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00:00June 9th, 2011.
00:05On Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York,
00:08this is The Daily Show with John Stewart.
00:22Welcome to The Daily Show with John Stewart.
00:25Oh, we got a show for you tonight.
00:27We got a show for you tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
00:31He got, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:33He didn't have a brain.
00:37Our guest tonight, Howard Wasden,
00:40author of a new book about SEAL Team 6
00:43and winner of this year's incredibly well-timed book release prize.
00:50To turn to a more serious topic,
00:52for the past two weeks,
00:53the news has been dominated by
00:56scandal of a particularly purient nature.
01:02I, for one, believe it's time that we lift our gaze
01:05from the gossip-filled gutter.
01:06The real challenge
01:07for a new...
01:11The real...
01:16The real challenge for a news program,
01:20such as ours,
01:21is
01:22not how best to indulge our most base and callow instincts,
01:27but rather how best to choose
01:28which important, yet now overlooked,
01:31story of importance
01:33to do first.
01:35Simple.
01:36A little editorial authority
01:37with the help of our friend,
01:41the giant...
01:42Giant part of a wheel with a...
01:51nail to it.
01:52Now...
01:53I give you now
02:02the Daily Show
02:04blocked stories roundup.
02:06These are all stories...
02:08No.
02:10These are all stories
02:11that have been blocked
02:13by this recent scandal.
02:15By the way,
02:16lest you think me crass,
02:18this is the exact rubber penis wheel
02:23Edward R. Murrow used.
02:27I don't know if you knew that.
02:28I don't know if you knew this.
02:30Murrow's original sign-off phrase was,
02:32good night and good lick.
02:33Look!
02:35F***!
02:35F***!
02:36What?
02:37We actually got this
02:38from the Museum of Radio,
02:39Television, and Dildos.
02:45While this is on low
02:46and the museum is closed,
02:47it was really their only exhibit.
02:48So, anyway.
02:55Let's give them a spin!
02:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:10No!
03:11Oh!
03:11Oh!
03:12Oh!
03:13Oh, it's going to be Tony back!
03:14No!
03:15Oh.
03:15Our three wars, well, a worthy start.
03:21So, oh, I'm sorry, a worthy start.
03:23So where are we going?
03:24Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya?
03:26The United States reportedly ramping up airstrikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen.
03:33Wait, we're bombing Yemen now, too?
03:37I guess that explains the president's new banner.
03:40Ah, mission expanded.
03:41Yeah, we've been secretly hitting terrorist compounds in Yemen
03:46with the cooperation of their president, Saleh.
03:50How's he doing?
03:52A senior U.S. official says the president had shrapnel wounds
03:55and severe burns to his face and chest from an attack on the presidential palace Friday.
04:00The government insists he'll return after undergoing treatment in Saudi Arabia.
04:05Really?
04:06He's coming back.
04:07I see Yemen's president, Saleh, feels the Yemeni insurgents who launched a mortar attack on him
04:13while he was praying was a temporary setback.
04:16That he still has the people's support.
04:19Although, if you look at the results of the latest presidential popularity poll in Yemen...
04:22I believe that's Yemen for strongly disapprove.
04:29It is interesting, Saleh still wins in a head-to-head with Romney.
04:34All right, now...
04:35Yemen's a bit of a downer.
04:38Let's try again.
04:39Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
04:43Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
04:45Stop, stop, stop.
04:47Oh, oh.
04:48Oh, Syria.
04:50Damn it.
04:52Now, the uprising is Syria.
04:53Dramatic new developments, including a reversal today by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
04:59The Syrian leader now saying he'll grant amnesty to protesters arrested for various alleged crimes.
05:06Wow, that's actually kind of good news.
05:10Assad is a brutal dictator and I did not expect him to offer up amnesty.
05:16This is not necessarily an amnesty as one would understand the world in the sense that it is not a blanket pardon.
