Weve just received word that the u. S. Postal service has been shut down due to rampant allegations of sex with young boys. It now appears that the only people who can be trusted with confessions and guidance is your local news station. Wmz news will be back in. A young boy. From comedy centrals world news headquarters if new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the the daily show thank you so much for tuning in im trevor noah our guest tonight is Timothy Snyder, the aw author of new bok on tyranny which is titled on tyranny, which is the way every book should be titled. If moby dicks title was on big ass whales, i would have read it. Right to the news. Remember last week when Trump Administration was in deep bleep after the firing of comey, then suspicions raced on relations with russia, and the day after that he hosted russias two top diplomats in the oval office. Then were, like, oh, man, cant get worse, were wrong. Breaking news. President trump reportedly revealed highly classified administration to russias foreign minister and ambassador in a white house meeting last week, this according to the Washington Post which cites current and former u. S. Officials saying trumps disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intel yedges on ticks. Trevor i knew it laughter no, i knew something was up when i saw President Trump with the russians, and they were smiling. Theres only two times a russian man smiles, the day he dies, and this. laughter once again, this sounds like a story we would invent. Trump invites the russians into the oval offers, then in his meeting starts bragging i get great intel i have people brief me on great intel every day. And then proceeds to give them the intel. laughter he probably doesnt even know what intel is short for. My intel vision is the best. It gets the highest ratings best ratings of all. laughter whats really sad about this is that donald trump is trying to impress the russians with the fact that hes president. They know the guys there, like, yeah, do you guys know that im president . And theyre like, yes, that is how we planned it, yes, of course. applause like, right now, right now, if i were putin back in moscow, i would be, like, this is trap, no . No, it cant be this easy. Come on. laughter because you know they thought it would be harder, figuring out hide out how to hide bugs in the oval office. Trump is like, hey is that a microphone . I love those one two, one two here are my secrets. laughter before you get the hopes up, the white house called the Washington Post report false and, in any case, even if it wasnt called that, the chance of donald trump getting into trouble for this is next to nothing because a president almost by definition cant leak classified information. Once a president says it, its declassified. Thats the law. Its a crazy law but its true. Im sorry. Right now it feels like trump is doing everything he criticized hillary for doing during the campaign, mishandling National Security secrets, under threat of f. B. I. Investigation. At the this rate, hes going to faint in public. I also lost my shoe laughter at least now we know there are no aliens, yeah, because if there were, donald trump would have told us by now. Like, he would have leaked it immediately e. T. Used my samsung to phone home he did it, folks so the good news is trump listens during intel briefings, and the bad news is trump listens during intel briefings. laughter lets move on. From new information to information that should have been forgotten a long time ago. More than 150 years after the civil war critics are pushing to remove confederate monuments across the south. They say the statutes celebrate slavery and suppression. In new orleans, a statue of Jefferson Davis was removed, second of four confederate monuments to come down. The removal of these statutes sends an unequivocal message and to the people of the nation that new orleans celebrates diversity. Trevor yes, people. 150 years. applause 150 years after the civil war, the south decided it might be time to take down confederate memorials. And ive decided to stop wearing my m. C. Hammer plants. Its harmer time. New orleans is also tearing down their confederate statutes which is how you know something is bad. If even new orleans cant celebrate it, you know its bad. They celebrate everything. Everything out there. The best concert ive ever been to my life was a new orleans funeral, the best thing ever oh, tell it on the mountain yeah you can see the removal of the statutes as a funeral of the confederacy. But a few people are having a hard time parting with the things they love. As monuments are coming down, protests are popping up. Supporters and opponents demonstrated yesterday at a statue of robert e. Lee, one of three statutes scheduled for removal. Trevor now thats some racism my mom can get behind. If she saw it she would be, like, yes, send my son back to africa yes i miss him so much send him home. Mothers day isnt the same on facetime, send him home if i was a priet supremacist, which im not, i would spend every weekend in a hammock. Not only is donald trump the president , but also Jeff Sessions is running the justice department, and let me tell you this that racist will do much more for White Supremacy than any statue can. Chill. Seriously. Why supremacy in trump america, you should basically chill on the bleach with lots of sun block, obviously. The last thing you want to get is darker. Thats the last thing you want. You will hate yourself more than you already do. But clearly White Supremacy is a fulltime job because this weekend, they