Using the comedy central much thirty. Two thousand eighteen from probably said, rose World news headquarters in New York. This is the daily with retinal use, discuss his new album american utopia. Music legend David Byrne is joining us. Everybody came the first. If your name, if your name rhymes with Ronald Grump, then your friends in Congress,

some really good news for you already knows this. Our Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, announcing they found no evidence from campaign collude, with Russia and that their now shutting down very year. Long investigation. Yes, just me: ok, that's the GEO be led House Intelligence Committee has declared Donald Trump innocence, which is sort of like your room. A therapist telling you that you don't have cancer is not remotely credible, but it makes you feel good. Now. Everyone else is waiting to see what mullah has to say, but Trump has already moved on

today. The president's spend time at the border checking out the world's largest legal project. Resident tromp is in the air on air force, one headed to California, where he will get a first hand. Look at eight water while prototypes the round face. If you see up here or you see more merely back to the larger and is the better, it is because it's very hard to get over the term. It's really deterred from getting over the good thing we're getting over. The top is easy. This, like professional mountain, climbing, drew credible. So so eight Mexicans are rapists and professional mousing climate of like this guy, just inventing new stereotypes. Now, there's one thing I know about those Mexicans: they love their mountains year, almost as low as much as Egyptians, love, kayaking, yeah, oh- and this was a slick move just by the way, if you notice that

You know Trump went to the border today, because this taco Tuesday nice move with the present Soros Prodi like. Mr President, you know we can have tacos and other days like no, no, I respect their culture, I respected, but let's move on because the Big NEWS of the day wasn't about who trump is keeping out its who his kicking out. This is an NBC news. Special report. Waking out of the White House. The president has Us Secretary of State Rex Teller, sent to step aside, and he will be replaced with the CIA director MIKE Palm Pale. That's right! President Trump has fired secretary of state and a human grumpy hats Rex to listen, and this just continues and unprecedented run of people quitting or getting fired from the Trump administration. I mean think about we're, not even fourteen months in and look at all the people we ve lost.

This is like receiving private Ryan numbers over look at this right. Should some people- and I am not exaggerating- rex- was only one of three people who were fired today. His aid was fired for explaining how to listen, was fired and Troms personal assistant was fired for possible financial crimes at working for them. The house is basically like being in a sore movie. You know you show up you get torture for a while, and then you get killed off. That's how it works, but of course, as always, the president's whose catchphrase is literally you're fired, didn't have the balls or the decency to tell tales and the news to his face. The Secretary of state was informed by what our chief of Staff Drunk held that the president had made a decision to relieve him of his duties, but did not say when that would happen. He learned about its chairman nation, officially in a tweet by the president or come I'm sorry, that's messed up. How can you fire a man

a public tweets and he's slide into his dams and and the details of the story of only made it worse. Because when trumped decided to fire to listen, he was an Africa. He was busy meeting with whole countries, and it turns out the only reason that citizen came back when he did was that chief of staff, John Kennedy had warned him that he was going to get fired, which was lucky because imagine if this happened and he wasn't warned he could have been in the middle of negotiations in Africa and african leadership found it out on Twitter before him, and he would it be like you know what I'm here to tell you America requires, and they would have just been like well, I M here to tell you require you to suck my dick sir. Do you know who you are

Talking to I carry the full weight of the United States, I will give you the full weight of my bars. Do you know who I am according to due to an unemployed man now look, we may never know the real reason trump card would have tourism, but it's because citizen disagreed with Trump on lots of policy issue you know from upholding the iranian nuclear deal to leaving the Paris climate a court or maybe Trump has a secret reason. It would never tell us about maybe he's just like. I have to be honest. Folks, Jemison looks like a giant porcupine, and that scares me, and I know that because porcupines aren't real, but if you want to see trump and citizens relationship in a nutshell, the best example is just look at how they dealt with North Korea because it first Tennyson tried diplomacy tromp did this sector estate Rex tell us and says the? U S is in direct channels of communication with North Korea and

