"The Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper has continued his series of visits to Donald Trump rallies, this time with Trump as president. In a segment on Tuesday night's show, he found that not much had changed for Trump's supporters.

Though Trump has been president for more than two months, he has begun campaigning for the 2020 election in a way. His rallies are funded by his 2020 campaign, which collects donations and sells merchandise at them.

Klepper hit a Trump rally in Nashville, Tennessee, last week and spoke to Trump's supporters. The first order of business was finding out why Trump was holding campaign rallies at all.

"This is still happening. Why is this still happening?" Klepper asked one attendee. "He's running for president while he's president without doing presidential s---."

"Don't say that," the man replied. "He's done a lot of presidential s---."

"It feels like old times," said another supporter. "It feels like we're on the campaign trail."

Bitter sentiments from the presidential campaign reemerged. Klepper found attendees in T-shirts with apparent references to Hillary Clinton as "that b----." And when he asked supporters which issues they cared about, he found that people were still focused on locking up Democrats, including Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

When asked what Obama should be "locked up" for, one woman said, "sedition and treason."

And just when Klepper felt he had found a supporter who had an optimistic idea for the future — getting homeless people off the streets — the man blurted out, "and Michelle, that's a man," referring to former first lady Michelle Obama.

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Even if you don't know Rebecca Ferguson by name, trust us: You know her.

Though the Swedish actress has a Golden Globe nomination under her belt (for the 2014 miniseries "The White Queen"), it wasn't until her scene-stealing role as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in 2015's "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" that most of the world realized she was a star in the making.

Since then Ferguson, 33, has been on a breakneck schedule: working opposite Meryl Streep in the Oscar-nominated "Florence Foster Jenkins," starring in the adaptation of the best-selling book "The Girl on the Train," and now sharing the screen with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in the sci-fi thriller "Life" (opening in theaters on Friday).

It's the latest smart choice by an actress who made her bones in the business modeling as a teenager and starring in a soap opera in Sweden.

In "Life," Ferguson plays Dr. Miranda North, one of a handful of astronauts/scientists on the International Space Station who have discovered life on Mars and are tasked with researching it. That is, until things go wrong and that life turns on the crew.

Moviegoers have been familiar with the alien thriller for decades, and no other movie has more perfectly executed that setup than Ridley Scott's 1979 "Alien," with Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the hero going head-to-head with a murderous alien.

About halfway through "Life," Ferguson's soft-spoken Miranda seems like a mirror image of Ripley. But it turns out that's not the case, and Ferguson admits that's why she took the role.

"I actually turned the film down in the beginning because I thought, 'How is this not going to be compared to the Ripley character?'" Ferguson told Business Insider, hours before presenting "Life" as the closing-night film at this year's SXSW festival. "And the producer said, 'Just talk to [director] Daniel [Espinosa], let him explain,' and it was literally 10 minutes into that conversation that I was hooked. He said, 'Take the alien out of it and look at the drama between the characters and their storyline.' It's a character piece set in space where we take something from its natural habitat and we try to control it and provoke it and what we're doing is basically creating our own disaster. Which is a beautiful mirror in how we are treating ourselves on earth."

Then Ferguson joined Reynolds, Gyllenhaal, and the rest of the cast, working with dance instructors and training with wires to imitate conditions on the International Space Station.

Everything has been so fast-paced since starring in "Rogue Nation" that she admits it's tough to reflect on any of her success.

"The biggest shock is how quickly everything has gone and how lucky I've been," Ferguson said. "I never have the break, or give myself the break, to go, 'Wow, let's process that.'"

But with that commitment, she gets less time with those she loves, like her 10-year-old son.

"I'm in a situation where I can fly from one set one evening to another set and start straight away," she said. "I think for any working person no matter what field they are in, it is maintaining a structure for your family life as well. That's very, very hard. I find it to be the better and better it goes, the harder and harder it is."

Along with limited personal time, being more recognizable has also led to Ferguson getting questions that the major stars answer, like about the gender wage gap in Hollywood. In "Life," she stars alongside two of the biggest male actors alive, and she has more screen time than either. Was she paid the same amount as Gyllenhaal and Reynolds?

