>> stephen: welcome to the report, good to have you with us. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. i have to say, and i don't believe that i of said this before, ladies and gentlemen, i think, i think-- i think that your song of love is so beautiful you could sing the dark lord's power right down. (cheers and applause) we're going to do it tonight. we're doing tonight. nation, i am back from spring break! (cheers and applause) is i want all of you to know i spent every minute of it working deep undercover at

the aruba senor frog to investigate whether they're so-called bottomless margaritas are in fact bottomless. well, folks, they are not. let me tell you, i hit rock bottom. any way, it's good to be back. i return to a pleasant surprise. my studio was not annexed by vladimir putin. not that it wouldn't be justified. i happen to know that we are russian dressing in our cat food in our refrigerator. more on that later. now folks, oh, hello there. give me one second. i just want to enjoy a little tasty slug of tobacco. hmmmm, hmmmm, please be seated. now, folks, hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm. i am detected notes of oak, leather and jawbone decay. i just wanted to add that to my jaw juice or as they call it in north carolina,

barbecue sauce. now folks, tobacco and barbecue are found in the 75th installment of my 434 part series better know a district. tonight north carolina's first, the fighting first! (cheers and applause) folks, the first district of north carolina includes duke university known for its school of engineering, advanced medical research and completely destroying your ncaa bracket. the first is also home to the town of new bern, the setting for nicholas sparks romantic novel the notebook which explains the motto your girlfriend made you come here. and who has the research-- to represent this district, the first has the highest percentage of black res didn'ts in north carolina so it is's no surprise it's prominent african-american congressman and civil rights leader gk butterfield. i sat down with

representative butterfield in his washington office. hey. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> what's happening? can someone tell me what's happening? is this the guy? >> this is him. >> you said he was black. >> i have been for 66 years. >> my mistake, i don't see race. >> we come in all shades, how about that. >> exactly. i really thought you were a white guy, my apologies. or congratulation, however you see t it is not for me to judge. >> i've faced it for 66 years, badge of honor. >> tell me about the filing first. >> 750,000 people, half african-american, half white, 24 opportunity county, 84 cities and towns. >> jazz leonard they will onuous monk is from your district. >> he is. >> you know that song of his that goes, you know-- you

know that one. >> no, but they will onuous monk was from rocky mountain, north carolina. nothing? >> no, but i love jazz. switching gears you voted on the-- at act correct. but according to this in court there isn't racism any more when it comes to voting. >> no, the supreme court said that things have changed. that we now live in a different political environment. >> right no racism-- racism. >> that was not the majority opinion. i challenge you on that. >> well, correct me if i'm wrong. the last five years we've had a president named barack obama who is a black man, okay.

no racism. >> no, you cannot extrapolate from the election of president barack obama that there is no racism in america. >> i just did. >> well, are you wrong. >> he's a black guy right. >> he is a black guy, evidently my black-dar is off today. >> president obama surprised the world. >> i was ready. >> yeah. all of us were. all of us progressive thinking people. >> all of us because none of us are racists. >> there is racism in america, to make no mistake about it. >> dow believe in fighting for minority rights. >> absolutely. >> what is the greatest minority in the united states right now, it's the top 1%. there is 1% of it. >> there are good people in the-- many of those are friends of mine. >> many of my friends are in the 1% but i wouldn't want your daughter dating them. >> i would love my daughter dating a 1%. >> yes. >> is she single. >> no, she's married. >> okay, so that's weird. >> well, that's-- let's move

on. >> obamacare. great or train wreck or the greatest train wreck. >> when the history of this period is written you will see the affordable care ago has been one of the most significant pieces of legislation that has ever been passed. >> did you know that obama was lying when he said you could keep your plan. >> president obama was not lying. >> if you like the plan you can keep your plan. >> are you telling the truth. >> the insurance companies are the ones who are dropping people. >> right. >> people cannot keep their plan. they like their plan and they cannot keep their plan. >> some policies of insurance may have increased in price. that's what is debating all about. people are saying my insurance went up. well now you have an insurance policy that meets your needs and the needs of your family. >> even though some come along to harvest your kidney without your permission. >> i done know about harvesting your kidney. >> that could happen. hundreds of thousands of people. happened to a buddy of my cousin, he woked up, and