into other, the regime is open to talks. Tromp appear to undermine a new diplomatic channel announced just yes, day by the Secretary of State. I told Rex Tiller and he's wasting his time, trying to negotiate with little rocket man art, so that was trumps message, dont, negotiate with North Korea and to listen loyal soldier that he was carried that message to the world then last week this happened with respect North Korea in terms of direct talks with the United States, and you asked negotiations and we are a long way from negotiations breaking news tonight, President Trop agreeing to meet with North Korea's Kim's young mister tromp blindsided Secretary of state, agreeing to the talks only hours after Rex tellers and dismissed the ideas these systems, where's my games, like tromp, was trying to get to listen to break up with them. Let's go to the club, I hate the club or outlets

and why don't you have a long ago out and today, when asked about the firing present from even sounded like he was trying to be a sensitive ex rex is a very good. I like wrecked a lot. I really appreciate this commitment that the service and I'll be thick indirect over a long period of time. I will read a lot of good things. I think he's gonna. Do I think he's gonna be very happy. I think that would be much happier now. You don't show from his right rex. Chosen will be much happier now. Everyone who leaves the White House ends up happier just look at this guy, this guy, and especially this guy. Why is up we'll Lama with dying over here cried serving the two years, but citizen will be happier than most because don't forget, he never wanted the job in the first pillar. It was a reluctant secretary of state to begin with his on the record, saying I really didn't we

the job my wife asked me to do it and some wives ask their men to take out the garbage this one told citizen to go, live in it, that's a devoted husband, write them just like the dope is thing for a wife to brag about. Oh, your husband board, you flowers, my husband works for trumpet because them to but no daisies acute through yeah, you do you girl and look went to. Listen first took the job, a lot of people decision, because he had no diplomatic experience and he was the only cabinet member with a resting. I've got shit on my shoe fix and you know what those people turned out to be right to listen was a pretty bad secretary of state. He defended deep budget cuts to its department. He left many important positions unfilled and his weak leadership had career diplomats leaving in droves, but even though he was a disaster for all, we should still be able to celebrate Rex

citizens greatest achievements, which we celebrate tonight in Rex Tennysons greatest achievements, reporting the Secretary of State works telephone call, the president who serves a moron mizar, Didn't you say that you call them a moron. He said thing more on we'll be right back I am your firestone- enable new podcast coming soon through comedy central. I guess it's called every day decisions. It's a show where I talked to guess about the west. Twenty four hours of their life. There stole life, they continue to live, but though s toy

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What is the data? Thank you things to be your congratulations on your new album. You are a legendary musician. It has been a while, since you put a solo project that that we saw might be confusing to some people, possibly like. That's that's not David Byrne singing. How did they come together and what makes those kids so special. My friend Eric had an idea that, rather than me doing video clips, we ask kids video students former like a choir or whatever indifferent towns, towns and are not known for maybe being in the limelight right that we say why you do it. You make the video right guys, you're, high school video

through and yours, Highschool, choir and everybody. You guys do it and they did and it came up beautiful. It came out so beautiful that you decided to use them as the video will year, and I also felt that well, I felt that their version of the song is more moving and emotionally completely different than mine. Bright mine is me slightly paranoid, nerdy guy about lots of people coming over to my house and with them. The thing is yes: everybody's welcome raise a totally different. They hold it and I thought why did not get that it? It's a beautiful, I guess rendition of an idea that is encapsulated in the album America

Utopia is the title of the album. Why did you wait so long releases? Were you looking for the most ironic time? Is that what you're? When I didn't plan the title, I thought that's, what people think they think this is completely tongue in cheek its re yoke. Whatever note, let me see if I can do it to its people, understand it's not your brain, it's not about saying. We live in a utopia. No it saying that we want something better. We want we all long for something better. We all try to imagine is this the way it is this that the whig has to be. Could it be some? Could it be different, and so I just thought: okay put them out there that that that feeling- and that idea- something that's reflected in many aspects of your life, in our reasons to be cheerful eyes, so that's on your website as well. That's like your theme in life right now. Do you think that is people? We need to find more reasons to be cheerful. Yes, I I

