Daily Show Prep - Thursday February 28, 2019

• Fourth quarter GDP up higher than expected
• Trump walks out of NoKo summit
• Faces backlash over believing Kim on Otto Warmbier death
• Man who negotiated Warmbier's release defends Trump's comment
• Despite what LWM is telling you, tax refunds up slightly over last year
• Rep. Tlaib on calling Rep. Meadows a racist: 'It was important for me to speak truth to power'
• 'The Prop' fights back
• MS-13 planning to target cops at their homes
• Lamar asks Trump to rescind his border wall emergency
• Border wall prototypes torn down to make way for real thing
• AOC spotted at lunch with hamburger on table after urging everyone to stop eating beef
• Coal lobbyist confirmed as EPA director, dirt people's heads explode
• Here's who the GOP named to the newly-created House Climate Panel
• Protester arrested for throwing coffee at TN house speaker
• Patriots' Kraft pleads not guilty
• U.S. pedestrian deaths highest in 3 decades
• This is what peak car looks like
• Doctors perform emergency c-section on woman who wasn't pregnant
• Guest: Alan Gottlieb from the 2nd Amendment Foundation on new House gun control bill
• UK trade secretary blew $132,000 on vanity podcast, drew 8,400 listens
• Listen to Phil's new podcast: He didn't spend nearly that much, and has far more listeners

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday February 27, 2019

• Cohen dishes on Trump, but is any of it a crime?
• No evidence of Russian collusion
• No directive to commit perjury
• House Dems introduce 'Medicare for All'
• USA Today female columnist attacks male wrestlers who won't wrestle girls
• PayPal censoring conservative groups with help of SPLC
• Jimmy Carter backs Trump in talks with NoKo's Kim
• 'Emotional support animal' mauls 5-year-old at airport
• NC proposes lowering F grade to 39 percent
• Scientists just pulled CO2 from the air and turned it into coal
• Climate change hearing adjourns after only 2 Dems show up
• Man faces felony for dipping testicles in salsa before delivery
• Two arrested in buffet brawl over crab legs
• Debate rages over John Wayne Airport
• Guest: Michael Stumo from ProsperousAmerica.org says Trump should stay strong on China

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday February 26, 2019

• Listen to Phil's new podcast
• Trump slams Senate Dems for killing born alive bill
• TN lawmakers advance 'heartbeat bill'
• Mikey 'The Rat' Cohen reportedly will provide evidence of Trump's criminal activity
• Cohen has been disbarred
• DC bars to open early for Cohen testimony
• Ha! Woman who accosted man with MAGA hat picked up by ICE
• 81-year-old man wearing MAGA hat attacked
• Ivanka on AOC's Green New Deal: 'People want to work for what they get'
• AOC to become comic book hero
• BernMe delays release of his tax returns
• Trust in media hits bottom
• Russia claims U.S. is preparing to invade Venezuela
• Transgenders finish first and second in CT high school championships
• LA has coldest February in 60 years
• Funeral home sues pastor for 'resurrection stunt'
• Viral Girl Scout cookie story takes a dark twist
• Guest: Josh Siegel from the Washington Examiner on the price tag of the Green New Deal

Daily Show Prep - Monday February 25, 2019

• New Green Deal could cost $93 trillion!
• New Green Dealers arrested at McConnell's office
• Gallup: Americans' perception of U.S.'s world image best since 2003
• Is Western Civilization on its way to collapse?
• Another study reaches the same conclusion
• Rep. Kinzinger's deployment to the border makes him sure Trump's right on the wall
• Schiff continues to backpedal on Mueller report
• Low expectations for Kim summit
• Trump springs Danny Burch from Yemen
• Ex-Trump campaign worker says he kissed her without her consent
• SCOTUS strikes down decision from court over deceased judge
• Oscar ratings rise with no host
• CIA tweets poll about Black Panther
• First human to be infused with gene editing
• Dating app bans female hunter

Daily Show Prep - Friday February 22, 2019

• Dems ask IRS for private copy of Trump's taxes
• IRS analyst charged in leak of Cohen's bank records
• Cohen tells prosecutors about irregular Trump organization deals
• Now they say Mueller report NOT expected next week
• Economist's plan to fund Green New Deal: Just print more money
• Journalist group upset with Clarence Thomas over his opinion on free press
• Trump says he's reached a deal with China on currency manipulation
• Patriots owner charged with soliciting prostitutes
• Kraft isn't the biggest name involved
• Trump responds to Kraft charges
• Jussie blames it on drugs
• Klobuchar accused of berating staffer, having to eat salad with comb
• China bans employment discrimination based on gender
• Diane Feinstein responds to kids who want Green New Deal
• Flagstaff sets all-time snow record
• Electric cars are horrible in cold weather

