[cheering and applause] jon hey, welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We have a nice show. Tonights guest, tracy droz tragos, the director of the documentary rich hill. Its a beautiful work. You should see it. Obviously not right now. [laughter] do it in a half hour. But first, the official response generally to the president s state of the union speech has always been a prestige spot for politicians who wish to destroy their own president ial ambitions. [laughter] from rising star louisiana bobby jindal to Mitch DanielsHaunted House apparition impression to marco rubios why did i eat the silica gel desiccant i found in my suit pocket . Im so thirsty its clearly marked do not eat. Not everyone faces such immediate destruction. Virginia governor Bob Mcdonnells state of the Union Rebuttal was well received and well delivered, but dont think that will allow him to escape the curse. [maniacal laughing] the former governor of virginia on trial for corruption. For influence peddling. Extaking 1. 5,000 in gifts for political favors. Jon thats right. Virginia is for lovers of money. You know cold hard cash cant hold you at night, and blank check cant wipe away your tears. You cant lay a sacagwea coin on a bed of rose pedals and softly im sorry. Im working on a romance novel. Its in the subgenre of the paranormal subgenre of the teen romance novel subgenre. The feds say mcdonnell and his wife were showered with gifts from millionaire businessman Johnnie Williams in exchange for special treatment. Thats just one side of the story. What does millionaire businessman Johnnie Williams say. Williams says she showered former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife with gifts in exchange for help promoting the tobaccobased bill he invented and was pitching as a wonder drug of sorts. [laughter] jon i guess there is only one side of the story. By the way, the wonder drug he was pitching is called antabloc. You may be wondering how someone could turn a tobaccobased pill into a wonder drug, because thats what it is, seeing as most tobaccobased things are, are wonder carcinogens. Youre going to kick yourself for not thinking of this first. He nuked the tobacco in 200 walmart microwaves. [laughter] tired of feeling bad . Try some of our highly irradiated cigarette pills. [laughter] apparently it turns out when you put two terrible things together, it makes something great. Gonorrhea is terrible, but when you mix it in a crock pot with dog vomit, it transforms into a healthy part of any childs breakfast. Mmm. Mmm. [laughter and applause] that really does look like count dripula. All right. So the governor and his wife accepted a few hundred thousand dollars worth of gifts. You dont have any proof they actually tried to promote this crazy drug. The governor set up meetings for mr. Williams with top state officials. The governor and first lady hosted an event at the governors mansion. Also appeared to show some interest in encouraging public universities to conduct clinical studies of a chemical found in the supplement. Jon and, of course, governor mcdonnell personally pushed through the bill changing virginias state food to marlboro hot pockets. Some solid examples of an apparent quid pro quo. Do you have anything weirder . On the same day mcdonnell endorsed mitt romney for opresident , Maureen Mcdonnell pitched romneys wife ann, claiming her product could potentially cure her multiple sclerosis. [audience reacts] jon that. Thats [bleeped] up. How do those two live with themselves . I guess its easy thanks to forgetulex, from the makers of antabloc, the herbal supplement guaranteed to wipe out the memory of a time you trivialized a womans incurable disease so a huxster would buy you a watch. Forgetulex, made of crushed up heroin needles and bedbugs. So this seems like an openandshut awful thing. What do the mcdonnells have to say in their defense . Attorneys for the mcdonnells say the couple is innocent. They couldnt have been conspiring to abuse the office because their marriage had broken down and they were barely on speaking terms. Jon you dont have to be happily married to be corrupt, although it helps, like italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi and his wife of 20 years, ladyshaped pile of gold. Oh, oh, thats some good bunga bunga. What evidence is there that mcdonnells marriage was even sour . Defense attorneys say the states first lady had a crush on Johnnie Williams. Jurors saw 1,200 phone calls and Text Messages between maureen and williams. On the day of the 2011 virginia earthquake, she texted him, i just felt the earth move, and i wasnt having sex. Jon all capitals. So was the first lady of virginia having an affair with businessman Johnnie Williams . Johnnie williams said there was no romantic relationship between him and Maureen Mcdonnell. He said, i didnt know she had any interest in me until this past week. Jon what, are they in fourth grade . What is this . Williams didnt pick up on the signals, i guess because hes a crazyeyed inventor, got his head filled with so many ideas doesnt know when the ladies are trying to hit him up. I didnt know you like me. I was thinking if i put my farts into a George Foreman grill, maybe i can cure lupus. I dont know. Im an inventor [laughter] please dont try doing that at home. [laughter] why would mrs. Mcdonnell lie about this . Maureen mcdonnells chief of staff told f. B. I. Investigators Maureen Mcdonnell was a nut bag. [laughter] jon someones not getting a reference letter. Heres what i really dont understand about that, why is nut bag a term for crazy . You got to carry your nuts in something, and a bag seems as sensible a conveyians object as anything. It would be crazy eating nuts out of a diaper, but you dont hear people saying about crazy people, that guys nut diaper. Apparently im alone. Everyone in the audience is like, i eat nuts out of a diaper. I dont have a problem with that. The point is this clearly the real victim here is Bob Mcdonnell because if theres one thing he cares about is family values. 