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And now the hbo original series real time with Bill Maher start the clock i, everybody. How are you doing . Hi thank you. People thank you. How are you everybody hi. Thank you. Hi all right. I know. Exciting time of year. Thank you very much. Youre very kind okay. Sit down. We got a big show. Theres a lot to talk about. Election is only two months away. And of course, happens every time. Its tied does it even matter who runs . Every year we do this its tied. It always comes down to a few thousand people in three states who cant make up their mind between two items on the menu You Know the best thing, the best thing about living in california is that were not a swing state. So they leave us alone really . I mean all year in l. A. , i think ive seen one Trump Sign and Scott Baio was sleeping under it just a joke. We can all in good fun. No, we have we have much bigger problems out here. It was 104 today. Here it was 118 in the valley. Oh, i was sweating like j. D. Vance in a donut shop. I wow oh, it was hot. Kanyes wife asked him if she could put something on so she could take something off. I mean, it was but if youre a political watcher, it is getting exciting because the debate is tuesday, a few days away. Are you excited about that 00, i cannot wait to see this Thing Trump and kamala. Trump says he doesnt know whether kamala is indian or shell be black that night so hes preparing two sets of slurs oh, and this is great. They finally resolved the Microphone Issue of the debate. Theyve been arguing about this for weeks now. Kamala wanted the mics on when the other guy was talking so we could find out what a Nut Trump is. You know, like its not like we dont know. And trump wanted them off and trump won. The microphones will be off. And this is weird. He also asked that my microphone be turned off. I but very very strict rules during this debate. No huddling with your advisers during the commercial breaks. You only get when youre out there a pad, Paper And Water and a kamala asked for tim walz. But other than that but look the democrats switched their strategy. You know, they used to be about democracy. Trump is threatening democracy, which he is. But that shit didnt sell and democracy, whatever. So they went to hes weird people love this this is selling. People are buying this one. And its really upsetting trump because he was doing an interview with Sean Hannity and hes kind of obsessed with this weird thing. He said, no walls is The One. Thats weird. He said, jd, he said, j. D. Vance is a Solid Rock and then he said, and You Know what . Im a very Solid Rock. Thats so trump. He always has to be better. Even when hes calling you a rock, he has to be a better rock. I mean its almost like its weird, but but heres the other thing that weve seen this many times. You see it every election cycle. Theyre going through it again. The music that the republican plays at their rallies is not the beat of the people theyre playing to want. Dont play our music we hate you Bruce Springsteen went through it. You two went through this. Jackson brown rage against The Machine. Had to tell the guy look, we hate you. We think you are The Machine thats why were raging so now now i think the Isaac Hayes Estate is upset because trump has been playing. Hold on, im coming. And he said, no, you cant play. Hold on. Im coming. And trump said, oh, what else am i ever going to hear that . Come on and okay so two months of the election and again something weve seen before. And now we see it every time russia is at it again interfering with our elections. We saw it when they got involved with facebook putting shit up there remember 2016. We saw it again in 2020. All Social Media now this time theyre big on influencers, gamers any any place where real people are online. 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Should we have been in all those or any of them answer any of these questions . Yeah well, ill tell you, i think one of the themes that goes through the book is really what a privilege it is to serve and defend the country. And i got to i really, You Know You Know, i got to be i got to be part of teams where the Man Or Woman next to you is willing to give everything including their own lives, for you. And what people dont understand. A lot of times, bill is a good military unit, a good Army Unit takes on the character of a family, You Know, and youre bound together by common trust, purpose and and really, You Know, the willingness to sacrifice for one another, a sense of honor and so it was a privilege to serve every day, i think, in the gulf war, You Know, it was obviously a just war in terms of Saddam Husseins illegal annexation of of kuwait i remember right after the wall fell, this was in in 1989, our our troop, our Cavalry Troop had been patrolling the eastwest german border when it happened. I remember i had like a silly argument with my wife right after she said, youre just mad because you dont have an enemy anymore. Well, You Know thanks to Saddam Hussein You Know, invading invading. It