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Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Doris Kearns Goodwin and on The Nightly Show panelists Rory Albanese, Baratunde Thurston, and Bobcat Goldthwait will be discussing #CecilTheLion.

is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S. Presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

Doris Kearns Goodwin: "We, As Journalists, Have A Responsibility To Figure Out Which Candidates Are Likely To Be Our Leaders"

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin criticized Donald Trump, saying he lacks the qualities of being a presidential leader. Goodwin appeared on Sunday's broadcast of Meet the Press and addressed the candidacy of skyrocketing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Goodwin cited a conversation she had with the late Meet the Press host about Trump.

"I think it's too much to give him the credit that he's entertaining, and that we like what he's saying but it's interesting," Goodwin said. "We, as journalists, have a responsibility to figure out which candidates are likely to be our leaders. I remember talking with Tim Russert about this."

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, HISTORIAN: I think the important thing is not to understand the chord he's striking. But we, as journalists, have a responsibility to question is this the kind of person who could truly be a leader, a person so quick to anger, a person who yells at other people, a person who bullies, person who's loose with the facts, saying lots of things that aren't true, person who has conspiracy theories about whether Obama was born here, about vaccines, about climate change is a hoax?

I think it's too much to give him the credit that he's entertaining, and that we like what he's saying but it's interesting. We, as journalists, have a responsibility to figure out which candidates are likely to be our leaders. I remember talking with Tim Russert about this. Rather than who's got the most money, who's saying the most outrageous thing, who has the highest polls, who is likely to be a leader? They've shown qualities already. This guy has shown qualities I cannot imagine him as a presidential leader.

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Rory Albanese

is an American comedian, comedy writer and television producer. A Long Island, New York native, he was an executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which he joined in 1999 and was with until October 2013. He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Baratunde Thurston

is a writer, comedian, and commentator. Thurston co-founded the black political blog Jack and Jill Politics, whose coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention was archived in the Library Of Congress, and was director of digital for The Onion. In 2012, his book How to be Black became a New York Times bestseller.

Bobcat Goldthwait

is an American film director, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, voice artist, and comedian, known for his acerbic black comedy, delivered through an energetic stage personality with an unusual gruff and high-pitched voice.

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