Ep. #721: Sen. Adam Schiff, Don Lemon, Annabelle Gurwitch

Summary

Real Time with Bill Maher – Episode #721: Sen. Adam Schiff, Don Lemon, Annabelle Gurwitch

Date: March 7, 2026
Guests: Adam Schiff, Don Lemon, Annabelle Gurwitch

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Episode Overview

This episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” dives into America’s ongoing foreign policy crises—specifically, the new war in Iran—examining political accountability, transparency, and the costs of intervention. The panel scrutinizes the domestic political fallout, contrasts political messaging within the Democratic Party, and features a candid, humorous, and poignant conversation about living with cancer with author Annabelle Gurwitch.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. State of the Union: War in Iran & Political Finger-Pointing

• Opening Monologue: Bill Maher lampoons the post-State-of-the-Union political circus, with references to job losses, appointment firings, and the sudden new war with Iran.
  • “It's like his even more evil twin replaced his usual evil twin... Republicans are sweating like Britney Spears at a traffic stop.” (Bill Maher, 02:00)
• Trump’s contradictory stance on ending wars/promising peace while now embroiling America in a costly conflict is highlighted.
• The firing of Kristi Noem from Homeland Security—amid scandal and public spectacle—serves as fodder for Maher’s satirical take on political drama and “open secrets” in D.C.

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2. Living with Cancer: Annabelle Gurwitch’s Resilient, Candid Memoir

[11:13–20:27]

• Annabelle Gurwitch’s Book & Experience:

  • Shares experiences from her memoir The End of My Life is Killing Me.
  • Stresses the miracles of modern “precision medicine”—her cancer is managed by a single gene-targeting pill, yet she feels survivor’s guilt due to others’ lack of access due to disparities by state or insurance.
    • “I do not feel good about taking this pill when everyone can't get it.” (Annabelle Gurwitch, 13:55)

• Systemic Flaws in Healthcare:

  • Gurwitch decries interrupted scientific funding under Trump and the absence of universal healthcare access, particularly gene testing.
  • “In 28 states ... you don't get the testing that tells you you could get on the drug that I'm on.” (Annabelle Gurwitch, 13:10)

• Making Cancer Funny and Meaningful:

  • The book finds humor in adversity, focusing on “ordinary joys in extraordinary times.”
    • “I thought I was going to write a book about dying, but ... it’s actually a book about living.” (Annabelle Gurwitch, 14:41)

• Mind-Body Debate:

  • Gurwitch disputes Maher’s optimism about “mind over matter,” crediting drugs over positivity, and highlighting environmental causes—air pollution, climate—behind rising lung cancer rates.
    • “Too many people who've had a much better attitude than me have died.” (Annabelle Gurwitch, 18:25)
    • “We know now that science has proven ... particulate matter in the air ... Pollution. And also climate change.” (Annabelle Gurwitch, 18:58)

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3. War Powers, Accountability & Congressional Authority

[20:49–27:55]

• Bill Maher: Questions war fever: “We are not at war, the families and the military people are at war ... The rest of us watch.”
• Don Lemon: Demands transparency; underscores that “sending boots on the ground” commands accountability from both the White House and Congress.
  • “I think ... especially if you are sending boots on the ground ... lives are in jeopardy ... I think we can’t say skip that part.” (Don Lemon, 22:15)
• Adam Schiff: Argues the situation is explicitly a war and, per the Constitution, Congress should have authorized action.
  • “The minute that they acknowledge this as war is the minute they have to acknowledge they haven’t done their constitutional duty.” (Adam Schiff, 23:03)
  • Admits regretting his Iraq War vote; emphasizes unforeseen consequences and costs, including American lives lost.
    • “There are celebrations when Saddam fell ... 20 years later, not so many celebrations ... thousands of American troops would be alive but for the war. That’s too heavy a price to pay.” (Adam Schiff, 23:28–24:07)
  • Warns of “mission creep” and of the Executive Branch growing “too fond of making war”—urges Congress to reassert authority.
    • “Anytime a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time, feel free to make war ... that would be hugely dangerous for the country.” (Adam Schiff, 26:41)

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4. War’s Human and Domestic Cost

[30:34–31:46]

• Schiff and Lemon discuss the death of U.S. service members and the redirection of billions away from domestic needs.
  • “Every bomb that we drop, it’s another investment we couldn't make at home.” (Adam Schiff, 31:21)
  • “The price is already too high ... with the loss of our service members.” (Adam Schiff, 31:27)

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5. Political Satire: Application for Ayatollah

[31:46–33:33]
Maher reads comedic “job application questions” for Iran’s next Supreme Leader, blending levity with a critique of theocracy.

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6. Don Lemon on His Own Legal Scrapes & Media Targeting

[35:27–37:43]

• Lemon recounts his own recent detainment and compares notes with Maher’s own brief stint in jail, highlighting the absurdities and vulnerabilities news personalities face.
  • “I spent the night in a holding room at the federal courthouse.” (Don Lemon, 36:43)
  • Maher quips about his “fancy jail” and sartorial choices leading to his own arrest.

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7. Democratic Party Divide: “Fuck Trump” vs. “New Kind of Politics”

[37:43–44:36]

• James Talarico’s Message: Centering his Texas campaign on “a politics of love” vs. the “Fuck Trump” wing.
  • “People ... are hungry for a new kind of politics ... not fear, hate, or division, but ... a love that can heal what’s broken.” (Bill Maher quoting Talarico, 38:00)
• Adam Schiff: “You can do both”—stand up to Trump and have a positive agenda.
  • “To oppose Trump ... is another to write off everyone who ever supported him. That’s a terrible mistake.” (Adam Schiff, 43:16)
  • Advocates for outreach to rural Trump voters; shares anecdote about winning over conservative Californians.
    • “They’re entitled to representation. If you don’t make the case to them ... why should they support you?” (Adam Schiff, 43:26)
• Don Lemon: Warns against “Kumbaya” messaging, suggesting Democrats need fighters in these turbulent times.
  • “Democrats have to be careful ... Democrats want a fighter ... like Donald Trump energized the staunch MAGA.” (Don Lemon, 41:38)

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8. Theatrics of State of the Union—Political Traps

[44:36–47:06]

