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

Okay, are we on?

All right, great. Ralph, was it appropriate for the president to

tweet in America we don't worship government, we worship God?

Yes. Why wouldn't it be?

Yeah, I don't get the question. I mean, it's, you know, I guess...

No, no one's for us worshiping the government, are they?

No. Okay, good. I mean, I'm not for worshiping God, but I get...

So, but I get... Yeah, my part is... Yeah, well, no, no one's...

That's why we write the question for this.

Right, but in overtime we get whatever people send in.

Should reporters be worried that the Trump administration will go after them for their sources as they try to contain leaks?

You mean kind of like Obama, you mean kind of like Obama did?

Yeah, Obama did. He did, yeah. Right.

That's absolutely right.

Obama, get out here and defend yourself.

But you didn't have the attorney general upon the podium, essentially saying they're going to tighten the screws.

I tell you what's scary is what he was saying in West Virginia yesterday,

telling that crowd, you know, they try to take it away from you.

You know, this is third world stuff when you start putting that idea in people's heads,

because what is going to happen if it comes to that?

Where they're going to remove where he is impeached or they remove him from office,

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