1 00:00:29,476 --> 00:00:32,112 Welcome to "Last Week Tonight"! 2 00:00:32,312 --> 00:00:36,449 I'm John Oliver, thank you for joining us. It has been a busy week. 3 00:00:36,549 --> 00:00:38,051 Chuck Schumer and 10 Democrats 4 00:00:38,218 --> 00:00:40,019 caved on a resolution to fund the federal government, 5 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:41,988 Dr. Oz had his confirmation hearing 6 00:00:42,055 --> 00:00:45,058 and the White House essentially staged a Tesla promotional event, 7 00:00:45,191 --> 00:00:47,627 complete with Trump carrying around handwritten notes 8 00:00:47,727 --> 00:00:50,964 about pricing like a car salesman on his first day. 9 00:00:51,664 --> 00:00:54,634 Meanwhile, federal workers continued to be fired for no clear reason. 10 00:00:54,834 --> 00:00:56,336 Though, in the case of one pardon attorney, 11 00:00:56,436 --> 00:00:58,771 there seemed to be a pretty specific one. 12 00:00:59,172 --> 00:01:02,542 Tonight, Liz Oyer says she lost her job because she refused 13 00:01:02,609 --> 00:01:06,513 to recommend that Mel Gibson be allowed to buy a gun again. 14 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,350 The actor and a backer of the president's lost that gun right 15 00:01:10,450 --> 00:01:14,988 after he pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge in 2011. 16 00:01:15,355 --> 00:01:18,024 When I came into work on Friday morning, I said to a colleague, 17 00:01:18,391 --> 00:01:21,861 "I really think that Mel Gibson might be my downfall." 18 00:01:22,428 --> 00:01:27,433 And within hours of saying that, I was being escorted out of my office. 19 00:01:28,434 --> 00:01:32,305 It is frankly incredible she got fired because she didn't think Mel Gibson, 20 00:01:32,472 --> 00:01:36,042 best known for his work in screaming, should have guns. 21 00:01:36,142 --> 00:01:38,645 If you've forgotten the specifics of his various scandals, 22 00:01:38,778 --> 00:01:40,613 I recommend you check out his Wikipedia page, 23 00:01:40,713 --> 00:01:42,549 and while you're there, check out his dad's, 24 00:01:42,615 --> 00:01:45,485 because the opening paragraph alone is spectacular. 25 00:01:45,752 --> 00:01:49,556 Hutton Peter Gibson was an American conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, 26 00:01:49,689 --> 00:01:51,925 writer on sedevacantism, which is a belief 27 00:01:52,025 --> 00:01:54,761 that there hasn't been a valid pope since 1958, 28 00:01:55,028 --> 00:01:59,365 a World War II veteran, 'Jeopardy!' grand champion for 1968 29 00:01:59,632 --> 00:02:01,134 and the father of 11 children, 30 00:02:01,201 --> 00:02:03,603 one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson. 31 00:02:03,803 --> 00:02:08,107 That is a fascinating man. And imagine having so many terrible views 32 00:02:08,208 --> 00:02:12,245 that producing Mel Gibson is not the worst thing about you. 33 00:02:13,379 --> 00:02:15,148 But we're gonna focus on another bold move 34 00:02:15,248 --> 00:02:16,783 the Trump administration made this week. 35 00:02:17,317 --> 00:02:20,553 Tonight, anger spilling onto New York City sidewalks 36 00:02:20,853 --> 00:02:24,123 after federal immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, 37 00:02:24,357 --> 00:02:27,794 who his lawyer says is a legal permanent resident with a green card. 38 00:02:28,194 --> 00:02:31,130 Khalil recently finished a master's at Columbia and helped 39 00:02:31,197 --> 00:02:33,666 lead pro-Palestinian protests on campus. 40 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:37,804 His lawyer adding he was detained on Saturday in front of his wife, 41 00:02:38,037 --> 00:02:40,807 a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant. 42 00:02:40,873 --> 00:02:41,975 President Trump has vowed 43 00:02:42,075 --> 00:02:45,111 to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses. 44 00:02:45,411 --> 00:02:49,549 Today he called Khalil's detainment "the first arrest of many to come." 45 00:02:50,049 --> 00:02:51,451 Okay, so there's a lot there. 46 00:02:51,584 --> 00:02:54,954 First, Trump wanting to crack down on antisemitism is pretty rich, 47 00:02:55,021 --> 00:02:57,690 given a top DOD press secretary was recently found to have 48 00:02:57,757 --> 00:02:59,859 a history of racist and antisemitic tweets, 49 00:03:00,093 --> 00:03:03,129 Musk and JD Vance both recently supported Germany's AFD, 50 00:03:03,229 --> 00:03:07,567 a party with ties to neo-Nazis, and of course there was this shit, 51 00:03:08,434 --> 00:03:10,803 and that is all before you get to their efforts this week 52 00:03:10,870 --> 00:03:13,706 to make sure that this fucking guy, whose views on the Jews 53 00:03:13,773 --> 00:03:17,777 are, let's say, a matter of public record, got his guns back. 54 00:03:17,877 --> 00:03:19,379 Set all of that aside. 55 00:03:19,479 --> 00:03:23,249 Clearly, you shouldn't be deporting green card holders for their views. 56 00:03:23,383 --> 00:03:25,351 And for what it's worth, regardless of what others 57 00:03:25,485 --> 00:03:27,353 may have said or done during those protests, 58 00:03:27,453 --> 00:03:31,858 Khalil explicitly said, "Antisemitism and any other form of racism" 59 00:03:31,958 --> 00:03:34,494 "has no place on this campus and in this movement." 60 00:03:34,894 --> 00:03:37,930 It's also notable some Jewish students at Columbia rallied 61 00:03:38,031 --> 00:03:39,432 in support of Khalil this week. 62 00:03:39,499 --> 00:03:41,734 And while the word bitch in me wants to point out 63 00:03:41,834 --> 00:03:44,370 that's not how you spell the word "fascism", 64 00:03:45,238 --> 00:03:49,008 I don't want to draw attention from the excellent "pigs aren't kosher" sign 65 00:03:49,208 --> 00:03:50,810 just a few feet behind it. 66 00:03:50,910 --> 00:03:53,880 That's the kind of pithy slogan that would turn Don Draper's head. 67 00:03:54,047 --> 00:03:56,649 He wouldn't hire a Jewish copywriter until pretty late in the show, 68 00:03:56,749 --> 00:03:58,851 but still, put that in your book, kid. 69 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:01,554 Amid all the justified outrage, 70 00:04:01,654 --> 00:04:04,924 it is notable how little rationale for this arrest has been offered. 71 00:04:05,024 --> 00:04:06,626 When Mike Johnson was asked 72 00:04:06,693 --> 00:04:10,163 what specific crime Khalil committed, this was his response. 73 00:04:10,763 --> 00:04:12,932 If you are on a student visa and you're in America 74 00:04:13,299 --> 00:04:14,801 and you're an aspiring young terrorist 75 00:04:14,901 --> 00:04:17,737 who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home. 76 00:04:18,204 --> 00:04:22,775 We're gonna arrest yourŧ tail and send you home where you belong. 77 00:04:23,309 --> 00:04:25,878 Okay. First, he's not on a student visa anymore, 78 00:04:25,945 --> 00:04:27,347 he has a green card. 79 00:04:27,513 --> 00:04:30,650 Second, "aspiring young terrorist" would be a great band name, 80 00:04:30,817 --> 00:04:34,887 but it's an awful thing to call someone who engaged in protected protest. 81 00:04:34,987 --> 00:04:36,756 And finally, if you're gonna do something this offensive, 82 00:04:36,923 --> 00:04:38,257 don't get cute about it. 83 00:04:38,324 --> 00:04:41,461 Just say "we're gonna arrest your ass" like a fucking adult. 84 00:04:42,261 --> 00:04:44,130 And it's not just Johnson 85 00:04:44,263 --> 00:04:46,866 making big claims about Khalil without support. 86 00:04:46,933 --> 00:04:49,335 The Department of Homeland Security, for instance, claimed 87 00:04:49,435 --> 00:04:51,771 he "led activities aligned to Hamas", 88 00:04:51,838 --> 00:04:55,808 but when a DHS official was asked to back up that assertion by NPR, 89 00:04:55,908 --> 00:04:58,077 he had shockingly little in response. 90 00:04:58,745 --> 00:05:02,448 How did he support Hamas? Exactly what did he do? 91 00:05:03,683 --> 00:05:07,854 I think you can see it on TV, right? This is somebody that 92 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,158 we've invited and allowed the student to come into the country 93 00
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