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Exclusive content, you're listening to Comedy Central from the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is the Daily show with your host, John Stewart.

It everybody, welcome. Thank you. Please, I, look, I gotta tell you something. These folks who work here at the Daily show are making me look Zaddy.

Sorry.

Welcome to the Daily show. I'm your host, John Stewart, captain of this dying medium. Why would you even say that to a gentleman? Tell me tonight. He said, oh, I'm so happy to be here. You know, your television is dying. I said, I am aware. And in fact, I'm contributing to it. You're welcome. I did have such a good time last week doing the program, and then everybody, comedy Central was like, oh, what are you going to do this week? And I was like, wait, this week already? I did a Monday. What am I, a cyborg? Come on. But I don't mind because quite frankly, the response to the first show last Monday was universally glowing.

Jon Stewart is facing massive backlash from Democrats over his comments about Joe Biden. Oberman tweeted, well, after nine years away, there's nothing else to say to the both side as fraud Jon Stewart bashing Biden, except please make it another nine years. Christy Jackson tweeted, sorry, but I won't be watching you either.

Okay, maybe not universal, but that was on Twitter. Everything on Twitter gets a backlash. I've seen Twitter tell labradoodles to go themselves apradoodles. I just think it's better to deal head on with what's an apparent issue to people. I mean, we're just talking here and Mary Trump tweeting, not only is Stewart's.

Both sides are the same rhetoric, not funny.

It's a potential disaster for democracy. It's one Joe. It was just one Joe. It was 20 minutes. I did 20 minutes of one Joe. But I guess, as the famous saying goes, democracy dies in discussion. But look, I have sinned against you. I'm sorry. It was never my intention to say out loud what I saw with my eyes and then brain. I can do better. I can have learning. I can have it. But I don't even know where to start with that. Where do I go to study the particulars of unquestioning propaganda? I would need mentorship.

We're in Moscow tonight. We're here to interview the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

Saints be praised for Professor Tucker. Aloysius Mayflower. Kenny bunked Port Batgammon. Carlson II has arrived. Professor, tell me, what is step one in delivering world class fealty to power?

Here's why we're doing it. First, because it's our job. We're in journalism.

Lie about what your job is.

Our duty is to inform people.

Lie about what your duty is.

Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in. Freedom of speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to say what we believe.

Oh, shit. Kudos, sensei. That was deep. I have much to learn. Disguise your deception and capitulation to power as noble and moral and based in freedom. Yes, master. Just out of curiosity, as a student, when you're sitting there interviewing Putin and you don't plan to challenge his utter bullshit, but you don't want to really be that obvious, what do you do with your face? Oh, I see. Okay, so it's not really a straight face, as much as you try to convey a mixture of what appears to be shame, arousal, and I'm going to say irregularity. For instance, like you're constipated while jerking off to a Sears catalog. Been there. Now, obviously, Tucker's strategy is going to work when there's some ambiguity in what Putin says. But what if Putin starts saying shit like, World War II was Poland's fault because they forced Hitler to invade them? I mean, what do you do with something like that? That's gonna be hard.

After World War I, this territory was transferred to Poland, and instead of Danzig, a city of Dunsk emerged. Hitler asked them to give it amicably, but they refused.

Of course.

It.

Of course. You know, that's so hard to do when your face says what the. And your mouth says, of course it's so hard to. All right, how do you do that? By the way, Poland started World War II. Why would a country whose navy has submarines with screen doors want to instigate a war? Quick history lesson. Years ago, for reasons nobody is really sure of, a stereotype emerged that polish people were inept. In various ways, including, obviously, submarine manufacturing and even something as simple as the changing of a light bulb. I don't know, actually, how many polish people you think it takes to change a light bulb, but it's certainly less than the conventional wisdom at that time would tell you. Now, we know that polish people are as smart as anyone and certainly did not deserve to be invaded by the Germans, who, of course, accomplished that by marching in backwards. So the Poles thought they were leaving. Well, I like to give you a little bit of dumb. Well, this has been an incredible primer into the delicate dance of speaking, of course, to power. Tell me, Tucker, does this masterclass include field trips?

How does Russia have a subway station that normal people use to get to work and home every single day? That's nicer than anything in our country. There's no graffiti. There's no filth. There are no foul smells.

That's a nice subway. That's a very. Although, to be fair to the New York City system, it was constructed in 1904 out of urinal cakes by the great engineer Giuseppe Pissa. Everywhere but. Point taken. It's a very nice subway. But the subway, that's only one thing.

So we thought it would be interesting to take a look at a contemporary, modern day 2024 russian grocery store.

Go on.

All right.

There we go. So I guess you put in ten rubles here, and you get it back when you put the cart back, so it's free, but there's an incentive to return it and not just bring it to your homeless encampment.

I know I've said this before. You're such a dick now. I didn't realize. Really, truly, like a dick. I didn't realize. America's homeless problem is caused entirely by easy access to grocery carts. I had all my stuff in my house, but I didn't know I could just put it on wheels. It's so much easier.

