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 for tuning in coming up on the show, minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar will be joining us, everybody cheers and applause but first, weve all been freaking out about the escalating war of words between, you know, the crazy guy with the hairdo and ki kim jong un. Indiana and china are in a tense standoff now over a move by china to build a road through a contested border region. India respond bid deploying military. Now cheese troops arrived in the area. Growing concern this could turn into an actual conflict. Video showing chinese and indian soldiers clark near the indian tibetan border. Soldiers from oath sides fighting and throwing rocks at each other. Trevor wait, wait, wait, throwing rocks . Indian and china fought by throwing rocks at each other . laughter you know the guy behind the camera was, like, third world star what are you doing . Youre armies that is insane thats the kind of fight you expect to see in a wendys parking lot, not between two nuclear superpowers. By the way, if you look at that picture of the beach, if you zoom in, you will see this whole time Chris Christie was chilling on the beach. laughter thats what they were fighting about so wheres chri Chris Christie . Thats why theres a war. But while were on the subject, lets talk about war good god, yall, what is it good for . Making someone look president ial. Last night prump took a quick break from night golfing to speak to the nation in a major primetime address. It was a good speech and he successfully read it. Fox news alerted any strategy for afghanistan. President trump announcing his plan for americas longest war. President trump promising additional troops in the wartorn country. From now on we will have a clear vision, attacking our enemies, crushing al quaida, preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan and stopping mass terror attacks against america before they emerge. Trevor so one clear got it, got it. Im sorry, look, i know that hes been president for seven months but seeing donald trump making military decisions still weird for me. I mean, he must be the first human being in history who gets to command an army after starring in a pizza hut commercial. laughter its just a little strange. But i shouldnt prejudge, maybe mr. Pizza hut has a new plan. The only problem is, while we know trump decided to send more troops to afghanistan, thats pretty much all we know. His actual strategy is like his position on nazis, unclear. The president gave few details about his new strategy for afghanistan. It involved increased troop levels but gave no specifics. He also said no end date. Very few specifics and even fewer benchmarks. One way or another these problems will be solved. Im a Problem Solver, and in the end, we will win. Trevor yeah. Trump is a Problem Solver the same way godzilla is a city planner. Yes. laughter cheers and applause the only way donald trump could consider himself a Problem Solver is if he stops creating problems. You guys are so lucky, i was about to do something, but i stopped myself. Problem presolved. applause now, last night, one thing we all noticed was that we were listening to book report trump. No crazy tangents, no crowd work, just complete sentence, coherent thoughts, focusing on the words, but there was still definitely glimpses of free style trump. Terrorists who slaughter innocent people will find no glory in this life or the next. They are nothing but thugs and criminals and predators and, thats right, losers. laughter trevor thats right losers. Youre in my vocabulary now laughter even as he is escalating a war, trump has to throw in his catch phrase. Can you imagine if president obama did that . Can you just imagine if he was, like, our special forces have just killed, uh, osama bin laden, uh, bazinga. laughter applause yesterdays speech was a little surprising from trump. First of all, because he didnt bring up the Electoral College for a change, and more importantly, he flipflopped on every Afghanistan Campaign promise he made, right, because, remember, he promised fewer troops, he promised fewer wars, and he flipflopped on that, and to his credit he acknowledged the flipflop straight up. The commanderinchief made it clear hes listening to his generals who say the way to beat the taliban and i. S. I. S. Is with more boots on the ground. My original instinct was to pull out. I like following my instinct. All my life, ive heard decision are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. In other words, when youre president of the United States. Trevor oh laughter thats what sitting behind the desk in the oval office means being president laughter im so glad he explained it to us the same way general kelly explained it to him. laughter who are you . Oh, and by the way, i dont know why were surprised. Its, like, oh, why didnt trump pull out, oh, five kids. He was never going to pull out. Come on. What i will say is shocking is that trump went against his instinct. His instinct was to pull out of afghanistan, then he changed his mind. The question is how do you convince trump to not do something, it turns out by giving him something he wants to do more. One of the ways mcmaster tried to persuade trump to recommit to the effort was by convincing him afghanistan was not a hopeless place. He presented trump with a black and white snapshot from 1972 of afghan women in mini skirts walking through kabul to show him western norms had existed there before and could return. applause ive got to say, thats a genius move by the general right there. I mean, trump may not care about bringing democracy to afghanistan, but bringing mini skirts is a different story. Afghanistan is a lost cause. We