i'm jon stewart.ormer treasury secretary tim geithner, author of "stress test." i can't wait to find out what it's about. (laughter) quick off the top, an apology. last night, i went on a bit of a tear against phillies manager ryne sandberg and his home city of philadelphia.

he doesn't like these people. >> jon stewart, there are few people like jon stewart, i'm going to throws rock into that same vein of people who talk about politics in a way where they are not only giving us the sentiments of the entire country, but in their comedy, they are able to display and show us just how important the issues are of the day. so when jon stewart goes in and he gives the soliloquy last night about the girls in nigeria and how brave they are and shows how asinine it was for rush limbaugh to make fun of the hash tag, particularly in this era of i guess we call it social media activism, look what social media did for the arab spring, in tunisia and libya. it is asinine. he is expressing the sentiments of the country and doing it in a very powerful way. >> let's look at rush and how he got this started. let's look at rush limbaugh in this one. >> here's the thing about hash tag activism, it cannot force a crazy person to do something, but it can shame a less crazy person into not doing nothing. while apparently driving a medium crazy person crazier. >> apparently, there'

please welcome patrick stewart. hey! patrick stewart, thank you so much for coming on.k, obviously a ward winning actor over the years. you've had the honor of play approximating jean luc picard on star trek the next generation. your latest is x men days of future past, opens this friday. the plot of the fill some you send a message to yourself back in time, correct? >> you sound puzzled. >> well, that's a puzzling idea is that you send a message to yourself back in time. >> yeah. >> stephen: if you patrick stewart could send a message back to younger patrick stewart, what would you warn patrick stewart about patrick stewart's future. >> very, very simple. >> stephen: what. >> because i -- have much fun when i was a kid. i was always responsible. i was made a prefect at school two years earl early. >> did you go to hog warts? >> no, no. >> it is painful you should bring that up, you know. because i mean ian mckelan and myself, wouldn't you think that we were shoe-ins for the harry potter movie? >> stephen: well, i got to say. >> not one phone call. >> stephen: i got to

jon stewart. oh, my god see you all i need to look at the program. indeed. so jack garden is going to come up here and talk about this from the jon stewart company (clapping.) well, that's what you get when you work for a company that's named after a man they call all of us jon stewart all the time and it was producing for me when someone called him jack. let's rearrange the next time for speakers thank you ymca so i'm honored to be able to say i was one of the village people with the leader the speaking and mayor and bust a circled move on behalf of everybody up here. thanks to mechanic and thanks to the mayor and commissioner torres and nancy pelosi and all the previous speakers for their comments and support it's hard to revoke all the supporters we're very honored to have the housing authority and commissioners and former ocii commissioners the director of planning and so many help us celebrate the grand opening of the new hunter's view. phase one we're celebrating here today one hundred and 7 brand new units is 14 percent of new unit that are going to b

we also had patrick stewart here. actor patrick stewart was here talking about x-men which was very exciting. and one of the things we do on the show when we have a band like we did last night, is while the band is setting up, it takes a while. so i'll go into the audience and do a q and a. i'll just see if anybody in the audience has something to ask me. so the first guy asked a question. 'cause i will say usually the questions are very similar. this was a question i had never heard before because it was very specific for patrick stewart. "hey, what are you doing? you got captain jean luc-picard and you didn't ask any star trek questions." [ laughter ] he seemed really hurt. so i politely sort of told him, you know, that wasn't really what he was here to talk about. and he's done so many other things, it would have been rude to talk about a thing he hasn't done for a very long time. and then i started asking other people some questions. then i got curious and i went back to him. and i said, out of curiosity, what wou

stewart finishes up his service. here's matt. >> jimmie said he didn't like the car on four tires.ustment and fuel for the 48. >> splash and go. >> that's it, brother. >> for jimmie johnson. >> pretty nice call. >> ricky stenhouse and jeff gordon. is now .8 a second up on the number 4. >> i've been watching these two guys here. i figure it filters back to them sooner or later. 4 car, kevin tried and tried and realized he can't get around jeff gordon. he cooled his jets right now. make a late run at him or not. the 24 is the best car. >> the two leaders, brad keselowski and denny hamlin have yet to make their stop. ten laps to go, keselowski is the leader and the trend not in his favor. >> mike, when i look at his lap times he's not slowed down that much. denny hamlin, he has nine laps to go. i've not seen brad keselowski and paul wolf slow their pace down with this 2 door indicate they will go to the end snoorn what he did. he's done it before, keselowski has. of course he was kicking the thing out of gear and coasting, but remember they got a lap down early in this race. wait a mi

