thank you, ladies and gentlemen. it's so lovely to have you here. foarks we have so many stories that we've got to cover tonight, and it's foreign let you know there is so much news breaking right now. for instance, u-s-a, u-s-a, u-s-a, u-s-a! and if you thought i wasn't going to lead off tonight with patriotic chance and correspondent: you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong! thank you. last week i may have seemed excited about team u.s.a.'s world cup win over ghana, but that's because i thought it was over and we had won the world cup. well, news flash, there is more to the world than us and ghana. [laughter] i have some terrible news, folks. i don't know how the say this, but i care about soccer.

[whistles] that's a foul on futbol for using its hands to grab my heart. i even learned all the words to that oleé song. you know, oleé, olee, oleé, ole. oleé, something, something, ole. it's a good song. this weekend i even watched an entire game of soccerring. it was the u.s. versus our ancient rival portugal, a.k.a. speech impediment spain. [laughter] now, the portuguese... [cheering and applause] yeah. the portuguese struck first with a goal five minutes into the match. but if history has taught us anything about the portuguese, folks, it's that they eat a lot of squid, and they peak early. [laughter] don't worry, guys, i hear the spice trade is going to come

back real soon. [laughter] so team u.s.a. came storming back, first with jermaine jones pulling team u.s.a. even with his foot. [cheering and applause] then team captain clint dempsey put us ahead with his balls, i believe. all we had to do, all we had to do was hold on the our lead, using only our feet, and it should have been easy because portugal's best player and guy who makes ken jealous, cristiano ronaldo, had been a sexy shadow of his former self. >> it's not happening for him at that world cup. i'm not sure how fit he really is. >> stephen: me either. i bet if he took off his shirt, only the female fans would have ovulated. no, sorry, i think i just dropped an egg just now. so there we were, time nearly expired, and there was old man

ronaldo lumbering down the sideline and, oh, my gosh, no! no! [audience booing] i was hoping it wouldn't happen this time. of course, i was not alone in my sports grief. i'm going to roll some footage of american fans chanting "i believe that we will win." i want you to see if you can spot the moment when portugal scores. crowd: i believe that we will win. i believe that we will win. [laughter] [cheering and applause] >> stephen: it's subtle but it's there. by the way, any boy scout will tell you, that is the proper way to slam the american flag to the ground in anger. take heart, nation. team u.s.a.'s world cup hopes

are still alive because we play group "g" co-leader germany on thursday. these standings make one thing clear: we're number one, as long as we beat germany. also we could tie them. we'd still get through on points. and we can even lose, but then it comes down math. if portugal beats gaw by less than five goals or ghana beats portugal by only one goal, then we advance on goal differential. they we even tie. that would still work. u-s-a? [cheering and applause] [audience chanting u-s-a] >> stephen: u-s-a, u-s-a. you heard them, nation, so soccer guys, go out there thursday and do whatever is the equivalent of soccer winning. [cheering and applause]

folks... [whistles] folks, president obama's iraq continues to descend into chaos. i don't know why they elected that guy. [laughter] the terrorist group isis is spreading all over iraq like some sort of fundamentalist humus. [laughter] and true defense hawks like me know what needs to be done. >> air strikes turn around the ability for an al qaeda army to march and gain more safe havens. >> we should cut off isis' axis. that involves air power. >> air strikes could be a big, key part. >> it's important that we do make air strikes. >> send some air power. send some air power with targets we can identify. >> stephen: yes, we must send some air power on targets we can identify. for some reason all of iraq's good targets are already rubble. well, folks, a crisis likes this demands action from a strong,

decisive leader with a clear vision. but i'm busy, so it will have to be barack obama. >> we're prepared to send small number of additional american military advisers, up to 300. american forces will not be returning to combat in iraq. >> stephen: loud and clear, sir. these are advisers, not combat troops. big difference. a combat troop shoots a guy. but an adviser shoots a guy and then says, see, that's how i would advise you to shoot a guy. [laughter] of course, our military adviser program in vietnam was one of moirs successful ever in that it went on the longest. it started with fewer than 1,000 military advisers sent by president eisenhower and grew to more than 500,000 americans fighting in vietnam by 1968. the adviser program went so well they eventually had to hold a victory party on the roof of the u.s. embassy. i got ask, though, is... you

