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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jon: thank you! welcome to "the daily show!" my name is jon stewart! now, where was i? i am excited to be back! [cheers and applause] i'm very excited. it's good to see everyone, it is good to see you guys. why am i back? you may be asking yourself, it is a very reasonable question. i have committed a lot of crimes. from what i understand, talk show hosts are granted immunity. it doesn't make a lot of sense

but take it up with the founders. i don't know. we have so much we are going to talk about this year. obviously, elections. maybe we will talk about china, maybe we will talk about ai. maybe something a bit lighter, like israel-palestine... who knows! but first, the super bowl was yesterday! [cheers and applause] a gentleman in a crowd is delighted that kansas city won. it was sadly, a lose-lose for real america. the kansas city chiefs are world champions which means the decades long plot in which travis and taylor brainwash america into getting routine vaccinations is complete. but it was really kind of a no won for conservatives. if the chiefs lost... who wins? the people's communist republic of gay pelosistan. it is almost like the right is

politicizing every aspect of american life ruins everything. but now that it is over, nine months till the election, people! [cheers and applause] and the exciting part is, we already know our candidates! it is... drum roll please! these [bleep] guys! that's why tonight we're debuting our election coverage: "indecision 2024: american de-mock-racy." it's a homophone. we didn't change the sound of the word but we added a k which makes it wittier. how about: "indecision 2024: electile dysfunction"! we changed the one letter.

are you disappointed yet? so, joe biden and donald trump. and by the way, this weekend, the big news was the special counsel report on joe biden's handling of classified information. >> the special counsel's report offers gating details of what it calls has diminished faculties and faulty memory, writing, "if charged, mr. biden will likely present himself to the jury as he did during his interview with our office as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." >> jon: "where did i park those documents?" this guy couldn't remember stuff during his deposition! do you understand what this means? he had no ability to recall very basic things under questioning. the footage of the president unable to recall simple facts must have been brutal to watch.

>> james webb. >> i don't remember the names. don't remember the name. >> i don't ever remember buying something for myself. >> can you recall that? >> i mean, i don't remember that. as good as my memory is, i don't remember that. >> so you don't remember saying you have one of the best memories in the world? >> i don't remember that. [cheers and applause] >> jon: oh, i'm sorry, that was the wrong footage. that is the high-functioning candidate from nine years ago, unable to recall if he has a good memory. i am sorry. here's the actual footage. >> who created trump international realty? >> i don't remember >> i don't remember. i don't remember the email. >> i'm just saying, i don't remember this. i just don't seem to recall

anything about this. >> jon: he actually seemed to seemed [bleep] upset about it. "i don't know!" it turns out that the leading cause of early-onset dementia is being deposed. back to president biden. biden was not about to take the special counsel's characterizations lying down -- although, chances are, he was lying down. but the point is this. to the press conference, that man! >> my memory is fine. take a look at what i have done since i became president. nobody thought we could pass any of the things i got past. how did that happen? i got this country back on its feet. >> i did not say that. >> mr. president -- >> let me answer your question. >> many american people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age. >> that is your judgment! that is your judgment! >> jon: boom! he took them to the house!

he was all over it! joe biden taking names! kicking ass! press conference over! you didn't mess up! no, no. wait. hold on. hold on, sir. no! you killed this! take the w! what are you doing? do not -- oh, -- allow me to present to you a one-man show about what joe biden's advisors were doing when he turned around and went back to the podium. the show is called... "no! do not go back!" please! but he went back. >> i'm of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in gaza, in the gaza strip has

been, um... over the top. >> jon: garbanzo... garment... gaza. by the way, the response in gaza has been... "over-the-top?" i like how biden describes israel's incessant bombing of civilians the same way my mother talks about the super bowl halftime show. "it was a little much. did they need to be on roller skates?" "whatever happened to music? using that song and people will love it but with the abs and the

