there were a number of nominees and stewart was only one of them but over time stewart becomes one ofl goats of the game and the argument runs like this. stuart sets off on this joyride that he is supposed to be covering the far right flank of the army of northern virginia. he managed by his ineptitude and vanity to get diverted around the other side of the army of the potomac and rides and so for all practical purposes right out of the campaign thus leaving robbery lee to fumble around blindfolded in pennsylvania and later bump into the army of the potomac by accident and the result is that he loses the battle and the south loses the war ended is all jeb stewart's fault. there are a couple problems with this. one is that lee was not rendered blindfolded by the absence of stewart simply because cavalry in the american civil war does not function as an intelligence arm. cavalry in the american civil war as distinct from the function of cavalry in the european armies of the nineteenth century cavalry in the american civil war is entirely light cavalry. in fact its proportions are much s

we love you, jon stewart, ladies and gentlemen. jon stewart. (cheers and applause) >> but we start tonight with the supreme court, landmark rulings yesterday, striking down part of the defense of marriage act and prop 8 in california. a huge day! a huge day for civil rights (cheers and applause) >> and all of this is the subject of tonight's special report. >> yes, yesterday america took a giant bold leap into the present. and it was a 5-4 decision with one judge in particular making the difference. >> the importance of anthony kennedy cannot be overstated. >> there have only been three gay rights, major gay rights decisions in the history of the supreme court. >> all three of those cases were written by anthony kennedy. he will go down in history as in essence the father of constitutional gay rights. >> yeah, and the good kind of father of something gay. not the kind of father who insists you throw a football with him and it would never come to a single one of your show choir performances. you might not think it's important, dad, but it's impo

as -- stewart. prince charles came out the night william came out and he may want to honor that tradition and no doubt the buttons on his blazer are bursting. she a very proud papa right now. we had a lovely statement from prince charles and camilla. he said, my wife and i are over joyed at the birth of a grandson. very careful wording in that press released. obviously the missing person here is the grandmother, princess diana. she is not here to witness this joyous day. and that is not lost on anyone who is part of this celebration. william may come out. you talk about twitter and the town cryer and the easel are the original social media of a time gone by. there was other social media to make the announcement. there is buzz that william may come out. as soon as we know anything we will let you know back there. there is one other note on the american relationship with royalty. stewart, as you well know the brits love the united states. they love to come to america. they love to meet with the presid

i am here, i am here tonight for jon stewart. stewart is not here because he has grown tired of watching you having sex during his show. that's right. this is a two-way screen. whereas for me i'm still learning things from you. but first, if you watchedded last night's show, you might have noticed my interview with aaron socker inlooked a little different as did the music at the end of the show. why did my little dance there just cause you to stop having sex? what happened was right before last night's interview began for the first time ever here, we lost all power to our cameras and the control room. now, my initial thought was that the city was having a blackout because, the past two days here in new york, it's been 100 ball-sweat degrees outside and everyone has had their air conditioners crankedded up to penguin house. it turned out that wasn't actually it. it was a complete mystery until we checked our in-house security cameras this morning. take a look. >> i hate you, oliver. you're not my real jon. there's only one jon who

jon stewart, jon stewart, i'm afraid, is still not here. word is that he has been kidnapped and trapped in a cave in the middle east constructing his own iron man suit. ( laughter ) our guest tonight, currently head coach of the egyptian national soccer team, bob bradley will be with us and amazing stories, amazing stories to tell. let's start tonight, though wnews from the game monopoly, where big changes are afoot. >> they're taking the jail out of the monopoly game. >> booo! >> john: you heard right. the game designed to teach children how capitalism work has removed the "go to jail" option to reflect the financial system they're going to grow up in, presumably replacing it with a "get ideal at by congress and then go directly to the caymen islands" option. ( laughter ) ( applause ) also, also this week, we actually have news from the real financial sector. >> the big story this quarter has been financial stocks, the bank stocks all had spectacular numbers. here's goldman sachs, by the way, which had an absolutely terrific earnings repor

i am here, i am here tonight for jon stewart. jon stewart is not here because he has grown tired of watching you having sex during his show. that's right. this is a two-way screen. whereas for me i'm still learning things from you. but first, if you watchedded last night's show, you might have noticed my interview with aaron socker inlooked a little different as did the music at the end of the show. why did my little dance there just cause you to stop having sex? what happened was right before last night's interview began for the first time ever here, we lost all power to our cameras and the control room. now, my initial thought was that the city was having a blackout because, the past two days here in new york, it's been 100 ball-sweat degrees outside and everyone has had their air conditioners crankedded up to penguin house. it turned out that wasn't actually it. it was a complete mystery until we checked our in-house security cameras this morning. take a look. >> i hate you, oliver. you're not my real jon. there's only one jon

