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

Yes. So, did you look at it? Did I lose the bed already?

Well, we're still trying to verify it.

Well, I would practice a little half, I would.

People know that every year I do, New Year's Eve and December 30th and Maui and Hunter Lulu

and Mike and on the vacation one year. This year it's Sarah Silverman and Larry Miller

are on the trip with me. It's going to be fantastic. So, get your tickets now.

See, I turned that into a plug. Okay. Here are the questions.

Crystal Bull, do you feel networks like MSNBC, which are used to work for?

Help or hurt progressive causes?

Overall, I think MSNBC in the Trump era has done real damage to the left and I'll be why.

And I say that with love. I mean, these are my former colleagues, friends.

Disfrontal former employee.

No, that's right. That's a deal.

No, I mean, look, Russia story and what happened there was important.

But it was not all important and they went so far in the realm of conspiracy theorizing.

I mean, they had Jonathan Chaydon.

Well, it was a conspiracy.

But they had Jonathan Chaydon to talk about how Trump may have been a Russian plant since 1987.

He may have been.

And, you know, they were a regular journalist, okay?

This is way out from what journalistic facts said.

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