Daily Show Prep - Thursday February 21, 2019

• Listen to Phil's new podcast
• Bookies have Trump a heavy favorite in 2020
  And here's why:
• Elizabeth Warren backs reparations
• BernMe praised Castro in 1985
• Jussie Smollett turns himself in to police
• Chicago police commissioner calls out media, Hollywood, and politicians
• 'Empire' producers weighing options
• TN guv apologies for wearing Confederate uniform to party in college
• USA Today editor apologizes for her part in publishing racist photos in 1989 yearbook
• Trump to take back $2.5 billion in high-speed rail funding from Ca.
• Duke's Zion Williamson blows out shoe, leaves Carolina-Duke game after 30 seconds
• Nike shares slide
• Minn. sets February snow record
• Judge tosses kids' climate lawsuit
• Heat records are huge data manipulation
• Coast Guard lieutenant charged in terrorist plot
• Oregon to become first state with rent controls
• Ca. tries to stop freelance workers
• Shocker: Lesbian women more likely to be overweight
• Feminists demand ban on sex robots
• Gloria Steinem rips the media
• GBLT athletic group cuts ties with Navratilova
• TN ranks 5th most sinful state
• Peter Tork of The Monkees dead at 77
• Guest: Retired physicist Norman Rogers on his book Dumb Energy: A Critique of Wind and Solar Energy

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday February 20, 2019

• New episode of Phil's podcast is out today!
• CNN says Mueller report is coming next week
• Clapper lowers expectations for other liberals
• Trump says NY Times is 'true enemy of the people,' Times freaks out
• ISIS bride is not a U.S. citizen, Pompeo says
• Work begins on border wall in San Diego
• Trump-Kim summit may mean official end to Korean War
• Venezuela isn't just a failed state, it's failure of liberalism
• Democratic Socialists to back BernMe
• Rosanne calls AOC a 'bug-eyed bitch'
• Covington student sues WashPo for $250 million
• Ca. rapper shot 25 times, lawyer says it was excessive
• Smollett officially classified as a suspect
• Adam Schiff deletes tweet sympathetic to Jussie Smollett
• Brothers in scam caught on video buying ski masks
• Ca. congressman tweets picture of himself bypassing Trump Tower Starbucks
• Digital advertising to surpass print, TV for first time
• Scientists release GMO mosquitoes in high-security lab

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday February 19, 2019

• 16 states sue Trump over emergency wall declaration
• Biden on Trump's immigration polices: 'It's about xenophobia'
• Mad Maxine says wall supporters are unpatriotic
• Rosenstein reportedly leaving DOJ in mid-March
• Jussie Smollett's Empire scenes cut after fake hate crime
• Feds questioning if Smollett sent himself hate letter
• Conservative journalists say Facebook blocked their hoax stories
• List of fake 'hate crimes' in the Trump era
• Alec Baldwin thinks Trump's tweet panning his SNL performance is a threat
• de Blasio calls Amazon's NY pullout 'an abuse of corporate power'
• Liz Warren proposes universal child care funded by wealth tax
• Poor people not allowed in AOC's luxury apartment complex
• Ex-CBS star goes after liberal media
• Global warming: Snow in Vegas
• Polar vortex may have killed 95 percent of stink bugs
• Tech mogul says 'Hollywood is now irrelevant'
• Trump launching global initiative to end criminalization of homosexuality
• Martina Navratilova says trans women (men) in women's sports is cheating
• Brit teen who joined ISIS will have her citizenship revoked
• Vandals spray paint #MeToo on statue of WWII sailor kissing nurse
• Online petition calls for selling Montana to Canada to eliminate the debt, only it wouldn't
• Guest: Luke Rosiak from the Daily Caller on an Iranian spy who was radicalized during her time at a U.S. university
• Get Luke Rosiak's book on the Awan boys who infiltrated the Democrat Congressional IT system

