Stewart, her grace, and her spirit and so well so many others who she touched tonight on three, 60 disorder in the quarters, the judge in the former president s Hush Money Trial criticizes the Defense Witness for breaking the rule the core also Breaking News on the Helicopter Crash that killed a rons president and eight others will have legs on the investigation. What it means for iran in the world. And later oneonone with we didnt bill maher talking trump biden. Would he thinks is wrong with American Politics and culture. Good evening. There was drama today in the trump Hush Money Trial. The license which we have not seen in the more than five weeks are proceedings no sooner of the prosecution rested and the defense called another witness. The judge merchan cleared the Courtroom Rare Act after the judge cited that witness, attorney robert costello, for improper courtroom behavior that included rolling his eyes and an audible sigh. At one point, merchan said to costello, quote, if you try to stare me down one more time, i will remove you from the stand not something that defense likely wanted to see or hear is the whole purpose of colon costello, who had once given legal advice, the prosecutions star witness, Michael Cohen, was for him to undercut cohens credibility the defense later as judge merchan to dismiss all charges over cohens credibility issues, the judge would only say hes reserving his decision. Trumps onetime fixer, an attorney spent more than 17 hours over four days on the stand. Today, the defense got cohen to admit he stole from the Trump Organization for an unrelated expense that was included in the alleged 420 Thousand Dollars Stormy Daniels reimbursement at the heart of the Felony Charges against the former president. Now, the prosecution has painstakingly try to use Witness Testimony to paint trump as a micromanaged manager who would know every detail about that payment in order for the jury to find him guilty of falsifying Business Records the prosecution also tried to rehabilitate damaging testimony. Cohen game on thursday when the defense used Text Messages between him and trumps bodyguard, Keith Schiller to suggest that a subsequent call on october 24, 2016 was not as cohen had testified, a way to contact trump about the final details of the Stormy Daniels payment meant but as the messages suggest, a conversation with only schiller about a 14yearold crank color who was aggravating Michael Cohen. Today, prosecutors showed a still photograph from this video of a trump rally that night in florida. You can see there trump waving and in the spot shadow Keith Schiller both sides stipulated the video concludes roughly five minutes before that 8 02 pm phone call. Now, prosecutors were suggesting that it proves that schiller could have handed the phone to trump when cohen call that he was that close to him. Now thats of course, up to the jury to decide a jury that the judge today said would here closing arguments next week, but not before cord is back in session again tomorrow with that lawyer, robert costello, back on the stand. Im joined now by criminal Defense Attorney arthur aidala, former federal prosecutor, jeffrey thuban, seen an anchor, abby phillip, who was in the courthouse today New York Times senior political correspondent, Maggie Haberman and arun Kara Scannell because in the courtroom also with this johnny jones, former chief judge of the Us Middle District Court of pennsylvania, carey. You were there and i know you just got the transcript what was that moment like between judge merchan and robert herself . It was really intense. I had not seen anything like this and it came as castello was on the Witness Stand Being questioned by prosody excusing by trumps lawyers and the prosecutors kind objected a number of times. I counted there were at least 15 sustained. Objections. A judge saying castello couldnt answer the question because those former prosecutor. And even after the judge sustained some of them, he continued to speak. You could kind of see the judge getting frustrated, but then it snowballed after costello had after one of these sustained objections, Castello Let Out A Gs and it was audible enough to be heard in the back of the courtroom. And it was then that the judge excuse the jury. And once the jury was out of the room, he turned to costello and said, mr. Acosta hello, i want to i would like to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Costello interrupts him and says, but im sorry, go ahead, judge. Merchan, i want to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Castellows is right. Judge has. Okay. So when theres a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say jeez. Okay. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one that can strike tests in the courtroom. Do you understand that castula says, i understand. Judge has. Okay. And then if you dont like my ruling, you dont give me sayyed and you dont roll your eyes do you understand that du you understand that casella said i understand that. I understand what youre saying. Were sean said, okay. Thank you. Lets get the jury back and then theres this moment where the judge says to him are you staring me down right now . And castula says, no, im just wondering how and the judge says clear the courtroom, clear the courtroom. Chaos ensues as theyre trying to marshal thought all of the press and the number of media, people are objecting, saying we have a right to be here are lawyers here, and the officers saying everyone has to get out, has to get out. They remove us all. So everyone leaves the courtroom of everyone. No, they didnt remove the politicians that were there supporting