From comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much you guys are amazing wow thank you so much for tuning in my guest tonight, executive director of the aclu, Anthony Romero is here, everybody cheers and applause joining us in the studio. Hes here just to check i havent been forcefully the deported yet, but were good. laughter first, with all the people taking to the streets protesting against President Trumps de facto muslim ban, a lot of folks have been asking the question, where are the democrats in all of this, and why arent they saying anything . Well, last night, House Democratic leader nancy pelosi at a rally in front of the Supreme Court helped us understand why. Thank you very much for coming out to is the sound working . The sound working . No. I can hear you. Can you hear us . Can you hear now . No, that doesnt do any good. Does this work better . No. Staff . Sound people . Shall we sing this land is your land again till we get the sound working . This land is your land this land is my land trevor we are so bleep now this is a nightmare is this thing working . Im talking about democracy as a whole. Is it working . No . I didnt think so laughter but, yo, guys, that was a powerful address. It really was. Reminded me of Martin Luther kings i have a bad mic speech. I bet mariah carey was, like, yeah, nancy, now try new yorks eve not so easy, is it . I dont see you laughing now cheers and applause can i be honest . Its moments like this that make me miss obama. I get the song, but its all folksy, like remember when obama would break into song . It was way cooler than that. If obamas mic went out he would sing remix to ignition or Something Like that. laughter you know what made this nancy pelosi even worse . The reaction from some of the people who were standing there with her. Is the sound working . The sound working . I can hear you. Can you hear us . laughter the sound working . I dont think it is. laughter trevor oh oh, man im sorry. Im sorry. I shouldnt be laughing. Im sorry. Its rude of me to make fun of the democrats before giving the president a chance. President trump tweeted nancy pelosi and fake tears Chuck Schumer held a rally at the steps of the Supreme Court and the mic did not work, a mess, just like the democratic party. Trevor first of all, can we just take a moment to acknowledge the world were now living in . Because you realize, because trump is a president , this tweet is now a government record. You understand that. That means some guy at the smithsonian is preserving that tweet in plastic next to the gettysburg address. Thats what hes doing. Kids are going to have to learn that some day in school. You know, kids are going to be like, four score and seven years ago, but fake tears Chuck Schumer by the way, what are mexicans . audience reacts oh, yeah, its coming. Its coming. But it takes a certain lack of self awareness for butterscotch fog over here to call the democrats a mess, when hes made the west wing seem less like an office and more like walmart on black friday. And im talking about the year bluray came out. That was insane. The donald is the last person who should be calling anyone a mess considering every day of his administration has been a cluster bleep . Inauguration live, cardboard cake. Forgetting to mention the jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day this weekend the disastrous implementation of immigration and refugee ban. Disastrous is one description of it another way to put it is work it out very nicely. You see it at the airports and all over, its working out very nicely. Trevor okay. Either trump is out of touch or hes just managing our expectations. Hes, like, oh, no, trust me, this worked way better than i thought it would. Trust me, folks, these are the good times. Remember these times. Okay . These are the good times. I actually feel like the next four years of trump is going to be him and his people saying one thing and us saying, we have eyes that order signed friday leading to instant chaos and confusion at airports, at home and around the world. Protests erupted at airports all across the country. It cost the department of homeland security, state department and customs and Border Patrol flatfooted. Trevor how do you see that and thing everythings okay . How . Either trump is delusional or his aides replaced News Coverage from that scene from love actually. Thats what hes watching. This is is a complete unnecessary mess. Its like trump and his team werent trying to make this thing work. There were reports that, before signing the executive order, trump blew off getting any advice from any of the government. Just ask siri. I bet she would have said, you wanna to at that time, bleep . Youre cratesy. Anyone would have told you, bleep , youre crazy which is what four federal judges across the country said about the ban. They were there and they were, like, my ruling is my ruling is, bleep , you crazy. Although they probably did it in latin. They were like res ipsa lochloca bleep . President trump fires acting attorney general. Attorney general sally yates sending a dramatic letter to lawyers saying she was not sure President Trumps order was lawful. In a matter of hours the president fired her. Trevor yes he did it the first youre fired from the trump administration. Finally thank you, jesus thats the only part of trumps presidency we were looking forward to that he was qualified to do. I bet he walked in and did it like the photo shoot. Remember that . Ready . Yeah, were ready. laughter trevor you ready . laughter can you hear me . Is this thing on . Is this Nancy Pelosis mic . I still dont understand why he does it silently. But he did. Thats him. Youre fired please tell me thats exactly how he did it. Sally yates was told by handdelivered letter that trump was dismissing her. audience reacts trevor you gave her a letter . The your fired guy . Dismissed someone by letter . Donald trump, thats your thing. Thats like if Arnold Schwarzenegger was leaving, and he was, like, farewell. laughter thats your thing donald trump firing people was the only thing we were looking forward to in the trump presidency. I bet the trump voters only voted for that issue. Some voters are, like, screw this, bring in mike pence, thats the only reason i voted. I dont know about you, thats the only reason i voted illegally. Otherwise i would have voted for hillary what a waste i could have voted for someone else cheers and applause i mean, instead of being embarrassed by sally yates, an obama hold over, who is leaving in a few days anyway, he could have wait ford a few weeks on the ban when Jeff Sessions could have been attorney general. Trump had the patience of a toddler who ate his entire birthday cake before the party who are you . you know laughter you know, trumps whole campaign appeal was that he would run the country like a business. Remember that . Hes going to run it like a business. At the time, it seemed like a terrible idea because its a country, not a business. But now im starting to wish he would run it more like a business. Because what kind of business would launch a new product without telling the rest of the company about it, without checking it with the lawyers, or most importantly worried about how it would affect their brand. What kind of company would do that . 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Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show as weve seen, the trump administrations travel ban is confusing a. F. For our over35 viewers that means as bleep . And no one has more questions than muslim americans. Here with some answers is hasan minhaj. All Campaign Trump was like i think islam hates us. Total and complete showdown of muslims. Theyre not coming to this country. As president hes banned immigration from these seven countries. Everybody is like, yo, is this the muslim ban . No, its not the muslim ban. Right, right, but is it . Youre hasan the record. This thing on . Trumps executive order blocks anybody and even from seven countries in the mea mideast and africa from entering the u. S. As all. This may not be the muslim ban but its a muslim ban. Can he do that . Since the order, all my bros are calling me up, dude, this is america, were the best at american liberty. He cant get away with bleep . Thats right, he kent get away with bleep . Even my constitutional bros are like he may get away with it. Based on origin isnt. By implement ago ban on people from certain countries the muslim ones praying basically trump is achieve the same goal. Imagine if this dog is a muslim. Cant hate this bulldog, that would be wrong, put him in the somalia sweater and its totally cool to be like, waterboard that puppy. Oh our hatred of bulldogs was legalized in 1952 when the immigration and nationality act says when the president finds the immigration of any aliens would be detrimental to the United States, it would be inappropriate. Huhoh, i have to do restrictions because National Security. Historically president s have justified a lieutenant of stuff with National Security. It makes you invincible. Trail of tears . National security chinese exclusion act, National Security the guy who propeace train, oh National Security to the face okay. So trumps ban is barely legal. Didnt he also Say Something about a muslim database . We should have a lot of systems. Dang trumps executive order doesnt mention it. Probably because theyre problematic and we dont do one. We did do one. In 2002 the u. S. Began National SecurityEntrance Program to require people to register and check in with authorities. It placed 13,000 individuals in deportation proceedings including one Lebanese Christian dude from texas. Yeehaw and out of 83,519 cases, caught zero territories. 0 for 83,519. Worst shooting personal in history. Krikris kobach from kansas. Number one idea from trump. Bans and registries only affect foreign nationals, so if youre an american citizen like me, nothing to worry about. Wear are american citizens. Oh, bleep . Its japanese american george takay. Because we look like the enemy, we were treated like the enemy and imprisoned. Okay so it happened once the law of interminate has never technically been overturned, but that could never happen today because now we have smartphones. Oh, what i just said was so real. Its like i always say, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice other places, also. Keep your trks tigh t tight and. Next week, the record on Jeff Sessions. Just because someone says something racist, is it . Think about it, see you next week. Trevor hasan minhaj, everybody well be right back cheers and applause they said it was impossible to have greattboom. G light beer. Awardwinning heineken light, brewed with cascade hops. They also said it was impossible to hypnotize you. Youre getting sleepy. Watch the beer and since most people use less than 5 gigs, arent one size fits all. The last thing you want is to end up paying for data you dont use. Now verizon introduces the one plan thats right for you. Switch, and for just 55 get 5 gigs on americas best network. 