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We've got a big show tonight. Donald Trump is holding a J6 reunion. The Supreme Court lets women have some rights after all. So, let's get into it with our ongoing coverage of Indecision 2024.

It was a big day for both presidential candidates. Joe Biden was in Italy for the G7 summit, where he met with a bunch of world leaders who are, believe it or not, even more unpopular than he is. Yeah, just look at all their net approval ratings together. That's right. Biden might be an American, too, but in Europe, he's a solid seven.

It's nice to know that at a time where so much divides us, one thing that binds us all together in our shared humanity is looking up at the person we elected and saying, man, f*** that guy.

Anyway, at the G7, Biden signed a security agreement with Ukraine. He pushed for protection of abortion rights in Europe and built support for a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, not to be outdone, former President Donald Trump also attended an important summit with world leaders. Donald Trump has confirmed that he'll be appearing on the upcoming episode of Logan Paul's podcast. He's going to do well, see.

Oh, no way. We got gifts. Is this your mug shot? Yeah, can you... No way! You're a gangster! This is what we're reduced to. I think we just found his campaign motto. Trump 2024. This is what we're reduced to. Yeah. You know, you can kind of tell Donald Trump has no idea who Logan Paul is. Here's a shirt and a mug, kid. Now, which kind of cancer are you dying of, huh?

Yes, Donald Trump agreed to be on Logan Paul's podcast, and Logan Paul agreed to be Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense. So...

Then, after hanging out with influencers yesterday, today, Trump met with some people who contribute even less to society. Congressional Republicans. There's more breaking news we're following. Only moments ago, former President Donald Trump wrapped up his meeting with congressional Republicans up on Capitol Hill. It marked his first visit since telling his supporters to, quote, fight like hell just ahead of the deadly January 6th riot.

Trump was back on Capitol Hill for the first time since January 6th. And it must have felt like visiting your old high school, you know? Walk in the hall, so many memories flooding back. I remember Joey taking a dump over there. Blake beat up a cop right over there. We tried to hang Mikey over there. Just outside there, I told everyone to be peaceful. Such good memories. We should do this again. How about January?

Now, this meeting was billed as a chance for Trump to discuss the legislative agenda for his potential second term. So, let's hear how this serious policy discussion went. It opened with members singing happy birthday to the former president because his birthday is just right around the corner. What? They sang happy birthday to him? They're not waiters at a TGI Friday's.

I mean, isn't that embarrassing for everybody involved? A room of adults wearing suits saying, "Let's discuss our agenda to dismantle the regulations that protect our environment. But first, who's the big boy getting a year older?" And-and today isn't even his birthday. It's tomorrow. I mean, I know Trump has done a lot. He's a convicted felon. He tried to overthrow the government. But now he's celebrating a birthday week? The man's a monster.

And the worst part is that Ted Cruz sang it sexy, like Marilyn Monroe. Just... Broke. Broke. You can't unsee that, everybody. Okay, now that Trump has blown out his candles and made a wish, I assume to meet that three-boobed lady from Total Recall...

Let's get to that policy. Sources inside the room tell us it was a typical Trump performance, bragging about his polls, attacking Republicans who have opposed him, questioning why Taylor Swift would support a Democrat. Apparently, the former president made reference to Hannibal Lecter.

and said, "Nice guy." Quote, "He even had a friend over for dinner." At one point he even talked about Nancy Pelosi's daughter saying that her daughter had told him in a different lifetime she, Nancy Pelosi, and Donald Trump would have had a great romance. Come on! Does Donald Trump have nothing better to do at Capitol Hill than quote Jodie Foster movies and act out Nancy Pelosi fanfic?

I mean, imagine if you were a serious Republican congressman in that room who came to work that day to get things done and make life better for your constituents.

That person does not exist, but imagine how annoyed they would be. Now, to be fair, Trump did discuss some actual politics. As you know, the Republican National Convention is in Milwaukee this summer, and apparently he just can't wait to fly in. Trump said, quote, Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.