they had taken one of his kidneys. and the mirror lipstick said welcome to obamacare. >> people want the affordable care act. >> it is obama care they don't like. >> it's the same. >> we'll just agree to disagree. >> the first district is made up largely of tobacco farmerses. is that true. >> that is correct. >> but you said you would be open to a preschool initiative that raises the price of cigarettes by 94 cents. do really think preschoolers could afford to pay that much for their cigarettes. >> are you open to a-- that would be paid for by raising the prices of cigarettes by 94 cents. >> that's different. >> i think that is exactly the same. >> i misunderstood you when you first said it. >> i accept your apology. >> we've-- no question about it. >> on the backs of kindergartener and prek without can no longary ford

cigarettes. >> now you have turned it around again. >> i'm asking you why you are charging preschoolers so much for cigarettes. they can barely afford it now. >> those who smoke cigarettes can afford to pay a little more to help us invest in education. >> even a six-year-old. >> six-year-olds don't smoke. >> not even in north carolina. >> not even in north carolina. >> now i am from south carolina. i know there is a lot of rivalry between our two states. let's see how much of a connoisseur of barbecue you are. i have a plate here of south carolina barbecue and a plate of north carolina barbecue. and see if you can tell which one is which. okay? >> some people would call this pulled pork. >> yes. >> it's not a chopped barbecue. i don't know what that is. >> that's as close as we could get to north car line barr bq. with -- >> that's disgusting. >> i agree. there it is, you believe north carolina barbecue is disgusting. congressman, thank you so much for talking with me today. >> thank you, stephen.

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families first in the most appropriate manner, via text message. yes. text message. because snapchat would be insensitive. now because malaysia radar system appears to be a jail broken iphone attached to a dream catcher, there was very little information to report last week but i'm happy to say that did not stop my colleagues in the 24 hour news game from yanking theories out of their ass-dar. jim? >> one theory is it flew in the shadow of another plane and so on the radar it was picked up just as one moving object. >> i think this is a well-funded high-tech hijack operation and it's sitting somewhere in the jungle. >> my favorite theory, the 5% theory is that because of some secret passenger with some secret cargo, the aircraft was hijacked and landed someplace. >> the answers just run out. >> that is the theory of the zombie plane. >> i really don't like the term zombie play, than

connotes a sinister aspect to it i prefer to call it a ghost plane. >> another theory getting tons of attention focus on the bizarre new miracle coincidences, for example,s the flight number 370. the flight disappeared on the third month, 7th day of the year, and malaysia airline flies nearly 37,000 passengers every day. >> that's right. flight 370 disappeared in month three on day seven which has zero significance. (laughter) coincidence? coincidence? i think not. also not thinking, cnn's don lemon. >> who distinguished himself with an unparalleled orgy of time killing speculation like this. >> it was something fully that we don't really understand. a lot of people have been asking about that, about black holes and on and on

and on and all these conspiracy theories. one says what else can you think about, black holes, bermuda triangle. just like the movie lost that is what people are saying. i know is preposterous. but is it preposterous do you think. >> well, black hole, a small black hole would suck in our entire universe so we know it's not that. bermuda triangle is also weather and lost say tv show. >> yes. lost say tv show with no foundation in reality, unlike don lemon tv show which is firmly grounded in anonymous tweets. but don isn't the only one willing to ask the hard to believe questions. >> why hasn't anyone considered the services of a credible psychic specializing in missing persons. it sounds incredible but they have been used before. >> in the past governments have used psychics. >> they do use psychics but it's highly unlikely. it's not really a credible

source. psychics can't be subjective. i don't think in this case they would use a psychic. >> no, no, cnn headline news would never reach out to psychic. >> joining us lisa williams, a psychic medium. >> wow! >> i, i got to tell you, si did not see that coming. i mean you would have to be some kind of psychic. >> lisa, i'll start with you. you know your theory here is that this plane landed somewhere, some of the passengers still alive. the copilot was involved. >> naturally i don't actually have hard concrete evidence. and i think the only psychic who has hard concrete evident can't do their job correctly because they get misinformed. they get interpreted and now just they'll just work on what they know. so i tend work work off what i don't know. (laughter) >> she works off-- she works off what she doesn't know. what business does she have being a guest on cable news.

she should be a host on cable news. and folks, she might-- she might soon because cnn's malaysian flight coverage doubled their ratings among viewers between ages 25 and 54, which do a lot of criticism from the folks at fox news which still leaves the ratings in viewers age 25 plus 54. and those kind of ratings they get those ratings because fox did not engage in wild speculation. they engaged in hard facts. >> so it took us what, 100 years to find the titanic toochblingt them 2,000 years to find noah's arc do. we ever find flight 370. >> i think-- . >> stephen: yeah, we all remember where we were when they found noah's arc. over there where they found it, you know. that big-- remember when they covered-- huge story! and folks, phil hammer knows how tough a search like this

