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Tonight, the royals are coming, election officials
under threat, and Wes Moore.
It's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for coming up.
It's good to see everyone. Take a seat.
Let's do this.
We have got a great show for you tonight.
The Democrats are going back to Black.
Boston is hosting another Tea Party,
and Elon Musk is going to be living
rent-free in all our heads.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right, people.
I'm going to be honest.
With all the news that happens today,
I don't think we have enough space in today's show.
We just don't have the time.
I even tried to squeeze it all into a corset,
but it just made the news look sexy,
and I've got a role on Bridgerton.
So there's still not enough time.
But fortunately, not enough time
is just enough time for a segment we call "Ain't
Nobody Got Time for That."
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All right.
Let's kick things off with the Democratic Party,
easily one of the top two parties in the United States.
As you know, Democrats lost control of the House
in last month's mid-term elections.
And as they get ready to be in the minority,
they're making some big changes at the top.
Democrats in the House have made history
with their new leadership.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn
has become the first Black leader
of either party in Congress.
He will take over from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who, as we know,
is remaining in the House after stepping
down from the top job.
REPORTER: Jeffries is 52, 30 years
younger than the outgoing House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi--
a leader with a style all his own
and a penchant for weaving in the legacy of hip-hop.
That is why we are here, Mr. Sekulow,
and if you don't know, now you know.
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I'm glad no one else in the room finished that lyric.
And I don't know.
As much as I enjoy it, I think it feels
kind of weird to quote Biggie in such
a serious and boring place like Congress.
Like, I love-- I love hip-hop.
I love hip-hop.
But I don't want to hear it everywhere, you know?
Yeah, like, I don't want my doctor
shoehorning that shit in.
So Mr. Noah, what are your symptoms?
Palms sweaty?
Knees weak?
Arms are heavy?
Please take this very seriously.
I'm very ill.
But that's right.
After 250 years, America finally
has a minority Minority Leader, which is amazing.
Although, you will notice the Democrats only
gave it to a Black guy after they lost the House.
Yeah.
It's kind of like someone crashing their car,
and then being like, hey, Hakeem, I know
you've always wanted a BMW.
No need to say thank you.
Also, the cops want to talk to you.
Bye!
But no, you still have to give credit to the Democrats.
Republicans haven't done this yet.
I mean, they still think Minority
Leader was the original title of Black Panther.
And this isn't just a big deal because Jeffries is Black.
Remember that.
This also marks a shift for the Democrats
to a much younger generation of leaders.
Although, again--
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--we also don't really know, you know.
No, because Hakeem Jeffries is Black, so he could be,
like, 90.
We don't actually know how old he is.
Because you realize, even at 52,
for a party leader in America, he's actually a young man.
I mean, think about it this way.
Joe Biden was in Congress when Hakeem
was literally in diapers.
And now that Hakeem is in Congress,
Joe Biden is the one in diapers.
The circle of life.
Now, if we had more time, we could talk about how the House
Democrats are just a sideshow for the next two years,
because the main event is whether Kevin McCarthy will be
able to wrangle his clown car of crazies
to get anything done.
But we don't have the time to talk about that,
because while Hakeem Jeffries is plotting
to take over the House, Elon Musk is plotting
to take over our brains.
REPORTER: Elon Musk said on Wednesday,
a wireless device developed by his brain chip company,
Neuralink, is expected to begin human clinical trials
in six months.
The company is developing brain chip interfaces
that it says could enable disabled patients
to move and communicate again.
We've been working hard to be ready for our first human.
It's essentially that it's sort of like having an Apple
Watch or a Fitbit, replacing a piece of skull
with, like, a smartwatch.
You have a Neuralink device.
Like, I could have a Neuralink device implanted right now,
and you wouldn't--
[chuckles]
--you wouldn't even know.
I mean--
Yeah.
Yeah, Elon, if you told us were a part robot, all of us
would be totally surprised.
We would-- we'd be like, I never saw that coming.
But look, I will admit, the idea of this technology
sounds amazing.
But in reality, the idea of an Apple Watch
or a Fitbit in my brain gives me a little pause.
Because have you ever used an Apple Watch or a Fitbit?
When it messes up on my wrist, I'm just like, ah!
When it messes up in my brain, then what?
All of a sudden, I'm on Alex Jones praising Hitler
for inventing the microphone?