I may not be from Wisconsin, but I am from Michigan. And let me just say, don't mess with the Midwest, buddy. We will politely ask you to please stop and then thank you in advance, and that's a threat. Honestly, though.

How does Trump not like Milwaukee? The two main food groups there are sausage and cheese. A salad just means the sausage has sauerkraut on it. But let's move on from Trump and Biden to the people who actually run our country, the Supreme Court. Today, they issued a ruling on the abortion pill, which religious activists asked them to ban on the legal grounds that they don't like it.

Now, traditionally, that's a compelling argument for the Supreme Court, but there must have been a gas leak because this time they made the right decision. Justices unanimously rejected a bid by a conservative Christian legal group to restrict access to an abortion pill used by millions of patients every year. The court's decision unanimous here, finding that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the FDA's decision to make it easier for people to get the pill

did not have the legal standing to sue. Justice Kavanaugh writes in the opinion, "A plaintiff's desire to make a drug less available for others doesn't establish standing to sue." Yes, obviously. You can't sue a drug just because you don't want somebody else to use it. Like, I want cocaine to be less available to Don Jr. It doesn't mean I can sue cocaine. Now, to be clear...

You can't. Look it up. To be clear, the court didn't decide this case on the merits, just on a technical issue of standing. So anti-abortion groups still have another chance to get the abortion pill banned, which is nice to know that they at least they get a plan B.

But because it's 2024, we can't celebrate even a small win for reproductive rights without hearing about another step backwards. Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill that would have established protections for in vitro fertilization nationwide. This all comes as the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, voted to condemn the use of IVF.

at its annual meeting just yesterday. The resolution, which received about 60% of the delegate votes, supporting a decision in February by Alabama's Supreme Court, which ruled embryos are considered children. Really? Really, Southern Baptists? You're against IVF? Don't you remember how Jesus was born? That's basically the Bible version of IVF.

It's wild that they were inspired to do this because of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that everyone hated. That's like if you asked a comedian why they got into stand-up, and they said, I loved Kramer's set at the Laugh Factory. For more on these recent decisions on reproductive rights, we go live to the Supreme Court with Grace Kuhlenschmidt. Grace! Grace! Grace!

Grace, you were in court today. How did it go? Well, the judge let me off with a warning and they're taking my anklet off next week. No, I'm talking about the Supreme Court. Whoa. So the new update on reproductive rights is as follows. Women can get an abortion if they're using Mifeprestone and their state allows it or allows it to be sent to them from out of state. But

The abortion cannot be carried out if the embryo was conceived through IVF and the woman was a member of the Southern Baptist Church because in that case, the fertilization should not take place to begin with. And that's the latest on what women can do with their bodies. Back to you, Jordan. That is a lot to process in a single day. Women must be feeling pretty overwhelmed.

Are you kidding? This is my dream. I get to wake up every day and get told what to do with my body by a random group of people I've never met. They don't give me enough rules. You want more rules? Yeah. Like today I learned I shouldn't get pregnant through IVF. But what about through missionary? Or cowgirl? Or city subway? Oh, ooh.

Just got an update from the Delaware Jehovah's Witnesses. They say that making a baby through missionary is cool if you're dating, but subway jizz puddles are not unless I'm fully married to the jizz puddle. Thank you, Delaware.

witnesses. You want that to be dictated to you by the courts and religious groups? Well, it could be any random group, a local school board, a book club, the NBA. I don't think the NBA should weigh in on your reproductive rights, Grace. You're right. They're busy with the finals. But there is so much more about my life I need decided for me. I mean,

I'm getting a bikini wax this weekend and I know they're gonna ask. Landing strip, triangle, or Sahara Desert? Oh, hold on. Yep, okay. There's a bowling league in Phoenix that just weighed in. Landing strip if I'm going to a party, triangle if I'm going to a funeral. I'm excited about the landing strip, but my grandma is dead. Okay, I'm... Grace, do women really need to be micromanaged this much by random organizations?

