(laughter) >> jon: so the new voting the. >> whoa! jon! jon! no! everything's wrong! >> jon: wait, hold on. >> oh, there i am. (laughter) i got lost in your eyes and i forgot. (applause). >> jon: i'm sorry. i got lost in the cues. so nonmom mom. the new voting demographic is non-mom moms? >> isn't it great? for the first time i'm being pandered to by the two male candidates i get to choose between. please run for office, hillary clinton. (cheers and applause). >> jon: kristen schaal, everybody. we'll be righ ♪ [ electronic ] [ air rushing ] [ man ] i'm shooting video. ♪ oh, superman i can also use the camera button... to take photos at the same time. [ announcer ] the htc one, available from t-mobile. >> jon: my guest the dean of westminster abbey, his book is called "queen elizabeth and her church, royal service at westminster abbey." please welcome to the program john hall. sir. (cheers and applause) >> jon: this is very exciting, sir. you are... have a book... the queen has her royal jubilee coming up, does she not? >> diamond jubilee. 60 years, since 1952 when

i'm jon stewart. our guest tonight is the author of a great new book on home gardening. [ laughter ] and -- [cheers and applause] -- anyway, we're excited to have the first lady tonight. first, real quick off the top. we've been out of office two weeks. when i'm on vacation the only news i keep up is the latest. obviously i read the huffington post my one stop source. the latest scoop involves miley cyrus and her side boob. next 20 that i crossing this story about how roger ailes said i admitted to him in a bar that i'm a socialist. now, i didn't doubt the story. [ laughter ] i know watching fox news makes you misinformed. but running it doesn't. but i couldn't remember so -- and this is true, i called him not on the phone. i sat in front of the mirror and said his name three times. so, sorry. no. he called me back. very gracious he called me back. roger ailes called me back and reminded me that 12 years ago we met in philadelphia at the republican convention in a bar and then it all came flooded back

(laughter) >> jon: so the new voting the. >> whoa! jon! jon! no! everything's wrong! >> jon: wait, hold on. >> oh, there i am. (laughter) i got lost in your eyes and i forgot. (applause). >> jon: i'm sorry. i got lost in the cues. so nonmom mom. the new voting demographic is non-mom moms? >> isn't it great? for the first time i'm being pandered to by the two male candidates i get to choose between. please run for office, hillary clinton. (cheers and applause). >> jon: kristen schaal, everybody. we'll be right b so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving. ♪ [ dad ] we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. ♪ sears one day sale is this saturday with friday preview. find the gifts mom will love and the savings you're looking for throughout the store. plus,

. >> jon: into what? >> a candidate, jon. [ laughter ] >> jon: i get it. thank you, ♪ [swing music plays] ♪ [swing music plays] >> jon: welcome back to the show! i would like to talk about cognitive dissonance. [ laughter ] it's when you hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. like i've been on food stamps and welfare, anybody help me out? no. >> jon: i was on food stamps and welfare and nobody helped me. [ laughter ] pulled himself up by his boot straps with food stamps and welfare. for most people these ideas fight like two wrapped in a bag. they'll drive you crazy but some people are able to square that circle and those two opposing ideas end up make sweet love to each other. like two rats in a bag. there are very few things, really very few things rats in a bag won't do. here is another one. republicans like all americans wanted very much to see osama bin laden dead. at the same time they believe barack obama sin capable of doing -- is incapable of doing anything right. how do you get those rats to start fighting and start (blee

jon, jon, jon. >> jon: jon. >> jon it's jon. >> jon: yes, without an h. >> listen. i don't have a nuclear weapon. wink, wink. i'm winking because i am lying. the one you should be careful of is north korea. they are years away developing a boat capable of reaching japan. obviously it will depend on the winds and the tides. they have run out of toilet paper though. it is terrible. you stand downwind from kim jung on. it's unbearable. i am buying 300,000 rolls. >> jon: to bring back to him as a beautiful gift. that is very nice. do you ever shave your beard or is that just... is that in your country that is custom? >> this is my... i don't shave this beard, no. >> jon: you just leave it. >> do you ever shave your beard? >> jon: no. >> your beard there. >> jon: my penis has no beard. >> show me. show me. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: no beard. >> no beard. >> jon: those are what we call mutton chops. >> not so much. >> jon: your excellencey, is that even the way to say it? mr. mayor. supreme leader. the dictator, i know it's a wonderful film. you are wonderful in it.