05:23Those who had received a life sentence, for example, would be imprisoned for 20 years.
05:29Those who had received the death sentence would see that reduced to serving out a life sentence.
05:36Ah, I see.
05:39So, I think someone doesn't really know what the word amnesty means.
05:44Slow down there, Rainbow Bright.
05:45That's going to leave your re-election chances vulnerable to being soft on crime.
05:49I guess to Assad, amnesty is probably just the return address on all the junk mail he throws out.
06:05I think I hear from the audience, we got time for one more spin.
06:12Oh, why, why, why, why, why, why?
06:15Help, help, oh God, why stop?
06:17Ow, I'm starting to feel good.
06:18Oh, oh, no, never mind.
06:20Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, why, why, why, help, help, help, help, help.
06:24Oh God.
06:25Ow, ow.
06:27Oh!
06:28Oh!
06:29Ah!
06:35In decision 2012!
06:37Wow.
06:38This thing is like.
06:42Game's a chance.
06:44What are you going to do?
06:44yes republicans running for that party's presidential nomination continue to try to
06:52wrestle with anthony weiner's penis for control of the news cycle some candidates like tim palenti
06:58are making the case for straight talk i'm willing to tell americans the hard truth
07:03i went to iowa and said we need to phase out federal ethanol subsidies i went to florida
07:09and said we need to raise the retirement age for the next generation i went to new york city
07:14and told wall street that the era of bailouts carve outs and handouts had to end i went to
07:20wisconsin and i said everyone here needs to lose like 20 to 25 pounds i i went i went to idaho and
07:29i told him potatoes are nothing but white trash yams to save time i uh instead of going to
07:37massachusetts i just stepped in dog boom who's got next boom oh my god i almost cut my hand on the
07:46wheel that
07:48that's when you know you got issues baby can't even see it anymore
07:56while palenti attempts to get us to face the problem inside us candidate herman kane offers
08:01real solutions to fictional issues don't try to pass a 2700 page bill you and i didn't have time to read
08:08it we're too busy trying to live send our kids to school that's why i'm going to only allow small bills
08:18three pages you don't have time to read that one over the dinner table bills will be three pages
08:25if i am president treaties will have to fit on the back of a cereal box
08:30from now on the state of the union address will be delivered in the form of a fortune cookie
08:36i am herman kane and i do not like to read we'll be right back
08:43we're back to the show this is an important issue please
08:50our our insatiable thirst for oil has forced us to do business with some of the world's most
08:56dangerous regimes it turns out the most dangerous may be closer than we think white snack has more
09:02we've been told time and time again we must get off foreign oil america's dependence on oil is one
09:08of the most serious threats that our nation has faced this dependence leaves us more vulnerable to
09:13hostile regimes and to terrorists but if we're going to get serious we must examine the players
09:19particularly the biggest most dangerous player of all right now our leading supplier of imported oil
09:28oil is canada that's right it's canada it gives us about two million barrels of oil a day which is
09:37about twice as much as we're currently getting from saudi arabia canada i knew it for too long we've
09:44cozied up to their dictators opened our borders to their most heinous operatives and ignored their
09:50institutional brutality again and again and oh that's gotta hurt yes bit by bit canada is killing
10:00us i flew to the oil fields of alberta to confront our canadian oil overlords would you prefer that
10:07i call you shake or warlord or your lordship i'm senior vice president but i mean you can just call me
10:16drew would you agree that canada is a blood and oil soaked rapetocracy oh no canada is a very
10:24welcoming warm country there's there's no reason we can't continue to be great neighbors such
10:29arrogance and worse it's american companies that are keeping these oil barons in business
10:36someone had to send them a message first question um wow these are a mess right evil canada
10:49we've been doing business with canada for many years we may have small differences but we're
10:56really cut from the same cloth so you're okay with canada canada's fine well what would you do if
11:04your daughter had her health care paid for by the government as a father how could you live with
11:10yourself i could i could live with that and you call yourself an american you disgust me sir
11:18also do you have some kleenex because i am starting to congeal a little bit here
11:23sure the propaganda sounds great until you talk to those who've managed to escape the evil maple