• Maher and panel discuss Trump’s use of performative “gotchas” at the State of the Union—getting Democrats to not stand and using that in campaign ads.
• Schiff recounts skipping the SOTU for the first time in 25 years, refusing to “normalize” authoritarian antics.
  • “Now we have a guy in the office who doesn’t respect the office ... sitting there, validating what he’s doing was too much this year.” (Adam Schiff, 46:00)

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9. Bill Maher’s Closing: Pushing Back on Claims of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”

[47:06–end]

• Maher addresses Trump directly, listing issues where he’s been fair and critical—border security, foreign policy, economy—while denouncing the administration’s corruption, cruelty and penchant for autocracy.
  • “See, that’s the difference between you and me, Don—I can admit when I’m wrong and I can be honest.” (Bill Maher, 53:45)
  • “Some people don’t like you. No, really ... It’s not derangement for me to be always calling out the election denying obsession you have, or the pardons for my friends and punishment for my enemies mode of governing ... We see how rich you’ve all become, but the people of West Virginia don’t seem to be feeling the winning.” (Bill Maher, 55:26)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Too many people who've had a much better attitude than me have died.” — Annabelle Gurwitch (18:25)
• “Congress needs to step up, assert its role, or it’s going to be gone for good.” — Adam Schiff (26:41)
• “Every bomb that we drop, it’s another investment we couldn’t make at home.” — Adam Schiff (31:21)
• “People across the spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics ... but the love part, James, that's a little too far for me.” — Bill Maher (38:32)
• “To oppose Trump ... is another to write off everyone who ever supported him. That's a terrible mistake.” — Adam Schiff (43:16)
• “Now we have a guy in the office who doesn’t respect the office ... sitting there, validating what he’s doing was too much this year.” — Adam Schiff (46:00)
• “See, that's the difference between you and me, Don—I can admit when I’m wrong and I can be honest.” — Bill Maher (53:45)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–01:06: Show intro, opening jokes
• 01:06–07:16: Maher’s monologue—state of politics, war jokes, Kristi Noem firing
• 11:13–20:27: Annabelle Gurwitch on living with cancer, disparities in healthcare, humor in adversity
• 20:49–27:55: War in Iran: panel discussion on transparency, war powers, Congress’s role
• 30:34–31:46: The human and economic cost of war, opportunity lost domestically
• 37:43–44:36: The Democratic messaging war—Talarico vs. Crockett, outreach vs. opposition
• 44:36–47:06: State of the Union performativity, resistance to normalization of Trump’s presidency
• 47:06–end: Maher’s extended direct address to Trump; calling for honest debate, not “derangement”

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Tone and Style

The conversation is witty, irreverent, sharp, occasionally biting—true to Maher’s late-night mode—yet punctuated by moments of sincerity, particularly in Gurwitch’s segment. The episode is part pundit roundtable, part stand-up roast, and part candid personal journey.

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Summary prepared for listeners seeking depth and context from this episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Transcript

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[Bill Maher]

Start the clock. Hi down there. How you doing? Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. Oh, so much to get to. I appreciate it. Yeah, I know. I missed you too. Yeah, we were. We were off last week. One week we're off. One week. I have more to catch up on. I could posit. Okay. The State of the Union happened. The address. I tell him not to do it. He did it anyway. But in the State of the Union address, Trump was bragging that he was ending wars, that the gas prices are going down. The stock market is through the roof. Jobs are doing great. Now we're in a war. Gas prices have spiked. The stock market is going down and we've lost a lot of jobs. It's like his even more evil twin replaced his usual evil twin. I don't. And this is. Republicans are very nervous about this because the big issue is affordability. Right in America right now, Republicans are sweating like Britney Spears at a traffic stop. No, it's not a good look. Losing jobs. We lost 92,000 jobs in February. Of course, Trump blames Biden and the Democrats blame Trump and Nick Fuentes blames Black History Month. Some terrible people in America, I tell you. But that's the bad News. We lost 92,000 jobs. The good news, one of them was Kristi Noem's. That's right, Kristi Noem at Homeland Security. She's finally gone. And Trump did it. Ooh, boy, he's cold. He did it by a tweet while she was making a speech. She never saw it coming. Now she knows how her dog feels. You know, Trump used to brag he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, right? Remember all that? I guess he didn't like the fact that there were two people in the administration who could shoot people in the street and get away with it, huh? But no, apparently Trump with Kristi Noem, the distractions just became too much. She testified last week before the Judiciary Committee, I think, and even the Republicans are going after her. Apparently, it's such an open secret in Washington that she's been having an affair. I mean, her husband was sitting right behind her. But it's such an open secret that she's been having an affair with Trump's longtime henchman, Corey Lewandowski, that they were asking it. This doesn't usually happen when they ask her directly, are you fucking this guy? Really? And what she said, she said, I am shocked that we're peddling tabloid garbage in this committee. True. Also, not exactly a no. So we have a new head of Homeland Security. You'll be excited to hear about this. Mark Wayne Mullen. Yes. Mark Wayne Mullen. I say Mark Wayne Mullen's going to do it. He's a senator from Oklahoma, total election denier, former MMA fighter, so, you know, a bright guy. But he. He has pledged to continue all of the responsibilities that Kristi Noem is doing. I mean, not fucking Corey Lewandowski, but the other ones. All the other ones. So also this week, war. Did you hear about that thing? We bombed Iran, and it's going on now. Have you expected me to say I hate it? I don't. Sorry. When he puts boots on the ground. Yeah, then I'll hate it. Now I know. Too many happy Iranian Americans. Sorry. And you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle east in the last 50 years and not connected to this fascist theocracy. They're like six degrees of. They don't eat bacon. So I'm not. And it's popular. I mean, Iranians all over the world are doing the Trump dance. Have you seen that? The whole world is jerking off two guys at once. It's amazing. Yeah, But, you know, when it comes to the war, when it comes to anything in this country, everybody assesses everything by way of, did my team do it? Then I love it. If their team did, I hate it. I mean, Kamala Harris made a statement. She said this is a war the American people don't want. And who knows more about what the American people don't want?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

