bill maher is a friend of al franken. he talked about this photo of al franken mock groping leann tweeden. "al, it's creepy. and it's not science fiction." then he went on to say that franken doesn't deserve to lumped in with roy moore, harvey weinstein and president donald trump. >> well, we could spend all afternoon going case to case to case. but for today, i can say, i'm a democrat i believe in nonpartisanship. we have a congresswoman transendent as a republican but bipartisan. i hope we can agree what al franken did, what he acknowle e acknowledg acknowledged, he should leave, resign. >> i find it outrageous that anyone would defend him. >> i'm not defending him. >> not you. bill maher. he is saying that he should not be lumped in with harvey weinstein and bill moore. no, we're not saying that you allegedly sexually assaulted a minor. that's not what this is about. sexual assault and harassment is that, assault, harassment. politicizing it is ridiculous. >> we have legal standards, doug alluded to certain legal stand

he saved up all the lawyers fees to sue bill maher. >> did you actually sue. >> he very briefly suedsaid, this is silly. >> i begged him to sue me, actually. >> i'm next. now, i can't even -- he won't even tweet about me. >> i know, well -- >> that's fascinating. it's fascinating he won't tweet about you, what do you have to do to get him to tweet about you. you haven't gone far enough? >> say something nice about him? >> i guess so. >> that would do it. >> that would do it. >>> up next, what happened backstage after the stephen colbert show. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey. oh. that's my robe. is it? you could save seven hundred eighty two dollars when liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. our recent online sales success seems a little... strange?nk na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they're affordable and fast... maybe "too affordable and fast." what if... "people" aren't buying these books online, but "they" are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it'

what he question one of us are truly just people they hate you don't call and say hey bill maher i think they do that how weird is it to hide and i think is the white house tonight the is someone who believes in nothing i hate that i hate that whole theory that people have when they start going well if you are and i used why don't you just write people want you killed why don't you just do your book because i'm not a right but i'm not a murderer and i believe in being good to people that's why i don't do it i don't do it because religion gives me this punishment but if i'm a bad person i go to hell but if i'm a good person i go to heaven like the idea for me is. if there was a god let's say there is a good god there's no doubt about it there's a god and he created everything but there's no heaven would you still worship him if there was no prize at the end and the fact is you probably should he created everything but probably people would use the hypocrisy in atheism i don't think. there is a park or see when people stop preaching it too much or i started performing at a lot of religious

thought that this could also encourage israel into attacking his blood and enough time to force his bill maher out of the city and how do you know so. to this i believe that the egyptians had their reservations also the french had their reservations because they don't want a crisis in lebanon especially that this crisis would mean the. that we will have like one million syrian refugees. going. to europe which would worsen the situation there specially after the latest wave of exordium that happened last year and caused political instability in european and the european union well if that is the case if it is like you say saudi arabia wanted to have every to resign because that of their own agenda now carries curtseys or resignation on hold what the next step going to be for saudi arabia. well i believe that saudi arabia got convinced by the egyptian leadership. that it's move was a wrong move and it backfired on saudi arabia itself and that's why we see that there was any consideration of saudi arabia as a decision to force prime minister friday to resign his position however i believe that. t

get on bill maher the. tile each run and. it'll be the last year you don't have to talk to other chemical. because something about them just. got kicked out of the. only your. gold. gold. gold. gold. the gold. oh. nothing in the. e.u. . you. are you kidding me you only you. ate you. calling me lucky when you. believe that the lower city. is the nation. under the uselessness of. the cold war we are here. was born. i think if you hate. to. even think that one thing. yes if the. leak love you a half a second if that's all that's what the let you if you got it don't eat it you might eat a little you must that way. if. you give it a go of it you gotta see that. face of any other. you do you believe. you feel ok i think. that. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first presid

a little earlier from horary you're watching t w news still to come amnesty international says bill maher has subjected really hinge of muslims to persecution that amounts to dehumanizing apartheid i'll ask an amnesty spokes person what they do you can do to help ease the rippin just suffering. well the u.s. government has moved to block an eighty five billion dollar corporate merger between eighteen t. and time warner what's behind that decision cost on terry there are several layers to this story eight hundred eighty is the united states biggest tell you telecommunications company time warner a major producer of media content not allowing both companies to merge would mean a concentration of power detrimental to consumers the department of justice argues however with president donald trump's outspoken dislike for time warner's news channel c.n.n. some also see a political twist to the story. plans by eighty n.t.v. to purchase time warner one of the leading media companies in the u.s. we're ready controversial when they were announced in two thousand and sixteen even before he became pre

