Television will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Hello im jake tapper in washington, d. C. , where the state of our union is up for debate. Just four days from now, the republican president ial field will have its first chance to engage in facetoface rhetorical combat. The top ten contenders as decided by poll also line up on stage for the first debate. We are still waiting to see who will make the final cut. And then the big question, of course, how will they handle donald trump . Will the leading candidate bring his flair for, shall we call it, drama, to the debate stage . No one knows what and how the billionaire, who has never debated will respond to a challenge such as this. Theres no denying, of course, his growing lead among the republican pack. And if the other candidates want the partys nod, trump is now the one they need to take down. First among them, perhaps, governor Chris Christie. Whose strength at the end of last year was undeniable, and whose support trump is eating away at. One poll suggests if trump were not in the race, christie would be in the top three in New Hampshire. But as of today, we still dont know if christie will make the cut for thursdays debate. I asked him about it on the campaign trail in dubuque, iowa. Thanks so much for joining us. Normally i know when reporters bring up polls its horse race question, and politicians, and media critics look down on it. But it actually is important in terms of whether or not the ten Top Republican candidates get on the debate stage. And i know you want to be on the debate stage. Yep. My understanding is youre kind of on the bubble right now. Youll probably make it but you might not. Are you worried . No, ill make it. I feel pretty good. You know, ill be very happy after the ten names come out and im in there. I think its important. Its an Important Forum for me and for every one of us who is going to be on that stage. Once you get on the stage its not going to matter whether youre number one, number five or number ten. Youre going to have your opportunity to make your pitch to the republican primary voters across america. Thats what i intend to do and im confident ill be there on thursday night. What do you make of the fact that the people who are leading in the polls, donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, who you characterize as being vague, what theyre doing seems to be working, and what youre doing with your specifics does not right now. Lets all take a deep breath. Four years ago herman cane was winning right now. Eight years ago Rudy Giuliani was running right now. I think we all need to take a deep breath. Campaigns matter. What you do matters. It doesnt happen overnight. These folks in iowa and New Hampshire are notorious late deciders on what theyre going to do. They want to hear everybody, they want to see everybody. They want to digest all this decisions. Then theyll make i think the fact when weve been this specific for this long is going to make it a benefit to us. Leading nationally. Leading in New Hampshire. Doing well in iowa is businessman, your friend, donald trump. Rand paul was recently asked about the fact that trump is ahead in polls. And rand paul wrote, i think this is a temporary sort of loss of sanity, but were going to come back to our senses and look for somebody serious to lead the country at some point. Do you think dr. Paul is diagnosing the problem correctly . No, i dont. Listen, i think that donald is going to be as serious a candidate as donald wants to be. And hes going to determine, through the depth of his answers, and the seriousness of his answers, whether hes a serious candidate or he isnt. Thats what i mean by campaigns matter. Anybody can do well for a month. In this business. Especially if you have talent and you have personality. Donald has both those things. Lets see how it goes over the course of time. I think dr. Pauls diagnosis is premature. Well see whats going to happen. Had a conversation with a voter who was asking about your record on guns. You said to him, im still waiting for one fact about me being antigun. Give me one. One fact. You got one. Back in 2009 when you were running for governor sean hannity asked you for an area where you might be moderate to left. This is obviously running for governor of new jersey. Not for the republican primary in iowa or New Hampshire. And you said, guns was an area where you would be moderate to left. Im a Law Enforcement guy. And so i always believe in making sure that Public Safety comes first. But much of what ive seen over the last six years in the gun area has not been about Public Safety. Its been about grandstanding by politicians. And thats why i vetoed the rifle ban, thats why i vetoed a reduction in the magazine capacity from 15 to 10. Thats why i vetoed a statewide i. D. Card for gun owners. Those things are not about doing anything with Public Safety. Ive always believed that Public Safety is paramount. Weve got to make sure that we keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. Thats what i meant when i talked to sean. And thats what i mean today. But you did earlier in your career support the ban on what gun control advocates called assault womenens. Yeah, when