I’ve heard Jon Meacham speak many times before - he is such a fascinating and brilliant man. I could listen to him talk all day long - plus that wonderful voice! Thanks so much for having him on, Trevor! We desperately need accurate historians, because those who do not remember history are doomed to re-live it. I don’t recall who originally said that, but it’s so true. I’m downloading Meacham’s book!

"Trump doesn't think of us as a nation, but rather as an audience"

How he gets to interview so many bombass people while all other late night news shows mostly only get movie stars, I don't know. But I am suuuuuuper grateful anyway.

This guy is so chill..

This guy is surprisingly hilarious. Love the jabs at himself too.

God I hope this man is right and we have hope of a positive outcome.

Trump think doesnt think of us as a country but as an audience. Mind BLOWN!

I could listen to this man speak forever... And he's a silver fox! Damn...

Excellent interview! I find Jon Meacham very credible. Going to read his book.

Fantastic interview with an amazing man. Thank you!

Very intelligent man.. I admire him.

His voice is calming. I could fall asleep to it😴

'He would welcome dictatorial powers'- 'Right now the Presidency is not a force for good' - 'We were a country before we were taken hostage in 2016' - yet J.M still has hope. Brilliant interview. Thx Trevor for making it happen.

He charmed Trevor Noah for a minute, which was nice to see, but he lost him there at the end. I also see no reason to take solace in the fact that this is the world's most powerful nation with the world's most powerful military. There are other people on the planet besides Americans - and they have to watch this giant, dangerously powerful entity being run by a senile demagogue with anger issues.

Love It! Hamilton wasn't just a rapper - Jon is full of metaphors - will read.

I like the part when he said, "Locked In The Garage Screaming!!" lol

"We were taken hostage," is so true. This is an articulate and thoughtful conversation.

"We were a country before we were taken hostage."

Trevor is killing it in the interviews. Fantastic guests and good questions

Fabulous interview

Jon Meacham is such a great human being.

Love Jon Meacham. Such an eloquent and intelligent man. That stuff is in short supply these days.

America deserves better than Trump and Pence.

What I like is that no matter what party you are registered with, you can vote for whom ever you please - because so far, no one spied on you while you were in the voting box. He's right, 45 is not uique - this is why it's important to keep the internet alive, read the history for and against this country, acknowledge that all people who are naturally born here are country men. AMERICA and her DEMOCRACY is just that, an experiment - and we got away from GB due to excessive taxation and monarchy government. We must get back to who and what we really are - a nation of multiple ethnicities, who can exercise the rights of her citizens to become who they truly are meant to be. Not everyone wants to be wealthy, president, government politicians - some just want to live a life better than the one they left in their former country. "He's doing what he can to prevent people from wanting to come here" I love this interview.

Personally I'm of the belief that county voting lines should be just that. No gerrymandering. If any elected official gets caught taking money for influence needs immediate public dismissal and banishment from all government positions.

Let's make America America again. #LMAAA

Thanks Trevor for bringing Jon beecham on great writer, he should run for office with his analytic observations and expertise❤🕯🍰😊

Great piece

"we doing just fine but we might die tomorrow " - Trevor Noah

"This is the world's longest hostage siege" -- brilliant!

Jon Meacham is on Morning Joe several times a week. They love him on there and he has quite the sense of humor as you can see here on this show.

If there's one thing I'd love to push out of the American consciousness it's that rather arrogant and outdated notion of "everyone wants to come here" ... it's become such a raspy phrase that gets thrown around by democrats and republicans alike. Who still wants to come the US? Mostly people from war-torn countries that the US had a large part in ravaging and economically destitute regions that were again also largely impacted by American policies, military action or even lack of environmental action.... please most people in Asia and Europe do not want to move the US and if they do they do so rather apprehensively. USA have a great history and great potential but now is not the time to think immigrants want and will want to come here for the best reasons...

Jon Meacham IS one of our better angels. Thank God people like Jon walk among us, write books and get media exposure! Our defense budget reveals us to be cowards and an affront to world peace.

