mr. stewart gives a defense of george w. bush on the iraq war and water-boarding. a defense i don't agree with but i think was interesting to hear. in which john stewart does not throw up, despite having an acute stomach thing, the poor guy. the john stewart interview is right here. >> john stewart, thank you for coming in. i know you're under the weather. it's nice of you to come in. >> i have the bu-bons. >> you're here at the conflicted perpetuator. >> the evil dr. doofus. >> you don't do that many interviews. i think i've read every one you've done. i tend to overprepare. why did you want to talk to me? >> after the rally it -- you know, whenever you go out there,

mr. stewart gives a defensive george w. bush on the iraq war and waterboarding. a defense which i don't really agree with, but i think was very interesting to hear and which i think was very well put. in which jon stewart, jon stewart does not throw up. despite having a really acute, horrible stomach thing, the poor guy. the jon stewart interview is right here. jon stewart, thank you for coming in. i know you're under the weather. it was nice of you to come in. >> i have the bubon. i am here to take me medicine. >> you are the pundit conflictonator. >> the evil dr. dufenschmirt. my conflictonator. >> you don't do all that many interviews. i think i've read every one that you've done in the last couple years. i kind of overprepare. why did you want to talk to me? >> after the -- you know, whenever you go out there, whatever you put out, you can only control in your intention. you can't control its perception or how people receive it. and you can control your execution. so when people are perceiving it as something, people that i respect or perceiving it as somethi

mr. stewart, jon, i told you so.ght disagree with you but i'd never think you were crazy or hateful. mahr is right. one side sticks to the facts and the other is close to playing with its poop. >>> national public radio. they are, he says, of course, nazis. they are the left wing of naziism. these guys don't wanted any other point of view. they're basically air america with government funding to keep them alive. golly. i wonder where beck and o'reilly get the idea it's okay to call everybody nazis. by the way, they are basically air america with funding to keep them alive. npr get less than 6% of their money from the federal government. don't talk about things you don't understand, like the actual news business. >>> our winner, speaker-elect boehner and senator lindsey graham, responding to the conviction, i terror suspect. boehner, the decision to try terrorists in civilian court was the wrong one. he got 20 years. the reason he didn't get more, they had to throw out the evidence extracted under torture, just as the

mr. stewart last night. talking about fox, saying that they're not partisan.hink that there's a difference between having a point of view and being a partisan. >> uh-huh. >> i think -- >> i agree with that. >> i am a liberal. it doesn't mean that i think of democrats as being on my team. >> that's not partisan either. they're really not. >> but they never criticized george w. bush for anything even when he was doing things that were sort of not conservative. >> yeah. >> they never criticized him. >> but they're -- but that's -- they are ideological but they're not -- i don't know that they're partisan. >> do we need to get the definition of partisan for cable news? what do you think? >> it is -- it's -- you can slate hairs on this and i think that he's trying to make a very nuanced point. i think what he was trying to get at was that they have an ideological commitment to conservatism and sometimes that causes them to do things that aren't necessarily in the base-level interest of the republican party. he didn't make this argument but i can imagine him making

mr. john stewart. >> what i do believe is that both sides have their way of shutting down debate.he news networks have allowed these two sides to become the fight in the country. and i think the fight in the country is corruption versus not corruption, extremist versus regular -- do you understand what i'm trying to say? >> what's the lefty way of shutting down? i mean, i -- >> okay, you've said bush is a war criminal. that may be technically true. in my world, war criminal is polpot. >> or harry truman, but then you took that back. >> for good reason. i don't think he was. you know, again, we have to define our terms. but i think that's such an incendiary charge that when you put it into conversation as well, technically, he is. that may be right, but it feels like a conversation stopper, not a conversation starter. >> in our spotlight tonight, because i can't get enough of her, rachel maddow. first of all, i just want you to know, it's just fair that i tell you this. i fired all of our bookers today because we can't get stewart. and i am making a run at your bookers. i'm offerin