we wanted to chat with jon stewart and d.l.ave criticized the president. you said he let you down a couple of times when he didn't do a far left thing that you wanted. [ laughter ] >> how far left am i? >> bill: it depends on the ratings. >> you don't know much about me. >> bill: stewart, it's nice to come in here. would there be a scenario where could you see not voting for barack obama and voting for a republican? >> sure. >> bill: what would that be, what would barack obama have to be beside kicking you in the head? >> what he would have to be, if i didn't have a sense he wanted to move the country and somebody else has a more logical sense. >> bill: so usual open-minded? >> i don't think i would be able to convince you of that. but i consider myself. >> bill: millions of people of watching and i'm asking the questions they want to know about you. right now, grade president obama going into obama, going into the campaign? >> i can't -- i don't do that. i don't know. >> the jon stewart scale. you voted for him. lived up to yo

>> from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the "daily show" with jon stewart( cheers and applause ) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> john: welcome to the "daily show." welcome to the "daily show." i'm john oliver. jon stewart is off for the summer performing a david blaine-like stunt where he spends 90 straight days not hosting a talk show. my guest tonight is fareed zakaria. this is-- ( cheers and applause ) yes. this is actually his 17th time on the show, so he literally has more experience with interview segments on this show than i do. ( laughter ) but first, it seems like a supreme court decision on gay marriage will come down some time in the next two weeks. there have already been some seismic changes recently in our nation's sole landscape. >> after months of consideration about initiatives as divided its ranks, during a passionate debate, tonight the boy scouts of america has voted to allow openly gay members. >> john: yes! ( cheers and applause ) yes! yes! yes! now, that is wonderful news for gay boy scouts, but-- ( laughter ) a tragic end f

jon stewart jon stewart is still not here. most of you are probably aware he's currently on a rug springer and he eel be back some time at the start of october. he loves roller coasters. our guest tonight, the creator of "the newsroom," aaron sorkin is here. the prince, the king. it is so great to be ban with you from our two-week break. it was tough to be away, we were missog many fun things to cover, kate middleton about to give birth to the greatest baby in the history of civilization, born in the traditional manner, fighting their way out of her womb and cutting their own um bell d.l. cord with a sword only they could wield. last thursday brian kilmeade threw a basketball directly into a toddler's face. wow. that is the worst day that brian kilmeade has had since the time they let him hug a rabbit and he squeezed it too hard. and then on friday, a san francisco tv station got punked into reading these names as a korean flight crew. >> captain sum chi wong, wee too low, ho lee fu k

he's devoted to land stewart ship, but he has understood the complexity of managing golden gate park. there's a lot of demands on the park and the responsibility of balancing its echo logical stewart ship with the public quest for activities and fund events is a tricky one for a gardener and hue, you have done it with grace and a plum you and you -- i like to ask staff to be our ambassadors out in the field and hue has been an ambassador for this department and i'm sad and no one asked me permission for you to retire so i'm not over this but we don't want to celebrate you today and we have a certificate and want you to come up and say a quick word or two. >> i need to sit down. >> i want to thank everyone in the recreation and park department for making my job easy. i want to thank you guys for doing what you do in the political arena to make my job work. he want to thank my boss for doing what he does, beating the bushes, keeping us all honest, moving it forward. it has been ffthee past couple of years as we all know and i think you guys have done a super job of feeding us so we can

jon stewart jon stewart is still not here. most of you are probably aware he's currently on a rug springer and he eel be back some time at the start of october. he loves roller coasters. our guest tonight, the creator of "the newsroom," aaron sorkin is here. the prince, the king. it is so great to be ban with you from our two-week break. it was tough to be away, we were missog many fun things to cover, kate middleton about to give birth to the greatest baby in the history of civilization, born in the traditional manner, fighting their way out of her womb and cutting their own um bell d.l. cord with a sword only they could wield. last thursday brian kilmeade threw a basketball directly into a toddler's face. wow. that is the worst day that brian kilmeade has had since the time they let him hug a rabbit and he squeezed it too hard. and then on friday, a san francisco tv station got punked into reading these names as a korean flight crew. >> captain sum chi wong, wee too low, ho lee fu k and bang ti wow. >> >> john: how could we