wasnt really our enemy, certainly not for the iraq war. Well, but if you if you think about, like what would be had nothing to do with nine over 11. Well, no, im talking about the gulf war. I know, but what about when you go when you go to when you fast forward now to 2003. I think theres a consensus now that if it wasnt a big mistake if it wasnt unjust to to to, to wage that war, which i think its important to understand, Saddam Hussein was trying to convince All Of Us that he had nuclear weapons because he thought that was the best way for him to prevent an attack. Of course, after nine over 11, thats the way to actually incite an attack against you. So and then, of course, in afghanistan, the War In Afghanistan followed, You Know, the most murderous Terrorist Attack in history, where we lost, You Know 3000 people on nine over 11. Yeah, but not by the country of afghanistan. One guy who by the time we got to afghanistan was already in pakistan but it was it was the taliban who played host to to the to Al Qaeda all through the 90s. Bill like, You Know, remember, they You Know, they had declared war on us in early 90s. We didnt take it seriously then there was the first World Trade Center bombing with the trucks underneath the World Trade Center we fired a few cruise missiles, called it a day. And so it is really necessary to defeat these enemies of all civilized people to take away their their safe havens. I couldnt i couldnt agree more. Its how we do it that were arguing about. Do we need to occupy whole countries . I mean, what i read about your background and in your book, like when you were in afghanistan, a lot of what you were doing if i could just sum it, maybe im summing it or summarizing it wrong, but sort of monitoring the bribery we were giving out. Is that is that wrong . I ran a Counter Corruption organized crime Task Force there that stood up way late. Yeah, well, a friend of mine, a friend of mine, general general tony zinni, hes a fantastic person. Yeah. He called me up and said, hey congratulations on commanding the antigravity Task Force, You Know, but but, You Know, i but but really, what happened in afghanistan, i think bill and, You Know, i wrote my last Book Battlegrounds in large measure to explain this. What went wrong there . By the time i was confronting the problem of afghanistan, that i cover in detail in a war with ourselves, it hadnt been a 16 Year War at that point in 2017, it had been a one Year War fought 16 times over. And what happened is, i think, bill, our our short term approach, what was a long term problem, actually lengthened that war and made it a heck of a lot more costly and then the abandonment of the afghan people is such a tragedy. I mean, its still it causes heartbreak for me. I mean, let alone the afghans who are now thrust back. I see now women are not allowed to make any sounds in public. Womens voices are now outlawed and i see all the College Kids are upset and protesting that, oh no, theyre not no, theyre not fucking stupid anyway what i would say to the american soldiers and and servicemen and women who served in afghanistan who were heartbroken, disheartened by the disastrous withdrawal in august of 2021. I would say to them, look at what afghanistan is now and be proud of what you prevented and be proud of how you helped the afghan people enjoy that period of freedom from the taliban from 2001 to 2021. Remember, the people in afghanistan lived under the hell of taliban rule from 96 to 2001. After the civil war. Now they got it again. They have it again. So you lasted 13 months under trump, which is pretty good, right . Yeah, exactly. You know, You Know, one of the many one of the many national security biases. I mean you had a lot of generals around him. I thought among the generals that was one of the smarter things he did. I mean look, i dont agree with everything. Probably you say or mattis or general kelly, theyre probably a little more conservative than i am, but i dont doubt that theyre patriots. And smart people, good people, people who Have America In Mind first, theyre not corrupt okay um i worry if trump wins again because i feel like theres two kinds of generals in the world. The kind i just described. Eisenhower would be another one. Petraeus really good people. I mean, smart people who sacrificed more before 9 a. M. Than most people ever do in their whole life. And then theres general flynn yeah. Or in another era, You Know, general curtis lemay, The One in the the guy i wrote about him in dereliction of duty, You Know. Yeah. I mean, theres crazy ones during the cuban Missile Crisis yeah. A lot of them wanted to start a nuclear war. What do you see for the next term . And who are the generals going to be around trump then . Well, You Know, i know all these guys and gals, You Know, across our Armed Forces know. And i knew general flynn for many years. He was ill tell you, bill, he was a full on qanon. I write about it in the book. I dont know what happened to him, i really dont, but i do know i do know that he was treated unfairly at the outset as national Security