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00:03From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
00:10This is The Daily Show with your host, Jon Stewart.
00:38Welcome to The Daily Show, my name is Jon Stewart, great show for you tonight.
00:41Later on, we're going to be joined by the president of the United Nations General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock.
00:48We'll be joining her. She's president.
00:55And we will talk about how nobody knew that the United Nations General Assembly had a president.
01:01I did not know that.
01:04But ladies and gentlemen, I want to start the program tonight in a slightly different place.
01:09I want to give credit where credit is due. We don't, obviously, often do this.
01:15The president did a solid over the weekend.
01:17President Trump signed an executive order in front of his fraternity brothers,
01:23fast-tracking the FDA process for novel psychedelic drug treatments for veterans
01:28suffering from all forms of PTSD and other psychiatric conditions, including addiction.
01:32I'm sorry, I'll let the president explain off the cuff as he does.
01:36In 2024, a study from Stanford University, 30 special operation veterans with traumatic brain injuries
01:44underwent, it's called ibogaine treatment. Ibogaine. Remember the name. Is that pronounced relatively
01:53properly what you said? I don't want to get it wrong. Ibogaine.
02:04Body. Body. Body. Body. Ibogaine. Ibogaine. Rogaine with an ibogaine. It's easy.
02:11By the way, they gave you the easiest hallucinogenic to pronounce.
02:15They could have thrown f***ing ayahuasca in there.
02:19Psilocybin. But they gave you ibogaine.
02:21But even when they dumbed the s*** down for him, it's a problem.
02:26I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm falling into old habits.
02:29It's good. You did a good thing. I'm nitpicking.
02:31I apologize.
02:33A lot of the people are going to get the help they need.
02:36I, Bogan, because it's so important and experienced an 80 to 90 percent reduction in symptoms of depression
02:42and anxiety within one month.
02:46Can I have some, please?
02:50I'll take whatever it takes.
03:01Oh, my God.
03:04He's depressed, too.
03:09Hey, don't be depressed, sir.
03:12Trump won't be president forever.
03:16But I have to say, there are little moments in these Oval Office gatherings
03:21that are somewhat revelatory of the president's psyche
03:24and really a good starting place for any accredited mental health professional.
03:29I don't have time to be depressed.
03:31You know, if you stay busy enough, maybe that works, too.
03:34And that's what I do.
03:38You can't get depressed if you stay busy.
03:42It's a little thing called outrunning the darkness.
03:47You can't be depressed if the sadness can't catch you.
03:56And to be frank, I don't think Donald Trump should treat that with hallucinogenics anyway.
04:03But if he did, would we even notice?
04:08If he took hallucinogenics, he'd be like,
04:11they're eating the cats and dogs.
04:15Right near my beautiful ballroom.
04:20By the way, did you know I'm Jesus?
04:32The poor fellow in the bed is still sick.
04:41Really freaks me out every time I look at that picture.
04:45All right.
04:46You know what, though?
04:46Maybe Trump's already taken them, given how intensely he focused on the signing of this bill.
04:54I mean, he signed the shit out of this bill.
05:05I mean, that's a good one.
05:10Oh, I want to get to work on that.
05:12Do you think Biden can do that?
05:27Hey, man.
05:28You ever really looked at your signature on weed?
05:42Look, I think it's a good thing what he did.
05:45I swear to God, it's a good thing what he did.
05:47And this is not political.
05:48I don't mean this as political, but it was weird as shit the way he signed that.
05:56It was weird as shit.
05:57Like, I'm looking at that signature right now.
05:59Does that even say Donald Trump?
06:03The last name is longer than his first name.
06:08It doesn't look like it looks like it says Leonard Skinner.
06:12It doesn't even it doesn't make any sense.
06:17None of this makes sense.
06:19Go, go.
06:20You know, I'm sorry.
06:21I'm sorry to derail the program.
06:23Can we go back to just play him writing the last name?
06:26I swear to God, he doesn't write Trump.
06:34That's not traded right.
06:36That's too many letters.
06:39I counted like 10 letters unless he's just adding characters like this is his Wi-Fi password.
06:48It doesn't say Donald Trump.
