people don't understand why young people watch jon stewart and steven colbert and like it. can you explain? >> most of these news sources try to go over the top and scoop the other one. comedy central actually can put a spin where they can make fun of it. everybody realizes that it is the same story depending on what spin you put on it and they make fun of everything across the board. they will make fun of a liberal or conservative -- if you say something stupid, they will reported. it. >> are you a steven cole bear fan first or a jon stewart fan? skjju many are steven colbert fence? how many are john stewart fans? how many are neither. text >> i represent north carolina central university. >> where is it? >> north carolina. [laughter] i'm studying public administration. i am here because my undergraduate degree was in political science and it was a great refresher course to hear about politics and has given me the ability to jump back into the world of politics as confidence. >> why do you want to do that? >> public administration teaches you about the non-profit sector as

they are all steven colbert fans and mock politicians but i'm glad to see that you guys got involved. >> host: we will go to david joining from springfield massachusetts on the independent line actually brian i apologize from michigan on the democrats line. go ahead, bryan. >> guest: have a lot of respect its laws of to do over the years. one of the greatest tools we have as americans is news media of course house. how can politicians hide away from direct questions such as you are getting right now? news conferences? we depend on the media to ask direct questions and try to get direct answers but it is a president, whether it is this president or the last president does not come out in front of them and avail themselves of questions how can we learn more about where they are going and where to cut through all this clutter i don't believe president obama has had a direct news conference since july. >> guest: that's been a topic at the briefings last few days as reporters are beginning to pepper robert gibbs, the white house spokesman with questions about -- it's interesting because on