Adviser. He was kind of railroaded out of there. The fbi interviewed him. He was talking to russia. No no, i mean, i write about this in the book, but i also write that hes not the same person i knew. You know and and i think what is what is lamentable about his behavior is on a number of levels is hes been one of the people and one of the dynamics associated with kind of trying to drag the military into partizan politics. We have to really guard against that. I mean, i tell the story in the book that, You Know, i took the oath of service at age 17 on the plane at west point. I never even voted, You Know, because i followed the example of George Marshall to have that bold line in place, You Know, and and i think the tone in the book, You Know, is one of nonpartizanship its critical of President Trump You Know, as it should be, its not a diet, but its not a diatribe against him, You Know, and and got some things right, seem to have a lot of problems with both sides. I would describe it as reckless versus feckless. You think trump. Yeah. Right well i think i think that. Right. I mean, you think i think Thats Trump is reckless but you think Obama And Biden and harris are feckless. Is that. Well, i think their policies have been feckless, in particular in connection with iran and The Middle East and the support for israel. I think what has happened is when they came back into office they resurrected the same failed policies of the Obama Administration in connection with trying to welcome iran back into the international order under the hope that iran would moderate. It only failed because trump undid it we never really tried it, and i never understood the bug up your ass. Not your ass. Excuse me, general, but Peoples Ass about look, i would say we have four enemies in the world. We have china, we have russia. We have north korea, and we have iran. Thank you. Why are we applauding our enemies . Hey, lets get five. No, i call it the. I call it. Its the axis of aggressors. Okay . You Cant Fight Everybody at once. I would say if youre going to find two who you could bring into the family of nations its probably russia. And iran, because i dont think the populations of those countries want to be where they are now china. Too much of a surveillance state, too much of a Dictatorship North Korea is just a Basket Case of of brainwashed people. Those arent going to happen. The iran deal. I mean, i have the things here irans stockpile of enriched uranium was reduced by 98 until 2031. The r d, the research, existing facilities redesigned so they could not produce Weapons Grade Plutonium international inspectors allowed to access any site in the country anytime they wanted. What do you want . I mean this is what negotiations are. Youre not going to do better than that. No, actually. And actually, you could do a lot better than that by not having it could but not have the other side agree to it. But i think sometimes what happens is our diplomats, when theyre faced with the opportunity to get a deal, they think that they should just make concession after concession and the deal itself is an achievement when in fact, in this case it was a political disaster for the reason is that really none of those really weak parts of the agreement, because there was a sunset clause, were were adhered to by by the iranians as soon before the ink was dry. Bill, they said, hey, heres all the list of sites you cant visit. And so the the Verification Regime was very weak it essentially gave a regime who you cannot trust. We know that from a four Decade Plus Cant trust anybody. Thats why you have this in the treaty that said it was inadequate verification, the sunset clause. But what happened is what happened was even worse than the agreement was that the Sanctions Relief that went along with it, the transferred You Know, 100 Billion, more than 100 Billion to the iranians. And You Know, where that money went into the coffers of the islamic revolutionary guard corps. And then increased the stipend of hamas hezbollah, the proxy army in syria, the Hostage Shaabi militias in iraq and the houthis and then when the biden administration came in they went back to that same playbook with actually kind of the same people they undesignated the houthis. How did that work out . They didnt enforce the Trump Era sanctions that resulted in the transfer of about 80 Billion into those coffers. Again remember, there were 6 Billion sitting in gutter to be transferred to the iranians on the eve of the october seventh, heinous attacks against israel. So i think the words you used feckless, that applies to the biden administration. I have one more important question. I have to ask you. Um illegal aliens. I mean, the really illegal ones, The Ones from Outer Space thats what my daughters want to know about. Theyre like, hey, okay, you were national security visor. You know, You Know right . You know, years ago, when there were sightings of ufos, it was some farmer in the middle of nowhere. Okay, now its navy personnel, right . Who say look, we see this thing and we cannot explain it right . Look, youre a military man im sure you have drinks with military people. Just like i have drinks with comedians you talk shop. You guys must talk about this. Whats going on . Its my. Its my next book, bill. I Cant Talk about it. No, no no no thats. Ill tell you. Thats what my daughters, my daughters are always pumping me for information. Okay, i know You Know about the aliens. Well, i mean, heres my theory. Is that the president would have to know when you got into office if there was area 51 and this was going on. They would have to inform the president. Trump was president. He would have blabbed it by now, right yeah. But what do you think . What are those things worth . I mean, there are things you cant explain. I mean, there are things that cannot be explained. And so i dont know what the explanation is for those unexplainable things, but i will say that there are phenomena that have been witnessed by multiple people that are just inexplicable by any kind of, You Know, the science available to us. Well lets hope your fourth tour of duty doesnt have to be mars. Thank you very much general. I appreciate you coming here. Good luck with the book. Thanks. All right. General mcmaster, lets this election season, cnn has you covered no matter the question from more about the candidates to rules in your state to casting your ballot, the Cnn Voter Handbook has your answers. Visit cnn. Com vote for yours Epson Ecotank wants to know does your printer run out of ink . At the worst time . Cartridges tiny. Dinky. Expensive dont get cartridge switched to the cartridge free Epson Ecotank comes with big bottles of ink prints up to 5000 pages. Welcome to chill ville. 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Hi, guys. Okay. He is a best Selling Author and journalist who is now running for congress in new yorks first district. John avlon back with us. Now a politician and hes The Editor in chief of national Review And Host of The Editors podcast. Rich lowry is back with us very long time okay so, um, its america. So we had a School Shooting when schools go back into session and were going to have to talk about this because it happens a few times every year. I think its happened 45 times already this year by the way, heres the new wrinkle in this one. Now theyre blaming the parents as i think they should. Its not the first time this happened. This father mr. Colt, mr. Colin colt, he gave his kid an Ar 15 when he was 14 years old in georgia, which is where this happened. You cant buy a gun if youre 14, but you can have one. Wrap your mind around that, james and jennifer crumbley, they were the first ones. I think that was about a year ago. And same thing in michigan yeah, they also were extremely derelict in their duty, i believe, as parents. And i think we were going to talk and we cant also talk tonight about taking phones away from kids in school its funny i think the problem here is that parents just dont have the ability to say no to kids for anything phones guns, just kids are a completely different class of people who you should be able to boss around. Thats why we can make them wear uniforms and eat Fish Sticks or whatever the fuck we do and we just dont do it anymore yeah, i mean, yeah, but i mean, a Cell Phone is in a different category than an Ar 15. Yes. I mean, You Know, and lets not lose sight of that reality. The danger is we get numb to this. Right . There have been 35 this year, 45. And so we dont pay attention. We know theres going to be cultural amnesia. And i think increasing the accountability for the parents who give an Ar 15 to their kid makes sense, because they ineffectively enabled the shooter. Oh, totally. And get back to some common sense. I mean, we forget when we politicize, You Know these debates, they should be politicized because we need a political solution that guys like Ronald Reagan advocated for the first assault Weapons Ban said, i favor guns for. We have a Second Amendment For Hunting for sport for selfdefense. You dont need a weapon of war in our streets to do that so, so obviously, the facts and and what the parents know matters, right you just dont want to charge all parents whose kids go and do this. But there was this kid had sent a message that the father apparently was aware of, and he still bought them bought him . This gun is a 14 year old. Same thing with the parents in michigan. Ran through all these Red Flags. And i think the policy that makes most sense is an appropriately crafted with all due respect for civil liberties, red Flag Law. But the problem is the places that have them, No One uses them. So this really needs to be a culture. If you see something, you got to say something. The parents, the families, the peers, the teachers and maybe these prosecutions when theyre warranted, will begin to get that idea across so what would a red Flag Law look like . Whats like if im some they passed the law and im someone im a parent. Im in the home. What is this Red Flag . Well, first of all, what do i have . Youre a parent and and you, You Know your kid is disturbed, having problems and is