i was 31 years old. You dont support that anymore . Listen, i think its a lot more complicated than i thought it was at 31 years old and ive learned a lot in the last 21 years. So yeah a long time ago by the way, ive changed a lot of my positions over time. Heres the thing. If youre thinking, breathing human being, and Life Experience is something you take in, and you never change your mind, then youre stubborn. Ive learned from all my public service, positions i have today are positions that come from a long time, nearly 20 years in public life. And i think everybody should take that moment to be able to figure out where they stand after all their lives experiences. So the only thing somebody could point to is something 20 years ago, that means ive been fairly accident for the last 19. There have been a lot of cases this, especially recently in cincinnati we saw recently, with traffic pullover that ended up with a black man dead killed by a police officer. We saw the sandra bland incident in texas. Do we have a problem here . Is there a problem nationally with police not treating africanamericans fairly . I think theres a problem across the country with our citizens and our police force interacting with each other in a positive, constructive way. And weve seen it manifest itself in those examples and others you could talk about that thats happened. We need to engage in a different way. And see what weve done where weve brought in an entirely Different Police force and trained them in a different way. Theyre on foot, theyre on bicycles. Theyre doing town Hall Meetings with the citizens where they talk about these issues. There will always be some Police Officers that dont act appropriately and be some citizens that dont act appropriately towards Police Officers. We have a bigger problem. And that is reteaching both the community, and the police force, on how to work together. On friday, a number of candidates went to the urban league and gave speeches, Hillary Clinton said quote race still plays a significant role in determining who gets ahead in america, and who gets left behind. Do you agree . I think that there are still racism in our society. But look at charleston. And know that theres still racism in our society. And every leader in our country should be speaking out against that. And should be doing everything that we can to provide opportunity for everyone. Regardless of your race or your ethnicity. Or your gender. So i think we still have work to do. We are much better off as a country than we were 40 or 50 years ago. We still have a lot of work to do. And theres still racism in our country. For that leaders have to speak out and be strong. And i think we have to continue to do that if were going to be credible as a leader in, you know, america in the 21st century. With all these against planned parenthood. Ted cruz says hes willing to force a government shutdown. To defund planned parenthood. Would you go that far . We should just defund planned parenthood. We shouldnt be throwing around threats like that. It doesnt help. We didnt do too well when we shut down the government the last time. We should be very firm as a party that this type of conduct by an organization, the harvesting and selling of fetal body parts, is just deplorable. Planned parenthoods response is that the tapes are misleading and that none of the federal funding goes to pay for abortion, its all for cancer screening, and reproductive rights. All money is spongeable, jake and they cant say none of the money goes towards abortion. Of course it does. Of course it does. Money comes into planned parenthood and it is fundable. They can spend it on what they wish. In an interview this week with cnns dana bash mr. Trump called for deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, and then letting what he called the good ones come back through an expedited process what should be done about the 11 million or so that are already here . Listen, first of all, ive had seven years of Law Enforcement as u. S. Attorney. There are not enough Law Enforcement officers, local, county, state and federal combined to forcibly deport 11 million to 12 million people. I mean, this is like building a 2,000 mile wall across the border that mexicos going to pay for. It sounds really good. The question is how. How are you going to do it . I think the way to do this is to verify. If folks knew they werent going to get jobs they would not come. What would you do with the 11 million who are here . Listen, the folks that are here now, were going to have to come to a solution on that thats going to involve using verify, as well. Some sort of legal status, though . Well, i dont know. Were going to have to see, jake. But first were going to have to convince the American People to actually control the border, and they have to come to the conclusion ive come to that these folks are not going to selfdeport. And that we dont have enough Law Enforcement officers to be able to forcibly deport 11 million people. And then we need to come to a commonsense solution on it. You will grant me that this is a specific youre not willing to offer, though, even though youre oh, not yet. But i will. You will . Yeah, the debates not over yet. Its the