But

[Bill Maher]

she's right. Like 6 out of 10American people don't want this war. Okay? It doesn't mean they're right. We'll see. What's bizarre is, Don, I'm one of the few people on your enemy's list who's backing you on this sort of. We'll see. And yet today, Today. This is today, March 6th, at 8:50am he tweets about the war. There'll be no deal until we have unconditional surrender. Important statements we put out. An hour later, eight posts about me. I'm not joking. An hour later. And what happened with the Valentine's Day massacre And his tweet about that, which I'll be talking about at the end of the show. But okay, this is. This is today. And then 15 minutes later, he again, back to the war. We are moving thousands of people out of the Middle east to safer places. Okay, an important message to get out. Then back to me. The people at Mediaite wrote a headline that said, here's why Trump is raging at Bill Maher in the middle of an actual war. Why? Tell me. This is. This is getting weird. I'm just telling you. Thank God I didn't spend the night. All right, But. But as far as the war goes, as he would say, we'll see what happens. There's so many unanswered questions, of course, right now about it. One thing we do know for sure, Muellers mullahs are fucking morons. They some people on the fence about that. Okay, here's my evidence. They've known for months. We have all the entire military surrounding their country. Everything is aimed at them. We know. We're ready to take them out. They have their big meeting. They have everybody who's important in the country meet in one place. His office. I mean, You've heard of a zoom meeting. This was a boom meeting. And then. And then they did it again. They had another meeting of who was left. They call. I swear to God, this is not a joke. The assembly of Experts, otherwise known as the League of Extraordinary Idiots. And they get blown up again. I mean, you've heard the term all hat, no cattle. These are all beard, no brains, I'm telling you. But they're trying to find a new. They think Kameni's son is going to be taking over now he's there. Boy, did he pick the wrong week to be a Nepo baby. All right, we've got a great show. We have Senator Adam Schiff and Don Lemon. But first up, she's an actress, activist and bestselling author whose newest memoir, the End of My Life is Killing Me. The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer slack are out March 17th. Available for pre order now. Annabel Gurwich. Annabelle. Hello. How are you, darling? See you. Thank you. All right.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

It's great to see you.

[Bill Maher]

Yeah, great to see you. All right, let's give the audience the trigger warning. Now, right at the beginning, we're going to be talking about cancer.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Uh huh.

[Bill Maher]

You know, just so you know, because you have it.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I do.

[Bill Maher]

And that's what the book is about. But the interesting, well, many interesting things. But you look great. You're leading a very full life.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Thank you.

[Bill Maher]

Even though you've had it for six years, five years.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

And just I want to say, when you see me, what you are looking at is pharmaceuticals, caffeine and personal lubricants. This is what is powering my health.

[Bill Maher]

Very much like Diddy,

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

but not at all.

[Bill Maher]

But explain this how you, how you can have cancer. I mean, when my father got lung cancer, you know, it was a very different situation back in the 90s. It's very different. It's just a pill you take. It's amazing that you can, I mean, you were with me on the Hawaii trip like five years ago, right? I know. And you can look this great, you feel great a lot of the time. I'm assuming I do. You lead a normal life. What's the catch?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Well, there's a catch. And the catch is that this is a new age of precision medicine and I'm taking a drug that turns off one gene in my body. And so this is, I am the product of this amazing investment in science. And what's the catch is, is that we have to keep investing in science. The Trump administration, They interrupted science funding last year. Lung cancer research was zeroed out. Zero. And I can't afford one year of lost research. And the thing about it is I take this one pill a day now. It creates a certain kind of existential dread because eventually it will stop working and I'll have to move to a treatment that has more toxicities. But it's also bitter pill because not everyone gets the benefit of this drug. You know, I thought that the differences in health insurance and not having universal health care was about like choosing which doctor you get to go to. But it's not. It's not just about cost, it's about access. There are 28 states in the United States, where you don't get the testing that tells you you could get on the drug that I'm on. And that means survival differences state by state. You have different survival rates for the same disease I'm on. And that makes me feel, you know, I don't feel good about taking this pill when everyone can't get it.

[Bill Maher]

You think that the Democrats could make that more of a winning issue, wouldn't you?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

You would think.

[Bill Maher]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I mean, I'm from Alabama originally.

[Bill Maher]

Yeah, I know you are.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

And I feel. Thank you. Alabama in the house.

[Don Lemon]

Right.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

So I feel terrible that there's a lower survival rate in my home state just because, you know, I had dreams of working in Hollywood. I end up here and I can survive and they can't. That doesn't make sense to me.

[Bill Maher]

Well, I mean, of all the books I've read on this subject, because I am very interested in health, yours is the funniest. I mean, you somehow made this issue funny, which is not an easy thing to do.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Well, you know, I thought I was going to write a book about dying, but because my life was saved by these drugs, it's actually a book about living. And it's a book about ordinary joys in extraordinary times and how to survive that. And I had no idea. Well, I've cultivated an appreciation of ordinary joys. This is the strategy of how I've remained buoyant. Because at first I tried to carpe every dm. That did not work. This is how I ended up selling merch on a low rent van tour in Europe for a heavy metal band.

[Bill Maher]

Right. You had a new love. I remember us talking. You said, I'm fucking like crazy with the cancer, which was great. And you went to Europe with a band, so apparently cancer makes you Gen Z.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Listen, it's never, it's never too late to write your sex, drugs and rock and roll memo.

[Bill Maher]

No, I guess no.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

61 live in the almost Famous Dream. You know, and just by the way, I know it's kind of a trope about like, oh, men and women get different treatment in the medical establishment, but you know, this drug I'm on does make your skin drier. Right. Hence the need for personal lubricant.

[Bill Maher]

Oh, I see.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Which is not covered by my insurance.

[Bill Maher]

Right.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

But if it was a man's problem, you know, it would be uncovered.

[Bill Maher]

Okay, so. And you got this during the pandemic.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I did.

[Bill Maher]

Which is amazing. That and you were going through a divorce.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I did. I mean, you just talk about a double WHAMMY but if you're really well,

[Bill Maher]

that's a triple whammy.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Yeah, it's a trip. You're right. It's actually okay. Is it a quadruple whammy? Because the really big is that, you know, we have a cognitive dissonance between how we look and how we feel and our actual state of our health. Not to make people paranoid, but we don't always know we have underlying conditions. I was feeling great, I looked great. And look, you can't out crazy me. Just like Robert Kennedy Jr. I snorted cocaine off of dirty toilet seats in the 1990s. Okay, I'm not germaphobe.