Personally I started this report turned into a project like a lot of people. I wake up in the morning, look at the paper and get really angry depressed, etc in, but then I started finding. I find something good rights and it wasn't like cat rescued from a tree and it wasn't billionaire gives mind to a hospital good riots. Those things just happen once these worth. Since that would happen somewhere in the world, in the: U S, Europe, wherever and somebody had an idea, tried it out, tested it and it was successful and I thought that can be adopted chain copied miles in other places. This is good thing, so you will basically looking for stories and examples of people moving the world forward as opposed to being frustrated by people who seem to moving it back. Yes, exactly exactly, and I thought this is gonna keep me saying,

but otherwise I'm gonna lose my how I've? How deep did you have to go into the newspaper to find that? No one newspaper you I'm like six pages deepen unlike here. This is depressing, does exactly doesn't happen every day right and I really I read a few newspapers. So sometimes have been nothing and then sometimes you find something go there. It is right, there's something right there. That's really it's really encouraging. That's a reason to be cheerful. Like you, you, you ve, put out rock albums, you ve done theatres. Well, one thing that has been really prevalent in your work is the nation of an image that goes just beyond like beyond just the song in all. You are known, as many people regard yours and our teased as they say, which is a word. Not many people use. So, use it. You know they're being serious and they go like David Byrne is an hour teased or their make fun of me, one of the two

although the diversion I think its a bit more fluttering over people, so you focus on everything in and around the image of what you're creating it's the stage. It's it's! How the performers look it's what the performance is meant to feel like beyond the music. What have you done when performing american utopia? What what have you decided to make different in the show that that reflects that idea? As you said that the live show reflects flexi idea somewhat right? It's lately empty stage of musicians are mobile, so the state this to show is made by the people right you when you say mobile, you mean, like the people like that, carrying the very gives it a lot more like a drone line right. The drummers are all carrying their stuff, six of them in order to get a full drum, sound rights and as others, this twelve of us in All- and so the show is us, is not about the spectre go or rolling stuff for giants.

Means or whatever else it's us as human beings we can perform while moving. We can perform well moving, not all the drummers love that but come around Melick Betty that you got to move around and we like them now to the corner and now to my house, just out of the supermarket. I'm going to buy bread at an out of date, come on man, you're, killing us over. What? What inspired that? Why mobile I've realize it could be done, and I had never done before. I don't anybody's ever done it before it, and I thought, as I started thinking it through. I thought this is kind of nice. It's about the humanity, the. People hood of the performers, us as people and now about all crazy stuff, going on right, the audience and I think an audience relates to that they relate to human beings. They were elected.

Flame parts and everything else to go up in flames and human beings. Equal tax rates are even being, but I feel like that's it. That's a coffee. If we look at the Album american Utopia, someone says you David. How is it going to make me feel what what do you want this album to make me feel what would you say to them? I think the the words in the record are sometimes dark, Lubeck, dark and sometimes disturbing, but their tempered or countered by the kind of the musical feeling raising is very lifting nothing so great music and sometimes scary words, sometimes scary words. That's that's even tat. I wrote you a lot of people. There's this one's own about point of view of a dog

oddly, I start people are not going to get this. It's not going to be one people liking. Yet, like I'd, like the point of view of a dog I find another New York is well below, God and I have the same point of view as it does. To the honest: it's amazing when you are a legend. Thank you so, much for being only I proceed available now, David Byrne. The daily show, with Trevor Noah Ears Edition. What's the daily show weeknights at one thousand one hundred and ten central on central and the comedy central app watch, full episodes and videos at the daily show com on Facebook and Instagram for exclusive content, and more This has been a comedy central podcast.