Daily Show Prep - Friday December 21, 2018

• House passes spending bill with border wall funding
• The 8 Republicans who voted against the border wall
• GOP takes victory lap around Pelosi after passing wall funding
• Now it's up to Mitch
• GOP senators reject Trump's call to 'go nuclear' on wall funding
• Schumer tells Pence wall funding will not pass
• Trump meets with Senate Republicans
• Lindsey Graham tells Trump to 'dig in'
• NORAD will continue to track Santa even if there's a shutdown
• Nutcase Rob Reiner calls Trump 'mentally unstable'
• GOP lawmaker doubts government workers live paycheck to paycheck
• SCOTUS upholds block on Trump's asylum ban
• Can the GoFundMe for Trump's wall actually work?
• New GoFundMe page raises money for ladders for illegals to climb over Trump's wall
• Trump to slash troop levels in Afghanistan to historic low levels
• Mueller to submit final report as early as February
• Several sponsors step up for Tucker Carlson
• NYC sees potentially historic rainfall
• Notable deaths in 2018
• Nutritionist reveals five tips for avoiding irritable bowel syndrome this Christmas
• Should 'Santa Baby' be banned from radio?
• Cattle form sign of cross
• Rabbi believes volcanic eruptions are a sign of the end of days
• Hilarious SNL skit with Matt Damon: Best Christmas Ever

Daily Show Prep - Thursday December 20, 2018

• Trump refuses to sign short-term funding bill without the wall
• Move leaves senators in disbelief
• Update: WashPo columnist wants GoFundMe to take down border wall funding page
• Mark Meadows says Trump and GOP 'fumbled' border wall
• Gutierrez: 'Thank God there wasn't a wall' when Jesus fled to Egypt
• Berates DHS secretary
• U.S. says asylum-seeking migrants will wait in Mexico
• Trump 'unfollows' Ann Coulter after 'joke presidency' comment
• Mad Dog Mattis is stepping down, presumably over pulling out of Syria
• Trump criticizes the Fed for raising rates
• Former FBI agent sounds off on Comey
• How the FBI ran an illegal counterintelligence masquerade in plot to get Trump
• Facebook explains how Netflix, others used data
• Error allowed Amazon Alexa to eavesdrop on another home
• Christian baker who refused to bake cake for gay wedding back in court
• BSNBC beats Fox in December
• Nike on track for the worst quarter in a decade
• Trump 'Green Acres' video he tweeted was from 2005, not produced by White House
• NY leads the nation in population loss
• CA the least educated
• Update: As predicted, PETA's upset over Popeyes' 'emotional support chicken'
• Walgreens employee kills customer over photo dispute
• Colleges de-stress students with therapy horses
• Thousands sign petition calling on Disney to drop its 'hakuna matata' trademark
• Kiss guitarist says support Trump or leave the country
• Expert of the Day: Eddie Scarry from the Washington Examiner on Trump's wall that's now just steel slats

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday December 19, 2018

• Congress to push stop-gap funding bill with no border wall
• Opinion: The 'wall' is now 'steel slats' and Trump has screwed his supporters
• Ann Coulter rages against Trump over wall
• Judge orders Trump to return deported asylum-seekers back to the U.S.
• A GoFundMe page set up to fund the wall
• And we gave $10.6 billion to Central America so they won't come here
• U.S. pulling out of Syria
• Lindsey Graham: 'Huge mistake'
• Facebook gave users' messages to other companies
• Fed hikes rates
• Market pundit says Fed is killing the stock market
• McCain associate gave dossier to BuzzFeed
• Senate passes criminal justice reform
• Radical Antifa leader revealed
• Judge rules that school officials, cops had no responsibility to shield students at Parkland
• Woman uses gun buy-back program to buy a bigger gun
• Senate votes to make lynching a federal crime
• Former astronaut scoffs at CO2 causing global warming
• Americans are starved for sleep
• Police looking for woman's stolen home
• Salvation Army bell ringer, high on PCP, attacks shopper
• Thai YouTuber faces charges for criticizing dress designed by daughter of king
• Popeyes is offering 'emotional support chicken' at Philly airport
• Video of Hillary hitting reset button, bomb explodes, just like Uncle Phil asked for
• Guest: Carrie Lukas, president of Independent Women's Forum, on checking your progressive privilege
• Expert of the Day: Jamie Glazov, editor of FrontPage Magazine, on his new book, Jihadist Psychopath

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday December 18, 2018

• Flynn sentencing delayed
• Is Trump caving on the wall?
• House releases Comey transcripts
• Christians standing in the way of China's totalitarian rule
• Some U.S. sportswear made by Chinese slave labor
• Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks
• Senate to vote on Trump-backed pot legalization
• Contrary to popular belief, the tariffs are working
• Advertisers abandon Tucker after illegal alien comments
• Tucker doubles down
• Scooter riders leave drivers on edge
• Report: Years of bad land management led to Ca. fires
• Dan Crenshaw reaches out to SNL's Pete Davidson after suicidal social media post
• 'Man-free' music festival found guilty of discrimination
• Penny Marshall dead at 75
• Fresh Prince star sues Fortnite over 'Carlton' dance
• Being a psychopath may all be in the eyes
• Woman dies after cosmetic butt injection
• Expert of the Day: Dr. Michael Busler from Stockton U. says Obamacare is headed for the ash heap of history, and that's where it belongs

