Overtime – Episode #729: John Fetterman, Dan Crenshaw, Donna Brazile

Speaker 10:00

[upbeat music] Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maher.

Bill Maher· Host0:06

All right. [audience cheering] He's the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman. [audience cheering] He's the Republican congressman from Texas and host of the podcast Hold These Truths, Dan Crenshaw. [audience cheering] And she is an ABC News contributor and former DNC chair, Donna Brazile. [audience cheering] All right.

John Fetterman· Guest0:20

Great.

Bill Maher· Host0:22

Let's get to the questions that the people wanna know. They wanna know, uh, what do you make of the split in MAGA? Is there a Republican civil war brewing? Well, there certainly is big disagreements. I mean, you know, uh- I've been fighting the civil war for a long time, you know, pointing out the, the atrocities and the, the, the grifting of people like Tucker Carlson.

Dan Crenshaw· Guest0:45

And now there's a lot more people obviously realizing that. Um, some of us had to be first to cross the beach ahead and take all the bullets, but I like that we're having that civil war. It's, it's not new, you know, as you think about it, back in the, back in the day, Buckley versus the, the Birch Society. It's similar. It's, it's grievance politics. It's populist politics. It's not conservative politics, and we need to root it out. At least I love that we're having that, that battle. It's a battle against the influencers that are pay to play. It's a battle against, you know, and then the companies they use- Well- ... as cutouts ...

Bill Maher· Host1:20

it's also- It's a battle against the podcast grift too, people getting their news from this stuff, and it's, it's, I'm glad we're finally people are waking up to. It's also, it's also about integrity, isn't it? You lost your job because