Jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. [cheers and applause] oh, weve got a special one for you tonight. The new york mayor bill deblasio, the mayor of new york, bill deblasio will be here. Super bowl last night where the Denver Broncos scored some amazing field level seats to a blowout victory by the seahawks. They couldnt have been closer to the action. I heard. I had a tivo foul up. I spent the night watching the game show soup or bowl. Contestantsants are forced to er choose soup or bowl. Choose soup, you got no bowl, your hands and if you choose bowl, you get a bowl and no soup. Its a terrible show. [laughter] i will say this though, i learned Something Interesting if you are irish and married [laughter] [cheers and applause] you know what i realized is a wonderful gift for a married irish man is a taste of your lucky charms. [cheers and applause] anyway lovely couple who announced to us their plans after the show. [ laughter ] the mayor bill deblasio is here. Appa
They couldnt have been closer to the action. I heard. I had a tivo foul up. I spent the night watching the game show soup or bowl. Contestantsants are forced to er choose soup or bowl. Choose soup, you got no bowl, your hands and if you choose bowl, you get a bowl and no soup. Its a terrible show. [laughter] i will say this though, i learned Something Interesting if you are irish and married [laughter] [cheers and applause] you know what i realized is a wonderful gift for a married irish man is a taste of your lucky charms. [cheers and applause] anyway lovely couple who announced to us their plans after the show. [ laughter ] the mayor bill deblasio is here. Apparently to shovel outside. Today new york hit with six to lets say 28 inches of snow. [ laughter ] its actually providing the mayor with a chance for some snow removal redemption. This is the first significant snowfall that mayor deblasio has had to deal with since he came under fire for the handling of the last snowstorm. Many
Amazing field level seats to a blowout victory by the seahawks. They couldnt have been closer to the action. I heard. I had a tivo foul up. I spent the night watching the game show soup or bowl. Contestantsants are forced to er choose soup or bowl. Choose soup, you got no bowl, your hands and if you choose bowl, you get a bowl and no soup. Its a terrible show. [laughter] i will say this though, i learned Something Interesting if you are irish and married [laughter] [cheers and applause] you know what i realized is a wonderful gift for a married irish man is a taste of your lucky charms. [cheers and applause] anyway lovely couple who announced to us their plans after the show. [ laughter ] the mayor bill deblasio is here. Apparently to shovel outside. Today new york hit with six to lets say 28 inches of snow. [ laughter ] its actually providing the mayor with a chance for some snow removal redemption. This is the first significant snowfall that mayor deblasio has had to deal with since
Everyone thinks of congress as passing laws, the budget, create a new law am appropriate new money. If you look at the history of congress, oversight is viewed from the beginning as a dual and almost as important a function. Oversight is how we see how the money is being spent. If you look back, the history goes back to george washington. The first oversight action is by one of the first congresses. It is when, i cannot remember the general, but almost the entire u. S. Army is eliminated in indiana by an attack by indians, and congress, the first or second congress, sends a letter to his excellency, president washington, please explain what happened to our army. They eventually send general wayne to handle that. This is the first oversight. Basically, what happened to the army, explain. You are the chief executive. We are the ones who report to the people. It is actually a controversy at that time. So funny the issue of executive branch not providing records to Congress Goes back to ge
The president about two years ago to oversee all reconstruction money that the u. S. Government spends in afghanistan by any agency. I am not in the department of defense, department of state, but any u. S. Government agency that spends money over there, which is about 100 3 billion via spent so far enough to understand. Lex what does it mean by reconstruction gap go what does it mean by reconstruction . Reconstruction is defined broadly. Schools roads paying the salaries of the law ,nforcement am of the Army Fighting the equipment, seating them. Lex why did you do that . Why did you come out of private practice . Calls, youe house usually return the call and listen, and they asked if i could help out. They needed someone to take over the reins. It was a challenge. I was happy at the law firm but was interested in a challenge, and this has been challenging the past two years. I have an interest in National Security issues and i have done oversight. Going back to 1978i have been involve