comedian and television host jon stewart, accusing the defense department of corruption and waste. stewart confronted the pentagon's deputy secretary, kathleen hicks, during an interview on thursday. he asked her why the d o d keeps failing audits. we don't have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have. where that is not the same as saying. we can't do that because waste fraud and abuse has occurred so in my world that's waste. how is that waste if i give you a billion dollars and you can't tell me what happened to it? that to me is wasteful. that means you are not responsible. but if you can't tell me where it went, then what am i supposed to think we got out of 20 years of war and the pentagon got a $50 billion raise. like that's shocking to me now. i may not understand exactly the ins and outs and the incredible magic of an audit. but i'm a human being who lives on the earth and can't figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps like to me. that's corruption. i'm sorry. he gets a lot of leeway with the c

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jon. stewart. i used to work here when the budget wasn't as big. a few years back.ted a program, to be honest with you. >> roy: "the daily show" had a white host? why are you dressed like obi-wan kenobi? >> i like to be comfortable. roy, the point is this. donald trump doesn't -- >> roy: if you are obi-wan kenobi, what does that make me? if you are obi-wan kenobi, that would make be luke skywalker. >> why the [bleep] wouldn't you want to be luke skywalker? >> roy: luke skywalker kissed his sister. i want to be han solo, he was cool. you can be chewbacca. >> why would i want to be a wolf ape? that doesn't make -- look, i think it would make more sense if i was the wise sage who mentors the young host and not the wolf ate. also, i cannot return this robe. what happened was, the events that took place in this -- >> roy: but if you are obi-wan and i am luke, does that mean my dad is vader? if my dad is darth vader, does that mean donald trump is my dad? i am trying -- >> i know that, roy, why would donald trump your father? >> roy: because, if i am luke, and trump is va

i agree with jon stewart when he says you have allocation there to buy equipment or certain gear andthat you can't account for, that is waste. they talk about increase in salary with 4.6% increase last year, that doesn't meet the rate of inflation, the fact we have 13 and 14% rate of inflation on goods you are defending the military. do more about food insecurity and ensure military members are properly paid are sufficient and make sure there is enough base housing or allocation and child care and look to better quality of life for men and women willing to go into uniform and go into harm's way to defend and protect this great nation. >> ashley: not one member of the military should be on food stamps. thank you, have a good day. >> thank you. >> ashley: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez wants the white house to avoid a federal warning on over the counter abortion pills, listen to this. they make a mockery of our law. >> ashley: even the media is struggling to defend that wob. >> todd: george soros's son spending time at the white house since joe biden took office. cheryl casone

that was something that jon stewart, when he wasn't yelling to me, said to me one time. he would say, this is going to pass. i worked for the guy who wanted it to be passed and he signed it. here's what we know. what we overwhelmingly need to hire in the next 10 years are mental health professionals. what we know about what we have experienced as of force and during things like the pandemic, you may come into the treated for asthma because you have respiratory issues, but you think, it would be great if i can have an opportunity for counseling. the pact act might be the reason you come in, but your whole health, your wellness, will hopefully be the reason you stay. that's why i'm really excited about the pact act. it should be the start of a conversation, the renewable -- the renewal of a conversation with o have had a bad experience in the past. or the renewal of a conversation with veterans say among women veterans who have actually not believed that the v.a. has something for them. hopefully we can make those -- each time a new veteran comes in. >> we will get back to

if you tuned in last night, you might have seen my homeboy jon stewart stop by. tonight, who knows?? [cheers and applause] you got to speak it into it existence, manifest and all that other shit. we've got a great show for you tonight. i will tell you who is definitely here is the homey cedric the entertainer. so let's get into the headlines! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] all right. let's kick things off in wisconsin. now i like wisconsin. wisconsin and the building? i like wisconsin. wisconsin the only place i've been to that sells cheese as a souvenir. i like that "he wants them some cheese before your flight? cheese curds?" cheese curds?" cheese curds cover no wrapping them, butt naked in my hands. last night wisconsin had a critical election for the state supreme court, which has national implications for 2024. they had a far right conservative versus a very left-wing liberal. and i don't want to presume anything about the political beliefs of the audience in the room right now. i know "daily show" fans hold a wide variety of -- oh, who am i kidding? you can go ahead and start clapp

jon stewart, and dr. kathleen hicks. [applause] jon: nice job. dr., i sit here. hello. >> hello. jon: overly enthusiastic. lower your expectations. dr., thank you for joining us. throughout the program lysate dr., deputy secretary? >> what would you like to say? jon: friend? hicks: friend. jon: i would like to think thomas for putting this together and kelly for her invaluable work for exposing the burn pits. it's was an viable work for toxic exposure bills in general and i want to give a quick shout out to rosie and leroy. they said they were talk -- watching a home because they do not have netflix. who originally got myself and john field into that fight, i am ever grateful for their work, my question to you is, we will start basic. kathleen: ok. jon: you are with the department of defense, we will call that dod, the pentagon. obviously department of defense has a complicated relationship with journalism and reporting. thomas's mission and the mission of people at warhorse is to make the department of defense more transparent. more accountable. more accessible for the general p

lots of people tweeting like mark hamill, jon stewart, halle berry. >>> this week we're focused on earth week and our teams are sharing stories about the planet. we asked chris chmura to look at wind energy. where are we when it comes to wind energy? what's next for your power bill? >> reporter: altamonte pass, spinning wind turbines are a fixture. perhaps you're seeing them here or elsewhere. perhaps you've seen some disappear. does that mean wind power is dying out? not quite. california energy commission chair david hockeyshield says there's an evolution under way. >> they go in and take wind projects that have been operating for 20, 30 years and install -- take those out, install new turbines. >> reporter: hochshield noticed one product that slimmed from 100 turbines to 34. >> triple the energy production, but hugely cutting the number of turbines. >> reporter: right now, wind energy powers just a small part of your home, 15%. that should change. for the future, we turn away from the hills and look offshore. the state just signed leases to install 583 square miles of wind turbines 20