"It's always a sensitive topic when it comes to equal pay," she said. "It's something we struggle with, but I can say that I have a brilliant team around me and they are very much aware of how the politics work in the world. From my aspect right now, I'm pretty darn happy with the offers I get and how things are working out for me. And what I love is I don't feel like a woman on set with men. I feel one amongst everyone."

Right now Ferguson is in training mode for the sixth "Mission: Impossible" movie, which she says begins shooting in early April.

"Tom and I are in hardcore training right now," she said, referring to Tom Cruise. "Tom never stops. I don't know how he does it."

She says she has no major requests in changing up the Ilsa character for the next movie.

"I'm so relaxed when it comes to my Ilsa character because [director] Chris McQuarrie did wonders, I think, with the last film," she said. "I was so happy with the way that we shot her with her independence, with her strength, with her vulnerability, with her relation to Tom's character, and I think we're all on board where we're just going to maintain her characteristic traits for this film."

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President Donald Trump has found a way to make his daughter Ivanka Trump's presence felt in the White House. She will have an office in the West Wing, despite not having an official government role.

"She's getting an office at the White House and she's getting top-level security clearance," Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday's episode of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "For real, Ivanka Trump will draw on her 20 years of foreign and domestic policy experience that she gained selling sandals to Nordstrom."

Ivanka's role, which comes with no official title, has been described as her father's "eyes and ears" in the White House.

"He needs someone to be his thumbs," Kimmel said, "so they can stop tweeting."

But Kimmel thinks he knows the real reason Ivanka has been given a strategically placed office in the White House, which has raised some ethical concerns.

"I have theory about it,” he said. “Her office is on the second floor of the West Wing, not far from the Oval Office. I suspect they put her there so somebody can run and grab her, in case her father decides to nuke anything. She might be only one he will listen to.”

Watch Kimmel weigh in on Ivanka's new White House office below:

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On Tuesday's “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comedian Dave Chappelle opened up about why he made not just one, but two new comedy specials for Netflix.

The specials are his first in 13 years, and they made their exclusive Netflix debut on Tuesday.

"Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin" was filmed at The Palladium in Los Angeles one year ago, and "Dave Chappelle: Deep in the Heart of Texas" was filmed at the Moody Theater in Austin two years ago.

Both specials are packed with everything Chappelle is known for, including hilarious social commentary on sensitive topics, like O.J. Simpson and sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby.

“We’re very, very excited that you put out these comedy specials. Thirteen years: Like a locust, you have returned with these. Why did you decide to put two of them out?” Kimmel asked. 

“Money,” Chappelle said.

Indeed, he did earn a lot of it: a reported $60 million for the two specials.

Watch Chappelle on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" below:

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Netflix has released the batch of titles that will be removed from its streaming service in April, and it's time to say bye to some classics.

The John Hughes comedy "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," along with two romantic movies, "The Princess Bride" and "Under the Tuscan Sun," are headed out.

Here's everything that's leaving Netflix in March. We've highlighted the titles we think you should watch in bold.

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Leaving April 1

"Ally McBeal" (Seasons 1 - 5)
"Angel" (Seasons 1 – 5)
"Better Off Ted" (Season 1)
"Barbershop 2: Back in Business"
"Bones" (Seasons 1 - 4)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Seasons 1 - 7)
"Chaplin"
"Dollhouse" (Season 1)
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
"Firefly"
"House, M.D." (Seasons 1 - 8)
"Lie to Me" (Season 1)
"Menace II Society"
"Resident Evil: Extinction"
"Rosewell" (Seasons 1 - 3)
"Snow Day"
"Stomp the Yard"
"Superman II"
"Superman III"
"Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"
"Superman Returns"
"Superman: The Movie"
"The Agony and the Ecstasy"
"The Boys from Brazil"
"The Escapist"
"The Princess Bride"
"The Riches" (Seasons 1 - 2)
"The Usual Suspects"
"The X-Files" (Seasons 1 - 9)
"Vanilla Sky"

Leaving April 3

"Collateral Damage"
"The Circle"

Leaving April 7

"Legit" (Season 2)
"Wilfred" (Season 4)

Terry Crews, actor, former NFL player, and host of Netflix's "Ultimate Beastmaster", explains how his football career both helped and hurt him in preparing for the entertainment industry. Following is a transcript of the video.

