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Real Time with Bill Maher

Ep. #490: Pete Buttigieg, Preet Bharara

Real Time with Bill Maher

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4.215.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bill’s guests are Pete Buttigieg, Preet Bharara, S. E. Cupp, Elissa Slotkin, and Andrew Sullivan. (Originally aired 3/29/19)

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0:00.0

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

0:30.0

What are you so happy about? I'm in bad shape. I have a whole warehouse full of its

0:53.5

Mueller-time t-shirts. Does anybody have extra lard? They're at a discount rate. And my

1:01.4

Avonati 2020 ones are completely tanky. They are tanky. But no, it has been a week,

1:09.4

right? Been a week. I think we're all a little confused. I'm confused. I mean,

1:14.0

Mueller released his port. It was a week ago tonight. It was right before we went on the air.

1:17.4

And he did not draw a conclusion on whether Trump tried to obstruct justice. But wasn't

1:23.7

that what Mueller's job was to draw a conclusion on obstruction? It says so right in the report.

1:30.3

We're not allowed to read. Yeah, we're not allowed to read the report. We have a new faith-based

1:36.8

justice system. Trump's Attorney General, and I do mean Trump's Attorney General William

1:50.9

Barr read the report for us. You know, this is like trying to pick a restaurant and the only

1:57.1

yelp reviewer is from the chef. You know? And we can't see the report. We can't see Trump's

2:08.1

taxes. Can't even see his grades. It's like Bizarre World Obama. The only thing we have seen

2:15.3

is his birth certificate. And the whole thing, just I don't know, it doesn't quite make sense

2:23.9

to me at this point. It's like one of those movies, you know, where they seem to be wrapping

2:28.9

it up. Things to be over. Case closed. We caught the killer. And then you click, wait,

2:34.4

there's 15 minutes left. But, right, I feel like there's a final scene where Mueller goes

2:40.0

home and he puts his briefcase down. He sits down to dinner with his wife, who is Roger

2:44.7

Stone. And he's cooking a meatloaf while he's talking on the phone in Russia.

2:53.9

And he's got a question to Vladimir Putin, you know it? So Trump also had a week now to

2:59.3

absorb the new realities of the post-Moller World. And he used it as a starting point to call

3:05.1

for a renewed sense of unity. I'm fucking kidding, of course. He went, Abe Shet and Light

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