our community has faced because of the color of our skin. I talked about the economic realities. I talked about the justice system. I work, as you know,
on police reform. So the truth of the matter is that I think you have to be comfortable in your own skin wherever you are, and if you have to betray or deny a part of your existence, don't do it. And I refuse to allow any party affiliation to stop me from being when I'm gonna do be when I leave and what I was before, I can't. And you do, I will say, you do that honestly, do that, honestly
beyond just black. You talk about this in the book, for instance, you know you you you you, you were one of the senators who said Donald Trump and trying to overturn the election, what he did was unconstitutional. You know, you talk about January six. I feel like even in the book, when you're telling the story of January six, you do a really good job of placing the blame at the feet of the people who conducted the insurrection. It seems like there is a looming absence though you know,
it's a glaring absence of Trump's name in it. It's it seems like at times you are you know, and I don't mean it in a in a bad way at all, but it's it's it seems like you're trying to thread the needle, you know, of saying what happened, but then not saying why it happened. For the next sense, that's it. Yeah, tell the truth the Lord. Yeah, I like that. So it is called The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, not Tim Scott's. I assume the audience no funny.
I'm with you. I mean, I know you're a comedian on trying my best, you know, give a brother bring no you know that. Yes, here, here's the point, though, I was actually in the building and you yeah, you talk about the rolling by slaves up preparing to fight for my life. So when I put the blame on the people who were coming after me, I put the blame squarely where I believe it belongs. And that's what
you hear my my recount of the issue. When I say that at the end of that day, on January the six, we the United States Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, went back out and performed our duty to affirm the President Biden has won the election. We did our job. So I'm not actually sugarcoating or skirting or pivoting away from an issue. I'm actually not making it more political
than it has to be. But then let me ask you this, certain many people have floats with the idea, and I'm not asking about everybody, And my mom would say, I'm only asking about you right now. I would like to know them. If you were asked to run as Donald Trump's vice president, would you accept that. That's a good question. I am going to pivot. I'm just your honest okay, So everything of the here's the truth. When you're up for real election to the United States Senate,
the first goal is to win. So once you win, then you look at the options that are like and make a decision on what is possible. And so for me, at this point in my career, the only thing I'm asking for are the people in South Carolina to give me a chance to be reelected and and and they do. They do love you. You served your state. Well, you know, you you talk about your beginnings in the book, and you talk about a commitment that you have to your
country and people. People admired in the way that you've served, whether they agree with you or not. Um talking about South Carolina, though, I would love to know how you see the state and its positioning as it pertains to some of the issues facing America today. Well, one of the biggest being abortion. For many, many years, people said Roe v. Wade was settled. Roe v. Wade was settled. People saw the Supreme Court flip in a way that
some sentences even felt betrayed. You know, I won't ask you to comment on the Supreme Court, you know, but but what I will ask you to comment on is South Carolina as a whole. Right now, many sentences, many lawmakers have said it's up to the states. Let the states decide. We see states are starting to decide Kansas, Indiana,
et cetera. South Carolina has a bill that is being discussed that would prohibit people from giving women information on getting an abortion, even if they were to do it in a state that did decide to still have it. So where do you stand on that issue? Then? Well, I'll say, I have not read the legislation because the United States sentaor not a state senator, so I don't
have the information. And to answer, I understand you don't want to comment to something, but then even not not that I think I'm going to ever satisfy your audience on this issue. But the truth is that you're asking me about a bill I have not even seen. Nor then let me ask you. Let me ask you then, based not on that billboard on the issue, should people be able to get information about the decisions that they want to make? The answers yes, okay, so if they
were restricting it, I'm not saying they are. If they were right, then then you would you would not be Afore that, I think that people making a profound decisions that all the information pros and cons. Let's talk about um, the journey to the presidency. I've been on the Daily Show for a few years now, and there's something I've I've noticed, and that is when people write memoirs, it generally means it generally means, it generally means that they might be uh, they might be eyeing a run at
the presidency. So with coming up, I know you've been asked this in many, many different ways. I'm not gonna ask you, would you run, would you not run? You're gonna tell me, well, Trevor, right now, we just gotta focus on the midterms, and you're the most I know that I get that right. But actually I was gonna say that, Okay, I was gonna say that we should focus on the next Friday night, like we were, right.
