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

Okay.

All right Natasha, how can we combat the systematic undermining of media institutions and the

gross disregard for facts and truth?

Yeah, in three words.

Just keep reporting on apologetically, keep speaking the truth, fight disinformation

with facts and every time the president lies or tells a demonstrable falsehood as some

people in the media like to characterize it, call them out.

Okay.

We'll do that.

Paul Begalla, what are your thoughts on this year's Democratic candidates?

Yeah, the roster, the bench, how they doing.

I know you're happy with the direction the party is going in.

Yes, at first I think they're great.

I'm out of the business of running campaigns, but I volunteer a lot of these.

I've been all around the country campaign for some of these folks.

You got a lot of money out of me in 2012.

I did, yes you helped reelect our president when I was working for him.

It's amazing, I was so scared of Mitt Romney.

Yeah.

I gave Obama a million dollars and now I would give Mitt Romney a million dollars to take over.

I would.

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