Chris Cuomo | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

he's the anchor of CNN's Cuomo primetime and host of Sirius XM's let's get after it Chris Cuomo [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there was a time when you brought on an anchorman and they would not get a standing ovation an anchorman are kind of having a moment did you read that story they're big popular on none on talk shows and stuff yeah my Sarah pissed isn't talking to me about it a lot recently you have a therapist I was here with Howard Stern we'll have a whole team I don't she's the only one left in the control group okay but you know CNN which is where you're at yes I mean you started at Fox I didn't know that I was reading him but I did what was that like did Roger Ailes ever grab your ass I know but apparently I was one of the only ones that he did did start there is my first job you fit in with the they must have known your pedigree no I left I left for a reason you know the funny thing is Roger was one of the only people who would hire me because he took a chance on whether or not I would be able to be fair you know at the time you couldn't come from a political family and have any hope in journalism that you'd have to be an analyst you know or go into politics itself and I didn't want to do that so he gave me an opportunity to try out lots of different parts of reporting he really knew a lot about interviewing in particular but the idea of telling a story but eventually I had to leave because I couldn't tell stories the way he was already there are people mad at you because you said some nice things sort of about Roger Ailes and this is something you and I both faced with because we platform people Chris in other words we give people who we don't agree with a chance to speak and there's a lot of liberals who hate that because you should only talk amongst the people who already agree with you I mean they hate you because you are friends with Kellyanne Conway and have her run I wish that were the only thing I feel hey I'm so surprised when anyone is nice to me at any time you know including my kids cuz everybody's got an opinion now they usually just not watch now I wish they didn't watch well it's interesting because CNN used to be the neutral station I mean there was MSNBC on the left and you had Fox News on the right I mean we all knew that sometimes I would Fox News just to see what they're saying I couldn't take too much of it I knew it MSNBC was but seeing I was like okay these guys are trying to play it right down the middle now you're getting sued by the president how do you play it down the middle I guess it's the question when the president is so far to one side well look I think what has changed is the president and how he has decided to conduct his office there is nothing new there's nothing non neutral about facts you know if you want to talk about what's going on and test arguments that is what it is it's not left or right either you're telling the truth or you're not if your argument makes sense or it doesn't I think what has changed is how this president is what we never had before was someone who would say no it's not that I disagree with you it's that you're a bad person bill for asking me that question you're bad but shouldn't like you called you and it's fake what I said about me fake scum he said that about his own people I know he said that about people in his party he didn't say it about me said much worse human scum but Wow and then the press secretary this is what's new so usually the press secretary comes in and says no you heard scum I heard thumb which means they're just one part of the hand now she comes in and says yeah that's how it is if there's been against this president that's how we should speak about you that's the biggest problem I think we all well and also I mean at the CNN the trust factor in CNN's gone way down from something like 64 percent 20 years ago to like 48 percent what is that about you saying it's just me no I I was nervous about this I know I know why here's what I think has happened if we are honest with ourselves people have been skeptical about institutions in the media for a long time you can get a sense of bias in the media that it's only telling you certain stories a certain way and I think very often that criticism is well-founded however I will tell you this this president is playing on every weakness in our social fabric I believe the book that will be written about him that will be most dispositive of what he meant is the luckiest man in the history of the game because he lies a lot and people suspect that they all lie he you know says that he's going to do something but it doesn't happen that way they believe it's the industry standard in politics he does things with Ukraine they believe what must happen all the time he says the media is fake people have been suspicious of that so he's playing to people's prejudices as a demagogue does but I'll tell you this bill I've never had so many people say I support what you are doing as is happening right now but you get a lot of hate as you said I do those are only my four cousins that clapped right I mean you know you hell hey - by the way not I don't like what you said come to your house find your kids on social media right talk to your kids in a restaurant know I love you years old and say things that you should only say man to man that's new for me yeah no I know you had that dust-up when you with the Fredo thing oh you heard I heard about that