were back at it again. To virginia now, more heated protests yesterday, white nationalists Richard Spencer and dozens of others rallied against the removal of a statue honored confederate general robert e. Lee. Nearby another protest continued into the night led by spencer, group held tiki torches and chanted racist phrases. Trevor i dont know if im exposing my age, but i remember when racists put effort into it. Tiki torches, really . laughter you know, i could respect a guy who came in with a handmade torch, the real deal yeah, you hate me, but at least you put time into it. These assholes popped into the porch makeover section of peer one and probably lied about why 245eur7 there. What do you need . Torches are. You guys racists . No, were having a wil luau laughter you dont even have to whatever to hear what theyre saying to know theyre bad. Theyre holding torches. When a group is holding torches, theyre bad. Single torch, youre hunting for treasure. Group of torches, youre hunting for something else, very different. Not only did these assholes not take the time to get the right supplier, they didnt even figure out their mission statement. The crowd chanted all white lies matter, rulings is our friend and you will not replace us, protesters said they are protecting their heritage. We are a people, we are not be replaced we are not white sprem zests wrerks just white people who love our heritage, culture, european identity. Trevor these guys are all over the place. Some chanting white lives matter, nazi slogans, pro russia and burning torches, theyre like an evil potpourri, which, in my opinion, is all potpourri. You come i i come in your hoe and see that and you dont think im going to eat it you lying potpourri for more perspective, we with turn to our white heritage correspondent michelle wolf, everybody cheers and applause michelle, im confused by this thing. Quliewrp thoughts on this weeks protest . Just a start, looking at white supremacist Richard Spencer squeeze into that blazer, now you know why the kkk stuck with robes. Like, hey, dick, your suits having its own civil war right now. And i dont think that unions going to hold. Trevor no, no, no, michelle, michelle. Im not talking about the fashion. Im talking about the whole celebration of it, you know. Is honoring the confederacy racist or is it its racist, yeah, its racist. Trevor but i know it seems that way, but maybe this is about celebrating white heritage. Sure, its about celebrating the racist part of white heritage. Because when i celebrate my white heritage, i go for the part that fought to end slavery and started yoga. Trevor yoga came from india. Mmm, im pretty sure it was my friend rachel in brooklyn. laughter seriously, these confederate celebrations, they should be illegal. Trevor whoa, michelle, the foundation of america is free speech. Im not talking about free speech. Im taking about the Real Foundation of america winning in america, we dont celebrate losers. We send losers to the woods. I love hillary, but after she lost, she knew what was coming. It was time to make tea from acorns. Trevor wow, that seems harsh. Sounds like something a loser would say. The confederates lost and america hates losers you dont hear Michael Jordan saying, enough about all those chicago championships, lets talk about the Washington Wizards years or my crippling gambling addiction trevor yeah, but, michelle, its hard for people to think a piece of their history is going to be wiped out. It wont be wiped out. Confederate memorials belong where we put the rest of our lieuers, the museum, the telegraph lost to the telephone, museum. Dinosaurs to the astroids, museum. And the random stick that lost to the dildo, museum so you get your confederateloving asses to the museum trevor thank you, michelle wolf, everyone. Well be right back cheers and applause blue moon is brewed with valencia orange peel, for a taste that shines brighter. cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. There is a giant hack in the news and, for once, i dont mean sean spicer. Massive ramsware attacks hit a total of 150 countries, at least 200,000 victims. A malware virus known as wanna cry attacking tens of thousands of computers in companies, universities and hospitals. Hackers demanding money to unhack critical files. Trevor i feel like the joke was ton hackers. They thought they would make millions and didnt. Most people use their computers at work. If you hacked me and i was at work, i would be like, yeah, im fine. Im going home, mr. Hacker. If youre a hacker, what are you going to do with that extra money . Buy a new sign that says, knock, mom . What are you going to do with it . And look at that map. Look how many cases there are around the world. Except africa. See that . Look at that map. Yeah, like a reverse ebola map. Yeah, the one virus we didnt get. Africa should start doing to the world what the world did to us. Oh, im sorry, we cannot allow American Computers into our continent until your virus is contained. Im so sorry. Dont come here with your computers, huh . Dont come here. Dont come here. applause no one knows yet exactly who is responsible for this huge attack, but we do know how it works. The virus first infects a computer through a bad link in an email then quickly spreads through an Organizations Network locking computers, encrypting files and demanding 300 in bitcoin. Trevor this is where i have a problem. If youre a hacker, you should probably make it easier for people to pay you because most people have no idea what bitcoin even is. I hope the hackers have a tech support hotline so people can call