The Daily Show: Ears EditionFox News Reacts to FBI Informant Arrest | Maite Alberdi
Desi Lydic dives into Trump’s Laura Ingraham Town Hall and how Biden’s impeachment case is falling apart after informant, Alexander Smirnov, was revealed to be lying to the FBI. Plus, Jordan Klepper weighs in with some political analysis on Biden’s ability to be both a doddering old man and a criminal mastermind simultaneously. If climate change soon renders parts of the U.S. uninhabitable, then where are all the coastal elites supposed to go? Michael Kosta takes a trip to Duluth, Minnesota, the city of the future, to investigate how Californian climate refugees and displaced New Yorkers might fare in this snowy sanctuary city. And Maite Alberdi, director of the Academy Award-Nominated documentary film “The Eternal Memory,” talks to Desi about the five-year-long process of making this intimate film about a husband and wife living with the husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, why she chose to tell this as a non-linear love story rather than a story about deterioration, and how this journey taught her first-hand about the importance of integrating people with dementia-related illnesses and their caregivers into society.
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Tonight, we watched Trump's town hall, so you don't have to. Biden's impeachment just got impeached, and we made.
Michael Costa go to Duluth.
So let's jump right into it with our ongoing coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. Let's kick things off with poor Donald Trump. This week alone, he was fined for three hundred and fifty five million dollars. Historians voted him the worst president of all time, and Madam Webb turned out to be too bad to even jerk off, too real setback for him. So last night, Trump took his ego to the day Spa also known as Fox News, where he sat down with Laura Ingram, who came cosplaying as a purse. She asked Trump one of the big questions on everyone's mind.
What qualities are you looking for in your vice presidential pick?
Well, always, the first quality has to be somebody that you think will be a good president. A lot of people are talking about that gentleman right over there. Tim's gutt. He has been much better for me than he was for himself. I watched his campaign, and he doesn't like talking about himself, but boy does he talk about Trump.
I'm sure he talks about him too. His therapist. Ah, that was so humiliating. Trump basically said, you're only useful when you talk about how wonderful I am. And Tim just had to sit there and smile. I mean, who knew Trump also liked to grab him by the balls?
So okay, Donald Trump.
Tell us why he'd be a good vice president, and you make it even more humiliating.
The one thing that always surprises me is that the VP choice has absolutely no impact. It's whoever the president is.
It just seems.
Always remember Tim, no one cannot matter, quite like you can now get out there and show the world nothing.
Now.
One thing Trump did have going for him was that it seemed like Joe Biden would be going into the general election facing an impeachment over his son's business dealings.
And if you've been watching.
Fox News, you would know that the case against Biden was a slam dunk thanks to one of their GOP star witnesses. Just listen to Fox News anchor and human polo shirt Jesse Waters.
The highly credible FBI informant says that the Beresma executive who allegedly bribed Joe Biden has audio recordings of Joe and of Hunter. One of the FBI's top informants. A guy with impeccable credentials.
A great track record.
The highly credible, multi lingual, extremely trustworthy, longtime confidential FBI informant.
Wow.
Highly credible, extremely trustworthy, multi lingual, proficient at excel, a good ticker, a generous lover.
Always puts the seat down. This guy is rock solid, bulletproof. Impeachment case closed.
In a new court filing. Federal prosecutors alleged what oft the FBI's own longtime informants spun bogus tales about President Biden and his son Hunter after meeting with Russian intelligence officials.
Alexander Smirnov was arrested Wednesday, charged with lying about financial ties between the President, his son Hunter, and the Ukrainian energy company Barisma, allegations that have been central to the Republican's impeachment push.
Yeah, not only was this guy lying about Joe Biden getting bribes, the FBI says that he was also working with Russian intelligence. Yeah, Russia again. Can we please just get a new storyline just once. I want to hear that, like Bhutan is meddling in our election, just to mix things up. I mean, didn't we just find out.
That aliens are real? Maybe they want to get in on this, you know.
So the impeachment case against Biden just took a big hit, although it wasn't that strong to begin with. I mean, it's like saying, when Jimmy Carter entered hospice, he blew his chances of making the NBA. So now the prosecutors say this guy is a liar working with Russian intelligence. Surely Jesse, a responsible journalist, is taking it upon himself to apologize and make the necessary corrections.
Everyone who blows the whistle on the Biden syndicate or is connected to it has been arrested.
What does that tell you?
Joe Biden's a smooth operator.
Informants, business partners, whistleblowers, they're all paying a price, But the Biden family has never paid a price.
You got to hand it to the big guy. He's getting away with it.
That was an interesting way to say I'm sorry I made a mistake. I personally would not have responded to this by accusing Biden of arresting his enemies, but hey, every news outlet has different standards. Some issue corrections, Jesse issues in old caps Facebook comment.
