Using the comedy central. What is a few thousand. Eighty one probably said, rose World news headquarters in New York. This is the daily german reverend. Here's a fabulous actor Amerika for everybody will be talking about a new book american like me, but first, let's get straight into the only story. Anyone was talking about today and no I'm not talking about me getting my foot dimple, I'm talking about the big show them

that everyone has been waiting for the moment of truth. This that showdown between rent cabinet and accuser, Doktor, Christine Blog for this hearing, nationally televised every single network, every single broadcast network, every single cable, never more washing, daughter, Christine, lousy Ford if you're talking about their historic import of this in your rating it from one to ten. You would give this about a seventy nine social media ton of pictures of or airlines, where every tell us vision set in the seat. Back is too these hearings. Yes, that's right. Even people on planes were watching the hearings and was so gripping. That was the first time people were praying for a delay, even the flight attendants.

Watching the fly like its own peanuts did John Peanuts TAT. This should right now now I say it was gripping, but that doesn't mean that today was a funding. Emotionally, it was taxing. If anything, it was like a sad Superbowl and what what was said about it was just like everything that was going on, because today was all about Christine Blasi Ford right, the woman who came forward first and accused Supreme Court nominee, Brick Cavanaugh of sexual assaults. Now, although everyone was preparing for testimony from Doktor Ford and Judge Cavanaugh there was someone who stole the spotlight in the beginning of the proceedings, judiciary, committee chairmen and human cornbread, Chuck grass me- I don't want it was, but at times he acted like he was the one on trial. I think it's important to make sure your properly introduced.

Ass close it's going to introduce or but if you want to introduce or I'll be glad to have you do there, but I want to know I didn't forget to do it, because I would do that just as she was about to speak. Thank you. Another thirty seconds now, because I was rudely interrupted. Something happened here in between on your side that the whole country, while not all countries, should know nobody no not know about. We show to investigate. No, not no, no, some know now what what I meant was done. No, not like. I feel bad for check is mostly in the beginning there, because he's trying. So hard not to look like a sexist asshole that he's coming over the sexes so that big quiet woman. I first want to tell you how important women are me. Ok, you shut up.

When I tell you how much I respect you hashtag low pay, what today today, no one cares for similar gradually as much as integrated everyone's attention was on Doktor Ford and she didn't just coming prepared to tell her story. She was also ready to respond to all of those people who ask. How can you even remember something that happened thirty five years ago? You are very clear about the attack that it widespread Cavanaugh, that covered your mouse to prevent you from screaming. How are you so sure that it was he the same way that I am sure that I'm talking to you right now, sizes basic memory functions also just the level of nor ever for an up enough friend in the brain. That sort of, as you know, in codes that nerve transfer includes memories into the hippocampus, and so the trauma related experience than is locked. They are worth

Other details, kind of drift off before often called the lady contrast. Her brain chosen she's a brain scientists. Now those sentences were what we like, oh yes also familiar with Barbara Hippopotamus. Rather, we also know that less mobile Number- one, oh and and and doktor for also had a response for anyone who thought she's only here as part of her twenty twenty campaign. Apart from the assault itself, these past couple of weeks have been the herds of my life. I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives. To say that do not know me. I am an independent person and I am no one's pon. My responsibility is to tell you the truth,

that's that's something that a lot of people forget docks afford. Isn't some politician who's running for office she's, a woman whose life has been turned upside down since she stepped into the Supreme Court Bout Royal he's gotten death threats. Report is flooding our house and she's been called a political porn which is unfair to her and also to points I mean. I know this is not the time for me to address this bookstall, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go in on this now, because people is act like poems are lonely pieces. They can move around the board, but you realize that every piece I mean, if you're a bishop,

you ask about zigzagging all over the place, but you still taking orders from the hand. I do not special undressing the poor get the short end of the stick, and again I acknowledge now is not the time to get into this testing. Forgive my grasp Venus all right. Well, I know what what one of the main things that major these hearings hearing difference was that the Republicans brought in and outside sex crimes prosecutor to ask their questions because they wanted to avoid the optics of a sexual assault victim being interrogated by the world's most wrinkly boy band, and even as Doktor Ford sat through hours of gruelling, questioning being asked to remember the tiniest details of something that happened over three decades ago. She still managed to remain surprisingly gracious and agreeable to enter in further detail. If you went into. I wish

