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Real Time with Bill Maher

Overtime - Episode #445: Trump Nukes, Panama Papers, 2018 Democrats

Real Time with Bill Maher

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4.115.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Bill and his guests – Bill McKibben, Chelsea Handler, Carl Bernstein, Max Brooks, and Rebecca Traister – answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 11/17/17) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

I don't know our last overtime of the air for Rebecca. Is there any connection between domestic violence and terrorism?

0:12.1

Yeah, a very firm connection. In fact, I can't remember the percentage of mass shooters who are

0:19.1

and terrorists who have domestic violence in their past.

0:23.3

Also animal cruelty. It's always in the past of...

0:26.7

Right, it's actually one of the things that links everything from domain.

0:31.6

Like allowing people to kill elephants and then send their parts back.

0:34.2

All of it. Yeah, violence against women and mass violence.

0:38.9

Should we and are we able to rethink President Trump's access to the nuclear football?

0:45.7

Well, no. You're the president. I mean, that's...

0:49.3

Isn't there some sort of like architecture though in place? Don't you think with all those

0:53.2

generals around or maybe this is a fantasy of mine? But don't you think John Kelly and

0:58.2

that is and these people have discussed that he can't... Absolutely.

1:01.2

There are discussions among people in the White House who have concerns about the president's

1:07.5

quote, temperament. And what to do in moments when that temperament seems out of whack.

1:14.0

And knowledge. He only... Well, that's the other thing.

1:16.9

Only this year seem to discover that nuclear weapons were bad. Look, nobody knew.

1:21.2

The... The repertoire fact of his ignorance in terms of what he knows about what goes on in the

1:29.3

world, the history of the United States, is really extraordinary. And it's again, it's a fact

1:37.2

that we've never had a president who knows less about the history of his country,

1:42.3

about what goes on in the world around him. This is extraordinary. It doesn't mean though that he

1:48.0

doesn't have good instincts, has had good enough instincts to win the presidency.

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