11:31regime so you're canadian refugees uh yeah we're originally from trono yeah born and raised
11:37trono police what was it like living in that repressive regime oh what's uh what's this show all
11:47about yeah what is it about it's it's the daily show with john stewart oh that's that sure they
11:56make you look silly making you look stupid right yeah we're just a bunch of canadian horses here no
12:01no no no no take off eh go home yankee yeah eh go leaves go i felt that same anger on the canadian
12:09street where america has become the scapegoat for all of canada's problems why are you angry at america
12:16a lot of reasons number one vancouver canucks we want the nordique back he took the winnipeg jets
12:24that was a little bit too much go leafs go you a hockey fan no i'm american just as terrorists are
12:31taught around the world here a new generation of canucko fascists are being trained to hate
12:37clearly it's just a matter of time before they strike i think they're more afraid of us than we
12:44are of them to be honest so you're saying we should invade canada before canada invades us
12:48i don't think that's all i need right there yes
12:51as americans we simply have no other choice americans have a choice a personal choice every
12:59individual has a choice to use fossil fuels or not done all right easy we'll stop using your oil
13:06let me give an example of what that might mean though obvious transportation means would have to
13:10change your cell phone uh video games mp3 players your ipad all these things are made from a
13:16petrochemical or petroleum-based products what about internet porn that would be gone
13:20i was beginning to see petro politics in a whole new light maybe canada wasn't so bad after all
13:30oh canada canada canada canada meow meow meow meow meow meow why it's an act we'll be right back
13:44my guest tonight a former member of navy seal team six his new book is called seal team six memoirs
13:58of an elite navy seal sniper please welcome to the program howard wasden sir
14:02nice to see you great audience huh oh tremendous just like to say i'd like to take all that applause
14:14and direct it to the men and women who are serving now serving right now so well let's say
14:18i think a lot of people didn't realize seal team six is an ongoing uh elite
14:28subset of the seal teams is is that correct i don't know what you mean by subset they have
14:34a different mission john they are the tier one counter-terrorist unit that's out there hostage
14:38rescue which means they have the assets training capabilities to deploy anywhere at a moment's
14:44notice right and do this type of off that you saw on may 1st but there are i guess what i'm saying
14:48is there are other navy seal teams or that are not part of six they're sort of a separate
14:53that's right there's other number teams that's right okay and and how it does their training
14:58differ from the other navy seals i know it differs from let's say the uh regular navy but
15:03how would it differ from even the other navy seals let me be very clear on one point here
15:08right just because you're a member of seal team six doesn't mean you're a more elite seal all seals
15:13are elite right um it just means you've decided to have a different lifestyle and what i mean by that
15:18is you're even more committed to doing this type of job it becomes a lifestyle day in and day out of
15:23practicing training um never ending and that's why you have about probably a six to eight year
15:28training lifespan then to become a number while you're in while you're actually a door kicker
15:34while you're actually a team guy there um because you physically just can't keep doing that you
15:38mentally can't keep doing that and your family um is going to suffer too because if you if you got
15:43kids like i had um couldn't serve two masters it cost me my wife and kids because i was more
15:49married to the team right so when you go to this team it's it's all or nothing you got to be
15:54completely dedicated and you know most wives don't like it when a husband wakes up at 2 a.m says hey my
15:59pager's going off i'll see you maybe in a few months wow and you really do live like a shadow you
16:04just you kind of move and do that and you spent time you were in mogadishu yep that was my career
16:09enter the the career enter the whole uh blackhawk down op i got shot three times in that op and
16:14there's some parallels here that we don't need to miss between the uh mogadishu blackhawk down op
16:19and the uh about about op right some lessons learned we and when we were in somalia we didn't have
16:25operational security we're working with the united nations working with all these other countries
16:29right so people knew when we were coming when we were leaving what we were doing and i'm a republican
16:34but the president got it right here i'm actually thinking more and more about this guy being a really