give stewart a patriot hen? >> yeah. i have done a lot of stuff with stewart. he's fundamentally a good guy. >> last one, eric bolling? >> who? >> i'm not going to answer that. you're doing a nice job. you and your little friends on the fox. >> cashing in. >> yeah, cashing in, whatever show else you have on. every time i turn around you're on the air. but i think the five i trained the producer that runs that show. >> that's right. >> she's doing a nice job. >> eric bolling is smart -- have you ever said -- >> no, i say that to pretty much everybody. they buy it. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> cashin in man. >> love it. >> you can continue the conversation right now #cashin in. here's a couple. way to call out colbert on his weak alleged humor. why is it bad for oil companies to make 4% profit on a gallon of gas but it's okay for the government to tax the same government at 15%. and alabama fan 2 says i know i'm not the only one that talks at the tv while watching cashinin. spot out. is the benghazi cover up a big reason why americans don't

jon stewart. i do want to commend our president this is his department of hud and the rest wanted to see what really worked and we know how proud of the collaboration we've also had in san francisco i'm happy to report to him we want to report this not only in san francisco but cross the country so residents as i enjoy our new home that receptors your dignity knows that you there the collaboration you gave us to do this right is going to serve other people across the country that enables to us do the same i join you mayor in expressing the sadness in susan value, of course, your respect is for them. seems like yesterday we were here from the groundbreaking and the developers deserve a great amount of credit it goes to show you what a sense of community can do and remember in that word community is the word unit. we come together and find our consensus our goals and respect for the people who we serve the unit i didn't have purpose is something that maximums san francisco great thanks to edge who's

talking shop with martha stewart. what the entrepreuner has to say about the push to be all american. that's after this break! can be awkward and uncomfortable. but when their behavior changes, it's time to act. because if we don't, our families and relationships will suffer. listen to the veterans in your life and show you care. it matters. when you recognize a veteran is in crisis, call the veterans crisis line at 1-800-273-8255 and press "1". as we celebrate national small business week, martha stewart -- is crafting advice to entreprenuers-- on how to build a brand... "you have to build up, first, trust.you have to make sure your products are manufactured to your specifications and not belittled by manufacturing glitches, et cetera et cetera. you want to make sure that they are distributed appropriately and that the factories in which they are made are clean, and good, and healthy, and treat the workers very nicely." stewart has written several bestselling books, published martha stewart living magazine and hosted

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is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome. [cheers and applause] welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. we got a good one for you tonight. guest tonight peter schuck. he is the author of "why government fails so often and what we can do about it." but first, as we all know ever since they very innocently crashed our entire economy through purposeful and fraudulent activities -- [laughter] -- banks and the bankers who bank them -- [laughter] -- have weathered attacked from all corners. >> the government is waging war on banks. >> they say wall street is guilty that your fortunes are where they are now because of wall street. >> people want to see bankers in handcuffs going to prison. >> jon: as as though seeing them punished appropriately would be somehow just or right. [ laughter ] well, guess what? the vampires finally got their blood. his name is kareem and his bankers lied about the mortgage backed security and he knew about that and look

"the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. good one tonight. my guest author william cohan to talk about the duke lacrosse scannedel, the price of silence. it costs $3.99. that's right. there's breaking news in the case of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. he has come under fire for his thoughts on the instagram-ability of -- i guess you could call it girlfriend/black person friendship. >> effective immediately, i am banning mr. sterling for life. [cheers and applause] >> jon: yes! >> from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jon: wow. so much excitement out there. so much excitement out there from the entire world and even apartly the past. [ laughter ] -- apparently the past. it's good to see the distinction between free speech and consequence free speech. my guest is this is not the death nell for this long and proud tradition of crazy talk. >> if i were in

when you and patrick stewart, am i giving-- should i -- >> no, no. you can, you can.railer. no, do. >> when wolverine comes back and you die, what-- . >> jon: i'm quiding, that doesn't happen. >> in the head. >> jon: did you-- how did you guys play that idea, how did you play the idea that you are a young him, clearly your hair is still there. >> it, it is. >> well, you know there is no point in going back to the 60s and 70s if they weren't different and we looked at everything that patrick did and tried to do something as far away from that as possible. not because he did a bad job. he did an incredible job, but so we can then move towards it over the course of move yeast. so the obvious was no hair, i'm going have hair. and he was really nice to everybody i'm going to be really nasty. so honestly it was that simple. >> was the best part a bit going against yourself you and patrick. >> oh, i see what you are saying is that you what do when you read x-men comics. i have been pushing this movie for two weeks now and i realize about myself i'm just a walking joke. i've