06:50I would make sure this executive order is even legal because it appears to have been signed off by David
06:56Hasselhoff.
06:59But the signing capped off a bit of a winning streak for the president.
07:03The biggest news being the Friday announcement of his total victory over Iran.
07:08President Trump marches to victory.
07:10Trump told the media Iran has agreed to everything.
07:13The announcement really sparked a huge surge on Wall Street.
07:15New record highs on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq crude oil prices falling off a cliff.
07:21Most of the points are already negotiated and agreed to.
07:25You'll be very happy.
07:27A great and brilliant day for the world.
07:31Wow.
07:32I'm not...
07:38If I may offer you a humble apology, I was one of the naysayers who said this president got us
07:47into a war on an impulse.
07:49I said this president didn't have a plan for a coherent exit strategy.
07:52I said this president was cavalier about the damage that this war of choice would cause.
07:55I said this president seems to slosh when he moves because of the venous insufficiency.
08:02You're like a milk carton when you push across the kitchen table.
08:11I said all of those things and I would like to take back three of those statements.
08:18He does slosh.
08:21But the president's allies knew all along what time it was.
08:26The president is playing chess when the rest of the world is playing checkers.
08:33That's how he does it.
08:36I can't believe at the beginning when the whole thing started that the rest of the world didn't say,
08:40wait, why are you playing...
08:41Why do you have a horse and a castle?
08:44And we have the little discs.
08:47What kind of chess were they playing?
08:48He's playing three-dimensional chess.
08:51Four-dimensional chess.
08:52Playing 5D chess.
09:01That's the chess where the seats move and they spray water at you.
09:08I'm sorry, analyst Dean Cain, could you expand on that?
09:15President Trump is playing 5D chess.
09:17The dominoes are slowly just falling and toppling.
09:24What game is he playing?
09:25Is it chess?
09:27He's playing chess and then the dominoes.
09:29He's at checkers ordering dominoes.
09:31The point is...
09:35I'm hungry.
09:37And while the world played Jenga, Donald Trump is playing hungry, hungry hippos.
09:41Whatever the analogy is.
09:43Because of Trump's brilliant interdimensional Jedi mind, he basically got everything he wanted from Iran.
09:49Iran has removed or is removing all of the sea mines.
09:52No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form.
09:55They will never have a nuclear weapon.
09:59The USA will get all nuclear dust.
10:02The nuclear dust?
10:05Does that mean we also get the nuclear dust bunnies?
10:12It's so adorable how they beg for death.
10:16But look, the enriched uranium was a huge part of this war.
10:20And the fact that Iran has agreed to transfer all of its enriched uranium to the United States, it's a
10:27win.
10:27The Iranian foreign ministry says Iran's enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere under any circumstances.
10:41I guess checkers is a tougher game than I thought.
10:45All right, so there's still a couple of fine details to work out on the nuclear aspect.
10:49But the truth is, we only fought this war to get Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.
10:54That, they closed when we started this war.
10:56But, let's keep the main thing the main thing.
11:00Iran has just announced that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open and ready for business and full passage.
11:10Yeah.
11:12That news is ibogaine to my ears.
11:20Could Biden have done that?
11:23No.
11:24Because, as I said earlier, the Strait was already open.
11:26But, you heard it straight from the president.
11:30He declared the Strait of Hormuz is open.
11:33Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.
11:46Oh, boy.
11:47All right.
11:48Iran is directly contradicting President Trump.
11:51And he's not going to like that.
11:53On Truth Social, he wrote the following,
11:55The United States is going to knock out every single power plant, every single bridge in Iran.
12:01No more Mr. Nice Guy.
12:03Civilian infrastructure?
12:04No more Mr. Nice Guy.
12:08Say hello to Senor Warcrime.
12:13Pew, pew, pew, pew.
12:17It's all right.
12:17It's all right.
12:24The audience seems to be split between old people and younger people, right?
12:27I think that's very clear what's happening here.
12:30It doesn't matter.
12:35See?
12:36Now, you might be thinking to yourself, how did this happen?
12:40How did the certainty of total resolution that Trump announced morph into the uncertainty of total annihilation that Trump announced?
12:50In less time than it took Carol G to own Coachella.
12:56Cool, Dad.
