Screaming some sound beating me beating me down down into the ground. [space ship whooshing] [mumbling] captioning sponsored by Comedy Central 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. Thank you so much for tuning in. Im trevor noah. Our guest tonight from the movie i do until i dont, lake bell is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also tonight, we have a special conversation with a former u. S. Nuclear negotiator with north korea, and hes going to try and tell us whats going on in that part of the world. So thats going to be a fun conversation. Stick around for that. But first, Hurricane Season continues with devastating effects. Breaking news overnight, the most powerful hurricane to hit the atlantic. Hurricane irma is leaving a path of destruction in the caribbean. Smashing into st. Martin, st. Barts, anguilla, guadalupe, and bartholemew. And she is still churning at this hour. Trevor can i just ask a question . How many onceinalifetime event is it going to take in our lifetimes for everyone to admit maybe manmade Climate Change is real . You realize that Hurricane Irma is the most powerful atlantic storm ever recorded. And thats exactly the sort of thing that climate scientists predict in this part of the world, warmer oceans will lead to stronger hurricanes. Like, im so confused. Likes, what is it going to take to get climate deniers to acknowledge this . Maybe we need isis to help us out. laughter this is where we go, hey, isis, i know we dont agree on stuff. Can you help us out here . Like, maybe isis should start taking credit for hurricanes. laughter they should. Isis shoud be like every time a hurricane hits, isis should be, that was us. We sent that storm. We sent that storm to destroy america. And then republicans will be like, thats ridiculous. You guys cant cause hurricanes. And theyll be like, who causes hurricanes . Theyll be like theyre caused by climate oh, man, Climate Change. Isis, isis caused it. And it is scary to get such a massive hurricane so soon after harvey. Luckily for americans, though, the president is there with his soothing and poetic words. laughter there is a new and seems to be recordbreaking hurricane heading right toward florida and puerto rico and other places. Well see what happens. Well know in a very short period of time. But it looks like it could be something that will be not good. Believe me, not good. laughter trevor got it not good. Okay. laughter i hope donald trump does the eulogy at my funeral. Trevor, trevor was a man. laughter applause but before america deals with this potential disaster, unfortunately, it has to finish dealing with its current disaster. And, no, no, im not talking about that. No who didnt know . New song is much better. Im talking about Hurricane Harvey. As you know, victims in texas are in need of relief funding. Unfortunately, that funding has to come from the federal government. And this morning, it wasnt clear if there was even going to be a federal government. Republicans had a packed agenda when they returned to congress september 5. Among their essential tasks, passing a new spending bill and raising the debt ceiling by months end. Its called the xdate, exactly when the government runs out of money. Lawmakers must raise the countrys debt limit before then so the treasury can pay americas bills in full and on time. So the debt ceiling will be hit exactly as Congress Needs to pass a spending measure to keep the government open. And the president is now threatening a Government Shutdown if his border wall is not funded. Trevor you know that trump doesnt even care about the wall, right . He just wants to get the government to shut down so he doesnt have to work. laughter thats his game plan. Thats his plan. I bet even if they gave him the wall to avoid shutdown, he would be like, oh, well, now i want a spaceship to send all the mexicans to the moon. Okay, that as well. I just want to play golf i want to play golf laughter so when we woke up this morning, there was a big chance that the federal government could be shut down in a few weeks, because, as usual, everyone in washington was too busy slapfighting each other, right. And everyone was mad about it. Everybody was slapfighting. Except for ted cruz. He was like, human touch. Human touch. Human touch. I love this game. laughter so for Hurricane Harvey counting on federal aid, things were looking really bleak. But then at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern daylight time, a true miracle took place, the thing you never would expect to happen actually happened donald trump made a deal. Fox news alert for you. Aboard air force one, President Trump just announcing he reached a bipartisan deal oneration the debt ceiling and funding for victims of Hurricane Harvey. We had a great meeting with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and the whole Republican Leadership group, and we walked out, and everybody was happy. It was a really good moment of some bipartisanship and getting things done, no one standing in their corner. We thought for the good of the country, we should make the right offer, and we did. And were very glad the president accepted it. Trevor okay, i dont know about you guys, but this all feels like some crazy dream. laughter donald trump is working together with the democrats . And my hand is a fish aaahh aaaah no, no, false alarm. I just remembered im holding a plastic fish. I put it on my hand so i could tell this joke. There we go. There we go. But still thank you, maem. But still, but still applause trump and the democrats working together. You have to admit, that is super weird. Its like finding out your mom still has sex. Like, youre happy because shes a person. You just dont think of her that way. laughter and it turns out, i wasnt the only person today who was like, whoa, mom says President Trump left Republican Leaders shell shocked today by agreeing with congressional democrats. He essentially went into the oval office and kicked them in the gut. It seems that it has really caught republicans off guard. As you just noted, kate, i mean, moments before the president did this, paul ryan called this proposal ridiculous. Trevor damn if paul ryan had balls, thats right where trump would have kicked him, right there. Right there. cheers and applause but even though they hate it, apparently, enough republicans will go along with the new deal, agreeing to raise the debt ceiling and averting a Government Shutdown for a while. So it looks Like Congress has accomplished its mission, its main mission. But now, theres all the side deals the republicans want to complete tax reform, dealing with health care, finding a way to keep dreamers in the country. Vacuuming under Mitch Mcconnells jowls. laughter where, by the way, several dreamers are currently hiding. laughter now, are they going to be able to do all this stuff . I dont know. I dont think anybody knows. But lets put it this way it took a hurricane just to get the government to stay open. And staying open is square one, by the way. Thats where you should be all the time. And then you should work. But they got it done, and in a way, thats the good news. The government has shown that it still can function. The