trump. Theyve removed the members of the media. And this one row of members of the Public Public in the courtroom and then we have the transcripts. So now we know what happened after that. And the judge had said to castello, serwer, your conduct is contemptuous right now. Im putting you on notice that your conduct is contemptuous. If you try to steer me down one more time, i will remove you from the stand and castula says, can i Say Something, please . The judge . Says, no, no, this is not a conversation wow maggie great stuff. Before, i have never seen this before. Be in a trial. Were donald trump as the defendant and the witnesses, the person who is drawing this kind of outrage from the judge is not what i expected. Because we had been looking for trump to be the person acting up in ways the judge would find upsetting any has a few times, but not like this. But it was not entirely surprising because anybody who has dealt with above hello knows that he can be a wildcard. And this is why a lot of people in trumps world thought calling him was a risk. And we got to see what a risk it was because this all took place in front of the except for that. But at the end, but the objections all took place in in front of the jury the parts of cross that took place today by the prosecutors were not great for costello and so Michael Cohen, who is a key witness in this case, has gotten pretty roughed up by the defense by todd blanche, in particular, are specifically i should say, and today he said he stole from the yeah. And that was that was a came and in some ways was more significant than what happened last week, which was a pretty dramatic moment. But to then go into closing with what marsha sean clearly thought was a sideshow and he made that clear when he was talking about whether even let costello testified to certain things Have Castello behave this way and then just sort of Have Castello reinforce part of what prosecutors arguing here, which is that there is a sort of manabi aspect to this case and to a lot of the behavior by the trump people. It just doesnt seem to help im pleased. Its like as if fox news jumped out of the Television Vision and into the courthouse today. And thats been the risk all along of bringing in a character like michael. Costs are like bob costello. He is someone who obviously thrills the right with the way that he attacks Michael Cohens character. Im sure he thrilled donald trump with his testimony last week in front of the house a committee, but in a courthouse that is not the tone and the demeanor. I mean, we talk all the time about how judge merchan is a very softspoken judge. He does not want people. He does not raise his voice. And the general conduct of council, prosecution and defense is even toned and measured, even when they are making objections. So for Something Like that to unfold in this courthouse its a sideshow judge. I mean, what do you make of how the judge handled it . Well, my, first comment would be just another de the office for judge merchan. I mean, i cant even imagine i would levitate out of my seat if i had a witness who is a lawyer an officer of the court, and knows better than to talk over me and give me the eye when he sitting there, i think he handled it perfectly to warn him that he was going to hold them in contempt. The Greater Question is from a tactical standpoint, why they call this witness and jurors tend, and ive said this before to sort of cleave to the judge, the judges that are protector, the person who breeds them sends them off at the end of the day they dont like when a judge gets walked on by a lawyer or in this case a witness, it leaves a really bad sensation of bad taste in their mouth and you know, to your point about stealing from trump that got washed over by this witness there was a moment and they took that moment away by coal in this witness with all due respect, your honore. And i didnt mean to talk over you know, now, you know, on the Defense Attorney, im like, Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury Michael Cohen admitted to grand larceny grand loss. A. Admitted that to the prosecutors in the within the statute of but to Hearing Charges against him he is so in their pocket they are so indebted to him that they didnt even charge him with a very simple crime. He admitted to the crime. He admitted it to them its an insult, arthur, i dont i dont disagree with you. That thats a moment in the case. My question is, why you then you dont sell it gives a Counter Narrative costello look. I wasnt in the courtroom you guys were i dont know what that is. And i will tell you this, judge, when i Defense Attorney and im calling witnesses. And now, after ive walked the jury is watch the judge go question. Answer a question, answer question, answer. And now i go up and i ask the questions. Objection. Sustained. Objection. Sustained. Objections as saying you know what, i looked at the jury, i they want this hushed up. They want this hush stuff. They dont want you to know this. I wasnt how the jury was looking at lets talk about the substance of castellows testimony and lets talk about costello. Anybody remember the molar report . Hes actually a big figure, maggie. And i were just talking about this he the exchanges between him and cohen are according to robert muller, a dangling of a pardon from donald trump, but he was allegedly sort of the emissary from trumpworld to cohen to dangle exactly. And thats what youre going to hear in the crossexamination tomorrow . To add to this atmosphere of mafioso stinking, corrupt relationship between donald trump and Michael Cohen. The record all castellows irish. So i know you talk around mafioso