Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #718: Chris Christie, Chrystia Freeland

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 2/6/26) 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, he's the former Republican governor of New Jersey who's a contributor now for ABC News, Chris Christie, and she's the former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Christopher Flynn. Okay, for the panel, should there be a law that says the president can't sue people? Well, he's suing everybody. I mean, he is... That is one thing that he never changed one bit from one... I mean, he sued me.

Remember? the orangutan thing. And let's not bring that up. Did you apologize for that? No. Fuck, no. Why would I apologize? I thought you had supper with him

and you talked about it. Yeah, I had supper with him. I didn't apologize. This is one of my frustrations. People get the facts wrong. Sorry. It's okay. But, you know, it's not whether I had dinner with him.

It's what I said about him after dinner. Right. Which, as I have never pulled a punch, I came back on the show and did what I always did. Some people stop watching the show because I had dinner with him if you watch the show Who's harder on him than I? No one So no I didn't apologize

Why shouldn't you do that exactly? Exactly right? Like why should and that's part of the problem With our country right now is that families won't have dinner with each other right if they disagree on politics and and by the way you said that's one way he hasn't changed I've known him for 24 years what way has he changed? No, none. None. Like, he's basically the same person that I met in 2002.

No, being president does not change his M.O. at all. The majesty of the responsibility has not weighed upon him. But the idea that you're... I mean... You know, we didn't put it in the Constitution that the president can't sue people or anybody or anybody

or anything or his own government, which he's trying to do, suing the IRS, suing the Justice Department, because they didn't think, it would be like putting in a closet that said he can't turn into a werewolf. You know, it's like, they just never thought it would come up.

Yeah, we can't get all over Adams and Madison over this one, right? No, they just, there was no... Who knew? Okay, how would you grade Mayor Mandani's, ma'am Donnie's handling of New York Snowstorm last month? Well, you're in the area. Yeah. I'd give him a C, because he seemed to move a bunch of the snow, but couldn't figure out how to do anything else when that was going on.

He didn't pick up the garbage. You walk through, all my kids live in New York City. I've been there since the snowstorm. The garbage is piled up everywhere. But you know the one place, Bill, that is pristine, the garbage is gone, and there's no ice even on the sidewalk in front of Gracie Mansion. Is that true? It's absolutely true.

And so, like, socialist, motionist. Like, take care of my thing first. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I read this today in the paper. RFK says keto, the keto diet, you know what that is? Keto? Like, almost... It's like only protein?

No, no. It's mostly fat, I think. And no carbs. No carbs. It's fat. A lot of butter. Yes. It's, you know what?

It's what Jack Lillane. Anybody remember Jack Lillane? I mean, even before my time, I just... But, like, in the 1950s, it was he and Body Bowl were saying. They were saying, let's do... And it kind of came back into style. He's suggesting it cure schizophrenia. Who would know better?

Who would know better? Medical expert. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Other items I just saw in the news. Pete Hegseth says the War Department, which we used to call the Defense Department, is going to...

You still do. Only they call it the War Department. I mean... I mean, it is a... We used to call it that. George Washington called it that. Yeah, a little bit different back then. Anyway, they're going to...

Whatever they are, they're going to cut ties with the Boy Scouts. I didn't know we had ties. I didn't know there was... A liaison. Do you think maybe the Boy Scouts asked them to do that? No, I don't think so.

I think this is coming... I think, well, first of all, the Boy Scouts did let in girls. That does seem crazy. That does seem crazy. Didn't we have the Girl Scouts too? The Girl Guides, they are? Yeah, right?

It's Girl Guides, boy scouts, right? That's Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts... Girl Scout cookies. Girl Scout cookies. Are I missing something? You don't have that in Canada? We have Girl guides.

We have Girl guides, boy Scouts. Girl guys? Guides. Guides. Okay, well, the same thing. All right. Whatever country we're talking about, what other name, we're talking about the fact that it's okay to have just a group of one sex, gender, whatever we want to call it, in the formative years, when they perhaps have interests that don't co-aline with the other group. I mean, boys...