Is that what's going to happen?
I'm just like, ah!
And secondly, if I'm going to get a chip in my head,
I don't know if I want Elon Musk to be in charge of it,
you know?
Like, a year ago, I would have been like, the Tesla guy?
Maybe.
But now, I'm like, the Twitter guy?
Mm.
I'll pay him $8 to stay away.
Now, if we had more time, we could talk about
how Elon previously promised that his brain chip would be
ready for human trials three years ago,
or how he promised that Teslas would be self-driving by 2017,
or how he'd build a high-speed underground train by 2020,
or how he'd land on Mars by 2022.
Basically, this dude is a guy in a strip club,
making it rain with IOUs.
But we don't have time to talk about the techno king,
because some real royals have just
rocked up to America's shores.
REPORTER: It was a royal welcome
for the Prince and Princess of Wales Wednesday,
on their first US visit in eight years, here
to present the Earthshot Prize, which
honors environmentalists.
They kicked off the trip by helping
turn Boston City Hall green.
Catherine and I are absolutely delighted to be
with you today for our first engagement
in the great city of Boston.
REPORTER: The couple also took in an NBA game courtside,
watching the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat.
And then, they hold this big star-studded event
on Friday night, where they're going to hand out
five prizes worth more than $1,000,000 each
to folks who are trying to tackle the climate crisis.
First of all, Prince William is clearly a liar.
All right?
No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December.
December?
What are you excited about?
Oh, I love chapped lips and getting
thrown up on by Patriots fans.
How peachy!
You've been there in December?
And you might be saying, no, Trevor!
They're having a good time!
They even have courtside seats!
You think these people are impressed by courtside seats?
The man's regular seat is a throne.
This man has never sat on a folding chair in his life.
He's probably like, look at this thing.
This chair has a mouth or something, Kate!
Now, if we had the time, we could talk more
about how great it is that Prince William and Kate are
awarding money to people who are trying to solve climate
change, or how shitty it is that they ignored
my idea to plug in a bunch of air conditioners
near the glaciers. Would have worked.
But we just don't have the time for that.
Because while these royals are having fun in America,
the royals back home in the UK are
not having a good time at all.
REPORTER: Overshadowing the trip, controversy back
at Buckingham Palace--
the Prince's godmother, Lady Susan Hussey,
resigning amid accusations of racism.
Ngozi Fulani, the founder of a women's non-profit
and a Black woman born in the UK,
says Tuesday at the palace, Hussey repeatedly
asked where she was really from, implying
she wasn't really British.
REPORTER: Ngozi Fulani tweeting the exchange,
which reads in part, "what nationality are you?"
"I am born here, and I'm British."
"No, but where do you really come from?
Where do your people come from?"
Hussey also asking, quote, "what part of Africa
are you from?"
after Ngozi said she was from London.
Tonight, an eyewitness describing
her shock at the exchange.
If Ngozi was a white woman, that line of questioning
wouldn't have taken place.
People, how many times do we have to go through this?
There is only one socially acceptable way to find
out someone's heritage.
You swab their DNA while they're asleep.
OK?
It's the polite thing to do.
This is like the first thing they teach
you in Avoidable Racism 101.
It is just never say the word "from."
That's it.
A lot of racism includes the word, "from."
So just avoid it altogether.
Where are you really from?
Go back to where you came from.
You see this clip from Tucker Carlson?
"From"-- stay away from it.
And I also love how this woman was given a chance to control
or delete her racism, right?
But instead, she just copy-pasted and carried on.
Where are you from?
I'm born here, and I'm British.
No, no, no, you don't understand.
I'm being racist.
How Black are you?
Show me on this map of Africa I brought with me.
Oh, let me put it in words you understand.
[speaking gibberish]
Coke bottles falling from the sky.
Now, if we had more time, we could
talk about how having a racist godmother
probably made Prince William even more popular in Boston,
or we could talk about how every scandal
in the British monarchy is technically
a spoiler for a future season of The Crown.
But we just don't have time for that, because I know where
our show's money comes "from," which is why we need
to go to a commercial break.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to The Daily Show!
After two years of voter fraud accusations and Capitol riots,
it is no surprise that Americans have become less
confident in their elections.
But as Desi Lydic discovers in her new series,
America's election infrastructure may be in even
worse shape than you think.