>> jon: how are you? >> i'm doing all right. >> jon: how old are you? >> i'm 20. >> jon: can i tell you something? this book, my two moms, i want to say to you this. i want you and your two moms to raise my kids. would that be okay? this is such a wonderful depiction of character. you took the boy scout.... >> scout law which is the 12 tenets. trust worthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty brave, clean and reverent. >> jon: you forgot dopey and sleepy and blitzen. and you broke it down. you talk about how your moms instilled those values into you. >> that's right. >> jon: as a youngster. >> yeah. i mean each chapter is an examination of the value i learned in the boy scouts, how my moms taught it to me. what it means to me. more generally what it means to this whole debate. a chapter like loyalty especially in terms of this debate when my mom terry was diagnosed with m.s., jackie my short mom.... >> jon: hold on a second, i'm wait to go see if that's how my kids describe me. i've just seen a book that they're writin

(laughter) >> jon: for a fund-raiser, boom! for more we're joined with senior hollywood correspondent jason jones! jason. (cheers and applause) so jason, you are at the fund-raiser at george clooney's house? s whattee been the hollywood community's reaction to the president's big announcement? has it been positive? >> has it been positive? president obama is in a giant hollywood party the night after he came out for gay marriage this is like going to israel after you kill hitler. (laughter) it is like going to burning man after legalizing pot. >> jon: is gay marriage such an important social issue for the hollywood elite? (laughter) >> a social issue for ot hollywood elite, gay marriage, right now in george clooney's house, elton john is swinging from a chandelier sipping champagne off the peanuts of a naked gladiator ice sculpture. and that is the straightest thing i saw in there. (laughter) >> jon: that seems locate a bit of a stereotype of hollywood. >> stereotype of hollywood (laughter) stereotype, start for the reason, jon

(laughter) >> jon: so the new voting the. >> whoa! jon! jon! no! everything's wrong! >> jon: wait, hold on. >> oh, there i am. (laughter) i got lost in your eyes and i forgot. (applause). >> jon: i'm sorry. i got lost in the cues. so nonmom mom. the new voting demographic is non-mom moms? >> isn't it great? for the first time i'm being pandered to by the two male candidates i get to choose between. please run for office, hillary clinton. (cheers and applause). >> jon: kristen schaal, everybody. we'll be right back. [ train whistle blows ] [ ball hitting paddle ] ♪ riding to work, with my best friend pete ♪ ♪ pete, pete, pete ♪ riding to work with my best friend pete ♪ ♪ riding to work with me [ orbit trumpet ] don't let food hang around. clean it up with orbit! ahh. [ orbit glint ] ow...ow...ow. fabulous! for a good clean feeling after any meal. ♪ eat, drink, chew orbit! >> jon: my guest the dean of westminster abbey, his book is called "queen elizabeth and her church, royal service at westminster abbey." please welcome to the program john hall. sir. (ch

>> jon: stop it! there's no way. >> no way, no way. >> that is what i'm talking about. >> george clinton. >> you know what, i in george's mothership, beam us up. ♪ we 2k3w09 fuj ♪ we got the funk ♪. >> jon, i'll see you in a few minutes. this is awesome ♪ ♪. >> jon: all right, mr. george clinton. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) >> jon: hey welcome back. did you know that missouri gun owners face rampant discrimination every single day? no? because they don't. but that hasn't stopped one missouri law make frere fight on their behalf, asif man vey has more. >> reporter: the history of civil rights is one of long struggle and long fought victoriesment meet wanda brown of the missouri house of representatives. she's leading a new march of progress with her landmark bill hb-1621. >> this bill creates an environment that an employer can't fire an employee if they own firearms, if they use firearms. if you target-- if you target practice, if you hunt, they wouldn't have the right to fire

. >> jon: into what? >> a candidate, jon. [ laughter ] >> jon: i get it. thank you, john. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new dentyne split to fit pack. it splits in to two smaller, sleeker packs that fit almost anywhere so you can take them everywhere. dentyne split to fit. practice safe breath. i'm an architect because i love cities and i love buildings. this used to be a cheese factory right? whole new steel structure on this floor. coffee or no coffee? pour the footing and you give yourself two inches. technology. it really does influence how you interact with life. hey, did you get that powerpoint? that's a nice looking building! i think this is science fiction. look at that! the revolutionary galaxy note, from samsung. >> jon: welcome back to the show! i would like to talk about cognitive dissonance. [ laughter ] it's when you hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. like i've been on food stamps and welfare, anybody help me out? no. >> jon: i was on food stamps and welfare and nobody helped me. [ laughter ] pulled himself up by

