stewart. good guests tonight. tonight john ronson author of the psychopath test. i hope i pass. i'm going to tell you the deal. this is the deal. i'm going to break it down for you. last friday the bin laden story breaks from pakistan. that has everything. all the elements of a blow-out monday daily show. >> nbc news can now confirm that a stash of pornography was found inside the terror leaders lair. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: first of all nbc news can now confirm? nbc news can now confirm what we originally thought to be pictures of naked people wrestling. in fact, there was some talk in our morning editorial meeting as to whether or not it should be classified as erotica and then we saw a picture of a woman (beep) a horse. so we believe that at 1:12 p.m. eastern standard time this be straight-up porn. what a story! even before navy seals shot out his eyes, osama bin laden was probably going blind anyway. ( cheers and applause ) you like that, right? we came up with a bunch of them. this one is one of my favorites. come on! that's classy. anyway obviously we're extremely

my name is john stewart, and i'm here to support the treasure island project enthusiastically. our company became involved

my name is john stewart, and i'm here to support the treasure island project enthusiastically. our company became involved in 1999 at treasure island when it was empty. we entered into a leasehold agreement at the time and invested $10 million in the moderate rehab of the navy units at that time. the youth -- the use is interim, not permanent. we now have approximately 1,000 residents that are still on our lease out there. treasure eeled has a particular fond spot in my heart, because would like to see its reincarnation in a positive way. i'm dating myself, so don't do any mental arithmetic. we have been working with a firm for many years w

my name is john stewart, and i'm here to support the treasure island project enthusiastically. our company became involved in 1999 at treasure island when it was empty. we entered into a leasehold agreement at the time and invested $10 million in the moderate rehab of the navy units at that time. the youth -- the use is interim, not permanent. we now have approximately 1,000 residents that are still on our lease out there. treasure eeled has a particular fond spot in my heart, because would like to see its reincarnation in a positive way. i'm dating myself, so don't do any mental arithmetic. we have been working with a firm for many years now and they've been transparent, very direct, very thorough, very professional in the transition plan. and in the course of that involvement, as we segue from our interim lease, which originally had 650 residents, now has 400 and some odd leases. we've looked at their plan fairly carefully, and i have three comments. one pertains to the use of public transportation. so we have, i would offer, some empirical data on who uses public transportat

and someone gave a copy to tommy kail, some mutual friends, john mailer and neil stewart. >> hinojosa: john mailer being the son of norman mailer. >> yes, and... and so he had two years with this cast album that i'd recorded, and he'd listened to it over and over. and so, you know, he... he said to me, "hi, we've just met but your third song needs to be first." ( laughing ) and luckily, you know, i think any young writer gets very precious about their material, but since it had... i'd had two year's distance on it i was like, "well, those are good ideas; what else do you have?" and that was the beginning of the process. >> hinojosa: the ability, though, to trust broadway to take this show-- well, off-broadway at first, right? >> oh, well, before that a basement in a bookshop. i mean, that's where.. >> hinojosa: that you would go to after... >> ...that's where tommy kail and i met. i mean, there were... it was literally a storeroom that they converted into a black box theater. it was being painted when we met in that basement. so this was not, "trust me to take it to broadway," this wa

that the classical liberal, social political stance, one that one associates with john locke, john stewart mil, thomas jefferson is the sound position to take on political issues. as to ethics and ascetics and so on, that's another story. if you were talking about politics which is what most folks are interested from academic philosophers. what position do you hold on the first amendment? interstate commerce clause? whether one should be able to tell people how do they behave right and wrong and all of that stuff. that's what they want to know. there i think i can even be called a libertarian or classical liberal. >> who in american politics today most closely aligned with your point of view? >> very few. >> very few? >> guest: there are some people who's views in general match mine. and i would say that ron paul would be one of them. rand paul would be one of them. but when it comes down to detailed public policy matters, foreign policy issues, meetly, you start finding differences. and it's difficult to align yourself to anybody there because some of us think those things through in grea

