Valuetainment - March 11, 2026


“That’s From OBAMA!” - Bill Maher HUMILIATES Adam Schiff Over War Hypocrisy


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3 minutes

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195.79219

Word count

760

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60

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6

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Bill Maher and Adam Schiff go head-to-head in a debate about whether or not the President has the authority to strike back at the Assad regime in Syria. Bill and Rob are joined by Alex Castellanos to discuss this and more.

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00:00:00.000 Can I show you guys what Bill Maher did to Adam Schiff that you showed me a few days ago?
00:00:05.400 If you haven't seen this, folks, you have to see this just to finish the podcast on an exciting note.
00:00:10.960 And if you like this clip a lot to the 51 percenters who haven't yet subscribed,
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00:00:18.680 Go ahead, Rob, play the clip.
00:00:20.140 This statement from the administration,
00:00:21.820 the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force
00:00:25.960 because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
00:00:30.820 That's too vague for you?
00:00:32.420 Totally vague.
00:00:33.900 Okay, because that's from Obama, about Libya.
00:00:36.960 Bingo!
00:00:37.740 Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization.
00:00:42.900 I and many others pushed back on that argument.
00:00:45.260 Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad,
00:00:49.420 even though Assad was gassing his own people,
00:00:51.500 because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress.
00:00:54.360 But I respect the fact that that was important to him
00:00:58.620 and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress
00:01:01.500 meant that we weren't going to go forward.
00:01:04.000 We are unquestionably at war now.
00:01:07.340 The founders made an extraordinary decision at the time,
00:01:10.340 which was not to give that power to the president,
00:01:12.200 but to give it to the Congress,
00:01:13.780 because they worried, I think, as Hamilton said,
00:01:15.820 that a president would grow too fond of making war.
00:01:18.800 after Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict,
00:01:23.720 after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria.
00:01:28.100 Not a war.
00:01:28.780 He's grown too fond of this.
00:01:31.000 And Congress, Don, as you're saying, needs to step up,
00:01:34.920 assert its role, or it's going to be gone for good.
00:01:37.200 And then any time a president, for any reason,
00:01:40.000 any part in the world, for any length of time.
00:01:41.620 Just the fact that he has Adam Schiff.
00:01:45.420 I love that Bill Maher is pushing back.
00:01:48.420 But he has Don Lemon and Adam Schiff.
00:01:51.160 You know what they're going to say.
00:01:52.700 You know they have to stay on message.
00:01:54.220 I don't respect anybody that has Don Lemon on anything.
00:01:57.760 You lose respect for me.
00:01:59.140 Don Lemon looks scared.
00:02:00.580 Like Adam Schiff is going to take him back to hotels.
00:02:02.460 I don't know about that.
00:02:02.980 To me, we've had some crazy people on.
00:02:07.100 You know, when people said,
00:02:07.860 I can't believe we're going to have Anthony Weiner on.
00:02:09.680 But to me, you know, the fact that he is having that question
00:02:15.500 asked in the way that he did to say automatically, boom,
00:02:19.240 and no, that was Obama, and then he has to explain himself.
00:02:22.420 And a similar thing is going on right now with the president. 0.91
00:02:25.200 You know, it makes hypocrisy. 0.99
00:02:27.060 He is making a hypocrite out of all of these guys 0.99
00:02:29.440 with the stuff that they're saying. 0.98
00:02:30.460 I think Bill Maher is in his great...
00:02:35.340 How old is Bill Maher now?
00:02:36.920 72.
00:02:37.740 Okay, so I mean...
00:02:39.160 I think.
00:02:39.900 I think Bill Maher...
00:02:41.240 Yeah.
00:02:42.180 What is he?
00:02:43.260 70?
00:02:43.780 70 years old, just turned 70?
00:02:45.140 Yep.
00:02:45.320 One of the more necessary voices, he's still a liberal but a reasonable liberal.
00:02:49.220 He calls out the far left.
00:02:50.440 He calls out the MAGA right.
00:02:52.260 I think that's fine.
00:02:53.020 He's beefing with Trump right now.
00:02:54.840 Trump just went on some tirade about him, if you saw the thing.
00:02:58.360 I watch his show.
00:02:59.320 I respect him. 0.92
00:03:00.320 He's a pretty selfish dude.
00:03:01.820 I wish he was a little bit more selfless. 0.80
00:03:03.940 People around us are working on that.
00:03:06.080 But he's a necessary voice.
00:03:07.240 He calls balls and strikes, and good for him.
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