jon: and i'm jon scott. "happening now" in washington, a report making the rounds on capitol hill looking at the financial incentive in president obama's health care law for companies to drop their health plans. it shows america's top companies could save hundreds of billions of dollars just by paying a fine to shift workers into a government health exchange. chief washington correspondent jim angle has been looking at that, he's live for us in washington. jim? >> reporter: hello, jon. that's right, a new survey of fortune 100 companies finds that the new health care law created some perverse incentives for employers to drop their insurance plans. listen. >> in a pure dollars and cents standpoint, it could not be more clear. you save a lot of money, hundreds of millions of dollars for some of these companies, by no longer providing coverage. >> reporter: now, republicans on the house ways and means committee surveyed the fortune 100 companies about their health care costs. 71 companies with 5.9 million emplo

. >> jon: is that jessica? >> no. >> what'sçñr up? jon, it's amazing! >> jon: what are you doing? >> everything and everyone, jon! >> jon: donde etsa -- i'll tell you donde esta aqui. >> i have no idea what she's talking about. this is crazy, jon. >> jon: are you saying you don't know she's talking about? >> yes, because she was (bleep) up last night. jon, i have so many pictures. >> don't you dare! >> run slideshow. [ laughter. >> awesome clip. got a little hands-y but we settled the beef. we talked it out. everyone went their accept are rate ways and we headed back to the boor, jon. it was all good. >> jon: sorry who was that? >> it was old hitler. jon, we found and drank with old hitler. >> jon: what? i thought he was in argentina? were you partying with old hitler, sam? >> after the cat tranquilizers i was pretty sure he was a had a loose nation. >> that old hitler (bleep) was real. >> jon: i think it's time for you level headed females to come home. >> we are, home, john. >> if you see jason remind him to feed my children. >> jon: all it has a very nice spice note. [ jim koch

jon: they take the brain cells away. >> thank you, jon. jon: okay. jenna: right now the latest on a massive wildfire in new mexico and some news during our show, rick, what this fire has really become. >> reporter: this fire, jenna, is now officially a record-breaker. it is the largest in new mexico state history. it is just plain huge. more than 230 square miles of burned land and counting. that comes to about 152,000 acres. so this is now back-to-back massive fires in new mexico two years in a row. the good news here is that weather conditions are allowing fire teams to make some progress. they're fighting it on the ground and also from the air. and if you live in the area of the whitewater baldy complex and you're still seeing smoke, and there is a good chance you are, that smoke is probably from what are called burnouts. these are fires that are intentionally set to try to burn away brush and grass that would be fuel to the fire. that would allow the main fire to continue to spread. so that is what is going on now. the main work is to protect ran

9sww >> jon: welcome back to the show. thank you. obviously we talk a lit about horribly poor our culture has become policically. i would like to will mind everybody ten short months ago political party came together to accomplish something. they made a deal in order to raise our debt ceiling. >> the deal is shaping up like this. raise the debt ceiling by up to $2.8 trillion in two installments. stage one, cut about one trillion dollars in spending. launch a new kind of supercommittee evenly split between parties to find up to $1.8 trillion in extra savings by november. >> jon: supercommittee this is the supercommittee, right next, these guise, like the avengers of congressman only without actually being cool or having superpower. it is like eight hawkeyes is really what it is like. it's just like a guy like oh, i can shoot a bow and arrow. oh, whatter, katniss. truly it was an extraordinary moment of bipartisan cooperation in washington capped off by that "time" magazine cover that john boehner and harry reid posed for. d

jon: i'm jon scott. voters in several states made their voices heard. in indiana it is the end of an era, veteran senator richard lugar concedes defeat for first time in four decades. the 80-year-old republican gets boosted in his own primary losing to challenger richard mourdoch, a tea part-backed candidate. mourdoch faces democrat joe donelley in november. the recall election of the rematch of the 2010 race with republican scott walker taking on milwaukee mayor tom barrett. the recall effort coming after governor walker's controversial decision to limit collective bargaining rights for state employees. that sparked massive protests last year. you probably remember those. over to north carolina where the big issue was the constitutional amendment defining marriage soulias a union between a man and a woman. voters overwhelmingly approved it and north carolina becomes the 30th state in the nation to adopt at ban on same sex marriage. meantime governor mitt romney picked up presidential primary wins in nor

jon? jon: national parks gearing up to host viewing parties, jenna, to celebrate the first ring of fire in almost 20 years. we'll tell you which areas will be able to see this rare eclipse and when. >>> also we'll continue to watch facebook, wow, only u up .03% right now as the social networking giant makes its market debut. it boosted up about 10%. now it is unchanged apparently. a look how investors are responding. we'll continue to watch it, "happening now.". the dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ that bringing you better technology helps make you a better investor. with our revolutionary new e-trade 360 dashboard you see exactly where your money is and what it's doing live. our e-trade pro platform offers powerful functionality that's still so usable you'll a

