The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

The Pentagon’s Press Purge (2025x35)

Air date: Oct 23, 2025

As the Pentagon implements sweeping new restrictions on press access, Jon is joined by Atlantic staff writer Nancy Youssef, War Horse founder Thomas Brennan, and former Pentagon spokesperson and retired Marine Corps Colonel David Lapan. Together, they examine why many journalists vacated the Pentagon and refused to sign on to these rules, explore the realities of military reporting from inside and outside the Pentagon, and discuss what’s at stake when a trillion-dollar institution responsible for millions of American lives becomes even more opaque and unaccountable. Plus, Jon talks about the military’s new Diarrhea Plane and answers a listener question about the White House’s ballroom demolition.