I could be more helpful and that others could be more helpful that we could collaborate in a way that would get more information. I'm just happy to describe them. If you wanted me to an unhappy deny its whenever you want how soon, as that of toll she's been through, like she still have such a good warm attitude, I feel like after the hearings should be in the parking lot offering to jumpstart people's caused. You want, I can help you get home, softer four hours of doctors giving her side of the story. It was bred, Cavenaugh term and I dont know if he's got something going on in his life, but he said really angry. This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. You have replaced advice and consent, would search and destroy the behaviour of several of the democratic members of this committee. At my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment last.

Minute smears designed to scare me. I wanted a hearing as soon as possible to clear my name. I demanded a hearing That's right, I demanded a hearing. You didn't give it to me. I demanded it anyway. If you put me on the court now, I'm prepared, if my motions aside rule fairly and soberly. I think we can all agree. I know how to handle my emotions. Yes, yes, I'm not gonna lie the contract was striking because, where Doktor Ford was more open to being questioned about her expense, this dude was behaving like the whole thing was just wasting his time. It's an outrage that I was not allowed to calm and immediately defend my name and say I didn't do this and give you all this evidence, I'm not even I'm not even in DC on the weekends. In the summer of eighteen. Eighty two you're saying there's never been a case where you drink so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before our part of what have

That's your asking about yet black out. I don't know how you can you answer. The question judge just to you. That's not happened. Is that your answer? I'm curious. If you have the sweetener figures, a joke that is a force, could not with such an asshole look like he was auditioning for snickers commercial. How dare you accuse me of sexual assault? I did it. Yeah you can feel real bread coming through, because I don't know if you saw the interview on Fox, he was old chilled out, and now today he was so angry when you can feel him sitting through and like I've said this before and I'll say it again. I don't know what the full story is here. What I do know is: Brett Kavanaugh has been consistently shady about his history of partying as a teenage boy.

Did you can sue alcohol during your high school years? Yes, we drink beer, my friends and I the boys and girls. Yes, we drink beer like beer still like beer, sometimes probably had too many beers and sometimes other people too many beers. What do you consider to be too many beers? I don't know yet we whenever the chart says blood alcohol chart. Yes, of course, of course, the blood alcohol Chaldaea. You know the charter parties when we're drinking. You know that there were just like you really do you want to shut got another beer. I would body, but the chart says we Risa legal blood, alcohol limit of gotta. Here man he's having this guy was running around with calendars and shots. How big boys pockets back then goes August, seventeen year old, actuary like

frustration. Many people have is that we could get to the bottom of false allegations much more easily. If the F B, I was allowed to investigate this whole thing right, but we'd, I'm learning anything from this, and after watching this exchange, I dont know with finding out the truth is on Cavanaugh Calendar Judge Cabin turned down again and to this committee and save for the sake of my reputation, my family name, and to get to the bottom of the truth of this. I am not going to state be an obstacle to FBI Investigation, I welcome whatever the committee wants to do cause I'm telling the truth. I wanna know what you want to die on tone, which I want to know what you want to do on innocent I'm innocent of this charter. Why would you recess that kind of investigation trot? I welcome. I wanted the hearing last week that dutch cabinet will you support an FBI investigation right now. I will do whatever the committee once stood personally. Do you think that's the best thing for us to do.

