Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #601: Mark Esper, Donna Brazile, Adam Corolla

Episode Date: May 21, 2022

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 5/20/22) 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 Maugh. Okay. We're back on overtime, Donna. Who will be the Democratic candidate in 2024? Ah, are you surprised by Kamala Harris's lack of support? I believe it's Joe Biden. He's announced that he's going to run for re-election. I haven't seen any signs that he is throwing in the towel. So I got to stick with Joe Biden until I know something else. No, if he decides not to run, I got a long list, Bill. If you want to get on my list, call me.

He definitely don't want to be on the list. He's not going to be worried about running. He's going to be worried about walking. You can't run now. That's agist. Yeah. Very much so. It's ages, but you're allowed to be ages if the guy's the pilot of an airplane that you're in, right?

But I mean, I feel like that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Lots of people have it in their interest that he is going to act senile. And, I mean, you know, everybody who is on camera that much is going to make some gaps. And let's be honest, he was a gaffe machine when he was 40. He's actually better. He makes less gaps now, probably because he's aware of it more and he's president. But I just don't see this. that he is that different than he was

10, 20 years ago. I mean, we heard that argument back and, you know, when Donald Trump said it, he was in his basement. And he was in his baiting trying to beat Trump's ass. He did. Well, I mean... Don't you think somebody like Michelle Obama

would be much better than Biden? Oh, my God, yes. You want to add to my list? But she's not going to run. Oh, she's not running. No, but of course she would be better. Yeah, I just, I think that's a winner. I mean, I think that's a Democratic winner.

Hold that thought just in case we need another candidate in 2028. Just hold that thought. Well, I mean, it's not like no one has thought of that. It's that she won't, it's not, no, she's not interested. Fabulous. And I don't blame her. She's doing a good job in the Obama Foundation. They put in their time for eight years.

They paid the price. They paid, yes, they served the country. I agree. I totally agree. Okay. Mark, in your book, you write about a White House meeting with Venezuela's opposition leader where they casually talked about assassinating the Venezuelan president. Is that true?

No, that's not true, and that's not what I wrote. What he talked about was, you know, the president said to the acting president of Venezuela, you know, would you support us attacking the country or doing a military operation? Wait, wait. Let's set, what year is this? This is 20, late 20, no, early 2020. January, February 2020. The president was Madero?

No. Well, the president in Venezuela was Madero. Yeah. The acting interim president was Juan Guido. Right. Right. Who never got. Right.

So what were they putting him up to do? We're sitting in the Oval Office and the president brings up this discussion, our president, about would the United States, if the United States conducted military action against Venezuela, what would the Venezuelan people do or the opposition people? Something like. It was a long. lines. I write about it briefly in the book. But that's like every administration does that. Of all the things you could get them on, that's right? And we also have plenty of presidents talked about and then conducted assassination.

They didn't just talk about it. They did it. Well, the word assassination is not in there. It was discussion about military options. Okay. I'm just saying. That's a bit of polish. That would be one thing with Trump that wasn't a break from the norm. Yeah.

Like somebody's a problem. problem overseas. Hmm. Kill them. Any one? Bill, you had another idea. But the discussion about taking action against Venezuela continues all the way

through, at least until the fall of 2020. This keeps coming up and up. All right. Should Democrats run more candidates like John Federman? Yes. Who is he? I don't know who that is. John Herman, he is the Senate

candidate for the state of Pennsylvania, the current lieutenant governor. He had a stroke, so he's recovering. He had a stroke? Yes, he had a stroke. How old is he? 52. Wow.

Joe Biden has not a stroke. No. I do like your defense of Joe Biden. He was always mad at talking. But it's true. I know. It's not the age issue. But John...

This motherfucker had a stroke at 52. Wow. Right? And you don't even know the man are going to call him a big board of MF. Look, he's a good man. His slogan, I love, was every vote, every county.

He went to every county in Pennsylvania. It wasn't different strokes for different folks? You know? Let him laugh. He's laughing. You know what? He's a keeper. You can bring him back on.

Oh, good. He's a keeper. He's going to be a queen. Hell yeah, I'm a queen. So John Sutterman, what is it about him? He is such a wonderful populist candidate. Populist. Very populous.

Because... Because he supports the middle class. He supports the little person. Who doesn't say that? No, but he actually has a lesson. Who says, I hate the middle class. He has approved. And the little guy can kiss my ass.

Nobody. Well, a lot of people, you know, give people a third thing. Because they don't raise their wages and they don't help them when they're down. But everybody says different. He's a lieutenant governor. He has a strong record. He wants to raise the minimum wage. Yes, he wants to legalize marijuana.

Does he have a personality? He wants to bring factory jobs. Yes, he has a great personnel. You should have him on as soon as he's ready. Let me provide you an alternative. I grew up in Pennsylvania. The man for the job is Dave McCormick. Who's that?

He's a frontrunner alongside Oz right now for the Republican side, and he would be a great U.S. Senator. Well, I know, I was in, no, I was in Atlantic City, but it was the Pennsylvania market that I was watching on the local TV. It was frightening because the only ad, this is why the Democrats, I know they're going to get their ass kick. The only, they couldn't even afford TV ads. And all the, like, Congress candidates that were, it was like, candidate, and they kept saying conservative, like it was the guy's first name. Conservative Brad Goonsberg.

It's conservative, and he's tough, and he will stand up to Biden and kill criminals and rip that dress off your son. He's conservative, Brad Goonsberg. He's conservative, and he shoots them. he doesn't like it. I was like, oh, they're fine. He's 61, and he hasn't had a stroke yet. I got to Vegas.

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