I can't even focus on what you're saying right now. I have not pooped in three days. I emailed NASA to ask if I could, but they haven't written me back. What? Grace, if you need to poop, just go poop. How? Walk over to the bathroom. With what? With your legs, Grace. But which leg first? I'm freaking out.

Jordan, I need you or a group of astronauts to tell me what to do with my body. Okay, left, right, left, right. Left, right. Yes, left, right. Thank you, Jordan. I love this country. Great school, everybody. We'll come back. Maya Hall will be joining us. Don't go away.

Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an actor and musician whose new album is called Chaos Angel, and she stars as Anxiety in Inside Out 2. Please welcome Maya Hawke. Welcome. Cheers. Cheers.

Okay, so in Inside Out 2, you play Anxiety. Am I pronouncing that right? I've never heard of Anxiety before. Yeah, it's a very sophisticated name. Not a lot of people know about it, but yeah, you're pronouncing it just right. Yes, yes. Anxiety. Anxiety. Is that right? Yes, that's exactly spot on.

anxiety how do you go about playing anxiety you're channeling essentially an idea and a general emotion yes well it's interesting because they're both ideas and general emotions but also they're really well-rounded characters for example like within the movie joy played by the fabulous amy poehler cries you know joy cries so joy is a full character and so are all the other characters so it is kind of a

single emotion, but it's also a whole person, which is a very weird thing to play. But basically what I did is that in my own personal life, I have a voice in my head going at all times, telling me all the things that I'm doing wrong, always 100% and all the things I'm worried about and all the ways that maybe I could improve the things that I'm worried about and kind of correct the trajectory of my crashing plane. And...

And I just kind of tapped into that voice and put it into the character. So I didn't do any research, no homework, no scientific follow-ups, no consultations with specialists. Just listening to the guy in my head was like, oh, no, it's not going to be okay. You're going to be bad. You're going to do a bad job at the show tonight. Oh, yeah, your coat's weird. You're weird. It's going to go really badly for you. You're doing great. Oh, thank you. But you really brought that character out there. Well, I don't. Wow.

Some of us are natural you just find the voice within and you let it out there exactly you're playing Anxiety and inside out too and your new album is called chaos. Is everything okay? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I'm sleepy. You're sleepy You're dealing with a lot of open emotions. I feel like does the idea of your album is very personal yes, and

releasing it that sounds it gives me nothing but nightmares the idea of releasing something so personal like that does that give you putting out your edited journals yeah exactly is that how you view it i mean kind of i mean edited and obscured but yeah yeah but no it doesn't really give me anxiety because i am not uh like you know i'm not like making a there's no like public scandal that's being revealed by my record you know it's not like it's like a flaw do you wish you had i wish i'm actually

I'm actually if anyone's interested or open to offering me a public scandal incorporate into the layers of an excellent be very open, but no

No, so it doesn't make me that nervous. I have always been pretty open with my emotions as a person. That's kind of a mainstay characteristic of my crazy inside-out house that's going on up here, my headquarters, so to speak. But, yeah, I'm just open with my emotions. I'm very happy to talk about things. And so I really am just feeling very proud and honored

and grateful to have gotten to make a record that is coming out and to get to be in a movie this cool and like this kind of double rainbow of both popular, good, and smart. Yeah, yeah. Well said. I mean, it is...

It is a remarkable thing to be able to both to act and also to do music at the same time. You grew up in an artistic household. I agree, it is remarkable. It's remarkable, Maya. How do you do it? I mean, it's just, I don't know. How do you do it? Tell me more. I have an extra lobe in my brain. It's extra lobes, I knew it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you ever, growing up in a,

a household that has so much art and artists. I follow your dad on Instagram, and I feel like he's constantly telling me how to be a better artist. I love it. That is the vibe of his Instagram. He has transitioned from actor to guru. Yes.