weren't invited. is that why you're... it was a good idea. all those advisers were great idea in vietnam. i go to ask, though, is 300 enough? >> i am underwhelmed by the 300. it is not a strong showing of support. >> the solution that he laid out struck me as woefully inadequate. >> how on earth are 300 military advisers from the u.s. going to make a difference? >> stephen: yes. after all, how much can 300 soldiers do. [cheering and applause] well, i got to say, that part feels right. since iraq appears to be something of a bottomless pit, but i don't know what these advisers are going to do. here to tell me what these advisers are going to do is national security correspondent for "the new york times" and author of "the way of the knife" mark mazzetti. mark, thank you so much for

coming back. [cheering and applause] here's the book, "the way of the knife." go get it. president obama says he's sending in 300 advisers. what classically is an american adviser? >> mostly what they do is mostly u.s. special operations troops. they will do training for foreign armies. steep delta force rangers, navy seals. >> army green berets. that's their classic mission, doing this kind of advising. >> stephen: what kind of advice are we talking about? are we saying, guys, i would not wear that shirt with those pants? what advice is need? >> obama said they're not going back into combat. we'll see what ultimately happen, but for now they will be more in protected areas, mostly looking at intelligence, ablizing intelligence. >> stephen: is that for us or is the intelligence they're gathering going to be given to the iraqis? >> it will be given to the iraqis. it could be used for air

strikes, drone strikes, things the obama administration ultimately orders. he apparently hasn't made that decision yet, but that's one reason for having american troops go in and look at the intelligence and possibly pick out targets for the future. steve utash if you could have the president's ear, what would you tell him to do? hold on one second. i know he watches the show. mr. president, take me off mute for a second. okay. take me off mute. okay. [cheering and applause] is 300 going to be enough to do that job? >> well, if the job is to stop a civil war in iraq... >> stephen: what other job is there here? what other job is there? >> they would potentially be able to blunt the advance of this group isis as it moves toward baghdad. that may be the best they could do is stop the advance on baghdad. maybe hit troop positions of isis. but isis is now in the cities. they are spread out around especially the northern part of iraq, so it's not as if air

strikes are this panacea where you can see masked armies. they're now mixed with the population. it's not as easy as saying, let's have air strikes. >> stephen: should obama have sent advisers earlier, more north at all? and remember, whatever you think the answer, is he's wrong. >> just... isis was... the answer is it's not easy to criticize the president. basically it's hard to imagine if sending advisers much earlier would have kept isis from doing what it has done. take mosul. take some of the cities in the north. >> do you think this is... obviously you don't have the president's ear. but would you imagine that this is the first... would you imagine this is the first 300, you know, advisers? could we eventually be advising them from aircraft carriers or advising them from... you know,

could we be carpet advising them or advising them with some sort of motorized vehicle with lots of armor on front. >> advising can mean a lot of things. every fiber of obama's body is probably saying, i'm not going to escalate back into iraq. his foreign policy legacy is he ended involvement in iraq. >> stephen: evidently no. >> evidently no. we're going back inch it's hard to imagine seeing massive escalation of the military. >> stephen: hold on one second. no, that was easy. thank you, mark. mark mazzetti. "new york times" national security correspondent mark mass masms we'll be right back. [♪ upbeat instrumental ♪]

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folks, you know, i'll tell you, folks, as a millennial, i always keep up with the latest hashtag memes from the at internet dot app. for instance, have you seen the iraqi spokesman whose name is saad maan? it's funny because the situation there is traagaac. but there's another star blowing up the inner tubes right now, and his name is jeremy meeks. and he's your classic bad boy. in that police in stockton, california, believe him to be quite dangerous. >> man in northern california will be formally charged today in a weapons case, but that is not why he's getting all this attention. look at this face. >> meet jeremy meeks. his mugshot has gone viral. all over facebook and all over the world. on stockton's page, more than 24,000 likes and more than. 6,000 comments. vanessa vieira writing, "if this

guy broke into my house,'d make him forget why he broke in, in 30 seconds. lol." another person wrote, "i've got 50 shades on him. oh, god, yes." >> stephen: just look at him, that jaw line, those baby blues. gun to my head, i believe that's what he's in for. folks, meeks' fans see him as more than a pretty face. they believe he has the skills to turn around his life using his pretty face. with comments like get an agent in training. i want to see you in the movies. and he should be freed and modeling somewhere, yet he could be making a meaningful contribution to society like walking back and forth on an elevated platform, looking bored about his cape. [laughter] and the internet is already laying the groundwork for his future career by photoshoping him into ads for dolce & gabbana, calvin klein and hugo boss, a tactic that so far has

