Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #392 (Originally aired 06/17/16)

Episode Date: June 18, 2016

Overtime – Episode #392 (Originally aired 06/17/16) - Bill and his roundtable guests Rebecca Traister, Ravi Patel, Josh Barro, Emily Miller and Lawrence Wilkerson answer fan questions from the latest show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Ma. Okay. Thanks for all the single lady stuff. I appreciate that. We on? Yes, we all.

Okay. This is for you, Robbie. Why did you get into the snack food business? Well, basically my friends, Ryan and Todd, we have a company called This Bar Saves Lives. For every bar we sell, we donate a life-saving meal packet to child and need somewhere around the world.

And Ryan and Todd took a trip to Africa, and they were introduced to this meal packet called Plumpy Nut, which is prescribed to kids who are days away from dying from severe acute malnutrition, which affects 20 million kids under the age of six every year. So we wanted to figure out a way to give and keep on giving, so why not find something that, you know, allows me to snack healthy word. Will Hillary cede to any of Bernie's demands, should she?

No. Yes. They hate each other. They absolutely hate each other. They don't hate each other. I think she already had it. She has, and she knows she has to. She knows she has to.

She's already done it. Yeah, but she's going to keep doing it. He's obviously not going anywhere. He's going to keep doing. No, no. The pressure's on. And they're not that much at odds. Anyway, I mean, they're not.

They have so much more in common. When they were in the Senate, they voted together like 93% of the time. The differences are by degrees, and she's going to, she knows she has, she can't be the bad guy. She can't afford to be the bad guy here. People are so tribal. He's the wild card. He believes that he's got this revolution going.

He's not, I mean, look, he's just made this very long videotape yesterday saying he's still running. I mean, anyone else? He's also enjoying. That was perfectly polite. Everybody else would be out by this point. I mean, but he is just, I'm standing, he has nothing. I think the wild card is the Republican voter who is trying to decide if they will at all cost vote for any. that runs for their party.

Like, I think they're looking at Trump for the first time saying, this guy's fucking nuts. I can't support it. I just can't. And people are saying that. And what you're hearing right now is hearing a lot of politicians say the worst things about it and then say, yeah, but I'm going to vote for it. It's just here in Hollywood.

It is. It's really not. I mean, it's really not. I travel this country. I land in the flyover station. Do you like to stay at the holiday inn? No. Why? Would that help me understand? Is that right, like, interact with normal people?

Oh, please. The holiday is. I think, I've... As if. I can say that Trump is a Republican candidate, you're going to have some Republicans voting for Hillary. Yeah. Well... Well...

I mean, you know, and you're going to have a lot of them just not vote at all. Republicans... I think you guys are way ahead on this. Too far ahead. I've interviewed Trump many times, recently as last week. I've sat down with them. there's a part of Trump that the public has not seen yet because he's at these big rallies.

Oh, wow. There's more. Yes. I can't wait. I mean, that's exciting. Speaking is the only person in this table who's spent an extended time with him. Okay, but that's a long revelation. Wait, wait, wait.

Because he's been in public life for like 35 years. I'm just saying. So there's something we haven't seen. In my personal. That is deep, deep, deep, deep down. In both my experience of interviewing him many times sitting with him, he is thoughtful. He is intelligent. He is focused.

He is calm and you're gonna... It's been a year. Why doesn't he exhibit any of that in public? He doesn't sit down interviews. You also wrote a book called Emily Gets a Gun. I mean, I just don't think your point of view on Trump is that valid? But what... That's not being nasty.

That was easy. And it was also just rude. I wanted to make friends. It was just rude. It was just rude. It's hard enough to come here when the whole crowd is against it. Yeah, no, it's hard. I shouldn't have done that.

I'm sorry. You're forgetting. Why is Donald Trump such an enormous douchebeck? No, I'm sorry. That's not what you make of recent reports that Donald Trump wants to establish a new media company. He has cut off a lot of media government. I think I've heard from sources inside.

That's a very likely thing. But you can't think that's a great idea to cut off the credentials. There's Fox News, and then there's where I work, One American News. There's very few right-leaning 24-hour-7 news sources. Then you've got CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS. You've got all the left-ling ones.

There is room out there. They're not left-leaning. Are you kidding me? I am not kidding you. Where are they? They're money-leaning. Oh, everybody's money-leaning. They're money-leaning.

Everybody's money-leaning. They're left-leaning. They would have to learn something to get left-leaning. They just go with... I have worked at ABC News and NBC News. I was always the only open conservative there. Everybody's openly liberal. So I'm telling you from personal experience,

they are left leaning. But obviously... But they root for the horse race. Everybody wants to make money. I agree with you on that point. And Donald Trump may make a lot of money when you're going to be president? Like, isn't it a conflict of interest for the president to run a media organization? Let's not jump ahead.

No, I'm... That's very brutalistone. Right? Yeah. In eight years. In eight years. Okay. But even so, don't you think it's a mistake to cut off somebody like the Washington

Post and many others. I mean, it's kind of third-worldy. It's kind of banana republic. Barack Obama did the same thing in 2008. Cut off their credentials? No, he kicked them off the plane, even worse. The Washington Times, the New York Post, and the Dow... Yes, it is. He could do Canada back any access whatsoever. Okay. He never did...

He kicked off the plane three newspapers to endorse McCain on the editorial page, the Washington Times, the New York Post, and the Dallas Morning News, in 2008. Nobody seems to have a problem with that. It is politics. I mean, once you're in the White House, the White House Correspondent Association takes over, and you can't do these things. But as long as you're running a campaign, you control the planes, you control the private events.

It's politics. It's just what it is. I'm not sure about all that. I value freedom of the press. Obviously, that's what I do for living. However, politicians are politicians, and they do what they want to win. It's both sides. Okay.

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