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

Okay, here are the questions that people wrote in.

Congressman Ryan, given how Nancy Pelosi has performed as speaker so far, do you regret

your past opposition to her?

I have a question right up the back here.

Yeah, I think she's done a magnificent job, handling Trump.

Not just the Trump dynamic, but protecting the integrity of Article I of the Constitution.

I think she's done a phenomenal job.

And I don't regret it because we were able to...

Over the last couple years, we moved a lot of new people into leadership.

Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Ben Ray Luhon.

But she was fighting?

Well, we just needed to start getting some people in line, and I think we were able to

do that.

But I think it worked out best of both worlds.

Okay.

Nehara, does the Trump...

Does the drumbeat by the Trump administration to go to war with Iran remind you of the

lead up to the Iraq War?

Oh, yes, of course, given that the architect is the same.

John Bolton is Mr. I want regime change.

And I think what's concerning this time around is that Donald Trump has completely outsourced

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