no man a island except. where is that? do you know what? [bleep] i m going to go paint a cat. jesse: then jon stewart retired to go live on a farm where he doesn t have to shave every day. i m jealous of the not shaving. farms make me nervous. i get the sense math is involved and i have to do math to eat, i won t. so stuart left his show to stephen colbert and everybody realized how talented he really was. but he wasn t just a host. john did stand up. he was a writer. he even acted. did you ever see the back of a $20 bill, man? i don t know you. ever seen the back of a $20 bill on weed? jesse: that role wasn t a stretch for stuart because we hear he grows all kinds of things on his farm. here he is showing a little more range in another film. tomorrow i m leaving for china to represent the fine firm of morton and mandel, yes me the one guy though once shaved his ass to win a $5 bet. stuart has skills and he has to be smart because he is rich. isn t that how it w
deal to release grbrittney grin and paul whelan. jennifer, what can you tell us about this offer? that s right, we have learned that the biden administration is prepare to send victor boot, this convicted russian arms dealer back to russia as part of a deal to try to bringwhelan ho. boot is currently serving a 25 year prison sentence. secretary of state antony blinken publicly announced yesterday that the administration has offered a, quote, substantial proposal to moscow to try to get these two wrongfully detained americans back home. blinken did not go in to specifics about what was in the proposal, but he did say it has been on the table for weeks now and that it has the direct backing and sign jooff of joe biden. prisoner swaps do require the president to signoff. so this is a significant signal. prisoner swaps are generally quite controversial in the administration and other administrations have generally avoided using them because there is a fear that other government
official economic recession, although president biden, his aides, and now the federal reserve chair are insisting they don t see this economy in recession. politically, what matters is how people at home feel about the economy, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening bret, officials say gas prices coming down. jobs available. no recession or pre-recession on the horizon. tomorrow s g.d.p. numbers are going to test that. as president biden re-takes the hymn in the west wing now that he is out of covid quarantine. as i was walking out. [clearing throat] i thought i heard a rumbling my staff saying oh he is back. back in the oval office president biden s number one domestic priority is lowering inflation and his plan to do it trust the federal reserve to make that happen. but the federal reserve chair just made a surprising admission. inflation has obviously surprise to the upside ov
in just a few hours jeffrey rosen, former acting attorney general who oversaw the department for only a few pivotal weeks in time is set to testify before the january 6 committee later today and cnn has now obtained some of what he plans to say. rosen will be joined by two other top justice department officials, both of whom threat enned to quit. and jeffrey clark with no criminal trial experience was all in on the bogus theories being bandied about and told trump exactly what he wanted to hear. meantime cnn has learned that the justice department is widening its investigation into the plot to send the fake slates of electors to overturn biden s win. there is a fresh round of subpoenas to rogue electors from several swing states. here to help me sort through all of this is a former federal prosecutor and host of the podcast on topic. so great to see you. it has been a while. good to see you. great to have you. so today we re going to hear from more people, guards at the g
trump s political strength is still evident at the polls. overnight south carolina republican congressman tom rice was defeated by a trump endorsed candidate. rice was one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach the former president and one of the first to face republican primary voters. another race in south carolina did not go trump s way, congresswoman nancy mace at times a trump critic survived a primary challenge. in another significant development republican mayor flores flipped a democratic house district in south texas, this is a pretty significant special election victory that builds on republican gains among latino voters in the region in the 2020 election. joining me now is cnn senior data reporter harry enten. harry, i think the marquee race last night was in south carolina, people looking to see what would happen to this republican that voted to impeach donald trump. looking to see what exactly would happen and here is what happened, look, it s