34yearold mcdonnell wrote his masters thesis on family values. He suggested working women and feminists were detrimental to the family. We believe to the sanctity of life and family and marriage. I think these issues of life and family and marriage define who you are as people. Jon i guess by your own definition youre a terrible person. Dont worry, theres a cure, lessadouche. [laughter] if you find yourself denouncing your own marriage in an attempt to escape the massive corruption charges filed against you, you may have natural ethics deficiency. Treated with lessadouche, made from asbestos and your parents from asbestos and your parents divorce. A mint flavor that hointensifies as you chew. 5 ascent gum. Stimulate your senses. 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Im the one pretzel bun i knows to you feel it too h you. Try wendys pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger with melty cheese on a soft pretzel bun. Now thats better. [cheering and applause] jon welcome back to the show. Summer 2014. You know what that means, time to check in on the 2016 president ial race, specifically randford j. Paul, the subject of tonights democalypse 2016 coif edition. Its pauls 10th visit. Its prompted many to wonder if hes considering a bid to the presidency. Jon it could be. No, maybe he loves iowa. Hes got a thing for strawberry point, iowas Worlds Largest strawberry. Its not a real strawberry. If it was real strawberry, it could be impressive. Its a 15foot fiberglass sculpture. We dont advertise the statue of liberty as the Worlds Largest lady. Truth sellerby has a larger fake strawberry, so i just. No. No. I dont think id. That was not. I was poking gentle fun. Thats somewhat better. That is more fruit appropriate, but still somewhat hyperbolic. All right. But is senator paul up for the challenges of a president ial primary . Its a routine to the high level of difficulty, especially for a candidate who has some unpopular positions. Rand paul was asked a question, someone gets a little upset, saying you proposed to cut off u. S. Aid to israel. Rand paul says, no i didnt. I havent proposed that. Weve never had a legislative proposal to do that. Jon geez, if you never proposed cutting off u. S. Aid to israel, thats weird. Im not sure why he was asked about it. Oh, whats that . Four years ago. If you look at the last ten years worth of foreign aid, israel gets just slightly more than jordan and egypt get together. I dont think thats a good idea, particularly when we have to borrow the money to china. Should we be giving free money or welfare to a rich nation . Jon that is why you never make eye contact on the subway. [laughter] because some crazyhaired dude is just going to draw you into an awkward conversation about the middle east. And you dont want to know. I heard there was somebody raising questions, indulging in hypotheticals. He never precisely said end all foreign aid to israel. So just to be precise, end all foreign aid, including foreign aid to israel as well, is that right . Yes. [laughter and applause] jon thats going to leave a mark. So he said he was going to end the aid, but he never put it in a legislative proposal, except for his 2012 Budget Proposal, and really that Budget Proposal doesnt count anyway. I have never introduced any legislation that targeted israel in any way. Jon never targeted it. Israel was collateral damage. In rand pauls indiscriminate targeting of foreign aid in general. Senator, all this fumbling around doesnt make you look good. You took a position. You should stand by it. Stick to the landing to show us you have integrity. Say something, anything to persuade us that you are, like your pop, president ial material. You want to accurately portray my position . Jon yes. That is what we want because if you can accurately portray your position we can take those rand paul for president bummer stickers and draw a line on the o and add a d and we dont want to spend any more money to support you. You want to write an article that ive spent the last four years trying to put conditions on aid to people who hate us and burn our flag. Jon i like where were going with this. I also hate people who hate us and burn our flag. Then it would be an accurate story. You can put as a sideline that ive always talked that every country ultimately would be better off to be independent. Jon boom you could illustrate that article with a photo of my head on Hugh Jackmans body standing in the oval office. Congratulations, mr. Next president , youve done it. Well be right back. This summer. You dont have to be a superhero to be a winner. Enter the galaxy of fresh at subway. Find codes on 30 oz. Cups for a chance to win free subs and other amazing prizes catch marvels guardians of the galaxy, in theaters august 1st. Subway. Where winners eat. And drink too. Hey, what are you drinking . Ill take a redds strawberry ale what . Redds i think he wants this. Redds strawberry ale. Fresh like a strawberry. Brewed like an ale. Walked in to a mcdonalds and discovereden an extraordinary burger with heaps of jalapenos. For only two dollars. Within minutes, they had also discovered the phenomenon of economnomnomics nomnom. Nom . Nom nom the jalapeno double, try it now for just 2 on mcdonalds dollar menu and more. Its economnomnomcial. Nom. Nom. Nom. Jon welcome back. My guest tonight, a filmmaker. Her documentary is called rich hill. Dear mom. I have been out of school a month. I broke my neck. Just