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Hello again.
I'm Desi Lydic.
When I first started this series on our election
infrastructure, I was just hoping
to boost my brand enough to ditch this job
and get on 60 Minutes.
But over the last two installments,
I've learned that our country is on the terrifying brink
of election catastrophe and that 60
Minutes is looking for more of a "Hoda Kotb type."
I mean, what the hell?
I can go brunette if that's what it takes.
I don't mind.
Anyway, here's our final look at Votedemic 2022,
our crumbling election infrastructure.
Who cares?
Just roll it.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): Well, America, we did it.
Election accomplished.
Despite a myriad of election problems,
including a paper shortage and a lack of poll workers,
we successfully pulled off an election,
thanks to my reporting.
So I'm back with Tammy at Democracy Fund--
Tammy, break time's over.
We got to talk.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): --to debrief and collect
my well-earned thank-yous.
Thanks to your work and also my reporting, things
are great, right?
It did go mostly really well.
We had a couple of hiccups around the country.
But in general, it did go fairly well, so we should take
a moment and celebrate that.
Tammy, I would love to bask with you.
Let's bask.
[inhales]
[exhales]
God, it feels good to bask.
It's great to bask in the glory of competence
and a well executed election.
DESI LYDIC: Yeah.
But we do still have challenges moving forward.
God damn it, Tammy.
Since the 2020 election, election officials
have been under attack.
We from a recent survey that one in four of election
officials in this country have experienced threats
of harassment and abuse, so they're
going to be leaving the field, unfortunately,
in large numbers.
How many people are getting harassed?
Are we talking like a handful or like a shit ton?
Unfortunately, I think it's closer to the shit ton.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): You heard Tammy's
filthy mouth-- a shit ton.
And these threats from disgruntled election deniers
range from local officials to secretaries of state.
REPORTER 1: An Arizona elections official
was moved to an undisclosed location because of threats
to his life.
REPORTER 2: In Milwaukee, elections
Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg
has been bombarded by hate.
REPORTER 3: In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger, his wife has gotten a barrage
of threatening text messages.
If you had to put your finger on it, what or who
is responsible for this?
Starting in the 2016 election,
we had prominent candidates for the presidential office--
Trump.
--who were running, saying that
the elections were rigged--
DJT.
--that there was rampant fraud, that,
in fact, it was illegitimate--
Donald J. Trump.
And that carried into 2020 as well.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
So that has created an environment that has provided
both incentive as well as support for people
to target election officials.
Oh, OK, so Trump.
But one of the things you might want to think about
is, in fact, talking to somebody
who was a local election official in 2020.
Right, yeah.
And someone should go do that.
Couldn't agree more.
Someone should definitely go talk to an election official.
[groans]
I already did this twice before.
I got to do it again?
God.
(UNDER BREATH) Tammy.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): After being bullied by Tammy to meet
with the harassed election official,
I'm at City Hall in Philadelphia
to speak with Al Schmidt, former Philadelphia City
Commissioner and Trump's biggest target
during the 2020 election.
In Philadelphia, the city commissioners are responsible
for running anything election-related,
from voter registration to mail-in ballots
to election-day operations to the final
tabulation and certification of the election results.
I mean, election administrators are really
referees in all of this.
Is it hard to be a referee in Philadelphia,
given Eagles fans?
It certainly can be challenging,
but we have the best fans in the country.
Can you give some examples of the type of harassment
that you received?
Well, the threats were pretty general in nature
leading up to election day.
But in the days that followed, especially
after the former President targeted me by name
on Twitter, that's when the threats became much more
specific and much more graphic and were
largely targeting my family.
I'm sorry.
That must have been terrifying.
I fortunately had the Philadelphia
Police Department looking after my family
sort of night and day.
So walking the dog, going to the grocery store, when I took
the kids sledding, the Philadelphia Police Department
was right there alongside of us.
Yeah, yeah. Totally get it.
I'm in the same boat.
The police follow my family and I around at all
times for different reasons.
Is there accountability for people
who harass election workers?
I think there's really two types of accountability
that are needed.
One is for people who are making threats of violence
and clearly breaking the law, trying to coerce
the people responsible for counting voters' votes,
and also a different sort of accountability
for elected officials who are spreading these lies,
that I would hope that voters hold them accountable.
