laughter wasnt really that big a deal am i was brought through the secret white house tunnel entrance at mt. Rushmore. It was a round table meeting with the president , elvis, still alive, minister farrakhan and the area 51 alien. But i remember, we opened with the traditional fall prayer, sukd on the blood of the rightous and took turns [bleep] the replica of the reagan eye socket oh, wait, i should tell you its with a rep i will ka. The real reagan eye socket is kept in the smithsonian and is only [bleep] on christmas. laughter wow but anyway, the wol secret thing pages it sound sinsters but if you guys insist, it was a secret. Jon ste wrt was invited into the oval office not once but twice. Secret meetings were they . Well, not necessarily secret because it is on the log. Theyre just kind of coming out now, stewart, so depends on how you look at it. Jon right. So i guess if you looked at it, then its not a secret. laughter jon like if you looked at it that it was openly listed and i went through the normal white house entrance like everybody else and i toll my mom what i was doing and she told her friends and her friends are like, still not a cardiologist. But the point is this. Something is not a secret just because you dont know about it. Now the saddest part is the media has got a serious case of the fomo. We just dont know what they talked about. If only you could be a fly on the wall during those meetings. Yeah. Jon let me tell i something, you do not want to be a fly anywhere near president obama. Nice. There it is. Jon by the way, the name of that bug, osama bin flyin, and i think you know the rest of the story. So i assume that the insinuation here is i was summoned to the white house so obama and i could coordinate on his agenda, maybe promoting obamacare or the auto bailout or Something Like that. What is your evidence. Last year the president chatted up stewart hours before warning russia against further military intervention in ukraine. And stewart who seemingly worked in concert with the white house said this on his very next show. Russian forces storming ukrainian base, that is blatant naked aggression or at the very least disturbingly shirtless aggression, yeah. The next daily show there was jon stewart making fun of vladimir putin. And so it worked from the white houses point of view. Interesting. Jon interesting. So you believe as Russian Troops gathered at the border of the ukraine, obama summoned me laughter just in case he needed help turning Young Americans against putin. So then the president had me go back in time and do [bleep] of other antiputin headlines from years earlier so nobody would suspect i didnt care for vladimir putin. But let me tell you how this happened. The president asked me to come to washington. And i did. Because if the president tells you, and you dont, who the [bleep] knows what would happen. And by the way, to all future president s, if you ask me to come to washington, i will do that. Because i have no idea how to react to that other than, what time . And heres how the meetings went. This is what happened. We spent about five to seven minutes with obama kind of scolding me, not to turn Young Americans cynical. And i spent about five to seven minutes explaining to him im actually skeptically idealistic and smiling like this. And then we spent about 45 minutes arguing about really, the v 8 cant be fixed any quicker or health care. Com cant come on line without crashing my sons minecraft game and the whole thing basically takes place over some of truly the best salomon you have ever had. So really, remember my interview with obama last week, it was that. But with salomon. In fact, dont even bother managing it, well do it for you. We have not been able to demonstrate at gillity no, no, no, no. The reason they are going back up is i told you you have 2. 7 million new folks coming in. It is going to add people. Hold on a second. laughter now i can understand there are some folks at fox who are concerned that any meeting i take with a powerful individual should be disclosed, les it be considered possible cole use. Let me collusion, let me tell you this, i have been summoned by a surprisingly wide variety of individuals over the years, from tech giants, to financial captains, to billy joel, true. And the general thrust of all of those meetings or phone conversations are the same. Basically its this. Jon, why are you such an asshole. laughter it was true of the meeting with the president , and its been true of the meetings with all those people. And this would be of interest to many of them. In fact, there was one particular meeting that was actually secret, until an intrepid prefox howard kurtses blew the whistle on it when i was summoned by roger ailes to his office. Just like my meeting with the president. Except where the president had his people reach out to me by phone, for this meeting a raven woke me up at midnight. laughter anyway, heres a quick snippet of what that conversation was like. They didnt. I didnt understand or enjoy it but im sure it was profound. Was the president of the United States trying to influence or intimidate or flatter me . My guess is uhhuh. Did it work . I dont know. It sinister. I dont blaep blooep know. In my entire tenure at being yelled at by powerful and influential individuals and billy joel laughter only, this is true, only with one of those people has a phone call ever ended with, quote, this conversation never happened. And if you say it did, did i will deny it. And it wasnt the [bleep] president. I will tell you what. What is wild to me is just how far and quickly this story spread, unquestioned. Even though the article that it was based on if politico contain pretty basic factual errors. For instance political referred to our executive producer at scott budow, a man who i have known all this time as steve bodow. And whose name has been fact checked by our credits every night the show airs. But you know, maybe the show is wrong. Hey, can you come out here for a second. Hey, jon. Steve, is your name scott budow. No, its actually steve bodow. Jon who is scott budow. Well, according to linkedin, scott budow is a manager at tricounty auto glass in santa barbara. And scott. Jon lets see him. Hey. cheers and applause hey, scott budow, thanks for the plug, i will take it from here. Is your windshield in need of a repair. Do you happen to live in santa barbara, then come to tricounty auto glass, southern Central Coast auto glass replacement experts. Jon sorry to interrupt here. 