interested as this kid was correct. So you go to the authorities and to say, this is this is happening, and you go to a court and the court says he cannot buy or have a Gun Right . Because the problem with Assault Weapon bans one. What is an Assault Weapon . The definition goes to cosmetic features of the gun. What were talking about in all these cases, whether its a rifle, an Ar 15, a handgun, theyre semiautomatic weapons one pull the trigger. So if you ban a class of them, youre not going to ban all semiautomatic weapons in america. Theres no way. And the handgun unfortunately, is just as useful if youre motivated. Virginia tech shooting worst School Shooting in america 32. I believe Virginia Tech kids horrific was a handgun. I agree with that. We spend way too much time talking about the type of gun the problem is that this country is the gun country. We love guns and thats not going to go away but but this seems to make sense to hold the parents responsible. It reminds me a little bit of the change this country made in recent years with cops. I remember doing editorials ten years ago, and it was always about no matter what the cops do, they say, well it was by the Book And None of them ever are put in jail. That changed now we put lots of cops in jail when they do things Cops Shouldnt do, and i feel like this is just this is progress to me. Parents its something we can work with. Law enforcement. Law enforcement doesnt want illegal guns in the streets. And this is something we need to just find more and more, sort of coalitions of the sane, which is part gets back to the Cell Phone thing. Right . This is an issue of bipartisan support. There shouldnt be Smart Phones in schools because nobody likes them. Not good for the kids, not good for the teachers, not good for learning. So thats an area where there is bipartisan agreement. Lets act on that. Lets keep advancing it. Okay. But to your point about the guns being obviously more dangerous in the immediate than the phones yeah, true. But if you did a really long term study, i mean, over decades, im not sure that would come out that way because suicides alone caused by the phone. We know this happens lots of other bad things happen because of that goddamn phone. And now nine states now are beginning with this School Year Florida did it last time, but now nine states are on board with taking away the phone for the day. Good. Like this is should even be controversial and it is not know what you can do. Im just you can do it. What . What the case was when we were kids, if they need to get in touch with their parents, theres a Payphone Right and they can use it for free, even. And they can contact their parents that way, right . You dont need a this is the justification very often is you need the mobile phone. Because if something happens, you need to get in touch with your parents. There are other ways to get in touch with your parents. And im a neanderthal on this all screens are the enemy they are Distraction Machines even if youre just sitting and watching tv all day is that a happy person . No. And weve conducted This Mass Social Psychological Experiment on our teenagers with Social Media, and its been a disaster. I agree, but im not for bringing back the payphone, i dont think i dont think i dont, im a conservative reaction no, but if you Come On man, seriously, if you go to a School District and you have this argument, theyll say they need them, or the kids will say, i need them to get in touch with my. There are other ways to get in touch with your parents. Of course there are. And it aint going to be a payphone the point is, though, that that this is an area of actually theres a lot of common sense, broad bipartisan agreement, and its the kind of thing that needs to get done because there is a huge toll on teen mental health, particularly on girls and Jonathan Haidt studied this in his book, the anxious generation. This is an area where theres once again, theres agreement. So lets act on that. But again, the parents are the problem. The its the what its the parents i mean, were all sitting here like, isnt it obvious . Just take away the i mean, they take away your phone when you go to a concert, sometimes you put it in a pouch right thats all they want to do. Thats it. Whos whos objecting to this . Its the parents who are objecting to it because why . Because they need to be in touch with their little darlings at all times. Well, this is where the payphone. I think Thats Part of the problem. But this is a collective Action Problem because, bill, It Kids are not quite as easy to handle as you might might think and and when, when the talking about. Right. Yeah. I know nothing about this matter, but no but you have the other yeah. If every other kid has it, it becomes, it becomes much harder. And there are parents that that theyre very strenuous about it and theyre hard nosed about it and theyll deny it anyway. But it makes it much, much harder if and thats why thats why, actually, part of the effort is sort of collective action with the kids. So the parents say, no, kids are going to have, You Know, Smart Phones until theyre teenagers. And that can help if its done together. Okay. So i read a third of kids are now behind Grade Level. Yes, yes, she says. I think that was the same person who applauded for our enemies to behind Grade Level is what, in my day, we used to call getting left back. I remember when i had to get on the payphone and tell my mom that she was pissed off um but i dont know. I cant, i cant im just going to see you. Tell you what i read and you tell me what the truth is about our education. It seems to me like its screwed. And tattooed and blued, but okay barely a third of fourth graders nationally are proficient at reading, and even less in math. Uh this is from the Illinois State board of education. 