Jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Our program tonight we prepared it. My guest House Minority leader nancy pelosi will be joining us of the united state congress. [cheers and applause] thats honestly the only applause the United States congress has gotten in [laughter] god knows how long. First weve seen a lot of reaction to tuesdays state of the union address. Perhaps the most alarming reaction came from senator Lindsey Graham who told roll call that the world is literally about to blow up. I wish it had been on camera. I cant help but wonder what it must have sounded like when Lindsey Graham said that. How would that sound if Lindsey Graham would say hello governor no that wont be it. The world is literally about to blow up. No new york city. Hey what are you gonna do the world no, no, not it. I, senator graham do believe i do declare that this vessel which we inhabit is about to just explode and me just here all along in my sitting room surrounded by sweet tea and just my figurines. [ laughter ] i didnt take graham seriously, you know, that the world is about to blow up. You know how excitable southerners can get [laughter] until i saw this. The metropolitan atlanta area largely paralyzed. Pregnant women and children trapped on the roads. Children left to spend the night in their schools. An abandoned car purgatory. Like the zombie apocalypse. The walking dead. Jon lord have mercy, Lindsey Graham was right. He was right. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers to give me a ride. [ laughter ] the ice age Zombie Doomsday apocalypse has come to atlanta. Damn you, gay marriage why didnt we listen . I cant even imagine [laughter] i cant even imagine how much snow it must take to bring about the zombie apocalypse, three feet, ten feet. Two inches of snow hit the area. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] [laughter] jon really, two inches of snow . I mean is that what happens when the south is confronted by something not specifically mentioned in revelations . Is that [laughter] were ready for the horsemen of the apocalypse and rivers of blood but jesus didnt say nothing here about snow tires. [laughter] and that is not to diminish the real trouble the storm has caused. I would not want to be in atlantas snowshoes right now. Jennifer wilkin has been in her car more than 20 hours. My brotherinlaw spent the night in a home depot. A woman who has been sitting in a walgreens 19 hours. She had to sleep in the car. They had a friend come and deliver food to them. [ laughter ] jon friend didnt have any extra space in their car . Maybe given them a ride home so they wouldnt have to sleep hey, man, heard about your trouble. Here is cocacola and slim jives. Gotta go. They could have shared its okay for two people to share a car right. I know the last time anyone in atlanta car pooled was this but still this is an emergency. [ laughter ] how is georgia so illprepared, governor . We have been confronted with an unexpected storm. Theres not anybody in this room that could have predicted the degree and the magnitude of the problem that developed. Jon sure, new york city i guess thats probably in the case unless anyone in that room had been watching what i guess you call the weather. The Weather Channel has the latest. We have winter storm watches and warnings to atlanta. There will be snow, sleet and freezing rain. Two inches of snow that will shut down the city. Accumulation of 12 inches. Jon for god sakes governor you were warned and the call was coming from inside the house. The Weather Channel is actually located in atlanta. Jon the Weather Channel is located in atlanta. Its right there. [cheers and applause] also located in atlanta [cheers and applause] also located in atlanta the society of for prevention of highway and the National Department of seeing bleep coming. Im going to ask where were the mayor and governor when the citizens of atlanta were stucking in their cars eating their own peesicles . The mayor tweeted atlanta were ready for the snow. Here he is a short time later not in a situation room or Emergency Operation snort but with georgia governor scepping an award for georgian of the year. Jon who did he beat out . Paula deen and the guy who raped need beatty in deliverance . How did local media handle it . This is the continuing coverage of winter storm and state of emergency right now. We have a team of 25 reporters spread out over met ral atlanta in north georgia. Jon its a 25 newsbox pileup. [ laughter ] we go now to assif mandvi live there in atlanta. How are you . [cheers and applause] jon, the situation on the ground is chaos. Jon sorry, assif i dont know where you are . Third row down, jon, four columns in. Jon thats one, two, three im one of only two brown dudes, jon. Jon i see the one guy. I see you. I see you assif there you are. Finally, yeah. Jon assif, one thing im unclear though how could atlanta be so strongly effected by the snow fall when its just two inches . What do you mean jon, just two inches . I can tell you from personal experience that two inches is a lot more impressive than it sounds. People talk about other cities having 12, 13 inches, yeah