kidding. The principal said that i aint getting any credits for this semester, so they unenrolled me. New york i dont have a girlfriend yet. Big capital letters. Love you, from harley. Jon please welcome tracy droz tragos. How are you . Nice to see you. Jon thank you very much for being here. Thank you for having me. Jon please, this film rich hill is beautiful and heartbreaking and hard to watch, but its important to watch. What. Tell us the project. Well, its a film about three kids and their families in southwest rural missouri, a town named rich hill, which is my family hometown. Jon oh, youre from there . Its where my father grew up and its where i spent every summer and winter break as a kid. My father was killed in vietnam when i was very young, and my grandparents, who lived there, were like surrogate parents to me. So we wanted to go back. I directed this with my cousin, who is a cinematographer. We wanted to go back and understand what it was like for the families that were struggling there in the houses with the tarps for roofs and, you know, the broken windows. Jon this is a town thats been struggling since really world war ii, since the cold war. Rich hill was known for coal. Then the coal went dry. Theres very little industry. Jon but it gives a look into a poverty that people dont think about as much. Yeah, yeah, or dont think about in a certain kind of way. We really wanted to tell an intimate, emotional, upclose story. We wanted to tell the human story behind the statistics, and sometimes these families get. You might see them in Honey Boo Boo or duck dynasty. Its more of a reality tv new york and out. Jon this is no caricature of anything. No. We really gave these kids and their families authorship and got out of the way and let them told their story. Jon theyre wildly open, which i thought especially for three teenage boy, ones who also have. There are some very difficult things that they have to talk about. Yes. Jon they are wildly available for that. Yeah, i mean, the trust was kind of amazing. And they trusted us. I hope we didnt do anything to violate that trust in the end, but maybe it was because my grandparents were wellknown in town, my grandmother was a Third Grade School teach theyre everybody loved, so that was kind of a good credential for us. And, you know, i mean, i think ultimately there was a feeling of them wanting to tell their story and wanting to be heard and they were interested that anybody cared at all, you know, that anybody was knocking on their door. Jon right. I thought for you to put a human face on this is really very upsetting to me. I really prefer not to think about it. [laughter] damn you droz tragos. Whats interesting to me, we have this image. There is a certain population in this country that believes that poverty is black of virtue. And here you have just laid out the humanity of these kids going through their struggles, the difficulty they have in claiming their virtue and in just trying to get by, and you cannot help but think we are saddling a generation with just baggage that is, you know, youd have to be sis fuss to get out of that. I was so impressed with the resilience of these kids. Andrew, one of the boys, hes so fricken optimistic. And yet he has so many challenges. And i dont know if hes going to realize his dreams. I really hope some i really believe in this kid. But, i mean, his hard work is simply not going to be enough. He has so many challenges in his life. Jon right. And thats the thing i hope in some ways this film will shift the conversation around, which is that its just folks are lazy or its their choice if they find themselves, you know. Jon i would like anybody to walk a mile in these kids shoes and see how well you can do. I thought it was interesting because the congresswoman in those kids District Voted to cut snap fundling, which i thought was stunning. Yeah. Jon i dont know how you are able to sleep with that decision. Its mind blowing. New york when youre in these homes and you see how people are really rationing food and when it comes to that. Jon and water and heating it up to bathe. Absolutely. Jon its intense. It is intense. And its also not without hope. I mean, i think some of these things, the problem is complex, but there are solutions, right . There are things that we can do to lift up families who have hit a bump in the road. Jon i thought the hope is in those kids resilience. You can see the challenges ahead, but you also see somebody buys into this kid, somebody gives a little bit of attention, like thats going to be transformative. Yeah, yeah, but also think about all the kids that dont have films made about them and we hope that there is some awareness. Jon is that your proposal . We have to go out and make films about every one of these kids . Were accustomed to theres urban poverty and rural poverty. Somehow they are distinct. But theyre no. The difficulty of services for the more rural kids struck me. Its difficult to gain services. Yeah, theres a distinct sting to rural poverty, which is your isolate. Your car breaks down, you dont have enough money for gas, youre really stuck. And in rich hill theyre just now getting 911. Theres note even those kinds of services. It would be a Volunteer Fire Department that would respond to calling them directly. Jon its amazing. Its an amazing project. And im so glad that you are able to bring it to everybody. I recommend it. Rich hill is available on itunes, amazon, video on demand. Its in theaters right now. Jon its in theaters right now and its going to open in more cities throughout august if people go see it. I recommend you do it. Tracy droz tragos, thank you so much. You know what im saying . Thats oh. 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