and a guy named costello for the record, is i did make that i am im a little sensitive i meant i meant presidency italianamerican generic organized crime. Can i just make a point that arthurs point, it is true. They called him because he tells a Counter Narrative and he tells a different version of a story then what Michael Cohen does with similar facts, he tells a version which is actually it was Michael Cohen reaching out to me and theres more extensive version. But that wasnt what look, the caveat. We dont know what the jury thanks. And we need to say that over and over again, at least in the courtroom, that wasnt what came through because he was stepping on himself. It wasnt just the objections. He at one point, susan hoffinger, the prosecutor who was doing the crossexamination of him, was asking a question and he spat out speak into the mic and the jurors, two of them looked at each other but when he did that, so i dont i dont know how much is that counternarrative came through. I understand what youre saying. I think the client was very happy, but i think what the defendant is happy with and what the rest of his team is happy with his not always the same thing. Thats all im saying. Its really one other point that i would just make in terms of what the judge said about how judge were sean handled it . I think they were sean has actually been bending over backwards to be fair to the defense, the Defense Cannot Stand Him and thats very clear in everything. I think that with a lot of things he has done, he has tried not to be in confrontation with donald trump how you justify kicking out the press and keeping in Donald Trumps supporters when you say clear the courtroom, i dont quite know how that works. And the judge was also even before costello took the stand he expressed some concern for the defense that this was not a wise course of action. He basically was like, are you sure you want to go down this call to sack of this Pressure Campaign allegedly that Michael Cohen said he was subject to. He tried to warn them and they didnt listen and they put him on the stand anyway. Well see what the result will be in the moment that i noticed today was with the clip from cspan, that there was an inability, apparently just and then they stipulated later they thought better of it. Which youd get at sidebar and say, are you kidding me that you wont stipulate to this and i understand its a death cage match. Nobody wants to stipulate to anything at that point, but im not sure that thats a good tactic to du and maybe thats what the former president shook with Michael Cohen stealing from the Trump Organization how important is that well, i think it is. It gives the defense the opportunity to say hes not just a liar, but hes a thief. So you double up. It is important and its going to come out and closing arguments and theyll lean heavily into it. I just dont know whether the jury doesnt have baked into the narrative already. This is a bad guy and theyre not particularly surprised about it from my perspective, i dont know that its as severe as it was made out to be in the moment today where i would agree with that because i mean, just being in the courtroom, i felt like there was a little bit of a dichotomy between people who were in the room and outside of the room. And i was an overflow but i was hearing the arguments as they were happening. The gist of the story was both bad for Michael Cohen and also bad for trump because at the end of the day, the story was essentially that trump that Michael Cohen got a company to pay for trump to do better in some stupid poll that no one cared about and trump didnt want to pay the company and that Michael Cohen eventually gave them 20,000 in cash which and then took the money that the Trump Organization repaid him bad for Michael Cohen. But also the sort of little Between The Lines part of it is that trump probably would not have paid them at all. How about this . That doesnt make iri has been and weve covered it for four weeks trump is so careful for this money. He knows where every dollar goes he signs every check that tiffany frame 650 grand weight that went disappear. He didnt know that agree with you on that . And i think that i was surprised that the that the defense didnt actually doubled down on that because youre totally right that its not actually clear whether trump knew Michael Cohen was actually paying that company and the defense never really went down that road to say, well, if trump is so careful why didnt he know about this it is worth remembering. The prosecution did mention this in his direct testimony, so this was not a hidden bought imam shell. The other thing is cooperating witnesses often do terrible things and they get pretty good passes all the time and isnt that right i just need to say this for my own Peace Of Mind. If donald trump is sitting in that seat, if barack obama was sitting in that seat, or joe schmo was sitting in that seat, whoever it is, i dont get what party or a member of if i am the district attorney, the way i was raised in the law, you do not bring the very first case ever against the president of the United States under these facts and circumstances where your main witness is somewhat as flawed as Michael Cohen. If i brought this case to joe highs, the brooklyn de in 1995 ive he would have said already were not calling. I also just do think yes, they did prosecutors did mention this. They didnt exactly signpost it, so its still read like something is surprised. And also the Keith Schiller texts last week, theyve got introduced that were todd blanches Big Sort Of Pseudo Perry Mason moment i dont know why the prosecution didnt bring