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
announced the sanctions on russia for interfering in the election. that same day there was a call between flynn and kislyak, the russian bam bass door. this fine line like a good soldier calls all of his friends at the white house down at mar-a-lago to tell them he got this call and what should i say in return. including e-mails in which kt mcfarland saying what did she say. they all knew. you ve got to believe trump knew, too. that is established. let s face it, he s the president. all these people work for the president. where are they? mar-a-lago. he might have been playing golf but i guarantee you at some point, somebody filled him in on what was going on. let s say the president and his people tell flynn yeah, tell them don t worry about the sanctions. we re, whatever he says about the sanctions. and then flynn gets caught by the fbi and he lieses about it. they have the intercepts. the president does everything that we know he did with comey,
including e-mails in which kt mcfarland saying what did she say. they all knew. you ve got to believe trump knew, too. that is established. let s face it, he s the president. all these people work for the president. where are they? mar-a-lago. he might have been playing golf but i guarantee you at some point, somebody filled him in on what was going on. let s say the president and his people tell flynn yeah, tell them don t worry about the sanctions. we re, whatever he says about the sanctions. and then flynn gets caught by the fbi and he lieses about it. they have the intercepts. the president does everything that we know he did with comey, et cetera. they don t fire flynn. ultimately it becomes public. is that an obstruction case right there. yeah. plus, you ve got the. why? because he s trying to stop the investigation into flynn. he knows that flynn lied. that lie is extremely material because it relates to what occurred during the campaign and the coordination betw
have. even if you arm them, doesn t necessarily make them more powerful. absolutely not. we ve seen rebels being armed and armed again in parts of world. the anti-taliban groups were armed throughout the 1990s and driven up to the north of the country by taliban itself. that shows weapons alone can t do it. you need special forces on the ground, turning them into a cohesive military force. one other caution, we also don t know who the rebels are. we know there are islamist groups in the north of lynn yeah. we know libya sent more fighters to iraqi insurgency than any other arab country. that s not to say it s some fundamentalist movement. it s absolutely not. western powers will be concerned and careful before extending full support to rebels. barack obama says this should take days, not weeks. unrealistic? absolutely. typical story from interventions. it mays months, not weeks, in fact. thank you very much. well, the unrest in libya has raised fears over the