Subways at all. I guess the only way to fix this problem is to hire another irs perhaps to police them. An iirs. Perhaps we need an iiirs and an iv. [ laughter ] pretty soon were all just part of a nesting doll of oversight, paranoia and suspicious, each of us investigating the next to infinity when it turns out weve really just been investigating ourselves the whole time. [laughter] maybe then we realize right and wrong are just two sides of the same coin we call the universe or did i just blow your mind . [laughter] yeah, probably not. You know, can i always do that, by the way. [ laughter ] always a camera with a psychedelic background. Well move on to the Social Security administration where the irs has been somewhat lax, Social Security has been too vigilant. Some taxpayers getting a surprise, money taken out of their tax refunds to pay debts their parents owed. Jon oh, like raising me to be afraid to love wasnt punishment enough. [laughter] jon now the government is going to come and take my car and i love that car in an uncomplicated way. Social security i know you are going to say hey, that wasnt us. Come on, probably some other massive welfare program. We have witnessed. Two months ago mary grace was notified that the u. S. Treasury had confiscated her tax refunds, state and federal totaling 4500. The claim against her came from the Social Security stray which said it overpaid death benefits to marys family after her father died in 1960. Mary was five years old. Jon oh. How did fiveyearold mary and her grieving mother not catch that clerical error . [laughter] hunter down 50 years later and make her pay. [ laughter ] now to be fair the Social Security administration, throw days after the mary story broke did eventually check themselves. The Social Security administration is halt age program under which thousands of people had tax refunds seized to pay off old debts. Jon yes, yes nothing brings about the raising of consciousness like people finding out about bleep you are doing. [ laughter ] brings us to the department of veteran affairs. Baglog troubles at the National Office are well known. But dont think local offices cant compete badwise. As many as 40 veterans at the v. A. May have died waiting for medical treatment. Managers were keeping two waiting list. There was an unofficial waiting lists and names could be on it months or years before they were moved to the official appointment list. The purpose of the two lists was to make it look like the v. A. Was seeing patients in a timely manner [audience boos] jon i can do it. These are the screaming jars i have for different occasions. Theres one here for when the mets lose. If springsteen is ever deconstructed, people who eat pizza with a fork. Donald trump. Old on a second. Let me see what i have. I know my where is my veterans administration. Oh, thats right, i forgot. [ laughter ] [screaming bleep bleep] [ applause ] [laughter] jon you know in a station like this you have to accountability. Who is going step up to the plate here . In an interview this afternoon the head of phoenix v. A. Denied knowing anything about all this. Jon case closed. Nothing to see here. One of those coincidences. Is there anything else you need to tell us . Cnn has obtained emails showing top management including phoenix v. A. Director know about the actual wait times, knew about the off the books list and defended the use to her staff. Jon im going to need a bigger bleep jar. Well be right back. [cheers and applause] cheesy bites with new crust flavors flavor pizza huts cheesy bites pizza is back with your choice of 1 of 7 crust flavors, like bbq and ranch. No one has more flavor. Only at pizza hut tits amazing. This is amazing. Thats amazing real people are discovering surprising things at chevy. Were sold. Its so pretty. Theyre goodlooking cars. It feels great. 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[laughter] but here in the northeast our strength, our pride, our signature zish our indisputable lead in crime and corruption. No one zit better than the northeast. From boss tweed, Whitey Bulger to new jerseys sin in a going Money Laundering slash human organ trafficking fad of 2009. Weve had serpico, abscam. Even connecticut, lets me honest nobody else in the region likes or respects, Even Connecticut jails people on corruption charges just to keep up with the neighbors. This week we noreasters got another gold star on the wrap sheet. Congressman Michael Grimm arrested earlier today. He faces corruption charges. Jon grimm. [ laughter ] why does that name sound so familiar . You might republican grimm from earlier this year when he threatened to throw a Television Reporter over a balcony. Jon oh, right. [ laughter ] one of greatest sentences ever uttered on you might remember that guy who tried to through a y1 reporter over a balcony. Let me be clear bleep . [laughter] jon i never got that. I never got that whole exchange. How do you not close with im going to throw you off this bleep balcony . That is your end line. Im going to throw you off this bleep balcony and im going to break you in half you already threw him off a bleep balcony. Believeity is the soul of threat, my friend. [ laughter ] what did the feds charge balcony boy with . On strughting and im obstructing and impeding irs functions, causing false tax returns to be filed, mall fraud, health care fraud, perjury, wire fraud, obstruction of an official proceedings and the hiring of undocumented workers. Jon im in a bit of a hurry here. Why not just name all the bleep he didnt do. This is what im talking about. This is classic northeastern corruption. Im telling you. You have your hot headed public official. Massive bust by the feds. All that is missing is shady backroom dealings in a dank restaurant. These charges stem from Michael Grimms role in managing the restaurant he owned and operated. Jon book let me boom let me set the scene. Its a classy eye physicallan joint. With a gabagoule to die for. Its on the Upper East Side on the manhattan its a Health Food Restaurant as you can see called healthlicious. [laughter] jon im sorry healthlicious. You dont even call it healthilish . Doing this at a health food joint . It was a Small Business that sold casual food so many people used cash. It was this cash that Michael Grimm exploited. Making over 1 million simply disappear. Jon is this what northeastern corruption has come to . Closing bridge lanes and skimming a little off the top of a broccoli and lentil joint . All right. If thats how the game is played these days i bring you a scene i call gluten fellas. I think thats the wrong music. [ laughter ] all right. Here we go. Look, if it isnt tommy. Surprised you are not in your pajamas eating cereal. Maybe i havent heard, i dont eat gluten no more. Me, too, clogs me up. Take care of yourself get your omegas. Im all about your good fats. Good home and get the bleep cheerios. Keep them here bleep bleep . [cheers and applause] jon you wonder why i dont act in very many movies. [laughter] i cant even get the bleep puppets. [ laughter ] all right. What re with talking about here . What are we talking about . The grimm shady. All right. May be scawrd of high cholesterol but not the law. Ly get right back to work as i always have. With honor and distinction i will serve and then on top of all that, i have an election to win. [ laughter ] jon how can i leave when theres so much more to do . So many more restaurants i would lake to open like a salad bar called kale to the chief. Or maybe for asian food, miso if you want a paint thats more than just easy to scrub. If you want a paint that actually repels dirt and grime. If you want a paint that stands up to lifes wear and tear. 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[cheers and applause] jon welcome back. My guests tonight have coauthor a paper. It will appear in the fall edition of academic journal. Its the swimsuit edition on politics. Mr. President welcome martin gilen and benjamin page please welcome martin gilen and benjamin page. How are you . [cheers and applause] nice to see you. Thank you for being here. [cheers and applause] thank you. Pleasure. Jon the people love a quantitive analysis. [ laughter ] talk to us briefly because this paper ties to stat disally quantify that feeling that statistically quantify that feeling that everyone has that access and power and influence disproportionately go to elite. Is that what the attempt was here to do to statistically quantify that in anyway . Absolutely. Thats right. Jon thats all the time we have. All right. [laughter] how did you try do that . I spent ten years doing it. Jon you spent ten years doing . It. I did. Jon what are you doing it . I am a last minute addition. We wrote it together. It was bens idea. And it was bens idea that there would be enough interest in the country that we should put oi a press release and see if the media cared about it. Jon its a smart thing. You come up with the idea and you say to this gentleman, why dont you work on that for ten years . You got it. You got it. Jon in this analysis, if you will, im in the a stat statisticcation i would say you are on the elite. Got me on the show, jon. Ten years was worth it. Jon im delighted. How do you quantify Something Like that . What metrics do you use . We looked at a couple how to potentially policy changes and we measured what ordinary citizens wanted whether they favored or opposed them and what elites wanted. By having measures we could put them in noaa a statistical model to assess the influence of those facers. Jon when you have something here in this case. You have. 18 differential and a. 22 differential of the Interest Groups. When you use those as independent variables they differ dramatically but if you are going to try to strongly relate those by correlations because they are so close, doesnt that suggest you have a multicola lynn linearity problem. Oh, my gosh. Jon i dont know what i just said. The question is do the elites, is the variable enough from what the nonelite public wants to what the elite want . Did you find a large spread between their aims . Yes, yeah. Theres some very important issues including Social Security deficits, economic regulations, taxes. Jon are you able to calculate how much of a difference money makes or how much of a difference, you know can you look at different Interest Groups and see almost calculate what their effect is . What who is the effective private lobby group . What is the most effective money . With our data not really. We looked at lobbyists, we looked at Interest Group as a whole. We were table distinguish math based groups like aflcio or the aarp from Business Groups. But beyond that we cant really say. Jon why would those be different . If money is money, why would aflcio be different from a Business Group . Its a very good question. Turns out they are not that different. The difference comes from theres a lot more Business Groups. Jon labor is underrepresented in terms that would reflect in terms of policy. Exactly. Jon are there Interest Groups really wasting their money . Can you look at a Certain Group saying club for growth is getting bang for their buck but the pharmaceutical industry is inefficient and being ripped off by their lobbyists. It would be nice to know but we cant tell. Jon you cant tell. Cant tell. Jon i guess when im going for is [laughter] i want to get a lobbyist Fantasy League going where we can get the statistic and trade them like money ball for lobbyists and track it statistically and have a clearer vision of who were up against. [laughter] here is what i just realized i am failing this class. What can we do about the differential then . What can we do about it . I think thats important. Krugman wrote a column and he said the study is okay but its going to discourage people and thats bad. I think theres something to that. This is say solvable problem. I think it takes a very big social movement. I think it takes bipartisan leadership and wealthy people on the same side to make it happen. Nothing seems to happen in american politics of any importance judge i was going to say do you know of a country where that could happen . Is there anything the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive period. I think its worth looking back and learn something lessons. Jon stick around after the break and well talk a little bit about what the mechanics of that would look like to some extent or how top quantify that to some extent. Martin you have a book out, right . I do indeed. Jon its called affluence and influence it was this guys idea. This guy spent 20 years writing and i dont know who is getting the royalties, probably me. Its on the bookshelves now. Martin gilen and benjamin page. Well be right back. [cheers and applause] warning. This commercial contains brief moments of product nudity. Stripped of chocolate. Its peanuts exposed around a soft caramel center. A payday bar will get you through your day. Expose yourself to payday. Cheesy bites with new ranch crust flavor cheesy bites pizza is back and sweeten it up with a hersheys triple chocolate brownie for just 5. 99. Only at pizza hut. A nation of checkers. Missing this moment. To check all of the other moments. Really, mom . Just one look. Theyll never notice. Checkers, you can keep failing at trying to sneak a peek. Or, you can change the way you check your phone. Its 30 in the first. Howd you do that . Magic. The Samsung Galaxy s6 edge, with discreet edge notifications. 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It would still be a buck an nsory Comedy Central cheers and applause jon welcome. Nice to see you. Welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We got a big show for you tonight but i would like to begin it by reciting my [laughter] 29 minutes long but it gets cooking around a 117. Im not going to screw around tonight as someone reminded me in the audience tonight [laughter] apparently if i understand it correctly, no ones interested in my [bleep] tonight. So lets just get to it. Ladies and gentlemen, the 44th president of the United States. Please welcome back to the Program President barack obama. [crowd cheering] thank you. Jon you know, i am amazed and humble every time i come out here and get that ovation. Im just happy you were here to witness it. [laughter] what are you going to do. How are you . What have you done now . What do you have left, about a year. You know, i cant believe that youre leaving before me. [laughter] in fact, im issuing a new executive order. That jon stewart cannot leave the show. [laughter]