Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maul.

Thank you very much. How are you?

I appreciate it. You know it was threatened by fire?

The Reagan Library in Seamy Valley. Yeah, fire fighters were spraying the area, but the flames kept advancing,

which is very ironic. We could show that trickle-down doesn't work.

So, ladies, humor.

Well, the impeachment investigation is leveling up as the kids say.

At least 15 current or former members of the administration have testified or are going to testify.

I mean, they're testifying now faster than Trump can tweet that their humans come.

That's how fast it's going. And today, Congress, did you see this?

Had their first big vote about the impeachment? Just the inquiry?

Can we have an inquiry every single Republican voted no?

They won't investigate the crime, and yet the suspect won't stop confessing.

I've never seen a situation like this.

Yes, the right wingers who are protecting Trump, requesting the patriotism of this guy who came forward this week,

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is a Trump-appointed national security official,

decorated Iraq, war veteran, got the purple heart, even Liz Cheney.

Dick Cheney's daughter said it's shameful to question his patriotism.

I don't know the exact definition of scumbag, but when Liz Cheney calls you shameful, I think that's close.

And this guy, this hero, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, he was one of the people who was listening in on the original call that Trump had with the Ukrainian president that started this whole mess.

This poor guy, this poor Vindman guy, he comes over here as a Soviet refugee.

He joins the army, he sees combat, he gets a master's degree from Harvard, and then his job is listening in on Trump's phone calls.

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