Stewart Defends Secret W.H. Visits: When a President Asks You To Go to the W.H., You Go

STEWART: "Interesting. So you believe as Russian troops gathered at the border of the Ukraine, Obama summoned me, just in case he needed help turning young Americans against Putin. So then the president had me go back in time and do [bleep] loads of other anti-Putin headlines from years earlier so nobody would suspect I didn't care for Vladimir Putin. Look, let me tell you how this happened. The president asked me to come to Washington. And I did. Because if the president tells you, and you don't, who the [bleep] knows what would happen. And by the way, to all future presidents, if you ask me to come to Washington, I will do that. Because I have no idea how to react to that other than, 'What time?' And here's how the meetings went. This is what happened. We spent about five to seven minutes with Obama kind of scolding me, not to turn young Americans cynical. And I spent about five to seven minutes explaining to him I'm actually skeptically idealistic and smiling like this. And then we spent about 45 minutes arguing about really, the V.A. can't be fixed any quicker or healthcare.gov can't come online without crashing my son's Minecraft game and then, the whole thing basically takes place over some of truly the best salmon you have ever had."