Overtime - Episode #514: Judd Apatow, Gov. Steve Bullock, Rahm Emanuel, Steve Schmidt
00:00Welcome to an HBOpodcast from the HBO late-night seriesReal Time with Bill Maher.Thank you. Okay.Ram Emanuel, do you think Mick Mulvaneywill be thrown under the busas Republicans try to defend Trumpagainst impeachment? Mick Mulvaney.
00:21Yes, him and Rudy. They're going to go together.And Rudy? Yeah. I mean, there's no onehe wouldn't throw under the bus. Yeah, no, they're all going to gothrowing both together. Really?You have 16 wheels. You've got a lot of people.So those are the first.How could they don't, like, know,in advance that they're going to get thrown under the bus.
00:37He's thrown Manafort under the bus.Michael Cohen. Like, don't you know going inthat this ends with him discarding?How about this? Just, like, pick up the paper, when they say that thepresident doesn't like you, it's like, justput the clock on, and it's just a matter of hours.He'll be out on the South Launcee. I never heard of him.Yeah. He's Rudy.
00:53Yeah, yeah.Steve, what do you think of the anonymous seniorofficial in the Trump administration writing?Well, like that book, a warning,which just seems like ridiculously late.but I mean, yeah, this anonymous, he wrote the op-ed,this is apparently somebody who is so on the insidethat he can quote Trump on a daily basis.
01:13I have trouble with this because there's only a limited number of peoplewho it could be.Couldn't they find this out?It smells fishy to me.The whole premise of it, it's like no shit.I mean, he's upstairs reading the briefing booksand doing his job.I mean, he's up there with a cheese murder.
01:28But how many people could it be?Right.How could this person be this anonymous?How many people are in the world?White House every day talking to Trump all the time, including up to now, apparently, this book goes to.When does Melania's book come out?Maybe it is just did.Yeah, right.
01:44Can I say one thing?Look, if you worked in the Clinton or Obama White House, you had a problem with a policy that hit you morally?You left.I don't know.I actually don't accept the notion that anonymously I'm going to write a book about how troubled you are.You troubled?Leave.And speak honestly and not be anonymous about it and then call it all out.
02:07Mattis, everybody that leaves, Mattis and all the other, Rex, all the Tellerson, all these other people,they have not sold their soul.You're selling your soul staying there and doing this and not being able to stand up there and say,here's what this is.Well, the other side to that is, you know, they would say without.They haven't protected us.Forget about it.I don't buy that.
02:25But sometimes that is the argument.Colin Powell, they said the same thing about him.He should have left the Bush administration.and I think he did the nobler thing.No, I'm going to stay because now I'm the only smart person in the room.Who else is going to reign in Cheney and Rumsfeld?Me.He didn't do it.
02:42He went to the United Nations and read exactly the talking points.You don't know everything.You don't know what?They could have went into Iran if he wasn't there.We don't know what didn't happen.No, but we do know what he had to do to stay in the price of stayingwhen he was lip-sinking what they gave him to read at the United Nations.Easy for you to say.
02:59I'm scared that I...suddenly I agree with scaramucci.You know, there is medication for that.Yeah, he's come over.Okay, Governor Bullock,as someone determined to get money out of politics,what are your thoughts on the news that Tom Steyersought to pay for endorsements in Iowa?
03:18Yeah.Yeah, I mean, I've been earning endorsements the old-fashioned way.I've been earning them talking to people, not buying them.But I think this does show even more the overall problem.Tom Steyer's a guy who bought his way on at the debate stage.He's buying his way along.And then you have one billionaire in the race.I want to want to be billionaire in the White House.
03:40And with all due respect to Judge Judy,I don't think we need another billionaire in this race.Folks turn around time and time againand say their voice doesn't matter in this system.If this election is for sale?I mean, the Kennedys were rich.FDR was rich.I feel like we judge people too much,
03:57not on the content of their character,but he's too young.too old, he's too rich, he's justjudge them on what they are sayingand who they are. Rich peoplecould be good people. It doesn'tmean you're oblivious to the plight ofthe needy. Look, I'm not
04:12saying that rich people can't be goodpeople, but what I'm saying...Because judge is filthy fucking rich.There's a list of movies I read.I mean, this guy is swimming in it.But what I'm saying is when regularvoters just say their vote doesn'tmatter or their voice doesn't matter.
04:28When someone can turn around and say, all right, I'llspent $47 million in the lasttwo months, just elevated.Makes the rest of folks say that... But money doesn't always win.Trump got out spent by Hillary2 to 1 and beat her. Here's what you...When you used Roosevelt and Kennedy,they didn't use their wealth as a way
04:44to prevent other people from having anopportunity. They actually saw their role in publiclife to make sure other people had a chanceto walk through the door of opportunity.And they made major changes from the GIbill to actually also the Peace Corpsto give people a chance. And sowealth doesn't describe anything. It's what you
05:00do with your life to make a difference for other people's life.I was saying. I just trying to put it therein English. That's all I was trying to do.I worry that... It's alwayslike a rich guy who's just done everything.He's like, there's nothing left but to rule theworld.Sometimes you don't know
05:16if it's for us or them. They're doing it.Judd, why are you against Netflix'splan to allow usersto speed up orslow down the playbackof movies and TV shows? Wait.Have you heard about this? Can't we do this?So ready?
05:31Speed up.I think on YouTube you can do it.Oh, you're talking about the actual,like, so they're talking about like,yeah.It's like, like, if you're on Appleand you listen to a podcast, there's a button.Right.
05:39You go like twice as fast.Yes.And then they're talking about having a button,so, like, if you just wanted to watchthe Godfather in an hour, you could do it.Are you kidding?And, you know, comedy is timing.Yes.
05:51So suddenly every movie I makewill look like a Benny Hill sketch.Wow. And they must be doing this because people are demanding this?Well, people demand all sorts of stupid shit.You know, people might go like, I wish I could, you know, watch, you know, this show with a laugh track.Let's get a button where we'll add a laugh track to Rami.This is probably because there's just too much content now.There's just so many things that you want to watch.
06:21Or attention span is shorter.And you don't remember any of it. This is the problem.You don't remember any of it.My wife and I were watching Narcos Season 2.It'd been like a year since season one was on,and we're like, is Escobar a good guy or a bad guy?I could use this.In a couple cabinet meetings, I could have used a speed channel.
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