next thing im working on. Let me touch on Foreign Policy. You said we have to be willing if need be to put boots on the ground to fight isis. Whats the threshold . When would you do that . Well, you have to see what success were having . My First Alternative and preferred alternative is to arm the jordanians, egypt uns, emirateties and saudis to bring this fight to those folks. Why arent they in it . They need more help. They need better arms. They need more support from intelligence perspective and they need to know americas going to stand with them when the polls are up or down. Ted cruz also said if the iran deal is consummated it will make the Obama Administration, quote, the worlds leading financier of radical islamic terrorism because of the sanction relief of at least 100 billion that the iranians would get. Mitt romney, who is an opponent of the iran deal, as you are, said that this rhetoric was way over the line, and didnt help the cause. What do you think . Lets talk the facts of the deal. We shouldnt be getting the hyperbole. We should talk about the facts. The facts that we have to wait 24 days to inspect a site if the iranians object is outrageous. Jake, as you know, as u. S. Attorney, that would be like me getting a search warrant, coming to somebodys house who i think is committing a crime and saying here, i have a search warrant, ill be back in 24 days to search. If it was a radioactive crime. The idea the inspectors say they would be able to discern whether or not there was Radioactive Material there 24 days later. Thats not any time, anywhere. The president promised any time, anywhere. You cannot tell me in 24 days the iranians cannot move the elements of cheating from one area to another. These are smart folks whove been cheating for years, by the way. From my perspective the president has put us in an awful mess in the middle east. Even worse than it was when he got there. Which seemed to be almost impossible. You saying cuba needs to change its behavior before the United States should extend them any sort of olive branch. The argument from the Obama Administration is thats what weve been doing for decades and its not working. Its the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. What hes doing is not going to work. To absolutely just cave in to the cubans. You saw what castro did after that, after hes been given diplomatic relations now he says he wants guantanamo back and represent rations. Does that show that she have any bit of gratitude for the fact that we extended them that . That theyre changing their behavior. Were now going to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to cuba in tourist activity, other activity, none of that is going to get to the people of cube cuba. During your first term you said you could treat bullies one of two sighs, you could seidel up to them or punch them in the face. You said i like to punch them in the face. At the National Level who deserves a punch in the face . Oh, the National Teachers union. Who has already endorsed Hillary Clinton. 16, 17 months before the election. Why . Because, theyre not for education for our children. Theyre for greater membership, greater benefits, greater pay for their members. And they are the single most Destructive Force to Public Education in america. Ive been saying that since 2009. Ive got the stars to show it. But im never going to stop Say Something it because they never change their stripes. This weekend, is the 40th anniversary of the release of the amazing album born to run. I read something in the press that really upset me the other day, where you were quoted as saying, and maybe it was a misquote, but you were quoted as saying when it came to our favorite new jersey musician, it was no longer the boss, mr. Bruce springsteen, it was jon bon jovi. If this is true, i have to warn you, i might form a pac, a super pac and run ads against you. Would you clear this up . And how can you justify such an agreejious flipflop . Its not an egregious flipflop. What she was asking was, as a friend, who do you prefer, springsteen or bon jovi. As a person . And john and christina bon jovi are friends of ours. And that was the answer. Bruces music is still my favorite music. Are you kidding . Thank god. Appreciate it. Thank you. And our thanks to governor christie. 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Advisers to jeb bush, scott walker and rick perry all say that the candidates are in inten intense prep sessions. Donald trumps team says he will wing it underscoring his message that he is not a scripted politician. And weve also heard rand paul has been practicing with a trump standin. Joining me now from davenport, iowa, where he is practicing with a singlea Baseball Team the bandits, republican president ial candidate and appearing Center Fielder senator rand paul. Senator paul, thanks for squeezing us in between innings. We appreciate it. Thanks, jake. So youve got a new ad, tv ad about planned parenthood, airing in some of these early primary caucus states. Lets show a quick clip of that. Planned parenthood takes over a half a billion tax dollars every year. Theyve performed abortions and sell baby body parts. As a conservative leader rand is forcing a vote this