this won t do well at auction. but at at&t, it s worth a brand-new samsung galaxy s23. wait really? mmhmm. what about this? at&t s deal is back. wow. everyone gets a free new samsung galaxy s23 with a galaxy phone trade-in. any year, any condition. in this era of trivial politics comedian bill maher doesn t care if you re democrat or republican. his decades of cross roads of politics and comedy has given him an inside pollical consultants and bookies would die for. from this in 2015 all those people who say donald trump could not go all the way i don t think they re right. to this just a few years later. i don t think he s leaving. even if he loses the election in 2020. tonight bill maher looks ahead to 2024 and trump s odds now. do you think he s going to get the nomination and do you think he can beat joe biden? and maher doesn t hold back against president biden or the democrats either. democrats sometimes can take it too far. reporter: he gives us his in f
way you talk i wonder if you are going to be as involved politically in 2024 as you have been in it past. i remember you giving millions of dollars to help barack obama get elected. yeah, well, i gave a million dollars to obama. that absolutely happy i did that. 2012. it was the first year of the citizens united you gave it to priorities usa, which is a pro-obama super pac. correct. because i felt at the moment people had not gotten the memo that we re playing on a completely different field than we ever have before. anybody can give any amount of money and someone has to ring the bell here and say, look, we re at the million dollar level. i remember my manager saying, couldn t you just give 500,000?
they re trying to get back they lost by ten points or more. not michele bachmann. they only lost that one by one point. well, it is rather amazing how the liberals made use of their dollars versus the lack of success that the conservatives had. why is that? well, i think that, you know, the ads were better, to start with. so the pro-obama super pac that was run by bill burton, who used to work in the white house, his ads were breaking through on bain and some other subjects, whereas the republican super pacs were spending much, much, much more money but their ads didn t cut at all, they were poorly done, and so the democrats kind of caught a break at the presidential level. at the senate level they had some terrible candidates to work with and they did not deploy their resources well on the republican side, and in both presidential and senate races they made a lot of poor media buying decisions. so some of these were kind of technical areas where the democrats were just smarter tha
point. well, it is rather amazing how the liberals made use of their dollars versus the lack of success that the conservatives had. why is that? well, i think that, you know, the ads were better, to start with. so the pro-obama super pac that was run by bill burton, who used to work in the white house, his ads were breaking through on bain and some other subjects, whereas the republican super pacs were spending much, much, much more money but their ads didn t cut at all, they were poorly done, and so the democrats kind of caught a break at the presidential level. at the senate level they had some terrible candidates to work with and they did not deploy their resources well on the republican side, and in both presidential and senate races they made a lot of poor media buying decisions. so some of these were kind of technical areas where the democrats were just smarter than the republicans. that might not stand up.
differences of opinion, we will fight about priorities, but we will not have anymore fights based on nonsense that the right made up to entertain itself. if we have a real beef, we will fight it out. but if it s made up, that made-up stuff will no longer be entertained at the level of national policy. joining us now is bill bergman, a senior strategist for a pro-obama super pac. he previously served as the deputy press secretary for this president and for national press secretary for mr. obama s campaign in 2008. mr. burton, congratulations. thank you very much. you had a big year. it was a good election. one other presidential clip that you could have shown would have been from the american president, when andrew shepard says, i am andrew shepard and i am the president. and not born in kenya. i think the president is saying, you know what, the birth certificate thing is not going the paradigm for the kinds of fights we have here. we re to the going to fight