So so let me ask you this, then, what would you do differently if you were elected presidents of the United States? What would you do differently from a Donald Trump presidency? What would you do differently from a Joe Biden president? What is what is the difference that you would bring. I honestly think that the America is the greatest got you on Earth. We are the we are the solution, not the problem. If we're going to focus our attention on making America a better country, think they
all three of your people up there. If I think it's just in the moment, people are struggling in the moment, people up for whatever reason. So if I were going to say, agenda the first thing I would do and I would focus on the poor zip goes in this country need really high quality education, agree. If that's I went to four different elementary schools by the fourth grade, I am serious about equipping our parents with all the
options they need and improving the quality of our public education. Rather, that's here in New York City, the Success Academy does a fantastic job. Or in Charleston we have the we have one of the top fifty public high schools and all of the country. So there's a way for us to be able to be able to provide great incentives for our for our kids to continue along the path to a better edge. That's your way of saying privatizing education.
I don't know if you're saying that. Let me say it differently because because there's the thing I've noticed in America and in the just to go back to the book, what I do like is that you talk about the impacts that education may both negatively and positively in your life. You know, like where where where it impacted you. And that's something I didn't notice in the book is your journey cannot be separated from the journey that America had.
You cannot separate it from a world where America believed in investing in America. Wait, wait, it wasn't a oh, those kids can choose those charter schools or those systems or those I'm saying. It seemed like this was your product of that world. And and and we've spent seven hundred sixty billion dollars as a country on on public education K through twelve, but teachers are still broke. Listen, listen if you're ye, yes, so, and your point is
a good one. So the in Department of Education in Washington, D C. The average employee at the Department of Education makes over a hundred thousand dollars a year, where the teacher does not. So should we take some of the money that we're spending in Washington, D C. And give it back to the states so that they can provide more money for teachers. You could just take it away from wars or or but a just weird? Are this word?
You know? Yeah? So I to say, without any question, and you look at the breakdown of our of our budget around the country, you will see that we're spending seven hundred sixty billion dollars on education. We spend about six hundred seventy actually something now about eight billion dollars on our discretionary defense. We spent about a trillion one point one trillion dollars on Social Security, about eight hundred billion dollars on medicare, about six hundred or so on Medicaid.
So our domestic spending rivals any of the place on earth. So it's not that we can't walk into gum. It's not that we can't provide for the primary defense of this nation and fund education. The truth is, in South Carolina and around the country, some of the poorest performing
schools have about twenty four thousand dollars per student. One of the blessings of this area in New York City is the Charge Schools, a success academy very similar to what we have in Charleston, meeting Spree academies where you're seeing for less than half of the current student expenditures, you and get high quality education for the average student in the average place without privatizing it. And by the way, I still I still support all choice. I mean, whatever
it takes to improve education. I'm not gonna but the way you stand under before I let you go there there there is You're pretty good at this. YEA, thank you. I appreciate you coming already. You're discerning and and your directional and your questions. I like that. Try try, I understand it's um. You know what I do enjoy in the book is that it reminds me that you are a human being. I don't I don't need to agree with you on everything to believe that you are a
human being. And you talk about that in the book. You talk about the way people see you, um, the way you see people you don't agree with. One of one of the more touching parts of your book is when you talk about going with your grandfather for him to vote, and this was for him to vote four eight and he was going to vote for Barack Obama. And one of the volunteers at the at the polling station, I didn't trust that you would like let him vote
because your grandfather couldn't read. Is that correct? Yeah, so it's it's It's one of the most touching stories about my grandfather I could ever share. Going back to fast forward in two thousand and eight, thinking about a black man born in the Deep South with very very few rights of any at all, living long enough to see this country evolve far enough for the possibility of an African American being elected president of the United States. It
was something he could not comprehend or imagine. So I take him to vote as as I always have. We're walking into the voting booth because he can't read. I always went into the booth with him, which is the way that we do it. And the young lady at the counter didn't thank me. Being Republican was my grandfather's quishes, and I just thought to myself, how sad is it that what she thinks of the human condition is so off. But my grandfather, having a hundred percent faith in me,
said lady, please and thank you. Shut up. And we went in there together exactly. And so I said, granted, I want you to I want you. I want you to memorize. My grandfather had almost a photographic memory, and so I want you to Barack Obama. I want you to remember those words, so when you see it on TV, you know who you voted for. There will never be any question on what you did. And so he said, okay, Timmy,
he called me Timmy. And so we pushed your button and I said, okay, Grandad, I want you hit the vote button. It's a big green button. And and walking out they were getting in the car. I've seen my grandfather cried twice. Once was when my grandmother died a one in the second time was having the privilege and the responsibility of electing President Barack Obama. It's a really, really fantastic book because I think it gives so much more complexity to who you as a man. Thank you
for joinning me on the show. I appreciate you a lot. Everyone comes in chats with me, so I always appreciate you. Thank you for coming here. Turning the Scott's book America a Redemption Story is available right now. Thank tun Because when we come back, and that's the Emmanuel bringing on the show, don't go roight. Thank you, Thank you. Welcome back to a Danna Show. My next guest is Emmy nominated actor, naturally Emmanuel. She's here to talk about starring
in the new film The Invitation. Please welcome. That's to the Emmanuel. That's a new Manuel. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Welcome in person, because the first thing I have to say is congratulations, because the last time we spoke was virtually and that's when you were doing the new show was Die Heart with Kevin Hart, right, and since then you got nominated for an Emmy for that role.