I LOVE Jon Meachum. Smart, funny, and well spoken. Why doesn't he run for Congress?

The Wit and intelligence of this Man. Very emulable!

Jon Meacham consistently speaks with wisdom & insight rarely heard in today’s shallow environment

So having the "strongest army" is a qualification of sorts, now? What has become of diplomacy and fair play in thr USA, let alone of common sense?

What a great voice man!

I love how eloquent this man is. His voice is very calming and presidential. Since he doesn't seem to seek this power I think he would be a wonderful president. He is educated, measured and understands what the pitfalls are and how best to avoid them. He would also be a wonderful diplomatic envoy. I really love the guests trevor noah is bringing on and how he delivers news ( in the only form to take it lately) with humor and the best way to break it down.

Thank you

If nothing else I now appreciate and value intelligent and thoughtful ideas and conversation like this.

Great title

The brains and hearts reunited - two adorable persons at the table.

The media's doing a good job???? Where???

Meacham...... Impeach 'em.

I can listen to him explain anything. I love how sarcastic he is too

what's so great about having the 2 greatest airforces????

Bought his book today, Oct. 30, 2018. Paid full price, which I have not done in 30 years. Thank you Book Passage, for having it. So, I'll eat burritos this week....

Great interview

"We're doing just fine." And we can do better.

I love Jon Meacham. An articulate, brilliant, self-deprecating, dry, sarcastic HISTORIAN who speaks in complete sentences, and quotes St Augustine!

We're doing just fine because we have a massive, insanely inflated military? Funny, seems to me like that's a sign that we're not doing too well.

Good glad I’m not the only one who adores this mans intelligence and voice. Very interested in reading his book👍🏾

I love this guy. So, there is still hope if we open our eyes on time and keep the evil anges in check. Let all the enlightened go for it.

Trump is "Making America Think Again".

My twelve years old girl child who has never seen the play Hamilton but discovered it because of Disney online and in no school required has learnt the rap and songs and tells me and her mates it's good history and was singing morning and night for 2 months now and she was rehearsing for the lion king Jr and hadvafter School program & I had to edit her obsession to one song per day !! She now wants to learn it on the violin ...I keep reminding her it is not to override her school day...

I'm always suspicious of this calls for "American values" looking back at times of "glory" when those said values where supposedly practiced

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. - Bertrand Russel

I wished for a longer interview...

The Mad President!

I loved, lost, and respected my grandfather, and I would like this man to take up his mantle.

i love this guy he is awesome

Holy crap this guy has a nice voice. He should be a narrator if he isn’t already.

Wait, what does your airforce have to do with the quality of your country?

I think it took the audience a while to realize the man was making jokes!

Surprisingly thoughtful guy

"unique creature"

Just look at Berlusconi in Italy,

Trevor us sooo charming

He is un-presidential

I only want Jon audio book.... Qha bethung!!

I thought you had Gary Johnson on there for a minute....

Great!

"A multitude of rational beings united by the common objects of their love." Two big flaws: Many people, "on both sides," have proven to be completely irrational. There are many things that one political ideology "loves," like guns for example. that the other does not. So, are we still a nation or have we grown apart so much that it is time for a divorce?

A nation is a multitude of ration beings united by the common object of their love

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Really interesting man!

Hamilton is now a rapper in American history. I will accept that!

For modern civilized people it makes Sense to hear the well informed the man is making... since knowledge, critical thinking and openess are the Key factors for mind progress, unfortunately many are driven by their fear, prejudice, disinterest, and their lack of basic human and society or World facts, they tend to go for someone as destructive as Trump, in the world of 2018! How egoistic and self destructive one would say with a Sense of universal humanity

He was also funny at Barbara Bush's funeral

The press is doing a good job🤥🤔

This guy says it like it is

Trevorrrrrr

Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome? 7:23

We're doing just fine but we could all die tomorrow! LOL! Perfect!

I think I've gone to that same WASP school this guy speaks of!