that out in the first place. Two, there have been a number of missteps by the possible same i mean, its well, i dont want that. I they may indeed have missed it, but its not because they didnt have them big, big mistake here. Everyone. Thank you. Still to come tonight Breaking News on the iranian helicopter that crashed sunday, killing that country he was president and eight others with us Defense Secretary is now saying, and while the latest from our ivan watson and Fareed Zakaria join us and what it means for ron in the world. And later comedian bill maher joins us, discuss his new book. Would this comedian said will shock you and the current state of america and its politics and be right back were trying to save the planet with nuggets because we need the planet and we also need nuggets impossible. Were setting the meat problem with more meat mesh and moves fast so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level with a custom private 5g networks, we get get more control with Production Efficiencies and greater agility. Thats enterprise intelligence. 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Cnns ive and watson has more iran in a state of morning commemorating the shocking death of iranian president Ebrahim Raisi during the frantic hours when rescuers searched for the missing president the most powerful figure in the iranian political system Supreme Leader ayatollah coming a0b0, declared the government stable and strong melodrama as his dear people, whether you are sitting here or well hear my speed to later do not worry. There will be no disruption in the countrys work inside iran, highly polarized reactions to the sudden death of a leader ryan raisi has been a face of repression in iran for a very long time. Im not surprised that many will celebrate raisi was a Regime Hardliners sanctioned by the Us Government for allegedly overseeing deadly crackdowns on iranian protest movements. And the us and Rights Groups say he took part in an alleged Death Commission that ordered the execution of thousands of Political Prisoners in 1988, which raisi has never responded to. I see more contiguity then change regardless of what happens next. According to the onion constitution, The Little Known Vice President mohammad mokhber, has now become interim president , paving the way for elections to be held within 50 days. This is a system that has managed this kind of turmoil in the past. So in the short run, it can certainly manage choppy waters but in the longer run its a system that is ideologically bankrupt messages of condolence are pouring in from longtime allies like syria as well as russia, which launches iranian shahid drones against cities and ukraine well not yet also publicly morning, right . Loss iranianbacked militant groups such as Yemens Houthis hamas, and lebanons hezbollah. Meanwhile, few tears likely to be shared by iran, sworn enemy, israel the two countries long simmering shadow war or exploded into direct for tat, longrange strikes. Just last month. I dont he will shift anything in the region or in terms of irans relationship with its neighbors are neighboring powers. Thats because most of the power iran lies with Supreme Leader ali khamenei, khuzaa still in power and hes the one who is calling all the shots. How the Islamic Republic deals with this deadly crash may set the stage for at yearold Supreme Leader, ivan watson would cnn we should know the New York Times and the Washington Post reporting tonight that Iranian State media saying that the Helicopter Crashed resulted from a technical failure under cutting up former top iranian official who earlier said us sanctions were to blame. Earlier today, the white house, who was quick to undercut any suggestion and had a role in the crash the United States had no part to play in that crash. And so thats, thats a fact plane and something that cnns Fareed Zakaria joint as now, how important i mean, how significant is this . It is actually pretty significant because there are two things going on. Iran and israel have been engaging in a fairly dangerous for tat, if you remember, april 1, israel kills and iranian general official of sorts two weeks later, iran launches 300 missiles and drones at this row, then israel, thats something very moderate and response just essentially took out one radon is fine so thats the International Context and the domestic one is ivan mentioned is the how many the Supreme Leader is at years old racy was seen as the oddson dan successor, the guide, the president who died the only other person people are talking about is how many son much taba that will be very, very unusual. The remember this is a regime that came into power because it believed, did not believe in the dynastic succession that the shah of iran represented for it to become its own wei dynasty that would be turmoil, i think. So. What would i mean, whats going to happen . Well first, company has to die. He is 85 years old. Hes been ruling forever. But there will begin. Youre going to start getting the factional politics his son is going to make a bid for it. His son was shopper has never held any office in an inner run before, so it would be a very unusual move. He is untested, but its a black box, but the only the only two people who are being discussed were raisi, the president who just died. And come any sun, how much power does an iranian president has as a pair to the Supreme Leader . I mean, how, how do you, the Supreme Leader set strategy, the the, the president can execute that strategy. He cant eat. So its almost like hes the Secretary Of State to the press. He doesnt its significant racy the boat, the guys who, who died, i had