For me, football, it helped and hurt in a lot of ways. The NFL kind of set me up with a - I had a sense of entitlement. You're a football player, everyone loves you, everyone says you are the man, you are part of this whole cult of masculinity, you're like, "I got it all." And then all of a sudden, that whole promise gets yanked out from under you. Because everybody, you know, no matter what time in your life you are, you have to quit playing your sports, and then there is the transition, and this is something that only people who've been through it can talk about. It's a transition - was extremely hard, in that you are not who you think you are. Because, you are known as an athlete, you are known as this and you are known as that, and then all of a sudden, you have to rebuild your life. It's very, very intense. People who have been in your college with you have gone on to relative success while you are starting over. And it's very strange, it's very foreign. But the good thing about football is that you develop a work ethic if you work at it, if you try. And you start to learn that anything can be learned, anything can be, you know, as long as you keep doing it, you can get it. I have to say, it's kind of weird because I look at entertainment and my football career, the ups and downs, the ins and outs to how hard it was, it really prepared me for entertainment, in that, I could take rejection, I could go to an audition and realize that it wasn't about me and just realize it was about the piece, or realize it was about, you know, you go on a set and you realize who's the star, who's the coach, who's the director, who's the day player, who's the backup. This kind of thing, and it allows you to understand the system of authority in that kind of thing, but it helped and hurt in two different ways, and I have to say, for me, because of a mindset change, it actually ended up helping more than it hurt me.

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Lots of people have enjoyed running around in the real world catching Pokémon, but what if you were able to catch something a bit more valuable? A new game called "Snatch" lets players collect parcels using augmented reality that contain prizes like cash and trips. But actually winning those prizes isn't that simple. Here's a look at the game which is already up and running in the UK, and which is expected to arrive in the US in the coming months.

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Another person from Richard Simmons' inner circle has come forward to dispel recent theories surrounding his three-year absence from the public eye.

Richard Simmons' older brother, Lenny Simmons, 70, recently defended Richard, 68, on the popular "Missing Richard Simmons" podcast. Created by Richard's former fitness client and friend, Dan Taberski, the podcast tries to uncover why the fitness star hasn't been seen in public since February 2014. 

In the interview, Lenny said that Richard's health is "fine" and that his reclusive lifestyle is self-imposed and not due to any illnesses.

“My brother is fine,” Lenny said. “He’s not sick. There’s nothing medically wrong with him at all."

Additionally, Lenny refuted one of the podcast's guests, Richard's former assistant and masseuse, Mauro Oliveira, who alleged that Richard is being controlled and potentially being held hostage in his home by his longtime housekeeper. Lenny said that Oliveira's accusations are false.

“He’s doing what he wants to do, which is kick back and have a quiet life,” Lenny said. “He’s not angry with anybody. He just decided, 'I’ve done it and I’m going to be quiet.' For some reason, he wants to be quiet, which is the complete opposite of how he normally is. I don’t understand it, but I have to respect it."

Additionally, Lenny shot down the rumor that Richard is hiding out because he's transgender and transitioning into a woman.

"These things about him transitioning to a woman are ridiculous," Lenny said. "My wife Cathy and I were out there for Christmas and spent five days with him and I can assure you, he’s not transitioning into anything but himself.”

Lenny's interview echoes the findings of the Los Angeles Police Department, which concluded after recently visiting Richard at his home that he is "perfectly fine" and not being held hostage.

After the allegations from the podcast began making headlines, a representative for Simmons, Tommy Estey, also said that the accusations weren't true and that Simmons is very much in control of his life.

“He made a choice to take a break from public life, which he has the right to do,” Estey said. “People need to respect that and not surmise that there’s something wrong, when there’s nothing wrong... For 40 years, he took care of everyone else but himself. And so it’s not that he’s being selfish, he’s just being a person, a regular person, taking care of himself.”

This isn't the first time Richard's public absence caused people to worry about his well-being and question whether he was being held hostage in his home. In March of 2016, Simmons called into NBC's "Today" show to quash the rumors.

"No one is holding me in my house as a hostage,'' Richard told cohost Savannah Guthrie. "You know, I do what I want to do as I've always done, so people should sort of just believe what I have to say because, like, I'm Richard Simmons!"