should pull out immediately. Sir, with more troops, we could get these women showing some leg again. I want you to put every soldier we have into this country this is too important how many troops will it take to get boobs . How many more . laughter tell me now. Tell me now. laughter , so President Trump is adding more troops to afghanistan. You have to ask yourself what the end goal is. As much as he says he wants to do something different, hes saying familiar things. From now on, victory will have a clear definition. I owe you a mission that is clearly defined. We will not dictate to the Afghan People how to live. We are not in afghanistan to control that country or dictate its future. We must stop the resurgence of safe havens. We must deny al quaida a safe haven. Afghans will secure and build their own nation. Afghans will have to take responsibility for their own security. Our support is not a blank check. The days of providing a blank check are over. Trevor ba zin bazinga. I said it first bazinga bbazinga applause whats clear is donald trump is slapping his name on somebody elses projects and doesnt have any new ideas of his own. Here are fresh thinking on how to handle the war in afghanistan, please welcome desi lydic and ronny chieng, everybody cheers and applause whats going on . Desi, lets start with you. Actually, before we start, why are you wearing martia military . The president only takes advice from generals, four stars, like how i find any gynecologist on yelp. Trevor i didnt know yelp rated forget et it. Desi, what are you ideas for the war in afghanistan . Simple. We have to build up their democracy. Institute voling reforms, get power back to the people trevor sorry to cut you off, george w. Bush did that. Didnt work. Two, we install a friendly warlord to trevor the british tried it, didnt work. An aggressive bombing campaign. Trevor the soldiers tried that in the 19 army the Trevor Reagan did that. One Super Soldier hell bent on revenge. Trevor is that rambo 3 . All the rambos and it worked trevor rony, do you have any ideas . Yeah. Wait, youre goin going to ask e about my outfit . Trevor i thought it was a cultural asian thing. I dont want to be racist. I dont know how this works. You think asian people dress like this normally . Thats way more racist. Trevor sorry, ronny. Why are you dressed like that . Glad you asked, trevor. Its part of my idea that what we should do in afghanistan is send in a private mercenary army overseen by a viceroy. This is not a crazy idea. You should know steve bannon actually pitched this idea. Trevor if steve bannon pitched it, bleep out of here, doesnt explain why youre dressed like Michael Jackson on a tuesday. Obviously in this situation i would be the viceroy. Trevor why you . Do you have any viceroy experience. Pretty good at eating grapes fed to me by a southern boy. Trevor how would you know you were good at that . How do you eat grapes . Trevor this is going nowhere. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, you know what . I got it. Maybe we have been thinking about this all wrong. You know, instead of leading afghanistan on, lets make a commitment and quit pretending were ever going to leave. You know, america has spent 16 years in afghanistan. We spent a trillion bucks on it, but lets be real were in this thing for life. Why not make an honest territory out of them and put a ring on it . Lets make afghanistan the 51st state. Trevor desi, how does that make any sense . Think about it, afghanistan would make a perfect american state. It has tons of pickup trucks, guns and opiates. Its got something for everybody republicans will get an influx of super religious conservatives and democrats get an entire state of minorities and seriously open borders. laughter just dont think of it as afghanistan, just think of it as really, really west virginia. laughter applause trevor des and ronny chieng, everybody well be right back. Hello moto. 21 liftoff. Phone. Projector. Make out party. Buy the new moto z with shattershield, and youll get a free projector mod. How do they make starburst taste so juicy . They use wicked small fighter jets to shoot the juiciness into every starburst. [ pilot ] its about to get juicy. Whoo i feel so aliii. It takes guts. [ female announcer ] starburst. Unexplainably juicy. Our challenges dare us. Defy us. And define us. Coors light. Whatever your mountain, climb on. 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I didnt know they could stop working. How does that work is this does somebody jump over the white house fence and theyre like hey, hey, hes moving beeping oh, thats me for the day. See you later, charlie a weird thing. Protecting the trumps is turning out to be a big job, a lot of them and wont stay put. Trumps large family, 18 members in all, travel often and need protection wherever they. Go u. S. A. Today reports trumps son eric took a business trip to uruguay earlier this year which cost the secret service 100,000 for hotel rooms. The secret service spent 64,000 to inspect elevators at trump tower and 73,000 on golf cart rentals at trump properties. Trevor wow, wow 73,000 on golf carts . A golf cart really the best vehicle for this job . How are you going to protect the president in a golf cart . Hes got a gun driving sounds hold on, mr. President , were coming driving sounds . Hold on . Driving sounds . laughter what are you doing . Now, although, protecting trumps large family strained the finances of the secret service, hasnt all been his fault. The secret service complained they havent had enough money for years. With george george, it was because he was visiting different parts of texas. With hand , secret service had to be trained to do black guy highfives. laughter when it comes to the secret service, donald trump is doing a secret kiss service. audience reacts sorry. That was no, no, that was terrible. I dont know even that wasnt even a joke. I dont even know. Sorry. Pardon me, i dont know what that was. Sorry. Jerry. What the hell, man is this youre supposed to protect me from the bad jokes, dude. Sorry. Trevor what do you mean sorry . I thought it was a black joke. I didnt real i dont really get your humor. Trevor what do you mean your humor. Is this what i pay you for . Whatever, man. Giraffe is on the move. 