It was at that moment that bread new here He wanted a beer so badly, but said. He couldn't have one that faces him giving himself. You can feel him coming out so crazy to watch, and you know I, like- I don't know about you, but I feel like we all hoped, maybe not even that today's hearing would get us a step closer to learning the truth about where the Brett Kavanaugh is fit for the Supreme Court, but from the beginning today was never going to be.

Time for us to get closer to the truth, this whole thing is Russia does not enough time. It was only gonna be enough time to make. Both sides feel better about how they were already gonna vote anyway, and nobody dug in harder than Lindsey, Graham, which you want to do, is destroy this guy's live hold this seat open and hope you win it. Twenty twenty. You said that not me, you ve got nothing to apologize for when you see sodium aren't Kagan tell em at Lindsey set all costs. I voted for the hour, never due to them what you ve done this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics and if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure, as hell, wouldn't have done what you ve done, this guy relevancy the most unethical sham that you

Seen in politics, phone call coming in marriage, Garland says High will derive that even before today's hearing it was obvious that brick, Havana, headlong baggage and now a full Senate John him could happen within days. Show the big question for Senate Republicans has to be is Cavanaugh worth keeping around while to help us analyzed Republicans Political strategy is a man who is watch the couple seasons of scandal. Michael cost. Everyone today was a tough day for Judge Cabinet, well sure Trevor, but he did score some key points with its base, evangelicals like We defended his family president. Trump like how it keeps getting accused of sexual assault senior citizens like how

talking so loud and clear. Yes, but even so Michael, like he's, been much more troubled and Republicans anticipated like why not just cut Bates and pick a new nominee, its psychology Trevor, the Republicans have invested too much in him to just give up. Now bob in their number my new year's resolution last year to switch to an all beef diet. Well, I knew in the first week It was a bad idea, but I already had a freezer full of Omaha stage, so I stuck with it and now I have gout yeah but Michael, unlike you at some point, they have to recognise that he's a sunk cost, it's not worth risking a soup. Courts it over one nominee, there's too much at stake, all God, please don't say stake? Republicans aren't just thinking about the Supreme Court here. This also the principle of this whole thing. If the Senate holds Brett Cavanaugh

council for multiple sexual assault accusations in the left to hold the next moment. Accountable and then, where does this end want to live in a world where everyone is held accountable for the things they done What's so now, I'm going to prison just because I've been stealing my neighbors Amazon packages for years, yet you you should be held accountable. Why do you always admitted crimes when you hear booth just between us this doesn't leave the room. It's just gives a thing. Sticking with Cavenaugh seem shortsighted by because if he doesn't get the votes, Republicans might not have Time to nominate another judge and then if they lose the Senate, the loose the seat completely, that that's right, but look at if you're looking for a generic white man who will make bad decisions and blindly stick with it, you don't need Cavanaugh,

This guy right, here's avail and the best part about me is no scandals. You just minutes ceiling Amazon packages, but only man you know about that Microsoft. Everyone will be right back. As an award winning actor director and activist who is the editor of the new book American. Like me, reflections on life between cultures he's welcome America, welcome back to the show. Thank you so good to have you here. There are so many things that you are working on and today is one of those crazy days. Why I'm sure you your torn between happening in the news what's happening in life. Let's start with the news today, I'm sure

also watching what was happening in in in the Supreme Court nomination hearing you, somebody who's been involved, avidly and politics. Just from your point of you, when you were watching what happened today, what would you say was your visceral feeling Outrage I first and foremost a love doktor Ford for her heroic actions that she took. I believe, Doktor Ford and I watched as a survivor of sexual assault myself a very public display of what happens to survivors when they dare speak up work, and I can't imagine a more credible.