Trevor Noah

The cool thing about Meacham is that he's a great storyteller, good with a funny asides. The cool thing about Trevor Noah is that he knows when to get out of the way. Meacham didn't need help to be entertaining.

The power is in the hands of lobbyists and district attorneys. I'm skeptical that we're doing fine at all. But then I'm skeptical that we ever were, considering how much of the population had been excluded from equality. Remember that a significant portion of us are miserable, and whenever we choose to let them languish for the illusion that _all is fine,_ they are entirely justified in seeking to destroy this regime. Regarding them as enemies is no worse than regarding them as inconsequential.

This guy is amazing

"Americans love 'fair play?'" They love money, cars, houses, plastic ware, cosmetic surgery and a stick to beat me.

OK, I don't mean to bullshit on the guy, but I'm not necessarily sure whether having the world's largest air forces is a good thing. And it seems like a missed opportunity not to criticize that right after they had Ronan Farrow on the show pointing out how the US is relying more on its military than on its diplomats.

With little notice, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that advocates say rolls back hard-fought victories for women in the workplace. Tuesday's "Equal Pay Day" - which highlights the wage disparity between men and women - is the perfect time to draw more attention to the president's action, activists say. On March 27, Trump revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in place after a 2010 Government Accountability Office investigation showed that companies with rampant violations were being awarded millions in federal contracts. In an attempt to keep the worst violators from receiving taxpayer dollars, the Fair Pay order included two rules that impacted women workers: paycheck transparency and a ban on forced arbitration clauses for sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination claims. Noreen Farrell, director of the anti-sex discrimination law firm Equal Rights Advocates, said Trump went "on the attack against workers and taxpayers." "We have an executive order that essentially forces women to pay to keep companies in business that discrimination against them, with their own tax dollars," said Farrell. "It's an outrage." Out of the 50 worst wage theft violators that GAO examined between 2005-2009, 60 percent had been awarded federal contracts after being penalized by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Similar violation rates were tracked through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Labor Relations Board. Now isn't that order very consistent with the sexual criminal confessions we all heard not once. but on two separate occasions during the Axis Hollywood bus. previous to that during his interview with Howard Stern. Former prosecutor Gov. FBI director Giuliani. Said those audiotaped criminal confessions were nothing more than locker room talk. Not according to criminal psychologist brain specialist those audiotaped criminal confessions were much more consistent with a jailhouse confession from one inmate to another. Or a prison reminiscence from one convict to another who are living out there sentencing in protective custody, for sexual crimes are classified as the weakest form of criminal conduct. Not to mention any other prosecutor in the country would take two audiotaped criminal confessions as enough evidence to prosecute. And then when you have 14 witnesses come forward and validate everything that was on those audiotaped criminal confessions.Would be enough evidence to convince any judge of a conviction. Well any judge except for that desperate week insecure impulsive poor specimen of a female judge that goes on and on about how great it is being a submissive trumpet blower. And you wonder why America has the highest violent crime rate in the world. You wonder why America has the highest drug addiction alcohol dependency in the world. And you wonder why America has the most overfed undernourished people in existence. is not all gloom and doom. We can deal with this situation. As a people as physically fit mentally sound and spiritually balanced Americans. At the same time we are dealing with the situation in life. Subconsciously spiritually there souls and spirits are being implemented with, all the pain suffering disease sickness illness torment and hunger that has been allowed to occur over the years manifesting into what it is today. Thanks to incompetent lazy ignorant reckless negligent vindictive criminal leaders supporters employees employers. And now going to get far worse if Donald Trump his submissive trumpet blowers desperately impulsive employees have their way. Now let us thank our heavenly father for allowing Ronald Reagan Donald Trump supporters followers employees like-minded people for subconsciously: coherently apparently volunteering their soul and spirit to function similar to an air purifier water filtration system steam cleaner rubber gloves sponge shield bedpan urinal ass wipes blowup doll. But plug tampon maxi pad diaper jump rope ankle weights wrist weights weighted vest punching bag so forth and so on. Etc. etc. and that is the short list of how their souls and spirits are being treated. Before we get into how their souls and spirits are going to be implemented with all the pain suffering disease sickness illness torment and hunger that has occurred over the years manifesting into what it is today. Keep in mind my submissive trumpet blowers the soul and spirit can endour one up to billions of years worth of pain suffering disease sickness illness torment and hunger .that is just a sample Of the miraculous power of spirituality eternal authority that exist beyond your comprehension for your life cannot commonly comprehend things past your life's expectancy. Now I wish and pray for my soul and spirit to be held spiritually accountable to the statements I proclaim. I guarantee you will never hear another body leader person of legal authority ever validate the statements they proclaim with that level of certainty. If the sun the father the Holy Spirit God the devil Lord Jesus or anyone else with true eternal power and authority over life and death. Felt differently about the statements on proclaiming the had four separate opportunities to keep me dead and silent. The bottom line is you're either part of the problem are part of the solution when it comes to equality between a man and a woman as well as respecting another persons physical freedom. See a dominant gentleman knows how to intelligently persuade passionately convincing a woman to have the desire to willingly want to share themselves romantically. your part of the problem are solution. Either way your being held spiritually accountable. One way comes with a pleasant form of rehabilitation physically mentally spiritually. And the other way is the opposite of the first way. Again I wish and pray for my soul and spirit to be held spiritually accountable to the statements I proclaim. I guarantee you will never hear another body leader person of legal authority ever validate the statements they proclaim with that level of certainty. One reason they don't know themselves therefore they have NO respect for themselves and can't respect others. Secondly is because they are not willing to hold themselves accountable to the way they live their life to the laws the put in place. For the laws they put in place will greatly influence whether you live and die Feeling accomplished being at peace. The bottom line is Donald Trump has been clinically diagnosed by scientists criminal psychologist brain specialist! Leading physicians As being physically and mentally submissive! To fill that massive void a weakness) His plan to stay on the top! Is by keeping the bottom sick week desperate hungry and malnourished and poor by recirculating dirty low-paying jobs that come from outdated power sources inferior materials and toxic substances. That have lived out there usefulness for they have been classified scientifically as petrified death! More commonly known as coal oil and gas dirtiest of all sand oil. Along with other toxic pesticides! Chemicals that never changed their killing composition. You cannot promote life by using a substance that diminishes the quality of our air water food and landscapes. Dirty low-paying jobs very few at that however will have a negative effect on hundreds of millions for only God knows how many generations dirty low-paying jobs that diminish the quality of our air water food and landscapes with the potential of causing environmental collapse there is no profit to be made in the demise of the planet businessman my ass! Just look at the BP oil spill. The man-made water crisis situation in Flint Michigan. The man-made water crisis situation at the military base known as Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The fly ash spill that occurred from Duke Power in North Carolina. Those are a few examples. . . Of the irreversible damage that comes from working with outdated power sources inferior materials toxic substances. 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New Age top notch materials resources, that you could use this much is you would like or need without leaving any excess toxic waste behind. equally as amazing our products can be) Manufactured mass-produced in state of the art facility's I am talking about clean high-paying jobs from coast-to-coast globally. That improve the quality of life by enhancing maintaining the quality of our air water food and landscapes! Products Imports exports personally professionally To the highest degree of standards. Clean high-paying jobs that will be available every day of the week every week of the month every month of the year. Throughout their life allowing them to have a retirement that they will be healthy and wealthy enough to enjoy. xox XXL=00 Show more

Dear God.. Are there people like this left in the world?

Can we make this guy president?

I love that he took the time to not finger point at political opinions. that's important. trump is not a partisan issue. the conservative stance isn't an "evil" stance. their party has admittedly taken an extreme stance, and extremism is dangerous on both sides of the spectrum. but on its own? "red" is just as valid as "blue" and an ideal government would be combining the two.

Exacerbated damn near everything...👹👹worlds longest hostage siege! 😈😈

I swear to God, this guy could be Deb's older chief boyfriend from dexter.

7:20 "...traditionally Americans love fair play, equality of opportunity not of outcome..." Now that's the problem with the Left.

cool dude.