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With tmobile taxes and fees are already included, so you get four lines of unlimited for just 40 bucks each. And now get zero down on the hottest smart phone brands like samsung galaxy. More reasons why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. cheers and applause trevor welcome back to the daily show. My guest tonight is the senior u. S. Senator from minnesota, please welcome democratic senator Amy Klobuchar cheers and applause trevor welcome to the show, senator. Well, thank you, it is great to be on. Trevor may i just say, you have one of the most impressive resumes i have ever come across in my life, and not the work youve done before you got into the senate which is extremely impressive but the fact that you have passed so much legislation. Youre like a home run hitter when it comes to legislation in a town where they say nothing gets done, how do you get it done . Well, the first part is believing youre there for a reason. The second is to find people and meet them where they are, find that common ground. Then the last thing is memo to the white house, be civil to the people. applause big surprise trevor just being nice. It works. Trevor well, it really has served your well. I mean, you have been ranked as first on a list of all 100 senators with the most bills that have been enacted into law during the Current Congress which is amazing. cheers and applause do you walk around the halls with a bit of, like, yeah, thats me, thats me. laughter i think its a good time in politics to be humble. Trevor right. Very nicely said. Very nicely said. Thank you. Thank you. And then to also understand that, yes, we passed some bills and there are people on both sides of the aisle that want to Work Together and find compromiseut the people of this country are facing major, major issues. Trevor right. It is really getting hard for them to get by whether its paying for cable, paying for prescription drugs and thats what youve got to remember. Trevor lets talk about the paying for prescription drugs. Thats close to your heart. Your daughter is a user of the epipen. Yes. Trevor and this is one of the stories in the u. S. That became big because the price of drugs scrb skyrocketing. Critics say they need to come down, and the critics on the other side say if you bring them down it will stifle innovation. Is that true . I dont think so. I think the better question is why in the United States of america of any developed nation in the world do our drugs cost the most. Trevor right. That is wrong. Four to have the top ten best selling drugs in america have gone up over 100 in their price over the last few years. South not just epipen. It is everything from insulin on down. So what we need here is, first of all, to say to the Big Pharmaceutical Companies, you cant own washington, d. C. Secondly, Big Pharmaceutical Companies are paying off Generic Companies to actually keep their products off the market. We could save 3 billion over ten years according to the congressional budget office. Trevor recently the democrats have started to notice a rift in the party and that in that some democrats are saying its time to have democrats running for office even if they may not agree with all the democratic principles such as prochoice or certain taxes or just ideas that are commonly associated with being a democrat. Other people like Elizabeth Warren have come out and said, no, if you are not going to be prolife i mean, if youre not going to be prochoice, then the Democratic Party is not for you. How do you see the democrats navigating that quagmire . Well, we have a clear platform, and that is that we are we believe that a woman has a right to choose her own destiny. Trevor right. We are prochoice. But i know in my state, honestly, there are people that vote for me or vote democratic that dont agree with that, but yet they agree with us, you should be able to afford college. Trevor right. They agree that you should be smart about how you move forward when it comes to foreign policy. They didnt like that we got into the war in iraq. I would have people come up to me and say, look, im prolife, i dont agree with you on that, but i do agree with you that we need to get out of the war in iraq. Trevor okay. So i dont believe those people should be left behind, and while i believe in the platform of our party strongly, i believe that one of the dumbest things we could do is defund planned parenthood when thats when a great majority of women in this country get their healthcare. applause and, as far as our party and elizabeth and i served together in leadership, i was proud of our party when we took at Health Care Vote that, in the president s own words on this mean bill that would have kicked 20 Million People off health insurance, our party from joe manchin to byrnes stood together from beginning to end and thats why three courageous republicans joined us, and if we had not stood together, that would not have happened. cheers and applause trevor im excited to see how the race pans out and excited to have your on as a guest. Great to be on. Thank you. Trevor senator Amy Klobuchar, everybody cheers and applause thank you so much