From Comedy Central's World News headquarters in New York, this is "the Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.
Welcome to "the Daily Show", my name is Jon Stewart.
We got a good show for you tonight. my guest the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy.
Well, I am going to ask about fracking. But first, last week, while we were off,
we missed some high drama, apparently found in Cliven Bundy, not be confused with his more sophisticated brother, Al,
or his more athletic brother, King Kong.
Now, Cliven Bundy has been grazing his cattle illegally on federal land in Nevada for about 20 years now,
including about 1 million dollars in grazing fees, penalties and fines,
fortunately Mr. Bundy is also repeatedly ignored court orders to cease and desist these are xx grazing,
so the Federal Bureau of Land Management came to take his cattle,
it is your standard boy has cow, boy breaks law for 20 years, boy loses cow story,
or so we thought.
Hundreds of armed militia men rallying to support the Bundies,
pacing off with the xx gunpoint.
Jim Lordy came from Montana to join the protestors. He says he and nother militia members are not afraid to shoot if necessary.
We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,
if they are going to start shooting, it's going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot
by these rogue federal officers.
Anyway, happy Valentine's Day, sweetie.
He seems nice.
Apparently we got ourselves a standoff at wounded loin.
Yes, the armed standoff over this man illegally grazing his cattle is the subject of tonight's news segment.
I DON'T GET IT.
Brought to you by -- huh? huh!
It's the sound you make when you don't get it.
Hey, look, I understand this is the west,
everyone wants to romanticize it, last frontier of liberty, riding the rails on the open range,
eating a tremendous amount of beans around the campfire, not caring about
the normal social consequences of eating those beans cause who is going to complain?
the coyotes? Not if they know what is good for them. Pukting! Pukting!
Pukting! "Pukting" is the noise you make to scare them away. Pukting! Pukting!
How is this guy Bundy a hero... How is this guy Bundy a hero for ignoring federal law and what is the justification?
I abide by all of Nevada state laws, but I don't recognize the United States government as even existing.
I am as against government overreach as the next guy, but i don't think the federal government is overreaching by saying it exists.
But this guy...he just -- heck, I'm just a simple fellow, some folks call XX Rene Descartes.
And without immediate sensory proof, I don't mind to take the government existence as prima fascia assumption.
What if xx granges in the jar?
I got to pay you for grazing my imaginary brain jar cattle?
Hey, who do you take me for a **, Jon Rock? Pukting! Pukting! Pukting! Pukting...
Right now, somewhere a junior philosophy major just ** his pants.
All right. Speak of the things, to prove the government exists, did you look at the end of this --
you see that thing you are holding there, fellow?
If you reject the American federal government, at least you have the decency to create your own damned flag.
I don't give the confederacy credit for much, but at least they had a graphic design team worth a **.
So the law isn't on Bundy's side, the court isn't on Bundy's side,
even the Nevada state constitution which Bundy claims to abide isn't on Bundy's side.
Who the hell is on this guy's side?
Have you thought about why you think your case has resonated so much with the American people?
Hannity!
I still don't get it
It's not like they want to build the school,a road or a hospital
that land is going to stay vacant
whether or not your cattle are on it or not,right?
and by the way,when your cattle graze there
that keeps the price of meat down for every American consumer.
Yes,most goods are cheaper when you steal the raw materials necessary for meat.
In fact,have you seen the prices at Fell Off A Truck Mart
So apparently Sean Hannity thinks laws are served "buffet-style".
in that you can pick and choose the ones you like best
the ones that you don't like, you don't have to abide.
Well that's not going to sit well with Fox's immigration
healthcare law expert pundit, uh, Mr.Sean Hannity.
you only believe we should obey the laws that you want to obey.
obey the laws that you like? no,no. that's all?
why don't you join with me, Jon, and say everybody should who obey the law
tell me how the president can unilaterally pick and choose
which part of the law he will uphold at whatever time he chooses.
I mean the guy is not even wearing a cowboy hat.
the prisendent doesn't get to choose
Apparently he selects cowboy hats which laws you will obey like some sort of legal sorting hat
By the way, that is the worst Harry Potter ever.
or maybe Sean just respects people who fight for their principles
even after they lose their case in court.
a group of Atheists lost their battle with the state of Utah
over 14 steel cross highway memorials
and the judge's ruling, you guys lost.
that will be overturned! No, You LOST
Ah.I guess unless your friends are armed and ready to have your womenfolk shot.
now,I know you don't like people scamming off the taxpayers,Sean
my next guest is a California surfer,he lives on food stamps
I want you to realize you are taking other people's money
and you are living a selfish life.
first of all
There is no way that's(bleep)that guy's hair.There is no way.
that is young hair but underneath those glasses is an old face.
and it's too bad surfer dude isn't cow,otherwise Hannity would be fine with the government paying for his meals
also it would be cool to see a surfing cow.