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jon stewart is considered one of america's top young comedians.ed his own nighttime talk show for mtv aptly titled "the jon stewart show." there's a lot more about jon stewart that i could tell you, but one of the nicest things is simply this. he showed up when someone else didn't. >> once upon a time no one in washington knew who this jon stewart guy was so he had to get the big windup comic call here's a guy you've never heard of intro, but in the end they were happy to have him and he was obviously very happy to have the gig. >> i am very happy to be here, and let me just say -- -- jon stewart was the third choice to headline the white house correspondents' dinner in 1997. rosie o'donnell was asked and she said no. dennis miller was asked and he said no. they found this guy jon stewart to do the white house correspondents' dinner and look what he became. hold that thought. we've got more coming up. stay with us. [ female announcer ] grow, it's what we do. but when we put something in the ground, feed it, and care for it, don't we grow something

. -- "the daily show" with jon stewart.rs and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. good one tonight. my guest author william cohan to talk about the duke lacrosse scannedel, the price of silence. it costs $3.99. that's right. there's breaking news in the case of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. he has come under fire for his thoughts on the instagram-ability of -- i guess you could call it girlfriend/black person friendship. >> effective immediately, i am banning mr. sterling for life. [cheers and applause] >> jon: yes! >> from any association with the clippers organization or the nba. [cheers and applause] ♪

there is a lot more about jon stewart i could tell you.t things is simply this -- he showed up when some one else didn't. >> once upon a time, no one in washington knew who this jon stewart guy was. so he had to get the big wind up comic comical, a guy you have never heard of intro. in the end they were happy to have him and he was very obviously happy to have the gig. >> i am very happy to be here. let me say this is the nicest seder i have ever been to. >> jon stewart, young, pre-"daily show." the third choice how to headline the white house correspondents dinner in the year 1997. rosie o'donnell was asked. she said no. dennis miller was asked. and he said no. and so, they found this guy, jon stewart. to do the white house correspondents' dinner. and then look what he became. hold that thought. we have more coming up. stay with us. (music) defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. calcium citrate plus d. highly soluble, easily absorbed. but when we put something in the ground, feed it, and care for it, don't w

it has been a busy few years. >> where is the best ways that adam stewart -- place that adam stewartikes to go? >> we have a beautiful hotel in the bahamas. used to be a four seasons. we purchased the hotel. we spend $40 million on it, putting in huge pools and six additional restaurants. for me, it is only a 40-minute flight from florida, but you feel like you are in the middle of nowhere. you can escape the world and the water is like nothing you have ever seen before. >> all of this does cost money. can you give us an idea of how you are paying for all of this? >> privately held. as a private organization, there are no dividends paid to anyone beyond the business itself. we reinject literally everything we make in this company back into the business year after year. and of course, we do bank financing, typical bank financing. we have very little debt to asset ratios, and we just keep reinvesting. this is what we do. we roam the caribbean. we know the beaches better than anyone, and our entire life is creating amazing resorts. >> what is the biggest challenge working in a family bu

news headquarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewart captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) >> jon: thank you, welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. good show tonight. professor x, you may think to yourself oh -- james mcavoy is professor x. (laughter) [bleep] you may remember a few weeks ago on the program, dow watch the program? (laughter) or you may not remember, you may have been watching basketball. we addressed a minor incident in our otherwise spotless department of veterans affairs. something about the phoenix va workers falsifying patient waiting lists so that it didn't seem like veterans had long waits before seeing doctors. (laughter) but you know t was a good system give or take a couple of scores of veterans we may have killed. i got so mad that i screamed into this jar t is a swear jar that i would scream into. it's pretty full now, unfortunately. let me just-- [bleep] (laughter) [bleep]. >> jon: i think that might have been a three syllable one, i don't know. well, good news, according to va secretary eric shinseki's