sergei severnov, zack stewart and john tamen. go ahead. >> thanks. my name is ellen dudley. it's ironic the following suggestion i have is already in my prepared remarks before we were limited to what is n. my opinion, a ludicrous one minute to collect a coherent thought to share with you. so i will proceed anyway. applicants should be allowed up to five minutes per speaker or up to one hour per application, with the possibility to petition for additional time if needed. and such petitions should not be unreasonablely denied. commissions and boards should be under mandate to strongly consider the opinion of the majority of the neighbors of a project and every effort should be made to work with an applicant to reach a mutually acceptable solution. i also believe decisions of the board of appeals be based on the simple and not a super majority. you have a chance to be on the right side of history on all of these issues and i certainly wish you well in getting there. i would like to end with a final thought. i would be interested from hearing your points of view what the salien

so it was a big surprise to me when people lie whoopi goldberg, john stewart, and even sarah palin on the far right, agreed that what had taken place was really out of bounds. since this controversy broke, and i have told you, people everywhere say to me, you know, i understand what it is to feel that you cannot speak in this country today, and tell me that they feel that there is too much coated speech, political correctness, and it is being enforced by -- well, and forced by political parties, enforced by lobbying groups, by advocacy groups, political correctness that is used to enforce identity, a group identity in this country. it is used to raise money. of course, it is used by donors and advertisers. and therefore, people in the middle -- let me remind you, most americans did not identify as conservative or liberal. that identifies people in the middle. they have thoughts that very about different issues. and they find that, you know what, to be in the middle is often to feel as if you have no voice. you're not allowed to express reservations, concerns, worry that you have misun

stewart said it's because he's buying diamond wedding rings in bulk. >> is that fair? >> it's a story people will remember. we need to have some fun in politics. >> he's what happened to newt john. >> on the bill? >> tiffany's, i think that's been paid. but look, here's what happened to newt. he saw the polls showing that the medicare proposal is unpopular and he goes on television and he trashes the position. 235 republicans have put healths on the line for and -- themselves on the line for and then knocks the individual mandate which they are trying to get repealed. he said that's a pretty good idea. i've never seen a candidate have a worse opening week from a campaign. >> his campaign imploded before it began and i think he was playing to the crowds in iowa. he knew the seniors in iowa are opposed to this -- to the way ryan radical program is going to undermine -- >> what about the crowds across the united states? they don't want medicare -- >> that's right, sure and i think newt correctly sensed that and i think eleanor is right. >> do you think that -- >> is radical unless the plan serves as the beginning of a serious >>> that day, gingrich faced this uncomplimentary sugge

stewart said it's because he's buying diamond wedding rings in bulk. >> is that fair? >> it's a story people will remember. we need to have some fun in politics. >> he's what happened to newt john. >> on the bill? >> tiffany's, i think that's been paid. but look, here's what happened to newt. he saw the polls showing that the medicare proposal is unpopular and he goes on television and he trashes the position. 235 republicans have put healths on the line for and -- themselves on the line for and then knocks the individual mandate which they are trying to get repealed. he said that's a pretty good idea. i've never seen a candidate have a worse opening week from a campaign. >> his campaign imploded before it began and i think he was playing to the crowds in iowa. he knew the seniors in iowa are opposed to this -- to the way ryan radical program is going to undermine -- >> what about the crowds across the united states? they don't want medicare -- >> that's right, sure and i think newt correctly sensed that and i think eleanor is right. >> do you think that -- >> is radical unless the plan serves as the beginning of a serious >>> that day, gingrich faced this uncomplimentary sugge

john hunt and, unfortunately, he might be a bit too boring. >> next we are going to go to stewart florida. >> i am a geologist and this is the first republican i have listened to has not been so anti-barack obama. it is really sad, because i think a man like this, who obama chose to go to china because of his knowledge of the language will never get past this sentiment. he said to me, and that is, this country needs to be unified for our grandchildren. >> next we will hear from chris in concord new hampshire. what did you hear today? >> i was not impressed at all. it if you look at crowd size, it does not seem like he is attracting anybody. he is half an hour from where i am and i never heard he was going to be here. if it were ron paul, he is attracting a guy of 10,000 people easily. this guy had family there, for darfur furs, and some neighbors. ron paul thiis the guy to compee against obama. >> jon huntsman is actually pretty far away from deciding whether he is going to get into the race, as he mentioned herein franklin, new hampshire. he is going to think about it with his wife and c