Jon Stewart on Who Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Really Helps — and Hurts | Journalist Steve Kroft

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jon Stewart covers the passage of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: Republicans bashing then endorsing the megabill, trading tax cuts to sway senators, giving a $40 billion infusion to ICE, boosting billionaires at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP, and more.

Former CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Steve Kroft joins Jon to discuss a $16 million settlement in President Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount Global, CBS and Comedy Central’s parent company. They discuss how an incoming corporate merger and pressure from Trump’s FCC may have influenced the settlement, why journalists and legal experts consider it a “shakedown,” its impact on freedom of the press, and the one thing Trump didn’t get: an apology.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:11.5	From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
0:18.6	This is The Daily Show with your host, John Stewart.
0:23.6	Welcome everybody.
0:39.3	Welcome to the news.
0:45.3	Welcome to the Down Show.
0:48.3	My name is John Stewart.
0:50.3	And we have started to staple my scripts
0:53.3	so that it doesn't fly away.
0:54.9	We have an unbelievable show for tonight.
0:57.7	We're back.
0:58.3	We've been off for a week now.
0:59.4	We're ready to go.
1:00.2	By the way, our guest tonight, former 60 Minutes correspondent, Steve Croft, will be joining me later.
1:09.1	Why?
1:10.5	Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why you ask? To discuss our parent company,
1:19.9	Paramounts, shameful settlement. That's why it's so wrong.
1:34.2	Did they...
1:35.3	Son of a bitch!
1:40.3	Let's get right into the big news of the weekend.
1:42.4	We celebrated our nation's independence with fireworks and drugs hidden in peanut butter
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