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telling that story took jon stewart from behind the desk to the documentary chair. both sit with us to talk about a film and the injustice they say is spreading. >> there has to be a method that we can get the political prisoners held in these countries, get them released. >> our special report, jon stewart, the war on journalism. >> evening, i'm john seigenthaler. around the world journalists are harassed, detained, killed for doing their jobs. more than 200 were behind bars in 2013, the second-worst year on record. we are taking a closer look at the crackdown on freedom of the press, and a movie telling the story of a reporter imprisoned in iran. it is called rosewater written and directed by comedian jon stewart. >> i believe it was called ecsederon and koult 45. >> reporter: jon stewart is the mast master of pump line, now he's becoming a documentary. his feature is called "rose water", it is inspired by the harrowing story of the canadian iranian journalist who travelled to the country to cover the elections: he was in tehran documenting the riot over the outco

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ex ed rin pm -- >> jon stewart is a pro. but now a filmmaker, and his new feature is definitely not the last. it's called rosewater. did i buing friday, the movie is inspired by the harrowing story of mazra bahari, covering the country's elections. bahari windows in tehran, documenting, and while there was he was on the daily show. this is the clip that we showed on comedy central. >> we went for a clandestine meeting. >> shortly after, he was arrested by the police, the charge, spying. he was jailed and there he was beaten and brutalized by an interrogator he called rosewater because of the scent of his clone. as seen bahari as played. >> bahari was forced to make a false confession on tv. he was released after four months in prison. bahari wrote a best-selling book about his experience, "then they came for me." from the back, then the movie, one that jon stewart directed. the war against the press. i met with jon stewart and maziar bahari and asked why they wanted to make this film. >> as the definition of journalism expan

jon stewart? hello, jon. how are you? >> i'm the decider. >> yeah, you know. captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ( cheers and applause ) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: welcome to the report. thank you for joining us. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much. thank you so much. folks, i am always-- you know me. you watch this show. i'm not proud. i'm not proud. >> stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: oh, i can't fight that. but, folks, you know, if you watch this show, i'm not a prideful man. i always am the first to admit when i'm wrong, and once again, i am right. ( laughter ) ( applause ) this time it's about obamacare. folks, i've never liked it. first, they put a bureaucrat between and you your doctor, and the next thing you know the doctor and the bowercrat are hanging out all the time and voantly forget to call you the night they want to go see "interstellar," and you heard they had such a great time, they even

jon stewart, ladies and gentlemen. >> jon: okay, so-. ( cheers and applause ) i would so very much love to they to him but i can't. >> it's easier when you're not here anymore. >> jon: it really is. >> john: let's talk a little bit about how this exphe mess as movie began. you found ba maziar. >> one of our segment producers sent us a video that maziar had been in when he spoke to ted koppel. and i remember very clearly looking at this video, look back, alm the stuff that has happened it's movie, everything, last five years-- i remember that moment looking at the video, and thinking-- yeah, that will do. that will do. and had it not been for that moment, none of this would have happened. >> john: what-- >> you spoke english. >> jon: he was the only person we found in iran who could speak english. >> he also spoke to what you needed to hear as well, pointing out that our perception of iran and the reality were too very different things. >> he was from iran but had, you know, lived in london and had a leg in both worlds and could explain that, yes, exactly, that although there are differe

jon stewart. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: jon, good to see you again. [crowd chanting. [ is that how you introduce the guests. >> stephen: every night. i say it over there and i run over here. [laughter] yes. >> i just don't know how sustainable something like that is. >> stephen: 12 more shows. [laughter] savor me. welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly. >> are you trying to nail me. you're not going to nail me my friend. >> i used to be inside the belly of the beast. i used to work for you forgot. i remember thing you said behind closed doors and behind i can reveal that for 15 years, i used to be over there with your writers and their opium bangs. how many writes do you have. >> i'm going to say this, behind closed doors i only quote rabbiniccal text. >> stephen: there are scribes writing down everything you say. >> that's right. >> and you say let it be written. >> thank you. i open every meeting and i'veéj. on the one hand. [laughter] but on the other hand, i don't know. you kn

. >>> ahead for us at this hour, jon stewart, have you heard of him? you know what he does every night. you probably don't know what he is doing next. we will tell you. he said down with christian am nan pour about a new film he's making. we'll talk about that. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association's go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you'll let us know. always look for the grown in idaho seal. feel like a knot. how can i ease this pain? (man) when i can't go, it's like bricks piling up. i wish i could find some relief. (announcer) ask your doctor about linzess-- a once-daily capsule for adults with ibs with constipation or chronic idiopathic constipation. linzess is thought to help calm pain-sensing nerves and accelerate bowel movements. it helps you proactively manage your symptoms. do not give linzess to children under 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to 17. it may harm them. don't tak

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all of that is coming up. >>> an al jazeera special report, jon stewart, the war on journalism. iranian police accused her of being a spy. here's her story in her own words. >> in 2009, i was arrested and held in prison for 100 days. i'm half iranian and at the time i didn't know know much about my iranian identity. so i wanted to move to iran and learn about that part of my history and to report from the country because i knew it was going to be an important country for years to come. but supporters of the government say they're not trying to reverse his achievements. >> i was trying to write a book about iran beyond the headlines so i was interviewing a lot of people you don't usually hear from in the news and i was working on that for about two years when one morning i was arrested. i was sleeping and four men forced their way into my apartment. they were with iran's intelligence ministry and they took me away to another building after going through all my belongings. they questioned me for several hours and then told me i was not cooperating so they took me to prison which i

jon stewart wrote the whole thing. why this story line? >> i suspect that he really respects journalists. >> deep, deep, deep down. >> not even deep down. very obviously. that's one of the reasons he took on this story. as he pointed out to me, it isn't just about that journalist. it's about many of our colleagues all over the world. what he said is that he hopes that this kind of story, which is really very profound starts to break down maybe some stereotypes about various different nationalities. i have a bit of the interview. >> take a look. >> you also focus very much on the absurdity of what happened. >> it comes from reality. you have 66 journalists imprisoned in iran right now and why they have arrested almost 300 journalists since 2009. more than 1,000 since the beginning of the revolution and to come to your show saying that no one is in prison. i transcribed those ridiculous things in the book. >> not just iran. turkey has al jazeera reporters. united states has prisoners in solitary. we don't want it to be dismissed as one regim

. >> sreenivasan: plus, comedian jon stewart on his directorial debut of the serious film, "rosewater." >> there's sometimes a misperception, i think, of satire, that it is clownish in the sense-- no disrespect to clowns-- but that it's "baggy pants." it's not. it's a way of expressing ideas and synthesize information that you truly believe in, just using the tools of satire. mark she'ds and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> sreenivasan: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you're own chief life officer. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> sreenivasan: the long- delayed-- and much fought over-- keystone x-l pipeline is back on congress' to-do list. it won a new vote of support today in the u.s. house, and headed fo

tonight jon stewart of the daily show and gael garcia bernal and maz area bahari talk about the new film "rosewater" which is directed by and written by jon stewart. >> the way that information has been democratized, the changing definition of who is a journalist, who is not a journalist, the way that these 20th century regimes have to find a way to suppress a new medium of information. you know, i just thought it was a very compelling, along with the really amazing, sort of, observations that he made while in prison, the humor he was able to maintain, the family story. i just thought it was beautifully done. >> rose: jon stewart, gael garcia bernal and mazier bahari, when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following:. >> additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of news and information services, word wide. >> from our studios in new york captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: "rosewater" is the new movie by jon stewart, his direct orial debut, based on the real real life ex

jon stewart. >> oh, alisyn. >> this is what took off, what took off was that his legion of followers said what? you were in the room. so i trust your instincts. >> but watching it on the monitor, it seems like you've caught him. it seems like you've caught him. inadvertently. >> he caught himself. >> it seems like he didn't know ha his polling place was. i want to play his apology. this is what he said after that. >> just to set the record straight. dy vote today, i did know where my booth was. i was being flip. and it kind of took off. and i, you know, i want to apologize. because i shouldn't have been flip about that. because i think i wasn't clear enough that i was kidding and it sent a message that i didn't think voting was important or that i didn't think it was a big issue. and i do. and i did vote and i was being flip and i shouldn't have done that, that was stupid. so i apologize. and -- yeah. >> i appreciate that he apologized, it didn't seem to me -- i take jon stewart for being a satiri

chooers plaus (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. we have a tremendous show planned for you this evening. we is prepared it with the greatest of the care, the greatest of love, our guest tonight a young acker named carol. (laughter) carell, steve carell. not familiar but i hear he's good. (laughter) but first, last night we poked a little fun at the apec summit in beijing for making world leaders wear goofy clothes and displaying what i believe pyrotechnic officials refer to as fireworks out the yinyang. (laughter) but fair's fair. there were some results. >> president obama and president xi jinping of china announced a major deal on climate change. >> the world's two biggest polluters agree to reduce their carbon emissions. >> jon: oh pie god, that's-- i had no idea that was going to happen. less carbon emissions from the two of the world's largest polluters. this calls for a celebration. no, that-- no, that-- no, no, no. the fireworks things is actually working-- okay. i think this deal is going to call for a bit of a cultural shif

stewart and your point, jon stewart last night, who did he attack? he attacked the old lady, nancy pelosi. he did not attack obama -- >> old lady? you mean minority leader. >> i'm talking about the older woman, talk about a war on women, as sean head got his head up obama's butt. >> this wasn't meant to prove he has disdain for conservative "idealogues." but i'll say this, he's as guilty as everybody else. >> jon stewart? >> yes. as is the mainstream media as we went through. they didn't cover this story. if george bush had done this, headlines everywhere. >> he didn't cover it until it reached critical mass. the one holdout is brian williams, obama sycophant, hasn't touched it yet. >> he takes his cue from jon stewart. now he'll mention it, i guarantee you he will. >> and the times? >> yeah, the times will mention it eventually i'm sure. just make this guy give the money back -- >> no, geraldo, let me ask you, you have kids -- >> only to do with -- disdain was the word used and i think disdain is exactly what this person showed the american people.

comedian jon stewart is no laughing matter. rosewater is a film about a journalist wrongfully held in an iranian prison. >> i was struck at the end of the film that you really wanted to make a statement about journalism around the world. can you talk about what that is? >> i think it was more -- if i was to say it was a statement of the unsustainability of that, the apparatuses that these regimes build and all regimes build. in the united states we're moving towards kind of this strange deep state of security apparatus that exist in nsa and all these or the places. that these that exist to keep information, that they don't want getting out. getting out. are more damaging to the state than any piece of information that could arise. and it's about the sustainability of i.t. and that of it and think about hohow much time how much efforts exposed in keeping just maziar from not just doing something but filming something. >> given our reactions, our journalists around the world, especially our friends in al jazeera. >> we have a fri

let's check in with lewis who will give us a dose of our daily politics with jon stewart. >> jon stewart taking house minority leader nancy pelosi to task. the architect of obama care who said, americans were, quote, too stupid to understand the affordable care act. >> i think the democrats can now come clean about how the bill was sold and mr. gruber's involvement in that process or -- >> news in the past few days about some of the comments made by mr. gruber. >> i don't know who he is. >> you don't know who he is. >> our bill brings down rates. i don't know if you've seen jonathan gruber of m.i.t.'s analysis of what the comparison is to the status quo. >> whoever that guy is. >> didn't stop there. after touting the democratic leader as champion of women and voting rights, stewart lit into pelosi's decision to deny tammy duckworth's right to vote -- >> nancy pelosi with a perfect chance to showcase your principles. >> pelosi opposed duck wrth's request to vote by proxy. >> thank you. you have to -- wait. what the [ bleep ]? you're suppressing the vote of a minority pregnant woman who is

straight up, that's just jon stewart? >> that is him. off camera we were actually off and on talking about his next job, or his new job as a first-time film director. >> wrote the whole thing. >> he wrote the whole thing and it's about an rannian journalist who was jailed four months after a disputed election in 2009. it's rally amazing. i know quite a lot about iran and the disputed election. i know what it's like to be a journalist. and i think he's captured the terror and the absurdity of being dragged off the street and being put into prison incredibly well. it's an amazing first film debut. >> so you give the jon stewart film two thumbs up, it sounds like? >> it's interesting. i said, do you think it's going to be commercial here in the united states? that's a good question. he hopes that people will get a view of what real journalists do and he wants to sort of show that actually people are different to what the stereotype is, both the american and the iranian people when they meet and when things happen. >> did he give you any ind

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tonight jon stewart of the daily show and gael garcia bernal and maz area bahari talk about the new film "rosewater" which is directed by and written by jon stewart. >> the way that information has been democratized, the changing definition of who is a journalist, who is not a journalist, the way that these 20th century regimes have to find a way to suppress a new medium of information. you know, i just thought it was a very compelling, along with the really amazing, sort of, observations that he made while in prison, the humor he was able to maintain, the family story. i just thought it was beautifully done. >> rose: jon stewart, gael garcia bernal and mazier bahari, when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by

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jon stewart. tonight, this is exciting. young man named benedict cumberbatch is going to join us. [cheers and applause] >> jon: great film. he's great in it. first it's been a rough year for the president of these united states. a midterm shellacking. the failure to get one chair to turn around "the voice" come on gwen, turn around! as the president said in his voice audition song ♪ the sun will come out -- >> a hundred thousand people signed up for obama care on saturday. the latest day of the recent open enrollment. >> the consumer has a better interaction. things are simpler, faster and more intuitive. >> jon: obama care website is better. for example, when you log into the new healthcare gov it has insurance options rather than brunch options at dennys. also the new website loads quickly. the old site would cut the brakes in your car. it's terrifying. again it's a big improvement. anyone in washington dc will talk about these amazing success of obama care. >> all anyone in washington is talk

(cheers and applause) >> jon: well-- welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. happy to be back. oh, i am a's so happy to be back. the texas was beautiful, we had a beautiful time in austin but it is so nice that i really began to feel like i had to come home. (laughter) and ebola. (laughter) we have two doctors tonight who have been, they're down in belgium n the hospital where the two gentleman with ebola is. and they came here tonight. said he's doing okay and that they're working hard. and i'm pretty sure they washed their hands. (laughter) one thing you really don't expect is two guys to stand up and go oh yeah, so we're over with the ebola guy. (laughter) you see the audience go-- (laughter) >> jon: anyway, tonight what do you have there, oh, that's fine. we have for you tonight jake gyllenhaal. (cheers and applause) the favorite gyllenhaal. so let's begin tonight with tomorrow! midterm election day. or as people under 6 a call it, hey, why are all those old people lined up at the elementary school. it's the subject of tonight's democalypse 2014. come on r