16:39good president
16:44and then i got what he what did he what did he get right well what he got right was two things
16:48well actually three things all right one thing he got right definitely was operational security
16:52he did not tell pakistan we were coming and i know that makes us bad people because you know
16:56we did something on their foreign soil we didn't kill three thousand their people right you know
17:00so we went over there and we did that and didn't let them know we were coming so that kept our people
17:04safe right made the mission go off with you know do you think they did that because they felt
17:08that that would compromise remember they they just felt like they just could not trust that
17:12chain of command on the other side and since i'm not running for office and i don't want your vote
17:16absolutely um and that's the second uh second thing is he got it right with the uh burial at sea
17:23right okay that was that was ingenious now that was maybe one of the most controversial aspects of it
17:28yeah but think about if we'd given them somewhere to go and like pay homage to this you know evil
17:33person or whatever that would have been terrible the other thing he got right was not releasing the
17:37pictures right i think um and he got it right on all three things and i'm sitting here going you know
17:42what i didn't vote for the guy but hey as america we got to admit when a president gets it right
17:47you know you felt like the judgment was right there see i i always thought you know i always feel like
17:50we don't know enough about war but i think maybe in this in this particular situation in terms of
17:56security i i had not realized just how uh secretive the the seal teams have to be i mean even in your
18:03book there are faces blacked out still uh there is an anonymity that needs to occur sure and in mogadishu
18:09what happened to you what when you were injured well i was part of the uh failed off to take down the um
18:14you know the the hotel that day i was shot the first time at the target hotel
18:18um shot the second time picking up rangers off the street and shot the third time trying to
18:24get the hell out of there in a in a humvee how long did the the process last where you continued to
18:31operate while having been shot about four and a half hours yeah but while we're talking about that
18:37let me yeah yeah no let's not blow by that let's just stop for a second because you and i it's very
18:41similar and i don't obviously you know i'm glad but i'm gonna i'm gonna show you something now you
18:47you haven't necessarily you haven't been around in a while but i know you want to see that right
18:51there let me tell you my word on the penis wheel let me tell you something that thing is much sharper
19:05than it looks uh it brings up a point you know you're living a life that is so beyond in comparison
19:13to what we can imagine and then this story comes up in abadabad how do you readjust to civilian life
19:21you're you're a chiropractor now you you've you've picked your life up and you've done that but how
19:25how have you been able to readjust to sort of this idea that you living like a a normal citizen you know
19:32what and that's a great question and that's a lot of what the book's about anybody who buys this book
19:37it's not a war story book it's not a warmongering book it's about overcoming adversity over overcoming
19:43adversity in my early life and then the question you just went into the lowest point of my life john
19:47was after getting shot three times going through a divorce thinking i was weak because looking back
19:53with my doctor had on now not realizing i had post-traumatic stress and then i had this other
19:58thing called survivor's guilt that i didn't find out about two years later right why i was allowed to live
20:03and so many good people were allowed to die so transitioning from rock star to rock bottom
20:09right and trying to assimilate back into society was almost the end of me and luckily god put the
20:15right woman in my path she picked me up dusted me off taught me into going back to school to be a
20:20chiropractor taught me in to finish my book and i owe everything to her wow it's a it's an amazing story
20:26we thank you for your service we thank you for your story you can stay right there i'll call it seal team
20:31six it's on the bookshelves now the wonderful board howard wasman sir i really do
20:44it is a tradition around here that we like to play that little piece of audio
20:48once again for a person on their first day so let's take a look curry that was it
20:53it is tradition that we usually play a longer piece of that today but um that's a bunch of
21:00cuts you know what that's you know what that's you know what that amount is enough i feel like curry
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