[Bill Maher]

You're right.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I worked out in saunas. I was an actress. I ate keto. I didn't even eat for 30 years. Right, but that doesn't mean you're going to be healthy. And so I didn't even know I had this underlying condition which can be really dangerous. So we have to remember that how we look and feel doesn't mean we shouldn't get regular checkups.

[Bill Maher]

Also, I'm a big believer in the mind body connection.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Oh, I think that's total crap.

[Bill Maher]

But really, you think there's no mind body connection?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I do, I really do.

[Bill Maher]

You do know that they do studies with placebos and people, you know what a placebo is? Of course, of course. When people, I mean before like 200 years ago, all they had was placebos. They would do crazily bad, stupid things, doctors would to people and they would get better because they thought they were getting better. I'm not saying that's a cure. And if I ever get something, we

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

love each other because we disagree on each other, you know, and I know what you're saying and I don't want to underplay the fact that, you know, to have. And this is what my book is about, is about maintaining engagement in life and about being curious and forward thinking because this is what I try to do now instead of.

[Bill Maher]

You don't think this approach that we're talking about going with the band.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

No, I don't.

[Bill Maher]

You don't think that'd help you survive?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

No, I don't.

[Bill Maher]

Because it's just all the drugs.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

I think it's all the drugs because. Because I've gotten very involved in the support community of lung cancer and too many people who've had a much better attitude than me have died.

[Bill Maher]

And you don't think it has mind body has anything to do with why you got it in the first place?

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Oh, absolutely not. Because we know now that science has proven that the number two cause. Because I wasn't a smoker, which is still the number one.

[Bill Maher]

Well, there you go. That's what I'm saying. Maybe it was the divorce, Maybe it was the marriage.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

No, definitely not. What we know.

[Bill Maher]

I don't know about that.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

No. But what we know. And it's become an epidemic level for young women to be diagnosed with lung cancer. Particulate matter in the air. And this is what? Pollution. And also climate change. Because this particulate matter and wildfires. Yes, it comes from the wildfires. The dangerous particulate matter in the air.

[Bill Maher]

So annoying.

[Don Lemon]

California.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Well, this is part of what's so incredibly bankrupt about the Trump administration. If they really cared, if Maha cared about our health, they wouldn't take away environmental regulations against pollution.

[Bill Maher]

Yeah, but. Okay, but excuse me. One reason we had the wildfires. I know. Everything is their fault. You know what? This is a democratic state. They have very little to do with it. They protected something. I think it was called the milkvetch. I'm not sure. Don't quote me on that. It was some plant or something that caught fire. And we lost pretty much all the environmental gains we got for the last full part of the century, since the beginning of the century because of these wildfires, because they were way worse than anything else we had before. And that is what's in the air now.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Well, that may be one case, but I mean, we're talking about the global issue.

[Bill Maher]

Oh, I understand. They don't believe in climate change, and that's horrible. And. And believe me, one reason why he's yelling at me all the time.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Yes. He's got a lot of time for that. Yeah.

[Bill Maher]

All right. Well, I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're well. And the book is hysterical and people should read it. Thank you, Annabelle Gurwitz, my oldest, bestest friend. All right, all right, let's meet our panel. Fellas, how you doing? Hello, Bill.

[Annabelle Gurwitch]

Ma.

[Bill Maher]

All right. He is a Democratic senator from California. Adam Schiff is with us. A very popular Democratic senator from California. And he's an award winning journalist and founder of Lemon Media Network who now hosts the Don Lemon show podcast on Lemon. Oh, boy. Okay, so all week long, I've been hearing we're at war. Now, I'd like to first say we are not at war. We're all of us, we do the same thing we always did. The American families and the military people, they're at war. That's who goes to war in this country. Everybody Else stays home and watches. Okay, just wanted to put that out there. I just want to reiterate what I said in the monologue. I'm cautiously optimistic. Unless he puts boots on the ground, then he's going to lose me. We'll see. For now, I just don't get what liberals don't get about liberation. I see so much happiness. I see it in Venezuela. I see it here in Iran. Could we skip the part where we talk about, oh, they had so many different reasons for going to war, regime change, and we got to get rid of the nukes, and they were supporters of terrorism. It's all of it. How about this? This was a fascist theocracy, and nothing in the Middle east was ever going to get better while they were still there fucking everything up. But I don't think that. Okay, but I don't think we can skip that part.

[Don Lemon]

That part is very important.

[Bill Maher]

I think that the American people deserve

[Don Lemon]

transparency, especially if you are sending boots on the ground, because that means that lives are in jeopardy. Families will be concerned. Mothers will, you know, get the call parents that your son or daughter is not coming back, or they'll knock on your door. So I think we can't say skip that part. And this administration lies so much that I think we're entitled to the truth for once. No one is saying. I don't believe anyone is saying that.

[Bill Maher]

But can it just be all those things?

[Don Lemon]

Well, it can and it cannot be. But I don't think that anyone is saying that Khamini or any Venezuela, that those folks should not be knocked out. But there is a way of doing things. And Donald Trump has completely. Sorry about this, I think neutered the legislative branch. And I think the legislative branch needs to gain. Get their power back.

[Bill Maher]

Well, I would agree with that. Certainly.

[Adam Schiff]

Certainly agree with that. And it's been amusing to watch the Republicans tie themselves in knots to try to say first that this is a war and then it's not a war, and it's a war they declared on us. Somehow. The minute that they acknowledge this as war is the minute they have to acknowledge they haven't done their constitutional duty. Because if it's a war, we should have had a vote to authorize it. It's also the moment they acknowledge that Trump betrayed his promise not to get us into new wars. But to your point, Bill, in the beginning, yeah, there are celebrations when Saddam fell, there were celebrations. 20 years later, not so many celebrations 20 years later.

[Bill Maher]

Iraq is actually in a pretty good place. Well, people don't talk about that Iraq is a much better country than it was. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But that kind of goes unnoticed. That Iraq is not a failed state anymore. They actually have elections. They have opposition parties, they have a media.