right. Maybe in the movies. Theres plenty of cities out there who find two inches way too much to handle. [ laughter ] jon i guess i suppose in some situations i could see assif where did you go . You moved to a different where are you . bleep . I think they moved me, jon. Its chaos. Jon are are you now . I have no idea. I im told im in box 18. Its in jon i gotcha. Okay. Tell me what is going on. The the point is its not the size of snow fall that matters. Its the duration of the condensation if you get my jon are you trying to tell us you have a two inch penis . [laughter] what . I wish in this bleep cold its half that, okay. Oh, no its happening again. Jon what is happening now . No assif what is happening . Thank you assif, take care. Assif [cheers and applause] jon welcome back. So while this country digs out from record snows and cold, our neighbors to the north in what they call canada are battling troubles of their oin. Believe it or not, things keep getting worse for toronto mayor rob ford. Jon believe it or not they are getting worse . Believe it or not . I have never heard anything more believable in my life. It would be more surprising to hear believe it not rob ford is introducing a new age fragrancer believe it or not i read an interesting piece in the new yorker by rob ford or believe it or not when i go away, i have rob ford watch my children. What did sir smokes a lot of crack do now . A crack smoker sued for allegedly having his sisters exboyfriend beaten up in prison. Jon well, they sound like a lovely family. [laughter] beaten up in prison . What is rob ford trying to take control of the cellblock before his inevitable arrival. Surprising foresight from the man the Canadian Media has officially dubbed crack mayor rob ford. What possible reason did he have top want his sisters exboyfriend to be beaten up in prison. According to the suit to keep him guy bet fords abuse of drug and alcohol. Jon yes, if not for him how would he ever have learned about his drug and alcohol abuse . He has done such a good job on keeping it on what we call the dl. Yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. Mimed another councilman driving drunk. bleep . I will bleep bleep money, money, it said i wanted to eat bleep . I never said that in my life to her. Im happily married. I have more than enough to eat at home. [laughter] jon i dont want anyone to find out. [ laughter ] i have substance issues. Hey its rob ford you expect this sort of thing from him. Pop star Justin Bieber is charged with assault in canada. Bieber is accuse tdz of beating a limo driver in the head last month. [ laughter ] jon let me see if i can reenact that scene. Is the temperature okay back there . Yeah, yeah, i want the atmosphere lights on ahhhhh all right im going to put the Privacy Shield up. [laughter] jon what the bleep is going on in canada. Bad boys of canada, Justin Bieber and rob ford. Talking about Justin Bieber scandal. We love ford a little bit. You have rob ford and Justin Bieber in the same town. How are they going to management that . Jon its a little joke. They are just a couple of playful scams accused of committing major felonies. Its not like they said things loudly in a post game sell bra tory interview. According to deadspin the day after shermans interview the word thug was used 625 times on television. Jon he is a thug. The thugs are not dued accused of actual Violent Crimes its the standford educated cornerback who talked too loud. I cant helptbut [cheers and applause] jon welcome back. My guest tonight is the House Minority leader and serves californias 12th district. Please welcome back to the Program Nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] thank you for joining us. How are you . Im okay. Jon how are things . Great. Jon how is your Health Care Coverage . Im covered. Jon could you get online are things good . Things are good and things will be better. Yes. Jon very good. Every time i see congresspeople on television, the questions that they are asked always have to do with the politics. Right. Jon who is how is that going to effect the politics. Who is going to run in 2016. All that. Let me ask you in terms of like governance right. Jon is it surprising that theres not as much talk and thought about the mechanics of governance as there is to the politics and conflict . The whole idea is really about the substance. Jon correct. And the vision that you have and how you what you know about it and how you plan to execute and how you can attract people to it. And right now we have a big difference as theres always been a traditional difference between democrats and republicans. Jon right. Right now we have a school of thought in the House Republican caucus that is antigovernment, antiscience antiobama. We have a trifecta that enables them to vote against everything. As you saw in the state of the union they couldnt afford for everything. Hard working families evoke no response. Jon they also have, from what i understand, very sensitive hands. If they were to clap it could cause a tremendous amount of pain. I think it has more to do with that. [ laughter ] it puts the onus in some respects on the democrats to prove