Simmons' manager Michael Catalano also affirmed that Richard is doing — and looking — fine, according to People.

“He looks great, he’s trim and he has a beard, salt and pepper,” Catalano said. “He’s in excellent health, as far as I know.”

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There is a huge age divide in the amount of live TV Americans watch, versus how much they consume digital media, according to comScore's new cross-platform report.

ComScore looked at the total amount of hours Americans spent with TV and digital media in 2016, and as you move down the age range, there is a stark shift away from TV and toward digital. Notably, while desktop digital media usage actually decreases in the 18-34 age range (compared to 35-54), smartphones are driving the numbers way up.

Here is the full chart from comScore:

The chart underscores what many in the TV industry are afraid of: young people just aren't watching as much live TV as older folks are. While live TV and digital are roughly equal in the 35-54 age bracket, that balance tips steeply for younger Americans. And it doesn't look good for TV.

Still, these stats don't mean live TV is already in its grave. In fact, in many instances it's proving rather sticky.

A great example of this is the way Americans are watching subscription video services like Netflix, known as over-the-top services ("OTT"). Netflix has almost 50 million subscribers in the US, and many of these households watch both TV and Netflix. Only 15.4% of OTT households are streaming-only, according to comScore. In those "both" households, live TV is maintaining its lead by a wide margin.

ComScore found that in households with both OTT services — like Netflix or Hulu — and TV, for every hour of streaming viewing, the household watched a whopping 5 hours and 28 minutes of live TV.

Here's what that looks like:

And when it comes to live TV versus things like DVR or video-on-demand, the difference is equally stark.

ComScore found that 84% of total TV viewing was live, versus 14.9% on DVR, and just 1.1% video-on-demand (excluding streaming services like Netflix).

So while it's true that Americans, especially younger ones, are moving their media habits toward smartphones and away from live TV, don't be too quick to count TV out just yet.

No matter how much buzz Netflix gets, live TV is still a juggernaut.

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Samantha Bee has been making a huge impression in the late-night world recently. She's seen the greatest audience increase of all the late-night shows in the past year — with a huge 144% jump for TBS's "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee."

Bee and her husband Jason Jones (you might remember him from "The Daily Show") also recently bought an apartment on the Upper West Side in Manhattan for $3.7 million.

The apartment is two units combined on the top floor of the building, and it's actually really classy and subdued. No gimmicks: just a spacious family home (the couple has three kids) in an iconic neighborhood, on 102 Street and Riverside Drive. 

The 2,200-foot unit has plenty of room, attention to detail, and lots of natural light, with spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline from every single window. 

See Samantha Bee's New York City apartment below:

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The location is pretty convenient — on 102 Street and Riverside Drive, just a short commute from the "Full Frontal" studio.

It’s pretty spacious, especially for a place in upper Manhattan.

It has four bedrooms.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

With the final moments of the latest "Star Wars" movie, "Rogue One," taking place just before the events of the first movie in the original trilogy, "A New Hope," someone was going to splice the two.

And the circle is now complete.

Barre Fong posted a nine-minute video on Vimeo that connects the two movies.

It begins when the plans from the Death Star are uploaded from the planet Scarif to a rebel ship. Darth Vader then attempts to retrieve it by killing countless rebel fighters, but he does not succeed, as the plans fly away on Princess Leia's ship.

The "Rogue One" footage ends with Leia's ship speeding off. That then cuts to the start of the "A New Hope" footage, where we find her ship under attack by Vader's Star Destroyer.

Vader boards the ship, and the rest is history.

Watch it below:

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If, like me, your DVD collection is languishing unwatched because you don’t have a DVD player or a disc drive on your laptop, Walmart’s Vudu has a solution.

On Thursday, Vudu announced that its app will now let you create your own personal Netflix, instantly, for $2 per title (with the first movie free).

The main purpose of Vudu is to let you rent or buy movies digitally on “smart” devices — TV, smartphone, tablet, and so on. But now you’ll be able to use your smartphone to “convert” your DVDs by scanning the barcode, which will unlock the ability to watch that title on the Vudu app (as if you had bought the title straight from Vudu). For $2 you’ll get access to that particular movie on all your devices, forever, through the Vudu app. You can also upgrade the quality — let's say from DVD to HDX — for $5 per title.

This service mimics Vudu’s original disc-to-digital service, which functions similarly but requires you insert the DVD into your computer, instead of using your phone.

There are a few catches to this new feature, however. First, there’s the two-dollar fee, which is a bit steep for something you already own. Second, it only works with about 8,000 titles so far, though Vudu GM Jeremy Verba said they are looking to expand to more, and the Vudu service itself has over 100,000.

Here’s how Vudu characterizes the breadth of titles available:

"Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the Bourne series, as well as classics like Top Gun and The Godfather. Fans can also convert comedies like The Hangover and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Animated family favorites like Kung Fu Panda and The Lorax, and romance movies like The Notebook are also available."

“The average movie collector owns nearly 100 DVDs and Blu-ray,” Verba told Business Insider. Vudu says it focused on getting classic titles people are likely to have on DVD.

Personally, I have about 70 DVDs that are sitting in a box unused and didn’t make the move to New York with me. At $2 per title, I don’t want to convert all of them, but there are definitely a dozen I’d like to make sure I could watch from time to time — take ”Lord of the Rings,” for example.

Check out the Vudu app here.

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Ellen DeGeneres is ready to part ways with one of her homes: a Santa Barbara area mansion that's up for sale for $45 million.

According to Sotheby's International Realty, DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi simply don't have the time to use the mansion. The couple has bought and flipped several high-priced homes in Southern California.

"Between 'The Ellen Show,' Ellen's new home collection and a new business that Portia is starting, they can't make it to Santa Barbara as often as they would like," a spokesperson at Sotheby's told Business Insider in an email. 

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While there was chaos onstage during the announcement of the best-picture category at this year's Academy Awards, when people realized that presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway incorrectly gave the prize to "La La Land" instead of "Moonlight," at least one "La La Land" star was caught feeling amused.

Ryan Gosling was seen holding back his laughter at the whole thing while he was on the stage.

On Wednesday, speaking to Adobe CMO Ann Lewnes at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, he revealed what he found so funny. 

“What really was happening as I was watching, it was surreal anyway — I was watching people start to have this panicked reaction in the crowd and guys were coming on with headsets and I felt like someone had been hurt,” Gosling said. "I thought there was some kind of medical situation, and I had this worst-case scenario playing out in my head. And then I just heard 'Moonlight' won and I was so relieved that I started laughing."

You can't blame Gosling for initially thinking the worst. These were the reactions he was seeing when he looked out into the crowd during all the confusion.

Gosling added that he isn't bitter at all about "La La Land" not winning the biggest prize of the night, as he was a fan of "Moonlight."

“Truthfully, I was also so thrilled that 'Moonlight' won," he said. "I know the director [Barry Jenkins]... I’ve worked with them before. It’s such a groundbreaking film, made for a million dollars, an incredible achievement, and I’m so happy for them that they were being recognized.”

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John Mayer has regrets.

In a new interview with The New York Times, the singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso is candid about his self-proclaimed "downfall" several years ago, when he seemed to partying and drinking hard and he gave questionable interviews.

In a 2010 interview with Playboy, he described his male anatomy as "a white supremacist" and compared it to former KKK leader David Duke, and used a racial slur. In another interview with Rolling Stone, he described his sexual habits in lurid detail. Both generated their share of controversy.

“What has to happen for a guy to believe that he’s totally well-adjusted and be that far out of touch?” Mayer told The New York Times, looking back at those eyebrow-raising moments. “My GPS was shattered, just shattered.”

By way of explanation, he says that back then, in his early 30s (he's now 39), he wanted to veer away from the image of a "clichéd rock star," but along the way, "I started to invent my own grenade."

Now he's decided to "drop that major." But he has returned with new music and hopes for a hit in the new single, "Still Feel Like Your Man," which harks back to his older soft-rock, sexually charged hits.

“I remember thinking to myself, O.K., I’m going to basically come out of retirement from blockbusters. It’s a choice to write pop songs, just like it’s a choice to write blues songs or folk songs. Let’s write the big ones that we are capable of writing," Mayer said.

The singer remembers thinking a few years ago: "I’m a young guy. I like girls. I want girls to like me. I want to make music and be thought of as attractive. I was finally ready to re-enter that world and grow back into it."