[Don Lemon]

Don't you think they got better after we left? Because when we were there, it certainly was not right.

[Bill Maher]

But it would still be torture rooms in Saddam Hussein and his kids would be in charge right now.

[Adam Schiff]

There would be thousands of American troops who'd be still alive but for the war. And that's too heavy a price to pay. And I say that as someone who, and this is, I think, was a terrible mistake, voted for that. I hope I've learned from that. I certainly would not vote to go to war with Iran because there are costs that you don't see in the front end. And this administration has no plan for how to get out of this war. No plan, no really articulate justification for it. I hope that it ends, as the president sometimes says, in days or weeks. I hope they're smart enough not to make this go on forever. But. But as we've seen, once you unleash a war, there are a lot of unforeseen consequences. Well, that's why I said right now, Russia reportedly providing intelligence to Iran about how to more successfully target American forces. Whether we anticipated that, I don't know. What's happening with our allies, hard to see how that.

[Bill Maher]

Well, allies. Russia now has lost Syria, they've lost Venezuela, they're going to lose Cuba, and they've lost Iran. So he's lost four allies.

[Don Lemon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bill Maher]

That doesn't matter.

[Don Lemon]

What you said about. What you said about Iraq is. I think that's why we need transparency. That's why you can't skip it. Remember, where are the weapons? We've never found the weapons of mass destruction. And how many people lost their lives because we were going over there to look and get the weapons of mass destruction? So I think people need a rationalization and a real one for the war.

[Bill Maher]

That was more of a blatant lie. This is more of a. We just don't like them. They're bad people and they are bad people. So this statement from the administration, the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. That's too vague for you.

[Adam Schiff]

Totally vague. Okay.

[Bill Maher]

Because that's from Obama about Libya.

[Adam Schiff]

Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authority. I and many others pushed back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress. 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. 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 worried, I think, as Hamilton said, that a president would grow too fond of making war. After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria, he's grown too fond of this. And Congress, Don, as you're saying, needs to step up, assert its role, or it's going to be gone for good. And then anytime a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time, feel free to make war. And that would be hugely dangerous for the country.

[Don Lemon]

The first article of the Constitution, everything goes through Congress. Everything should go through Congress. And if that is not happening, it should. And you know, Donald Trump is not a king. He thinks that he's a king and he's being allowed to get away with all of these things, that he's not a monarch, but he gets away with it.

[Bill Maher]

And he gets a of money. But the last time we declared war was 1942. So this has been happening for a long time. I mean, that's true. 1982. You're talking about the War Powers act and trying to take that away. I mean, eight times Congress has filed suit various. Reagan in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada. Reagan in the Persian Gulf. That's the Iran, Iraq war. George W. Bush. No, the first. Bush in Kuwait, his son, of course, in Iraq, Clinton in Kosovo, Obama in Libya. I mean, this horse is out of the barn.

[Adam Schiff]

Well, you know, to Bush's credit, he did seek congressional authorization to use force in Afghanistan in Iraq. But I will agree with the president on this. I think he's right to call for the unconditional surrender of Bill Maher.

[Bill Maher]

I'm totally with him on that.

[Adam Schiff]

That was the tweet I was expecting

[Bill Maher]

to see after you heard that. We're going to hear a lot about it at the end of the show.

[Don Lemon]

A lot of the things that you mentioned, they were based on some sort of imminent threat. There is no imminent threat. There's no intelligence, as I understand from anyone who's on the intelligence committee, that there was an Imminent threat that Iran was going to attack Israel. There was. And all the intelligence shows that Iran was.

[Bill Maher]

Well, they have been attacked. They've been attacking them for 20 years. They threw proxies.

[Don Lemon]

I mean, but that doesn't mean. If you listen to the administration, they were doing it because Israel was going to strike Iran, and they wanted to make sure that that didn't happen.

[Bill Maher]

Okay. It just seem. Admit this much, there is a different approach here. I mean, if I was surprised when he said we might put boots on the ground because I thought that was his red line and he would never do that. We'll see. But as opposed to what we have done before, which is we invaded a place and then took it over, Afghanistan, Iraq, we can make it better. They're going to learn to love us. That's the Pottery Barn rule. You bought it, you broke it, you broke it, you bought it. His is more like, we broke it, you fix it. You know, he's throwing it back on them. I mean, this would. No, Venezuela is not Iran, but Iran is not an unsophisticated population. We'll see. Maybe they're the same, but it seems like this is a very different approach. Whereas you kill the leader, then you bring up somebody else who's not the opposition, who's part of that administration, and you say, look, we'll kill you if you don't start behaving. Because I hear something about leaders, I've learned they're not really ideological. They mostly just want to hang on to the job. I remember in Iraq, remember de Baathification, and everybody said, especially all the people on the left, that was a terrible thing to do. We got rid of Saddam Hussein, and then all the people were in his Ba'ath party. We got rid of. And of course, they were resentful. And then the war started. Okay, well, this is what we're not doing. This is the opposite of de Baathification. We got rid of the main guy, but we're not getting rid of the apparatus under them. We're just saying, act more like a normal, civilized country and we won't fucking kill you, too.

[Don Lemon]

Yeah, but you don't know who's coming. You don't know who's coming after Khamenei.

[Bill Maher]

Right.

[Don Lemon]

And Pete Hexhutter said, we're not in the business of regime change. But as you said, if we kill the leader, that's regime change.

[Adam Schiff]

The other big said. The other big factor here is we've already lost six American service members. That's a huge price to pay. But we're also losing the opportunity to address the need to improve the quality of life for the American people. This is what Trump campaigned on. He said, I'm not going to go to war. I'm going to be the peace president. I'm going to get my FIFA peace prize. But instead, we're going to war. And people can't afford their groceries and they can't afford. Now the fuel price at the pump has gone way up. They can't afford the cost of living. And instead of focusing on that, we're spending probably a billion dollars a day in Iran. And, you know, with every bomb that we drop, it's another investment we couldn't make at home. And I just don't think that's where the country is. The price is already too high as far as I'm concerned, with the loss of our service members. If there had been an imminent threat. I'm all with you and Bill. You're right. I'm glad to see this regime gone. That's an unmitigated positive. I don't know, though, at the end of the day, if we get, you know, the ayatollah's son or some other cleric whether.