Daily Show Prep - Friday February 15, 2019

• Bipartisan spending binge is now worse than under Obama or Bush
• Trump declares national emergency to get border wall funding
• AOC will introduce bill to block it
• Ann Coulter: Lack of a border wall is 100 percent Trump's fault
• Judge throws out butterfly sanctuary's lawsuit against Trump over wall
• AOC puts her boyfriend on the congressional payroll
• Networks: 2,202 minutes on Russian collusion, zero on no collusion report
• McCabe spokesman walks back his comments about wanting to oust Trump from office
• U.S. has 1,000 ISIS detainees and doesn't know what to do with them
• 1.4 million households drop off food stamp rolls under Trump
• Two men arrested in Empire star case
• Kamala Harris fundraising falling short
• Legal experts accuse NY climate crusaders of overstepping the law
• Drinking two or more diet drinks linked to high risk of stroke, heart attack
• Guest: Ricky Rebel, who wore a Trump suit to the Grammys

Daily Show Prep - Thursday February 14, 2019

• Special Valentine's Day podcast from The PodGOATs
• McConnell: Trump to sign border bill, declare state of emergency
• Senate approves spending bill
• Poison pills included in spending bill
• House set to vote on trillion dollar spending bill no one has read
• Five insane provisions of the funding bill
• Immigration landmines in the funding bill
• Conservative media pushing Trump to veto
• Guatemalan intel chief: Caravan not spontaneous but 'well-planned'
• Charlotte Dems want cops to cut down on DUI arrests in illegal alien neighborhoods
• Ca. bullet train turns into boondoggle
• Trump wants the federal government's money back
• Panera Bread's socialist 'pay what you want' experiment fails
• Top U.S. admiral warns of Iranian threat
• Coup co-conspirator McCabe admits he launched probe of Trump obstruction after Comey firing
• Admits there were discussions inside the FBI about removing Trump from office
• Rosenstein left out key points from his McCabe denial
• Trump slams McCabe
• Chicago police find 'persons of interest' in Empire star's attack and it ain't good news for him
• Sources now say Empire star staged attack because he was being written out of the show
• Feds collect record income tax revenues as debt climbs
• Creepy porn lawyer accused of hiding millions from bankruptcy court
• Amazon will not build HQ in NY because of public opposition
• Governments urged to stockpile antibiotics for next flu pandemic
• But antibiotics don't work on the flu
• Vegans whisper 'I love you' and 'sorry' to cows at slaughterhouse
• Georgetown students could be forced to pay reparations
• Guest: Eddie Scarry from the Washington Examiner wonders what the Dems will use as an issue once Russian collusion is gone

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday February 13, 2019

• Special Valentine's Day podcast from The PodGOATs
• Trump starts building the wall
• 'Build the Wall' jersey at NBA game sparks outrage
• Pro-Trump singer Ricky Rebel on Fox News
• Texas oil production breaks '70s record
• Amazon to pay zero in federal income taxes for second year in a row
• Bill Gates: Nobody deserves to be this rich
• Judge says Manafort violated plea agreement by lying
• GBLT folks up in arms over TN indecent exposure bill
• Actor Chris Pratt responds to accusations that his church is anti-GBLT
• Americans continue to move to low-tax states
• Major cities are becoming uninhabitable hellholes
• Gun-toting citizens stops workplace killer
• Support for 'Medicare for All' drops by 50 percent
• Union demands apology after seeing book on Robert E. Lee in congressman's office
• Record-breaking snow in Moscow
• National Weather Service issues 'small dog' advisory
• Six Ca. police fatally shoot rapper found sleeping in his car
• Smoking pot as a teen can lead to depression
• Vegan Cory Booger says meat eaters' days are numbered
• Mars rover finally bites the dust
• El Chapo off to 'Alcatraz of the Rockies'
• Guest: Jamie McIntyre from the Washington Examiner says NoKo is not yet shedding nukes but tensions are down

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday February 12, 2019

• Congressional negotiators reach border wall/budget deal
• Trump not happy with deal
• National debt now tops $22 trillion
• El Chapo found guilty, gets life in prison
• Sen. Cruz renews push to use El Chapo's money to fund the wall
• Former Trump lawyer believes Mueller investigation will end in silence
• Senate has uncovered no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia
• Senate to vote on Green New Deal
• The Hill: Green New Deal is good economics
• Nashville police remove SROs from most troubled schools
• TN lawmakers introduce 'TN Natural Marriage Defense Act'
• Twitter sued for banning journalist for 'misgendering' transgender users
• Crazy parents raising gender-neutral 'theyby'
• Empire star's 'hate crime' attack falling apart
• Calls to charge him with filing false police report
• Commie community organizer to go on trial for assaulting Kellyanne Conway
• Soul Train: Va. guv embarks on listening tour
• Black comedian calls out white comedians for wearing blackface
• Man attacks reporters at Trump rally
• Female students sue Yale to allow women into frats
• Armed home invaders get what's coming to them
• 15th severed foot washes up on shore in Canada
• Man batters girlfriend with burrito

