https://twitter.com/JohnQBarrett/status/1060333390153560064
Whitaker told me in June 2017 that he was flying out from Iowa to NYC to be on CNN regularly because he was hoping to be noticed as a Trump defender, and through that to get a Trump judicial appointment back in Iowa.

Via
http://www.cc.com/episodes/w1lfdj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-november-8--2018---swizz-beatz-season-24-ep-24019

(from 6:45 on)