week to end taxpayer funding of planned parenthood. Now obviously planned parenthood disputes much of the content of that ad. But lets talk about the substance of it. In your drive to defund planned parenthood you said the reason this nation can afford to do away with federal funding for planned parenthood which the federal funding supposedly does not fund any abortions, but the reason you said it can be done is because, quote, we have doubled and tripled the funding for Community Health centers. Now it should be pointed out that the big increase in funding for Community Health centers comes from obamacare, which you obviously voted against. And you vowed to repeal. Does this mean that you are committed at least to the money for the Community Health centers . Well i think we can have disputes over abortion. Our countrys divided. Some people are prochoice. Some are prolife. But i think a lot of people, even a lot of prochoice people are upset by these videos. Manipulating the baby, turning the baby around to get the body parts and then selling the liver, and the doctors cavalierly saying oh, well, yeah, livers popular right now for sale. I think most americans dont want their tax dollars going to this. So i think when something is so morally repugnant to so many people why should tax dollars go to this . So i think most people do want to defund this. And i think what you find is if you look at this, we have 9,000 Community Health centers that do everything that planned parenthood does. But they dont get into abortions. So it would be much less emotional for everyone if we just funded Community Health centers and didnt fund planned parenthood. You support continued funding for the Community Health centers even though it was doubled and tripled from obamacare . I do support a role for government in Community Health centers. The specific bill, including it in obamacare, obviously would make it such that i cant support that particular bill. But supporting some funding for Community Health centers i think is reasonable. There are people who do need help. But really planned parenthood is sort of a front for doing abortions. They say they dont use federal money. But how can you take money for the group and say none of it is somehow benefiting the production, and the execution of abortions . So really i think if you look honestly and objectively, we have Government Funds going to a lot of Government Funds, 5 billion going to Community Health centers. I think if you look at it objectively people would say why do we have to get involved with a group thats selling baby organs, you know, so i think people, even prochoice people are upset by these videos. I think the country ought to wake up and get rid of this funding. Right. Senator ted cruz has said hes prepared to shut down the government if thats what it takes to defund planned parenthood. Do you support that . I support any legislation that will defund planned parenthood. But i dont think you start out with your objective to shut down government. I mean, if president obama wants to shut down government because he doesnt get funds for planned parenthood that would be president obamas determination to shut down government. But its always a pointing fingers battle, and it is the obligation of congress, the power of the purse, thats an obligation of congress to determine how money is spent. And so ive told people i want thousands and thousands of instructions on thousands of items on how they should spend them. Thats what congress is supposed to do. So, i want to turn to politics, and the Republican Party, and the race for president. You said this week that the rise of donald trump represents a temporary loss of sanity, those are your words, in the Republican Party. Chris christie when i asked him about your quote, he disagrees. He says that trump is giving voice to legitimate anger. Do you stand by the diagnosis of temporary insanity . Well, i think there are a lot of people upset. Im one of them. The reason i left being a physician, you know, im not a career politician. I got involved with this because i was upset with washington. Yes, congress has about a 10 approval rating. And im one of the 90 that disagrees with what congress is doing. So i think there is a vein of anger, yes, that represents some of those who are thinking about donald trump. But i think theres also going to be a serious debate starting this week in the president ial debate about who has ideas that would fix the country. Instead of getting so far afield in a lot of, i think maybe empty talk, maybe we ought to talk about should we have a flat tax . Ive proposed a tax code where you could do your tax return on one page, 14. 