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“That’s From OBAMA!” - Bill Maher HUMILIATES Adam Schiff Over War Hypocrisy
11 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What did Bill Maher confront Adam Schiff about?
Can I show you guys what Bill Maher did to Adam Schiff that you showed me a few days ago? Love it. If you haven't seen this, folks, you have to see this just to finish the podcast on an exciting note. And if you like this clip a lot to the 51 percenters who haven't yet subscribed, we need you to subscribe to the podcast if you like this clip that much. Go ahead, Rob, play the clip.
This statement from the administration, the president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. That's too vague for you? Totally vague. Okay, because that's from Obama about Libya. Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization.
I and many others pushed back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress. But I respect the fact that that was important to him. And the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward. We are unquestionably at war now.
The founders made an extraordinary decision at the time, which was not to give that power to the president, but to give it to the Congress, because they worried, I think, as Hamilton said, that a president would grow too fond of making war. After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after... bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria.
Chapter 2: How did Adam Schiff respond to Maher's challenge on war powers?
Not a war. He's grown too fond of this. And Congress, Donna, as you're saying, needs to step up, assert its role, or it's going to be gone for good. And then any time a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time... The fact that he has Adam Schiff, I love that Bill Maher is pushing back, but he has Don Lemon and Adam Schiff. You know what they're going to say.
You know they have to stay on message. I don't respect anybody that has Don Lemon on anything. You lose respect for me. Don Lemon looks scared. Like Adam Schiff is going to take him back to hotels. I don't know about that. To me, we've had some crazy people on. You know, when people said, I can't believe you're going to have Anthony Weiner on.
But to me, you know, the fact that he is having that question asked in the way that he did to say automatically, boom, and no, that was Obama. And then he has to explain himself.
Chapter 3: What historical context did Maher provide regarding presidential war powers?
And a similar thing is going on right now with the president. You know, it makes hypocrisy. He is making a hypocrite out of all of these guys with the stuff that they're saying. I think Bill Maher is in his great – how old is Bill Maher now? 72. Okay. Really? I think. I think Bill Maher – yeah. What is he? 70. 70 years old, just turned 70. Yep. One of the more necessary voices.
He's still a liberal but a reasonable liberal. He calls out the far left. He calls out – The MAGA, right? I think that's fine. He's beefing with Trump right now. Trump just went on some tirade about him, if you saw the thing. I watch his show. I respect him. He's a pretty selfish dude. I wish he was a little bit more selfless. People around us are working on that. But he's a necessary voice.
He calls balls and strikes, and good for him. 51% of you who watch this podcast, and I've helped us go from a regular show with 20, 30 viewers to now being a top 20 podcast worldwide on Spotify and on YouTube. It's a top 20, top 15, top 10 podcast. It wouldn't happen without you, but it helps our algorithms if you subscribe as well. 51% of you watch this show weekly.
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Chapter 4: How do the founders' decisions impact current war powers?
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