Harassers aside, how do you make
amends with election deniers, water under the bridge--
excuse me, "wuh-ter" under the bridge?
I've really gone out of my way
to make sure that I go to political meetings
and answer questions that people have.
And the most recent one I went to, there was an older
gentleman in the back who leaned back and said,
forget about the facts for a moment.
Biden lost.
Like, that makes it a real challenge
to convince someone when their belief system is completely
independent of facts.
And as an election official, you could take
away that guy's vote, right?
I want him to vote, and I want
him to vote in every election.
Do you though? Do you really?
- I do. - Do you really?
I do.
Do you though?
Most certainly.
Every election.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): Damn, this guy was good.
But with all the harassment civil servants
like him are facing, I was beginning
to worry that there was no way I could end
this story on a positive note.
I think it's a very encouraging sign that we had
more people step up to volunteer
to work on election day in the midterms in 2022
than ever before.
Great.
So it's fixed?
I did it!
I mean, we did it.
DESI LYDIC (VOICEOVER): So there you have it, America.
Despite the problems we faced during 2022, thanks to Al
and election workers across the country,
there's still hope that 2024 won't
be a complete shit show because I
can't do another one of these.
[pained laugh]
I can't.
Thank you so much for that, Desi.
All right, stay tuned because when we come back,
the first Black governor of Maryland, Wes Moore,
will be joining me right here on the show.
So don't go away.
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Welcome back to "The Daily Show."
My guest tonight is a combat veteran, a bestselling author,
and former head of the anti-poverty organization
Robin Hood.
He will soon be sworn in as the first Black governor
of the state of Maryland.
Please welcome Governor-elect Wes Moore.
[music playing]
[applause, cheering]
Thanks, y'all.
Thank you.
Thanks, y'all.
Thank you, man.
Governor-elect Wes Moore.
Yes, sir. Hello.
Are you used to that yet?
I mean, it's only been-- going to be
for a short amount of time, and then
it'll be Governor Wes Moore.
Has it sunk in?
Because you ran a campaign in a place
where nobody expected a Democrat to be able to win
the seats of governor, and yet here
you are, and you've done it.
What does it feel like?
Let's start with that, you know?
It feels great because you're right.
I mean, when we first started this race, we started at 1%.
I say the "I'm not voting" was polling higher
than where I was polling at.
[laughter]
Like, people were not feeling me at first.
And-- but I think what we did was
we continued to show people we were going to meet
people where they were.
We were going to go to every part of the state, talk
to every part of the state, and that
also meant even places where there
weren't a lot of Democrats.
And people would literally say to me,
they're like, you're coming to a lot of places
with not a lot of Democrats.
And I'm like, yeah, but there's a lot of Marylanders.
TREVOR NOAH: Wow.
And I plan on being their governor too.
And I think the people show that that mattered.
When.
You're able-- when you're willing to put in the work
and earn it, then the people respond.
That is something that many people
spoke about in your campaign.
They-- it was very apparent very early
on that you ran a different race
to what many establishment politicians run.
You didn't pander to a base.
You spoke to the people of Maryland.
You didn't make the race national unnecessarily.
That's right.
You spoke to the issues that were actually
happening in your state.
And I'd love to talk a little bit about that.
I think-- I'll paraphrase you in that you said at one point,
you don't understand why "patriotism" is somehow, like,
owned now by Republicans when everyone can be a patriot,
and everyone can love their country
and still want to fix it.
Talk me through how you came to this understanding and whether
or not serving in the military and your life
that led up to this contributed to thinking that way.
Well, you know, it's wild because I
would hear people talk about this term of patriotism.
And I became so bothered by it because I'm like,
you haven't earned that, right, where I think
about this concept, where my definition of patriotism
was when I left my family, and I
put on the uniform of this country,
and I served with the 82nd Airborne Division
overseas in Afghanistan.
And I was literally hearing people talk about patriots,
whose definition of patriotism was putting on a baseball cap
and storming the Capitol and trying to take down democracy.
And so I think about it in my own life.
I come from a family of patriots
because I come from a family of educators.
I come from a family of people who have served as engineers
and made this country with their hands.
I've served from-- I come from a family of ministers, right?
These are patriots.