It seems like something about this bundy feller is blinding Hannity
to all the things that would normally drive Hannity mad with rage
Is it the hat?because we can give him a different hat.
And you know what? Maybe a different hairstyle.
And a new shirt. and a pair of devil sticks
oh, no, he is an occupy wall street protester.
trespassing on land that doesn't belong to him, get'em, Sean!
you are protester of the day and you go home at night and take a shower.
take over a park and sleep on the street
Now that is the way you talk to a trespasser who votes differently than you
how out there is Hannity on this issue
I have cattle and I have people that graze on my land
grazing fees are normal, and you stopped paying them
there are some people that would S]say that you are
let me quote a welfare rancher.
Sean Hannity has now made Glenn Beck the voice of reason.
if you want
if you want,if you want to challenge the amount of federal land
the government owns in the state of Nevada
Fine, make your case to the voters
If you want to challenge the concept of grazing fees
Fine,but Hannity's puffery and armed friends don't make you a patriot.
I guess maybe i am a little bit like the founding fathers.
Dude,you're a welfare rancher trying to pull off the largest cattle dine and dash.
We'll be right back
and handed it to Russia, many thought the militias were not only Pro-Russian but Russian.
Russian president Vladimir Putin knew different.
Those are local self defense units.
you have to take the man at his word. come on.
look at that face. with that
would that face lie to you?
don't answer that because that face would kill you with poison.
Actually, that face did lie to you.
Vladimir Putin in the meantime spoke on Russian TV
for the first time he admitted the troops in unmarked uniforms
who took Crimea before its annexation by Moscow were in fact,Russian soldiers
April fools'.
in February.
now there is earlly by gonzales be by gonzales .
As planed last week, huge parts of eastern ukraine are now filled with the same mysterious militias,
were taking over government buildings occupying strategy and not only taking ukrainian army tanks,
they are doing things with them i didn't think you could do.
i got to tell you, man,
with all the respect to ukraine that is awesome.
But at least now Putin is more accustomed to telling the truth
i am sure he will level as to russian involvement.
this is nonsense. there are no russian units in the east of the ukraine.
well, his lips may know but the other guy that was talking says,
look. he lies all the time, so you know what else?
if we had some kind of photographic proof
that the malicious in the ukraine are actually russian soldiers.
New photos provided to a european monitoring body and published by "the new york times" just today.
give some insight as to who has been seizing government zoo sites in eastern ukraine,
The Time says these photos link the gunmen known as green men to russia.
really? that is your evidence?
chunky guy with a beard?
it looks like every other guy in eastern europe.
that is every other guy on the planet. like two-thirds of zz top. come on.
i think that is like the guy that produced the beastie boys first album.
look i am starting to think russia hasn't invaded crimea but a international crisis.
it's just a library documentary prank by joaquin phoenix.
i am going to need more evidence these militia then are not just locals.
the talked to locals in the town people at the barricades speak with russian accents and don't know their way around.
i guess they weren't doing doughnuts in the tanks, they were just so lost they were driving in circles.
they said it was lawful how surround . i don't know.
i don't know where i am going. i am just
-- i am just hungry.
so now that we know these are russian it is question is, how should america deal with it and please frame your answer with the stupidest option we can take.
we need to do some things tactically.
we need to give them lethal weapons,
give them 100 t-72 tanks from nato stocks.
we did that already and the russians took them and started doing doughnuts!
in the parking lot of the russian 7-11
is there anyone in russia who can pin putin now.
us former us spy contractor having his first known public conversation with vladimir putin.
oh . it is the snow man!
oh, yeah!
falcon and the snow man! fucking the sownman!the bitch!
if anybody can hold putin's feet to the fire it is this cat.
does russia intercept store or analyze in any way
the communications of millions of individuals?
oh! how is ott vladdy going to get out of,he is vladdy going to get out of this one.
we don't have a system of interception. according to our law, with our law,
it cannot exist.
who would ever have thought putin could outwit a prerecorded question from a man whose life is in his sense.
we'll be right back.
welcome tonight!
she is the administrator of the environmental protection agency, please welcome Gina Mccarthy!
thank you.
Welcome to the program. first of all as a bostonian,
i say to you congratulations on a beautiful marathon today. beautifully done.
very joyous, really lovely.
thank you. Boston proud.
boston strong.
it was -- i was going to run in it,
but then i remembered i am decrepit.
i knew that before -- I appriecate.
You are very kind. how long have you been in the new position?
oh, just about six, seven months.
and are we clean yet? the hair, the water?
huge, huge movement forward since i started, yes. tremendous? yes.
what is for you stepping in what is your priority?
well, i share the president's priority of dealing with the issue of climate change, first and foremost.