mr. stewart, does not mean that we will not be there in other forms in training wrote and so on, but i don't want anyone to underestimate the clarity, or view the clarity of it. and the prime minister said that very clearly in meeting. and that is what we will stick to. >> when? 2015? that is 12 months longer. there's a general election in may 2015, isn't it a? >> i don't think -- >> january 2015? >> i don't think that's correct to try and hone in on the actual day in 2015, particularly since we're sitting here in novembe november 2010. this is quite a long way away. in fact, it is further in the future as you all well know that our whole operation and how month are in the past. so it is a long time into the future. but we don't anticipate in the new future setting a particular month or week. >> who took the decision? >> the decision is taken by ministers and the national security council in the cabinet led by the prime minister. >> taken in the national security council speak was taken by the prime minister in consultation. [inaudible] >> yes. >> who were you consulting? >> a four he made h

mr. stewart it does not mean we will not be there in other forms in training roles but i don't want anyonee the clarity of it and the prime minister said it very clearly and means it. and that is what we will stick to. >> when, 2015? that's 12 months. >> it is 12 months. >> there's a genuine election in may, 2015. that's what you're planning isn't it? january of 2015 or -- >> i don't think it's necessary to say 2015 to try to hone in on the actual day particularly since we're sitting here in november of 2010. it is quite a long way away. in fact, it's further in the future, as you all well know, than our whole operations in helmand are in the past. so it is a long time into the future. but we don't anticipate in the near font sitting on a particular month or week. >> who took the decision? >> the decision is taken by the ministers of the national security council and the cabinet led by the prime minister. >> it's taken in the national security council? >> taken by the prime minister in consultation with other senior ministers including me. >> who were you consulting? >> before the prime mi

mr. stewart, does not mean that we will not be there in other forms in training wrote and so on, but i don'tf it. and the prime minister said that very clearly in meeting. and that is what we will stick to. >> when? 2015? that is 12 months longer. there's a general election in may 2015, isn't it a? >> i don't think -- >> january 2015? >> i don't think that's correct to try and hone in on the actual day in 2015, particularly since we're sitting here in novembe november 2010. this is quite a long way away. in fact, it is further in the future as you all well know that our whole operation and how month are in the past. so it is a long time into the future. but we don't anticipate in the new future setting a particular month or week. >> who took the decision? >> the decision is taken by ministers and the national security council in the cabinet led by the prime minister. >> taken in the national security council speak was taken by the prime minister in consultation. [inaudible] >> yes. >> who were you consulting? >> a four he made his announcement. [inaudible] >> i'm sure he was consulted, but i

mr. stewart, does not mean that we will notbe there in other forms in training wrote and so on, but i don'timate the clarity, or view the clarity of it. and the prime minister said that very clearly in meeting. and that is what we will stick to. >> when? 2015? that is 12 months longer. there's a general election in may 201, isn't it a? >> i don't think -- >> january 2015? >> i don't think that's correct to try and hone in on the actual day in 2015, particularly since we're sitting here in novembe november 2010. this is quite a long way away. in fact, it is further in the future as you all well know that our whole operation and how month are in the past. so it is a long time into the future. but we don't anticipate in the new future setting a particular month or week. >> who took the decision? >> the decision is taken by ministers and the national security council in the cabinet led by the prime minister. >> taken in the national security council speak was taken by the prime minter in consultation. [inaudible] >> yes. >> who were you consulting? >> a four he made his announcement. [inaudible

stewart, and the service is tonight. i apologize if this creates trouble for anyone appear, or anyone. president peterson: thank you. mr. sanchez, we again apologize. that night was confusing, but we should have a parade in your honor as well. any other commissioner comments? any public comment on the commission of commons? seeing at non-, we will move on to item 3, the adoption of the minutes. before you for your consideration are the minutes of the board meeting of november 3, 2010. i move to adopt the november 3, 2010 minutes. any public comment on the minutes? seeing non-, call the roll, please. >> on that motion from the president to adopt those minutes, commissioner fund. commissioner fung: aye. vice president goh: aye. commissioner garcia: aye. commissioner hwang: aye. >> item 48 is your consideration of findings to do with -- item 4a is an adoption of finding to an appeal you heard recently. it is appeal no. 10-092, up banks versus dbi. you voted to overrule in grant the approval on the condition that the utilities be capped and maintained. these findings were drafted with your motion in mind. the parties have