How dare you, Bill? How dare you, Bill. Is that not progressive enough? Should the Boy Scouts have girls? It just seems ridiculous. And I think for girls, it can often really be great, especially young girls, to be on their own. Much better for girls.

Very important for girls. Sometimes not to have boys around. Yeah, it is actually. Even more important for the girls. Yes, I would agree. Lazzang sur-gely, puissance-moleaned for 15 minutes. We'd say that's their dojo.

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to unfreeze funding for infrastructure projects that Schumer wants if Schumer agrees to name Penn Station and Dulles Airport after the president. I can't parody. He's brought shameless to an art form. In somebody's darkest moment, Somebody's darkest moment they might say they lived in New York City all the life.

What, God, wouldn't it be great at Penn Station renamed after me? But do you never say it out loud? Like, but you know what? You're not surprised. Are you? Yeah, not...

No. Generally no, but specifically yes. I mean, like, if tomorrow, he already renamed the Gulf of... Mexico, the Gulf of America. If tomorrow, as Donald Trump presents the Gulf of America. The Trump Kennedy Center.

Yeah, the Trump Kennedy Center. Have you seen that yet? I drove by it with the name on it. But now it's been shut down for years. Well, yeah, well, because no one will go there. But the Donald J. Trump, here's the interesting part, because he doesn't, again, deal in subtlety. The sign says the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Arts Center.

I mean, I read the paper every day. I miss that? Yeah, yeah. You, governor. Oh, sure. I think one of the reasons that Epstein stuff has been so riveting is it's what all these rich and powerful people say to each other when we're not listening. So I want to know what do Republicans say to each other when we're not listening about what's happening in America right now. Look, so many of my fellow.

party members, especially come up to me because I say all this stuff out loud, and they, in the green room at ABC, they're so brave, that's so great, I totally agree with you, he's nuts. And then they go out on camera to be interviewed there, the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln, you know, and then they come back in the green room and they say to me, you know, I have to do that, but like I don't really mean it.

That's what they say. Like who specifically? All right, Bill. Well, one more time's not long. That's giving you all the names, but I'll give you one. Lindsay Graham. Which, by the way, was what he was saying when he was running for president in 2016. But I guess if you get invited to play golf, then off you go.

Well, knock me over with a feathered bow that I'm wearing with a silk road. This is for... Christian, do you agree with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney? Is that who you ran against in the primary? It is. He's also my son's godfather. Oh, wow. That must have been an interesting campaign.

We were friendly. Canadian campaigns are so different. They're so nice. They just, they don't. They don't get in the... They really are. Look, guys, we have a democracy, and we're not having a fight

inside our country right now about how to count the votes. So I'd say, please don't dis Canada. We're like... I'm not dissing them? You have nice campaigns. We don't. I mean, I mean, I mean,

I've been in Canada when elections were going on and saw on the local TV, the attack ads, and I just laughed out loud. I mean, they're just, what they consider an attack, we would... No. So anyway, do you agree that he said Prime Minister Mark Carney said that we're witnessing a rupture in the world order? He gave a very powerful speech at Davos a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure Trump didn't like that, but it seemed to be saying to a lot of the world, And as you said before, we can't rely on the United States.

And we seem to be driving China, you know, into the other countries, rather, into the arms of China. I mean, you know, there was an old song, I want to be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart. Well, we broke a lot of hearts, and China's like, I'm going to pick up the pieces. Yeah. Look, I think it was a brilliant speech. I think it was really, really important. And I think it's really sad. And, you know, I would say to you, influential Americans, to Americans here, we really like you.

Like, Canadians like America. Yeah. We do actually. Oh, I know. And we respect you. And why wouldn't you? We're still fucking awesome. Yeah.

Actually, you are awesome. And you have done so much as a country. Yes. And the world, especially the world's democracies, will be. really much poorer if you guys don't get your act together. Because a world in which we need to start relying on China, this is not a world where human rights matter. This is not a world where democracy matters.

And like, I feel kind of weird saying this, not being an American, but like America's really great. And I actually, I think Winston Churchill was right when he said, America does the right thing after trying everything else first. So could you please join in to others? All right. We'll end it there. Thank you, Christopher.

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