Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org january 14, 2013. From Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. cheers and applause jon hello, everybody. Welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Our guest tonight is the great one, roger waters of pink floyd will be going up here. Obviously the interview will be accompanied by a laser show. Let me just get right to it. If you are here and you did recently get married laughing , you have to bring your sister along . I dont want to get into it now. Before we begin, one quick bit of housekeeping. Last thursday we took a bit of a is a tearial look at an idea that the president could solve some of our fiscal issues by exploiting a legal loophole and minting a trillion dollar coin. Im not an economist but if were just going to make [bleep] up, i said go home. How about a 20 trillion coin or forget about it. I was digging through the white house couch cushions and eisenhower must have left this 100 quillion bill. I know its real because it has our nations previous seal, a unicorn ferching ason tawr. Saucy. We did receive a bit of pushback on that from the only creature perhaps more noble than a freshly felched unicorn. And the point is this. We heard from the rare graybearded urban laureate economist paul krugman. Anyway, he wrote on his blog there he called me lazy. Said there was a lack of professionalism on the part of of me and my staff. For finding privilege olity in the idea of a temporary trillion dollar coin. First of all, lazy . Im banging it out 22 minutes a day. cheers and applause dont tell me i dont work hard. And second of all, dont blame my ignorance on my staff. Its all me. You know, they got enough to do what with carrying me from cubicle to cubicle. As we learned earlier, im lazy. So what is your beef . And if you could put it in web cast form, saturate the color and tilt that [bleep] understanding what the issues are. The reason weve gotten to this place he did it as a sort of yuk yuk yuk stupid. When he just turns it into dumb, oh, i dont know nothing but those people look stupid to me, hes actually, hes ruining his own brand. Jon first of all, im pretty sure that is my brand. And second of all,. cheers and applause . What . If anybody is ruining their brand, with a trillion dollar coin idea, i dont think its the noneconomist. Look. As we most bits we do, whether of the fully fleshedout or more driveby variety, there are always various counterarguments and nuances of language and thought which can be cited as evidence of this shows inherent unfairness or ignorance. Typically a bluntness people forgive when in agreement with our point of view. So i standby our research on this topic. With Due Diligence and my ignorance inclusion that a trillion dollar coin is a stupid [bleep] idea. And im a fan of paul krugman. All right. Of course thats not the only issue facing obama. President obamas picks for his new cabinet members raising some questions. Lets take a look at his four newest choices. One thing you might notice about all of them, anybody want to jump in. What do you think jon thats kiss without the makeup. I know these guys. Yes play lick it up. Where are the women, for example . Where are the people of color . The fourth white male mr. Obama has chosen in the last month where are the women . Where are the minors jon youre telling me the president , the president of the United States couldnt have found one woman or minority to fill an important job . What about instead of John Kerry Susan rice for secretary of state. Lady and minority. Triple word score i will do everything in my power to block her. Shes not qualified. Jon oh, right. Mccain. Do you have any evidence that barack obama himself is somewhat diverse is being discriminatory in his hiring practices the New York Times ran this photo the other day showing the president with a group of all white men advising him in the oval office. Jon first of all computer enhanced. Theres a black guy right there. Now im not saying that balances everything out but that is a black guy. And there is another black guy who appears to be running the meeting. Still, fair point. There arent any women in the photo. This photo shows the president surrounded by all male advisors although the white house says top aide Valerie Jarrett is hidden behind the men. Jon thats just Valerie Jarretts style. Here she is at the 08 inauguration. Here she is at tianamen square. Here she is with buzz aldrin on the moon. Shes like a living wheres waldo. Here she is behind waldo. You know what . Id like to hear the president s excuse for this. Actually, i can hear the president s excuse for this im very proud that in the first four years that we had as diverse if not more diverse a white house and a cabinet than any in history. What . Ive made four appointments so far. I would suggest that everybody kind of wait until theyve seen all my appointments, who is in the white house staff and who is in my cabinet before they rush to judgment. Jon for more were joined by senior White House Correspondent jessica williams. Thank you for joining us cheers and applause jessica, all last year the concern about obama in his second term was going to be that hes going to go full on like socialist black panther one world government. Now he appears to have gone more season one of mad men. Whats happening . John, people