their case maybe a little bit more forcefully about the competence of government. How do you feel like that is going because on our end it looks like its a bit chaotic. It looks that way. Jon i have another word that i use for that ends in something terrible. Aww. Jon why do we have so much trouble executing the plans with any kind of efficiency . Well, again, if you are dealing with people who have no april agenda, who no agenda, nothing is their agenda and never is the timetable its very hard to negotiate with them. So we are responsible. In other words call us responsible. They know were going to vote not to shut down government and vote for the budget no matter how unpleasant it is. The choice is to be irresponsible or we dont want to be fearmongers but to explain this is bad news. We want to be positive. Jon i meant more in terms of were going to set up a Health Care Web site that is an exchange. People are going to come to it. Why is it so hard to get a company to execute that competently . I dont know. [ laughter ] as one who thats my question. Jon let me get the House Minority leader i can ask her. Hold on. What do you mean you dont know . How do you not know . Its my responsibility. We worked very hard to honor the responsibility to pass the bill that honors the beliefs of founders life, liberty to pursue your happiness. Jon really. If you want to be a writer, a comedian, a camera person, if you want to start a business. Jon those are theoretical im talking about practice. They are actual. For us the vision we have is actual legislation that makes life better for people was our contribution to the future that they would have. That would be a web site that didnt work is appalling, so shameful. So i share the concern that the public does but it is getting better. Jon i understand that. But i guess to back that up, the point is if you have two schools of thought. One school is thought is governments have a role in our lives to help improve things and we can make a difference in peoples lives. Given that the other is it really isnt. And the group that makes that argument when they cesm cute execute that plan it should work. Exactly. No, again. Jon for instance, r there things in the procurement process . Has the regulation become so onerous that government can no longer be agile enough to tackle the programs . Let me say that one of the things is a procurement process. Everybody knew about that. Theres no excuse for this web site not to work. Theres no excuse. Those who worked the hardest to make sure we had health care, but it will work and the policy is solid. Jon but theres clearly something systemic going on that is making the v. A. Unable to deal with the backlog. To make us unable to deal. Obamas it guy, hes clearly a brilliant guy, he arranged all of obamas Internet Campaign stuff. He would find you, you would be in the bathtub and you would get an email. Hey, have you thought about giving us money. Classify those who bate. They know what we do. Jon that guy couldnt figure out the process. He couldnt figure out how to bid for that contract. He said it was a 300page document. And it seems like its obscured like that purposefully so that the Larger Companies have an advantage because they have teams of lawyers and things that can do it. Doesnt matter. What maps is it should have been prepared for. Theres no excuse. Jon sure. All that is okay. Jon im not presenting it as an execution im asking do we have a foundational problem. Do we have corruption to give us confident that moving forward we can execute the programs better. There may be a risk aversion with going with the known and not being entrepreneurial enough to say question whether its really going to do the job. I would say this in terms of the backlog at the v. A. , again horrible but being addressed. And the fact that the v. A. s viewers cant talk to the Defense Department to get the information. Jon seems insane. Stunning but do something about it. Okay, okay. Jon i was going to say that to you. [laughter] i was actually going to say that to you. [ laughter ] is there something this is a good point though is it possible that the people within the system dont have enough distance from it to see the way that people in congressional offices end up going and become lobbyists at the corporations. The corporations lobby to get arcane things put into the regulation that makes it harder for small business. Can the congress maybe not see the corruption inherent in that. The revolving door is not so much congress as the executive branch. On nsa, nsa the one of people was hired there was from a company that jon sure. They got all the contracts and hired consultants. Jon some folks from your office have gone to work for boeing. I dont know that. Jon i do. [ laughter ] well, who . Well who . I dont know anybody jon stick around. Were going to go to commercial. Were talking tocyancy [cheers and applause] jon thats our show. Listen obviously my conversation went a little long. If you have a spare weekend you might want to check out the web version of our discussion. It actually got kind of interesting. Here it is your moment of zen. Wh captioning sponsored by comedy central