and you know I feel bad field I mean look believe me I get some of this too but I don't have a family so I'm too worried about kids thing Christ but it must be hard I can't I can't imagine what that's like but but the Fredo thing I just got it would bother me about that is that liberals have this reputation for make everything identity politics and Fredo yep sorry it's just not a thing it's just not a slur it's not an Italian slur it means dumb brother which you're not but you have a brother who's the governor of New York that's where that came from I'd like to see you call him that came from is I've dealt with this it's not about ethnicity I think the context matters that is not my experience though they talk about they call me Italian name yes ever since he came into office they started identifying me by ethnicity mobster this Godfather that I say it as an extension if your father had it when he was the governor York there were there was that was one of the scuttlebutt things they would say about him like Oh Mario Cuomo he's somehow in with the mob because he's Italian that's a slur on the Italians Fredo just means dumb brother okay we can agree to disagree well I'll tell you what's interesting about I guess this is social progress that you can now have an opinion about what an Italian can find offensive okay goodbye usually when we shake hands you're gone just in fact well thank you I mean of course well it's interesting because a lot of times people white men aren't allowed to have an opinion about anything it you know political correctness has a great set of goals and how we get there has been very uneven and I think it's a concern for us as a society because now you have a president that once again is playing to people's questions about political correctness and not in the way that you do with this razor sharp scalpel on when it makes sense and when it doesn't which is part of your genius and that finish your thought Chris but that's not what he does no what he does is his plays on all the prejudices that make political correctness necessary and you know we have to be careful that you don't wind up punishing the people that you need to help protect your cause and I think we're still fine okay so I watched you on the lgbtq Town Hall yes CNN had this to me says a lot about the Democrats here are the Democrats doing a town hall just for the LGBT community yes liberal people supporting this liberal principle and they were interrupted by protesters who I guess thought they weren't going far enough beto and Pete who I believe has some credentials in the LGBT community we're both interrupted by people screaming you know trans lives matter no one was disputing this what did you make of that here's what I made of it cuz I was there I got to see it first of all what I loved seeing was not just the candidates cuz they know they're being measured for how they deal with situations like that but I thought that Anderson and Don Lemon had happened for Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon of both their segments I loved that they respected the protest because the transgender community specifically feels so targeted I got where they were a but not beautiful but we're there to help yes but what they saw was a chance to get their message out and really believe that they're being preyed upon they're being hunted and it was an opportunity for them to get a national audience to see that they're scared and they need help and I respect that which is what the Democrats were doing okay listen I'm happy to go after it and call things out where I don't like it okay my show is all about but you know I don't protect okay so the tooth three-fourths of the squad came out for Bernie Sanders yes yes yes they did I just I laugh at that because I don't know how that squad thing actually happened like I don't I don't know why we're calling a bunch of freshmen some kind of entity of influence in a system they just got into because they do have a lot of influence they have a lot of social media influential cachet the media loves to talk about them but I think you have to put points on the board if you're going to earn your office get things done for your constituents not just for your own profile I love you snatch if that were his name that was so Italian I take no offense no you should but is that the squad coming out for Bernie first thing I thought was that's good for Elizabeth Warren because because it makes him to the left of her and she needs to move to the middle and what always happens not unusual in politics you know this I'm sure all of you do also is that primary takes you to a pole a polar position within your party and then you try to fight your way back to the center I think what's going on with the Democratic Party is a little bit more extreme than we've seen in the past we had a poll not too long ago that said if the person running against this president identifies as socialist or can be identified reasonably as socialist right they lose by six points so I think labels matter in politics they do I think the senator Sanders has a tough time in defining socialists as a good thing to a capitalist society that doesn't like the idea of that kind of district distribution of assets in general even in his own party I don't think it really goes I think they got a tough task Chris Cuomo thank you very much [Applause] you

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Length: 11min 46sec (706 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 25 2019