. >> jon stuart might have had it right last night, that it didn't look like me for embarrassing reasona comedian there's a slam-dunk, weiner name, weiner picture, where's my check? >> i'm not going to talk about this anywhere. >> reporter: weiner reversed his pledge not to discuss the matter. do you think you know who did it? >> i don't know. i... i... i do have someone that i've asked who from professionals to come in to look at this kind of stuff for big firms. >> reporter: but many have questioned why the liberal new yorker who has called for tougher cyber-security laws did not ask capitol police or the f.b.i. to look into it. >> i don't believe this is a capital crime. i believe this is a bit of mischief, and i'm treating it that way. >> reporter: it's causing more than mischief for you now. >> it's causing mischief, but that doesn't necessarily mean that i ask the taxpayers of the united states of america to undergo a big investigation on who posted a silly picture on my twitter page. >> reporter: congressman weiner is now asking for privacy and so is the woman the tweet was addre

. >> host: over your shoulder at the booth is a large picture of jon stuart of our network. >> he looms large over my shoulder at all times. >> host: happy to hear that. last number our network carried the stuart rally at the mall in washington. getting into a presidential election. talk about your network plans to be involved and active in the upcoming election? >> guest: well, you know, active to the point where, you know -- you know, it's something of great interest to john and steve and the audiences. we have this semiannual -- not semiannual, we focus on two annuals -- biannual, thank you. we have a biannual thing we call indecision so the next round of indecision is coming up. that's what we call the coverage. john and steve will be out there. they have become very important stops for those looking to send a message and the comedy channel is incredible enough, but they're in the thick ever -- of it. you know, we are there to make people laugh. we are there to look at the world and the process and ultimately make fun of it, and that's what they'll be doing, but we look forward to i

tonight, with a heavy heart, we add jon stuart.n the tv business, yes, i'm including myself, call a bit. he was mocking congressman anthony weiner's habit of sipping water during his news conference and look, let's be honest, of all of anthony weiner's habits, his first of water the least of his problems. jon brought out some props, namely a blender and margarita glass. that's when things took a most unfortunate turn. >> that's not good. i'm probably going to need to go to the hospital. >> jon, have you learned nothing from your wise friends over here at cnn? if there's anything we've been clear about is dangerous stunts have no place on respectable television. >> i'm about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity. do it. oh! it hurts! it's painful. but no one is dead. >> now, remember jon, television is about being straightforward with your viewers, nothing to do with gimmicks. we're joined now via hologram by will, i am, who is live in grand park. let's see if we can beam him in now. there we go. still have no idea what that was ab

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