Welcome back to the show.
While some news outlets seem to have
completely forgotten who was leading
the impeachment charge--
oh, wait.
Let me fix that for you.
Much better-- I wanted to go and talk
to one of the real leaders on impeachment,
so I traveled to Washington and sat down
with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
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This last week of news this felt like a decade.
And between the impeachment inquiry, the whistleblower
drama, and J-Lo's performance in "Hustlers,"
I am feeling overstimulated.
In an effort to find a place of calm in this political
shitstorm, I went to DC to sit down with Congresswoman Omar,
a.k.a. the president's enemy number one,
and a member of the--
OMG, OMG.
Is that-- OK, be cool.
Be normal, Samantha.
Hi.
Hey, girl.
How's it going?
Good, girl.
What's up?
No, you're in. You're in.
You're in.
Sorry.
Come along.
Thank you.
SAMANTHA BEE (VOICEOVER): Now that I'm
officially part of the squad--
hm.
Mhm, this looks nice here.
Here's Representative Omar talking about something
she was calling for long before it was en vogue--
impeachment.
Did you know when you were a little girl
that one day you would grow up to impeach a sitting president?
No.
A lot of people think that we would
take joy in impeaching this president,
because we don't like him.
But we take joy in making sure that when
we say we're going to protect the rule of law,
that the American people know that we are serious about that.
Well, I'm glad that you are not taking joy in it.
I, however-- I just--
I'm always so happy when I think that Don, Jr.'s, upset.
That does slightly make me happy.
Thank you.
And Trump has already found a way
to deflect impeachment by making it about my squad,
which I am totes a part of.
Why do you think that the president
focuses so much on you?
I mean, I think he's terrified by any women
who are practicing shine theory, who have each other's back.
But I think for me, he is terrified by the fact
that I sit on the intersectionality
of many identities that he really despises--
a woman, an immigrant, Muslim, refugee, and Punjabi,
in one beautiful package.
Oh, yes.
He's also terrified of sharks, stares, and books.
So there's this.
That is excellent.
SAMANTHA BEE (VOICEOVER): Have you ever
seen anything more beautiful?
Trump's not the only one who uses the Congresswoman
to justify his own ends.
It's the entire Republican Party and Fox News.
What's it like to live as a woman who is perpetually
taken out of context?
I don't really care that much because I know
that the people who are actively working to take me
out of context are just villifying
and dismissing my voice anyway.
The fact that I live rent-free in their head
doesn't mean that they get to live rent-free in mine, so--
Interesting.
I just scream into jars.
This one is from 2017.
Mm.
Here, I brought you one.
That's my gift to you.
Just go like this.
[SCREAMS]
Then you capture it and you put it on a shelf.
All right.
SAMANTHA BEE: But instead of yelling into jars,
Representative Omar is doing work.
She's trying to end our drone wars,
getting us to stop supporting dictators,
and speaking out about how we aren't taking refugees in.
You know, audaciously suggesting that American actions be
in line with American morals.
[LAUGHS] LOL.
You know, we're very comfortable in being
the hero in every story.
We are not comfortable anytime somebody reminds us
we have been a villain.
And it is my job to make sure that we
can end this story as a hero.
Why is that important to you?
I mean, I escaped war at the age of eight,
lived in a refugee camp for four years.
I know what destruction looks like.
Now, I'm a member of Congress.
I am, in so many ways, the American story.
Oh.
What a great movie that would be.
I wonder which white person they'll cast
to play the hero in that movie?
Maybe Dakota Fanning?
[GASPS] She'd be great.
Ugh, and this isn't even one of the top 10 worst things
that's happened this year.
How are we gonna un-stink America?
You know, conversations, right?
My family has always said, you know,
it's hard to hate up close.
It's important not to get too close to Stephen Miller,
though.
You do not want that.
I mean, I still think there is rehabilitation
that could be possible for a white supremist
like Stephen Miller.
They could use, I think, some light, some love,
some joy in their life.
Blink once if you mean that, blink twice if you don't.
OK.
Wow.
Now are you just blinking because you have to blink?
SAMANTHA BEE (VOICEOVER): Blinking aside--
What are we fighting for right now?
What's at stake in 2020?
Well, we're fighting for the soul
of our country, for the values of equality, of pluralism,
of religious liberty.
You know, the values that my grandfather was
excited about and talked about when
we lived in the refugee camp.
And we need a president who can live up to that.
OK.
I have you down for not Biden.
Definitely not Biden.
We'll be right back.