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

Thank you for coming out. Thank you for coming out to the free show.

Did you have a good Halloween? It's a tough Halloween.

No, tough to stage Halloween this year in Los Angeles because who needs a smoke machine when you know the house is on fire?

We've got a bad situation under 70 mile an hour wins and every porch has a pumpkin with a candle in it.

What could go wrong? No, yesterday I was here on the lot you could smell smoke and for once it wasn't me.

It's sad but you know we're just in California having to get used to this, right?

I mean I heard somebody today at the coffee shop say I love your go bag.

Where'd you get? Well they're evacuated. Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthiest communities in America.

They evacuated them to the public schools out there. I know the way ahead of me.

They went, there's a public school.

Laurie Laughlin today paid her kids to get into a better shelter.

But let's not just dwell on us. There's a big country out there and there was a big week Congress finally did it.

They voted to formalize impeachment here.

It got zero Republican votes. Zero Republicans think Trump has done anything that's even worth checking out.

Yeah, now their view is their outrage. Their Democrats are trying to overturn the election and thwart the will of the Russians.

No, it's amazing they turn it around like the Democrats. They're using Soviets' style tactics. They're staging a coup.

And yet the rules are nearly identical to the ones that they had in 1998 when Ampeatsville Clinton, this resolution lies out.

Clear rules for public hearings requires a public report on all findings, authorizes the sharing of all evidence.

Trump's lawyers are allowed to be involved. If it's a coup, it is the most magnanimous coup I've ever seen in my life.

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The hearings, Nancy Pelosi says, they hope to start right before Thanksgiving.

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