Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #691: Steve Bannon, Piers Morgan, Josh Rogin

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 4/11/25) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Chief Strategist and now host the Wallroom podcast, Steve Vannon, his global security analyst for Washington Post Intelligence, and author of Chaos Under Heaven, Josh Rogan, and he hosts Peers Morgan uncensored on YouTube, Peers Morgan. All right, here are the questions from the people. What does the panel think about reports that the Trump administration plans to hold a military parade on the 250th anniversary of the Army's founding,

which also happens to be Trump's birthday. Oh, goody, tanks in the street, huh? Is that a good thing? Do you think to see? I think it's fantastic, though. Yeah, government efficiency at work, right? That's what we're spending our defense dollars on and is parading a bunch of times.

It's a way to inspire people, as you know, Josh, young men and women to join the military. You see the pageantry like they do in France with Macron, that great July 14th Bastille Day. Was there tanks in the street? They were tanks. We do it in the UK all the time. Tanks in the street.

It's always been surprising to me, you don't do it. Kim Jong-un loves it. Russian Deserts. Yeah, Putin, Beijing. Bill? What do you think? I don't want America to get used to the site of tanks in the street. That's what I don't. Because once you're saying, it becomes normalized.

What's behind the church-going revival in the UK, particularly among Gen Z. Is that true? If you saw the state of our country right now, there's a lot to go and pray about. There'll be nothing more finiter than that. That's it? I know.

I think about it. The UK? Kids are getting more religious? Is that what's going on? I don't know. I didn't actually know that was a fact. But church-going generally has been going down. My daughter's, too.

her only religion is bluey. Thank God I don't have kids. What does the panel think of Jeff Bezos's company, Blue Origin, sending an all-female crew. And Katie, yes, Katie Perry, and Lauren Chen says, and Gail King, I know them all, love them all, hope they're all safe, I'm sure they will be to space next week. Is there any scientific merit to this mission?

Yes. No, but you know what? I just think people that knock any form of exploration You know, when I was born in 65, the first thing I can really remember as an existent human being was excitement around the rockets going up, right? And then it sort of stopped, and you kind of thought, well, we're going backwards. I mean, exploration, space travel, the bold frontiers. Well, Katie Perry is not exploring space.

No, I know. I know. I know. I don't. I wouldn't go up there, would you? Would you go up there? Absolutely not. I wouldn't do it in a million years. So I admire the bulls. No. We should be cheering them on. No, I'm sure it'll be safe.

Yeah. But it's just, I wouldn't go skydiving either. No, I agree with it. There's just no reason. Jeff Bezos is my boss and I support him. You're a toady little crawler. On all the lectures you gave us out of you? Jake, I would just like to get fun of it today.

I'm not trying to get fun of it. That's a trouble you see. The trouble is, Josh, you get close to them and then it starts to take over. Guess what America? Guess what America? we're all part of the same hypocrisy. Including Steve, including including myself, we're all.

Keep me out of it. Yeah. Too late. Too late. You're in it. You're in it. No we here. I want to ask the question.

Mike Huckabee, you remember him? Yes, sir. He is now the ambassador to Israel. Mike Huckabee. We've had him on the show. If you don't remember, he was the governor of Arkansas.

you know, a very religious man. Yep. And I'm sure they're sending him to Israel because he's a great friend of Israel. I have a problem with this. You know why people like that are friends with Israel? Because when you know who comes back... Right.

The Jews have got to rule Earth under hell, right? That's the idea. Or they all die. Or they all die. Either way, it's not really a great deal. Jesus saves 144,000 Jews. Right. That's not a lot of Jews. I don't think I'm going to be...

I don't think I'm going to make the cut, to be honest with you. I'm not an observant. That's why super-duper Christians love Israel. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying. And now he's... Okay.

Low-flow showers. Trump is... I'm going to drop on this one. Yeah. No one likes a low-flow shower. That's an 80-20 issue. That's good politics, as far as I'm considering. And daylight savings time.

That one I like. That one I like to be light in the... evening. I'm not a morning person. For all the morning people out there, forget you. But getting rid of it, don't we have more light in the winter? Yeah, so that's what we want. If we get rid of daylight saving time, it gets dark early.

No, no, no, no. What we do now is when it starts to get dark, we move it the wrong way. And now it's dark at like four in the afternoon. It's stupid. That's what he's I think trying to get it rid of, and the penny. He's right about all these things, I think. Well, it's just good politics to pick up.

taxes on tips, all these little things. It's somewhat of a distraction from the ongoing. And raise taxes on the wealthy. He said it last week. Is that coming? It's coming. But what about the tax cut for the wealthy? Isn't that coming to?

No, no, no. It's not going to extend the tax cuts for the wealthy. He's going to no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime. So you're saying all the donors are about to get a tax hike? They're already screaming. But he said he told the Senate that he's open to when the, extending the tax, not extend them. Oh, open to? No, no, no. But he's already, I think,

and Scott Besson, the Secretary of Treasury, I think,'s working on this, not to extend it to the upper bracket or make a new bracket at a million dollars. And you think Congress is going to pass that, knowing who they get their money from? They do whatever he tells them to do. Exactly. If President Trump comes in and says to do it, he'll... Okay, so the Steve Bennett plan is that Republicans are going to abandon the donor class, and then what's going to happen in 2020? Where else are they going to go?

We got total leverage over them. Where else are they going to go? Well, there's another election. coming up. They're going to, in the midterms, and the thing, but where else they're going to go? If you don't restore, if you don't restore the economic viability, the working class and the middle class, and you have to do that by sealing the border, right, so it's not flooded with illegal alien labor. Number two is the terrorists to bring manufacturing jobs back. And the third is that working class and middle class people need a tax cut. They need no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and most importantly, no tax on Social Security. That's another $500 billion a year we have

to come with. That's right. By the way, it's going to be a huge fight. But the Democrats and progressives had control in 2021 in those first 100 days, and they put up taxing the billionaires, and it didn't even get out of committee. President Trump and the MAGA movement will raise taxes on the wealthy. All right. Let me just get another question. Do you believe that when the tariffs cause huge inflation,

that the lower criminal class were going to reward the Republicans for that, when all the prices go up? Because in 1890, when we had tariffs, the Republicans lost the House and the presidency because the price of it. You should know this, Josh, but anybody, because when we raised the tariffs on China in 18, the prices came down. We didn't have any inflation in 19, and we had the highest tariffs we ever put on the China. Hey, how about that dire wolf? That's an important.

We brought back the dire wolf. They brought back a species called the dire wolf that was extinct. Using DNA, they hadn't a fossil. What could go wrong? I mean, what? Well, I don't know. I mean, I can't. Yeah, they're going to do the woolly mammoth next.

You know, I think they made a movie about this. Don't knock it until they, in a hundred years, in a hundred years they bring back Bill Maher from a fossil. They just don't grow it out a bit. They made a movie once about, you know, bringing back extinct species and the risks of it. It was called Jurassic Park. Maybe you've all seen it, you know.

I know, but this is... Maybe we shouldn't screw with science that much, you know. Well, but it's, it's not a dinosaur. It's a wolf. Yeah, but they know. We know what it looks like. And Bobby Kennedy says it tastes like chicken. That's interesting. Thank you. Catch all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher every Friday night at 10

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