The Daily Show

Jordan Klepper covers Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee RFK Jr. and Attorney General nominee, Matt Gaetz's resignation from Congress amidst DOJ investigation. Plus, Desi Lydic shares Dems' new strategy for Trump's cabinet picks: F**k around and find out. Charlamagne Tha God encourages liberals to be optimistic about the next four years and makes a direct plea to Donald Trump on behalf of all the people who called him a fascist: "Please, please, please, don't prove I'm right." "There's a line in my movie, ‘When you leap into the unknown, you prove you are free,' so I leap into the unknown whenever I can because I want to be free." Legendary Academy Award-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola sits down with Jordan Klepper to discuss his aim to explore America's parallel to the rise and fall of Rome with a big stylistic swing in his latest film "Megalopolis." They also discuss the importance of risk-taking in life and art, and how the film's ending reflects Coppola's own optimism for the world.

Jon Stewart covers the latest post-election news from Trump and Biden world, then unpacks Republicans' strategy of aggressively exploiting loopholes, in contrast to the Democrats' style of following rules and norms. "You actually have to focus relentlessly on delivering for people in their daily lives and figure out how to do it... so they feel it." Co-founder of The Liberal Patriot Substack and co-author of "Where Have All the Democrats Gone?" Ruy Teixeira sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss how Democrats lost their coalition of working-class voters and economic instincts. They talk about the decline of Democratic economic policies since Bill Clinton, whether DEI and "woke" culture are turning people away from the party, and what Teixeira views as an era where both Democrats and Republicans may not be interested in forming a dominant majority coalition.