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

Are they watching? Okay, we're here. I thought I meant to say the whole world's watching.

And here are the questions we're going to ask. Richard Payner, do you think the ethical degradation scene in this presidency will be a permanent reality for the office?

Well, it couldn't get worse, but...

I sure hope no.

It'll take some digging out after if we survive.

This is a low point. He is combined all of the sins of all the past presidents.

I don't even get me starved.

No, that's why we got you here to get you starved.

Congressman Schiff, if Dems get majority in midterms, what do you think Congress should work on right away?

Good question.

Well, I think one of the biggest challenges face of the country and it's masked by this sugar high that we've had from the stock market, although that is coming down from that high.

Our structural change is going on in the economy. The effect of automation is going to be as disruptive to people in retail as globalization was to manufacturing.

And we need to prepare our workforce for that. We need to make sure that young people can get the education they need to be able to compete in a newly automated work environment.

We need to make sure that people in the middle of their career who lose their job through no fault of their own are able to get another good job that pays just as well.

And people at the end of their career can retire and dig new.

I hear Democrats say that all the time. Why don't they believe you?

I'm talking about the coal miners. Because that's what Hillary told the coal miners. And they just, no, we don't believe you.

We don't believe you're going to replace this job or come and change my life in a way.

That's the only job I can get. And the miner here and I want to go down in it.

And I feel like Democrats have a real trouble making that connection and convincing voters that they can do things like that.

They have the right answer. I think you just don't sell it.

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