Jon Stewart conducted an extensive two-part interview on “The Daily Show” Monday with Judge Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst for Fox News.
The two engaged in an in-depth — and rather pleasant — discussion about civil liberties and the government’s neglect of them, a topic on which Stewart and Napolitano (mostly) agree.
Napolitano dubbed himself an “equal opportunity criticizer,” as he knocks both Democrats and Republicans for taking liberty away from the American people.
Stewart, of course, focused on Congress and the way in which our elected representatives in Washington are letting Obama carry out executive actions that threaten civil liberty.
“With Barack Obama, with the bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria, Congress could have stepped in,” said Stewart. “With the immigration edict, Congress could step in.”
“Congress is as much a culprit as President Bush and President Obama have been,” Napolitano answered in agreement.
However, the Fox News contributor explained that his books — the most recent of which is called “Suicide Pact” — seek to “remind people that this is not an inexorable slide towards authoritarianism and that it can be reversed.”
He added later that such a reversal will only occur if government and law enforcement officials are reminded that they “work for us.”
“You remind government — and the people in the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, should be reminded of this — that they are the servants,” explained Napolitano. “That they work for us, we don’t work for them.”
The interview represented a departure from Stewart’s typically lighter, comedic segments. The two also launched into an academic discussion about the history of civil liberties in America.
Watch both segments of the interview below:
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