13:02Hey, who wants an edible?
13:13Multivitamin.
13:13An edible multivitamin.
13:18See, what the naysayers don't understand about Trump is that what appears to the outside observer as chaos
13:25is actually the 5D-focused stratagems of a master negotiator.
13:31This is the art of the deal.
13:33You know, we never got to see Henry Ford assemble a car, or Thomas Edison put the first filament into
13:40a light bulb,
13:40or Malcolm OnlyFans reveal his bare foot in the town square.
13:46But thanks to God, the Iran war has given us all an opportunity.
13:50This is history to witness in real time.
13:52Donald Trump applied the sacred principles of the art of the deal.
13:58Let's begin just a few weeks back, when Donald Trump and his bombing buddy, Bebe, launched fierce military strikes on
14:05Iran in the middle of a negotiation.
14:07Setting the stage for art of the deal, step one, state your demands.
14:13The president declaring in a truth social post, there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.
14:20It's where they cry uncle, or when they can't fight any longer, and there's nobody around to cry uncle.
14:26Uncle?
14:27They cry uncle?
14:28Well, I believe the president may be confusing war with tickle fighting, but the point is that I remember when
14:38Lee cried uncle at Appomattox.
14:43But you always start every negotiation by demanding everything, which sets you up for step two, art of the deal,
14:49the consequences of not acceding to step one.
14:52We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
14:57We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.
15:03Yabba dabba ooh.
15:05Total surrender or total destruction?
15:08Game set?
15:10And, uh, I'm sorry.
15:12Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
15:15Counter move.
15:18Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.
15:20Well, cry me a whore river.
15:24What's that going to do?
15:26The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, causing chaos to the global economy.
15:30Disrupting the global supply chain.
15:32Causing gas and food prices to surge.
15:34Skyrocketing jet fuel costs.
15:35Sending fertilizer prices soaring.
15:37A global economic downturn that could ignite mass famine.
15:45All right, motherfuckers.
15:49I didn't want to have to do this.
15:58All right.
16:00You want to go, Iran?
16:02You want to do this?
16:03Move like that.
16:07Might unbalance your run-of-the-mill dealmaker, but the master has already prepared a step three.
16:13The president wrote,
16:15Open the f***ing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
16:38That's right.
16:39The art of the deal, step three, is basically steps one and two, but with cursing.
16:44Your move, Iran.
16:46Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
16:57I see what you did there.
16:59Your move is no move.
17:02Which brings us to step four.
17:04Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz.
17:08Boom!
17:09Motherf***er!
17:12Step four, art of the deal.
17:14Just say it's open.
17:17Who's going to check?
17:20Honestly, who's going to...
17:24Who's going to check if it's actually open?
17:27Even if you have a boat, what are you going to do?
17:28Are you going to drive all the way there?
17:30What are you going to do?
17:31Are you going to go to the Strait of Hormuz Yacht and Regatta Club?
17:33Get the f*** out of here.
17:35You didn't even know what the Strait of Hormuz was a month ago.
17:37Now you're a f***ing expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
17:40As far as you know, it's open.
17:42It's open!
17:44Now, the next part's tricky.
17:46Because at some point, even though you stated very clearly that the Strait of Hormuz is open,
17:52people are going to realize it's not open.
17:55They're still not getting food or fuel.
17:58Which is fine.
17:59Because this is where the art of the deal, where the fourth dimensional chess comes into play.
18:05Breaking tonight.
18:06President Donald Trump saying the U.S. Navy will start blockading, quote,
18:10any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.
18:14Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
18:16Hit him with the old razzle-dazzle!
18:18You can't break up with me!
18:19I'm breaking up with you!
18:21Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
18:24Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo
18:33-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo
18:33-hoo.
18:35Now, at this point, haters might assume you've been winging it the whole time.
18:40And they might be getting hungry or much poorer or cold.
18:43And they might have questions like, hey, Trump, do you even have a plan?
18:46Well, the art of the deal says, don't fall for that!
18:50I have the best plan of all, but I'm not going to tell you what my plan is.
18:53I don't tell many people like you about that.
18:55I mean, who would answer a question like that?
18:57Why would I tell you what that kind of thing?
18:59Step six, order the deal.