5 for everybody. And then we talk about, is it a good idea to send more money to washington . Or less money . I want to cut washington, cut the taxes, and cut the size of government. Your republican rivals have had some tough things to say about your Foreign Policy to use Chris Christie specifically has implicitly called your views dangerous, including this week. He said he suggested that you need to come to new jersey and hear from the widows and orphans affected by 9 11. Senator Lindsey Graham has said that when it comes to Foreign Policy youre weaker than Hillary Clinton. How much are you going to talk about this on thursday, in the debate, if your rivals come at you on this issue . We will make a clear distinction between myself and some of the others, that im a small government conservative, one who believes in the constitution. I will do whatever it takes to defend the country, but im not interested or a believer that every intervention has been good for us. Hillarys war in libya made libya a disaster. A failed state and made us less safe. Many of the republicans who are carping at my heels, those who want to be relevant in this debate, they supported Hillary Clintons war in libya. They supported sending money to the Muslim Brotherhood in egypt. So we will have this debate over who supports the president s Foreign Policy, and i think youll find that the tables may well be turned. Were looking forward to it on thursday. Good luck, senator paul. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks, jake. Coming up, reports of a 2016 run for Vice President joe biden are gathering steam. Family and friends urging him to jump in. More on that story, next. Hey, you forgot the milk thats lactaid. Right. 100 real milk, just without the lactose. So you can drink all you want. With no discomfort . Exactly. Here, try some. Mmm, it is real milk. See . Delicious. Hoof bump oh. Right here girl, boom. Lactaid®. 100 real milk. No discomfort. And for a creamy and delicious treat, try lactaid® ice cream. 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But theyre saying we would like to prepare just in case he does. So were expecting an uptick of probiden activity in the next few days. Is there a hunger for biden . Look, no. Theres not. But he is incredibly respected. Hes a beloved figure in our party. The reality is hes not so different from Hillary Clinton from the point of view of the Rising Energy in the party. The Clinton Party was a very pr proincarceration party, antiwall street, the new party, Elizabeth Warren, bernie sanders, black lives matter, less incarceration, more regulation, and they hate the triangulation and want authenticity. Theres just no theres no hunger for him. Do you think he could be a credible candidate if he got the nomination . I think if Hillary Clinton doesnt win the nomination, shes going to lose it to somebody like joe biden or john geary. Reminds me of 1968 when you had senator mccarthy kick johnson out but it was Hubert Humphrey who got the nomination. It is i think too soon to say whether he is going to mount a run and we understand that the decision will come sometime in early september, i think thats the new time line. So thats been pushed. But i also think we know that hes having some conversations with those who are close to him. Even if some of it is just listening to people who wanted to run. And hes not ruling it out. So i think a few months ago in recent months you might have said i really thought it was unlikely that he would mount a run. But he isnt ruling it out. Nor should he if hes looking at the polls. Hillary clinton in the most recent quinnipiac poll 57 say they dont trust here. 52 said they dont think that she cares about their problems. And you look at how biden is registering and its exactly the flip side. Six in ten americans say they trust him and that they believe he cares about his problems. Governor as somebody who has thought about running for president in the past is it too late for somebody like joe biden to get into the race . Not really. I dont think its too late for him or geary or Elizabeth Warren for that matter. You want them all in there. But what is stimulating this to be thought about is what brianna talked about. Clintons problems. Weakness from Hillary Clinton on stuff that you really wanted her to be stronger on. Hes a sitting Vice President. He can wait until december if people want to. I think people have heard of him in iowa. But i think this is more about the troubling signs from Hillary Clinton, possibly in october, imploding in front of a committee in Congress Much more than it is a passion for biden. Youve got to really organize and Hillary Clinton already has 60 staffers in iowa alone. She has 11 offices. Bernie sanders has matched her. He has 11 offices in iowa, as well. Fewer aides there. But theyre really digging in. And fighting hard. And even talking to all of these people and every single county. Its hard to replicate that. Its anywhere else, you might be able to come in late. But iowa its tricky. Lets turn to the republicans. Scott walker leading in the polls in iowa. Last ones i saw. He was at a Forum Sponsored by the Koch Brothers yesterday, and ive heard a lot of democrats talking about this bite. Lets play it. Is president Obama A Christian . Youre not going to get different answers, but i dont know. I assume he is by comments in the past but ive never asked him about that. As someone who is a believer myself i dont presume to know if someones beliefs about whether they follow christ or not unless ive actually talked with them and understand it. But he said he has so ill take his word. Youre shaking your head. Whats thats whats the problem with that answer . Its disgusting. Listen as a professing christian, listen, that is a dog whistle. That