So congratulations, thank you saying it feels like you your journey has just been you know, it's just on the up. You're enjoying yourself with its comedy, with its drama, whether it's whatever, this is like a thriller, horror, Yeah, it's it's it's terrifying. Yes. Um. You know, I like to
challenge myself and try my hand to everything. Watching this movie, I was like, this is a terrible mistake that your character has made, because we saw a little bit in the clip she goes to like you know, like a lemiship into English destination wedding with a long lost relative who is a stranger, um and goes alone. I mean no, like that was her first mist I So I always joke that if it was me in this situation, that movie would have ended in the scene with my best friend,
He's like, are you going to go meet him? And we'd be like nah, Because like if I got invited to a long lost relatives event and I get there and then it's a bunch of people wearing masks pulling out knives, I'd be like, yeah, this is not always I intended this, This is not it. What I also found interesting was you are playing an American in the movie, but then everyone is English. Is that like super weird for you because it's like you English playing an American
with English people. Do you find that there's like parts of Natalie the change like other things, like American Natalie does that English naturally would never do. Um. I think American Natalie is probably a little more. She's probably a little louder, to be honest, a little louder. Yeah, Like I don't mean that to sound like negative, No, no, no, It's fine, as you've said it, don't We love that.
I love that. I think that sometimes, like my Britishness, you know, often it's like, you know, keep it sort of yes, of course, yeah, exactly, and so and I think there's a freedom that comes with that accent and that I see with Americans, like they have no problem expressing themselves, expressing their opinions. And I love that. I wish I had more of that, So I tried to adopt it myself, not always successfully, but not. I think you do a great job of it. I loved seeing
it in the character. I love seeing how you change before I let you go. There's one change that we have to speak about and that's your hair, right, Thank you, thank you, say much. I saw the video of you cutting your hair and it was really emotional. It was so emotional because we've known you with your hair for
so long. It's become a part of you, and people have even come up to you and so like, thank you so much for having natural hair on on TV show, and like what made you decide, you know what, I'm going to cut it and not for a role, by the way, just for yourself. It was for me. I think it had taken for many years. I wanted to cut my hair, and I always found a reason not to. And I think some of it was fear. Some of it was like, oh um, you know, to be what
is femininity or beauty or whatever. Like often we're kind of taught that you have to have long hair and it has to be a certain way, and and I think i'd um also like there was a real pride in not changing my hair for the screen and on red carpets and doing you know, glamorous looks with my natural texture and you know, hair discrimination all of that. It was a real kind of defiance that was in my hair in a celebration that was in my hair and so when I decided to cut it, I wanted
to just shed it. I wanted to let go of all the sort of complex feelings, but you know, start fresh and to be honest, Congratulations to me. You've inspired me. Now now maybe I'm not I'm not gonna cut it, but maybe I'll come to the show with Cornrows. Maybe you never know, I might switch things up. You've even spired me. You've been doing you've been mixing up. Yeah, but I might Now I might like just do like a whole you never know whole just like you know,
I don't know. I still like it for now, Natalie, thank you so much for joining me on the show. Absolute Positsing movie. Make sure to watch the invitation. It's gonna be exclusively be in fats on all the twenty sticks, Napi me man, you all everybody're gonna pay for free
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