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Overtime – Episode #734: Rep. Ro Khanna, Jonathan Martin

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Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 6/19/26) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The questions are for you guys, what are the panel's thoughts on Hillary Clinton saying that Joe Biden's presidential election bid was a terrible mistake?

Well, I mean, we all came to that conclusion a long time ago. But the timing was interesting because it was the same week that Obama was opening his presidential library. And you had the Obama's obviously on stage. But right behind the Obama's bill, you had the Clinton's on one end and the Biden's on the other end. It was a little frosty, but between the Biden's and the Clinton's because of that comment,

she was saying out loud, what I think has become received was the gospel truth among most Democrats, Rowe. But where was she in 2022 and 2023? Where were every prominent Democrat in the lead-up to the reelection that Biden should not have pursued? The Democrats are original sin. Yes, Biden running again.

It was bigger than that. It was Democrats in Congress, the governor is not saying a damn word about Biden running again. And in fact, enabling it and saying he should run again in 2024. But privately, you know when I know they were really worried about having done it again. Okay, was obviously a mistake for him to run again.

But you know what? I respect Secretary Hillary Clinton, I respect these folks. They need to exit stage left, let a new generation lead. And I don't know why she's having these conversations. People want to hear from Andrew Bashir from Mombani, from Pete Buttigiegs.

There are a lot of great people in the next generation. Thank you for your service. You've had your time. What a new generation. You think Mombani is a great one, huh?

I don't know. Did you see his nicks speech? I mean, I'm not the issue that most concern me. I don't know. Because the speech was not just about the nicks.

First of all, he like, was psyched every nicks player. I mean, I couldn't do that about the person. He's a mayor of New York. Well, you haven't talked about how it's actually bringing people together. Trump voters, Mombani voters, how it's overcoming the odds.

And he took a speech that was just about celebrating the championship. And he made something bigger about it. Okay. Well, it doesn't make me forget that his wife loved October 7th attack on Israel. And that he pales around with terrorists.

No. Come on. Have you hit him on the show?

We ask people like that role they never come.

I'll talk to him. I would love that. He might think he should sell.

Yeah, I think he could pay him the whole time.

I think he should sell. He's the right guy. And I think you'll find... I'm not saying he's not a smart guy. He went to the White House.

Yeah. I mean, you took... Are you filming a film with everybody? Can't come here? Yeah.

You should come here. Are you sure? Come here. Oh, so should AOC? Showed it all of the Democrats.

Well, they should come here. You know what? Are you fine? I've voted for them. Not him.

But I mean, I... He is Trump's money, though. And he has... He doesn't need your money here, unfortunately. But the reason he was there is certainly Trump

was because he needs federal help for New York. And so he understood he had to be there, playing the Trump's ego in vain. Because he can't have the feds being hostile to New York City.

He needs federal help.

Look, I think it's bigger than that, Jonathan.

I agree with the strategic. But I think he has a view that you go. You talk to everyone. You engage everyone. You engage Republicans.

That's what he should do. You talk to everyone. Well, I mean, there's Democrats and there's Democrats socialist. I mean, those are two distinct parts of the same party.

I mean, they... They are obviously in a coalition together. But they... People who are Democratic Socialists make that distinction.

They say, "I am a Democratic Socialist." That's Bernie Sanders. That's Montgomery. That's the mayor of Seattle. And none of them.

And so far, it plays in big cities. But there's no evidence yet that you can... You can take that outside of major metro cores. And that's country.

And I think one of the fascinating tests of the 2028 campaign for president is is there going to be somebody that reflects those views that can play beyond a New York,

Seattle, now a Washington DC.

Well, Bernie Sanders is over too,

running for president. Okay? So it had been tried previously. And it hasn't worked. So the question is, "Can this play

on the road somewhere else?" South Carolina, New Hampshire, or Nevada, beyond a big city? It hasn't so far.

Well, first of all, we're in a different

time than 2020. And many people have seen income inequality sore these wars that they don't like. But you are a social star.

Yeah, I call myself a progressive capitalist. I call myself for economic patriotism. Rebuild the FDR coalition. But make sure it includes the black south. We're talking about building new factories

in places like Pennsylvania. Having new trade schools. Having health care for everyone. With Medicare for all.

I believe having economic development

and economic business rights. You can have a majority coalition. FDR did it in four terms. But you say the party, the tent is big enough for both the Democrats and the Democratic Socials.

It's big enough. I can read just some of the things that are the Democratic and the Democratic Socialists. Yeah, sure. Okay, because some of them I agree with.

Okay, here's the ones I agree with. Reuse military spending. I've been saying that forever. Especially in the age of drones. Buying fighter planes is ridiculous.

Well, I'm pretty sure you say that. Because I'm one of the only votes on the House Arms Service community. They blew me when I vote. No.

But I was like, why are we spending five percent on the military?

Close bases overseas. Saying that forever. We're still voting rights to criminals. Criminal convictions. We should be doing that a long time ago.

Statehood for DC. I'm for that. Get rid of the electoral college. Okay. Can I read you to the ones that I think are crazy?

Sure. I mean, I mean, I agree with them either. Universal healthcare. No premiums. No copays.

No deductibles. I tried this in Vermont. They couldn't get it to work. You can do it nationally. It's worked in Taiwan.

It's worked. It's not a state room. It's not a state room. It's not a state room. No, but look.

It's worked in Canada. We pay twice as much for healthcare. As any other industrial industry. Right. And we've got the worst healthcare outcomes.

If you had a single pair. If you just expand Medicare. Moynihan wanted to do this. If you expand Medicare for everyone. And everyone has to pay a little bit more.

You're so welcome. You're so welcome to state like Vermont. I mean, they've also proposed it here in California. And the budget would have to be like $800 million. It would be like twice or three times.

We pay for everything. The U.S. Congress is not going to end private healthcare in this country. There's no one is. No one is talking about ending private healthcare.

They're having an expanding Medicare. And then if you have Medicare with hearing and a vision and a vental question. And then you expand it. Then people can still get supplemental private insurance.

The reality is Medicare works.

And if you expanding it is the biggest way to lower costs in this country and get everyone covered. I don't think you look at what has worked when Johnson created Medicare. He envisioned that he would eventually cover everyone. The reason we don't have this private health insurance company. I'm confused why it would work nationally when it couldn't work even in these two states.

Because the states didn't have the waivers to get the money. You need the federal money. You need the Medicare Medicaid money that the states didn't have. And so it's hard to do it on a state without the waivers. If you have the waivers and you have the right policy on taxation then you can do it.

And you're the same. What line heard Obama the most on the ACA? If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. He got jammed on that because you want to keep their doctor.

The only thing that people hate more than healthcare and health insurance companies.

It's fucking what their health insurance companies. Because they want to have the same health care. Just be screwing up with your health care. And very heavily hurts the part. You get just doing this.

You're not talking about national health care. You're not talking about national health insurance. I mean, you can keep your doctor. You can go see any doctor you want. Every doctor is in that work.

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Or is it really even-- What does it even mean?

Open borders.

I think we need a secure border.

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Eighteen over three, Monterey versus Madison. I mean, no, it wasn't in the Constitution, but it is go 1803 that this is what the Supreme Court does. It reviews. To find with judicial review,

but we should have term limits on the Supreme Court justice. Okay, that's a difference. That's a difference. Okay. (applause)

All college free and cancel student all student loan debt. You know, for the time we were in Iran, literally we could have free public college in America.

I mean, what would be a better investment for the United States?

Literally, for the amount we spent on Iran, we could have-- What about the canceling student loan debt? Because a lot of people say, and I would agree with this,

it sort of helps the better off people. I mean, the person who doesn't go to college is now going to subsidize the person who's going to make a lot more money because they did go to college. It doesn't seem actually like a progressive thing to do.