twirling... "and the hits kept coming. >> initially, the president of mexico, sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. >> jon: now, geography buffs might have noticed that gaza and mexico do not share a border. that biden was referring to sisi, the president of egypt, not mexico. unless it was even worse than that and he thinks the president of mexico is named, "si, si!" so joe biden had a big press conference to dispel the notion that he may have lost a step, and politically speaking, lost three to four steps. but don't worry, because they don't need to the press conference. the super bowl was on sunday and

the president was offered a chance as per tradition to do an interview where millions and millions of people could see him competently and clearly lay out his 2024 agenda. or he could just turn that down and do what this is. >> the biden-harris campaign joined tiktok over the weekend. the first video was released during the super bowl, and it shows president biden answering questions related to the big game. >> game or half-time show? >> game. >> jason kelce or travis kelce? >> mama kelce. i understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies. [laughter and applause] >> jon: fire everyone. everyone. how do you go on tiktok and end up looking older? so yes, everyone spent the

entire weekend talking about whether the democratic choice is mentally up to the challenge of the world's most demanding job. so what was his opponent saying this weekend? >> we have to win in november or we are not going to have pennsylvania. they're going to change the name of pennsylvania. >> jon: i can't believe i have lived in new jersey this long and have been mispronouncing "pennsylvania!" apparently the emphasis is at the end of the line! yes, it should be noted, while concerns over any president's fitness and acuity are legitimate, especially those at an advanced age, biden's opponent also seems to live at the villages. so the question then becomes, what the [bleep] are we doing

here, people? [cheers and applause] that's a nice "indecision 2024" title. "yeah." let me tell you something. [cheers and applause] biden has lost a step but trump regularly says things at rallies that would warrant a wellness check. >> all i know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. >> jon: i am not a scientist. i am pretty sure water is not the end of magnets. i think he may be thinking of cotton candy. pretty easy to mix those up. it's probably why the front of his refrigerator is so messy. it is sticky. but look. these two candidates -- you have been very kind with your enthusiasm. these two candidates are similarly challenged and it is not crazy to think that the

oldest people in the history of the country to every run for president might have some of these challenges. democrats will say that any criticism like this, especially of biden, is unfair, because you just don't know biden like they know biden. >> president biden, who i've been around numerous times just in as last year is sharp, he's focused, he is bright. >> he is sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented, and focused. >> this is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on. >> he's smart, he's on his game. >> i was in almost every meeting with the president and the president was in front of and on top of it all. coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of america's national security. not to mention our allies around the globe. >> jon: did any one film that?

[laughter and applause] because if you are telling us behind the scenes, he is sharp and full of energy and on top of it and really in control and leading, you should film that. that would be good to show two people instead of a tiktok where he goes "chocolate chip cookie." we see he is in charge. you see "hello, cookie." of course, when it comes to republicans, they have a different strategy for their 77-year-old candidate. >> well, first of all, donald trump is not an old man. >> jon: he is an old man! he is objectively an old man! on a human scale, trump is objectively old. if he was a tortoise, i'd tell him as a tortoise at 77, oh,

young man, go off and enjoy college! but he is not a tortoise! that's not being ageist! that is being human lifespan-ist. one thing we know for certain is this. we have two candidates who are chronologically outside the norm of anyone who has run for the presidency in this country in the history of this country. they are the oldest people ever to run for president, breaking by only four years the record that they set! the last time they ran! they are at the age, they are objectively old. they are at the age, there are no more age-related milestones to hit! they've got the aarp card, they've got social security, they've got the movie discounts. there is no -- wait until you hit 88, you get to drink and drive. no! the only thing left to them is a

today show smokers shout out you know what? i think we've got a new name for our election coverage. "indecision 2024: antiques roadshow." chehere's what i'm saying. we are not suggesting that either man is vibrant, productive, marketable, but they are both stretching the limits of being able to handle the toughest job in the world. what is crazy is thinking that we are the ones, as voters, who must silence concerns and criticisms. it is the candidates' job to assuage concerns, not the voters' job not to mention them. and of course, i am not trying to be cruel. i don't want to have to do this on my first day. come over here. look at me.

