[ laughter and applause ] according to cnn, after the candidate he was backing for the Alabama Special Senate election lost, President Trump was quote, pissed and embarrassed. Incidentally, pissed and embarrassed is also the title of his Russian Hotel tape. [ cheers and applause ] stick around for embarrassed. According to reports trumps soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner is registered as a female voter in new york. [ light laughter ] to be fair, he did register over the phone. [ highpitched voice ] hello, id like to register. [ laughter ] well, okay. Let me say, you have a beautiful voice, maam. [ light laughter ] while discussing the Corporate Tax rate today President Trump said that 20 is his ideal number and he is not negotiating that number, which is the same thing he says when he orders chicken mcnuggets. [ laughter ] a new poll has found that education secretary betsy devos is the least popular member of President Trumps cabinet with a 28 approval rating. Or as she calls it, this many. [ laughter and applause ] a new study has determined that people in relationships can detect infidelity in their partners voice especially when their voice says, oh, youre home early [ laughter ] so happy to see you. [ light laughter ] and finally it was reported today that Justin Timberlake may perform at the super bowl in february, and that the jets will not. [ laughter and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show for you tonight. From abcs modern family one of our favorites, Sofia Vergara is here tonight, how about that . [ cheers and applause ] he is the star of the new comedy on fox, ghosted, hes a very funny guy, Craig Robinson is back on the show. [ cheers and applause ] and shes a fantastic writer, shes a fantastic comedian, shes on hulus Difficult People, Julie Klausner is joining us as well. [ cheers and applause ] so, weve talked about tonight show this week, last sunday what happened with the anthem protests, what happened with trumps criticism of players who kneel during the National Anthem. And its led me to reflect on my relationship with football, and more importantly, my relationship with the Pittsburgh Steelers who i deeply, deeply love. I love the steelers so much that im fairly embarrassed by it. I think about them way too much. They effect my emotions way too much. Whats really embarrassing, i am not from pittsburgh. [ light laughter ] my dad is from pittsburgh and one of the things he ingrained in my brother and i was this love for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Heres how much my dad loves the Pittsburgh Steelers. If sometimes my dad will say, hey, i have a friend and he wants to come to the show. Can you get him a couple tickets . And i always do that, and then afterwards ill go back and talk to that person, and one of the things i always say is, hey, how do you know my dad . And at least once a month, that person will say to me, oh, i was wearing a steelers hat at a restaurant and he [ laughter ] he just walked over and started talking to me. [ light laughter ] and then they talk long enough that it ends with them getting tickets to the show. [ light laughter ] and thats great. Thats what i love about football, really a sports of any team. Is that you connect with strangers. You feel an emotional connection. I also love that because football doesnt really matter, it allows you to have a real emotion about fake things. For example, because im a steelers fan i hate the patriots. Now, i dont really hate the patriots. I just fake hate them for sports reasons, but i really hate the patriots. [ laughter ] but you know, i dont hate people who like the patriots. For example, our cue card wally he loves the patriots, and i love wally. Yeah, give it up for wally. [ cheers and applause ] even though i would say two to three days a week he wears a patriots shirt, as if to mock me. [ light laughter ] we had an actual patriot on our show, julian edelman. Heres a photo of him. He was just a lovely guy. We had a wonderful time. He gave me a patriots hat, which i promptly threw in the garbage. [ light laughter ] thats not true. Wally asked me for it and i told wally buy your own [ bleep ] hat. [ laughter ] and then i threw it in the garbage, but [ light laughter ] but the thing is, i hate the patriots, but also i dont, but i really do. [ light laughter ] and i also love the steelers so much that i love the players. I genuinely love, again this is all irrational. I understand this is all irrational. I love players that ive never met, that ive never spoken to, but i will say, what i realized this week is because i love these players it would be crazy for me not to want to hear what they wanted to express, the actual feelings they had as human beings. It would be crazy to just love them as players and not the humanity of them. So for me, you know, when someone uses their platform to peacefully protest something important to them, i have a great deal of respect for that. Now, a lot of people are saying there is a better time and place than during the National Anthem at a Football Game to protest, but the thing about protests is you do them at a time where the maximum amount of people Pay Attention to them. And thats why it is the right time to talk about something thats important to you. No one you never hear someone say like, we should protest. Where . Quietly, in my parents basement. [ light laughter ] [ whispering ] what do we want . Equality. [ light laughter ] when do we want it . Now. What are you two doing down there . Ah uh, the pledge of allegiance. [ light laughter ] the steelers whats interesting about the steelers is they have a player on their team who is an army veteran. He actually served in afghanistan. His name Alejandro Villanueva