Jon Stewart

There's an...

There's an interesting quote that you had in the book about John Ehrlichman, who was in the Nixon White House, and you worked with Ehrlichman.

And you say about him, he seemed to have a high degree of certainty about his views that bordered on arrogance, a trait that did him no favors as he gathered more influence in the White House.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing.

Certainty with power can be dangerous.

And I thought, boy, if there was ever a solid critique of how I felt about the administration you served under President Bush, it would be that.

Certainty with power is dangerous.

True or false?

What I think you... You said rumsfeld.com.

You're way ahead of me, brother.

I'm still licking stamps and putting them on envelopes and hoping it gets to wherever it's going.

I think there is, I guess I'm drawing a distinction perhaps between the internal deliberations and what was presented to the American public.

Because presented to the American public was a picture of not just relative certainty,

Certainty bordering on arrogance.

And there was a dismissiveness to anyone who would challenge that certainty.

Do you, so you disagree that the administration showed it's a face of certainty when it came to the intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war?

Is that?

No.

That's all we do.

I just run around.