Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #401 (Originally aired 07/29/16)

Episode Date: July 31, 2016

Overtime Episode #401 (Originally aired 07/29/16) - Bill and his roundtable guests Bernie Sanders, Barney Frank, Alex Wagner, Matt Welch and Dr. Cornel West 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 Maher. Barney, was it at all heartening to hear you to you to hear Donald Trump acknowledge violence against the LGBT community? No, because he did it in a very limited way. He's protecting us against a foreign ideology. In 45 years I've been involved in this, the number of foreign ideologues who've attacked us is by smart. a terrible event, but they were very specific. Homegrown bigots, they have free reign. And he also has said, and I'm going to go back to the Supreme Court,

he has announced that his model for the Supreme Court is Antonin Scalia, who was the most important homophobe ever to hold high office in America. And you appoint an Antonin Scalia to the United States Supreme Court. You have done more to unravel the gains we have made than anything else. So, no, that was like a lot of other things in that platform, cover. He opposes everything that would protect us against most of our oppression, and he's going to protect us against the foreign invasion.

Okay. Cornell, as Obama's chairman office comes to a close, have you rethought the impact of his legacy at all? Because I know you had a lot of problems with Brother Barack. Also not pure enough for you. No, it's not a matter of purity, though. It's a matter of consistency. We don't confuse those two. Purity has to do with not being human. All of us are human beings. has to do with human beings questing for something beyond just sheer cupidity, love of money and love of status. Now, what was the question? No, I know what it was. But I put it this way. I always look at the world through the poor. Black child poverty today, 47% of all black children in the richest nation and history of the world under six live in utter poverty.

To me, that's a crime against humanity. It has gone up. It has gone up under Barack Obama. But not because of Barack Obama. No, not because. But have you heard him give one speech in eight years on child poverty? Yes. Where was it? I've heard him talk to Congress about it. I'm not talking about the public, my brother.

Well, it's not secret when he talks to it. And the problem is, of course, he's had a Republican Congress for six years. No, he can't blame the Republicans on that. Of course you can. He's got a bully pit. He's got a bully pit he can use. A bully pit. He can't pull a pit.

Yes. He can't pass laws by preaching. We're not talking about passing laws. Yes, we are. Shaping the climate of opinion, my brother. You have no idea. You're not going to get changed. You're not going to help poor kids by making speeches

that the Republican Congress votes against. We have to elect people who will vote the right way. I think you give much too much power to politicians. Politicians aren't... Not to politicians to the voters. You make... That big mistake. But the voters are not static.

The voters have to have their minds change politicians. And we try to do that. That's why none of stood up for gay rights at the national level. They were cowardly. That's why they didn't stand up. They didn't want to lose enough. You go back to this rhetoric that doesn't hold up to an analysis. The fact is that many of us are trying, Bernie Sanders was trying.

And again, I'm struck. At the national level of it. I am struck by how frequently and complete you are now repudiating Bernie Sanders approach to politics. No, I'm not. Bernie's got both sides going. I'm repudiating one side. You've repudiate. He's got both sides going.

inside outside. He's for Hillary Clinton. You're for Jill Steiner. Well, he's wrong. And that's... That's what happens in the bully pair. He's my dear brother. He's my dear brother. He's just wrong. That's all. Let's ask... Let's ask one more question and get to the drinking part of the diet. You guys are going to get along a lot better after a

martinia each. Yes? Connell, I have one question. Yes, my brother. You say, well, Jill Steiner appointed Supreme Court Justice. I understand you want to be for her now. You're going to bring her up. If three weeks before the election, it is very clear that it will be either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, that Jill

Stein's efforts or debate, whatever, have not worked. If that's the clear choice, will you vote for Hillary Clinton? It would be an anti-Trump vote, yes. But you would vote. He got to, yes. He got to San Francisco. He got to San Francisco.

If you're going to San Francisco, he's are to wear some flowers. in your hair. When people voted for me who didn't like me, but hated my opponent,

I wanted to kiss them. Right. I'll take it. I'll take them. A very special circumstance. Can we just point out that only 10 states in this country are swing states? Yes. Voting third parties is not a hard thing for me to fathom living in the state of New York. Donald Trump is not going to

win New York. He thinks a lot of things. Matt, I disagree with one case for Johnny Donald Trump. I think given the vileness of his campaign, I want to see a large majority against him in the total vote. As a repudiation of what he's saying. I want him to get full of votes against anybody has ever gotten. And the amazing thing about this election is that we don't know. Nobody really knows.

I mean, Trump could win in a walk or Hillary could win 49 states. I just don't know. And that's what's so scary about it. Thank you very much, everybody. You were a great audience. Catch all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher, every Friday night at 10 or watch them anytime on HBO on demand. For more information, log on to HBO.com.