thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. so grateful. have a great weekend. always so good to see you. have a great show. and welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. trump s legal woes moved to florida in a most recent attempt to get this classified documents case dismissed. holding a multihour hearing. trump s lawyers arguing jack smith s appointment of special counsel is uns constitutional claims a special counsel must be appointed categorized unprincipled author and contending that the attorney general s ability to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a u.s. attorney is like appointing a shadow government. the judge appeared skeptical of the argument pushing back saying, is that really a realistic risk,s when there are well-defined statutes regarding the attorney general s appointment authority ? special counsel refuting the arguments says it disregards precedent and would have a pernicious consequen
into iraq. and john stewart was the one to puncture that. people started to say, this guy is giving us news we re not getting somewhere else. people realized, oh, wait, this is not just silly little making fun of things. he s a real critic. john stewart became the voice of sanity and the voice of reason. the daly show put him in the role of the straight man. so the funny people were always the field correspondents. rob corddry has more on the rnc protest today. rob, what have you got for us? john, i m worried about the arrests and protesters. not all of them are anarchists. at one point i think in about 2003, 2004, we had four correspondents, they were stephen colbert, rob corddry, ed helms and samantha bee. the bush administration has made tort reform one of its main goals. if they have their way, frivolous lawsuits will be a thing of the past.
colbert was obviously playing a character inspired in part by bill o reilly. it s incredible how much of a grasp stephen had of the format, the character, the point of view. you re not the elites. you re not the country club crowd. i know for a fact that my country club would never let you in. the daly show attempted to expose hypocrisy. stephen colbert on the colbert report was hypocrisy. like any good newsman, i believe that if you re not scared, i m not doing my job. the fact that colbert was able to choose the ironic opposite position of what you should really feel about the topic and then use comedy to then convey that to you is really, really, really difficult. and that brings us to tonight s word. truthiness. the first show he did that very famous word on truthiness. we are divided between those
the jugular. we haven t heard too much about the situation in iraq. what s been going on over there? it wasn t until really george w. bush and the post-9/11 period that the daly show became the daly show as we understand it by really tackling what was going on in government, what were we being told, what we weren t being told. we ve begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated. want to know how that turns out? there was a failure of journalism to really properly question the impetus for going into iraq. and john stewart was the one to puncture that.