I could get a lot of student loans. I've done well. They shouldn't forgive student loans for people like me. But if you're working class,

you're first in your family to go to college.

You have all this debt. And then you're paying off your debt until you're 50 or 60 and you can't get a house. We can pay off that debt. And you know how we pay for it?

Taxi on Musk. Tax the billionaire. You're not talking about the dollar, guys. Let's do it, I'm not talking about that. I think it's-- I represent one firm of this nation's wealth.

In a 50 mile radius, 20 trillion dollars. That's right. One third of the nation's wealth is in my 50 mile radius. Stock work in its 70 trillion, 20 trillion.

We're producing more wealth than ever before.

And you're telling me we can't have health care and free college for Americans. If Americans-- you know, when I go out and I speak, and I say, "You'll earn musk as become a trillionaire, usually people just boo."

And I was like, "Why is that? Why aren't they cheering?" It's because they aren't getting anything. But the politics still are risky. It's one thing to expand community college access.

Make that free, perhaps make, you know, some state universities free. But what Bill is talking about is the politics of telling a blue-collar guy, "Hey, your taxpayer dollars are going to forgive some college smart ass."

He's not paying his loans back. He's like, "Well, health out helping me, man." Because they're so risky. Because that's the Republican phrase. But we've got to tell you, is the billionaires

of screwed you and they've screwed the college kid. Get the college kids loans for given and put a Marshall Plan in America to build new industry. But Democrats already have a challenge with working class voters.

Because you're part of it. Because we didn't have to. Because we did China in the World Trade Organization because we watched places like Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where I grew up fair, let's work, shut down,

steal plants, shut down. And we did do a thing. And you know what? If Donald Trump hadn't won, this is one thing I say to by Democratic friends,

no one would have been going to war in Ohio and middle-town Ohio and down River Michigan. We shifted those communities. We need to say we made a mistake. And we're actually going to invest in those communities.

But you can do that and forgive the student loans. If you just text some of the billionaires in my district, I don't understand it. The guy who represents that area is saying text them.

How is this hard for 434 other members of Congress?

Well, your example. Well, it's run a magazine. We've done it. We were really pushing that pencil thing. I ain't going to show it.

It's not by your chest. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. When you run for a president, you don't want to be in a caliph. Where do you go? I am the pencil thing.

How else have you ever heard about it? Yeah, exactly. Ty Warn. What does the panel think of the Supreme Court ruling that habitual marijuana users can't be banned

from owning guns? Now you have my attention. Do you see it? No, that's amazing. That's awesome.

That's fair. I mean, I want guns. And I can't have them because I don't, because it's illegal. Because I am a, perhaps, or maybe it's just... Maybe it's a gun guy.

You want guns? I don't know. Of course. Why wouldn't you want a gun? I don't know.

We don't have a gun.

But I respect the second one.

And I wouldn't have thought that you had guns. I don't. Because of that. But yes. I mean, you know, I can't expect the police

to be everywhere like that. I mean, when you need a gun, I mean... When I need a sidepiece. There you go. And of course, another complaint I would have about California

is it almost makes no sense to have one because you almost can't use it. Because if you do, you might be the one to go to jail. I mean, you can shoot an intruder in your house. But you better do it exactly right.

He better be in your bedroom facing you. (laughter and applause) Really? Oh, well, no, don't shoot him on either. You're shooting him on the lawn.

You're going to go to jail. I mean, that's kind of ridiculous, isn't it? Well, look, I think that we need to...

I, for investing in police.

I'm for having public safety.

I don't think the answer to crime should be...

Everyone takes justice into their own hands. Even if there's somebody in your house?

They're in the house self-defense.

Well, that's what we're talking about.

Yeah, but in other parts of the country,

you've had self-defense taken.

And people shot, shot, shot, you know,

drive on Martin's case.

There are cases where people have taken the law

and their own hands shot folks. We are innocent. Let's go get his sidepiece. I know when no one wants that. Sidepiece.

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