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Sinking. this administration is soaring. if anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the hindenburg. >> i watch it at home and they cut away to the audience and -- huh? what? they doesnt get the joke. so, youre screwed from jump street. but it was his character, thats the character he does. what -- who did you buy? >> thank you very much. good night. >> i dont know if its a good thing that comedians and politicians get together in that room, because i think it definitely makes you pull ...

Inspired empty promises for the future? >> i loved to have a story broken down for me in a different way. the news can get really dark the deeper you go. thats why i loved jon so much. thats why i loved "the daily show" so much. >> youre doing theater when you should be doing debate, which would be great. what you do is not honest. what you do is partisan hackry. >> youve got to be kidding me. >> youre on cnn. the show that leads into me is "puppets making crank phone calls." what is wrong with ...

>> sorry i had to cancel a few times. >> the president is president in a completely new media landscape where you have kids that dont watch television anymore, they watch stuff on their mobile devices. >> good to be with you. >> obamacare was vilified by half the country. we needed a water cooler moment to say, yes, we know the website didnt work, but it works now. the president realized that you have to communicate in the venues where people are, and with "between two ferns," you had a program ...

Different sense, and so figuring out whats going to appeal to everyone is definitely tricky. >> ladies and gentlemen, here with a special edition of the colbert report, stephen colbert. >> i think you show up at the press correspondents dinner, you better go for the throat, and you better risk being booed. and thats what i loved about what colbert did. >> i believe the government that governs best is the government that govers least and by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in...

Obama. >> historically, what we would call right wing politics tends to be more about protecting the status quo, and i think good comedy is about attacking the status quo. questioning it, challenging it, satirizing it. >> in just eight years, i have given you enough material for 20 years. >> the president does this speech every year at the white house correspondents dinner. historically speaking, this is the most, like, disgusting display of elites in a room together, right? its journalists, mem...

Sarah palins favorability rating dropped after viewers watched an "snl" poof of the governor. >> tina fey destroyed that womans political career. destroyed it. god wlebless her. >> were doomed! we need a revolution. millions of people on the streets. and we got to do something! and we got to do it now. ah. >> after the first debate, my agent called me on the phone and i started talking like bernie and he said, oh, my god, thats so funny. you should make a video, put it on the internet. hits and ...

>> are you familiar with what we do here? >> i am. >> okay. >> im familiar with the total scrubbing -- >> well, you know im in character. >> yes. >> then im an idiot. >> its wonderful to see out of character. >> comedians have the credibility and the ability to tap into things that are happening right this second. couldnt be more urgent, couldnt be more on peoples minds. they want somebody to say something about it, so, we turn to them and weir so desperate for it that it then spills out of the ...

>> i think hed made a fine candidate in 64. 1864. >> von meter dame out with the parody called "the first family." it parodied jfk. >> hes doing my gestures and hes using my lines. do not ask what this country can do for you. thats one of my original lines. >> i thought it sounded more like teddy than it did me. >> theres something very charmingly american about this idea that we really respect our political figures, but at the same time, we kind of like to take them down a peg. >> gerald ford w...

Fbi agents showed up at feinsteins office in d.c. and revealed her staffer was under investigation for possibly spying for china. in fairness, it does not appear the china actually revealed anything of major substance, though we still dont know all the details. the jury is out on that. the contact with china he certainly serious enough that feinstein forced the aid into retirement and tried to keep all of this hush-hush until the "chronicle" blew the lid off of it, and the president has been try...

There is not the slightest evidence of a sting that has ever been accused of trump. >> sandra: dont you find that odd based on what charlie has said and how you laid it out that nobody is talking about this? >> people are talking about this. this is in major publications. i read about it in the newspaper. >> sandra: great point! >> it is not getting as much attention as things as our president. >> sandra: its probably a ten page piece of political, how silicon valley became a den of spies. in it...