WATCH: Trevor Noah Interviews President Barack Obama
For one of his final exit interviews before departing the White House, President Barack Obama at long last sat down with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. (Blame Noah’s very busy schedule for the delay.) In honor of the career milestone, Noah dedicated the entirety of Monday night’s episode to chatting with Obama for a very candid and long conversation about both pressing matters of national security as well as a matter close to both Obama and Noah’s heart: racism.
Asked directly why he’s ordered a full intelligence review of the Russian hack of the Democratic and Republican National Committees to be completed before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Obama tells America that it’s not about what the Russians hacked, but how and why they did it. “None of this should be a big surprise,” he says, noting that the hack was acknowledged throughout the election by Trump himself and that none of the information leaked should have been disconcerting or newsworthy.
Instead, Obama questioned the media and presidential campaign coverage of the hack: “What is it about the state of our democracy where the leaks of what were frankly not very interesting emails, that didn’t have any explosive information in them, ended up being an obsession? And the fact that the Russians were doing this was not an obsession?”
Trevor sits down with President Barack Obama to discuss race, Russian hacking, and Obamacare. https://t.co/LCml8yHhbH pic.twitter.com/KEq94orHh0
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