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

Hey, the Congresswoman is back.

Okay, all right. So here are the questions.

John Meacham does the post-Civil War era offer any lessons and how to seize upon a post-Trump

era to enact real lasting political and social reform?

Oh, we're in reconstruction times.

Oh, yeah.

Not really, unfortunately, because reconstruction really was a prelude to a century where we were still fighting Jim Crow.

And US Grant got a couple of things right.

He fought against the clan and that was important, which it didn't come back until the 20s.

But Justice Department was founded actually to fight the clan for the first time in the 1870s.

I do think this is like reconstruction in that the most analogous president, which is like saying you're the best restaurant in the hospital.

You know, it's a small category.

Is, um, is in fact Andrew Johnson.

Oh, yeah.

He was.

Johnson was trying to undo the verdict of the war and was doing so.

And they impeached him.

So let's get on with the impeachment.

Okay.

Well, you voted against a resolution to request the president's tax returns.

You did?

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