This is the grocery cart escalator. This is designed. I'm figuring this out now. Where the wheels don't move, they lock on the grocery cart escalator. Look, ma, no hands.

Okay, forest. An escalator for the grocery cart, and the doors open automatically. Oh, mother Russia.

Russia is famous for its bread, which is one thing I can assess pretty well. Look at that. It's fresh, too.

Look at that. Come on. Guy really likes bread. Hate to think what would have happened if he had found a bagel. But, hey, if being a free speech warrior means you have to bang the occasional sourdough nostrogia, but our time is limited. Could you drive home the purpose of your deception on this trip in the most cynical way possible, please.

We didn't pay any attention to costs as we were just putting in the cart what we would actually eat over a week. And we all came in around $400. About $400. It was $104 us here. And coming to a russian grocery store, the heart of evil, and seeing what things cost and how people live, it will radicalize you against our leaders. That's how I feel, anyway.

Radicalized. Radicalized. And it will radicalize you unless you understand basic economics. See, $104 for groceries sounds like a great bargain unless you realize Russians earn less than $200 a week. But that's the kind of context that a, what did you call yourself earlier? Journalist would have provided. But here's the reality. You know all this because you aren't as dumb as your face would have us believe. Perhaps if your handlers had allowed, you would have seen there is a hidden fee to your cheap groceries and orderly streets. Ask Alexey Navalny or any of his supporters, then Vladimir Putin's Russia. Political repression is everywhere, and hundreds have been arrested for daring to honor Navalny so publicly. Right, because the difference between our urinal, caked, chaotic subways and your candelabrad, beautiful subways is the literal price of freedom. But the goal that Carlson and his ilk are pushing is that there's really no difference between our systems. In fact, theirs might be a little bit better. The question is why? Why is Tucker doing this? Here's why. It's because the old civilizational battle was communism versus capitalism, that what drove the world since World War II. Russia was the enemy then, but now they think the battle is woke versus unwoke.

And in that fight, Putin is an ally to the right. He's their friend. Unfortunately, he is also a brutal and ruthless dictator. So now they have to make Americans a little more comfortable with that. I mean, liberty is nice, but have you seen Russia's shopping carts? And Tucker would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling assassins.

In a statement to the New York Times, Carlson said, quote, it is horrifying what happened to Navalny. The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it.

Correct. No decent person would. For more on, please enjoy your class. For more on Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, we turn to our own Michael Kosta. Michael. Michael, let's talk. Michael, first of all, what an unbelievably embarrassing display of sycophancy from Tucker Carlson. Yeah, well, I'm not sure what that means, John. So I'm going to assume you loved it as much as I did. It made me think that these dictatorships have gotten a bad rap, which is why I've traveled here to North Korea. And as you can see, it's amazing. It looks like you're in a candy store. Well, I am, but this is what the entire country looks like. I'm told it's a paradise of chocolate bars and sugar canes. I mean, John, check this out. This bucket of gummy worms here in Pyongyang, it costs a nickel. Do you have any idea how much this would cost me in the so called United States? I don't know. Like $20, I guess. Yeah, and who can afford that besides capitalistic american pedophiles?

Okay.

And just look at the technology they have here. John, check out this amazing contraption. You put. Okay, you put a quarter and look what comes out. A gumball. Death to America. John, you need to come home. Michael. Well, I'd like to, John, but unfortunately, I renounced my citizenship in exchange for these gummy worms. Now, look, they made them sour on the outside, and on the inside, they're sweet. And until America comes up with that. All right, how do we say goodbye in our language? Michael Costa, everybody. When we come back, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw will be joining me. Don't go away.

I'm Ara Madison II.

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Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Daily show. My guests tonight, oh, I love them so much. They're law professors and constitutional experts. Elitist who co host the podcast about the supreme court called Strict Scrutiny. Please welcome the program. Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw, please. Leah Lippman, who couldn't be here because of the delicate configurations of our desk. We would have loved to have Leah be here as well, but she's in California, and so I didn't want to let that pass. I want to start with you guys. This is a simple question. John Oliver has offered Clarence Thomas a Winnebago and a million dollars a year to. And this is his words, not mine. Get the off. The Supreme Court will, in your court watchers, your experts on the Supreme Court, will he accept this offer?

I think this is a Harlan Crowe counteroffer opportunity.

You believe that his benefactor is going to have to counter. But what do you counter with? It's a beautiful Winnebago and a million dollars here. Is there anything else to life?

Not if you enjoy spending time in the parking lots of Walmart. As Justice Thomas.

He says he does, but apparently he likes to quail hunt in a robe. I want to ask you, there's a strategy that's starting to bubble up, which is getting Americans comfortable with authoritarianism and getting us to not think critically about the differences between a free society and not a free society. And in that regard, they are starting to paint Trump as Navalny. That the trials that he is facing in America are similar or the same as what Putin did to Navalny. Please explain to me why that's horseshit.

