cheers and applause trevor that is our show for tonight ill be gone for a few weeks. One more time, now here it is. Your moment of zen. Well, i think as a captioning sponsored by Comedy Central cheers and applause larry yeah welcome to the nightly show. Ntion are ption comehellwelcome to the nightly though. Im larry wilmore. Thanks to all the ladies and gentlemen in our armed forces. How about a nice round of applause, everybody. Television icon levar burton joins us on panel tonight. Im very excited. All right guys, you know what time it is. Time to check in with americas efforts to denegrofy the white house. Thats right. Lets see whats happening with the unblackening. Big news today donald trump has now clinched the republican nomination for president. 1,237 delegates are needed and mr. Trump now has 1,238. Larry coincidentally, 12 38 is the time im going to hang myself after the show. laughter im not going to miss midnight. No, no. So heres the deal. So last summer, i made this stupid bet. I said that if trump became the republican nominee which was a ridiculous idea i would drink a bottle of trump vodka on the air. Well. cheers that day has come i am a mad man of my word. Dont feel sad for me. This is my own fault. I brought this upon myself. I feel like i need to punish myself, kind of like that albino in the da vinci code right now selfflagellation. And since ill never be able to get through a Trump Presidency sober, i guess i may as well start now, right. And for those of you joining us at home, every time i do a shot, you do a shot. cheers tastes like the tastes like the death of the american empire. Lets try a little more. Aaaahhh tastes like Chris Christies used bathwater laughter all right one more, one more. cheers and applause let me tell you something, that ivankas looking pretty good. laughter if she werent my daughter and i wasnt her father, i would be totally into that. What am i saying . Okay, so trump is the nominee. And, of course, he held a press conference, and he cant not Say Something insane. In california, wind is killing all of the eagles. laughter wait, wind is killing all of the eagles . Is that what happened to glenn frey . Young audience. Thats all right. He was a part of the eagles. But youre right. Soon to be impeached President Trump wind has always been the enemy of the eagle. Trump, youre the nominee now, so youre above name calling right . Lets say, for example, if someone asked you a question about senator elizabeth warren. Elizabeth warren, she seems to have made it her job who, pocahontas . Larry pocahontas . First you called her goofy and now pocahontas . So youre going to base all your Foreign Policy on disney characters . Although, i did appreciate when he called rubio and cruz lilo and stitch. That was pretty good. laughter how about this . Any word of wisdom for america now . Theres one more thing that we must do to make america wealthy again, and you have to be wealthy in order to be great, im sorry to say. Thats right. Im looking at you, jesus. Why did you have to die so poor on that cross . You ingrate all right, heres the deal. Hillarys got her work cut out for her. Look, shes not perfect, but she may be our last chance to avoid trump. So come on, hillary, are you ready to go . You got your is dotted, your ts crossed . What kind of shape is your campaign in . Come on, girl the state departments independent watchdog yesterday issued a scathing report. It finds clintons email practices violated federal standards. Larry uhoh, why are we still talking about these emails . I mean, it cant still be a thing, right . I wonder if people are picking on hillary. I mean, the Inspector General cant say this was a clear violation of the rules that were in place when secretary clinton was in office. The Inspector General says that this was a clear violation of the rules that were in place when secretary clinton was in office. laughter laughter cheers and applause larry all right, but theres got to be evidence that she requested or obtained guidance or at least approval to conduct official business via her personal email account on her private server. And it says there is no evidence that the secretary requested or obtained guidance or approval to conduct official business via her personal email account on her private server. Larry blessed jesus laughter applause okay, well, im sure they found somebody who approved of this. They could find nobody who approved of this. laughter applause larry okay this has really got to be bad news for the campaign. They must be in panic mode. I mean, really sweating this out. Here to explain how hillary is handling this, please welcome Clinton Campaign aide carlos jordanson. So, carlos, whats going on over there . It must be nervewracking for you guys right now with all these allegations. Larry, its fine. No problem. Larry really . Youre not nervous . No larry because the Inspector Generals report was pretty brutal. Typical republican attacks, thats all. Nothing new. Larry i cant believe youre not concerned why are you sweating so much . Summer heat. Thats all. Its not this report. Is that why you think im sweating . This isnt about me or my career. Its about the sun and the tilt of the earths axis. Thats what we should be talking about. Thats the real story here. Larry no, the real story is the