Jon Stewart on supporting America's veterans: "Don't penalize veterans for your budgeting error"

Comedian Jon Stewart has long been an advocate for America's veterans and 9/11 first responders. And as burn pit legislation was thrust into the national spotlight this week, he sat down with CBS News to discuss the country's duty to support those who put their lives on the line to defend it. 

"They lived up to the agreement. They lived up to their end of the bargain," Stewart recently told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell in an episode of "Person to Person," which will air next week. "You fought for the country, and the country has to hold up its agreement to you. This is the cost of war. You can't — don't penalize veterans for your budgeting error."

Stewart spoke to O'Donnell before the Senate failed to pass a procedural vote that would have cleared the way for a vote on legislation that would have broadened benefits for the approximately 3.5 million veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq.