Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned from two weeks of vacation on Monday with Jon Stewart welcoming former 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft to the program to claim that his former colleagues fear “losing the First Amendment” after mutual parent company Paramount settled with President Trump in a lawsuit over their 2024 campaign interview with Kamala Harris. Elsewhere, Stewart ranted and raved against the Big Beautiful Bill, claiming that supporters better get used to people like Zohran Mamdani, because he is “the best case scenario.”
Stewart declared, “Paramount, which is the parent company for CBS and 60 Minutes, and also for Comedy Central, recently made the unusual arrangement of settling a lawsuit that President Trump brought for—and I don't even really know what it was for. And they paid him—”
Kroft interrupted to add, “It was making one edit.”
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