report. Look, the Inspector General has clearly said that clinton violated state department rules. This could upend your whole candidacy. I cant believe youre not in panic mode panic, ha you just said it yourself, larry. Rules. Not laws, rules. More like policies. Suggestions, really. Life hacks, if you will. laughter you know. Like when they tell you to tie a piece of bright colored fabric on your suitcase handle so its easier to pick out in the luggage carousel. Helpful larry actually, no. The report says hillary did not comply with the federal records act. I mean, that is a law not a major one. Tiny one. Teensytiny. Boy, it is really hot in here larry yes i think youre showing how much pressure youre under right now no, no. I come from a family of sweaters. We all have huge adrenal glands. Larry i dont believe you. Larry, were all cool as cucumbers over here. All i know is that secretary clinton is as happy to get to the bottom of all this as anyone else. Thats why she cooperated fully with the investigation. Larry explain this to me. How could she have done that without any official approval . How could that have happened. Oh, my god oh, my god oh larry larry youre drenched the only yes . The only thing official is my left arm has gone numb, okay. I think im having a goddamn heart attack. Will someone open a bleep window. Larry okay i think you answered all my questions. Carlos jordanson everybody. Open a window new aquafina sparkling. Lightness and refreshment in perfect sync. Aquafina sparkling. For happy bodies. Show me movies with romance. Show me more like this. Show me previously watched. whats recommended for me. X1 makes it easy to find what you love. Call or go online and switch to x1. Only with xfinity. cheers and applause larry welcome back. Angry birds is the number one movie in america right now. But and this is completely true some people have some weird racist conspiracy theories about the movie, saying its an antiimmigration screed, that it supports europes current antimuslim climate, and even that red, the main bird, is donald trump. To be fair, theyre almost the exact same color. But really . Are those fun, cute, birds more dangerous than they seem . To help sort this out, lets check in with our conspiracy expert mike yard, in the latest installment of the y files. So, mike, does the angry birds movie really have an agenda . Tear the scales from your eyes, larry the answer is so obvious, even a fourthgrader can see it larry mike, just tell me if you think the movies about ilamophobia in europe, or immigration, or trump. Thats what they want you to think, larry. Think. But, no angry birds is about black people read it and weep, my brother. Larry mike, this is nuts what could angry birds possibly have to do with black people . Lets start with the main character, red. All of the happy birds always telling him hes too angry larry calm down, mike sound familiar. Larry you seem a little angry. Do you see what you did . You just proved my point they make red go to anger management class, where he meets a black bird with a fuse steking out of his head. Really why . Because hes gonna go off at any second whaaat larry thats ridiculous its just a dumb movie, a craven attempt to cash in on the popularity of a silly game, not some allegory about black peoples anger why is red so mad, you ask larry . Larry i dont recall asking that. Because of all the pigs who show up from out of nowhere pigs, larry how is that not about the police . applause . Larry no no. Because maybe theyre just pigs . Come on, captain unawareica when red doesnt trust the pigs, he and his friends seek advice from a giant, lazy eagle. And look at what the eagle does, larry, look laughter larry he takes a piss in a lake . What does that have to do with black people . You know, larry, i hope you have your passport because youre about to leave the matrix the eagle the u. S. Government takes a piss. Piss, urine youre in trouble punishing black children harder than others . Schooltoprison pipeline. Pipes carry water. From lake michigan. Michigan . Flint . Hello . Pow. Blew your mind larry good lord, mike. Youre out of your mind i still dont think this has anything to do with black stuff. Well, larry, you know what youre half right but youre all wrong. Larry that doesnt make sense. Let me break it down for you okay, my brother, because if you listen youre going to get it. All the black stuff is just a smokescreen to hide the real truth that beyonce is really solanges mom. Larry what yes, larry. Beyonce is really 36, not 34 and solange isnt 29. Shes 22. But you cant explain all this bleep to you. Youre going to have to google it. Larry google it who has the time . Mike yard and the yfiles, everyone well be right back. There are two billion people who dont have access to basic banking but that is changing. At temenos, with the microsoft cloud, we can enable a banker to travel to the most remote locations with nothing but a phone and a tablet. Everywhere where theres a phone, you have a bank. Now a person is able to start a business, and employ somebody for the first time. The microsoft cloud helped us to bring banking to ten Million People in just two years. Its transforming our world. cheers and applause larry welcome back. Im here with my panel. First up, nightly show contributor Jordan Carlos. cheers and