Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #374 (Originally aired 1/22/16)

Episode Date: January 25, 2016

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maher. Okay, we're on the internet. John Mincham would have Jeb Bush presidency. You know, you just wrote the book about his father, more closely resemble his fathers or his brothers. Oh, good question. I think it would resemble his fathers more. Really?

I do, because the three of them are different guys, despite the genetic material. And the old, I know, that's science denial, I realize, but trying to talk to the base. So, what's so interesting about his campaign is he does not have, I mean,

W. could at least pretend he was really into campaigning. His father really did like it, although he didn't believe anything he said while he ran for office. But he once shook the hand of a department store mannequin in New Hampshire by Mr. Dowell. God only knows what Clinton would have done with it. So there's that whole problem.

So I think that he, but I think he's more deliberative, and I think his father was clearly more deliberative ultimately than his son. Okay. Seth McFarland, would you ever consider hosting the Oscars again? Wow It's Sure, why not? Yeah.

Did they not ask you the year after you hosted? They did. Yeah, the ratings were good. Yeah, I was not... Yeah, people cannot be cowed by the virtual vigilantes. We have to make a stand. You know, you did nothing on that show that was the least bit untoward.

Oh, we saw. You saw your boobs. Was that the thing that the feminists were so upset about? We saw your boobs. It was funny, because we do see their boobs. To me, it was like, you know, I read headlines, like the failure of the Oscars. It's like, well, the ratings were up and the crowd was great. Like, I've done stand-up where it hasn't worked.

That was a great crowd. Where are you getting that that didn't work? Hate. There's just so much hate out there. It's old news. It's old news. All right. Michael McCall, which of the Republican candidates are best on Homeland Security?

on Homeland Security. Well, they're all bloodthirsty knuckle-draggers. It's so hard to pick. Well, yeah, they all want to, you know, carpet bomb ISIS, right? Right. Can I go to Switzerland on this one? Or be agnostic like you?

I just want a commander in chief that can stabilize the region, defeat and destroy ISIS, and protect the homeland. And I want to strong. strong leader that can do that. You know, you look at my book and the recommendations to protect the homeland, whatever candidate adopts those recommendations, I will support. But defeat and destroy ISIS. You know, I mean, I know you've spoken against his patient approach,

but actually ISIS is quite a bit degraded since we started bombing, and we've dropped like 28,000 bombs on them. They have lost major cities in Iraq, a lot of territory. Even in Syria, they've lost territory. We bombed their money this week. They had to... Who can it be against that? They had to cut their salaries by half,

and these guys have sex slaves to feed. I mean, that was not... It's all right. I'm here. You learn to accept the ooh first. It's like, I'll be covered, and then I'll decide if it's funny. Okay, all right. But we made some progress.

I was over in Iraq last May, and Ramadi fell. No, we've taken Ramadi back. That's a positive thing. But when you have, you know, going from 15 to 20 to 30, 35 foreign fighters in the region, that's a problem. When you over the Internet have a growing ideology, that's tough. We have to have a counter-narrative to defeat the ideology.

And a drone strike alone is not going to kill it. No, I mean, that may be what is contributing to the problem. It can. It's part of what strikes are important, but ideology is important. Okay. Can I ask him a question? Yes. In your view, is Donald Trump qualified to be commander in chief?

Hmm. Uh. Wow. No, just, that's it. That's fine. You just ask an answer. Move on. You like, talk about the Oscars and Stats.

Move on. You can only make it worse now. The cat threw up in the dent. If I would take care of it. But if I become his Secretary of Homeland Security, I'll be building that big, beautiful wall and making the Mexican pay for it. That's, well... Okay. You've answered Mr. Chairman.

Thank you. Alan Grayson, well, you know what? I'm going to ask you a different question. This is how can get money out of politics? But you are the one who is going to bring the lawsuit against Ted Cruz that Donald Trump keeps talking about? If he's the nominee, yeah. When Donald Trump says the, I'm not going to sue him, but the Democrats will, he means you. He actually mentioned me.

Right. So, because you think Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president? Well, he relies upon his mother to try to establish his citizenship. He was born in Canada. He says that he's a born, natural born citizen in the United States because his mother was a citizen. But his mother actually was a registered voter in Canada. But that doesn't affect her citizenship. I'm a dual citizen of two countries and I vote in vote.

