Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former special counsel Jack Smith and former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll to Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast. After lamenting all things Trump, DOJ, and FBI, Stewart would tell his producers, “Those guys have balls.”
Towards the end of their lengthy conversation, Stewart lamented the backlash to the idea that the DOJ is supposed to be independent from the president, “You know this idea of a unitary executive and a president as much more forceful as a king, you know, until that changes it’s very difficult to rebalance this because now we are going to be much more so, and DOJ being, you know, under that, the auspices. It’s going to be much more difficult to do it until we rebalance the branches again and it’s, right now, it’s—it feels like we’re in an outsized pre-Watergate mindset.”
Jon Stewart laments to Jack Smith “you know this idea of a unitary executive and a president as much more forceful as a king, you know, until that changes it’s very difficult to rebalance this because now we are going to be much more so and DOJ being you know under that the… pic.twitter.com/BQuuHkQluT
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 10, 2026
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