is as close to fighting words as youre going to get. In other words youre going to have to all 320 million americans to find out if were christian. If someone is a professing christian, as i am, as this president is, that is all that is required in our faith. Oh, i dont know. Hes tap dancing around. What it does, its a dog whistle saying that this guy is not honest. Worse than that hes saying hes not honest because, again, theres that part of the debate, hes not really an american. Hes not really a christian. Hes really a muslim. And hes playing that on the side. Its disgusting and people are very offended by it. I suspect governor barbour you dont agree with that assessment . Lets start off with the news guy asked him about it. This is not like hes making a speech like Hillary Clinton talking about the right to rise is not this and trying to take her whole speech to attack jeb bush. He got asked a question. I am a evangelical christian. You dont know that. You dont know whats in my heart. If i take you at your word that youre a christian. And thats what thats all he did. He said i take him at his word. Brianna didnt Hillary Clinton give a very similar answer when steve croft on 60 minutes asked the same question back in 2008 in the middle of this primary battle . I recall her saying he is a christian, i take him at his word, as far as i know. I remember obama people complaining about her answer. And it speaks, i think, lets talk big picture scott walker here. It speaks to what i think may be one of 9 biggest problems of his candidacy, and that is answering questions. He has struggled repeatedly with this. This question that he answered here about whether the president is a christian, and he says he is, he goes to church, christian church. This isnt the first time that hes sort of messed up this question. At the very least bumbling through the question. The answer to this question. Back in february he was asked about this. But its not just on this issue. In february, he was asked about evolution, he was asked about Foreign Affairs and he outright said he was punting on them. He didnt want to talk about it. This is a weakness scott walker will have to confrost to be a very serious candidate. Were excited about thursday nights republican debate. Lets do a quick around the table about what youre looking for. Whats a key thing youre looking for in the debate . Ill be looking at scott walker and how these rivals handle him. He is the frontrunner in iowa. He has been the frontrunner all year. Mike huckabee led in the polls with likely caucusgoers throughout 2014. Scott walker came in and took that title in january. So he is a soft target. He has never been pushed from the right before. So it will be interesting to see how these rivals deal with him. What are you going to be looking for . Im looking at marco rubio. I think listen a lot of stuff is snowflakes and soap bubbles. The longterm future of this Republican Party is in the hands of rubio and people like him. Hes young. Hes a fresh face. Not like jeb. Hes a real candidate unlike trump. And frankly hes got Foreign Policy experience not like walker. I want to see can he break in and break out . Because honestly, hes the danger for us. If youre a democrat youre looking at marco rubio, youre saying this is a guy we hope somehow gets snuffed out. What are you looking for . Discipline. I mean this is going to be hard. Probably disappointing for the public, because ten people get to talk a total of ten minutes each over a twohour period of time. So discipline and short answers, and a lot of these people have real records of accomplishment. Its hard to talk about what they want to talk about. But the big question for me is, most important question, will donald trump say to the republican audience, i will not run as a Third Party Candidate . I will not run as an independent. I understand what happened in 1992, that ross perot gave the clintons the white house. And i will not do that. Because he has no chance to win our nomination. As long as he keeps saying, well, i might, i might. A lot of people are tuning in to see if theres drama with donald trump being the wild card is some political version of thunder dome i think is what theyre looking for. Im curious if he shows up and is very serious, does have some discipline, if he is proficient in specifics when it comes to Foreign Policy. And also, if the number of these republicans make a play for these disaffected voters in the Republican Party that donald trump is attracting. Very interesting. I know were all going to be watching. Brianna killer, Governor Haley barbour, thanks so much. Great discussion. As he departs the daily show jon stewarts been joking about his secret meetings at the white house. What did the president eally ask the funny man for . Thats coming up. Big day . Ah, the usual. 