and hes a really interesting person to listen to this week. Or at least i found him interesting to listen to, because he was both, you know, in the army and hes now on a Football Team. And something that he seems to understand that President Trump doesnt is that when a player takes a knee in silent, peaceful protest during the National Anthem, theyre protesting Racial Injustice, and theyre not saying anything about the troops. Theyre not saying anything about not loving this country. And i would think that when you have someone with that depth of experience of having lived in both those worlds, that would be somebody worth listening to. The other thing is, i think theres this idea that people like football more and sports and general, when theyre not complicated. But particularly with nfl football, nfl football didnt get complicated on sunday. Its been complicated for a while. I think in order to watch the nfl, in order to love it as much as i do, you have to get over a lot of things that are true about the sport. And so, because of that, you know its too late for me, im always going to love football, im always going to love the steelers, but i have a son now. And i have a chance to maybe not indoctrinate him the way my father indoctrinated me. I have not made that choice. [ light laughter ] im going all in. [ light laughter ] for example, i am in a three strike football pool. You basically pick one team every week and youre allowed to be wrong three times over the course of the season, and i decided to let my yearandahalf old son, ash, pick the teams this year. Now, obviously at 18 months, hes not great with what teams are better than others, so what i did was i bought 32 tiny plastic football helmets and i put them in a bag and once a week i try to get him to take one of them out and thats the pick. The only problem is i cannot, for the life of me, get him to only take out one helmet at a time as evidenced by this. Seth just one, just one. Ash. Just, give me one. Ash, give me one. Give dada one. Okay, it is the panthers. My football. [ light laughter ] seth oh, my god. Thank you. But it was the panthers. You gave me the panthers. I cannot tell you how much i love that, and the panthers lost so hes not even good at it. [ light laughter ] i should say that afterwards, i immediately packed them back up and i put them away and he lost his mind and my wife said, you have to let him play with them now. [ light laughter ] because of course to him they were just colorful pieces of plastic. He didnt see what it was like, gambling implications of it. [ light laughter ] so i guess the question is why with everything am i just full bore going in this world where i want my son to love football as much as i do . In 2005 my entire family, my parents, my brother, and i we went to the super bowl in detroit. The Pittsburgh Steelers, who had not won a super bowl for a very long time, won in the super bowl in 2005 and my dad, theres things called terrible towels which steelers fans wave at Football Games and my dad just started crying into the terrible towel. And of all the times ive seen my father cry, it is my favorite. Because, it is the only time ive seen my father cry. [ light laughter ] and i think about it all the time, and how happy it made me and how it is you know for us, and again its irrational. Im not saying theres any reason that anyone who isnt doing this should do it, but its become such a family thing and it means so much to me, so, you know, i would just say that things that are important to me, peaceful protest very important to me. I hope it stays around forever. I hope football stays around forever. I do think the nfl should get rid of the patriots. And im not alone in that. [ cheers ] theyre bad people. Theyre not, im just kidding, but theyre really awful. And wally you should be ashamed of yourself and buy your own [ bleep ] hat. [ light laughter ] but, i guess what im trying to say is im really looking forward to sunday. So, thank you guys so much for listening to me ramble on about football. [ cheers and applause ] moving on, this week has been a perfect microcosm of the trump era, as President Trump fanned the flames of cultural flashpoints, like the nfl protest. A darling of the far right, judge roy moore, won a gop Senate Primary in alabama. For more on this its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth trump of course began his feud with nfl players who peacefully protest Racial Injustice last week at a rally in alabama. In fairness, thats pretty much what you expect when you hear the words rally in alabama. [ light laughter ] nobody hears there was a rally in alabama, and goes, oh was it for transgender adoption rights . [ light laughter ] and yet, despite tweeting repeatedly about the nfl and the anthem, trump insists he isnt obsessed with it. Yesterday at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of spain, he was asked if he was preoccupied with the issue while he should be focusing on puerto rico, and offered this very confusing, defense. To me the nfl situations a very important situation. Ive heard that before about was i preoccupied. Not at all. Not at all. I have plenty of time on my hands. All i do is work. Seth what . [ laughter ] you have plenty of time on your hands. All you do is work . One of those things cant be true. [ laughter ] thats like saying, i go on lots of dates. All i do is play grand theft auto. [ laughter ] but heres the thing, theres a reason trump is so much more interested in talking about the nfl than say, health care. And the reason is, trump knows nothing about policy. Take his response to the crisis in puerto rico. When he finally got around to talking about it on tuesday, trump made sure to do two things, claim credit for doing a