19:01Don't tell anyone your plan.
19:02That would be the dumbest thing you could do, which brings us to step seven.
19:07Call up a news person and tell them your plan.
19:09I just spoke with the president this morning.
19:12The president said if they do not sign the deal, the U.S. will blow up every power plant and
19:18more in Iran.
19:22But telling one person your plan, that's still just 4-D chess.
19:25Step eight is 5-D chess.
19:28Tell everyone your plan.
19:30I spoke to him on the phone this morning and told me several things.
19:34President Trump today told me if Iran does not sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown
19:39up.
19:40In our short phone call, the president told me the strikes have caused very great losses on their leadership.
19:45He also told me he doesn't think boots on the ground will be necessary.
19:48He told me that they had agreed to talk.
19:50I just got off the phone with the president and, um, and he called.
19:58You see how bummed out Brett Baer was that he called him?
20:02Yeah, I talked to the president. He called me.
20:04I, uh, had the number blocked, but I got there.
20:11So now everybody's on the same page.
20:13It seems like you're moving towards a resolution in a crisp and linear fashion.
20:18Everybody knows the plan.
20:21All that's left to do is send over a high-level negotiating team to work out the fine print and
20:30arrive at an enduring peace.
20:32You've got them right where you want them, where you hit them with step nine.
20:37Who's talking to what now?
20:38The president's saying he intends to send vice president J.D. Vance to Pakistan for a second shot at peace
20:45talks today.
20:46And an important clarification, I just got off the phone with president Trump.
20:49Yet again, he told me that vice president Vance will not be leading the U.S. delegation.
20:55But then less than two hours later, I was told that vice president Vance would again lead this delegation.
21:07Vance on.
21:10Don't talk.
21:12Vance on.
21:14Vance on.
21:21Oh.
21:26Oh.
21:27Hmm.
21:30so that's where we've arrived at with the art of the deal basically it's a cycle
21:34it's a cycle of demands and threats and premature declarations of victory that allows the negotiator
21:39enough wiggle room to at almost any point claim that they've achieved exactly what they've set
21:44out to do ultimately achieving a nuclear deal that'll probably be worse than the nuclear deal
21:49trump pulled our country out of with iran to start a devastating war that has killed thousands of
21:54innocent iranians 13 american soldiers eroded our credibility as the leader of the free world
21:58sabotage the world economy and will cost the american taxpayers who knows maybe trillions
22:04and as that realization sinks in to a population weary of your malignant narcissism and impulsivity
22:14trump hits them with step 10. cuban's going to be next
22:21that's right mother step 10. keep moving to outrun the darkness
22:30when we come back her excellency i'm elena bearbach will be joining me on the show don't go away
22:49welcome back to the daily show my guest tonight she is the current president of the united nations
22:55general assembly previously served as germany's federal minister for foreign affairs please welcome
23:00to the program ambassador anelena bearbach
23:14so nice to see you
23:17uh are you do you go by uh madam president your excellency ambassador what is what is the preferred
23:24uh title whatever you choose or anelena but it's hard it's an lena not lena on elena yes that sounds
23:33and i said lena because did i pronounced it correctly i think you might be wrong
23:39after 46 years thank you no you're very welcome i've been meaning to do that uh you are the president
23:45of the united nations general assembly i think most people did not realize that there is a president
23:50of the general assembly how long is your term uh what are the duties indeed it's a very short term
23:59it's
23:59only one year time so in german we would say you are just being thrown into the water the cold
24:06water we
24:06say in germany sure and then you just have to start swimming and uh yeah the job is to bring
24:11the whole
24:12international family so 193 to the table sounds quite similar but in a time where one of these member
24:21states might have a nuclear weapon and the other one just has a conflict imagine if you bring your
24:28family to the thanksgiving table and you have the cranky uncle and you have your hippie mother and then
24:33you just say sing from the same songbook it's also a hard job so yes in these times where not
24:39everybody
24:39is ready to sing from the same songbook anymore my biggest task is actually to defend the songbook
24:45the charter of the united nations peace and security sustainable development and human rights right
24:50for the united nations that's what they do in that analogy does the crazy uncle or the hippie mom have
24:58the nuclear weapon well frankly speaking in history the woman hardly had the nuclear weapon
25:07uh so as president you are tasked with selecting or at least uh uh doing the interviews for the
25:14next secretary general is that correct right how many candidates do you have is this like a
25:21monster.com how do they how do you get candidates to be uh the secretary general how are they