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Blue razz, chocolate strawbs, and cinna roll and the winner is. belches blaaaaaaahhhh. Yeah. Tadaaa crazy good jon welcome back. As i wind down my time here, i leave this show knowing that most of the worlds problems have been solved by us, the daily show. But sadly, there are still some dark corners that are bloom of justice has not reached yet. Until now, jordan kleppers report. In todays pc world it seems like everyone is trying to be a bit more tolerant. But in one stubborn town in rural red state arkansas, discrimination is on the rise. Worst of all, the local city council refuses to open their eyes to the towns bigotry. We do not discriminate in Eureka Springs. Everybody is accepted for who they are. If you are a seven foot tall man and you want to parade in town barefoot wearing a purple dress, thats fine. Oh, really . Tell that to local resident randall christie. There is discrimination everywhere, there always has been. I doubt there ever will be a time when theres not discrimination. You are facing discrimination here because are you jewish . No, im facing discrimination here because youre black . I pastor a church. The people being discriminated against here are crist yens . Yes. Thats right. In arkansas where crist yens make up a meager 86 of the population, pastor cristie feels discrimination because Eureka Springs passed ordinance 2223. The ordinance prohibits discrimination based on a persons Sexual Orientation and gender identity. This backyard town actually voted to protect the lgbt community. I did take a vocal stand against 2223. This law deliberately discriminates against the church. They have a paragraph regulating church hiring practices. Nobody is taking away the churchs right to do anything. They are not a part of this ordinance. Theyre not included in this ordinance. It has absolutely nothing to do with churches. Okay, though the church is excluded from this law and pastor christie can hire any one he wants. While the town didnt take away his church or ban public displays of christianity or shut down his enormous passion play or remove his 66 foot christ of the ozark statue or stop him from expressing himself in local papers, online an through ads plasters around town, he is still under attack. When we passed ordinance 2223, the religious conservatives were so up set about this because they are antigay. They descended on us like a plague of locusts. Okay, first of all, you cant use plague of locusts. Thats a bible thing. Thats not yours. Okay. And secondly, why are you being so mean to these poor religious people. These poor religious people are mean to us. They write letters to the editor. They march up and down the Street Holding signs saying divorce is evil. Maybe thats because they have to contend with the night marrish hell scape sin palace thunder dome of gay that is Eureka Springs. The energy of downtown in your experience has changed a lot since the influx of lgbt, it really has. There used to be more family oriented shops than there are now. What are the types of shops that have come up that are more gay oriented, less family oriented . laughter theres a few. We dont have open displays of home secretaries how do you openly display that are you homosexual . You open up gay stores. We dont have we have stores that are owned by gay people but theyre not gay stores. I really dont understand what are you talking about. Well, there are stores that sell like interesting rugs. Rugs. In your face lesbianism or what about that cute little gellato store, which that screams in your face, accept me now homosexuality. Gelato, that is kind of an ice cream, ice cream is not gender neutral . These laws that protect gender expression allow biological males to go wherever they want, biological females to go wherever they want depending on how they are expressing their gender that day. It is happening, you know. What is happening. There are people that walk that the rest rooms and someone in the opposite sex is in that rest room. Doing what . Evidently using the rest room. And then what . I dont know but thats a problem for some people. Im not quite clear sure what bathrooms have to do with this. But for some reason, conservative religious people are terribleably hung up on bathrooms. The antidiscrimination ordinance is backed by the vast majority of local residents and he is unable to escape the constant reminder of the lgbts presence. They start pushing their lifestyle in other peoples faces. They hang out their flag. You know, the old adage of hanging out your shingle. Yeah. It always feels like it is just looming over you. Ef lee where you go. Everywhere you go. Jordan klepper, well be right back. If you cant stand the heat, get off the test track. Get the mercedesbenz youve been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedesbenz dealer. Hurry, before this opportunity cools off. Share your summer moments in your mercedesbenz with us. Chaers plaus. Jon welcome back. My guest tonight, best selling author, president ial historian, best selling book Lyndon Johnson and the american dream, to become available as an ebook on august 4th am please welcome back to our program doris kearns goodwin, come out here, doris. applause how are you . Here is what we are going to do. Well talk a little modern politics and then a little lbj. We are in a situation right now, we have a republican primary with 16 candidates. Yourself as an historian, have youive seen a primary field that is 16 people deep . Is this, how unprecedented is this . Never have i seen it. Never, ever, ever. Jon its never happened. As far as i know. Are you going to put up something that shows that it has. Jon no, no, no. But what is going on . Well, heres the crazy thing. You know, the first president ial primary was in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt wanted to be president and taft was already president. So he needed a primary because taft had control of the party machinery. They started yelling at each other so much, calling each other puzzle whips, fat heads, that the New York Times wrote an editorial saying if this is the first president ial primary, it should be the last. It should make every american blush. So they said lets go back to the Convention System which was rational. In the summer you nominate somebody. Two months in the fall and its over. I would go back to that tomorrow. You must love it, but i mean its too long. Jon i mean its destroying our country from the inside, its corrosive, you must love it but the thing is, but completely understandable. I wonder about this, Citizens United opened the process up to billionaires and multimillionaires of all stripes. And i wonder if these candidates are able to in the absence of what appears to be any popular support, stay in because they have got a backer. And backers can help you ride. Thats the horse metaphor, somebody is betting on them. I think if i were young now, the thing i would do more than anything was to fight for an amendment under Citizens United. And that is one of the things you should do too. Remember we talked about writing a book together. Jon yeah. It is the most poisonous thing happening in our system that money is doing everything. They are spending all their time raising funds. Its ridiculous. Jon here is what is so wonderful about that. I think it speaks to the goodness in you. Whofern you said i wish i was young because i would fight for that. If i wished i were young, i would run around naked. Well, i might do that too. While im fighting for that. Jon okay, sure, i just want to point out the disparity in how we care about people. And the other thing, as an historian, how do you deal with this influx of email as historical record . And the ability for that to be be he raised, Hillary Clinton had a server in her house. As an historian, what are we going to deal with as far as an historical record. And i use an historical to sound smarter. You know, its a real problem because for us historians the most important thing in the old days were letters and diaries. They dont keep them any more, rightment handwritten letters, diaries. We depend on e mates. The one period that was totally gone from history is the telephone period. You call somebody up on the phone, you never have a record except if are you Lyndon Johnson and you do the tapes. Jon or nixon. Here say great story. So Lyndon Johnson has this little tape machine in his oval office, he presses the button. You listen to these tapes, you will love them if you havent listened. There is one where he is talking to his trouser manufacture. Jon he has a trouser manufacturer. And he wants 12 pairs of trouser but he said i have a problem. I vary my weight each month so i go up 10 or 15 pounds. Do you know that area where the croc is, you know, where the balls hang down, sometimes if its too tight, you know, it is like a wire fence i feel like im sitting on and that other area where the bum hole s sometimes that is too type, this is the president. Jon its he itss on tape. Its on tape and as a historian you love it. Jon now that is an exhibit in his library i dont remember. But then you get to know the guy. No, but seriously, you need to know the personal and the public together. The other story that happened, i met this guy who was the c. E. O. Of pepsicolaa. So he told me knew Lyndon Johnson but didnt know nixon. When nixon first became president so nixon asked him to go to general son ranch to talk about a prave at matter. He is grumpy and said how can i remember what happened 20, 30 years ago. I had this tape machine, pressed the button. Those chapters are great. You go back and tell your friend Richard Nixon as he starts his presidency, nothing more important than a taping. Jon it was johnsons fault. It was johnson. Jon incredible. applause jon doris kearns goodwin, i love you. Thank you so much for being with us. Even the people that did the letters and diaries knew they were writing for history, so i imagine that was pointed it seemed like jefferson and adams always knew they were writing for each other but for history, im a great man who doesnt like slavery. So you never know with that stuff. You never know. But at least its a he handwritten and you save it at the end of the day and they are writing their stuff. Jon and they know to say the bum hole what about very nice to see you, Lyndon Johnson and the american dream, available on ebooks august 4th doris kearns goodwin, everybody. 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