It did. in 1970, you should not vote more than once. Well, I do. Well, you might have a problem there. Where are you a resident? Why are you voting where you're not a resident? Because I'm legally allowed to, and I'm a citizen of the country, and I pay my taxes, and I want my reference.

I think there might be police waiting to arrest you right after the show is over. Finally down. It could happen. If there are, if there are, I suspect it's for an entirely different reason. What is the other country? This is like a Ross Rating. UK, you're a British? As I would hasten to point out,

as I would hasten to point out, I actually believe Donald Trump is. I'm an English qualified lawyer, and on the basis of the way that British nationality transmits because his mother was Scottish, and I don't believe she ever rejected. I'm totally serious about this.

Unless he's... No, I'm totally serious about this. I know you are, but it's silly. I don't care. I know you're serious. Oh, I don't care. All of us have... That's not...

No one ever thought that that was part of the problem. Oh, I don't think it's a problem. I'm just saying I think that it's a little bit funny that he's like attacking Cruz on this when he is a dual citizen. That's all I'm saying. I'm fine with it. I don't like Trump, but if we had another dual U.S.-UK. citizen, I'd be happy to see my people represent.

His mother was a Scottish citizen and not an American when she... She became one, but you maintain dual. It's very hard to give up British citizenship. You basically have to walk into the embassy and say, I revoke my British citizenship, which... He was born in America. I'm not saying... Cruz was not. I'm not saying Donald Trump isn't an American citizen.

I'm saying they were both born with dual citizenship. That doesn't make you not American. I'm American. I'm a dual citizen. But if his mother was a Canadian and not an American, then he is not a natural born citizen. She was an American. Well, how do you know that? She was a registered voter in Canada. Is it an interesting that...

By registering to vote someplace, you don't give up your nationality. She must have been a Canadian citizen or she was a Canadian registered voter. We allow, the United States allows people to have dual citizenship. Not in 1970. I hope, I just wait for the moment when we discover that Donald Trump is paying your legal fee. No one ever doubted that Obama's mother was American. Right. Right.

It's suddenly, somehow that switch. Right. Well, that's bullshit too, but it's all the same bullshit. That's what I'm saying. Trump's full of this bullshit. And if you want to jump on board, that's fine, but I think it's fucking crazy. Well. No.

All of it. What's not crazy is to defend the Constitution. It's the Constitution we're talking about here. The Constitution says, if you're less than 35 years old, you can't be president. I'm sorry, but there's a lot of people less than Mark Zuckerberg's less than 35 years old. He can't be president. George W. Bush elected twice. He can't be president.

You need to go read what was written by a team of former Solicitor's General from two different administrations, two parties in the Harvard Law Review about this, and you need to study the history, a British immigration law because it's the precedent on which our immigration law is established. I'm sorry. I don't think we meant to lawyer up the panel. I apologize. Okay. Well, all I know is...

I'm a lawyer. Either you guys want any of this? Yeah, I mean... If Ted Cruz was really Canadian, could he be that much of an ass? I... He is Canada's revenge for acid rain. I guess so. So, did Sean Penn's interview with El Chapo breach any journalistic ethics?

Well, they got on his case because El Chapo did have a final say over the article, but El Chapo didn't change anything in that article. I would say in defense of my friend Sean Penn that that's pretty much the standard in journalism these days, is that you people give the people that are interviewing a veto power over it all the time anyway because they don't want them to go away. I won't insult you, Donald Trump. I need you for ratings, and you have to be back here tomorrow.

So I'm not going to ask a follow-up question. Well, where do you get that? I will say, as somebody who does political communications for a living, I wish this weren't the way that things go, but it is shockingly common for the subject of a profile or an interview to be given an opportunity to read and like suggest amendments or raise objections before the thing is published.

Now, did George W. Bush, H.W. Bush, ask you to do it? No? He gave me everything. He gave you full access and just said, go ahead. In fact, he hasn't read it yet. Has he put it... Really? Is that true? Come on. No, as he put it, I know how it turns out.

He's totally wrong. No, no. He lived the life. But he trusted you because you're seeing... as a fair arbiter. Yeah, I spent a lot. I hope so. You did Jefferson and you weren't mean to him. Well, yeah.

Jefferson didn't object. Jefferson didn't object. Hamilton did. But that's not. What a great joke for history majors. All right. Thank you, everybody. We've got to go.

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