them both on my program. They are real hardliners. There was a Power Struggle in iran between somewhat more moderate and more hardline factions. But when trump pulled out of the iran deal, all that happened, the moderates lost out completely. This is now a hardline country verging on a kind of military dictatorship. Everybody, all your options are shades of hardliners and have the demonstrations largely. I mean in a been effectively crushed. Right . This regime came to power through revolution. It knows how to stay in power and not have a revolution over unseated. Its a very clever mixture of lots of repression. A certain amount of patronage, escape valves here and theyre things like these elections yeah, it was a heroic movement. But ultimately, its very tough when the regime is willing to use brute force on a massive scale. Frigidaria. Thank you so much. Appreciate it were now to ukraine were heavy fighting continues as russia tries to advance in the eastern kharkiv region, rushes trying to change the shape of the battlefield is theres billions in new us aid begin to arrive last week the pentagon said the first installments included air Defense Artillery rounds, armored vehicles, and antitank weapons. Nick paton walsh has more on what the battle looks like right now from the front lines dusk begins a race to hide before dark its this Drone Units First Night in a new location nation twilight a tiny window when perhaps you can unpack, setup without the russian drones that are always, always above seeing you as clearly like so much in this fast changing war, their task was unimaginable when moscow invaded the target is on the horizon. Russia itself into which they fly and plant minds on q roads. They wait for dark. Those lights twinkling over there on the horizon that belgorod, russia how close . Theyre operating towards russian mainland putins latest offensive towards kharkiv has made the fight personal for artyom is parents live about a fiveminute drive away . Im fighting for his literal home is unsettling will need less. I want to deal why were behind years for bakhmut youve shared a Scholarship Block Posterior now. Now, for the first of many times, thahat only defense is t listen for drones now that but im not monday it passes now what its dark then must hurry were russian drones have thermal cameras they hear another. Do you have all right well lets battles raging nearby may help them goh one noticed they resume any strike could also ignite the two minds. Theyre fitting that they hear another drone such an escalation over two years into the war to now see ukrainians flying drones explosive straight into russia inside sasha watches it cross the border, most recorded onto a Hoarder Dawson when theyre business less than communication last remarkably when russian jammy and kicks in, the drone keeps going primary changed colon, and theyre able to pick the signal up again deeper inside russia they spot the target road. They will mind dropped both payloads and head back a gps problem means that drone crashed lands, but they have a spare. They wants elsewhere managed 24 sorties one night but they have to be spotted only once. And these shells may not pass over the head. We leave quick might salford first to avoid drones the road. Littered with antitank defenses, not laid out in time to hinder russias latest advance and now they have only courage and engineered it to hold bag dark nick, how is morale among the soldiers right now is as the russian attacks on kharkiv have increased i think its fair to say a group like that, well with were pretty boyd by the task theyre given feeding, they can actually take the fight. Is it were back into russia to russia something we didnt even know indeed happen that they were laying mines its to interrupt the ability of russia to get across its own borders. But i also think in other units, weve been talking to around this area, it isnt particularly great. I think there is a sense of disconcerting that has not been adequate Fortification Put in place in the northern border to hold that russian offensive that took place about a week ago back and also that were going to see a slow arrival potentially of western aid into peoples hands to give them the by hand, the staggering thing anderson, those to see how drones have completely changed daily life on the front line, pretty much every unit weve been with since weve been here in the last week at some point, weve been told to run for cover to get away from the visibility of russian drones flying overhead. Sometimes they simply dont even know who the drone belongs to when hovers above them. And its most likely russians trying to spot targets for the intensive airstrike, huge after on bonds or superior artillery, theyve got more munition currently than the ukrainians to bring them to bear on those positions. So it does appear, yes. In recent days, the rushes as violence may have slowed their certainly not making the huge strides deeper into ukraine that perhaps they thought might be able to. But ultimately it is an uphill task, certainly, and its one that may get different weeks ahead because at this stage, there are thoughts russia may start probing and other parts around the frontline rather than necessarily focusing on the areas is already hit here north of kharkiv, anissa behind me, just weve heard explosions over the night, but its desolate, it utterly silent, lights off harkey, bracing, frankly, for any potential russian attacks tonight, madison, nick paton walsh. Thank you. I appreciate you being there. Be careful still ahead. Bill nor stops by to talk trump, biden and more than from his new book, he dives into the commentaries is made over the last 20 years as host of hbos real time be right back if you are shopping for our whole realtor. 