what he questioned one of us through religious people they hate we don't call and say hey bill maher i think they do or how we did at the height of night is the white house tonight the is someone who believes in nothing i hate that i hate that whole theory that people have when they start going well if you are ninth used why don't you just write people want you killed why don't you just do your book because i'm not a right because that i'm not a murderer and i believe in being good to people that's why i don't do it i don't do it because religion gives me this punishment but if i'm a bad person i go to hell but if i'm a good person i go to heaven like the idea for me is. if there was a god let's say there is a god there's no doubt about it there's a god and he created everything but there's no heaven would you still worship him if there was no prize at the end and the fact is you probably should he created everything but probably people would use the hypocrisy in atheism i don't think. there is a park or sea when people start preaching it too much or i started performing at a lot of

demonstrators they calling for the resignation of the minister who committed a religious reference in a bill maher hyder is near the eastern city of lahore tell us about what happened. well early this morning the police force decided to break up the protest anything on a very important intersection that brought to life. we are told that despite the attempts by the police which has taken several hours they have been unable to dislodge those protesters from that bridge also across the country there are strong reaction from supporters of that party which is raging the protests in islamabad where toward that all the traffic in law karate and even on the motorway where i'm standing right now has been completely blocked by protesters there is a reaction across the country top lab a miscalculated move by the government because they were not expecting such a reaction now the whole country almost on the word georgetown all the highways a block and the government has now moved to blackout all the live coverage for local television network this is indeed a situation that could spin out of control every day n

bill maher doesn't, chelseahand handler doesn't. the left has always been the violent one. wrote about it in my book "demon i can." every presidential assassination in history, if it had a political motive be it was from someone on the left. some were just totally crazy and sometimes there are crazy people. but the left is constantly ginning their side up to be violence. there was occupy wall street, the wto protests, black lives matter. any liberal can show up on a college campus or liberty university and be treated with utmost respect. people like us can't walk around many parts of this city without having bodyguard with us. how does the left gin it up? what is our side? republicans, mitt romney and marco rubio say one side are fascist and the other side are fighting fascists. our side is condoning the violence against people like me. forget me, how about charles murray, the liberal biology professor at ever green state. he's called a racist and the police say they won't protect him. judge jeanine: what you are looking at is the president arriving in vietnam this morning

down they're angry because he admitted a reference to the prophet to have it in a parliamentary bill maher hired a house more from key that the city of lahore. the civilian government has off the military to come in aid of that civilly and administration their primary objective would be to save dogs key installations the diplomatic all claim in islamabad and that at a time when there is trouble spreading across the country we had added trouble in karachi protests have continued a many people injured there and us and we are toward only one person was killed near the airport now all the airports all the highways and fluting the grand trunk road that connects the north to the south as well as the motorway that connect this lombard to the provincial capital of the punjab long haul all are jammed people are stuck on the highways de canard move because all the intersection have been taken over by the protector and then we have also been told that the protesters are now back in strength at the same place where the security forces primarily the police where they tried to get across them are near t

. >> we begin our special feature in burlington with bill maher's and jeff danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. >> about a month before trump was elected i had open-heart surgery and so i was not in great shape and i was in even worse shape when this election happened and what a wretched work they present that was. so i think like a lot of people who did not vote for him i was really depressed for a month or six weeks and gradually you start to get over them but it's still rankled on me and i just didn't want to sit and be frustrated all the time. so i start to say what can i do and that couldn't go in washington because my heart was still a pretty bad shape and so i started to think well what can i do as an individual besides write a check to the aclu or bill mckibben's organization and i thought well i had written some humor in my life too jeff danziger who had illustrated several of my other books and immediately he said well you know that's a good idea. another book before dementia sets in his something to do. he said i will tell you what the title s

every friday night for most of the year on hbo bill maher, a very controversial figure, has this show and he always has a section called "new rules," and "new rules" always sort of mocks, if you will, some of the most egregious things but let me go through "new rules" for a moment. should the -- united states government have an absolute policy of not paying bribes or other corrupt things in order to get border crossings, including obviously the delivery of water that was ust mentioned? should that be something we should not do, period? mr. sopko: i agree with that. mr. issa: ok. i agree with it. but we continue to do that in country after country, is that true? mr. sopko: sir, i look at afghanistan. i agree bribes are being paid but we try to look into that and stop it. mr. issa: i know you do. when i talk about new rules these are new rules for the trump administration. this problem didn't begin with this administration or even the last administration. mr. sopko: absolutely. mr. issa: so one of the new rules should be convoys turn around, they report to us and we deal with either pak