-- this is "the daily show" with jon stewart.ng playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome. [cheers and applause] welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. we got a good one for you tonight. guest tonight peter schuck. he is the author of "why government fails so often and what we can do about it." but first, as we all know ever

gary stewart claims he is the son of the killer who was never caught.he man who was adopted as a child obtained a photo when he searched for his biological father a man named earl van best junior and saw a police sketch of the suspect from the 1969 wanted poster. >> i think i let out an audible scream, noise, and my son zach comes out of his room and looks at me fixed on the television. and he says, hey, dad, it's you. >> stewart said no, actually, it's his father. stewart has written a book about his discovery. >>> a family is upset with a catholic high school in san francisco because of a yearbook high school. jessica urbina wore a tuxedo but the school won't use it because it violates the dress code. kpix 5 was unable to get official comment from the school. sacred heart cathedral prep. your bean in a's family hopes to have a meeting with the school to work out a solution. >>> some students in contra costa county are getting a lesson in technology and you can benefit from it. this weekend students at a de anza high school information tech academy in

rush limbaugh was made fun of by jon stewart last night. tell me what this hash tag is going to do to help these girls if we're going to rescue them. what's it take? then i'll get your response. >> so that's our choice. the quivering rage heap who is apparently desperately trying to extingish every model of humanity that was his soul. who should we choose? why don't we tweet our votes to hash tag [ bleep ] rush. >> is jon stewart going to support the idea of special forces going in to rescue them? i would support it if we had a reasonable chance of success. i don't know if the white house agrees with me. >> i'd like to get those 276 girls back, sean, and hire them as replacement writers for jon stewart because they couldn't do a worse job than his writing stuff. i'm serious here. i'd like to get those girls back alive. >> of course, who wouldn't? >> i want them back alive, but a tweet and a hash tag isn't going to get them back alive. jon stewart should get serious. it's not about you or me. it's about the president of the world's super pow

gary stewart's father died in 1984.ays forensic experts have matched his father's handwriting to cryptic notes the killer left behind. so far san francisco police have not reviewed the book, but they have investigated and cleared more than 2500 other suspects. the killer claims he murdered as many as 37 people. but the evidence, including letters and cards the killer sent to the press and swatches of bloody clothe having baffled detectives. as of today the zodiac killer has only been officially connected to five deaths. >> i see him pull his knife and just kind of in one fell swoop, i feel the knife buried in my back. >> reporter: bryan hartnell was stabbed eight times while he was picnicking with his girlfriend. in 2007, he spoke to cnn's dan simon about the attacker. >> he had some clip-on glasses that were either affixed to the hood or affixed to glasses underneath. the circle on the chest was a perfectly formed circle. >> reporter: in an e-mail to cnn, hartnell says he is skeptical about this latest claim saying the

coming up on the five, jon stewa stewart. >> we're watching homes burn to the ground. live pictures coming to us for our station fox 5 in san diego. the air droppers and water droppers are up. moments ago we're watching three homes burned to the ground. we believe that's six strurkts now burning across the area. the smokenodos. reporters are scene. a home after home in this area and that has been the concern all day that these fierce winds coming off the desert to the sea would cause this and it has. right now, the evacuation order has gone to 15,000 homes and businesses, two elementary schools and a middle school have been evacuated and the fire danger extremely high all across the san diego carlsbad area. there's one burning along the 5 freeway. "the five" will be back right after this commercial message. when jake and i first set out on our own, we ate anything. but in time you realize the bett you eat, the better you feel. these days we both eat smarter. and i give jake purina cat chow naturals. made with real chicken and salmon, anit's high in protein like aow cat

stewart was abandoned and then adopted as a child.found handwriting and physical evidence that his father is the zodiac killer including a scar on a fingerprint found at one of the murder sites. san francisco police meantime say they are looking into the claims made in stewart's book. live in the newsroom, anne makovec, kpix 5. >>> hackers are targeting an electronic road sign in san francisco. >> take a look. this sign on van ness yesterday, it reads godzilla attack, turn back! i think godzilla would delay traffic a little bit. [ laughter ] >> well, they put on a new lock and it is changed. >> i don't think godzilla is out there today, right, elizabeth? >> no, no godzillas on the road. that would be a good marriage proposal idea wouldn't it? hack into a system, will you marry me, just me? silence. [ laughter ] >>> let's go outside. you know, i have to say today is overall a much better commute than any other day this week. we have had several very busy days on the roads as far as accidents go. right now, it's at very "friday light."