applause and nightly show contributor holly walker. cheers and applause and hes the coexecutive producer of roots, a miniseries remake of the classic show airing on monday, may 30, at 9 00 p. M. On the History Channel and all across cable. Welcome levar burton. cheers and applause and for everyone at home, join our conversation right now on twitter nightlyshow using the hashtag tonightly. Youre coexecutive producer of the new version of roots, and the original had a huge impact on america, ratingswise. I felt people really got a feel for that black experience for the first time ever. That was the truth. Larry yes. Do you think a show like that can the same ceend of Cultural Impact today . Well, i know there is no way we can hope to approximate the recordshattering number of television is just different. We just watch tv in a very different way these days, but i am hoping we can be a parent about the continuing conversation about race in america. And where are those vestiges that still exist, those vestiges of slavery . Where does racism still lurk in our Society Today . And hopefully we can use this opportunity to take a good, hard look at ours and perhaps make some change. Larry yeah that would be great. applause because i wonder, because weve had a lot of movies in the meantime, everything from amstad 12 years a slave. Does it have an effect on you . Absolutely especially around oscar time and things like that and you learn about where you came from. Ill definitely be watching. I didnt get to watch the first time around. I wasnt born. And you never had a v. C. R. No, i was raised by wolves. And im sorry i didnt see it roots was in my house, a big book, and i used to make ramps out of it. This is not going well. Larry youll have to apologize. But im going to watch it. Im going to watch it now. Is everybody going to watch it . cheers and applause . I actually was bleep alive then and i did watch it and its going to impact me good for you. It was very good for me and i think it will impact me the same way then as it will now. I was so mesmerized that one human could treat another human in a different way. Like, i wasnt old enough to quite get it. And i remember sitting down with my parents to watch this my family. And i was like, but why why would they do that to us . What did we do to them . Larry it was fascinating because what was powerful about it and your role in particular was the name, you know. And that issue of identity, i think, is as strong today in our society. Why do you think thats rez 98ing so much now . I mean, maybe thengz like roots that im going to see you saw jaws jordan. Well jaws is great. Larry what is he doing . Im saying theyre both good. Listen, roots is good can i go now . No, no no. Its opened the door to discussion about identity. Especially, like, afro sen tresm and fiending out who are you. Y remember back in the day people would be like, whats your name . Jordan . Thats your slave name. And i would be like, really . I wanted to know what my real name was and where i came from and now you can do those kinds of things, its anthropology. Com its like a commercial. Ancestry. Com. Just guide me along. Leave me footnotes. Im just saying the doors are opening to this conversation. Do you feel it . Did you feel after roots was made that people wanted to discuss and wanted to dialogue . Absolutely. And roots is responsible for a huge boon in the field of genealogy and everyone wanted to research ther roots, and like you say with the human genome project we can spit in a cup and send it away and that is a miracle for black people. Have you done that . I vindeed. 75 a good 70 of my genetic code comes from subsaharan africa. I was not surprised about that. I was surprised to find 25 of my d. N. A. , my ancestry is irish and english. Mark wahlberg and i everybody is surprised by that but i say the cream was pored in the coffee, not the other way around. Thats right. Larry why are you so shocked . Its funny, because the other powerful thing, it was a family story. Alex haley was discovering his roots, but it became this story for all of america. Do you think america can have a katharthsis for a story like roots . We did once, and i believe we can again. Larry because of the family aspect, do you think . Because of the family aspect. The first time was really like pulling the scab off of a wound, and everybody was very, very raw. Larry very powerful. It was very powerful. 40 years on now, i believe we can have that conversation and im hoping we can have that conversation absent a lot of the anger, a lot of the fear, and most especially, absent the guilt and the shame and that we can have a katharthsis as people on both sides. And you can have one too, if you watch it. If you watch it. Larry did you ever watch star trek, the next generation . cheers and applause no you do not get a pass all right there it is. Well, look i hope everybody can watch this again. Its one of the most important shows i think ever and its about family. Its an honor to have mr. Levar burton here. Well be right back. What backache . What sore wrist . What headache . Advil makes pain a distant memory. Nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain . Advil. No way, its a chevy. Oh wow its the chevy memorial day sale. 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