That's a beauty of free speech.
You can say whatever you want out of your big dumb mouth.
For some political.
Analysis of these accusations, we turn to our very own Jordan Klepper, Jordan.
Jordan.
Does Jesse Waters really expect us to believe that Joe Biden is a criminal mastermind?
Absolutely?
Does he.
If you watch Fox News, they make a simple, compelling argument. Joe Biden does a diabolical scheme machine with the tyrannical heart of a fifty foot Joseph Stalin. He's a master conductor playing America's Justice department like he's Bradley Cooper and Maestro, but without the problematic notes.
I'm sorry, but isn't Fox News also constantly painting the picture of Joe Biden as a doddering old man.
Well, yes, because he's also that too. If you watch Fox News. You understand that Joe Biden is unable to form a complete sentence or stay up past three pm. He spends his days shuffling around the White House in an open bathrob mumbling half thoughts to his own shrivel Genitalia.
Sorry, but he's a mastermind.
Oh a mastermind, dessy with a strong, smooth penis a mastermind the likes of which the world has never seen. Rest assured, he is the author of all the miseries of the world. Ukraine, Gaza, the border inflation, that thing where you bite your cheek and then keep biting that same spots. It's just a goddamn Biden crime family got me in.
Jordan.
Please help me put these two narratives together. What does a day in the life of Joe Biden look like?
Oh, well, you'd be lucky if you got sleepy Joe out of bed before ten am. Then it's straight to the masterminding. He spends the morning shaking down Ukrainian energy companies and cooking crack for his son until lunch a small portion of jello and cotton cheese. If he's good at poor bastard can barely get it in his mouth. Then in comes the head of the FBI and George Soros, eager to decide which innocent Americans they'll audit execute at harvest for Adrenachrome. Then Jeopardy Always Jeopardy never misses it. Then back to Evil until early bedtime at seven, where he returns to the coffin in his underground layer, surrounded by the bats he's using to start the next COVID.
Wow, okay, this is on Fox.
This is all on Fox.
I don't know if I can believe all of that once.
The good news is you don't have to just believe whatever parts keep you scared enough to watch through the commercial break, then Fox News will be happy and don't get too afraid. Though Joe Biden can smell fear from over a mile away.
It's it's how he hunts. Wow, truly terrifying. Thank you for that. Jordan Clapper, Jordan Clepper.
Everyone, when we come back, we'll find out why Blue that.
It's ready for the end of the world.
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It's only a.
Matter of time before rising sea level swallow America's coastline. But where will all the coastal eli Let's go, Michael Costa went to find out.
Super hurricanes, drought, wildfires, turning New York City the color of sunny d Across America, climate change is wreaking havoc and driving people from their homes, and experts say this is only the beginning.
This is in the order of millions of people.
So where might they go?
Climate researchers city answer is in and up, think deLuce, Wow.
So millions of coastal elites like myself will one day be flocking to Minnesota. Is this the city of the future.
Let's find out.
Am I moving?
I can't feel my legs. I'm not moving?
Why was there not a jacket in my suitcase? To learn more, I met with Chief Sustainability Officer Mindy Grandly, So tell me about de las Well.
Duluth is a great city. We're on great lake.
We have lots of freshwater.
You if we finish this inside, because if I don't go inside in seven seconds, my heart's gonna explode.
Of course, Oh my gosh.
So what we're saying about the Luth Duluth to what we're saying about Duluth.
Well, experts have called Daluth a climate refuge because we're a place that's fairly safe from the worst effects of climate change.
You're talking about in fifty years when this climate change thing like really gets bad.
Right, A few people are moving here now from California because of climate change.
So you're telling me people are moving here from the Good States.
Yes, Mandy claims Duluth has big advantages like ten percent of the world's drinking water in Lake Superior and room for up to ten thousand new residents because it's basically that barren ice planet from Star Wars.
Some people can handle eighty inches of snow every winter.
And eighty inches of snow over eighty Jesus Christ. Do you think those big un climate change summits would be more effective if people knew that the alternative was having to move to Duluth.
Well, there's really no bad weather. There's just bad clothing, bad clothing.
So people are still wearing Balenciaga here.
We don't know what that is.
Despite this vast cultural divide, coastal refugees are getting ready to flood to Loof, But are the locals prepared.
There's a migrant caravan of California's coming. They're bringing their spin instructors, they're kombucha makers, they're oat milk.
Are you ready for that? I don't mind having a few more friends.
Any advice for refugees that are coming here.
Oh, sure, you can need a dress really warm.
They can't dress warmly because then they would lose their job as Instagram models.
Well, it's going to be hard to be a bikini model here.
I mean, you're laughing, but this is important to my culture.
Your culture.
It felt like you were speaking two different languages.
But how deep was this divide? Polo or rugby?
