for the last month. john so it has been a fierce advocate on this issue, and you will not want to miss what he has to say. that is coming up. but first, i want to start tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete pitt a judge was testifying before the house committee, and as you would expect, for several hours, they discussed infrastructure. roads, railways, electric vehicles, energy prices, all the usual stuff. until one republican congressman on the committees suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerds. you re welcome. have a watch. we now have president biden in office for 18 months, and just recently, we now see the mainstream media questioning president biden s mental state and for good reason. sadly, he shakes hands with ghosts, and imaginary people. he falls off bicycles. even at the white house easter celebration, the easter bunny had to guid
marc short and greg jacob, who were key witnesses in the white house. while all of this was going on. and so, now that you are seeing this extent and the degree to which the doj has advance its own investigation, i think the committee now is going to see, feel more urgent need to share what they know to help this clearly more mature investigation, then they realize, as it moves forward. kyle trainee, will have to leave it there, senior legal affairs reporter at politico, thank you for your time tonight, and thank you for your reporting. what s acts of republican hypocrisy could have possibly prompted an appearance in front of the capitol today by legendary committee and now activists, john americas heroes who fought in our wars, outside, sweating there off.
anything like it. and the truth is, the people who have suffered the most, and had to fight the hardest, are the ones who will once again bear the brought up this you know, this betrayal. honestly, you question the very foundation. and you know they keep talking about the boy there is a recruitment problem. in the army. because of the pronouns that they are using. it s not that pronouns! it s that young people see that this government doesn t live up to its obligations to its fighters. it s just simple as that. it s a betrayal as you put it, john, and it is as simple as that, and i thank you so much for pulling over on your way home tonight and joining us and outlining this issue again. mehdi, i made to go in and get a smoothie. i m in a restaurant. get a smoothly, you deserve
goes to die. these people don t care. i m used to all of it. but i am not used to cruelty. cowards all of them! cowards all of them! they haven t met a war they won t sign up for and they haven t met a better when they won t screw over! what s the are we? this is an embarrassment to the senate, to the country, to the founders, and all that they profess to hold dear. and if this is america s first? then america is ! joining us now in his car, parked at a rest area on the jersey turnpike, is john stewart, can media activists and probably john stewart on apple tv plus. john has that incredible coverage of burn pit exposure on a show. and he is kind enough to join us tonight on his way home from washington. john, thank you so much for being here. i said that that was a retaliatory move by republicans,
70 billion dollars every year. it s a true slush fund. it goes right to the department of defense, a tiny bit for states, but there are no guardrails on it, and there is no oversight. that is a slush fund. that s a fond that can be used to spend things that none of us can have our eyes on. if that s when we never had a problem with that, and never had a problem spending trillions of dollars to send these people to harm s way. john, one of the things you said, today we despite you saying, you are used to the, lies the hypocrisy, the cowardice, you are not used to the cruelty. i have to ask, as someone, i watched you in the 2000s, covering the gop every night. covering george w. bush. how different, i mean that was a pretty extreme republican party, i m not gonna get past bush s republican party. but how extreme do you believe this current republican party is compared to that one? i mean look, i have different issues with different narratives. what i was referring to was,