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>> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight wrote the book about kids with cancer falling in love. it's a perfect summer beach wheelchair. please welcome john green. hey, mr. green, thank you for coming only pi >> my pleasure. thank you for having me here. >> stephen: people are very excited to have you here. [cheering and applause] for those few people who may not know, you're the author of "looking for alaska," "paper towns" and "the fault in our stars," which has spent over 130 weeks on "the new york times" bestseller list and a movie released on june 6th kicking all kinds of ass. it really is. now, i... when i first heard "fault in our stars," i assumed it was about aliens who come down to earth with some sort of ray gun that makes teenagers

cry. >> yeah. that's part of it. >> stephen: but i have found out since then it's the story of two teenagers with cancer who fall in love. >> yeah, it's the story of two kids who meet at support group. they fall in love. they also fall in love with a book and that want to meet the author of that book. it's story of their coming together and being in love even though they're both quite sick. >> stephen: how did you come up with the idea? did you just take the saddest things you can think of and then just put them on pieces of paper and put it in the most depressing hat imaginable? pull them out and do it like magnetic poetry? why make us cry so hard? >> well, i also made myself cry a lot. steep did you crying making it? >> of course. i would go into starbucks at like 7:30 and open up my computer and begin to weep. then four hours later i would close my computer and go into my office. and i'm sure the baristas thought i was bananas.

i cried a lot writing it. i was really good friends with a young woman named esther, to whom the book is dedicated. esther died of cancer in august 2010 when she was 16. a lot of the book was written in a furious period of grief after her death. so it was just something i couldn't not write. it is usually the most fun kind of writing, but in this case it was also the most sad. >> stephen: well, this has been called a "young adult novel." how do you feel about that term, "young adult novel" because as far as i can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read. [laughter] >> yeah. steep because it seems like when you call something a young adult model, there's a ghettoization. >> there's also that connotation, oh, i might like reading it. i love being a pop writer. i want to stay one.

>> stephen: you're more than a pop writer. you're a multimedia pop artist because you also have something called the blog brothers you do with your brother. what's his name? >> hank. >> and you have a youtube channel. >> just one person. >> stephen: exactly. i think that might have been hank. not out of the question. over 200 million views. what do you want to do on the blog brothers that you can't do in a book? >> well, books take years and years to write. it's like a really long game of marco polo where you're in your basement saying marco, marco, marco, marco, and it's not for like four years that someone says polo. >> stephen: and you do it with your eyes closed. whereas with youtube and the internet, you can connect to people immediately. you can also do bigger community projects. we have a non-profit project called the project for awesome where every december we raise money for charity, and we have lots and lots of projects, building wells in haiti and bangladesh, and that's stuff books can't do.

>> >> stephen: are you a cult leader? there are young people who really would just hurl themselves off a cliff for you if at the bottom they could dig a well in haiti. >> i hope you won't mind if i answer your question with a question, which is: are you a cult lead center [cheering and applause] [audience chanting "stephen"] >> stephen: tell you what, if you have some time, come out to the compound this weekend. [laughter] we'll set you up with a child bride. >> i've been itching for an invite. i'm so grateful. >> stephen: have you seen the movie? >> yeah, i've seen it dozens of times. >> stephen: really? >> i love the movie. i sneak into theaters and watch it. it makes me sad, i cry a lot, but it fills me up and makes me joyful to watch other people cry at something i made. [laughter] >> stephen: can you not afford

a ticket to a movie? you really have to sneak in? >> no, i pay. i sneak in and sit in the back row. >> stephen: just wanted to make sure. i know novels don't pay what they used. to >> no, it's okay. >> stephen: thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> stephen: john green, the fault in our stars. the book and there's a movie. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] really... so our business can be on at&t's network

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steep that's it for "the report," everybody. good night. captioning sponsorey comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. we have a good show tonight. our guest tonight, the great bill maher. bill maher will be joining us. [cheering and applause] but first, we turn to the middle east, where a group of sunni islamist militants have formed nation start-up looking to gain market share in iraq.

the group is called isis, not to be confused with their early '90s incarnation, vanilla isis. [laughter] anyway, the iraqi government has now had a couple tweaks respond to the rebels' incursion. we should be getting news of the iraqi government's triumph right about now. >> isis militants control the borderrary with syria, the border area with jordan and pretty much everything in between. >> jon: right about now. [laughter] wait! did you just blow past everything in between. did you just yadda, yadda the invasion? yeah, isis came in from syria, started sweeping east, yadda, yadda, yadda, the u.n. now recognizes the islamic republic of isis. isis running an entire country, it seems like fun, guys, but i think you're going to learn,