And so I refuse to be lectured, nor should anybody
allow anybody to try to bastardize
that term of patriotism, because we come from a place
where I understand what it means
to love your country even when your country doesn't
love it back. TREVOR NOAH: Wow.
But you still love it.
TREVOR NOAH: Wow.
So for many people, they love the country.
Many people love what they want the country to be.
They have their ideas of what they want to do to fix it.
You are actually now going to be in that position--
Yes
--at a really interesting time in America,
at an interesting time for your state because you
have a $2 billion surplus.
You're in a position where you're
going to be able to spend money to make ideas a reality,
which is not often the case.
Talk me through some of your plans.
For instance, reading through your life,
there are many people who've read your book,
and they know the story.
But for those who don't, your grandmother left Cuba
and moved to Jamaica.
Yes.
Your mom left Jamaica and came to the United States.
And so you have a family that is from many different places
in the world, you know? - Sounds familiar.
Yeah.
[laughter]
And so it's informed how you see health care because of--
Yes.
--how young you were when your father died.
It's informed how you think about education, how you
think about basic services.
So let's start with one of the more basic ideas.
Losing your father at such a young age
because he couldn't get the health care he needed--
That's right.
--means you are now in a position to change that.
What are you planning to change for the people in your state
who may be in that same position?
You know, I think about where everything that I am
and everything we ran on has been influenced by my life,
right, where my life has been consistently the consequences
of broken policies and how it leaves people,
how it leaves people behind.
So when we talk about leave no one behind,
which I learned in the military when I was 17 years old,
leave no one behind is not just a mantra.
That is a value statement.
And so my earliest memories were watching my father die
in front of me when I was three years old because he didn't
get the health care that he needed;
that one of my earliest memories
was when I was 11 years old, when I felt handcuffs
on my wrists because I came up in a community that
was overpoliced, and we knew it; that my mother was--
I was 14 years old when my mother got her first job
that gave her benefits.
And by the way, Trevor, this is a woman who went
on to earn a master's degree. TREVOR NOAH: Wow.
So when we're having conversations--
[applause]
So when we're having conversations about
inequitable pay between men and women or inequitable pay
between people of color and non-, this is not
an academic exercise to me.
I don't need a white paper to explain this, right?
I've seen this.
And so when we say that our-- my entire platform, that what
we're going to do is build pathways
for work, wages, and wealth for all Marylanders, we mean that.
And when we talk about work, it means having an education
system that's teaching our students
how not just to be employees, but how to be employers.
When you're talking about wages,
it means making sure that people getting-- are getting
paid a fair wage because gone should be the days when we
have people who are working jobs and, in some cases,
multiple jobs and still living at or below a poverty line.
And then-- and making sure we're focusing on wealth.
And that's simply the idea that you
should own more than you owe.
And that means doing things like being able to address
unfair appraisal values in historically redlined
neighborhoods because housing is one of the greatest ways
to generate wealth, and unfair appraisal bias
has been one of the greatest wealth thefts
that we have seen in our society.
And it means giving a chance for people
to have a sense of ownership, increasing liquidity
to our small businesses, our minority-owned businesses,
women-owned businesses, really creating a platform
and a pathway for people to pass something on
to your children besides debt.
So this is about work, wages, and wealth.
[applause, cheering]
It's a tall task.
You seem like you're up for the job.
You're really motivated, and you know
what you want to do about it.
Let's talk a little bit about being handcuffed
when you are 11 years old.
It means that you have a view of the quote,
unquote, "justice system" that is particularly unjust.
You can see how it can go wrong so fast.
However, in America, I've noticed a really interesting
trend, whereby it is almost impossible to criticize
constructively a police force without being
labeled as being anti-police.
And then people say you're not--
you're anti-"law and order," you don't want anything
to happen, when, ironically, many policemen and -women
will complain about their unions and the jobs they do,
et cetera.
How do you find that balance then
between saying to the people of your state
in Maryland, my job is to keep you safe,
my job is to address what is happening on the ground that
leads to crime, but at the same time,
my job is to repair a police force that
has lost trust in many communities
and lost trust in the public in general?
You know, and I think about with our race
and our campaign, our campaign was
endorsed by both progressive Maryland and the police union.
TREVOR NOAH: How?
And people say, how in the world
did you pull that one off?