hearing that that resolution was passed the board recognized 47 teachers that participated in this stewart program. we were thrilled to present these educator with certified of an appreciation and thank them for their great work. our volunteer division and our gardeners to cultivate the next generation. a big shout out to kimberly keefr who run the team for the recreation and park department. last week we sell bralted the yacht harbor and it was a fantastic event. other upcoming events, also as commissioner brul noted, park play ground, we should coordinate these things before we get up here. >> it was saying twice. >> saturday july 20, this is a big -- we had a lot of support from this from the water front community who really drove this project. of san francisco parks alliance has been an important person in adding a program. on august 3rd we get to cut a ribbon on the cabrille la park play ground. so the -- all of your work and leadership on the 2008 and 2012 is here. we've received our 4th quarter park maintenance -- our park score is 91.24 percent. a one percent increase over last tim

[bleep]. >> (cheers and applause) >> holy [bleep], it's jon stewart live from the middle east via skypen, jon, you have a beard. there's a beard on your face. >> knox, i didn't grow it, its-- when you get off the plain in the middle east they give it to you like the hawaiian give you a lei. >> that makes sensement you wear it with. i don't know if you have seen, we have been doing live from the start of the slow about where you've been. and we've been lying about that. have you seen any of those? >> well, have you said that i've been hanging out with edward snowden in an underground bunker because that's -- >> because you're saying that would not be true, is that what you're saying? >> jon: sure. that's what mi saying, it's not true. >> we all miss you. everybody misses you. (cheers and applause) we miss you! >> jon: let me say this. >> what? >> jon: you're doing a phenomenal job. (cheers and applause) >> stop it. i don't watch it all the time because it's too weird, it's like watching someone have sex with your wife' wife's-- desk. >> you have a beautiful desk. your des something beaut

i'm john oliver, still here for jon stewart who is spending the summer on an eat, pray, love, style journeyr bar dem. our guest is news legend tom brokaw is here. (applause) >> the king of news. look, we begin tonight with fiscal policy, there is, perhaps, no issue more serious than the long-term impact of fed chairman ben bernanke's low-interest rate policies. and that is why we are going to be devoting this entire show tonight to fully analyze-- i'm sorry? i'm being told there is a breaking story you pite actually care to hear about. >> celebrity chef paula deen is defending herself after admitting that years ago she used the "n" word. >> the "n" word? which one did she use because i know it wasn't nonfat. boom! oh, oh, paula deen is the only chef to receive an a rating from the american lard counsel. boom boom. i can do this all night, but honestly, i find these allegations difficult to believe. now paula deen seems so nice on her tv chef show with her friendly soft southern charm. exactly how bad is this? >> it all has to do with a transcript of a videotaped deposition, part of an ongoi

applause] from comedy central's world news head quarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewartheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central welcome to the daily show! my name is john oliver, i'm in for jon stewart who is spending the summer undercover posing as a high-school student posing to bust a drug rink [bleep] i think i just outed him. now they'll realize he is not a real teenage girl. get out of there rebecca, run as fast as your hairy legs can carry you! our guest tonight is here to talk about the final book by the late, great, david rackoff, sarah vowell is going to be with us this evening. (cheers and applause) >> we begin tonight in egypt, best known for its spectacular supporting role in brendan frasier's the mummy and the mummy returns. how did egypt not get nominated for that movie. now if you recall in 2011 egypt had a bona fide peaceful and popular revolution ending the rule of long time dictator hosni mubarak and ushering in egypt's first free election in 5,000 years. when of course a bird with eyes with lines under it won a comfortable eight poin

stewart's body was discovered over the weekend on saturday morning. now back to that best man to be. his brother calls him his rock. >> my heart bleeds for brian and the bond family and the stewart family. words complaint express how deeply sorry we are for them. >> reporter: just an awful tragedy and now the operator of the body identified as 35-year-old jojo john has been charged. he was allegedly drunk at the time of this crash. he has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault and it's conceivable that he could face even more charges. that is the latest live from piermont, new york. >> thank you for those latest details. while you were sleeping, alleged mob boss whitey bulger wants the jury at his trial cut off from media, their homes and their families. defense attorneys filed a motion to have the jury sequestered. they claim that all the bad press about their client will influence the jury's decision. bulger faces a sweeping racketeering indictment that includes allegations that he participated in 19 murders. >>> anthony wein

comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> welcome to the daily show. welcome to the daily show. i am john oliver, jon stewart still not here. he is currently walking across the grand canyon. my guest tonight from the roost, the great quest love is with us. (cheers and applause) let's get straight into it tonight. huge news this morning out of the supreme court. >> the supreme court just a short time ago struck down a key part of the voting rights act. now this part determines which states must actually get federal permission before they change their voting laws. >> okay, basically the key part of the voting rights act they removed was the one that applied strict scrutiny to states with a previous history of racial discrimination, those states, of course, being white sylvania, pale-afornia, caw cariacut, and mississippi. but look, look-- (applause) this is clearly a very bold move from the supreme court this was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation. i hope

all part of a mutually agreed effort on the part of stewart and the board of directors at martha stewarto help return the company to profitability. before you are tempted to stick a fork in h fiefdom, remember, this queen has survived wars only to crawl out of that crackpot with yet another incredible dish. whether this time what that is still cooking or just cut. whato you think? >> you know, her name is on the door. even though she is not the ceo, she is the chairman should be held accountable for the actions of the company. the $200,000 pay cut is nice. i don't think it's enough to turn my the steward media around. the company has been dead money for a long time. netive year-over-year earnings growth for some time. look at the stock. it's been a $2. one of the things you have to think about is the death of a brand, and it happens. unfortunately i think that she might be getting to that point. the magazine is pretty much gone away the doe. her company might be doing the same. lastly, she may not get the opportunity to put herself in j.c. penney because macy's is stealing martha stewart

lindsey stewart was just 30 years old. her funeral is now set for thursday in the same church she was supposed to be married in. katy tur, nbc news, piermont, new york. >>> and we're back in a moment with a big anniversary for one of the most famous road trips of all time. [ male announcer ] how do you do a summer clearance the dodge way? first wait till summer. then get the cars ready. now add the dodge part. ♪ ♪ the dodge summer clearance event. right now get 0% financing for up to 72 months and no payments for 90 days on all dodge vehicles. ♪ holiday road >>> well, that theme music can only mean one thing, and that's vacation, and the "national lampoon" "vacation" movies turn 30 years old. for three decades clark w. has been an icon for all of us who strapped the luggage to the top of the car heading out to places like wally world and the world's largest ball of twine. with the family in the car and, of course, aunt edna on the roof. so here's to you, clark, russ, the whole gang. >>> there's about to be a new retail gia

jon stewart, jon stewart, i'm afraid, is still not here.at he has been kidnapped and trapped in a cave in the middle east constructing his own iron man suit. ( laughter ) our guest tonight, currently head coach of the egyptian national soccer team, bob bradley will be with us and amazing stories, amazing stories to tell. let's start tonight, though wnews from the game monopoly, where big changes are afoot. >> they're taking the jail out of the monopoly game. >> booo! >> john: you heard right. the game designed to teach children how capitalism work has removed the "go to jail" option to reflect the financial system they're going to grow up in, presumably replacing it with a "get ideal at by congress and then go directly to the caymen islands" option. ( laughter ) ( applause ) also, also this week, we actually have news from the real financial sector. >> the big story this quarter has been financial stocks, the bank stocks all had spectacular numbers. here's goldman sachs, by the way, which had an absolutely terrific earnings report. >> profi

[♪] from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart[ cheers and applause ] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> john: jon stewart is still not here. he's actually upstate in the kit skills. the our guest tonight is from the council on foreign relations. richard haass will be with us. before we get started last night just before we went on air, the royal baby was born. so we turn our coverage tonight just before show time there was breaking news about anthony wean ser... weiner. so we will cover anthony weiner's tomorrow which spoiler alert is doing a lot more than anthony weiner has been doing. for now, roll it. (trumpet fanfare). [ cheers and applause ] that's right. it was a boy. and finally we have a member of the royal family with an actual excuse for being a toothless, pet lunt, useless human being. that will get me in trouble back home. this boy came into the world with so much pomp and circumstance it's hard to... >> we believe that it is now being put on the easel. in fact, it is there. it is now being chained in to the fa

