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

Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen.

I tell you, every week it gets worse. The news stories are coming so fast.

And frequently I need drama mean to watch CNN. I have breaking news fatigue. I do.

I was talking to my doctor today. I said, is drinking in the afternoon right for me?

And he said, I'm way ahead of you.

So, I mean, it's hard to catch you up on this week because it's like last week never even really ended.

We should start this show like all the other HBO shows previously on.

Previously on as the world burns. President Batchett had just fired his FBI director for investigating his Russian ties and then met the Russians in the Oval Office to get his next assignment.

Of course, path along classified information. You know, no wonder these guys are laughing.

He gave it to them in person in the Oval Office. They're like, this guy is even dumber than we thought.

Of course, you know, Trump should not have even had them in the Oval Office. These are the people who hacked and meddled in our election.

That's not part of the controversy. That is a fact. They meddled in the election. And Trump says, well, Putin asked me to do it. What am I supposed to say?

Come on, I work for the guy. What am I going to tell the boss? No. He's so dumb.

He keeps outrightly confessing to his crimes. Putin told me to do it. Up the Komi firing, he Trump sends out his people to say some bullshit and the next day goes on Lester Holt and says, no, it's because of Russian. Oh, my idea.

Giving the Russians the classified intelligence stuff. He sends his people out. They deny it. Then he's like, no, yeah, I did it.

He's like a kid who goes to pick up his prom date and the parents say, what are your intentions? And he says, I'm going to try to get her to give me a hand job.

And then, okay. And then this week, we learned that, oh, I love this. James Komi kept meticulous notes and memos on all his meetings with Trump.

Including according to the Komi memo, where Trump meets with Komi and says to Komi, you know, Flynn, he's involved with the Russians. Jesus Christ, he's a good guy. I hope you can just let this go.

I hope you can let this go. Komi said, you know I'm a cop, right?

I hope you can let this go. When Vice President Pence heard that, he started scratching out vice on his business cards.

And then today, we learned that Trump said to the Russians during that play date he had with them.

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