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

Thank you very much. It's so kind. It's great to be back. I love you so. Great to be back.

Not much has been going on. It's kind of a slow news period, but we've been off for almost two months.

Let me put things in priority for you. Okay, that's my job here. Okay, the big story, a lot of things happened. The big story was the FBI we found out was investigating the president of the United States for being a Russian agent.

If you remember one thing about the last two months, that's it. And spoiler alert, he is.

Well, I mean, there's been a lot of evidence with this, right? I mean, he did nothing when they told him that Russia was meddling in our elections. He fired Komi when he was looking into that shit.

He wants to get out of NATO. He met Putin five times. That's a lot of times in just a couple of years. Always with nobody around. Nobody can ever know what they're doing. Forget collusion. I want to know if there's penetration.

Nobody can ever know. Last week, when this story broke, I saw Jeanine Perro, you know, her on Fox News, the ultimate-esque, like her for Donald Trump.

And she's like asking him the question, like, I have to ask this ridiculous question. She says, Mr. President, are you now or have you ever worked for Russia?

And Trump said a lot of words after that, but none of them were no. He said, that's the most insulting thing anybody ever said about me.

Really? More than when Stormy said, you had a mushroom dick? I would think.

And then they said Rudy Giuliani. Oh, my God. This guy out there. He said, I never said Trump's campaign didn't collude. Yes, you did. You said it dozens of times. It's on video. Just because you're invisible to cameras doesn't mean you don't show up in mirrors.

No, the other way around. But still laugh. Thank you very much for carrying me on that one.

But then today, now today, this big story came out. Look, we are a little disadvantaged here. We're live, live live. It's Friday night high.

We may look crazy in a couple of days because there's still vetting this story. But BuzzVeed says that Trump wanted to build his tower in Moscow.

So he told Michael Cohen, his lawyer, who briefed the Trump crime family on this like 10 times when Trump was running for president to lie to Congress about this.

And Trump, of course, for the whole two years, we've been, I have no deals with nothing. Nothing going on with Russia. We stayed away. Nothing pending. No deals. No nothing, period. It's potent. I got to take this.

I love it when they ask Rudy Giuliani about Michael Cohen. What do you think about the lawyer before you who was told to laugh?

They all lie. Trump and Rudy, they lie so blatantly before the next news cycle. Look, why has been disproved? And then when they're asked about Michael Cohen...

The man's a liar. But you can't trust a man like that. For you, he's a liar. That's what his lies were for. My favorite legal defense of all time is you can't believe my lawyer, he's in prison.

And this...

This is not just Trump, by the way. It's Ivanka and Don Jr. got regular updates on this shit from Michael Cohen. Yes. This is the family that needs to be separated and put in cages.

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