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

Yeah, it's still like us.

Before I get to the questions that you folks have asked, the vote just came in.

4GOPs, no. 5 Dems Yes.

Shutdown starts at midnight.

Yep.

Andrew Sullivan, why do you think it is that Republican politicians in DC support policies

with which virtually all of their constituents disagree?

Like who?

Well, I guess they're thinking about something like the Dreamers, people support the dreams of overwhelmingly.

I mean, they do support a lot of the things that...

What I found interesting is that, you know, the Republicans have not...

I mean, no one can be... It's just a question of human decency that people have lived here for half their lives,

not be taken to a country they don't even recognize.

There's something about that that's just so disgusting.

It violates the core meaning of this country.

And so I haven't...

Thank God, I haven't heard a lot of Republicans actually going, rar, rar, rar, on that.

I mean, some of their base may be wanting that, but the public, the senators have not been saying that.

Because they know.

So maybe that gives Democrats a lot of leverage.

On the other hand, if that's easy inhumane, and you can get that stopped,

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