look what time hath wrought. [applause] give the kids a treat of the lunar surface, here. look at this. i am 20 years younger than these [bleep]. this. look at this. they wish. [cheers and applause] here is the truth. and if you think, oh, 20 years isn't that long. this is me 20 years ago. [cheers and applause] yeah. yeah. i agree.

and perhaps it was my mistake for sleeping in a meat dehydrator. look, joe biden is not donald trump. he has not been indicted as many times, hasn't as many fraudulently businesses or been ordered to pay defamation or stiffed a shit ton of blue-collar tradesmen he hired. should we even get to the grab of the pussy stuff? probably not. but the stakes of this election stuff don't make donald trump's opponent less subject to scrutiny. it actually makes him more subject to scrutiny. if the barbarians are at the gate, you want conan standing on the ramparts, not "chocolate chip cookie" guy. so what is the good news? that was not rhetorical framing. i'm literally asking. look, the next nine months or so, and may be more on that

depending on the coup schedule, they are going to be stuck here you're going to be getting emails with insane subject lines like... "hello, jon, it's chuck schumer! donald trump is right behind you with a knife! donate!" you will be inundated with robocalls, and push polls and real polls, and people are gonna tell you to "rock the vote." "be the vote." "vote the vote." "fingerbang the vote!" it will all make you feel like tuesday, november 5th is the only day that matters, and it does matter, but man, november 68 nothing to sneeze at or november 7th. if your guy loses, the bad things might happen. but if your guy wins, the country is no safe. i've learned one thing is over these last nine years -- and i was glib at best and probably dismissive at worst about this. the work of making this world resemble one that you would

prefer to live in is a lunch pail [bleep] job. day in, day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen, and grind away on issues until they get a positive result, and even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds. so the good news is, i am not saying you don't have to worry about who wins the election. i am saying, you have to worry about every day before it and every day after. forever. [cheers and applause] although, on the plus side, i am told that at some point, the sun will run out of hydrogen. when we come back, we will have

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desi, welcome. michael, welcome. [cheers and applause] desi, i will start with you. where will you two be reporting from this election season? >> jon, i'm going to be spending the next nine months here in a michigan diner, because diners are where real americans eat. the people are good to come of the menus are sticky, and the chickens have fingers. >> and i'll be in the same diner as desi, but the realer part of the diner. not the booth section, with all the coastal elite democrats and their fancy back support. i'll be spending the campaign at the counter with the trump voters, because realer americans want to sit at the bar stool on their coats. jon? >> jon: michael, what do trump voters think about this election? >> they're excited for president trump to win the presidency a third time and enact his agenda. >> jon: the border wall, tariffs, that's what they're excited for? >> no, i would say the vengeance. total and utter vengeance. one woman i met, irene, retired

nurse, she said she hopes that trump will, quote, "split the skies and rain fire upon the states of blue, his terrible blade sundering his enemies until nature herself bows before his dominion and his name is carved upon the moon." >> jon: is there also enthusiasm on the democratic side, desi? >> the democrats are pumped for joe biden. whether it's this joe biden, or maybe someone else who changes their name to "joe biden." the point is, everyone is excited and no one is crying in a bathroom. >> jon: sounds like things are going very well -- >> yoo-hoo! jon! over here! >> jon: oh, it's dulce sloan! dulce! [cheers and applause] dulce, it looks like you're outside. why aren't you inside the diner asking people what they think? >> i know what they think.

it's what everybody thinks: this is the same shit all over again. it's just a reboot! we need more than just the same show with an older, yet familiar face. [cheers and applause] >> jon: you mean -- you are talking about the two candidates -- >> yeah! yeah, i mean, they already had this job. now these old white dudes got to come back and reclaim it? like, come on, sir, go do something new. don't be so desperate. like, let someone else run the show! >> jon: we're talking about the

election, right? >> i said what i said. [cheers and applause] >> jon, jon, i disagree. you won't find a single republican who will say they don't want to vote for trump. now, is that because they're afraid of being murdered by other trump voters? yes, but being afraid is a form of excitement. >> yeah. same here, jon, the democrats here can't wait to show their joe biden support with these great campaign shirts. >> jon: desi, his name is velcroed onto that shirt. >> no. >> jon: what is underneath the name, desi? [laughter and applause] >> jon: so they want taylor swift to jump into the race? >> no. no. why, has she said something to you?