Daily Show Prep - Monday February 11, 2019

• Trump's approval hits 52 percent
• Optimism in personal finances hits 16-year high
• Trump leaning toward declaring state of emergency
• Ca. guv calls troops back from border
• New flood of illegals from Central America
• Border Patrol catches another illegal alien rapist
• Trump taunts Amy Klobuchar for talking about global warming in a blizzard
• Hawaii records lowest elevation snow in history
• Students all about Green New Deal until they find out what it is
• Rob Lowe deletes Elizabeth Warren 'chief' tweet after complaints
• Weapons sold to Saudis end up in hands of terrorists
• House Dems call for Rep. Omar to apologize for anti-Semitic remarks
• She apologizes
• What did she actually say (or write)?
• Man not charged with killing pregnant girlfriend's baby under new NY law
• Dem congressman wrote for racist publication
• Joy Villa wears 'Build the Wall' dress to Grammys
• 33 TV shows slam Trump in a month
• Empire star's neighbors cast doubt on his attack story
• Nashville becomes first city in South to recognize GBLT businesses
• Va. lt. guv's employer puts him on leave pending sex assault investigation
• Va. Guv Northam doesn't know difference between a slave and an indentured servant
• Katy Perry's shoes pulled after blackface backlash
• One-third of Americans say it's OK to dress up as a black character for Halloween
• Never Trumper columnist comes around, endorses Trump for 2020
• Florida school hires armed ex-combat vets
• Mom arrested and jailed after calling dude in dress a man
• Idiots back up traffic on Nashville interstate doing donuts
• Dozens of 'endangered' polar bears invade Arctic village
• Guest: Hadley Manning from the Independent Women's Forum on the Warren-Cortez 'wealth taxes'

Daily Show Prep - Friday February 8, 2019

• Listen to Phil Valentine's new podcast
• Trump's approval hits 50 percent
• Congress close to border deal that Trump might take
• Bezos thinks 'government entity' was behind leaking of his nekked pictures
• Ronan Farrow says he received blackmail warnings from AMI
• Corsi sues Roger Stone, claims he tried to give him a heart attack
• Cost of Green New Deal would dwarf moon landing, highway system, and first New Deal
• Lindsey Graham calls for vote on Green New Deal, wants to get Dems on record
• Chicago plans to hand out $1,000 a month to struggling citizens
• Finland's basic income trial boosts happiness but not employment
• Rep. Chu says Pelosi should not be required to release her tax returns even though they both say Trump should
• American Indian congressman says Elizabeth Warren should be disbarred
• Second woman accuses Va. lt. guv of sexual assault
• NY Times buckles to pressure, changes headline of Dem pol from 'dark makeup' to 'blackface'
• Bingo brawl erupts at nursing home
• Scientists want to build a space station inside an asteroid
• 45 adapter shirt

Daily Show Prep - Thursday February 7, 2019

• New episode of Phil's new podcast is out! Listen to The PodGOATs.
• The Green New Deal is out and it's insane
• It also promises free education and a ban on meat
• And welfare for those unwilling to work
• Pelosi praises enthusiasm behind Green New Deal
• NBC meteorologist: Earth would be just fine without humans
• IL gun bill would require gun buyers to reveal their social media history
• Va. GOP lawmaker was editor of yearbook with blackface photos in it
• Late night comedians who wore blackface ignore Northam controversy
• Photo of Joy Behar in blackface surfaces
• Gucci pulls neck sweater after 'blackface' complaints
• Paper tries to pin racist yearbook photos on NC guv
• 'Men in Black' fans demand Liam Neeson be digitally removed from film
• Mass. pushes a NY-style abortion bill
• Border agents apprehend child molesters and MS-13 gang member where there was no barrier
• Illegals up to 5 times more likely to be in prison than citizens
• Woody Allen sues Amazon for $68 million
• Amazon founder says National Enquirer tried to extort him
• 6 foods that might help with depression
• Murder suspect: Scientology made me do it
• Man turned down for 'Assman' license plate, even though that's his name
• Frozen cat thawed out and lives

