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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 49 - Jon Stewart (Live)

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jon Stewart, comedian, author, and former host and executive producer of "The Daily Show," chats with David in Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago to talk about Donald Trump and the 2016 election, lessons from lobbying in Washington, what he's working on today, and more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

0:13.0

host, David Axelrod.

0:30.0

Can I say this is how Jews meet all the time.

0:59.3

And people aren't paying attention.

1:01.3

We sneak into churches and just chat.

1:04.3

That theme song, by the way, was actually the original John D. Rockefeller theme music.

1:09.4

So you got to be a rich, the oligarchs, whoop.

1:12.3

To have your own theme music.

1:14.3

So John, I have to ask you, were you a bin man?

1:17.3

Me?

1:18.3

Yes, there's a lot going on out here.

1:20.3

I've been in line.

1:21.3

I was out of line.

1:22.3

Out front.

1:24.3

Do you wake up ever and say to yourself that this was some kind of big celestial joke on you

1:30.3

that you announced your retirement from the Daily Show?

1:34.3

And I see when you did, you said it didn't appear that there was going to be anything wildly different about this election year.

1:42.3

You had done four others.

1:44.3

How's that working for you now?

1:46.3

Well, I mean, I think we talk about it as though it's something incredibly different.

1:51.3

But in truth, how different is it?

1:53.3

Really.

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