>> jon: thank you so much. it's going to be a great campaign. is that ronny chieng behind you? [cheers and applause] >> hey, jon. >> jon: haiti, ronny, great to see you are on the campaign trail. what do you got? >> i got potato skins, jon. just way i like them: still frozen in the middle. back to you, jon. >> jon: ronny, but what about the people there? [cheers and applause] what about the people there? what are their beliefs, their positions? >> what are you [bleep] talking about? [coughing] their position is hunched over their plates, eating! this is a diner. okay? people come here to eat. and sometimes take a quick bath in the sink.

[laughter and cheering] >> jon: ronny, get back over here. walk back over here! you are there to get a story. ask someone a question! >> anyone want those fries? >> jon: ronny chieng, everybody. give it up one more time for the best [bleep] news team! [cheers and applause] you know something, if i can just say this, when one considers the election -- >> [slow clapping] bravo, jon, bravo. brav-fricking-oh. >> jon: well, well, well. it is jordan klepper, everybody. i didn't see you there, you must have snuck up on me. shouldn't you be out somewhere talking to insurrectionist and a parking lot? >> oh, biting, jon. biting. you must be so proud of yourself, with all these little satirical bits, exposing the absurdities of our political process.

>> jon: well, it was fun. we had a fun day. >> i bet it was. did you save democracy yet? >> jon: no, i didn't. >> with your '90s brand of snark and both-siderisms? ooh, george bush is dumb! al gore is so boring! wow, searing, jon! >> jon: i wasn't really trying to save democracy. i was just trying to -- >> all you do is brainwash voters into accepting a corrosive status quo, when they could be out marching in the streets to affect change! frankly, you disgust me. >> jon: i can tell that from the tone of your voice. but you know, i'm only here once a week. seriously. what do you want for me? >> wait, you're only hosting one day a week? >> jon: yeah. >> who was hosting the show the other days of the week? >> jon: the newest team. in fact, you are the host this whole week after i leave. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, that is you.

[cheers and applause] >> [laughs] it is great having you back, buddy! this is gonna be so much fun! what we are doing here is important, jon. i can't wait to change the world with you, my friend. >> jon: thanks very much. really nice to see you. [cheers and applause] jordan klepper, everyone. when we come back, we will be joined by zanny minton beddoes. don't go away. [cheers and applause] ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one card. chase freedom unlimited. so, if you're off the racking... ...or crab cracking, you're cashbacking. cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or tacos at the taco shack. nah, i'm working on my six pack.

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the chair is moved. i hope you are all right. >> i am all right. >> jon: we almost killed jimmy carter. he almost moved all the way back. >> it swivels this way. >> jon: it doesn't swivel. "the economist," this is your magazine. we have it. we brought it. [applause] and it's got a post-it note in there. >> the right page i need to look at? >> jon: i thought there was a centerfold that wasn't there. welcome to the show, though. we very much appreciate it. i wanted to ask you, you know, "the economist" wrote about some of joe biden's issues a year ago. you wrote, is he going to be up for the job in a second term? what were the concerns that you guys had then? >> so we were, after the midterms, that he should not stand for a second term. and, you know, when he came in, he was hoping to be -- he said pretty much that he wanted to be a one-term president. he was a grown-up.

>> jon: he was the bridge candidate. >> he was the bridge candidate. >> jon: he didn't say which bridge. it was one of those bridges in florida that go 30 miles. >> absolutely. i think after the midterms, we thought it was time for him to kind of make that -- he would have been, had he said he was going to be a one-term president, he would have been a remarkable one-term president. he has achieved an unbelievable amount for one term. but now, we are where we are here, and huge majorities at the american people, including huge majorities of democrats think he is too old for a second term. it is really alarming that the only person, between us and the return of donald trump, is a frail 81-year-old. >> jon: it sounds like baltimore it. "the return of donald trump." >> it really worries me. it may be a little weird. for those of us outside the u.s. -- >> jon: if you said come i had a remarkable first term, what is to say i won't have a remarkable second term? >> he is 81 years old. >> jon: what?

