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

Okay, here are the questions.

Katie Porter, what do you think of Mitch McConnell bragging that he will never bring up any house

bills in the Senate?

So I have favorite staffer.

You're not supposed to have a favorite staffer.

It's like having a favorite child.

But I have a favorite staffer and she said, I really want a pet.

And I said absolutely no, no, no, no, no, we can't even find our way out of the emergency

exit room.

Like we know we cannot take care of anything.

And she said, bye, bye, bye, bye.

And I said, what, what?

She said, I want a turtle and I want to name it Mitch.

So I got her a stuffed turtle.

It has a little tag on it.

It says, hi, my name is Mitch.

Ask me about my legislative agenda.

So this is a real problem.

I mean, it's, this is a problem that unelecting Donald Trump doesn't itself solve.

Right.

And so this is going to be with us potentially for decades to come.

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