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>> welcome back, my guest tonight is a multiple emmy award-winning acter who is now appearing on broadway. if the show is a hit he might get a tv show out of it. please welcome bryan cranston! hi, bryan, good to see you,

thanks for coming back. >> my pleasure, my pleasure. good to see you. >> stephen: i have not seen you. good to you have back. i have not seen you since you and i roller discoed together for the daft punk video. >> i know. >> stephen: everybody knows you were hall in malcolm in the middle. walter white breaking bad! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: they remembered. months later, they still remember. >> thank god, yes. >> stephen: but now you're playing an even more challenging character. you're playing ldj, lyndon baines johnson on broadway at the neil simon theatre, all the way. >> yeah. >> stephen: opened saw it a week ago friday. >> what did you think. >> stephen: tremendous. no roller disco. >> i was pitching for that, they said no. >> stephen: why do a play after being a huge tv star? >> it's all about the writing and the character. this character is shakespearian, he's like king lear, he's huge. >> stephen: he's president. >> he's president lear.

he's like the "godzilla" of presidents. >> stephen: right. i really believed you at lbj. when you came out for your curtain calls, you know, the lights went down after you say your final line, the lights came back up and suddenly you're brian cranston. what are you doing to yourself on stage to make yourself lbj? >> are you like, are you like your posture is different, your face is different, are you acting? >>. >> yeah, i'm-- you know, over the course of rehearsal you take in his character. you see and you talk and you just absorb who this guy is. and you listen to the tapes that he made and you watch his mannerisms. and you don't want to do an impersonation but you want to get an essence of him, a flavor of him so i always know that when i'm ready to perform is when that character ceases to be outside of me and is

welcomed inside, so to speak. you know what i mean? you act. >> stephen: no, i don't. >> yes. >> stephen: i don't understand. i don't understand at all. but this is pretty big this is a pretty big character. was lbj really, this larger-than-life figure that you are portraying him as because he was saying to the head of hanger black a zipper should always be at least an inch of away from the back of your -- >> he had a pet name for his johnson, his johnson's johnson. he called it jumbo. and apparently it was aptly named. >> stephen: really? >> yeah. >> stephen: could he pick up peanuts with it. not enough-- not enough presidents talk about their balls. >> no, i know, i know. >> stephen: this guy literally would grab his nut sack when he was eating. >> he would grab his nut

sack, take a crap in front of people. we bring them from the oval office into the private bathroom, drop his drawers and take a crap. >> stephen: do you think obama could get more legislation passed if he would just drop it in front of boehner. just pinched one off. >> that's got to be the title of one of his memoirs, dropping a deuce in front of boehner. >> stephen: why did johnson care some of. the play takes place from 1963, november of '63 after the assassination of president kennedy to november of '64 when johnson is re-elected, spoiler alert. and it's really about him driving through the civil rights legislation. why did it matter to him? he's a guy from texas which is not a great state for civil rights. >> no. >> stephen: why do you think he drove this so much. did that surprise you? >> it did surprise a lot of people. when he was freshly out of college, a year out of teacher's college in texas, small teachers college. the job he could get was at

this little tiny elementary school in catoola texas where he taught first grade to these little migrant farm worker kids. who didn't speak english. but and didn't have a penny to their name. but they were so eager to learn and they listened and he loved these kids. and he witnessed how they were mistreated by the white predominant people in the community. and it affected him deeply. >> stephen: as i said you were hal in malcolm in the middle and white in breaking bat. -- bad, is johnson loser to hal or white, you had to put him on a continuum because there is a range there. >> well, hal and walter were both tighty whitey guys. johnson is a commando man. >> stephen: yes. is there any-- (applause)

that's heavy. was there any-- was there any, you know, people know you from walter white and love it, was there any temptation to put a little walter white in this play. >> god, i hope not. >> stephen: you could have made hubert humphrey jesse -- >> you know. >> stephen: i wouldn't mind having him yell to the speaker of the house, that's how you pass legislation, bitch! thank you so much. bryan canstron to, all the way on broadway g see it

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news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. [cheers and applause] that's a fact. thank you for joining us. our guest tonight oh, she puts the huff in huffpo. awr -- arianna huffington. tonight the malaysian flight seems to have shown the worst. >> a jumbo jet carrying 239 people. we're doing everything we can to get as many detail as possible from the sources around the world. >> jon: the accurate and humble assessment from cnn until