wish more people gave him credit for one of the issues that he chooses to focus on that he doesn t have to choose but he has consistently done it and that is that he consistently chooses to talk about war and foreign policy and national security and veterans issues. he doesn t have to do that stuff but he does. and i am a liberal who really cares about those issues. i care about those issues almost more than i care about anything else. i was lucky enough to be able to go on his show a bunch of times to talk about those issues. but as hard as i try to get those kinds of issues into the national discussion particularly as a liberal, honestly nobody is better or more consistently good about talking about those issues in a way that everybody understands than jon stewart has been all these years, and i will miss that. the defense department uses a medical tracking program called alta while the v.a. uses a gem superior program called vista and those two programs are
baltimore. you do that because untrue things stand out like a sore thumb. even though you identify yourself as fake news and having built with a fake news process we don t say fake. fake is wrong. that is a misnomer that we use and it s not news anything. we re commenting on the news. i think that you think of it differently but i think a lot of people who watch your show and cable news think of what we do as not being that different which sucks for me because i used to be the mildly amusing person talking like using humor to tell the story of the wasteful f-35 second engine on that fighter jet. and now i m the person trying to be jon stewart and sucking. i love that f-35 that engine bit killed them. that used to be my bit. even if you re not launching
that s always existed. jon stewart is doing his final episode tonight of the daily show on comedy central and, yes, there s the first republican presidential debate, too. honestly jon stewart signing off after 16 years is the thing that s going to go down in history about tonight. the daily show happens on a news like set. when he retires tonight, they re moving the whole set to the newseum in washington. mr. stewart told me in that interview calling his show fake news was not exactly the right term. that doesn t mean people haven t been getting their news from jon stewart happily for years now. and jon stewart and stephen colbert pushed it further. remember when they did a real,
time, you re going to think something terrible is going to happen to your family a lot. you will feel fear more than i will definitely be afraid of driving for car crashes. or the intestinal flu. here is the most amazing thing about this interview. i have not thrown up once while we ve been doing this. the longest in 24 hours i have gone. you are like ginger root. you are the ginger root of interviewers. you have pulled things out of me i never knew were there and yet still i leave not nauseous. he had the stomach flu. but he didn t barf in the room and i carry that triumph with me still. i am a huge, huge fan of jon stewart and i think he is important. i think his work on the daily show at comedy central has made our country a better country. i think it has made politics more accountable, the news media sharper and more self-conscious and ultimately better. this show you re watching here,
that or well, you know that s a hard question, but i i want to just remind you that as you pointed out with that unbelievable opening, you got five weeks to go and i m still the spouse of a presidential candidate. i don t have any specific plans. got a lot of ideas. i got a lot of things in my head. i m going to have dinner on a school night with my family who i have heard from multiple sources are lovely people. you get in this business with the idea that maybe you have a point of view and something to express and to receive feedback from that is the greatest feeling i can ask for. i thank you. and, boy, has he made a difference. jon, we are going to miss you. and that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports.