Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #357 (Originally aired 6/19/15)

Episode Date: June 22, 2015

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has the best chance of winning the general election? Of the declared ones right now, Donald Trump. Well, what about of all them? I mean, Scott Walker... The fake laughter from the audience. Scott Walker, would you say? Of the ones who aren't declared,

no, I'm... Romney Walker's my ticket. Romney Walker. See, but last time you were... You said if we elect, if we nominate Romney, we'll definitely lose. And I was right. But. Well, why will he win this? Third time's the charm?

And it was because actually for, well, it was third time time was the charm for Reagan. Right. It was because it's very hard to take out an incumbent. And the reason I supported Christie back then, and I don't now, was because, you know, he's so flashy and idiosyncratic. We probably were going to lose, but the only shot we had was the same. wild idiosyncratic guy. I think, Rodney would crush Hillary. I would do anything for Trump, Christi.

Trump, Christi. If you ran Bernie Sanders, it would be much tougher. Bernie Sanders? It would be much tougher to beat him than Hillary. You think would be a better candidate than Hillary? Yeah. Wow. Because he cares about the American middle class working class.

Hillary doesn't. She's like the elected Republican. She cares about the Chamber of Commerce. Ooh. Reactions panel? It's going to be Marco Rubio. You think it's going to be Marco Rubio? I think Marco Rubio's got the best chance.

And if you saw the announcement he gave, which a couple weeks ago, followed Hillary Clinton's stark contrast. You know, he talked about yesterday, a candidate from yesterday, gave his speech about yesterday. I think Rubio has the charisma, the sort of freshness. He's Hispanic. He speaks fluent Spanish. That's not nothing.

He's Cuban. But he speaks fluent Spanish. I understand. I'm sure. As they do in Cuba. Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz doesn't speak Spanish, by the way.

Are Cubans also rapists? No, they're good. I think they're good. Okay. I just... I don't get this fascination with Rubio. I really honestly don't. What is his qualification to actually be

president of the United States other than that he fills a demographic hole for your party? He's more qualified than Barack Obama. In what way? He was a Speaker of the House of Florida. is the Speaker of the House of Florida. He passed immigration reform. He's against immigration reform.

He passed it by a partisan immigration reform law. He passed it? He helped. He helped lead him and he changed his mind. Wait, wait, wait. No, he fought hard for it in a vote court. He passed it. In the Senate.

In the Senate. Yeah. And then he ran. He was a U.S. That's not passing it. He passed it in the Senate. That's nothing. It's also like being...

You know how a bill becomes a law. Yes, I am aware. Okay. Then he didn't pass it. Did Barack Obama champion immigration reform when he was in? I'll tell you what I'm going. He didn't pass. That's like being second lieutenant on the Titanic.

I think that you don't like Rubio. No, I mean, all he's done, I mean, first he violated his pledge. He ran saying comprehensive immigration reform. That's amnesty. I'm against it. He gets people to vote for him. What do you want to do with the 15 minutes? Three years.

What do you want to do, though? Still talking. What do you want to do with the only? Then he spends three years doing nothing but pushing amnesty. What do we? And we know it's not popular, which is why I'd prefer Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, who's now on the side of the chamber of Congress, because... You are out of the box. The American people have three times shut down an amnesty in the last 10 years, and it's not because any network or any politician other than, you know, a few very small ones were opposing it.

It was the American people rising up and saying we don't want amnesty. So if that's your big selling point... Nope. Don't think it's going to get any point. No seriousness, right? So I'm with you. I want to secure the border. I think we need assimilation. But if we have 15 or 30 or however 30 million, however many illegals here, what do you do with them if you don't have a pathway to citizenship? I think it's ridiculous to talk about it until the border is secure. That's a cop out. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. You secure the border first. And the reason

you secure the border first. In 1986, Reagan passed an amnesty saying this is it. One amnesty, left border security. It was a lie. Then we got either 12 or 30 million. Ronald Reagan. First, do you want the fence? Being against immigration reform is for the status quo. It means we keep the status quo.

The fact is we have 2 million people working in the fields every day in America. They provide us our food. Now, if I could, if I could, and they provide us with food, and we should pay them a decent salary because this is America. Number one. Why should it be the ones who live within walking distance? Number two. Number two.

Number two. We are not going to deport our way out of this. Mitt Romney, Rip Mitt Romney, got more white votes than any other candidate for the presidency of the United States. And he still got his asswood by Barack Hussein Obama by 5 million votes. Because, and so my point to you, Bill, is there's this new American coalition. It's young people, it's gay people. It's Latinos. It's Hispanic.

It's people who believe in the environment. And so when I saw Jeb Bush actually attempt to broaden the tent of the Republican Party, he had a diverse group of people. He spoke in English and in Spanish fluently, and he was unafraid. No reason why conservatives can't win Hispanic votes. Yeah, there is. They speak about them like there's some sort of a disease on the body pocket. That's a problem, isn't it?

That does hurt. But George W. Bush got 40%. Why do Republicans have to be obsessed with winning Democratic institutions? Why don't we start haranguing the... Jack, still talking. Why don't we start haranguing the Democrats? Why don't you guys try to cut off more of the evangelical vote? Because you are losing with that.

That's 40% of America. May I risk agree with one thing that Ann Coulter has to say? I think it is absolutely a bit insulting to say that Hispanics are going to like Lemmings vote for the Republican Party because your candidate has an O at the end of the game. Why should they like Lemon's? But why should they like Lemmings vote from the Democratic Party? Because the policies of the Democratic Party, every poll will show you. most Latinos agree with the policies of the Democratic Party.

They're voting their interests. They're voting the policies they agree with. Marco Rubio turned against his own bill. Look, if you want Latinos to listen to Republicans, the first sign you have to take off is that I don't like you sign. Because as long as you have... I get that. But that's not going to win you an election because I'm one voter.

But there are millions of voters. There are millions of voters out there. And when Donald Trump, and I find this amazing, that the Republican Party did not challenge Donald Trump on what he said, on what he said. No one in the Republican Party is Donald Trump. It says, so if Jet Bush challenges Donald Trump, challenges him, and wins and gets through some miraculously, gets through the Republican primaries, I think then Latinos will say, God, that guy championed their cause. He took on the man that called us rapists and murderers, and he took him on. And you know what? they will reward him because he's open.

No, they won't. All right, let me go on to another subject. As George Bush did, he'll lose the Hispanic vote, 60. All right. But you know what if you get, and by the way, you get. If the Republican gets 40% of the Hispanic vote, he's the president. No, he is. Yes, he is.

No, you need 71% of the Hispanic vote, and Mitt Romney still would have lost 4% more of the white vote and he would have won. So what is it a Republicans fixated on? And I do not think you are speaking for the Hispanics. in this country, because they're the... Mitt Romney should have been whiter. No. I believe that's... I believe that's the conclusion we found.

Mitt Romney was not white. God damn it. If the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare, can we count on Congress to ensure that millions aren't left without insurance? Absolutely not. They're not good. I mean, Congress is so dysfunctional at this point,

but the irony will be, if the Supreme Court rules against the Affordable Care Act, you're going to have millions of red state Americans who will suddenly have their middle-class insurance ripped out of their hands, while blue states who went ahead and formed exchanges will still have their insurance. It'll be a crisis for those members of Congress

and those red states that are going to be fine from their constituents that, wait a minute, I'm losing my health care. I thought it was just going to be them. And when they find out that it's going to be us, not them, I think it's going to be a problem for the Republican Party. All right. Thank you, panel. Thank you, audience. You're terrific.

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