forget, president obama is also half white. Everybody was was so focused on black obama and all the black stuff he did in his first term. Obama care, food stamp. They completely forgot about white obama who has been in there biding his time. Just waiting to take this country back and restore the traditional america this black obama has worked so hard to destroy. Jon wow. Exactly jon i got so say, white obama has been playing a long game jon, you know, white obama has always been there making the occasional appearance. On vacation. On weekends. I mean, youre not going to catch a brother wearing those jeans and a bike helmet on a ten speed with cross trainers on. Jon that white obama is pretty white. The whitest. Jon so if white obama is 50 and black obama is 50 . Well hes not quite like that, okay. According to the white obama, black obama is only 47 of total obama. Jon what . Yeah. He says that 47 feels its entitled to something from the government. Jon whats the other 3 . White obama is pretty sure its latino. Jon what . How did that happen . White obama doesnt know. If we dont put a stop to it, the president will be almost all latino by 2020. Jon oh, my god. So white obama is in charge now . Yep. Hes going to return this country to the greatness of the founders. With a cabinet of white guys. Jon all right. Its going to be great. Jon its going to be great. I know. I hear you. Get it out. Jon knock it right now. Thank you very much. X cheers and applause jon welcome back. Investigative journalism. Whatever happened to that . John oliver investigates in his new investigation, investigating Investigative Journalism reporter in the post 9 11 world i vitally important that americans are educated about whats happening overseas. Thats what makes reporters like cnns indispensable. A Navy Seal Reservist has tracked pirates off the coast of indonesia, crawled through drug tunnels in mexico and journeyed to wherever the [bleep] this is if you want to know whats going on in the world, you actually have to get out into the world. You cant do it from behind a desk. Reporter what have you got coming up next . West africa. You have an entire government thats effectively being run by drug cartels from south america reporter you can look forward to that story airing on cnn very soon. Im not working at cnn anymore. Cnn eliminated its entire Investigative Unit reporter what . Theyve eliminated the department that i was working for where i was doing those International Investigative reports reporter cnn, the worldwide leader in news, has eliminated its Investigative News Department . Yes. Reporter im just letting that sink in a second. Its taking a while. Its just going in. Holy [bleep]. Yet last spring cnn dismissed almost their entire special investigative documentary documentary unit. I spoke to professional media analyst brad atgate who offers in favor of talking heads over boots on the ground reporting cnn is finally raising itself up to meet the low standards of its competitors sad to say Investigative Journalism is on the way out. Its usually the first one to go because its not a Profit Center reporter lets say i knew an investigative journalist doing an investigation on a haven for drug smuggling. Does that sound interesting . No. Reporter that doesnt sound like an interesting story you could stay in the United States and do that reporter right. But its a good story, brad yeah, but, you know, there are a lot of good stories out there that well never know. Reporter well never know because people like you say theyre not profitable. Exactly. Reporter because youre saying exactly like thats a good thing yeah. But we dont have to fly to some remote location, you know, to interview someone. You can just sit and you skype and save money that way. Reporter but, brad, i dont know how many child soldiers in sierra leone you skype traveling around the world for Investigative Journalism, those days are gone. Its just too costly reporter its true. Spending thousands of dollars on an investigation in africa is way too expensive. Especially when youre already spending thousands of dollars on vital reporting tools like hologram journalists. Jessica yellin works at cnn. Why do they need a hologram of her . Reporter that was the stupidest question ive ever heard. Because the hologram is cooler. Look at you right now. Are you a hologram . Oh, no. Reporter youre a real reporter. Thats much less good. It seems theres no place for him in this modern news landscape. Today he supplements his income as a trainer waiting for the opportunity to work with another news organization. I actually have an extraordinary job reporter thats great. Where is that . I work at news room reporter which one . The news room. The hbo show about the news industry. And i pitch them ideas about investigative stories. And then they take those realworld ideas and they inject them into the plot lines of the show. Reporter no, no, no. This cant be right. Please tell me that the only news room hiring people like him is not a pretend one. Excuse me. Who the hell are you . Reporter sorry to interrupt but i have to check something. Do you know who this is in he works here reporter really . I have a followup question then. Are you real . Because i really need you to be real. Are you all right . Not really reporter executive producer mckenzie, right . No, im emily. Thats true. She was in shutter