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

You love that. Nice to meet a White House not controlled by the Russians.

Do you think the Senate investigation of Russian hacking of the election...

Yeah, you're on the committee, right? You're the judiciary committee.

I'm the ranker. I remember along with Chairman Lindsey Graham.

Okay, so do you think that investigation you're starting it now?

We've started it. Will yield action will results. I would like to add a question to that.

Are the Republicans helping at all?

They are. Lindsey's being terrific. Really? Yep.

We had a really good first hearing. And we still have some documents that we are waiting for

and some explanations from the FBI. And he's indicated that if we don't get what we want,

he's prepared to go the subpoena route. And I think we'll have support from our full committee level,

Chairman Grassley and ranking member Feinstein. So we're on our way.

We've got the next hearing. It's going to be on...

So the Republicans are Lindsey and McCain, right?

And they're always. Well, they're friends of mine and I think they're terrific.

Yeah. They're certainly friends of each other. They are.

No, they are. They do everything in lockstep. I mean, you cannot separate them.

That mistake in... John has called Lindsey his idiot bastard son.

But he obviously means it in the nicest possible way.

Yeah, that's a great senate friendship. That's an SNM thing, Senator.

I don't think so. No, no, no, no. Don't even go into that.

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