25:29submitted is it controversial yes and it will be probably the hardest job interview ever because
25:37these 193 member states they can all ask a question be interviewed so i'm presiding of it it starts
25:43tomorrow actually so if you want tomorrow yeah live on human web tv so wait what you're going to do
25:50this
25:50live yes transparency we do have in the international community let me ask you a question
26:00what is the cutoff for resumes
26:04and could i do it once a week the interview the job the job well unfortunately 24 7 job but
26:13how many
26:14people are you interviewing at the moment four so yeah the question was so how is the process um
26:21you have to be nominated by a member state okay um there was a strong call for women so 193
26:29member
26:29states there's never been a woman actually agreed on one thing that they strongly called on the
26:33nomination of women yes because for 80 years there never has been a woman and i mean a woman here
26:39probably and out there in the world we have heard it all before it was really hard to find one
26:43but explaining that after 80 years you could not find a woman if you have four billion potential
26:49candidates because there are four billion women and girls around the world it's really hard to explain
27:00here's the other thing too my guess is they'll bring in a woman to run it just at the point
27:06where
27:06it's basically unrunnable is it is it runnable anymore at the un you have the security council which can
27:12veto i mean russia and china vetoed a resolution to keep the strait of hormuz open that's where they
27:19i mean china gets a lot of its oil from the strait of hormuz and they still vetoed it how
27:24how difficult
27:25is it to even wrangle these countries anymore for resolutions if you want to have an easy job that's
27:32not the right it's not the right to be at the u.s but on the other hand um i
27:38mean there's always
27:40another option so when they vetoed it in the security council and uh yeah to those watching so they are
27:47the five permanent members they do have the veto because for historical reasons right and there has
27:53been a new initiative because obviously the vetoes in the security council led to the situation that
27:59uh in the past many conflicts could not be uh solved and it was also to the damage for the
28:05united
28:05nations because it's about the credibility so the majority of member states said then you have to come
28:10to the general assembly where all the 193 member states are and this happened last week so i called
28:16for this session saying this has to come now for the general assembly we had a big debate with many
28:23states underlining that in an interconnected world what happened in one part of the world affects
28:29everybody so oil prices have exploded one country even declared the state of energy emergency because
28:36obviously for poor countries this is a total disaster it's devastating so after this session
28:44we saw the ceasefire negotiations coming back together again we have now this kind of instable ceasefire
28:51um so hopefully everybody understands now that uh in this situation nobody can win if we're not
28:59coming back to diplomatic terms and uh that the united nations is the only place where you can bring
29:05together all member states from around the world epcot center that's a place all the different i think
29:13it represents most people let me ask you a question are we putting too much on the united nations
29:20you know my image of the united nations is is like that this it's the general assembly and we come
29:27in
29:27and we make peace deals but maybe that's never really been its function it seems like what it does well
29:34because a well-timed resolution what does that really do anyway if it's vetoed or not vetoed but it seems
29:40what
29:40the u.n does well is as kind of an international cleanup crew for the mess that the other nations
29:52make you do foreign aid you have refugee programs is that something that the u.n should would steer more
30:02into and should we lower our expectations about their so-called peacemaking abilities 100 right because
30:10from the first day on um the united nation what was not meant to bring humankind to heaven but to
30:20prevent humanity from hell so it's therefore i bet that sounds excellent in german so um
30:34i mean yeah because we would go back to german history it was unfortunately my country exactly
30:38you guys yeah yeah and we learned our lessons and it took rightly so uh my country back then also
30:46it was a cold war being divided to come to the international family again but this is why
30:52also me personally as a former foreign minister of my country yeah we are making so clear without
30:58this united nations without the charter nothing in the world would be better off sometimes people call
31:03the u.n naïve with all the morals and all the principles but the ground fathers and a few mothers
31:08they've been through the worst in life two world conflicts uh a genocide with six million uh jews
31:17being killed back then also many many countries more than 50s 50 were still under colonial power so this
31:25house was built to have at least some progress and as you were mentioning the vast majority of the