arrived hong and helped bring stewart and simmons into custody. officers and stewart were released from the hospital, while simmons for additional treatment. i will be back by the break and kron4 news weekend. it's been 60 years since north and south korea signed an armistice that ended combat in the korean war. yesterday, president obama korean war veterans memorial in washington, while north surprising public appearance. on the days' events. obama should ever be forgotten, and no veteran should ever be overlooked." veterans and spectators gather on the national mall in washington to commemorate "the forgotten war." the cease-fire signed in 19- 53 left thkorean peninsula divided and volatile to this very day. president obama says despite treaty. the war did not end in a tie. obama >>"when 50 million south koreans live in freedom, a vibrant democracy, one of the world's most dynamic economies, in stark contrast to the repression and poverty of the north, that is a victory and that is your legacy." what the north calls its "victory day" in pyongyan

i'm john oliver, still here for jon stewart who is spending the summer on an eat, pray, love, style journey tonight with fiscal policy, there is, perhaps, no issue more serious than the long-term impact of fed chairman ben bernanke's low-interest rate policies. and that is why we are going to be devoting this entire show tonight to fully analyze-- i'm sorry? i'm being told there is a breaking story you pite actually care to hear about. >> celebrity chef paula deen is defending herself after admitting that years ago she used the "n" word. >> the "n" word? which one did she use because i know it wasn't nonfat. boom! oh, oh, paula deen is the only chef to receive an a rating from the american lard counsel. boom boom. i can do this all night, but honestly, i find these allegations difficult to believe. now paula deen seems so nice on her tv chef show with her friendly soft southern charm. exactly how bad is this? >> it all has to do with a transcript of a videotaped deposition, part of an ongoing civil lawsuit filed against deen and her brother by a former employee who as you mentioned alleges

i am still sitting in here for jon stewart.re all missing jon terribly here which is why we were so glad this weekend to see him tweet a picture of himself. oh, yeah! oh, yeah! and if you don't get the reference for that photograph, then congratulations. you live in a far happier world than the rest of us. our guest tonight from the new movie blue jasmine will be here. [ cheers and applause ] now obviously there was a lot to talk about. who am i kidding. there was exactly one thing to talk about. >> her royal highness the duchess of cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 p.m. local time. >> john: oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god, oh, my god, yes, yes, yes! a son, a son, you mean a king. all neal to the one true king. neal for god's sake. (trumpet fanfare). this blessed news. it came after a long day of awaiting word from st. mary's hospital as the royal lad seemingly prolonging labor, perhaps sensing that this was the only kind of labor that he would ever be involved in. we will have full team coverage on

and the rest of the federal government relentlessly pursue the case of stewart who avoided the loss of his forty six grand but refused to go after big bank c.e.o.'s who had overseen activities that had cost the american people billions and billions of dollars answer is pretty simple in my mind martha stewart isn't a wall street billionaire who has strong lobbying and financial influences over wall lawmakers in washington d.c. our system is so corrupt today the big banks c.e.o.'s and wall street executives can do just about anything and get away with it fortunately some people have caught on to this corruption and are trying to change it that's where senator elizabeth warren comes in since warren was sworn into the senate she's been taking names and kicking ass using her influential seat in the senate banking committee warren has already called out the nation's top financial regulators for failing to take wall street firms and executives who broke the law to trial in may warren sent a letter to federal reserve chairman ben bernanke attorney general eric holder and as the chair mary jo w

my name is john oliver, i'm in for jon stewart who is spending the summer undercover posing as a high-school student posing to bust a drug rink [bleep] i think i just outed him. now they'll realize he is not a real teenage girl. get out of there rebecca, run as fast as your hairy legs can carry you! our guest tonight is here to talk about the final book by the late, great, david rackoff, sarah vowell is going to be with us this evening. (cheers and applause) >> we begin tonight

i am still sitting in for jon stewart who is on tour with his jazz quartet. those guys can blow. our guest tonight from the new movie the spectacular now actress shailene woodley is with us. [ cheers and applause ] but we begin with an event as shocking as it was depressingly predictable. you may remember that last week we covered former congressman anthony weaner and the fact that he wasn't just running for mayor of new york city but leading in the polls. well, since then, there has been a bit of a koch-up in his campaign. >> two years after a tawdry sex sting scandal chased him from congress, anthony weiner is begging for forgiveness again. turns out he continued sending lewd messages and photos to at least one woman even after he was forcedded to resign from congress. >> john: he did it again? why did he even need to do that? who did he think had possibly not seen his photo from last time? did he think that a woman might have been in a coma during the first go-round? and needed to be dropped in. so two years ago this photo caused a scandal that cost him his political career. a