26 of Chicago Public School students can meet English Language requirements 26 17. 5 in math, proficiency in math in Chicago Public Schools has dropped 78 since 2012. Reading has declined by 63 , and yet the national assessment of educational progress naep, like i have to tell you says they do the Testing And Theyve done it for decades, and were about where we were in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I guess my question is, were we that fucking stupid in the 70s, 80s and 90s . Probably really . Look i think theres always a tendency to romanticize the past, right and to sort of, You Know we forget the moral panics that existed in the past. But you got to deal with the data that were dealing with, and theres always room for improvement. We should stop doing by the way, is demonizing public schools and Public School Teachers in this effort. It seems to me i dont think that helps solve the problem. I also think part of the problem, part of the problem is we actually cut Civics Education and this is a big deal for me, right . Because we want to strengthen american democracy. Kids dont know our history. If kids dont know Civics Education, were not preparing them to be citizens of a democratic republic. And thats really screwed up. And we got to fix that well okay but maybe its just anecdotal. And they didnt mention the 60s here when i was a little kid. Okay. But i see i feel like the kids in my era, even the dumb asses could have passed an Exit Exam when they got out of when they were leaving high school. Like, do You Know basic shit, even even stevie murkowski could answer all right people were watching, and then our world changed tv on The Edge premieres sunday, September 22nd at nine on cnn i love that my daughter still needs me, but sometimes i Cant Help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands. So i use nervive nervive clinical dose of ala reduces Nerve Discomfort in as little as seven days. Now i can help again feel the difference with nervive when the sawdust settles and the engine roars. 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Someone has to explain cows no wonder Donald Trump can catch them and eat them all the only place they can really hide is the Museum Of Modern Art new rule. Now that california has been found to be the most catfished state in the country. Excuse us for trying to see the best in people oh sure. Sure, you can mock some Basement Dwelling Twitch streamer who believes a supermodel when she says she wants to marry him and all she needs is Credit Card but giving strangers the benefit of the doubt is in line with our West Coast values. But guys, i got to say, if a woman lives in a country you cant pronounce, she might not be real and if all her pictures look doctored and covered with filters, shes probably right here in l. A. So go for it new rule. Now that Katy Perry is boasting that when her fiance, Orlando Bloom does the dishes, she rewards him with oral sex. So someone has to warn her thats a Slippery Slope if doing the dishes gets you a blowjob. What are you going to do when he cleans the gutters and finally, new rule. If you want to win my vote, dont give me the ick You Know what the ick is, right . Its a term mostly used in the Dating World to describe that moment when one of the people, usually the man, does something so icky that the woman cannot forgive it or forget it like sending a Dick Pic or being mean to the waitress. Paying for dinner with a coupon getting his mother to call you when you dump him asking for sex in Baby Voice once you give her the ick. Its a rat now now in politics, Donald Trump has pioneered the concept of the ick to frontiers No One ever thought possible and that is saying a lot considering that we once had to learn that John Edwards was going down on his five month pregnant mistress because who doesnt love to see a Politician Kiss a baby but but trump, he is in a league of his own. From the way he talks about his daughter to the way he talks about his dick. I guarantee you theres no problem i guarantee it from doing disabled voice to humping the flag to last week getting into a shoving match in front of the eternal flame. And dont get me started on Jerking Off Two Guys at once what im saying is, dont underestimate the ick. Its its whats going to decide this election. And its the best thing democrats