[Bill Maher]

I'm glad you brought it up because we got a hold of the job application form. We did. They are looking for a new ayatollah. Would you like to hear what's on the. Okay, this is. All right. These are the questions on the the job replica for the next ayatollah. Finish this sentence. The most satanic thing about Donald Trump is A, supporting Israel. B, dancing. Would you say you hate women enough to host a podcast sponsored by protein powder? What words best complete this sentence? Death. A by chocolate. B, Cab for cutie. C to America. Where do you see yourself in 10 wars? Jihad me at hello. Innocent. Innocent word play or instant death sentence in order to reach Gen Z. Are you okay with the name Ayatollah 67? Where do you keep your wife? Have you ever accidentally smiled? If so, please explain. And which Sex and the City character are you? That's the other. I don't know how that got in there, but. All right, let's turn to domestic affairs. Don, I see you're in the news quite a bit lately. Am I? Oh, I was at the Clive Davis Grammy party when Clive introduced you. And you got the biggest ovation in the room. Kristi Noem, fired this week. Do you feel vindicated? Do you feel like doing the Trump dance now? Do you want to be jerking off two guys at once?

[Don Lemon]

Not until Pam Bondi is.

[Bill Maher]

Then I'll do the double dj.

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[Bill Maher]

But Pam Bondi, she this week announced Federal charges against 30 more people accused of civil rights violations there in the Minnesota church. So explains the pastor. There was, we think, part of ice. That's why the protest was going on there.

[Don Lemon]

Well, according to the protest group, one of the pastors was, I think, a regional director for ICE in that region.

[Bill Maher]

Pastors do that. Pastors are also regional directors of ice. There's things going on in this country. I'm just, I try to keep up with the news and I just. And they said you stood in close proximity to the pastor in an attempt to oppress and intimidate him. That's some powerful bullshit there, isn't it, John? I mean, glad you can see through that. I mean. So where are you now? I know they, they arrested you out here, right? And then what happened? You went to jail for a minute.

[Don Lemon]

I went to the federal courthouse and I was in, you know, in an isolation room or a room by myself and.

[Bill Maher]

Really?

[Don Lemon]

Yeah, yeah. I had to spend the night in

[Bill Maher]

jail like Steve McQueen and I spent the night. I spent. Throw the ball against the wall like in.

[Don Lemon]

I spent the night in a holding room in.

[Bill Maher]

Really?

[Don Lemon]

At the federal courthouse.

[Adam Schiff]

In.

[Bill Maher]

I had to do it once. It Wasn't that bad.

[Don Lemon]

You did?

[Bill Maher]

Yeah. For a D92 I got pinched for. I was this much over the limit. Had a couple of drinks, drove home. I was wearing leopard print shoes. I'm sure that's why. I'm sure that's why the cop was like, this has got to go to jail.

[Don Lemon]

But he wants to cocaine off of a dirty. I was.

[Bill Maher]

I was. I was not. But it was the Beverly Hills jail. It was. Yeah, it was.

[Don Lemon]

Oh, you were in a fancy jail.

[Bill Maher]

It was a nightmare. Jail is jail. Are you kidding? When I ordered room service in the morning, I said, Raisin toast. No raisins in the toast. I was. I had avocado toast. So there was a election down in Texas, Big stuff this year in the Democratic Party. Adam, we got to get you on this idea. This is James Talarico. He was on the show a couple of weeks ago. Very impressive guy.

[Adam Schiff]

Super talent, super talented.

[Bill Maher]

Okay. He beat Jasmine Crockett, who. You know, until this moment, I kept hearing rising star in the Democratic Party, very charismatic. Fiery, yes, but very bright. Okay, people across the political space, this is Talarico talking. I think this is just laying out the two wings of the party. There's the Fuck Trump wing. You know, your old friend Katie Porter holds up signs, actually, that say there if. Okay, that's one way to do a campaign. James says people across the spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics. Politics. Not a politics of fear, of hate, of division, but a politics of love. A love that can heal what's broken in America. The love part, James, that's a little too far for me.

[Adam Schiff]

I love to say, fuck Trump. You can do both.

[Bill Maher]

Okay? But I get your point.

[Adam Schiff]

I think Talarico is just a tremendous talent, and Jasmine is, too. And Texans had a choice. Texas Democrats between two, you know, up and coming rising stars. Talarico is that unique talent that I think is deeply religious, deeply progressive, really resonating with people in Texas and outside of Texas. Texas could very well be in play. And I say that with hesitation because we've put our hopes there before. But I think if anyone at this moment can make a viable campaign and turn Texas blue in the Senate, it's someone like Talarico. I think his message is perfectly suited. It's also perfect message for a Democrat in Texas, which may not be the exact same message for a Democrat in California. And I'm hugely excited about his campaign. This is great news.

[Don Lemon]

I think this could actually be the year. I think it could be the year. I think they had Two, as he said, two great choices and both, you know, different approaches. But I think that this could be the year, especially considering how the Republicans in the race are basically killing each other at this point and will during this entire process until November.

[Bill Maher]

But you seem to be avoiding the question. Or maybe you do think you can have it both ways. I don't know if you can have it both ways. I think these are the two wings. One wing is the. Cut them off. You know, don't have dinner with him. Worst thing you could ever do if your family voted for him. Don't.

[Don Lemon]

Wait a minute. He's tweeting at you for having dinner with him and he hates you. What are you talking about?

[Bill Maher]

He hates me because I never criticizing him and I never promised I would.

[Adam Schiff]

Yeah. I think the reality is you have to find a way to do both. Stand up to Trump and also deliver for people.

[Bill Maher]

Stand up. But, I mean, don't you think after 10 years, it's just a little. I mean, it's a bit of an eye roller when people see that, they just think, that's all you got. That's all you Democrats have, is fuck Trump. And we're looking for something different. It seems like Talarico is making this case, and I think the fact that he won in Texas, I think says a lot.

[Adam Schiff]

Well, I think it says a lot, too. But at the same time, when Americans are getting killed in the streets in Minneapolis, it's not like you can ignore it and say, I'm going to have a positive love message.

[Bill Maher]

No, I'm not down with the love for it. We don't have to love, but you can do both.