31:31work of the united nations is to prevent conflict unfortunately especially in these times
31:37hate clicks six times better so the good stories hardly make it to the headlines and journalists don't
31:44write about the war which didn't happen we learned it also in kovic in the pandemic there's no glory in
31:50prevention but this is exactly uh the main work the u.n is doing preventing that different conflicts
31:57that out of a famine right another war would happen preventing that with regard to for example when
32:03we had the pandemic where no army in the world could stop the virus because it didn't have any
32:08passport even the strongest countries could not do it alone right it needed the united nations with the
32:13world health organization to do the vaccination for half of the world's population uh children going
32:19around that we don't have smallpox anymore this is thanks to the u.n i mean you haven't been downtown
32:25believe me since mom donnie as a whole um what i'm wondering about is it's it's the sense that
32:37you know the changes that might be made in in the u.n to deal with all these various conflicts
32:44and things
32:45that are coming up are overwhelmed by this new order of world power play that people are rebelling
32:55against this idea of globalization whether it comes through international norms of an international
33:01court or the united nations you know the united nations is the black helicopters it's the new world
33:08order it's all those things when in large part it seems like a place where maybe overly bureaucratic
33:14but they're trying to get aid or take a an international mechanism to help those that have been most hurt
33:24by the calamities that the the great powers have visited upon the earth if you were going to what
33:32what changes would you make at the u.n to maybe make it uh more effective or is there a
33:40way to sell it
33:41to the new populist regimes that want nothing to do with international order they don't want international
33:47climate treaties they don't want uh international peace treaties it seems they don't want international
33:52rules of order they want might makes right how does the u.n deal with that uh many questions in
33:59one
33:59so maybe that's right you have 20 seconds i can't share it that's the best what politicians can do we
34:09are very short in answering questions you know um so i know 30 seconds are over no no no please
34:15take
34:15your time we got plenty of time it's basic cable nobody's watching i uh i cherry pick i cherry pick
34:22well
34:22first of all you're 100 right the main job is to bring um food literally to to the people and
34:31this
34:31is what i said also when we started this so-called 80th session actually the 80th anniversary not so
34:37much to celebrate at these times at the u.n but when we started the 80th session speaking in front
34:42of
34:43all heads of states um remembering them no single day would the world be better off
34:49without the united nations uh because millions of people would literally starve you could not enter
34:56an airplane uh safely none of us because the uh civil aviation organization is based with the united
35:05nations uh so for all of us it's in our interest and not only for the pure people around the
35:11world to
35:11have this united nations but on the other hand obviously uh some thing uh now might is right
35:18uh but we have seen uh also lately with the strait of uh humus that obviously uh this conflict
35:24does not only affect everybody but also uh you need the support of others to open the strait of
35:30humus and this is why for me it's crystal clear the international peace order the charter of the united
35:37nations is a life insurance for everyone and nobody could sleep in silence and peace if we would accept
35:45that a bigger neighbor can just invite invade their neighboring country uh in the future and as you
35:52mentioned the climate crisis i mean you can deny it uh you can just pretend it's not there but we
36:01could
36:01see all over the world the wildfires which also do not stop at the richest neighborhoods uh in every
36:08country around the world because like the pandemic and the virus also co2 doesn't have a passport and
36:15it will just spread all over the world so we can only fight it together in our own interest would
36:21you
36:21like to see the u.n have more teeth in terms of enforcement like where they could levy fine do
36:26they
36:26levy fines i don't know what they can do i know there's certain peacekeeping things and but when let's
36:32say somebody does violate international norms international law u.n i mean the u.n has said
36:38israel has violated uh you know treaties and yet nothing happens to them what could happen can they
36:45levy fines can they charge countries like uh in baseball if you throw at somebody
36:53well it's not the world police yeah so you cannot just what if it were the world police
36:59well we tried it with some courts for example the international criminal court unfortunately the
37:06biggest uh powers they did not ratify uh but this is again the strength of the united nations
37:12right you have to keep at it others said we move forward and this court as you you ask can
37:17you try
37:18people yes they did they tried one of the biggest war criminals uh when we had uh the balkan wars
