Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #515: Jaime Harrison, Donna Brazile, Ian Bremmer, Frank Bruni

Episode Date: November 16, 2019

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Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maugh. All right, here we are, folks. Ian, did anything good come out of Erdogan's visit to America? Well, the fact that you actually had a bunch of Republican senators right behind Trump, who were giving no sway on the Russian missile system he's bringing in on the sanctions that they're going to keep. I mean, Trump wants to pretend that he's his buddy. What we've seen with all these dictators Trump wants to cozy up with is the American. American system still works, that actually

stops the president from doing what he wants to do. Mm-hmm. Okay. Will President Trump pardon Roger Stone? Not before the election, would be my guess.

Well, he's going to be sentenced on February 6th. I hope he roast in hell. Whoa. That's son of a bitch. Whoa. Oh, my beer. Work with WikiLeaks.

to destroy not just Democrats, but to destroy our democracy. So I hope he roast in hell. And I wish I'm at the sentencing hearing because I'm going to wear the best-looking red dress I could and say, go to hell. And try to work with a foreign government that is trying to destroy our country,

destroy our candidate. Yeah, they work to destroy Hillary Clinton. They worked to sow this guard between Hillary and Bernie. And yes, they took our emails, took our personal information, and then they turned against us and threaten our lives and harass us. Go to fucking jail.

Oh, yeah, thank God I went in that damn jury. You didn't work me up. Shit, how do you wake me up like this? I can't stand that son of a bitch. And Bill, I'm never hateful. I'm going to have to really work on forgiving him. Well, never is a strong work. Look, I have to work very hard to forgive him.

Jamie knows where I'm coming from. They threaten us. They went after us. He understood what was at stake. And you saw what the testimony said, they were aggrateful. Oh, screw them. Yeah, that's true.

A bunch of bastards. Gleeful. Well, you know, he was best friends with Lee Atwater. Wait, let her say something about Roger Stone. I'm kidding. I'm really good. Finish your thought. No, I'm kidding.

Go ahead. No, I mean, he was close to Lee Atwater, so, you know, birds of a feather. Yeah, he took pride in being a dirty trickster. I share her jubilation about Roger Stone's conviction, but it's way eclipsed by frustration, right? So Paul Manafort has had his moment of reckoning. Same for Michael Cohn.

Now Roger Stone. When does Donald Trump's moment of reckoning come? I wouldn't count on it. My frustration about that way eclipses my jubilation about justice being served. Well, and, you know, not to always be the person who's looking for doom and gloom, but that's one reason why he can't leave. Because his choice is either stay in power or go to jail. So waiters or a cell.

That's, I mean, this is what happens in third world countries and dictatorships. You've got to stay in all. office. Those are the only two choices. It is existential. And it's tough to beat an incumbent when the economy is good. And he's got tons of money. I don't think people realize this. He has raised so much money. It's way more

than the Democrats. Your point that he wouldn't leave, certainly, willingly if he loses. But there's also the question of when he is acquitted, he's going to believe, rightfully, given the process, that he can continue to interfere. Oh, he's going to run on

it. Right. And nor is he going to actually ensure the security of elections vis-a-vis external forces like the Russian. So, I mean, there are a lot of people out there that they're going to think that this 2020 election is not legitimate, like an emerging market. He's going to run on the Mueller report didn't get me, this didn't get me, you never got me down, Ray, you never got me down. That's what he's going to run on, a raging bulb. God help us if he's re-elected because he acts like this in his first term. Exactly.

No, I know. I mean, if he was trying to break the country, he's not confident at it, but he might get it right in eight years. Believe me, I am shitting in my pants every day about that. That, because he's a vindictive person. They make medicine for that. Yeah, I know. The Japanese are all over it. And it's actually legal in this state now.

You want to put some in my bowl? You two. I feel like the three of us should go away. I won't have a table. I'm going to Bill so long, baby. I've been watching you. I've been touching. you, I've been feeling you.

Yeah, yeah. I like Bill. Bill is my brother from another mother. Well, then we better not mess around if our mother's right. Will Trump be able to get the Supreme Court to

protect his tax returns from being released? Okay, that came out today. He's taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. His tax returns, New York says we want them. I never thought this would be that hard. I didn't think a guy could keep, even if he's president,

could keep tax returns secret. Because the IRS has them. Yes. It's not like they're just in his safe. Why have they not been leaked? I don't know. Why aren't they? Why can't someone do a covert action

and just steal them or something? I mean, they got the pets on a microfers. You can put it in your underwear. The Pentagon Papers, they had to take out reams of actual paper. God damn it. Now you got me, man. Oh, yes.

All right, we got to go. We have a party to go through. It's our last show. How about a hand for this panel? They were terrific. You were terrific. Thank you very much. And please find my Christmas record.

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