have going for them. Which, of course was the cue for the far left to say, hold my beer a couple of weeks ago, bobby kennedy, scion of the most storied dynasty in democratic Party History dropped out of the president ial race and threw his support not to the democrat but to trump and everyone, all at once said the same thing. Bobby kennedy did something weird for a kennedy in league with a republican. Thats like ordering white wine with bear now look i like bobby and always will. And there are things he has been right about that No One else would touch. But yes, i also think hes weird i couldnt support him for president. His wife is Cheryl Hines, who Larry David was quoted as describing as the best person ive ever met. The one person in hollywood who doesnt have a single enemy. Well, now she does because she didnt throw her husband under the bus when her husband made a decision about something which shes made plain, she disagrees with. But that didnt satisfy the obnoxious posers on the aforementioned far left thousands tweetscreamed at cheryl. Things like how do you live with yourself . Do better . I cant even enjoy the episodes of curb your enthusiasm when you and them anymore. Yeah its no Wonder Larry divorced you. Um yeah. Thats a character on tv, but okay the tweet that got the most attention was from actor bradley whitford, who wrote hey Cheryl Hines way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the Adjudicated Rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights. Gutsy. Great example for the Kids Profile in courage. Yeah, well, You Know what i think is not gutsy mansplaining to a woman but of course not to her face how she should sacrifice her marriage. Also, you could read something on twitter that met with your approval. Do you want to know why i have a bug up my ass about the left . More than i used to. Its shit like this. Theres an ugliness they never used to have. The liberals i grew up respecting none of them are like this. Going after the wife. Even the mafia doesnt do that theres a lot of people these days who i call liberals in theory in theory, they hate bullying. Terrible in practice their attitude is its not bullying. When i stick your head in the toilet in theory, liberals are compassionate in practice. This Guy Cant even understand one of the most basic dilemmas common to all humans that when youre married sometimes you have to swallow some shit You Know take one for the team do things you dont want to do do things you dont want to do like i dont know. Have children look, marriage is like a bong. For it to work, you have to take a few hits ive never even been married. And i know this. That its a delicate dance. Its a delicate dance. And youre not going to love everything your spouse says and does. But i promise You Know, Couples Counselor has ever said. Have you tried screaming at each other and that is what is so galling about this. Its exactly what Barack Obama had just told the democrats at their convention not to do our politics have become so polarized these days that All Of Us, across the political spectrum seem so quick to assume the worst in others, unless they agree with us on every single issue, we start thinking that the only way to win is to scold and shame and out yell the other side. Bradley, did you go to the Bathroom Or Something . When that came on because its almost like he was talking to you directly. Like by name. Dont scold, dont shame, dont out yell. Clinton had the same message. I urge you to meet people where they are. I urge you not to demean them. Treat them with respect. And thats the thing. The actual politicians of the democratic party are generally a pretty sane crop of people. The worst of them are leagues better than the worst republicans. The democratic politicians are not The Ones calling to defund the police and other goofy stuff, but the kind of people who are the kind of people who are always howling on Social Media. Yeah, thats who gives a lot of people the ick when they hear liberal and look i get it. Trump is awful. Hes not hitler, but he is possibly the worst person since hitler i kid don, wed love to have you on the show but its true but its true. He drives people insane. I get it. And You Know what i used to know bradley a little bit. He wasnt this guy. And while he may relish writing Cheryl Hines off, im not writing him off because thats not the way to handle this president obama, if you would. One more time, please. Our fellow citizens deserve the same grace we hope theyll extend to us so i get it, trump makes us crazy. He just does. I found a gray hair myself the other day and i might need glasses soon, but but we have to resist the Siren Call of being an asshole. You dont like trump . Then dont be like him, okay . Thank you very much. Thats our show. Ill be at the Cobb Energy Center in atlanta tomorrow night. The riverside of milwaukee on sunday, and the orpheum in memphis september 28th. I want to thank John Avlon, Rich Lowry, and Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster. Now go watch overtime on youtube thank you folks all right