>> i think jon stewart and stephen colbert have been tapping into a mentality that's been growing. this sort of discontent with how many people are dissatisfied with the democratic and republican parties and pretty much everyone raised their hands. there's a sense of honesty, challenge, engagement and obviously entertainment too, that you don't get watching news anywhere else. >> and where do you expect to be in your professional career 10 years from now? >> hopefully i'll be a practicing lawyer in the air force. i hope that happens. >> so you don't have a plan to come here? >> not in 10 years. i do hope to be here at some point in my life. >> if you're a lawyer in the air force you could easily be here in the pentagon. >> i very well could. >> who else? hi. >> i'm a senior doing a double degree on bio and psyche. i'm the president of the student government and i really enjoyed the seminar so far because it's really opened my eyes on politics. >> let me stop you there. give us the definition of opened your eyes. >> well, i got to learn a lot on how things work inside washington and

speed skaters needed stephen colbert to step in and save them. >> should we do it, by the way?: still, with expectations set so low, the stage is set for a new generation of american no-names to become household names. >> the olympics is so exciting because you don't know. we don't know what's going to happen. a star can emerge. right now, we don't know who is going to be on the cereal boxes. someone will be and surprise everybody. >> ron claiborne will be on one. >> i'm trying to think did i know apolo ohno's name before those games started? i don't think i did. sometimes it's during the game. >> we have an athlete we know before the games. we keep track of them. a lot of names we hear, names you have heard before. >> i'm saying maybe there will be a big star that just comes out of the blue? right? >> perhaps. and carries us through. for now. we're days away. get cracking, america. >> get cracking. we'll be right back. last year, my little guy got the flu... and it was bad. there's nothing more important than the ones you love, which is why now is the time to protect them and

young people are cynical about the political structure r they are all stephen colbert fans and mock politicsand politicians are all a bunch of bums but i'm glad you got involved. host: to david next from springfield, massachusetts -- oh, actually brian from michigan on the democrats line. caller: thanks. i have a lot of respect for you over the years as i listen to us. we have the news media and they are right in your wheelhouse, but how can politicians actually hideaway from direct questions suchs as you're getting, news conferences, we depend on our media to ask direct questions and try to get direct answers but if the president, whether it's this president or the last president, does not come out in front of them and avail themselves to direct questions, how can we learn more about where they're going and cut through all this clutter? i don't believe this president, president obama, has had a direct news conference since july. guest: that's been a topic at the white house briefings for the last few days, as reporters are beginning to pepper robert gibbs, the white house spokesman with que

young people are cynical about the political structure r they are all stephen colbert fans and mock politics and politicians are all a bunch of bums but i'm glad you got involved. host: to david next from springfield, massachusetts -- oh, actually brian from michigan on the democrats line. caller: thanks. i have a lot of respect for you over the years as i listen to us. we have the news media and they are right in your wheelhouse, but how can politicians actually hideaway from direct questions suchs as you're getting, news conferences, we depend on our media to ask direct questions and try to get direct answers but if the president, whether it's this president or the last president, does not come out in front of them and avail themselves to direct questions, how can we learn more about where they're going and cut through all this clutter? i don't believe this president, president obama, has had a direct news conference since july. guest: that's been a topic at the white house briefings for the last few days, as reporters are beginning to pepper robert gibbs, the white house spokesman with qu