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Trevor what does it feel like to have all of these executive orders coming out and to be an organization that is fighting for or against the constitutional loopholes that trump and his people are trying to find . A bit breathless but exhilarating at the same time. This president is going down such a far, wrongheaded path. These executive orders are off the charts. This most recent one with the muslim ban is just astonishing that we would have a president of the United States enact an order within a week of him becoming president that is so fundamentally at the core unamerican, immoral, unconstitutional cheers and applause trevor now, first of all, i mean, im sure youre keeping abreast of everything but now the administration has come out and said its not a muslim. Who are they kidding . Trevor not you. Seven countries predominantly muslims, and then the real smoking gun is that, in the executive order, they carved out an exception for minority religions. Then President Trump is doing contemporaneous talks on radio, christian broadcast radio, saying that we want to protect the christians. Who are they kidding . Of course its a muslim ban. Hes the straight talker, just tell it to us straight. Youve promised us a muslim ban, given us a muhamad ban, we read it as a muslim ban, then you say its not a muslim ban . Come on. Trevor its funny you say this, but people say youre the aclu, of course youre going against trump but the judges ruled the same thing. I would love to know this, saturday comes, friday night the ban happens and we never expected this stuff to happen the next day. We saw the executive order, compared it, thought theyd implement it at some point. We thought anyone with a visa, Work Authorization or green card would have been allowed into the country, they have been after all. Saturday morning, im finally getting around to taking down my christmas tree, watching the news and my phone starts going crazy. People are being turned away at airports. Im, like, oh, no, how is this happening . We rush people to the airports. We are in touch with other organizations helping us identify refugees. Theyre turning people away who had been given visas to enter this country, and, so, then its all hands on deck. Then we send out lawyers to the airports at j. F. K. And s. F. O. , l. A. X. , ohare. Trevor when we hear the stories of some of the Customs Officials and immigration officials going against the judges orders, though, is that a steph step thats normal . Because the judge ruled there should be a stake. At saturday night 8 00 p. M. , we were having an emergency hearing. She understood the equities involved were too great. She understood people were being deported back to countries where they were in harms way, deported back after helping our government fight the war against i. S. I. S. And terrorists, individuals who worked for our government, our client worked for the u. S. Military for ten years as a translator, and they were going to send him back on an airplane and the judge understood that and said, no, wait a minute, well hit the pause button. I want to consider this longer term but for now were going to preserve the status quo. Trevor what did the opposition lawyers say . Pretty remarkable. It was in the courtroom. It was saturday night after taking down the christmas tree, doing a couple of tv shows, i went to the courthouse in brooklyn. The government lawyers were caught completely empty handed. They didnt even know how to argue the statements for the government. The judge would ask very basic questions, well, how many people are you not allowing out . We dont know, your honor. Well, how are you enforcing the executive order . They would look at each other and say, are you going to take that question . Then some woman was calling in from washington who was really the voice of government, she was, like, the voice of god, and she was incapable of answering the most basic questions and you can see the judge saying were going to preserve the status quo, were not going to deport anyone, send them back to the countries where theyre in danger. Were going to preserve the status quo and look at this afresh, the constitutionality of it, in several weeks time. Trevor youve done great job this weekend. Everyone is behind you. Thank you so much. cheers and applause Anthony Romero, everybody well be right back. Trevor thats our show for tonight. cheers and applause before we go, we still have Donald Trumps inaugural cake, people. This is a real thing. Its real. Its a styrofoam cake that he made left over from Donald Trumps inaugural ball. Someone gave it to us and we asked you to tell us what we should do with it. Right now some of the best ideas we got is put it on the roof and watch a slow disintegration as a metaphor for the country, which is really nice. We had someone in the audience yesterday which is, like, why not send it to the president of mexico as a gift . Which is a great idea. Keep the ideas coming. Were going to do our favorite one trumpcake. Now here it is. Your moment of zen. As for my presentation we have pit doll who says brit bare love his voice, always waiting for six p. M