bad news is that it takes a hurricane to get them going. The good news is that there are more hurricanes coming. laughter the bad news is that theyre hurricanes. laughter like, at this rate, americans are going to be hoping for natural disasters just so their government gets bleep done. Like, who knows . In the future, instead of getting the news from the news, americans might just be watching the weather. Thanks, trevor, are you ready for the weather . Here we go. Were talking weather and politics. So get out your umbrella and your veto pen. Weve got a tropical depression forming in the gulf that could bring with it Prescription Drug funding for Underprivileged Youth with health problems. Wildfires are blazing in utah. Thats good news if youre legalizing weed. Lets going back to weather. This is the heat wave thats continuing across the south. We might just have to decriminalize sodomy. Thats what i call hot. Thats the weather, im michael costa. Come on, trevor, hit me right now michael costa, everybody. Well be right back. cheers and applause im jimmy, this is my definition of fresh since 1983. Why do we grow our own hops . To brew an ipa all our own. There are no shortcuts to goose ipa. We dont need to be the only beer you drink. We just want to be the best beer you drink. U. G. L. 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For perspective on this alarming development, were joined tonight by a true expert, ambassador Christopher Hill, everybody. cheers and applause so to give me some perspective, Christopher Hill served as u. S. Ambassador to south korea and led negotiations for the u. S. During the sixparty talks on north Koreas Nuclear program. He is now a dean at the university of denver, which is much crazier than north korea. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Trevor thank you so much for being here. Pleasure. Trevor lets get straight into it. You have had to negotiate with north korea. Everyone is asking the same question right now, and that is, what does kim jongun want . Other than a better barber. What does he want . laughter yeah, i think its pretty serious what he wants. This is not a case of some Little Country that thinks theyll feel better if they have a couple of nukes. I mean, this is a country that has a longterm program. They have been working on this for some 40, 50 years. And i think, ultimately, what they hope to do is decouple the u. S. From the korean peninsula, to create a circumstance where the u. S. Isnt prepared to defend south korea and risk its own population. Trevor right, but that seems like an illogical want. Like, south korea is an ally of the u. S. Right. Trevor right. North korea knows this. China knows this. The question everyone seems to be struggling with is why would he continue to create these Nuclear Weapons . What is the end goal of doing this . Because the u. S. Is not stepping down, it looks like. If anything, the u. S. Is escalating, you know, its readiness. In would kim jongun go, i still want my Nuclear Weapons. One of the things people say is he wants Nuclear Weapons to keep us from attacking north korea. In fact, we never planned to attack north korea, and our allies, the South Koreans, would say, no, thank you. So theres no interest there in attacking north korea. So why does he do this . And the answer is he believes that if he can get the u. S. Off the korean peninsula, stop being the ally of south korea, he could actually unify the korean peninsula. Trevor how do of do they work this out. It seems like a loselose situation. We have to work with the South Koreans and japanese to assure them we are there. We have to sit down with the chinese and i dont mean sending them a tweet in the dead of night. laughter and i dont mean, you know, having some kind of, you know, public phone call. Trevor right. We need to sit down with them and say, china, what do you want to see out of this situation . Because this is what we want to see. We need to kind of have this kind of have this serious deep dive with the chinese. And we havent done that. Trevor do you really believe that the u. S. Hasnt done that . I mean, you were involved as an ambassador, communicating with north korea. Now, its no secret that the north koreans once lied about what they were doing. They lied about their enrichment of plutonium. They were secretly working towards getting Nuclear Weapons. Can you trust this kind of country . And then on the flip side, someone will say, if you cannot trust them, what you can realistically do . Look, to paraphrase tina turner whats trust got to do with this . Its all about its cheers and applause its all about can you verify what youre doing . We had a deal with them, but they wouldnt give us verification. They would only give us verification of things we already knew. Trevor right. So we need to be able to verify that theres something over there we want to have a look at, and we need the right to have a look at these undeclared sites. And thats when the north koreans said no. And this was in the fall of 2008. There were a couple of possibilities. Maybe they wanted to deal with the next administration. Maybe they were sick of dealing with george w. Bush, et cetera. The problem was we never got back to a negotiation. And, as you suggest, they have a plutonium facility we know about. In fact, we got it shut down. We got it disabled. But they also had some purchases on the international market, consistent with having that other means to a Nuclear Weapon, socalled highly enriched uranium, and thats where they wouldnt tell us anything. So we had to pull out of that without any verification if we couldnt go further. Trevor lets pivot to Donald Trumps approach. He, as you said, tweets. I dont know if kim jongun follows him, but i think he knows. laughter and he has come out saying, fire and fury like never seen before. There has been a lot of posturing from donald trump. You think that hes taking the right approach . He will outsource it to china. You take care of that and well help you with trade issues. So hes sending jobs to china instead of getting americans oh, thats interesting. For people who are afraid on the u. S. Side, scale of 110, how afraid should an american be . And on a scale of 110, how afraid should a south korean be . We can protect ourselves, and we can protect our allies. I would put it way down on the scale right now. But on the longer run, we have a problem. Because when they do perfect an arsenal that is aimed at us, this is a new thing. We havent had this, had a new country show up with a Nuclear Weapon pointed at us in a half a century. So in the short run, i think we can all sleep well tonight. Tomorrow, well, i think well be okay, tomorrow, too. laughter but i think i think we really have to address this. And we have to address it in a serious way. And were supposed to be the adult here. And thats what weve got to do. Trevor well just keep checking in every single day with you. Thank you so much for coming to the show. cheers and applause you can learn more about his fascinating career in his book outpost a diplomat at work. Ambassador Christopher Hill, everybody. cheers and applause whats that . 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