island reporter shut up this is stage 7. Its the set. Look up. Theres no ceiling. Reporter there is no way im looking up there. Our news is from a year ago. Look at the monitors. Romney losing ground to santorum. Holy [bleep]. That is depressing. Look, before we leave, would you mind doing an inspirational sort of speech over soaring music just to make me feel like theres at least some hope. Sure. Just because news night isnt real doesnt mean it cant be. Television news is a struggle between reporters who see journalism as a sacred blessing and a Corporate Culture that exploits the worst in human nature, dumbs down the national conversation. But if you keep doing what youre doing, it wont matter if youre on cnn, fox or youtube, people will find you. Reporter wow. Would you mind giving me a hug . Get out. You can leave through the open space where theres supposed to be a wall. Reporter makes sense. Lets go. Dont worry, america. In the fictional world Investigative Journalism is alive and well. Its only in the real world where its completely [bleep]. cheers and applause jon welcome back. My guest tonight a Founding Member of the legendary band pink floyd. He will continue his tour this summer in europe. Please welcome to the program roger waters. I cant hug you. Youre a good man, roger waters. Come and sit down. I would hug him. Hes here on a medical. You got a little bit of the flu. Kind of bit jon i appreciate you coming out here to project tile vomit. I would suggest that you move to one side. Jon when you suggest it, i will move because with your accent that sounded lovely to me. Thank you so much jon the way that. Proceed vectile vomit. It sounds like ill have that and a scone please i am on my best behavior jon you dont need to be i very rarely wear a shirt and tie jon every time i see roger waters, first of all, seminal rocknroll cheers and applause i still am in trouble from. Do you know in the old pink floyd album you had the stickers that came with the album. Put them up all over my door. Still there. We used to have very good adhesives in those days. Jon luckily, i still live at home so its not a problem. Every time i see you, you, the archtypal rebellious rocknroller are just out there doing good in the world. I wanted to thank you for that. Youre out there at the 1212 benefit for sandy flood relief. Youve done a lot of work with Wounded Warriors. applause im especially interested, there was a Wounded Warrior benefit where you put together a band from walter reed. Tell me how that came to be well, a couple of years ago, bob wood rough asked me to go and just hang out at the drinks thing before standup, which you were doing jon standup for heroes in new york at the beacon theater. And Bruce Springsteen snop im familiar with him i know you are. I was snowing back stage at your show how very, very quickly you talk jon unbelievable. I desperately try to keep up with you jon you dont have to. Can i tell you what i have . Aterol. Do you want some . Thank you, no. So anyway, they said will you come next year because. Then i had this whacky idea which was to put together a band of vets back from either afghanistan or iraq or whatever and maybe put a band together. They went what . And then they apparently said yes. So i met this lovely man at walter reed who runs a program there called music call where they teach them to play Musical Instruments or help them to recover their ability that they might have lost jon right. To play amuseical instrument. So i went down to walter reed a few times with my good friend. We put together a band of 12 guys. They were amazing. Jon i mean, people were bonkers. They went bonkers. These guys are so beautiful. I love them so much. Jon you did a great job with it. applause now, youre going back on the road with the remaining members of pink floyd, right . You guys are going. This is how he makes his living. That is funny. Jon you got to point certain things out. Where are you going to start with on the International Tour . Well, were just doing europe now. I think i may have squeezed both north and south america dry. Jon really . Ive been here almost without peace for the last two years. Its been fabulous. We have a terrific time particularly here in new york city. cheers and applause jon well, new york city is, you know, we are enormous fans of walls here in new york city. Whether its your wall. What keeps it fresh for you still . Do you find new things in the songs that youve written years ago . Do you find. How do you reconnect to that material . I know at 1212 you had someone on who was amazing. How do you reconnect . The version of the wall that im doing now, if its from the one that i did with pink floyd in 197980 and that is far more universal in its message. Its no longer about that miserable selfserving nasty little roger that we all hated those years ago jon never crazy about him. Its more about what you accused me of which is the rebellion that the trying to understand the world and help people occasionally. Jon and the compassion that you display in those pursuit once does have empathy for people who are in trouble. Jon you, my friend, are more generous even with the flu than many will ever know. I really appreciate it. I thank you for being with us. cheers and applause roger waters. Were going to let him go and rest up and hydrate. The great roger waters. cheers and applause