Well, we are not experts in russian criminal procedure, but I think it's safe to say that Donald Trump is likely receiving more procedural protections right now in the four criminal indictments that he's currently subject to than Aleksei Navalny had in his time in Russia. So I think this is not the same situation.

Would you say that Donald Trump has actually received duer process than most people in America? I mean, this guy is clearly on the platinum due process plan. He's getting every.

The dewist of processes, the dues of processes.

So how is this even comparable?

It's not at all comparable. And I do think it is interesting, as your last segment made clear, that Trump is adverting to the situation in Russia right now and invoking Navalny. And I think that it's right to draw comparisons right now. But, of course, the casting is all wrong right now. In the arguments that Trump is making in some of the pending criminal cases against him, he is essentially casting himself as above and beyond the law. And we're essentially seeing what presidents should.

Have complete and total immunity. Because if you can't kill people, then what fun.

Well, this was actually a hypothetical that came up in the lower federal court argument in this immunity case. Trump's lawyer was asked, so you're saying that a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political rival, and the criminal law couldn't get him for that?

Sounds familiar.

And Trump's lawyer basically said, unless he's been impeached and convicted, first, the criminal.

Laws by the Senate in a political process.

Right.

So you have to go.

Our criminal laws are suspended to the president. Didn't we fight a war about that?

Well, we not only fought a war, but our whole constitutional structure is designed to prevent consolidations of power within the presidency. Exactly. And so this whole idea.

You got an a in our constitutional law classes.

John con law. But, I mean, what Kate is describing is essentially very authoritarian forward. I mean, the person that Donald Trump is, is not Alexei Navalny. It's Vladimir Putin.

Right? That's who he wants to be. That's who he admires. But in our judicial systems, defense, in my mind, over these past few years, it was one of the few institutions in America that actually held pretty strong. And you are frowning at me. You disagree with this?

Well, on our podcast, we take different roles. Kate is, I think, much more amenable to your position. I think. I think.

Hold on 1 second.

Okay, explain. There's something to this.

I do think that there is a way in which courts really did stand as a bulwark against some of Trump's worst instincts and impulses while he was in office. And even since 60 plus lawsuits he filed around the 2020 election, all unsuccessful.

Right?

He argued for different versions of immunity in civil and criminal cases previously. Those have been unsuccessful essentially throughout. But we are in a real test moment of that proposition in that the supreme court is right now facing this question of whether he will ever stand trial for the January 6 event if.

They grant him blanket immunity. We don't have a republic anymore. We don't have a constitutional republic if the head of it has immunity. The thing I liked about what the courts did is they set a standard of evidence. Anybody can say whatever they want on a basic cable show, wherever they go or at a rally or anything else. But when you bring it into a court, as Giuliani famously said, no, we don't have any evidence, but we got slots of theories, and they threw them out.

Okay, so that just suggests that the bar is in hell. Yes, of course, the courts are a bulwark against the most totalitarian impulses in our society. But we forget that the court system, we have the Supreme Court, we have. The debates we're having about the Supreme Court are all right now. The product of what Donald Trump did, like this is a person who was not elected by the population.

You're saying these questions would have been utterly unimaginable in previous.

Right now debating whether or not in the next presidential term, we are going to see a national ban on abortion. We wouldn't be having that discussion. If Donald Trump's six to three conservative supermajority had not rolled back Roe versus Wade, we wouldn't have that discussion at.

All or the immunity discussion or anything.

All of this. He has created the conditions for the way we talk about this court.

And that's the thing that ultimately is at stake in all this. I want to thank you guys so much for coming on. You're fabulous. Check out their podcast, please. Strict scrutiny. New episodes drop on Mondays. It's a fine day to drop them. Melissa, Murray, and Kate, y'all. We'll be right back.

I'm Aaron Madison II.

And I'm Louis Vertell. This year, we're excited to bring you new episodes of keep it covering, the holy trinity of awards season, Emmys, Grammys, and the granddaddy of them all, the Oscars. It's like the Super bowl for Hollywood, but with more sequins and fewer concussions.

And we are continually blessed by iconic guests like Michelle Yeoh, Tori Kelly, Andy Cohen, and Jinx Masoon.

New episodes of Keep it drop every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe to keep it on YouTube for access to full episodes and other exclusive content.

Hey, everybody, that's our show for tonight. Before we go, we want to check in with your host for the rest of this week, Desi Lydick. Desi, what do you get crooked? What stories is the show going to be covering this?

Well, John, we'll be following the news at a sneaker con where Donald Trump has just debuted his snazzy golden sneakers.

Nice.

Yeah. An american treasure made in China. And not to be outdone, the Democrats have announced a new line of limited edition Joe Biden pumps.

I think he's going to look incredible in those. Very nice. Thank you so much, Desi. Here it is. We'll see Desi tomorrow. Here's your moment to Zen because I honestly thought he was going to be aggressive and ask these so called tough questions. So, frankly, I did not fully enjoy the interview.

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