Composed woman sitting in her position and doing the amazing job that she did to just tell her truth and speak her voice and then to watch a man childs sort of lubber through his own testimony is Enraging I'm I am so sick of saying, competent, intelligent, credible women come up against many children and and be suppressed. It's it's enraging and its and what happens tomorrow or tonight. It's not just a vote. It's it's a referendum on what we are as a country. What are we willing to accept? Where are we really and how much longer are women's lives and women's dignity going to come secondary to the needs of powerful

the story of America is so beautifully contained in this book. Of what you would just saying now in many ways for many people it feels like America's in a space of multiple referendums. Now you know the midterms are coming people are saying that's going to be a referendum on from every single election feels like the people speaking out. This book is really something different. American like mean reflections on life between cultures. You ve collected. Group of really amazing people, everyone from losing do battle in one Manuel Miranda Rocks and gay, and you got people's right, really personal account just who they are, what makes them who they are and how being different has helped them find who they are, but also how its excluded them from the world. How did you even begin this journey and how'd you get these people's right in the book? Yeah

Well, you know I, the more and more, I think about our country, the more. I believe that this american experiment is it's a story telling experiment it sort of whose story gets told you know and who has control over which stories get told and which stories get believed in, and you know for me, I I, I grew up feeling one hundred percent America green eyes. I could have blood red white and blue as nine year old child. I believed everything I had been taught that this is a marrow

in America. All you have to do is work hard and believe that your equal to everyone else and that everyone else is equal to you and nothing is impossible, and I believed that an and it wasn't until other people. Let me know that I wasn't american like them, that that my eyes were open to that end and and the space that I have inhabited for a lot of my life, the place between feeling one hundred percent american, but being told that other saw me not as that and then also feeling like Tina and and and deeply rooted to my family's culture and history, but also told that I really wasn't that either royal I sort of lived in a no man's land and I felt so alone and isolated in that experience, and when

I realise that so many other people felt that way too. I I I realised that it was because our stories never get all right. You never see our experience woven into the narrative of what this hoo hoo an American and what is an American and I have to say I am so upset that patriotism has been hijacked, because I am a patriot. I'm in America right love this country. I have always my story is american: it's not immigrant American, no, I'm an american rights and an end. So I for me it was just about telling my story, but it was about inviting all these other incredible activists and writers and athletes and people who have contributed to american culture in phenomenal ways who who don't get to tell that part of their story

so I reached out to them in so many of them said yes, which I was so honored by and now we have this gorgeous book that a young person can hold in their hands and see what it means to be reflected by a man can like them. If it really is a wonderful paradox to try and absorb because as you're reading through the stories, The one hand, your absorbing a world that has may be told people repeatedly that they cannot be, but you also speaking to people who have managed to overcome that- and I guess the moral of the story that I took from the book is ready that it no one. We have to face that obstacle in the first place, but it really is inspiring to seal stories to see all these all these people coming forward. Your somebody damn it in your life in multiple ways. You know you, you ve gone from being America forever. People go like. Oh you, this type of accuracy, this type of personal. This is what you mean and we ve seen just grow and blow up in multiple different roles. I mean like on on superstore, now you're directing you re getting there.

It shows a new season is coming up. Are we seeing more of you in these roles? Are you gonna be exploring more of that yeah I mean yes, absolutely I have started directing. I am directing this season as well. I directed and passed two seasons. I think that so much of This block in these stories are about and so much about where I am and where I think women and people of color and all kind, marginalized people in this country are feeling is. We should be able to walk into spaces as our whole cells. We shouldn't have to Drift away the pieces of us that aren't accepted by the mainstream culture to exist and be accepted in spaces, and so for me that means I'm an actress. That means I'm a director. That means I'm a producer. That means I'm engaged citizen and I get to be all of those things. No matter

What will my walk into your dream character in the book? We love watching. You grow congratulations on the new little one in your life. I proceeded you so much for being here show again american, like is available now in the fourth season of superstar, will premier October Forthem NBC Amerika for everybody. Daily shall determine our ears at it. Wants the daily show recognised that eleven, ten central one family, central and calmly, several watch full episodes. Videos at the daily showed I was on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to the daily show on Youtube or exclusive caused in him. This has been a comedy central podcast