Daily Show Prep - Monday December 17, 2018

• Trump blasts Fed for 'even considering' a rate hike
• Digs in on border wall
• Schumer says he's not going to get the wall
• U.S. conducts 6 airstrikes against Somalia extremists
• New facts indicate Mueller destroyed evidence, obstructed justice
• Top Republican suggests Flynn's guilty plea will be tossed
• China, Russia join forces to modify atmosphere
• Study: Russia sought to divide Americans in the run-up to election
• Warning: Firm that conducted the study called conservative outlets 'fake news'
• Federal judge rules Obamacare is unconstitutional
• Outraged Dems vow to challenge ruling that undercuts Obamacare
• Lamar calling it quits after this term
• Muslim Amazon workers say they don't have enough time to pray
• WashPo columnist calls for banning Kellyanne Conway from the air
• Pacific Life pulls ads from Tucker's show after 'dirtier and more divided' comment
• Trump launching Space Command this week
• 2018 is DC's wettest year on record
• BernMe accused of using the government to target company that ran ad against him
• Daily Beast: 'Vice' might be the worst movie of the year
• 'Justice' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year
• Antifa accused of attacking two Marines
• 93 percent of college professors say America is 'less respected' under Trump
• Witches want Trump to stop calling Mueller investigation 'witch hunt'
• KY radio station plays 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' for two hours straight
• Cops find kids home alone after one calls 911 for help with YouTube
• Parrot uses Alexa to order gifts
• 'Adulting Day' teaches kids how to pay bills, change tires, interact with cops
• 15-year-old leaps to death with homemade parachute as mother cheers him on
• Playboy model poses nude at Vatican
• Top 50 most expensive zip codes, all but 4 are in Ca.
• Police search for man who carved his name into side of dolphin

Daily Show Prep - Friday December 14, 2018

• Does the government really shut down after December 21? No.
• Government collects record taxes, still runs $305 billion deficit
• CBO suggests a $1 trillion carbon tax to plug the deficit
• Half of America hasn't recovered from recession
• FBI's entrapment of General Flynn was despicable
• Mueller rebukes Flynn, says he 'chose' to lie
• FBI docs: 'Flynn was not lying or didn't think he was lying'
• Trump names Mick Mulvaney as acting chief of staff
• Papadopoulos to run for congress
• Kasich lashes out at congress over 7-year-old's death
• The REAL story about the 7-year-old who died at the border
• BuzzFeed open borders writer laments the fact that we have so many golf courses in the U.S.
• Illegal deported 6 times kills father of 7
• Elizabeth Warren admits 'I'm not a person of color'
• Jobless claims return to near record lows
• A year after the demise of net neutrality and the Internet is nearly 40 percent faster
• The slow death of Never Trump 'The Weekly Standard'
• Mika opens show apologizing for 'butt boy' comment to everyone but Pompeo
• Eastwood's 'Mule' gets rave reviews
• Facebook 'sorry' for exposing private photos of users
• Man moves into deployed service member's house, sells furniture to buy meth
• Expert of the Day: Eddie Scarry from the Washington Examiner says liberals condescend to San Fran Nan after her meeting with Trump

Daily Show Prep - Thursday December 13, 2018

• DOJ IG finds 19,000 'lost' text messages of Strzok and Page
• Financial experts testify: Clinton Foundation operated as foreign agent
• Trump denies he 'directed' Cohen to break the law
• Dershowitz: Trump is not in 'impeachment land'
• Says Flynn's light sentence is because prosecutors are embarrassed over the way he was treated
• Pelosi wants Trump's tax returns
• Source: Trump was in the room during hush money discussions
• Trump inauguration spending now under investigation
• Trump's approval rating matches Obama's
• Alleged Russian agent pleads guilty to conspiring to influence U.S. politics
• DHS fact-checks CNN's so-called fact checker on terrorists coming to the U.S.
• Media burying dangerous diseases carried by migrant caravan
• 30 cities oppose Trump's proposal on immigrant benefits
• Teen planned to shoot up school, ends in shoot-out with police
• Judge rejects deputy's claim he had no duty to confront Parkland killer
• Trump considering Jared Kushner for chief of staff
• Senate passes resolution condemning Saudi prince
• Mika absent from 'Morning Joe' day after she called Pompeo 'dictator's butt boy'
• Wave of bomb threat e-mails cause evacuations
• Trump signs bill to aid ISIS genocide victims
• Antifa calls Beto O'Rourke a 'Zionist pig'
• Boy Scouts may file for bankruptcy
• Congress wants to kill sea lions for eating endangered fish
• Florida senate rules Brenda Snipes cannot rescind her resignation
• Trump cancels White House Christmas party for the press
• Risk of heart attack is greatest on Christmas Eve
• Update: Steph Curry says he was joking about the lunar landing being fake
• Crews rescue a man stuck for two days in a grease vent of an empty restaurant
• Expert of the Day: Ryan Girdusky from the Washington Examiner on how Trump can finally make progress on illegal immigration