i think james at put it well, what kimmel did was experience politics as someone who s not mired in politics, experiences it. he s the most relatable guy. colbert has carved out his anti-trump stance which i love and fallon is not trying to do that. kimmel when he comes on has an impact. we can t really run an experiment to see if you re right. we can t we don t have the test case. the first version of health care the bill got 17% approval. if it dies it might have died absent kimmel. the other thing i would say is, there s a big body of evidence that the best thing satire does is provides everyone with an escape valve and that s valuable. i don t know how often it changes the policies of the rulers. i ve read accounts of satire in nazi germany and it went on and sometimes people would be punished but the specific kind of sat tyre that works is not when you talk about a person or trump s coloration or the size of his hands but talk about the direct failure of his policies. that sat
states. the question of who is a journalist may be up to debate with regard to what you re doing and anybody who s watching this, understands i was asking a question. the question was raised by law makers. i m not embracing anything. i take your point. right. it was a question, though. why didn t you answer the question. i thought that s what journalists did. it s outrageous you would suggest i m aiding and abetting, i m not. but if he s just getting information and putting it in the newspaper that s one thing. if he s a much bigger part of this story, kathleen, that s quite another. we have to be careful. you don t prosecute reporters for doing their job. you do not. glenn and i have had positive relationship which is sort of a strange thing, but we both share similar concerns. i know glenn. i saw him on the set, you know, mika asked a question, when people ask him questions, and he knocks their heads off. it slijs, you know you can ask questions of people without