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“That’s From OBAMA!” - Bill Maher HUMILIATES Adam Schiff Over War Hypocrisy

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Bill Maher puts Adam Schiff on the spot after reading a quote about presidential war powers. Schiff calls it “totally vague” before Maher reveals it came from the Obama administration’s Libya justification. The PBD Podcast panel reacts to the viral moment and the hypocrisy debate.

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0:00.0

Can I show you guys what Bill Maher did to Adam Schiff that you showed me a few days ago?

0:05.0

Love it.

0:06.0

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0:11.0

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0:18.0

Go ahead, Rob, play the clip.

0:20.0

This statement from the administration, the. Play the clip. This statement

0:20.8

from the administration, the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military

0:25.4

force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.

0:30.8

That's too vague for you? Totally vague. Okay, because that's from Obama about Libya.

0:36.9

Bingom. Obama made the argument initially that he

0:40.4

could go into Syria without an authorization. I and many others pushed back on that argument. Ultimately,

0:46.2

he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people,

0:51.4

because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.

1:00.8

But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward. We are unquestionably at war now.

1:07.3

The founders made an extraordinary decision at the time, which was not to give that power to the president, but to give it to the Congress, because they were, I think, as Hamilton said, that a president would grow too fond of making war.

1:19.4

After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria.

1:28.1

Not a war.

1:28.9

He's grown too fond of this.

1:31.0

And Congress, Donizier, saying, needs to step up, assert its role, or it's going to be gone for good.

1:37.3

And then any time of president, for any reason, anybody on the world, for any length of time.

1:41.6

The fact that he has Adam Schiff,

1:45.3

I love that Bill Barr is pushing back,

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