Ooh, rugby for sure? Why because I like sports that?
No, no, I don't mean the sport. I'm talking about names for children all low or Rugby.
Neither are there any members?
There's only exclusive clubs here.
Well, there's Sam's Club on Costco.
So I can do pricking in the bathing there. I do.
I even got some words of wisdom from former Duluth mayor Emily Larson, seen here in a press conference last July.
Dluth is gritty and resilient and real.
We work hard, we really care about each other.
That's going to be tough for some of these people in LA because they don't work hard and they don't care about each other.
But the first wave of Californians are already here, so how are they surviving?
It does feel like another planet sometimes.
Meet ex Californian an environmentalist Jamie Alexander.
We packed into a camper van thinking we were going to drive out here and spend the summer, and then wildfire season of twenty twenty happen and I decided to move my family here because of climate change.
Let's be honest. Okay, there's no de Lutherans here. Is the de Lutherans, de Lutherans.
The Luthians, the Luthians.
All right, let's be on. There's no do Luthians here. Okay, sucks, right, it doesn't.
I love it here. I want to live in a place where it feels real.
People say that the Lutherans do do Lags are more real people. A New Yorker spits in my face. It feels pretty real.
Yeah, I mean I think what is meant by that is here you're connected to your neighbors. Everywhere is going to experience climate impacts. If a climate related you know, whether event happened, would you be able to lean on your neighbors.
I've lived in New York for seven years. I don't know my neighbor, and I don't want to know my neighbor. The next question, do you have a winter jacket for me?
I didn't.
This is not cutting it, and my BMI is like under two percent.
You know what I'm saying.
Jamie told me to really understand de Luthians. I would have to walk a mile in their shoes, even if mine were nicer.
These boots are Louis.
I'm not going to get snow on in the way.
He probably will read it.
I'm ready to let's go.
God, shoot, they're kind of hard to walk in at first.
I'm kidding, it goes my suit.
Hey those look like huge almost rats there, Dear.
Do they ever take the pizza out of your hand when you're on the subway or anything? No, No, you're lucky.
Duluth was starting to grow on me, but there was just one problem.
The idea that there's like a climate proof city is A it's not true at all, and B it's dangerous because every place on Earth is already experiencing climate impacts, and climate change is happening now and people are making huge life changing decisions because of it.
Then what am I doing here? I left my wife and family for a week to come here, and it's not even a real climate refuge.
No, damn, I knew.
The only thing that could cheer up this coastal elite was hitting the Spa. Fortunately for me and Duluth.
Even the Spa is terrifying.
We had to remove thirty inches of ice so that you can go jump in it. Oh my god, and your body is gonna tell you you're gonna die. Yeah. But when you're retraining some of those neuropathways in your head to say, hey, I can handle a little hard stuff.
Yeah, I can handle this.
Go ahead.
Maybe once I get used to it, the cold isn't so bad.
I'm prosing to the thick.
Well, at least I can go back to New York.
God, God, damn it, that's my car.
Let me him back, my key.
Ol Bertie will.
Be joining us on the show, so don't go away. My guest Tonight is the producer and director who filmed The Eternal Memory, is currently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Please welcome, my Tay, ALBERTI, my take. Thank you so much for being here. This film is so beautiful. I loved it so much, And congratulations on your Oscar nomination.
Thank you.
Because in your first this is your second Oscar nomination. First you were nominated for The Mole Agent, which was also an incredible film. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. But this particular film, The Eternal Memory, is it's.
Such a beautiful story.
It's centered around a man who is living with Alzheimer's and his wife who's caring for him.
And it completely took me.
By surprise at how joyful and inspiring this film is. And truly it's a powerful love story. Did you know that going into it when you went to make it or was it something that unfolded as you went on?
Thank you You make the perfect description of the film, I think because I really felt it for the first time as a love story.
And I always say.
That it's a big love story in the context of Dzheimer when Thatlzeimer, it's not a tragedy, it's only a talent. And yes, since I met them personally, I was so surprised that they can have a relationship and bid love and trying to be in the world like not leaving v Alzheimer as a drama and being a couple, and that it was very special for me from the beginning.
How did you How did you meet the two of them and ask them to participate in the documentary.
Well, they are very important figures in tile. I admire them all my life. He's a very important journalist and she's a very important actress. But I didn't know them personally, and I met them in a work context. She was teaching in a university where I was teaching too, and I realized that she bring him to her work. After that he got alzheimer, and all the people that work with her help her to take care of him, and they were in the world, into society. They were not isolated. They speak openly about the topic in their day by day and in medias, and that was like very special. And since I saw that, I invite them to make a film.
I love that so much about the film, that she was bringing him out into the world.
He was doing everything with her.
