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Real Time with Bill Maher

Overtime - Episode #435: Gerrymandering, Voter ID, Presidential Pardons

Real Time with Bill Maher

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4.2 β€’ 15.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Bill and his guests – Rev. Jesse Jackson, Paul Begala, Matt Welch, Nayyera Haq, and Frank Bruni – answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 8/25/17)

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

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Okay.

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Oh, oh.

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Well, we got on-clarif was.

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Okay.

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Here are the questions.

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Paul Begalla, do the Democrats have an effective strategy to combat gerrymandering?

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Yes.

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Well, they're working on Eric Holder, the former attorney general, is leading a movement to do that at President Obama.

0:26.0

With Obama, yeah.

0:27.0

I don't know if they're going to help to support it and fund it.

0:29.0

There are no two better people, but we've got to do it.

0:32.0

By the way, if we want to tear down monuments to slavery and segregation, let's start with denying the vote to African Americans,

0:38.0

which states across America had done, including Bible law detectives.

0:41.0

I know you've worked on that, right?

0:44.0

You know what else?

0:45.0

Also, have to work on and be careful of is, while this is all happening in a longer term plan, Trump's team is making a play to undermine the census and defund the Census Bureau.

0:54.0

So, they'll not be able to count and accurately represent who is in the country and who lives here.

1:00.0

This one I didn't know.

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Every time I think he's been exhausted.

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He'll compromise and count him as three-fifths, though.

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But the...

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