lloyd austin number two was asked about this by comedian jon stewart and she got all frazzled, listene these are unfair questions of someone within a department of that skies and scope. >> i think you have a particular thing you really want to talk about and you are asking me other questions but i don't think it's unfair to ask me about the audit. it's absolutely the case that the united states military should be able to pass an audit and we have got to be on that pathway to get there. >> don't you think that that does speak to the larger point that we are trying to get at which is good journalism uncovers corruption? >> okay. i mean, good journalism does uncover corruption but i'm not sure these two things are linked and audit -- >> oh, but they are. >> jesse: second most powerful person in biden's defense department and she is a mess. the military almost never gets audited but, when they do, they fail with flying colors. our military has only been audited five times ever. and just last year they failed their audited for the fifth time. the military is winless in audits and undefeate

that even liberal superstar jon stewart is desperate for answers in our video of the week stewart triedaccountsibility but all she's capable of is blaming donald trump. here now deputy managing editor author of the new book keira days of so keira, i mean, sometimes you have to take the l -- san francisco is once great city. i mean just admit that things are just going wrong. >> well, to admit that things are going wrong would have -- would, you know, mean them admitting that they're doing things wrong. i mean, there hasn't been a republican in charge in this state anywhere -- almost anywhere in 15 years, you know it's been a very long time since we've seen i'm exaggerating a little bit but it's been a very long time since san francisco has seen republican leadership it's been a long time since l.a. has seen republican leadership. democrats lead every big city almost in this nation. there's no one else to blame. we have a supermajority in california. we have a democrat supermajority there's literally no one else to blame but democrats. and so her, her failure to take responsibility is no

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laughter ] literally, nobody wants to see that but even at the time, it was just that i'd sat in for jon stewartd offered me a show on sunday night and we -- tim carvell and i -- who worked at the "daly show" as well -- we didn't really know what we wanted to do other than talk more on a sunday. that was it. >> seth: yeah. >> but we had a whole, like, guest area of our studio built >> seth: and so how long into the process did you bail on the idea of doing guests >> really quick. [ laughter ] we did two test shows. and hbo kept their one note after the test shows "well, you know you don't have to have a guest. [ laughter ] "you could just add that time to the story. and we jumped so quickly on that 'cause, i'm -- again, you are good at talking to guests. i am -- i would find it hard to fake enthusiasm for an objectively bad movie that was being pitched in front of me [ laughter ] >> seth: there are -- the longer you do this job, you know, there's no bad movies. [ laughter ] >> i love it i love watching you interview people so much, just to see -- i can see it it's such a suppressed glint in your

there's ray romano, jon stewart, john mulaney, steve buscemi, bobby cannavale, charlie day, brad garrettt talk to each other like, remember we did the -- jimmy was nice enough to do this garden benefit we did and they were trying to get a list of people i was like, what about jimmy fallon they're like, "i don't know how i can possibly --" i was like, "his office is next to mine. i can ask. he was nice enough and came out. so, i think people don't do that much, and they should because people want to work with people. so, i just call people that i thought were cool, and always were nice to me. >> jimmy: ray romano and brad garrett it's like an "everybody loves raymond" reunion [ cheers ] >> he's the best he had a blast, and we had ray in one of them and at the end of it, he had a a really good time he was like, "you know, i never would have, you know, ever --" it's a horrible impression >> jimmy: no, no, no [ laughter ] >> it's not fair it's like doing a walken or whatever, everybody has a ray. he was so sweet. he had a good time and he was like, "i love this episode. i love being in one.

for those of you who saw jon stewart on gps last week . that was the gist of his passionate argument is certainly right that the law should not care about the popularity of a person or the political effect of an indictment, and no one can really be sure what that effect would be in the long run, anyway. and yet this case is not simply one of the law in all its impartial majesty holding somebody to account. the prosecutor, alvin bragg, is an elected district attorney who ran a campaign for that office, boasting that he had helped sue donald trump over 100 times. even so, once elected and after looking over the evidence, he is reported to have put the case on the back burner, which triggered a storm of criticism from his democratic base. he then reversed course and decided to pursue the case on a new basis. if reported accounts are correct , which goes something like this trump's offenses to have violated new york state law by falsifying business records, but the statute of limitations for that misdemeanor has expired. so brags office will a

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affect constituencies he worked with representativ chris stewart on a suicide hotline bill there's a reason why the forme speaker of the house jonlks in th senate right now lindsey graham - >> hayes, crews can try to paint a bipartisan image o himself but here's my question does he really expect us t forget everything he has done, including flying to cancun walls constituents froze i texas, mocking aoc's fears o being assaulted on january the 6th, picking a fight wit sesame street's big bird ove the pro vaccine psa, and a whole lot more >> he clearly thinks it' possible, or at least is willing to allude himself to think it's possible. he diluted him self into thinking that shutting down th government would defun obamacare early on in hi career, so i don't see why tha sort of mindset would change with age at this point and with him all he knows is that it will b harder for him to win in texas than it has been before, s he's trying to get ahead o that now >> all right, let me ask you this mike. graham, and not the first time he has flip-flopped on someone he famously went after trump during the 2016 election b saying if they nomin

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