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Now as we were discussing earlier in the program, were likely just days away from the completion of the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Its one of many topics is provided fodder for a comedian and host of hbo show, real time with bill maher, whos out with a new book titled what this comedian said will shock you and full disclosure hbo and cnn share the same parent company, but marc joins me now. The book is really good. Youve described it as being like the bible. You can pick it up. It just read it. Im not sure a lot of people will agree, but i guess what you mean because you can im just saying you should put it by your bets. On the nightstand and read a few passages each night because but its basically youre commentaries from the last 20 years. Yes. We edited and yeah, really exact. Match and i wanted to people kept saying to me, you know, these editorials you do at the end of the show when it is what i worked the hardest on there. I mean, they really hold up, they really do. I appreciate you saying that, but it is true. I went through them a not all of them du or did and thats why i spent all those months when we were on strike going through all of them, pick the creme dla crown, reason. I got to say i was skeptical when i hear is like, oh, 20 years of stuff. Yeah, its really its oil. When youre dealing, when you have 20 years of stuff, you can be very choosy and just take a real great stuff and put it together. I put it in chapters have made it make sense by topic. And it is kind of like an encyclopedia of every gosh darn good thing i ever set trump. Seems to hate you get not blame him. Im im you early on. He stood me in 2013. Yeah, about the aranda tags thing which is a ridiculous law through people think it was some you said Something Like, well, they think its a defamation. It was not a defamation lawsuit. It was way stupider than that. And Michael Cohen, mosley, one delivered the letter, but i had he was offering obama 5 million no. Actually, to produce his College Records because hes a racist and he thinks its suspicious of black man went to college apparently okay. So i offered him 5 if he could prove he was not the son of an orangutan because we showed the picture of an orange hair to rank attack and they, the coloring is exactly it does look like theyre related, but of course they couldnt be. But he came into court and demanded the 5 million because he produced his Birth Certificate proving he was not. In fact, and Michael Cohen is the one who delivered well, he wasnt a lawyer on the letter, but the letter is hysterical. I mean, that my client is not this really can you believe that this is the it seems like its going to be the only trial that will go before the election. Well, ive been moaning and railing about that on my show because i mean, i tore Merrick Garland a new one a couple of weeks ago because i think the democrats blue it as they always do with this kind of stuff because theyve had for years what was all the delay about what why are we coming to the end . Of course, theyre going to try to run out the clock and they did. And so if this is the only one, the one thats the one they probably shouldnt have brought anyway, or if they did it was really a election violation. Election Law Violation trial that should have been tried nationally on a federal level. And it wound up to be falsifying Business Records on the state level. So its already in the wrong court and why didnt garland bring this earlier federally or why arent any of these being wrapped up in four years . Its just so ridiculously write in the book about how you did this documentary, religious and that youd say in the book that atheists often come up to you and say that theyve become atheist but after seeing this, but that no one, no supporter of trump comes up to you know, has ever come up to you and said, im no longer im off the trump train because of what you said or vice versa you i cannot change peoples. This is why, i mean we feel like one of the themes of the book is add in my show all the time. Im just saying, you can hate trump, you cant hate everybody who likes him its half the country. Okay. And i mean, look, no one was harder on trump or will be harder on trump. And i think i was out front on predicting he was not going to leave office but you cant change peoples minds like that. Sometimes they just like a guy. And i also concede that there are so much, so much goofing is also on the left, right that i do understand why people go yet trump is crazy and we dont really like him, but you know what, what youre selling scares me even more. Well, whats and thats what people i think have to understand is to see both those sides. Whats entering into is you are very much and youve talked about this on your show you call itself in n14 me, and youre going to see yourself the middle. But its itching because the wright quotes you when you say stuff that antiwar, okay. At courts. And the left, yes. Decries you and then the left likes you when you Say Something bad about trump. And this is one of our big problems is that were all in our bubbles we are all in our media bubbles. And so many people just want to hear coming back to them what they already believe in an echo chamber. Most america is in the center. But you dont see that in the media, right . I mean absolutely pertains to this network this network is trying to establish now, i think again, that we are the center where you can be on either side. And of course that was very hard to maintain during trumps presidency because he does things that are so out of the realm. They are not normal and so when you criticize them, you sound like youre on the left. Its a very hard thing to find, but thats what im always trying to find that place. And its not that were ever going to be agreeing on things. It just that we cant hate each other. I am tired of the hate i dont want to hate half of this country and i dont hate me for this country. Were going to take a quick break. Well have more with bill maher in a moment oh, cornea zelda, its gotten me. I saw them. Thats what i said. Godman, saada carnot got to me. What with more flavored, got any carnage icing it like this, juicy why, choose a sleep numbers smart bad . Can it keep me warm when im cold wait, no, im always hot. 