37:24when
37:25we talk about melosevic yes we had uh skrabenica so a genocide uh going on so they tried them in
37:32front
37:32of a court uh now for example with regard to the philippines they had uh the dictator back there so
37:39there's an international arrest warrant and he will be probably tried in front of the icc uh the icc
37:46the international criminal uh court for others who have not ratified it uh for example with assad then
37:53it's not possible but they are also arrest warned uh you mentioned a couple of them uh with different
37:59wars going on right now so these who's who's the worst country right now well i'm the president i'm the
38:07president of the general assembly speaking on behalf of all of them right who would they all say is the
38:12worst country well obviously the worst are those who deny dignity from other human beings and uh this
38:22is why we have to stand up for it uh every day otherwise coming back to my own country again
38:28more than 80 years ago why is it so hard for us to learn that lesson it it really blows
38:33my mind
38:33that that that this idea that violence and might makes right to take us back to a world that we
38:40were
38:41when colonial powers and imperial powers ruled and war was uh inevitable in in almost every location
38:49it it's it's it's it's almost shocking to see how far we've come and yet people want to go back
38:58to
38:58that much more barbaric way of of governance is that what's talked about in the halls or or or is
39:07are the halls of the u.n a more administrative place than a philosophical place well this is a
39:14philosophical question that's why i'm not in the halls of the u.n yeah so um i would say all
39:21because
39:21it's just the diversity of the whole uh world and you asked before what do we have to do and
39:27what would
39:27be the biggest task for me and the secretary general antonio guterich at the moment to reform
39:33the united nation to make it more efficient because the truth is as well and i'm not a fan of
39:39sugarcoating
39:40so we have to face it that over 80 years uh it has built up on mandates resolution by resolution
39:47so we have 40 000 mandates obviously not very efficient yeah so uh in every company uh you would
39:54just modernize your system and this is what we're doing right now we're in the midst of a deep reform
39:59called un80 but at the other hand you should not use the shortcomings in trying to destroy the whole
40:08house and this is where we are faced in and you were addressing also the financial situation if
40:14member states and unfortunately also the host country do not pay their bill anymore obviously this
40:20house cannot function and in a situation that people especially children are dying right in this minute
40:30they have to you have like rotten uh eight in warehouses this is obviously a situation which
40:37uh cannot go on so therefore as the president of the general assembly i can only recall that no
40:44they would be better off without the un and this is why we should all strengthen this house of peace
40:50and this house of humanity have you thought about oh please i i couldn't agree more that it needs to
40:57be
40:57uh reformed and and and so my last question is have you thought about letting the ellisons buy it
41:07so they ran skydance it's a very small production house and then they bought paramount which is kind
41:13of a larger place and then for some reason bought warner brothers and now they're just they own it we
41:19all
41:20work for them they could add the un easily they have so much money
41:27you well as i just said we have like an open call yeah for candidates
41:37interviews start tomorrow uh madam president such a point there's such an honor
41:45quick break we'll be right back after this
42:05that is our show for tonight but before we go we're going to check in with your host for the
42:08rest of the week mr michael costa michael thanks john
42:14tell the people uh what are you working on this week john i'll be looking in at the 250 million
42:19dollar lawsuit that cash patel just filed against the atlantic magazine for an article about his
42:25drinking wow you know what i had just heard about that is that is there truth to that does he
42:29have
42:29a drinking problem yeah he's got a drinking problem he drinks like a soft-ass
42:43you hang out with him socially yeah and every time it's the same you know i'll be seven martinis deep
42:48and he's still nursing a green apple white claw like he's planning on driving home i bet he's never
42:54even woken up in a pile of his own chunk what a loser john
43:02michael i obviously i hate to say this but it seems like maybe
43:06you drink a little too much i will sue you for 250 million dollars you better lawyer up
43:12asshole i can do this all week well aren't you hosting this week what i am yes like michael costa
43:19everybody have you been negotiating a lot all day i mean is that why your voice is i've been screaming
43:27at iranians all day yes a little bit of a laryngitis because of my script i've been screaming at
43:33iranians so you know why you know why because that's the only thing they understand they don't
43:40understand being nice sorry
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