great job, and demonstrate that he knows where puerto rico is, and even that he messed up. Weve worked very, very hard in puerto rico. Its very tough because its an island. In texas we can ship the trucks right out there and, you know, we can do weve gotten a pluses on texas and on florida, and we will also on puerto rico but the difference is this is an island, sitting in the middle of an ocean. And its a big ocean, its a very big ocean. Seth he sounds [ light laughter ] he sounds like a kid who forgot to work on his oral report and is just vamping waiting for the bell to ring. Puerto rico is in the ocean, which is a big ocean and salty. It is a big salty ocean. [ laughter and applause ] and their biggest export is come on, 3 00 but every time, trump feels the chill of a policy failure,he knows he can warm himself up by stoking the fires of racial resentment, and thats not unique to trump. Its a defining feature of the modern gop. And last nights Senate Primary in alabama is a perfect example of this. The winner of that primary is a guy name judge roy moore, seen here yesterday riding a horse to the polling booth to cast his vote. And when you see a judge roy moore riding a horse to the polls, its hard not to think, is this cnn or Turner Classic Movies . [ light laughter ] moore is a darling of the far right known for his many years of open bigotry and homophobia. He defied the Supreme Court decision legalizing samesex marriage, and hes also called for a muslim member of congress not to be seated because of his religion and said homosexual conduct should be illegal. Now, trump himself endorsed moores opponent, senator Luther Strange after repeated prodding from the gop establishment. But even trump seemed to know that his base was really much more in line with moore, because at a rally in alabama on friday to campaign for strange, trump actually admitted that in not endorsing moore, he mightve made a mistake. Im thrilled to be here with the really great person that ive gotten to know, Luther Strange. Luther strange knows the true source of americas strength, its god, its family, and its country. Were here tonight for Luther Strange. And i mightve made a mistake and ill be honest, i mightve made a mistake. Seth wow. Can you imagine trump giving your Football Team a halftime speech . Now, lets get out there and beat the lions, who are frankly a better team and i wish i was coaching them. [ light laughter ] panthers, on three. One, two, three, lions [ laughter and applause ] and after moore won last night, trump immediately offered his support and it makes sense that trump is now enthusiastically backing moore, because moore is very much cut from the same cloth as donald trump. He relies just as much on open bigotry as trump and seems to care just as little about actual policy as trump. Take the issue of daca, otherwise known as the dreamers program, which allows children brought here as undocumented immigrants to stay in the country. Youd think moore might want to have a position on that, but when he was asked about it recently on an alabama radio show he had no idea what it was. Would you support an end to the d. R. E. A. M. Er program that President Trump has still continued to push . Pardon . The d. R. E. A. M. Er program . Yes, sir. I have not the daca, dapa youre not aware of what d. R. E. A. M. Ers are . No. [ light laughter ] d. R. E. A. M. Ers this is a big issue no. In the immigration debate, d. R. E. A. M. Ers are why dont you tell me what it is, dale, and quit beating around, and tell me what it is. Im kind of shocked that you dont know what this is. What do you think about that . Well, if trumps done it, well, thats what trumps done. Do you support the ending of that program, that you didnt know existed . [ laughter ] well, i would look at that program, i surely would. Let me know what you think about that d. R. E. A. M. Er program when you learn about that. [ laughter ] seth who knew how sassy alabama radio hosts were . [ light laughter ] can you explain daca to me . Oh, you dacant . [ laughter ] like trump, moore cares very little about the nuances of policies that effect millions of peoples lives and cares much more about riling his base, through spectacle and grievance. Like on monday, when he appeared at a rally, in a vest and cowboy hat, and spoke about his support for the Second Amendment. Its been very hard for my wife and myself. To weather two, nearly three months of negative ads. That we couldnt answer with money, because we didnt have it. Why is that . Ads that were completely false. That i dont believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in the Second Amendment. [ cheers and applause ] seth thats right. The Second Amendment which apparently gives you the right to defend yourself against very tiny burglars. [ laughter ] took him a while to get it out. He couldnt find it in his pocket. Car keys . No. Moore and trump both appeal to their bases by fanning their resentments, and feeding their grievances. For example, moore said as recently as last year that he Still Believes the racist Conspiracy Theory popularized by trump that barack obama was not born in this country. And moore also believes there are towns in the u. S. Currently under sharia law, despite the fact that that is of course, completely divorced from reality. Heres the truly surreal exchange moore had with a reporter from the website vox, that makes him sound like an expert on daca. [ light laughter ] moore, there are communities under sharia law right now in our country up in illinois. Reporter, which American Communities are under sharia law . When did they fall under sharia law . Moore, well theres sharia law as i understand it, in illinois, indiana. Up there, i dont know. [ light laughter ] reporter