Jon Stewart continues fight in Washington for vets made sick from burn pit exposure

Jon Stewart is back in Washington in a continued effort to help the 3 million-plus veterans believed to have been made sick from their exposure to burn pits.

Stewart was in Washington on Tuesday for a news conference to bring attention to The Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act -- a bipartisan bill sponsored by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., along with Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide health and disability services to Global War on Terror (GWOT) veterans who served in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations where they were exposed to toxins. "They didn't ban the practice here in the United States arbitrarily. They banned it because of the dire health conditions that are born of this practice." In advance of a news conference with the sponsors of the bill, the former host of "The Daily Show" spoke with the Investigative Unit at Fox News about why the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should be given presumptive care. "The reason why presumption is the way to go is we have the science for so many of these illnesses caused by these toxic exposures, right," Stewart said. "Just because the VA [Office of Veteran's Affairs] says they don't have the science because the NAS [National Academy of Sciences] hasn't done the proper study or has the insufficient data, the science on toxic exposure. ... You know, if you go to the EPA's website. They call them burn barrels, and that's on a much smaller scale, but they say the reason you're not allowed to use burn barrels is dioxins are produced. All kinds of other hazardous toxins, ash, particulate, and these things are correlated to and then they list lung diseases, cancers, pulmonary issues, developmental disorders, neuromuscular disorders. It's on the EPA website."