michael moore, bill maher, chelsea handler doesn't. the left has always been the violent one.his has always been true. i wrote about it in the my book "demonic." every presidential assassination if it had a political motive, it was from someone on the left. every single one. some were totally crazy. sometimes there are crazy people. but the left is constantly joining their side up -- ginning their side up to be violent. there was occupy wall street, black lives matter, the weathermen. any liberal can show up on a college campus and liberty university and be treated with utmost respect. people like us can't walk around many parts of this body without having bodyguards with us there. they they they are justified in attacking us. they call us white supremacists and nazis. what do mitt romney and marco rubio say? they say one side are farbives, and the other -- they say one side is fascist. and the other side is fighting fascists. how about the biology professor in washington state. judge jeanine: the president is arriving in vote a number of this morning there. there are ceremoni

ridiculed andrew breitbart, not to his face but when she took his seat after he left the set on bill maher'sw are you? >> it is sticky here. in general. >> you are not saying that. >> greg: that was classy. she was nice to him in the green room but then did that when he's not around. it proves her point. it's easy to be a jerk to someone when they are not there. wrapped in a cocoon of confirmation bias, it's easy to hate millions of people and overtime for them to hate you back. but i hope sarah has changed. truly. anything would be an improvemen improvement. i'm going to be positive about this, kimberly. maybe she is woke, as the left says. you realize just because you have a disagreement, it doesn't make them evil. >> kimberly: this is why you have to have an open mind and listen to others in their viewpoints and try to understand and find common ground instead of being discriminating and having biases against other individuals you are not even taking the time to listen to. i don't know. hope springs eternal. who knows? at least maybe it's an example to some people that they might want to

august 19th of 2,000 is when i was invited to appear on the bill maher show politically incorrect beforemoved over to hbo abc. i was one of the panelists one of the guests. i was the token conservative and al franken was the liberal along with former lieutenant governor of colorado and actor billie baldwin. i was involved in just kind of a -- really a mundane argument over policy numbers about, you know, the budget numbers and making some sort of point about that. but, i will tell you what, al franken got right in my face and he just kept coming back over the top and i would challenge him about those numbers, and he would come back over the top. finally the show was over and, laura, he trailed me, stalked me back, really, to the green room where he got in my face again. got very aggressively with me. i felt physically intimidated. and then he followed me out of the studio. i thought the story would end there. but it did not. apparently he got my phone number from one of the show producers and he started calling me at home and harassing me, trying to prove to me how right he was finally o

this allegedly happened after they got into an on-air argument after appearance on bill maher's show in 2000. melanie morgan said she threatened to call the police to get franken to stop. deceit that, the members of the media a making excuses for al franken tonight. take a look. >> there's a new report that senator al franken grabbed the woman's behind at a fair back in 2010. he says he doesn't remember doing it. we'll start to go after everyone in every power industry for something like a butt slap? i'm worried there will be no one left running anything. >> may be true. >> ask him to resign? i don't know if that's the appropriate response. no senator has been asked to resign, ever. >> also unfortunately, slowly split culturally, into a moment when forgiveness is now married to adeology f you're a conservative, bill clinton, you know, or al franken, get him out. >> took a picture which his office says was a joke, that showed him potentially, not actually groping but mock groping her. she also published a picture, that was given to her, of her asleep with senator franken mock groping

we've always heard me say i don't like bill maher. not even a little bit. don't like stephen colbert. i don't like what they say. but guess what? you ultimately have the power. turn the channel. you could not watch them. you don't have to listen to any showed you don't want to watch. don't attack their advertisers as a way to silence what they are trying to say and what keurig did was a mistake in the ceo admitted it. this week and i admit it was disheartening to learn that keurig, that literally was sucked in by this machine known as media matters, but you, our viewers, unbeknownst to me, you fought back. tonight, now, please, i'm calling for a cease-fire here. i humbly appreciate your support, but i'm asking you to not smash keurig. and i must admit, these videos this weekend i watched and i laughed, they are hysterical. watch this. >> this is what i think of you, keurig. [indistinct] [indistinct] >> sean: all of that was done to support my ability to continue to do the show every night. i am beyond humbled. as i said, i own five keurigs. please stop dest