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But laura is back it is. I mean, the Polarization Section is so real and very how does that chain i mean you look back like in the 70s, america was very polarized. There was political bombings. Would, so i dont know if its the same level or just a different form. Well i think the difference is, well, fox news came along in the 90s that changed everything that msnbc obviously became a mirror of that in a way. I mean, i think theyre much more realistic about what they talk about and i usually agree with them more, but same thing is that youre youre only youre only giving one side of the story, but press rates me the most about the media is that whatever i hear, i dont fully trust, its not that i dont believe what youre saying, but i dont think youre giving me the whole story before if we go even further back than that, i think even before social media, people just did not use to talk about politics 24 7 to everyone they ever met. First of all, you earn in touch with everyone you ever bet, but you arent on facebook, then so facebook became a place where youre arguing with your eighth grade lab partner, kobe but ivermectin nurses just so everybodys ginned up all the time. And so theres this level of hate. I mean, that you were quoting from that last chapter, which is called divorce and there are lots of people who talk about this divorce, you know, america should get a divorce or maybe we should separated two different states first, lets not possible. Second, votes not desirable. Our strength was always, i thought that our diversity that we are different and im always preaching to people that everyones like you get over yourself, people grow up in different parts of the country with very different values and you cant own them or destroy them and theyre not going anywhere then itself deporting, you can win every election, half the country. The losers are still going to be here and they cant have them see thing. Were always see anything about each other. It does seem like the many folks not i dont know if theres many, but certainly the loudest folks who get into congress run on. Not necessarily to make deals and to actually get stuff done. Its to own the libs are own the trump pions and its not necessarily about any kind of moderation is a nasty were any kind of making an emmy will deal. I mean, to me, youre presenting more of a false equivalency on this issue than i would the democrats in congress on a certainly dont agree with all of them. And there are some that are way out there. Wont say any names. The squad that i dont agree with a lot of stuff but theyre generally still the same party of our type of government are parliament, if you will, the republican partys unrecognizable, especially the congress people, theyre just there to do performance nonsense. Theyre there to like, i burners their credentials to get a show on fox news or nothing order, deal people. Like Marjorie Taylor greene and just a real mental midgets that who they are not interested in legislation, they dont know how it works. Not really interested in improving the country. They are just interested, as you said, in owning the libs, making liberals cry their tears and getting revenge, and also their cultish, their natural born cultish. I was saying this on my show friday night and somebody objected, but its true im sorry the old line was always democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line and they always say, they always, they fall in line before behind their candidate. And now they found a candidate who is a cult leader. So that quality of falling in line very dangerous now, because its sort of in their nature. Well, i mean, you pointed this out the other day. I was obsessed with this the other day in court, and i saw it on your show you have to. Dress identical. Now to trump, i mean, thats just the weirdest thing to me. Its just the most clear is the clearest representation of just the ridiculousness theyre all wearing these red ties. I mean, there was a shot outside the courtroom, literally theyre all wearing the same thing. Always a good sign when the Rightwing Party starts wearing a uniform thats like i have been using this phrase, slow moving coup since before trump was elected the first time before he even got elected, i said this is a slowmoving goo, and this is just, i watch these dominos fall onebyone. The signs of a country that is moving into a different realm and its happened in many other countries, famously, rome was a republic and then it was a dictatorship under julius caesar. And i see this American Caesar slowly taking us down this road. Thats the first thing i thought when i saw the red tie and the same theyre wearing the trump uniform that this is a, another rubicon were crossing. Bill maher graduations on the book. 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