mr. smith goes to washington moment because i saw the movie, i remembered jimmy stewart's role, i have not been in the senate chamber until then. i looked at roland burriss' desk because he told me bobby kennedy carved his name in the bottom of the drawer, sure enough, there it was. you get a sense of history. the compromise for 1850, the world war 1, world war ii, and with all humility you take this office being one of the hundreds designed the future of america. >> mark disk joins the senate at the tail end of a lame duck session at a time when there's concern that partisan bickering will take over the business of, well, doing business here in washington, he is promising to work toward being a consensus builder but also urging fiscal restraint. mark kirk, as most of our viewers know, is a naval reservice visit. he'll be sworn in using the 1827 bible of david ferragut, the first neigh naval admiral in this nation known for the slow can "dam the important peed owes, full peed say head." tom negovan, wgn news. >> a lot of history unfolding. >>> up next in the midday news, the white house wo

book is "secrect historian: the life and times of samuel stewart, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade". the author is justin spring. mr. spring, that is quite a subtitle. who was samuel stuart? >> it's a secret life i brought to light for the first time. he was a university professor who dropped out of being an academic to become and research with opera can see k street about that later on brooch trailblazing, roddick. >> how did you find this guy? >> it took a lot of searching. when i would throw his papers that were put away after he died, i knew i had an amazing my story no matter their touch before. i spent 10 years putting it together and presenting another biography. >> when did you first hear of him? >> i came across reprints of the work he had done, that were being published by small press in san francisco. was very excited about those works, but didn't know who they had written them because they were produced under pseudonym. it took me another 13 years to get the rest of the story. >> how many names to be used during his life? >> i pay about 20. he was known as the famous tattoo artist and many people who kn

mr. smith goes to washington feeling because i know the senate cham ber best from that movie with jimmy stewarto actually be standing there is a whole different experience. >> reporter: next experience is a senate reception with a chicago flair and a bipartisanship tone. democratic congressman and mayoral candidate danny davis is here. >> mark is someone i've known a number of years. we've served with him and i worked with him and i came over to congratulate him. >> reporter: so has republican bob dole. >> and we have to recognize that this is a job for the people, and so we work for them. >> reporter: earlier, only wgn is there as the new senator sees his new office for the first time. a few signs of the last occupant left behind and for the naval reservist, a new mandate dead ahead. >> my job is as the most junior senator, with all humility, to go to work, to watch, listen and learn but i hope we move in a bipartisan direction of protecting the economy and expanding employment. >> reporter: it certainly was a battle getting here but kirk had nothing to praise today for his democratic opponent

stewart, putting her finishing touches on the delicious thanksgiving spread. >> and martha will show us how to make delicious side dishes including her delicious cranberry sauce. >> we'll go back to mrthe macy's thanksgiving day parade. hi, al. >> good morning. less than 30 minutes from the macy's thanksgiving parade. joining me, jessica simpson who has -- hello. you have a lot to be thankful for. >> i do. i do. counting my blessings. >> you do. a new charms album out and newly engaged many. >> yes. thanks so much. >> eric johnson, your boyfriend of five month, fantastic. this is your first thanksgiving in new york? >> it is. the spirit is amazing. you watch it on tv and you don't really have the -- you know, complete grasp what all goes behind this. >> the snoopy dog, can you believe how big he is? that's one big dog. i am very impressed, you're making -- even though you're in a hotel, you're cooking thanksgiving dinner. your hotel is letting you use their oven? >> we have some stuff in the ovens right now. i'm going to get on the fleet and i have eric's family to cook for and my family. we prepared last night. >> i am very impressed, jessica simpson, happy thanksgiving. have a goo

against of president obama and jon stewart of comedy central, he said, there are left-wing rabbis who don't think that anybody can use the word holocaust on the air. mr. speaker, i find those words to be very offensive. and inappropriate. relatives of mine were among the jews who died at the holocaust. at the hands of the nazis, mass murder were carried out, the likes of which the world has never seen. if he's the -- if mr. ailes is the president of fox news and appears to be fair and balanced, he should keep his comments to himself. if he wants to be a commentator then he should do so, but if he wants to be a so-called fair and balanced president of a major news organization, he ought to know better than to utter such hateful words. you know, to use the word holocaust in the same sentence that he uses the word rabbi, although he clearly meant rabbi with another conowe take is doubly -- connotation is doubly offensive and to use the word holocaust in which somebody or some group feels agrieved is offensive again. mr. ailes should apologize for these depictable statements of total insensitivity and should not be connected to a president of a major new