me he saved all the lawyer's fees to sue bill maher. a judge threw it out who said this was silly.gged him to sue me after that actually. >> i'm next. he won't even tweet about me. >> that's fascinating. it's fascinating he won't tweet about you. what do you have to do? you haven't gone far enough. >> say something nice about him. >> that would do. >> not going happen. >> up next, what happened backstage after the the stephen colbert show. >>> what do john al over and john stewart and me all have in common? we are all inductees into a very special hall of fame thanks to stephen colbert. >> this is an incredible honor to be inducted into the trump attacked me into twitter hall of fame. it's my first hall of fame. it's the one that matters to me the most. this tweet that got me in the hall of fame is 2011. it's really shortly after donald trump first started talking about president obama's birth certificate, every word of which of course is a lie. so that's what i said on tv, on my show. which provoked. i heard lawrence made many false statements last night about me. maybe i should s

i'll be doing "hardball" from los angeles tomorrow night, "realtime with bill maher," on a two-personore, that's going to be something. donna brazile's also on that show. saturday i speak at scripps college in clairmont, california. then live l.a. in santa monica monday, the commonwealth club in palo alto tuesday, town hall in seattle with temple sinai thursday. "bobby kennedy: raging spirit" jumped onto "the new york times" bestseller list at number two, continues to tap into something good in this country, something pushed aside, but i'm glad not forgotten. that's "hardball" for you. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> all the instruments to try to destroy judge moore and his family, your day of reckoning is coming. >> the republican candidate for senate in alabama accused of a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl. >> there's only one relationship that's been alleged that's problematic. >> tonight the charges against roy moore. the defiant defense from the candidate and the right. and the ground-shaking implications f

me he saved all the lawyer's fees to sue bill maher. a judge threw it out who said this was silly.. i begged him to sue me after that actually. >> i'm next. he won't even tweet about me. >> that's fascinating. it's fascinaing he won't tweet about you. what do you have to do? you haven't gone far enough. >> say something nice about him. >> that would do. >> not going happen. >> up next, what happened backstage after the the stephen colbert show. lower back pain has met its match. aleve direct therapy. the only remote controlled tens device that's drug free, wire free for deep penetrating lower back pain relief. get aleve direct therapy. now $10 off with a coupon at walgreens. america's small business owners. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes behind the heroes, who brought us delicious gyros. actually, the gyro hero owns vero's gyros, so he should have been with those first heroes. ha ha! that's better. so, to recap -- small business owners are heroes, and our heroes help he

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said franken harassed her after they appeared together on the show "politically incorrect" with bill maher in 2000. her claims were not sexual in nature. the response on capitol hill? >> i have no idea what the right answer is. >> i just learned of it, we'll see. >> yang: members of his own party also avoided weighing in. >> i think i should go vote. >> i cannot comment on any matter that may come before the committee. >> yang: in alabama, republican senate candidate roy moore was faced with three new allegations overnight of sexual assault and harassment- including two teenage girls. >> many of you have recognized that this is an effort by mitch mcconnell and his cronies to try to steal this election. they got a call asking me to step down from the campaign, well i don't need to tell you who needs to step down. that's mitch mcconnell. >> yang: on capitol hill today to talk taxes... >> mr. president, should roy moore step aside? is there any reaction to the al franken news, sir? >> yang: ...president trump ignored questions on both franken and moore. for the pbs newshour i'm john yang. >>

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every friday night for most of the year, on hbo, bill maher, a very controversial figure, has his show. and he always has a section called "new rules." and "new rules" always sort of mocks, if you will, some of the most egregious things. but let me just go through "new rules" for a moment. "new rules." should the united states government have an absolute policy of not paying bribes or other corrupt things in order to get border crossings, including, obviously, the delivery of water that was just mentioned. should that be something we will not do, period. >> i agree with that. >> okay. but we are doing it. we continue to do it in country after country, isn't that true? >> well, i -- sir, i only look at afghanistan. that is a problem that bribes are being paid. but we try to -- look into that if we can and stop it. >> i know you do. but, you know, when i talk about new rules, this is new rules for the trump administration. this problem didn't begin with this administration or even the last administration. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> so one of the new rules should be that the convoys tu

host: that would have been the age for -- hbo program with bill maher.ler: remember the one where they would lay in bed at night and talk back and forth about things? i just do not see it in him as doing something that was bad because i do not see his mind is working that way. host: thanks for the call. we have to move on. mike from lake city, florida, good morning. caller: my name is michael saul in case anyone wants to contact me, but i do not think mr. franken should back out. he has offered himself up to grand inquisitors, so he should stay in the mix because he is a professional comedian. we have to hear it out, what is the basis for this picture? number one. number two, he is intelligent, so we should not have him step down before the hear what is going on. as a hard-core democrat, i do moore shouldoy back out into the facts come out in that case, but i think franken should stay in because he is intelligent. host: i want to share two statements al franken issued thursday, but his second one again with these words -- the first thing i want to do is