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

All right, look at all these questions from people who gets the first question you do.

Do you agree with Elizabeth Warren's plan to get rid of the Senate fellow muster?

Yeah, there's certain circumstances, yeah.

If the decisions between every American gets health care or we stick to this 60 vote rule, then yeah.

It's a crazy rule to begin with, right? Because it always was meant to be simple majority.

And it just sort of became this different.

No, the intention was to slow things down.

I mean, the Senate is meant to be the body that is more deliberative, as hard as that is now to believe,

more deliberative, and the founders envisioned that this would slow things down.

But it had, and it has.

But they'd never used to use a d-regor for every single issue, right?

No, absolutely not.

I mean, we used to be able to trust each other a little, there was an honor system, but...

And you could build a consensus. Now you can't make a consensus.

Right. It's absolutely verboten to vote with anybody on the other side on anything.

We can't use the honor system because...

I answered for you.

One side is fresh, down the honor.

If people know going into an election, right, that you're going by majority rules, 50 vote, 50,

or the vice president breaks a tie, that also clarifies to the electorate where they're going to be.

Right? So I think we're moving that direction.

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