>> jon: that's our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. here it is, your moment of zen. >> that was newt gingrich delivering a speech that last

jon? jon: wendell goarl at the white house, thank you. >>> it is such an important story not only for our intelligence community, but also for our troops in the region and our security in the united states. so why has the media largely given this story a pass? we will hash it out with our news watch panel just ahead. jenna: look forward to that. are you seeing any lower prices at the pump? are you? there are some signs of relief at the start of the summer driving season. as you look over the last month, gas prices on the national average have gone down about 18 cents, the national average is at $3.66. so is that it? is that all? we're not going to see higher prices as we saw a couple months ago? fox business network's robert gray is here. what are you hearing, robert? >> reporter: well, looks like the trend is going to continue to be lower. a couple of months ago we were hearing these dire voices of do you doom, $4, $5 a gallon. falling every day over the past two weeks by at least a penny

>> richard grenle is openly gay. >> jon: oh! that's quite a pivot. hiring a guy who believes in everything you believe and likes everything you like except boobs. ( laughter ) all right, so, the guys-- the guy's day. who cares? >> governor romney picks as the face of his campaign on national security and foreign policy a man who is not just a homosexual but a homosexual activist. our concern is for religious liberty, and we recognize the threat that homosexual activism, the homosexual agenda imposes or-- imposes on religious liberty. >> brian. >> jon: you can't appoint a gay guy. he threatens our very right to hate people for being gay. ( laughter ). that was brian fisher, the american family association. and in case you're wonder yg he looks so blurry it's because his opinions are being broadcast from 50 years ago ( cheers and applause ) what else don't you-- what else don't you like-- what else don't you like about grenle? >> homosexuals are about short-lived relationships and frequent anonymous sexual encounters. this is very common in the homosex

jon: i'm jon scott. the jury is now ibt thering for a third day on charges that could send the former presidential candidate to prison for 30 years. if he convicted of violating campaign finance laws in the effort to hide his pregnant mistress. at issue, whether or not edwards used campaign funds from two wealthy donors, including 101-year-old heiress, rachel, bunny mellon. to conceal his affair with rielle hunter as he tried to win the democratic presidential nomination in 2008. jonathan serrie live outside the courthouse in greensboro, north carolina, now. any indication, john than, how long it will take the jury to reach a verdict? >> reporter: jon, yesterday the judge was discussing logistics with the jury, talking about when the jury would break for lunch and when the jury would break for the day, not specifically that day but days in general. it appears that the court is prepared to deal with logistics for deliberations for the long haul. take a listen. >> this jury in particular asked for office s

jon? jon: i would say 15 ounce containers and free refills. how about that? there is a major new development to tell you about in the presidential race. president obama's poll numbers slipping among a crucial voting bloc and jumping for governor romney. what is behind it? will this trend continue? a fair and balanced debate on that coming up. >>> plus after its historic launch into space and docking with the space station, we're awaiting a dramatic return to earth. the world and mission control watching the smashdown of the dragon capsule in the pacific ocean. it is now just minutes away. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. jon: fox news is america's election

. >> jon: wouldn't it be awesome though if it did mean suspending citizenship? like if you're you losing a presidential primary, you're deported. wouldn't that awesome? i don't think anybody thought they would leave the country but it's good to know you member active citizens and haunt people on jury duty. ( laughter ). let's move move on. our main story toaps focuses on the man who defeated newt gingrich. as you know, mitt romney is mormon. that's actually, that's kind of unnecessary-- he's mormon. there's nothing-- there's nothing frightening-- there's nothing frightening about him being a mormon. okay, you've over-corrected. that was an over-correction. i should have qualified that statement. there's nothing frightening about romney being a mormon to me. apparently, some in the republican party's evangelical base think otherwise. >> mitt romney is a good moral person but he's not a christian. mormonnism is not christianity. it has always been considered a cult by the main street of christianity. >> most christians would not recognize mormonnism as part of the