Because, basically, it's-- the idea is this,
is that I was offering the same thing to both sides,
a seat at the table, that if we are going to actually address
these issues, we have to make sure that we're doing it
collectively and that we have to have a police force that is
going to move with appropriate intensity
and absolute integrity and full accountability.
But we need to have the police force at the table
to be able to make sure that happens,
that we have to make sure that, yes, we have to get
violent offenders off of our streets
and off-- and out of our communities
because no child should have to come up in a neighborhood they
are afraid of.
And we have to get these illegal guns out
of our neighborhoods.
But it's also-- but it also means--
but we also have to be very clear on this too.
You're not going to arrest your way out of this,
and you're not going to militarize
your way out of this.
And I do think about it from the context
where, at 11 years old, I felt handcuffed on my wrists.
And if someone would have said to that 11-year-old kid,
you know, one day, you could be the governor,
I would have never believed them.
So we've got to make sure we're investing in our kids
so when we say things like that,
that they actually believe us, because if a kid
thinks that you don't care, they
don't care what you think.
And so we've got to make sure we're coming up with pathways,
true pathways, for all of our children
to understand that the future of our society,
it isn't real unless they're a part of it.
I would love to know from you as somebody who's
coming into politics, you see so many politicians come
in with really clear ideas of what they want to do
and how they want to be.
And very quickly, they get slowed down in the sludge
that is politics.
Whether it be outside money, big organizations, DNC, RNC,
whatever it may be, you see them slowing down,
and then they care more about being
reelected than doing the job that they were elected to do.
So I would start with this.
In the most honest way, what would you
say is the biggest challenge that you will
have to face that people don't understand how challenging
it is?
Because oftentimes politicians will say, we have to fix this,
we have to fix this, we have to fix this.
But I think it will be interesting for politicians
to say, this part here is going to be extremely
difficult to fix because of X, Y, zed or Z,
as you would say here.
[laughs]
Like, genuinely, when you say-- what do you say--
what would you say is the toughest issue
facing Maryland right now?
I still think it comes back to economics because I still
think people feel a very real sense
of unease and economic uncertainty
about where things are.
But I think that what we've got to do is, first of all,
we have to let people know and make
sure they can believe that we can actually get this done.
Oh, really important, yeah.
It's really important, right?
And then also put the concrete plans in place
about the things we're going to have to do
to be able to address that.
And it means things like when we say we are going to invest
to get people back to work, it means we have to be able to do
that and job reskilling and job retraining,
where right now in the state of Maryland,
we have two available jobs for every single person
filing for unemployment. - Wow.
And people say, well, how does that make sense?
It's because we have a dynamic economy
in the state of Maryland.
We're just not preparing people to be able to participate--
- Right. - --in that economy, right?
So being able to put together the concrete practical plans
in order to do that, it means being able to start earlier.
And, again, as a leader, I am data driven and heart-led,
all right?
I wear my heart on my sleeve, and I acknowledge that.
But data matters, and I don't move without data.
And I know this, is that 80% of brain development
happens in a child by the time that child is five years old.
So why we have children starting school at five
makes absolutely no sense.
We have to make sure we have pre-K
for every single child in need in the state of Maryland.
And so it really is saying, we know what works.
And, again, I have--
I've been a public servant for my entire life.
I just haven't been a politician, right?
TREVOR NOAH: Hmm. - But I've had a chance--
I've led soldiers in combat.
I led a successful small business
helping first-generation students
go to and through college.
And then I had a chance to lead one
of the largest poverty-fighting organizations in this country.
I know what works.
We know what works.
Now the question is, can we derive the political will
and the political focus and intentionality to actually
bring these things to scale?
And that's where I think we had a unique value proposition
that allowed the people of Maryland to say, let's go,
and let's go win this decade.
TREVOR NOAH: Well, if there's one thing even your worst
detractors cannot argue is that you are not
focused and you're not driven. You genuinely are.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
My man. Thank you, man.
Absolute pleasure having you.
I look forward to seeing what you do.
- Absolutely. - Genuinely.
Governor-elect Wes Moore, everybody.
We're going to take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
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Well, that's our show for tonight.
Charlemagne is coming up next.
Now here it is, your moment of zen.
Oh, my goodness.
Just because you don't like one group, doesn't mean the other,
but look--
I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.
[laughs] Oh!
[laughs]
Oh, man, well, I have to disagree with that.
That's marvelous.