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gary stewart, thank you for talking to us and sharing the story.o find out if the police jump on this and actually continue this cold case and get a solution to it. gary was joining us live from baton rouge, louisiana. erin burnett, my colleague, will have more on this story on her program tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. >>> the saga of the clippers owner donald steriling who just can't stop talking. what he says has great effect, especially on that man, magic johnson, who is now speaking out, again, exclusively to our anderson cooper. you'll hear what he has to say about all the awful things sterling charged him with. honestly, the off-season isn't really off for me. i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. with skype, it's just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. alright, russell you are good to go! alright, fellas. alright, russ. back to work! ugh. heartbur

i'm jon stewart! my guest tonight, drew barrymore.ut we begin with the department of veterans affairs and the seemingly unending problems with providing timely medical care with some hospitals going so far as to actively cover up the problem. a situation best summed up thusly -- >> (bleep)! >> jon: that sounds right. by the way, no one is more upset about this than thy i don't understand of the republican senate. >> the v.a. issue is an embarrassment and the president's response is an emapartment. >> he needs to treat these stories at least as seriously as the obamacare web site fiasco. >> jon: oh, takes the v.a., turns it into obam obamacare! yes, these republican senators have always stood up for our veterans! when they think it can help them slam the president. slightly different when they think no one's watching. >> a bill to extend healthcare and education for veterans getting we jected in the senate, a lack of support from republicans doomed this bill. >> jon: what? you might say the lack of support of the bill from republicans

my name is jon stewart. we have a nice show tonight.oung david spade will be joining us later for a lovely conversation. as you know, our good friends over at the fox news network are somewhat obsessed with a certain topic. i'll give you a hint. it starts with b three syllables. >> benghazi,. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> jon: new york city but i can see where you might have got than impression. no new york city. it's a different three syllable syllable -- no, no, it's a different three syllable b word. >> beyonce. >> jon: yeah, beyonce. [ laughter ] as the singer herself has been mispronouncing it all these year beyonce. maybe it's not all of fox news but our good friend william o'reilly has a somewhat particular beef with miss bey. >> as you know i've been critical of beyonce for putting out music and videos that are libertine in tone. [ laughter ] >> jon: there's very little in this world that i like better than an upset bill o'reilly because the tone is such -- it's a levittown quut a sousicant of harvard served on a bed of nostalgic

you with on jon stewart's show, "the daily show," and this is something, a two-part. let me stick with a little platoons. jon stewart picked upon that statement and the idea of communities solving problems. he then took the words, played with a little bit and basically made you sound as though you endorse community activism. he really -- that's what the left does magically. you talking about churches and civic groups helping one another in small communities. he turned into well, that's what barack obama is. >> he organizes to get something from government. americans organize to do things themselves, and tocqueville noted that about our country and taking over in the early 1800 1800s. he was almost stunned that when americans saw a problem, instead of telling the government to do, they found a few friends and neighbors to solve the problem themselves. it's not only what works in the community. edmund burke used the quote little platoons pointing out that creates what he calls affection for each other and that public affection we have for our country. you really don't d

joining me by phone in maryland, stewart picky, he's an executive and a retired marine. and your reaction? >> well, i'm not surprised. but i am however saddened that general shinseki is no longer the head of the va. he was making reforms in the system and trying to update it to the 21st century, digitizing claims and doing all of those things. but it was too much political pressure. and he did the honorable thing. >> and that seems to be the irony in this, which is that your organization supported him staying on, and also the american legion, your counterpart, which had been calling for him to resign, thought that he should say at least until things were fixed. >> yes. well, that's the thing, the person who is leaving is the wrong person. and we would -- i know i pled with the secretary to fire some people down below him that i didn't think were serving him very well, or the american veterans very well. and he seemed to be reluctant to do it, for whatever reason. >> i want you to listen to the secretary, at least the former secretary this morning, speaking to a group of

i'm jon stewart. my guest tonight: ron suskind, author of "life animated: a story of sidekicks, heroes and autism." very interesting. now we turn to the troubling state of our democracy which, having hit some tough times, has been left with no choice but to sell its body to the highest bidder. >> the koch brothers, the industrial magnates currently tied for fourth on forbes list of richest americans with $36 billion apiece. in 2012, the koch brothers political network raised $400 million to support conservative causes. >> raised -- raised -- found -- found in the koch brothers conservative club house couch cushion. by the way -- for 400 million couldn't you buy your own damn country? you could rule it any way you want. no pants tuesdays? done! thankfully, one member of congress is putting foot down and his dukes up. >> the top democrat in the u.s. senate, majority leader harry reid, has now mentioned the billionaire koch brothers this year more than 140 times. >> they are in it to make money. any atte