[Adam Schiff]

And indeed, I think all of us are a different mixture of both. A focus on, okay, this is our positive agenda. This is what we have to accomplish. We have to get shit done in California. This was really my theme in my Senate campaign. We have to get shit done. We have to be able to move forward. We have to be able to build things. We have to build a lot more housing. You have to have a positive message. It can't be just about fighting Trump, but as they say, your opposition has a vote, too. And when your opposition is taking the country to war without your approval in Congress, when the opposition is killing people in the streets, you gotta stand up to that, too.

[Don Lemon]

I think Democrats have to be careful of this sort of Kumbaya message, because the ultimately Democrats are gonna elect the Democrat and you want to energize the part of your party that's really for you, like Donald Trump Energized the maga, the staunch maga. You're not gonna do that by Kumbaya to the Republican. We should have learned by now this is in normal times.

[Bill Maher]

I mean, that is the argument. I mean, Katie Porter, I think, is the one who said, I don't need Trump votes. This is where the rubber meets the road. Do you go, what you're saying is, fuck the votes of the people who. We are deplorable. We don't even want. We don't care about you at all. We're just gonna go after that.

[Don Lemon]

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that you have to be careful because we are not in normal times where Donald Trump is not going to, you know, sit with a Democrat or anyone for that matter. It's all about Donald Trump. He has no ideology. It's all about Donald Trump. But just let me finish. And so they've got to be careful with that, because that is not what Democrats want right now. They want a fighter. So I like James Talarico, but I think he should be very careful about this sort of Kumbaya. Have to win over Republicans. Jasmine Crockett did very well just with black voters in Texas.

[Bill Maher]

Seven out of 10 Trump voters are not committed.

[Adam Schiff]

Yeah, see, this is committed to him.

[Bill Maher]

That's a key stat there. Seven out of ten, to me, sounds somewhat gettable, especially in the atmosphere we're in now with the bad economy brewing.

[Don Lemon]

And if they're not with him, they don't like him. Probably more than the Democrats don't like him. So why do you need to appeal? They already don't like him.

[Adam Schiff]

This is, I think, exactly the point, Bill, and I agree with you.

[Bill Maher]

To get them voting for you.

[Adam Schiff]

It's one thing to oppose Trump. It's another to write off everyone who ever supported him. That's a terrible mistake. I sought out a seat on the Agriculture Committee because it would help me serve large parts of red California. People forget There are probably 8 million people in California who are voting for Donald Trump or supporting Donald Trump. They're entitled to representation. And if you don't make the case to them, if you don't speak to them with respect, if you don't appeal to them, if you don't solicit their opinion on things and show you're open to working with them, then why should they support you? So I. It's my favorite part of the job, frankly, is talking to folks in these parts of the state that don't expect me to go there. I had A meeting with a group of farmers in Butte county, red as red can be. And I knew the meeting was going well. At the end when one of the farmers says, I don't know why the president calls you watermelon head. You've got a perfectly normal sized head.

[Bill Maher]

And that's when I knew I was making progress.

[Adam Schiff]

But yeah, for a porter or anyone else to write off a large part of people or even say I don't need Republican votes. Whether you need them or not, you should want them and you should court them and cultivate them. And so that's, I think a terrible.

[Bill Maher]

What did you think of the trap that Trump laid in the State of the Union address where he just show the tape there? Because I think it's self explanatory what he did. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal areas. And the Democrats didn't stand. I mean obviously it's a deliberate trap because you know, they always played these games of Simon says there at the State of the Union.

[Don Lemon]

Well, I think you and I agree on this is all performative, I know,

[Bill Maher]

but is it going to look bad in campaign ads?

[Don Lemon]

I don't think anyone's going to remember that come campaign and they will if

[Bill Maher]

they put it in the ad.

[Don Lemon]

Well, that juxtaposition opposed to pulling people out of their cars, dragging them across the snow, put that in the air

[Bill Maher]

and the Democrats, that will drown that

[Don Lemon]

message out for one moment. No one ever, the opposing party never stands up.

[Adam Schiff]

It's just I didn't go to the State of the Union. They're trying to arrest this guy, they're trying to indict two of my colleagues, they're trying to go after me. I don't think you treat this moment as business as usual, but it was a hard decision. I've gone to every State of the union for 25 years out of respect for the office. But now we have a guy in the office who doesn't respect the office. And this is a perfect illustration of that. Had I been there, what would I have done? You had to wake me up first and then, I don't know, I probably, I probably would have gone along with the Democratic strategy, which is, is unless it's a war hero in the gallery or the US Hockey team, you stay in your seat, you're respectful, you're silent, you're not holding up paddles, you're not being disruptive. But you're also not giving the appearance that somehow this is okay. This presidency is okay. He's trying to jail the opposition. He's trying to put members of the press in jail. He's soliciting bribes from press organizations. He's going after law firms. He's going after universities. He's having his ICE agents kill people in the streets. We just can't act like this is somehow okay. And, I don't know, for me, sitting there, validating what he's doing, acting like there's nothing going on was too much this year was too much.

[Bill Maher]

All right.

[Don Lemon]

What he said.

[Bill Maher]