They were going on long walks and having these lovely scenes in the cafe, enjoying a lunch together and laughing and just really being so loving with one another. You chose to tell the story in a non linear way. We sort of travel through time through footage, home video, footage, that they took from years ago as a young family to modern day to a period of time through the pandemic.
What inspires you to tell the story that way? Yeah, I think that.
Was very important for me to don't make the chronic of deterioration that I think that we are very used to see films of alzheimer in fiction, films that are drama of deterioration, and in this case, I wanted to build the story of a memory and how a memory of our relation and how you see that relationship through years. It's from It's a film about twenty five years of relationship, not only the moment that I was a viewer of, that was the last five years.
So it was the idea of.
Construct what was meaningful for them today of that past, and how you can understand what he's still remembering today of that previous years.
It was interesting.
I found like the scene that we just showed, the clip that we showed, those were the most delightful scenes in the movie, and they were well into his diagnosis. You know, the previous footage of them as a young family. It was beautiful and it gave contacts. But seeing those scenes were just it really is true unconditional love. The way that they were so present with one another, enjoying one another in this moment in time. Is that something that's sort of embedded in the Chilean culture or it with this specific to the two of them as a couple.
Now, I think it's very specific of them, like they really decided to leave the cimer in that way, like in a funny mood, in a good mood, like enjoying the present and understanding that Yeah, it was a challenge, but it was very special from them. And I feel too that you see the pain in the film, but you see good days and bad days, and it's a mex and I think that it's the good thing of documentaries, and in this case you can feel it that they are not genres as in fiction, that it's like a comedy or a drama or a thriller.
Here you have all the emotions.
Coexist, and you see a bad day and then a good day, and then a bad day and then very good days and at the end the balance.
It's likeness.
And I always said that it's a very feeling good film because they are living that in a very good moody.
I want to ask you about the process. So many of the scenes were really were very intimate and very vulnerable for him and for the.
Two of them as a couple.
How did you manage to navigate telling the story and holding their story so tenderly in the way that you did, without crossing a boundary or being intrusive in any way.
Well, I think that there are many reasons for that. The first one was that he decided to make the film. It was very difficult to convince her. I will probably say the same reason that she gave me, like to be very aware of show the fragility. And he was the one that said to her and to me, like I show I showed so many people in my life during dictatorships, so many people opened the doors to my camera to show their pain. So why I'm not going to show my on fragility And in that moment that was so clear. So they were completely on the project when he decided, and they opened the doors in a very generous way. And it take me to five years to make the films, and probably the first years were to construct this relationship. But then they were very used to the camera, and they were people that work with the camera all their life, so it was like a comfortable environment to them too, so we really go into a deep intimacy. And during COVID she takes a camera and she shot part of the film that it's very amazing how deep and profound are hair scenes. And yeah, I sent the camera. She never learned how to use it, as you can see like she was completely out of.
Focus, haven't you notes? I gave her a few notes, No, I try. I tried to teach her, but she never never learned. But she's like, I'm not.
An Academy Award winning director, okay.
And yeah exactly.
And when I received the material.
It was like I can never use it, but I wand.
But it was a big lesson for me about cinema because it's like, at the end, you don't care that her seams are out of focus because it's so intimate to see a couple in the middle of the night at two am alone, that I never saw something like that, and that it's very very special, And I think that the limits we built together and at the end was very clear. The last day for me, that was a day that he said that he said I'm not anymore and she said, yes, you are. And it was the first time in five years that I felt me comfortable there because he was uncomfortable with himself after five years. So yeah, it was very clear the limits.
I think he got to a certain point where he said, I'm not feeling quite like myself.
Yes, right, and that way.
Yeah, so you don't need to see more like you can understand how that moved forward.
You Well, something like over fifty five million people in this world suffer from dementia related diseases, so this clearly has a huge impact on a lot of people in this world. What do you hope that for people who are dealing with it, you know, personally or within their families, what do you hope that they take away from the film?
Yeah, I think it's that number, plus the caregivers that are with this person, that it's always a situation of isolation. And for me, this is the perfect example of how we can deal with the disease, at least the first years, like trying to be on the world, trying to be on society, tea, trying to enjoy the present. And here in the film we see something that it's very special because when he got isolated was in the COVID period and he deteriorated so fast, and their doctors told us like, he got very fast because he didn't have the sociability that he had before. So for me, it's a very good example of how we have to integrate people with dementia into society and caregivers too.
That's right, that's all right.
Well, you know, I just want to thank you for making this film. It's something that has affected my family as well, and it is so inspiring to see this story being told in such an honest way and in a way that doesn't grieve what has been lost, but really celebrates all the love and enjoy that we're made.
Good love and the good life. Thank you very Meternal.
Memory is streaming now exclusively on Parmount Plus.
My King Alberty.
Everyone, we're gonna take.
A quick break, so we'll be right.
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