>> he is the same age pretty much as my father. i love my father dearly. my father is a wonderful man. but my father should be nowhere near the most important job in the world. he probably never should have been. >> jon: he doesn't watch this thing, does he? does he watch? >> [laughs] this may be a little explanation. >> jon: sure. >> and 81-year-old, you know what they are like at 81, you know what they are like it 85. time travels one way and people go in one direction at that age. >> jon: why are you looking at me like that when you say that? that seemed awfully personal. >> as you said at the beginning of the show, you are a good 20 years younger. you have a long time still. >> jon: it is interesting. there is obviously a press pool, a white house press corps, there is a certain amount of mystery that seems to surround us. all the people behind the scenes are saying, you don't know like we know, he's leading these meetings, he is unbelievable. i wish he could see it. but certainly, there are press people to travel with the president. surely, i have not seen people

come out with first-hand accounts. >> well, first -- >> jon: or sad, i follow the president, i am with him every day, he is unbelievably sharp, he is just kind of -- whatever it is. but no one is making those. it makes it seem conspiratorial. >> yeah, and what is clear is it is quite hard to get access to this president. he has very carefully shepherded around. he doesn't do many press conferences. he doesn't do many interviews. i assume that is for a reason. i hear the same thing. he's very sharp, he talks for a long time, he can outlast anyone in a meeting. i am perfectly paired to believe that on some subjects, that is true. joe biden was a huge amount about foreign policy. he is exactly the right person to have in the oval office in the world as we have today. i'm sure uncertain things, he can go for hours and hours and hours. he could probably be in negotiation for a long time. what does that mean he should be president for another two terms? i think it is worrying. another term. >> jon: one term, yeah. the world order is changing.

and there is a part, you know, "the economist" is certainly, it does represent a certain mainstream point of view, or establishment. >> well, actually, interestingly, we stand for good, classic, english liberalism. is not the same at its american liberal which is a lefty. >> jon: am i going to get tested as the? >> little lesson. we believe in individual freedom, free markets, limited government, we have believed in that for a long time. for a long time, you are right. our view was kind of the mainstream view. reagan-as m, thatcherrism, clintonism, and now we are actually not that mainstream view. now -- >> jon: i should have said establishment, the status quo. >> we are not the establishment. now industrial policy, big state is intima protectionism is in. all matter of things that we traditionally did not believe in. our kind of liberalism i think is very much not the mainstream

view now. we are championing liberalism in the face of pretty concerted resistance to it and people going in different directions. the whole kind of trump assault -- in fact, this week's cover is going to be about this, almost certainly unless something dramatic happens -- which is about national conservatism. it is this idea which, the maga republicans have but also a bunch of conservatives in europe, viktor orban, italy, marine le pen in france, there are differences between them but they are united by an idea that they want to be anti-globalist, they are antitrade, they are very skeptical of migration, they want to push back about what they see a progressive, woke -- >> jon: would you say this is perhaps a new world order? >> they would love that. >> jon: they are the ones who always talk about how there is a conspiracy to create a new world order when you really look at it, they are the ones trying to -- they are shifting. there was an old paradigm, right? which was, america postwar

aligned itself with liberal europe against communism. that was the stability of the world since world war ii was capitalism versus communism. it looks like there appears to be a realignment along the lines of not capitalism and communism, but woke and unwoke. i know that sounds ridiculous but it is what ties putin to trump and orban to trump. when you listen to putin when he talks about orthodox christianity and antigay resident wow he sounds like an am radio host. >> absolutely. there are people in the republican party who warmed more to putin then to ukraine, for example. i think you are right. >> jon: i think all of them. >> not all of them. >> jon: mitch mcconnell but he just stops working every now and again. >> i think there is a really serious point. there was a complete -- one way of thinking about it as a maga takeover of the republican party