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday February 6, 2019

• Listen to Phil's new podcast, The PodGOATs
• Trump vows the U.S. will never be a socialist country
• 76 percent approve of speech
• Almost 60 percent of CNN viewers had a favorable response
• Schiff-less announces sweeping investigation into Trump's finances
• Pelosi calls Trump's request to end late-term abortion 'really quite a sad thing'
• Delays Cohen's testimony
• Mueller report expected within a month
• U.S. trade deficit narrows much more than expected
• Elizabeth Warren apologizes for calling herself a 'Native American' on her Texas bar card
• Covington teen's lawyer threatens to sue 54 news outlets
• Va.'s AG admits to wearing blackface back in the '80s
• Accuser of Va.'s lt. guv offers details of sexual assault
• Trump administration will roll back Obama-era restrictions on payday loans
• Binge watching elevates your risk of bowel cancer
• Woman arrested after barking at a police dog

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday February 5, 2019

• Listen to Phil's new podcast, The PodGOATs
• Trump's approval is 2 points higher than Obama's at same time in presidency
• Boy who got bullied for being named Trump will be guest of First Lady
• Mad Maxine begs Americans to turn off SOTU
• Trump: 'We will build a human wall if necessary'
• Met with contractors day before SOTU about the wall
• Cases of mystery diseases increasing in Ca.
• Last gasp for BuzzFeed: Secret files show Trump-Russia collusion
• Ted Cruz slams Cory Booger and Dems for 'hostility to religious faith'
• Pope acknowledges priests have sexually abused nuns
• 'Rain tax' likely to pass in NJ
• Government workers busted getting on cruise to sell drugs
• Book claims global population will start to decline in 30 years
• Pew: Actively religious more likely to be happy
• Genetically-modified mosquitoes: Playing God or a way to wipe out malaria?
• Harvard astronomer insists alien ship may be among us
• Man killed when vape pen explodes

Daily Show Prep - Monday February 4, 2019

• Check out Phil's new podcast with his son
• U.S. preps to start building part of the wall in TX
• Guest: Anna Giaritelli from the Washington Examiner on border residents fearing retaliation from drug cartels
• Majority of Americans support soaking the rich
• Va. Dems sour on blackface guv
• Guv wants to use facial recognition to prove he's not in the picture
• Mary Poppins is now racist
• NEA sponsors Black Lives Matter at School
• Big problem with Dems' gender wage gap bill
• Super Bowl ratings at 10-year low
• Vegans upset with Hyundai's ad
• ESPN anchor fired over leaks
• Methodists face vote on GBLT issues
• Expert says 5G broadband could cause cancer
• Hawaii considers ban on cigarette sales
• Celery juice the new health miracle?
• Man wants to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent
• Woman charged with assault with a pork chop

Daily Show Prep - Friday February 1, 2019

• U.S. added 304,000 jobs in January, experts expected 170,000
• U.S. wages rose more than 3 percent for first time in a decade
• Trump has 'set the stage' to build the wall himself
• Says there's a 'good chance' he'll declare national emergency
• Pelosi could move to block emergency declaration, but Trump gets last word
• Meanwhile, typhus epidemic worsens in L.A.
• Trump takes on Russia, withdraws from nuke treaty
• Rep. Omar suggests taxing the rich at 90 percent
• Va. Dem introduced bill to save cankerworms on same day she introduced late-term abortion bill
• Va. guv who advocated killing babies had yearbook page featuring Klansman and blackface
• Guv admits he was in the photo, but won't say which one he was
• America is falling back in love with trucks and SUVs
• Killing Indians caused climate change, study says
• Farrakhan calls for separate black state, says it's 'what God wants'
• Cops: Empire actor arrived home with rope around his neck
• Cory Booger in for 2020
• AOC: I acknowledge my privilege in being born cisgendered
• Boy Scouts start accepting girls
• Belmont U speaker plays 'F**k Trump' song
• Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook
• 13-year-old arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up the school
• Half-male, half-female cardinal spotted in Pa.
• Man suffers stroke that made him pleasure himself in front of relatives
• CNN tries to explain away the frigid weather as manmade climate change
• NJ man threw ice on floor then faked slip-and-fall for insurance money
• Guest: Luke Rosiak from the Daily Caller covered the Awan IT guys who worked for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and now he's written a book about it