What is he going to tell me to do today? I don't know. Did you ever, growing up in that household, feel the rebellious spirit to go against the grain and become like an actuarial scientist? No. No? No. I mean, I think the weird thing that people misunderstand about rebellion, and there are a few counterexamples to this, but like people don't normally rebel against fun stuff.

Like, it does happen, okay? But rarely, like, it's only the really weird brother who's ever like, yeah, my dad was so fun. He took us to the trampoline park all the time. And all he wanted to do was talk about rock music and trampolines. And so I became an accountant. Like, I...

That's an unusual thing. It's usually like the accountant's kid who's like, I'm the trampoline guy. Like, I don't know. Like, it's mostly, rarely does one rebel against fun stuff. That's true. That's true. I usually shied away from it in high school, but that was mostly because I was fun stuff, risky stuff. I was a nerd in high school. So the idea of drinking or doing drugs or actually having a sustained relationship with somebody was very scary to me. Very. What about a brief relationship? I had a brief relationship. You did? And then I had a very long relationship. Okay, nice. Which I think is what happened. This is too much about me. I think that's what happens to nerds.

I'm hearing that anxiety in my voice now. You're like you're bringing it up. You're bringing it up. You're bringing it up Jordan Huh, the first song on your album. Yeah black ice. Yes. It has a very interesting moody beginning. It does Yes, can you tell us a little bit about my god? Yeah, it's so weird. Yeah, it's weird I'm worried for some reason I've now like like the first time I was like, I know this but now I'm talking about a lot I'm worried. It's gonna come back to bite me in the butt somehow, but um, I was taken to see a psychic because I had depression as a child and I

And the psychic was like a magical psychic who like laid crystals around you and helped you talk to your spirit guides. Yes, it was a very normal childhood. In case anyone got the wrong impression from everything else about me, I had a really conventional childhood. And so anyway, this psychic...

did this kind of long session with me at the end. And there were like two dogs there and like three women. And they helped me talk to my inner spirit guides and remove my shield that was over my heart and do all this kind of stuff. And I have a recording of it. And the recording I only heard like 15 years later and was really taken aback by it because I...

It was both extremely positive and I was like, wow, I'm so lucky that I got to have this kind of help as a kid and help through my anxious teen years, you know, kind of like the way that Inside Out is focused on. But I was also like, you freaking weirdos. Like, why are you telling me that I am an angel? I am not. And will

be I am a disgusting little gremlin and and have been and always will be and so it was like because these these women were really being like you are an angel in human form you are perfect your job in the universe is to make other people around you feel happy and good and and I listen as an adult and I was like

that to be my job. Which is, go away. You're 11 at this time? Yeah. Wow. I guess you have an experience like that. You're like, I need to become an artist and put this into words. Suppose so. Yes. Hang in there. It feels like

It feels like a gift to a friend. That is basically the idea. I like, I've heard two different takes on the song. I like the idea that it's either a present me singing to a past me comforting the past. So it's like you're comforting yourself or me singing to a friend of mine. That first one sounds cooler. I should have said the first one. No, no, no.

I like both. I like both, and I will not reveal which one it is, or else I offer up the opportunity to accidentally reveal who the bad guy in the story is. Ooh, I want to know. No, I can't tell you. This is the scandal you were looking for. I know, I know, but it's not the scandal that the people want. Fair enough. Smart. Inside Out 2 opens in theaters June 14th, and Chaos Angel is available now. We'll be right back. ♪♪

That's our show for tonight. Now here it is, the moment has come. He came in, talked to the conference, was very honest. He was funny. He was joking around constantly with everyone. He saw me. I was sitting back a little ways. He saw me in there and he was like, hello, Marjorie. He's always so sweet and recognizes me. And he said, are you being nice? He was joking. Are you being nice to Speaker Johnson? And I said, eh. And he said, okay, be nice to him. And I nodded my head.

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