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All day strong and try aleve pm, now with an easy open cap. The news from politica. The daily show host jon stewart met privately at the white house with president obama at least twice. To others the visits confirmed the unique and significant role that stewart plays in our political culture. Hell bid that role farewell as he hosts his final daily show. 16 years ago it would have been difficult to predict the stature he and his show would achieve. The location where candidates would come during a tough primary season. Tomorrow is perhaps one of the most important days of your life. And yet you have chosen to spend the night before talking to me. [ laughter ] senator, as a host im delighted. As a citizen, frightened. [ laughter ] your response . It is it is pretty pathetic. [ laughter ] to declare a candidacy. Im on your show to announce that i am a candidate for president of the United States. That he would hold a wellattended rally on the national mall. Are you ready to restore sanity . Whether he would be perceived as so influential, especially among young voters that the president of the United States whom he obviously admired would chide him to not feed cynicism. Stewarts politics found ripe targets. Democrats hungry for anyone to challenge the bush administration, turned to him. Jon, when the waters from katrina began to rise it would have been easy to rush back to washington. This president stuck it out for two more vacation days. What do you call that . What do i call that . An abdication of all i agree. Dedication he is the one daily show reporter who makes the others look like a bunch of pussies. The longtime correspondent says he was a great eye on where they were headed. We always went into the field with a really clear point of view. And we would just hit the point of view again and again and again and again. Its all about us. The media, especially cnn, we were frequent targets. The truth of what a reporter is saying is all in the direction their face is turned. News story. War story. Trust me on this. Total [ bleep ]. His influence was great and his researchers quick and able to find clips exposing politicians. You have said in the past that it was, quote, pretty well confirmed. No, i never said that. I never said that. [ laughter ] he absolutely never said that. Hmm its been pretty well confirmed that he did with a genuine eye for talent. How do you reconcile the fat that you were a critic of pork barrel politics and yet, while chairman of the Commerce Committee it set a record for unauthorized appropriations. Im just kidding no. I was i dont even know what that means. Some critics thought the show lost its edge with the election of president obama who appeared on the show seven times for usually friendly chats. How many times a week does biden show up in a wet bathing suit to a meeting . Other times the stewart knife could cut. It wouldnt be, yes, we can given concern conditions. His skewering of the healthcare. Gov website was something of a tipping point. Im going to try to download every movie ever made, and you are going to try to sign up for obamacare and well see which happens first. The most powerful moments is when he realized his influence and utilized it. You have to promise me, mccluskey, you have to problem promise me and my family this will not affect the swiss pharmaceutical Companies Offshore tax status. Youve got to promise me that. Or im not going in there. Youre an [ bleep ]. Hes now credited with its eventual passage. We dont claim that victory for ourselves. People have been in the trenches working on that for years and years and years, and theyve been laying all this really heavyduty groundwork. Sometimes it takes the little tiny extra push to get it over the hump. Stewarts fans will miss him and so will the public square. Youre making no sense. Zero sense. 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Theyre the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then ill drive it every day of the week. Together, were building a better california. Welcome back. Campaigning requires often indulging in americas finest cuisines such as the cheese steak in my home town of philadelphia. As scott walker learned this week a culinary stop can cause an upset stomach. This weeks state of the cartoonian. Wisconsin governor and republican president ial candidate scott walker walked into one of the most sticky issues in the nation, the philadelphia cheese steak wars. In battleground pennsylvania. Perhaps hailing from americas dairy land walker thought his cheese expertise would prevail. It did not. Though he tried to avoid choosing between pats and ginos by visiting both. Others have fallen into the cheese steak quicksand. John kerry ordered his cheese steak with swiss in 2004. President bush mocked kerry by saying he knew the proper order was wiz with. Thats with cheese wiz, supposedly the proper order. To true fill del phines provolone shows cred. Walker went with american cheese. Questionable. What raised hackles among the tough philly crowd was his cutting in line and not cleaning up after himself. Philadelphiians can be tough. We once booed santa claus at an eagles game. Kerry it should be noted did win pennsylvania. When it comes to all this cheese steak back and forth, lets not overstate the role. The tones of skip dennenbergs the cheese steak song. Im jake tapper in washington. Fareed zakaria gps starts right now. This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im fareed zakaria. Lets start the show with the american political circus. 17 candidates. And thats just on one se