Special Edition: One-On-One With Bill Maher

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

First Chris speaks with comedian Bill Maher on how political polarization in America has never been worse, and Trump’s hold over the Republican Party. Next, Maher warns of a “slow-moving coup” and that since Trump lost he’s been putting people in place who will find the votes needed to win if he loses again.

The two then discuss wokeness and cancel culture taken to their extremes, with Maher saying “The reason why the Democrats have become so toxic is because they’ve become the party of no common sense”. Later, on critical race theory, Maher says he is not against teaching an honest history of racism and also defends Dave Chappelle over his recent Netflix controversy, which resulted in accusations of transphobia against Chapelle.

Finally, there’s a discussion on how the “Democrats will get thumped in the mid-terms” and Trump's 2024 plans.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to a special edition of Primetime. Bill Maher is our guest for the full hour.
0:13.0	The world's different, right? Since we last got together here in 2019. But Maher is a voice that does what we need.
0:21.0	He challenges conventional wisdom regardless of who is in power. You know, it's been about 40 years since he began performing a comedy clubs.
0:29.0	Quickly becoming a late night TV regular through the decades, all because of his unique perspective.
0:34.0	He starred in 11 HBO comedy specials, but anyone who's watched him knows that it's usually about more than laughs.
0:41.0	Okay? He is perhaps best known for real time with Bill Maher.
0:45.0	19th season on HBO, which likes CNN as you know is owned by Warner Media.
0:51.0	He continues his comedy tour in cities all over the country with good reason.
0:55.0	And his first appearance on TV in the days after the 9-11 attacks, Bill Maher asked a question, can we change?
1:02.0	Now, I think that question is hovering over our nation more than ever. And it is a pleasure to welcome back to Primetime. It's good to see you.
1:09.0	Great intro. Thanks.
1:10.0	Thank you very much. I didn't write it, but I read it like a champ.
1:12.0	You really did.
1:13.0	The question is.
1:14.0	And you went to 9-11 and you didn't say what the year's they said about 9-11, me getting canceled.
1:19.0	Well, but that was pre-cancelled. Right, but that was a much more interesting question that I asked that you cited. Can we change?
1:26.0	Because that's what you were getting at.
1:28.0	Right.
1:28.0	I believe in giving people the benefit of context.
1:31.0	And I lived through what happened with what you talked about after 9-11.
1:38.0	And of course, someone who echoed and greatly up the ante of what you were saying about the United States military was Donald Trump.
1:45.0	And it worked out just fine for him. Remember him with Bill O'Reilly when O'Reilly was talking to him about Putin and said, this guy, this guy's a murderer.
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