Do you want to blame my. Thank you, gentlemen. Time for new rules. All right. General Pete Hegseth has to come up with a name for one of our military actions that doesn't sound like a nickname for his penis. So far, we've had Operation Southern Spear, Operation Midnight Hammer, and now Epic Fury. Ask any woman. When a guy talks like that all the time, he tends to be Operation Warp Speed. Neural. Someone has to tell the Kuwaiti fighter pilot who accidentally shot down three American F15s this week because he mistook them for enemy Iranian pilots. Dude, all you have to do to tell who the bad guys are is watch movies. Enemy pilots, they all wear dark helmets to let everyone know they're evil. Our pilots, you can see them plain as day, and they're always hot. Merle Gwyneth Paltrow, who lost an earring sometime during the Actor Awards. Mustn't worry. It'll turn up. It's always in the last place you look. But let's not ignore the obvious. Have you checked your vagina? Nirol. Now that they've opened the first ever dual Applebee's and IHOP restaurant, Waffle House must combine with Denny's to battle them for white trash supremacy, With the winner getting to face the KFC Taco Bell combo in the championship round. Why trash restaurants? They're just like movie studios. You gotta get bigger or you'll die. Welcome aboard Paramount. I hope you like me, But in case you don't, I ain't gonna change. New rule. Don't tell New Yorkers that. The upside to the brutal winter they had this year is fewer rats in the street. Yeah, and also fewer weirdos hanging out in Times Square trying to fill you up, you know? And if the rats aren't in the street or dragging pizza up from the subway, where are they? Yeah, your apartment. And finally, new rules. Someone else. Just to help Donald Trump understand that I don't suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He suffers from Bill Maher Derangement syndrome. Okay. Three weeks ago, I woke up to some things the President had written on his truth social media platform that somehow were not true. I don't know how they got in there. It's not like the President when he's mad. But on this occasion, he did, which I forgive. But on Valentine's Day, that hurt. But just to set the record straight from what the President claimed, I didn't ask for the dinner. Our mutual friend asked me. It's on tape from my podcast. Also, I wasn't nervous and scared. And the dinner wasn't quick. I was there almost three hours. And it wasn't vodka. It was a margarita. I didn't ask for it right away. I had a drink before dinner and then a couple more during. I was having a good time. So were you, Don, because we were talking like real humans, not like that crazy act you put on in public. But I know that's what you do. You are, if anything, a man who wears his heart on his sleeve. And so you did here, listing your accomplishments and how hurt you feel that people, including me, have not recognized them enough. I understand that feeling. You texted me soon after the dinner complaining I was still part of the lunatic left and how you should have won a Nobel Prize for ending wars. And I texted back, yeah, and I should have won 20 Emmys. We are. And you ended by saying, bill, you know what? Don't change. I wouldn't know what to do with you if you did. Okay, that's the normal human being I saw the night we broke bread. And as long as I think there's even a spark of a possibility to bring that guy out more, I will not consider the dinner a waste of time. Even as I now see we're back to name calling and that I have some new ones, like highly overrated lightweight to add to the list you signed. Thank you. I'll be by you with. But let's go through the things you're butthurt about people not having noticed because some people do have tds. But you know what? I've called people out for making hating you their entire reason to live. Get a life. Stop making him your whole personality. But, Don, you have to take some responsibility for that. Because you make people crazy. Because you. Because you do things that are racist, misogynistic, anti democratic and corrupt. But I'll prove now I don't have the dreaded tds. First off, despite all the hate I got from my side, I never thought threw you under the bus and said, oh, you're Right. I shouldn't have ate steak with Hitler, cuz that's stupid. Access to the President of the United States, Are you kidding? You can't put a price on that. Although, Don, quite frankly, you do put a price on that all the time. I consider myself lucky I. I got in to talk to you without giving you a 747 or buying your cryptocurrency. Or giving you my Nobel Prize. But let's continue. You say no mention of the perfect border. The border is closed. No. The border's a win. The border's a win. You mentioned the mass removal of stone cold criminals. This is what got Trump elected. We're gonna get the gangs out. We don't want to become the kidnap country. The taking out of Iran's nuclear capability. I was very supportive of bombing the nuclear facility in Iran. I thought that was great. Venezuela, do I love everything about it? No. But do I hate it? No. If he somehow gets Venezuela, Cuba and Iran all to be not these horrible places they were, he should get a Nobel Peace Prize. The return of the hostages and the peace deal in the Middle east where the liberal panel was praising you. A lot of people tried to pull this off. He did. Give him credit. If he's good at getting deals done overseas, give him credit for it. And here's a few. You didn't even mention the Golden Dome missile shield. Just because Trump thought of it. I'm not against it. NATO, he said, look, NATO hasn't been paying their fair share. I'm going to make them do that. He wasn't wrong about that. Israel moving Israel's embassy to Jerusalem. Loved it. Animals and marijuana. He did an animal rights thing that all my PETA friends loved. Pot is not a Schedule 1 anymore. Thank you. Penises. Penises do not belong in women's prisons. He's not wrong about that. And not just penises. Ballrooms. We don't have a place when they have state dinners. They're doing it in a tent. This is America. So do I give a shit that he's doing this to the White House? I really don't. And giving props for saying about the Nick Fuentes Jew hitting wing of the Republican Party. Trump is the one who said, and I give him credit for this. He said, we don't want you and the economy. About a month ago I said, look, I had to own it. I said, I thought by July 4th the economy would be in the shitter. And it wasn't. I was wrong. See, that's the difference between you and me. Don I can admit when I'm wrong and I can be honest. In fact, I may be the last person from the lunatic left that is still an honest broker when it comes to you. But honest goes both ways. It's a shame you can't take criticism because in an alternative universe where we could have further honest conversations, I could say things to you that might be quite helpful. Like Don, I'm going to love with you. I'm going to give it to you straight. Some people don't like you. No, really. Now me, I go by what George Bush said to Obama on the day he was inaugurated. We want you to succeed. I always want the American president to succeed and I do give credit when you have. But there's lots of stuff you do that is not my idea of success and I have every right to say so. In a democracy, I yeah, I'm glad you got rid of stone cold criminals, but no one wanted the sadism and stupidity that went along with it. Doge a complete disaster. People died for no reason and a cut, no government waste. Coal is not beautiful or clean. Criminalizing dissent is wrong and so is the juvenile trolling and suing people into silence. Don, there are things that you do that we not just me, but we. I mean even the people who are too scared to talk to you straight just don't get about you taking the side of autocrats instead of democratic allies around the world who hates Canada. And wind. You hate the wind. And then you wonder why I can't tell what's a joke and what isn't. It's not derangement for me to be always calling out the election denying obsession you have, or the pardons from my friends and punishment for my enemies mode of governing or the side deals for your family that always seem to be part of everything. We see how rich you've all become, but the people of West Virginia don't seem to be feeling the winning, a Democratic senator recently said of your administration. They are the elites they pretend to hate. If the Democrats ever learn to weaponize that message, your MAGA movement is in big trouble. Thank you very much. That's our show. I want to thank my guests Senator Adam Schiff, Don Lemon and Annabel Club. Random drops Every Monday on YouTube or listen. Remy, get your podcast now. Go watch Overtime on YouTube. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.

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