but another, i think there is something more profound going on. there is potentially kind of a revolution in conservatism, which may end up being as big as the kind of thatcher-reagan revolution which is taking a completely different direction -- >> jon: it is nativism but it is combined with this anti-woke-as in which almost seems to be the more powerful unifying theory then it is -- it used to be economic theories and now it is theories of social culture issues. >> identity, social culture, absolutely. i think that is definitely a fault line and the people you cite are definitely on one side of it. whether it is a new world order yet, i don't know. >> jon: we did not talk about nato. donald trump very famously came out and said, i would encourage russia -- this is years ago -- to attack them so they would pay their bills, as though the value of nato is and what they can contribute financially. what is your thought on? >> he sounded like a mobster, right. they got to pay, they got to

pay. >> jon: that's right. >> donald trump doesn't come i think, understand what the collective security is about. nato is about, basically, if you attack the smallest nato country, you are attacking america. that basic deal is understood by the soviet union and then by russia. that is why we haven't had an attack on nato. i think that is undermined by him basically saying it is a protectionist racket, which is weak. i don't think donald trump cares about alliances. the reason it is so disconcerting and worrying if you are in europe right now, this is happening at a time when vladimir putin has already done a full-scale invasion of ukraine. he is rearming much faster than europe. europe is a fundamentally more dangerous place. even with donald trump nowhere near the white house yet, him saying it right now is destabilizing. it makes him much more likely that putin, an aggressive dictator, you know, pushes further. at the same time, you have this aid for ukraine held up in this country. to be clear, aiding ukraine, giving the money to ukraine is

the cheapest possible way for the u.s. to enhance its security. it is just -- the fighting is being done by the ukrainians. they are the people who are being killed. the u.s. and europe are supplying them weapons. and in doing so, we are pushing back against putin. i mean, i've been to kyiv twice and lived there 30 years ago and you can't go there and think, this is a european country that is looking westward. for the u.s. to abandon it now, if it does, it is almost jaw-dropping. >> jon: the unfortunate part for ukraine seems to be that, it also holds a place in our culture war. i don't think there is any principled opposition from the right in terms of sending arms. there might be in terms of the amount or the money or some of those things. i think they are really caught in the idea that putin and orban and that a liberal order are their natural allies and so ukraine, they have to paint that

as nazified or utterly corrupt, as though russia is somehow fundamentally just this unbelievable valhalla. if russia doesn't have somewhere else, you great happens to hold a very strange place in this whole hole, illberal -- >> he holds grudges and he doesn't like volodymyr zelenskyy. there is a bunch of republicans who you might call old fashion isolationists. then there is a bunch of perfectly reasonable concerns about whether their money is being well spent, and there's plenty of corruption in ukraine,

whether it is all well spent. i are right. there are the dash let's call them the tucker carlson republi. who have a sense that there is somehow, putin is the hero and ukraine as the villain. which is sort of hard to get your head around but that does seem to be what they think. >> jon: i do think that is the world order that they would be pushing towards. but this gets back to journalism. in this country, it is all about the money and there is very little talk about, even after september 11th when article five was invoked and they came to our defense. >> the only time article five has been invoked. >> jon: it was for us. >> in defense of the united states. >> jon: it boils down to, as is a financial transaction gone awry or is this the valuable alliance that is kind of held together the world order? which, by the way, though, we have to be able to criticize what it did in iraq and all these other things. if we can talk honestly about it, we end up shutting down all the conversation. >> of course. i think there is discussion

about it. nato most of the time for most americans is not something that is probably top of mind. >> jon: i have not been to a party where it is not the first thing people talk about. >> you clearly moving serious circles. >> jon: i do. generally, you go in, it's a little nato talk and then a keg stand. thank you very much for being here. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> jon: ladies and gentlemen, zanny minton beddoes, ladies and gentlemen. we will be right back after this. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ you need t-mobile... ♪ ♪ home internet with 5g. ♪ wait! t-mobile has home internet? ♪ what a feeling! ♪

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