The new music "moves and throbs and has women in it again," as Mayer says, though the single may also be a touch too easy-listening in a pop environment that is about as brash as ever.

Mayer says he's stopped drinking. He also credits his work playing guitar with Dead & Company, which includes members of The Grateful Dead, for getting him on the right track.

“The feeling of inclusion that I have with this band — they saved my life,” he said.

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Forget focus groups: Looking at the brainwaves of people watching movie trailers can give “surprisingly accurate” information about how well it will do at the box office, according to a new study from Northwestern.

At the center of the study is a new technique developed by two Northwestern neuroscientists that monitors people’s brainwaves to measure their “level of engagement” with an advertisement.

“It turns out, when our brains are truly engaged with the content we are watching, they essentially look the same as one another,” Sam Barnett, a Ph.D. researcher, told Northwestern Now. So if you measure the similarity between test subjects, you can tell when their brains are engaged, and the study of 122 moviegoers found this correlates with higher ticket sales.

The researchers claim that their method can predict ticket sales with 20% higher accuracy than focus groups. One potential reason is because it can eliminate recall bias.

“People are probably going to remember a trailer for movies like ‘X-Men’ or ‘Spiderman’ best because they are already familiar with the characters,” Barnett said. “But with our method, we are not only testing their memory, but also how engaged they feel with the content of the advertisement as it’s playing.”

According to the researchers, this method could be used not only to help predict ticket sales, but also to workshop trailer cuts to maximize the chance of the movie doing well.

Read more about the study over at Northwestern Now.

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Samantha Bee took a close look at President Donald Trump's counterterrorism expert Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka on Wednesday's episode of TBS's "Full Frontal."

She started the segment by playing a clip during Trump's campaign in which he promised that under his presidency, the federal government would hire "the best people... the smartest, the greatest minds... I have all of them."

"You do? Where?" Bee said, showing an image of Trump with his cabinet members. "Are they behind those motherf---ers? You know what? Let's meet another one of those 'best people': White House counterterrorism 'expert' and treasurer of the Steven Seagal fan club, Dr. Sebastian Lukacs v. Gorka. No, his first name isn't suing his last name."

Gorka is a member of the national security advisory staff and officially serves as a deputy assistant to the president. The media has referred to him as the "Trump whisperer" as the president has on several occasions repeated phrases that Gorka had used previously.

While Gorka insists on using the academic "Dr." honorific, Bee suggests that his scholarship is overstated.

"Trump’s ISIS expert has never lived in a Muslim-majority country and he doesn’t read or speak Arabic,” the host said. “For his thesis, Gorka read the Quran in English, and some secondary sources, and watched 'Charlie Wilson’s War,' which makes you an authority on Islam in much the way that watching a Chinese bootleg of 'Rogue One' makes you an astronaut.”

A former contributor to the far-right outlet Breitbart, Gorka makes appearances on Fox News "every time they needed someone to whip up panic over Islamic jihad," as Bee puts it.

"This is not playtime now. S--- is real," Bee said. "The White House needs real counterterrorism experts. Not a poor man's Stewie Griffin whose extremist nonsense can get people killed."

Watch the segment below:

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Stephen Colbert cited a report that President Donald Trump needed some cheering up and wanted to help.

In the midst of the Republican healthcare plan facing an uphill climb in the House, and many concerns over his wiretapping claims, Politico reported that the judicial blocking of his revised travel ban broke Trump's spirits. In response, White House officials tried to brighten the president's mood by showing him a Fox News segment arguing that the Supreme Court would never uphold the decisions.

"They treat the president the same way you treat a five-year-old throwing a tantrum," Colbert said on Wednesday's episode of CBS's "Late Show." "'Honey, calm down. Look, look, we’ve got "Frozen." We’ve got the CD for "Frozen." Let’s put that in there. Now please, let it go!'"

Nevertheless, Colbert felt he could assist the staffers in helping out Trump.

"If positive coverage helps calm down the big, angry man with the launch codes, I say do it," the host said. "That's why I had the 'Late Show' in-house news team, 'Real News Tonight,' make a new report that the White House can play at any time."

