Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #514: Judd Apatow, Gov. Steve Bullock, Rahm Emanuel, Steve Schmidt

Episode Date: November 9, 2019

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maher. Thank you. Okay. Ram Emanuel, do you think Mick Mulvaney will be thrown under the bus as Republicans try to defend Trump against impeachment? Mick Mulvaney.

Yes, him and Rudy. They're going to go together. And Rudy? Yeah. I mean, there's no one he wouldn't throw under the bus. Yeah, no, they're all going to go throwing 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.

He's thrown Manafort under the bus. Michael Cohen. Like, don't you know going in that this ends with him discarding? How about this? Just, like, pick up the paper, when they say that the president doesn't like you, it's like, just put 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.

Yeah, yeah. Steve, what do you think of the anonymous senior official 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 inside that he can quote Trump on a daily basis.

I have trouble with this because there's only a limited number of people who 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 books and doing his job. I mean, he's up there with a cheese murder.

But 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.

Can 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.

Mattis, 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.

But 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.

He 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 staying when he was lip-sinking what they gave him to read at the United Nations. Easy for you to say.

I'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 Steyer sought to pay for endorsements in Iowa?

Yeah. 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.

And with all due respect to Judge Judy, I don't think we need another billionaire in this race. Folks turn around time and time again and 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,

not on the content of their character, but he's too young. too old, he's too rich, he's just judge them on what they are saying and who they are. Rich people could be good people. It doesn't mean you're oblivious to the plight of the needy. Look, I'm not

saying that rich people can't be good people, 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 regular voters just say their vote doesn't matter or their voice doesn't matter.

When someone can turn around and say, all right, I'll spent $47 million in the last two months, just elevated. Makes the rest of folks say that... But money doesn't always win. Trump got out spent by Hillary 2 to 1 and beat her. Here's what you... When you used Roosevelt and Kennedy, they didn't use their wealth as a way

to prevent other people from having an opportunity. They actually saw their role in public life to make sure other people had a chance to walk through the door of opportunity. And they made major changes from the GI bill to actually also the Peace Corps to give people a chance. And so wealth doesn't describe anything. It's what you

do with your life to make a difference for other people's life. I was saying. I just trying to put it there in English. That's all I was trying to do. I worry that... It's always like a rich guy who's just done everything. He's like, there's nothing left but to rule the world. Sometimes you don't know

if it's for us or them. They're doing it. Judd, why are you against Netflix's plan to allow users to speed up or slow down the playback of movies and TV shows? Wait. Have you heard about this? Can't we do this? So ready?

Speed 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 Apple and you listen to a podcast, there's a button. Right.

You go like twice as fast. Yes. And then they're talking about having a button, so, like, if you just wanted to watch the Godfather in an hour, you could do it. Are you kidding? And, you know, comedy is timing. Yes.

So suddenly every movie I make will 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.

Or 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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