in. Hey, man i dont know what bitcoin is. Hes, you will pay me 300 in bitcoin. Hello . Yes, a bitcoin is a crypt currency. You go to bitcoin. Org. What do you mean its not loading. All right, did you turn off your router . Yeah, and turn it back on. No, turn it no, no, go to bit no okay, listen, do you have venmo . You know what, just send me the check. Send me a check. I just want to get off this call. Im done. What do you mean youre not done . Im done. I want to be done. What do you mean i must pay you 300 to be done with this call . laughter now, this attack was huge. It was a massive attack worldwide, but Great Britain was one of the worst hit places with even their National Health service being forced to shut down. Meanwhile, america came out relatively unscathed. But if you watch the news, you would have thought the complete opposite. Were getting reports that some hospitals have been hit by a cyberattack. Computer and telephone systems are down and staff are having to use pen and paper. Breaking news tonight, a massive cyberattack and hospitals held for ransom, Emergency Rooms closed. Tonight the u. S. 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Please welcome Timothy Snyder cheers and applause trevor welcome to the show. So glad to be here. Trevor you have written a book about tyranny now. I dont understand why would you do this now . I cant think of one good reason. Yeah, the reason is everything that we know about history, and the reason is the best american tradition, which is when youre in a moment of peril like this one, you look around for how other people have failed, and you learn from them. So thats what the framers of our constitution did, but now we have 200 more years of failed democracy and 200 years of smart people we can learn. From the book tries to get that across in about 20 minutes. Trevor i will say what i enjoy about the book is its tiny, easy to get through and its super interesting. Youve got a lot of history in this field. Excuse the pun, but youve studied the rise of fascism in the 1930s, written a dozen books or. So if you were to look at the Trump Administration, what similarities would you say you see between the rice of fascism in preworld war ii germany and the u. S. Right now. History is bracing on the one hand because it tells us how bad things can get. Were in the second globalization now. The first globalization had opponents, crises, contradictions, like the first world war, the second world war, the great depression, hitler, stalin. On the other hand, history is bracing because it tells us what we can learn and what we can do, that there are alternatives. So how with so how are we like the theircies . Globalization challenged. Thats similar. Far right says globalization has a face, maybe jewish, maybe dark, thats also similar. Mr. Trump, in marks in his rallies and speech is a bit like a fascist. There are things we have to watch out for. But history empowers and helps us get out testify traps. We have to look at it first. Trevor if were looking at history and the core differences, what are the differences . Are the differences that hitler knew when he was leaking information . Like, what would you say the core differences are in terms of what america is dealing with now versus any leader, not just hitler and the past . So theres a reason why i dont use mr. Trumps name in the book is because its not really about mr. Trump. Its really about us. History is there for us. It expands what we can see. It expands what we can learn. Trevor right. So although it is really important that mr. Trump invites russians to the oval office with digital equipment at their sides and spills National Security secrets, thats important. Trevor that is important. Yeah, so im agreeing with your opening. Trevor okay. But it may be even more important that the germans and the soviets and the other people of the 20th century who saw democracy collapse were just as smart as we are or maybe smarter, so it may be time for us to learn from them what we can do to defend democracy. Thats the book. Trevor thats interesting because some of these chapters are really fascinating in what they say. Chapter ten is believe in truth, and you write to abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, all is spectacle, the biggest wallet pays for the most behinding lights. Thats powerful. Why is post truth so powerful . Back to the question about fascism. Fascism says nothing is true, your daily life is not important, the facts you think you understand is not important, all that matters is the myth, the myth of one nation together, the mystical connection with the leader. When we think of posttruth, we think its something new and canvasses and is relevant. It paves the way to regime change. If we dont have access to facts, we cant trust each other. Without trust, no law, without law, no democracy. If you want to rip out the heart of demock circumstances you go after facts, and thats what modern authoritarians do. Step one, lie to yourself all the time. Step two, say its your opponents and the journalists who lie. Step three, everyone looks around and says what is truth, there is no truth, and resistance is impossible and games over. Trevor wow. applause you know, my favorite thing about the book other than the steps in it and the stories you tell is that its tiny, so you can keep it in your pocket, and then when the tyranny is chasing you, you can be, like, aaaaaa what did he say again . Aaaaaa oh, you have one as well. On tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century. Timothy snyder, everybody. Well be right back cheers and applause