Watch Colbert's complimentary fake newscast for Trump below:

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This week "Star Wars" fans got a lot of insight on the story evolution of "Rogue One" (which hits digital download Friday and Blu-ray April 4). We've learned about everything from a version that had a happy ending to another in which Darth Vader killed Director Krennic.

But this latest story may top them all.

i09 talked to screenwriter John Knoll, who is also the senior visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, and got him to open up about one of the endings he came up with in the early development of the script. And we really hope that perhaps this will be used in a future film, because it's very cool.

Knoll explains that in one version, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) was a spy planted by the Empire into the Rebellion. But once he learns that the Death Star is not propaganda but is real and meant for genocide, he switches sides to help the Rebels destroy it. 

Here's how the rest of this crazy version goes:

At the end of the movie, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian have the Death Star plans and are being chased through the galaxy by Darth Vader's Star Destroyer. They get word that Princess Leia's ship is nearby and transmit the Death Star plans to her ship since Jyn and Cassian don't think their ship will survive the damage from Vader.

But then Cassian has an idea.

"They’ve got a carbon freeze bomb on the ship and the idea is that he forces everyone into the airlock, [he says] 'I’m going to set this off and you’re all going to survive,'" Knoll said. "He sort of times it with one of the hits from Vader’s ship so he blows up the ship and sets off this carbon freeze bomb and everyone is frozen. Then on Vader’s ship they detect no life signs and they think everyone’s dead. And they’re like, 'Where’s that ship the plans were transmitted to?' And they go. So I was going to leave our heroes out of the picture. It’s why they don’t show up in 'Empire' or 'Jedi' — they’re stuck in [carbon freeze]."

Now that's an ending! Obviously, as the "Rogue One" story got tweaked, that ending was scrapped. But hopefully we get to see a carbon-freeze bomb one day.

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Review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes has become the go-to for discerning moviegoers when they need to decide if it's worth dishing out their hard-earned cash on the latest cineplex offerings.

But director/producer Brett Ratner (the man behind the "Rush Hour" franchise) isn't a fan of the site, to put it lightly.

“The worst thing that we have in today’s movie culture is Rotten Tomatoes,” Ratner said while speaking at the Sun Valley Film Festival this past weekend.

Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment cofinanced "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (and countless other big-budget movies), and as he makes clear, he's still feeling the sting of the critical backlash against that superhero blockbuster, despite its massive box-office gross (it currently sits at a rotten 27%).

“I think it’s the destruction of our business. I have such respect and admiration for film criticism," Ratner said. "When I was growing up film criticism was a real art. And there was intellect that went into that. And you would read Pauline’s Kael’s reviews, or some others, and that doesn’t exist anymore. Now it’s about a number. A compounded number of how many positives vs. negatives. Now it’s about, ‘What’s your Rotten Tomatoes score?’ And that’s sad, because the Rotten Tomatoes score was so low on 'Batman v Superman' I think it put a cloud over a movie that was incredibly successful.”

Rotten Tomatoes has become such a resource for audiences that if a movie has a high rating on the site, it's often used in promotion for the film.

Ratner has never received much love from the site's scores for the movies he's directed (his highest as a director was 69% for 2002's "Red Dragon"). And the stigma of a rotten score for a film like "Batman v Superman" is a concern to Ratner.

“People don’t realize what goes into making a movie like that,” Ratner said. “It’s mind-blowing. It’s just insane, it’s hurting the business, it’s getting people to not see a movie. In Middle America it’s, ‘Oh, it’s a low Rotten Tomatoes score so I’m not going to go see it because it must suck.’ But that number is an aggregate and one that nobody can figure out exactly what it means, and it’s not always correct. I’ve seen some great movies with really abysmal Rotten Tomatoes scores. What’s sad is film criticism has disappeared. It’s really sad.”

Entertainment Weekly got Rotten Tomatoes' reaction to Ratner's comments:

“At Rotten Tomatoes, we completely agree that film criticism is valuable and important, and we’re making it easier than it has ever been for fans to access potentially hundreds of professional reviews for a given film or TV show in one place. The Tomatometer score, which is the percentage of positive reviews published by professional critics, has become a useful decision-making tool for fans, but we believe it’s just a starting point for them to begin discussing, debating, and sharing their own opinions.”

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