Overtime: William Weld, John Waters, Kirsten Powers, Jonathan Swan, Lawrence Wilkerson 

Please make this like 20 minutes. Overtime is awesome

John Waters is the best part of the show. He is fabulous.

Trump was at the D-Day commemoration today, it was touching to see him lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Bone Spur.

Bill never mentions Bernie anymore and when he does it's always something about his age. Bernie is the best candidate!

REQUEST: PLEASE PERSUADE SEN. KLOBUCHAR and SEN. Kamala Harris to remain senators and teach ten more women or men to be brilliant prosecutors in the Senate. I think that if they cultivate more like themselves , society will benefit greatly . Walter

canada's immigration system is generally merit-based, but that doesn't apply the same way to refugees. for refugees it's a matter of legitimacy/safety. you can have both approaches so it's not just rich or educated that can come in.

John Waters is a national treasure

Regarding the Virginia Beach shootings... Where are the "Right to Life" people on gun control. Didn't those thirteen, real, live people, deserve to live?

Damn is everyone going to ignore how bangin John's notched lapel beast monster is... WTF people?

Waters is a National Treasure.

I like the idea of merit-based immigration. That is what other countries do, and we should to. That doesn't negate the fact that we still need to accept genuine refugees.

Looking forward to Andrew Yang and Katie Porter....finally some intelligent and straightforward information. I can't wait. Both are super prepared and funny too.

And by that last part from a) to c) yes I meant Moses King and his reply. Too funny, ROFLOL!!!!!!

Kirsten Powers looks like Catherine Deneuve. Nice!

I really admire and respect Lawrence Wilkerson. It is too bad he isn't on more cable news networks.

Orange needs to get squeezed out of Office!

Kirsten is beautiful

This John Waters guy is hilarious! I hope he's going to do more stuff on TV! He is a wonderful !

Wow! A real meeting of the mind!

Lawrence Wilkerson has come out publicly and apologized for his role in allowing the invasion of Iraq to happen (unlike general Powell)... It’s just too bad he didn’t have the courage back in 2003 when it really mattered, to advise General Colin Powell to not back the war. That is some serious guilt to have to live with... The loss of all those lives for absolutely nothing.

Kirsten Powers is stunning.

"we live in a merit based society" *lol* Do you?

Great show this week.

Gov. Weld, I need you as US Attorney General!!!!!

It doesn't matter if Elizabeth doesn't have a sense of humor.

Can people stop cutting each other off? 🙄

As a Canadian citizen, I truly feel for the American population. Daffy Duck is at the helm here as well. We do not need an affable leader. We need a keenly intelligent one. It is a serious business running a country and for that we need serious people to do so.

She’s gorgeous in that thumbnail

Let’s get the balls rolling people🤞😉👍

Immigrants don't all have to be elite. We need people who are willing to contribute to society, at _any_ level they are able. That doesn't mean only top-tier earners. The "merit-based" argument is just a way people argue against immigration without _sounding_ classist, because they know that, under a "merit-based" system, most people who will be excluded will be poor.

Kirsten Powers is really a hot moma.

They should name a trash barge after Trump. Or better yet just name one of the “heads” on the destroyer John McCain after him 🤔🤔🤔

That guy with the clown collar, bless his nodding dog head trying to fit in! Such a cute character, bless😅

Kirsten's cute😊

This is ironically funny.

On our way to crazy town

Congressmen with balls. That's rich. Until you remove reelection as a motivator, no one in congress will do what's good for the country, only what's good for themselves. Term limits for congress.

U.S. Constitution - Article 2 (The Executive Branch) Section 4 (Disqualification): "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Translation: YOU CAN CHARGE A SITTING PRESIDENT WITH A CRIME (AS STATED ABOVE) AND REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE!!!

"We ought to have some congressmen with some balls"

"We need unskilled labourers as much as skilled people! " Brilliant Well America's got too many lawyers I would hate to fix my own teeth

All i could think about was the mustache

You need merit based but there needs to be a balance.

I just like looking at Kirsten

she obviously knows nothing about Canadian Immigration process.

Would anybody with merit really want to go to USA.

Yea

Power should never go to the wrong person. God bless America

Bill seemed to be rushing through the episode tonight.

Unbutton the jacket, Will! Jesus

First time i heard Weld speak i wonder whats his goals and agenda for the WE THE PEOPLE. hes much normal speaker smart just like in the past, until Trump whack it.I used to be Republican gearing towards democrats but democrats like Pelosi seemed timid in actions. Except Warren Harris and Bernie. Weld sounds good with strength experience integrity. This is the normal republican Weld it is. Like to hear his issues

What ever happened to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?

At least T-RUMP is finally impersonating a RL human.

Having a VP is already worthless enough w/out the prohibition of being unable to indict a sitting president

Bill "We can all agree on balls." Maher

as someone who swore to defend the constitution in 77 , and still thinks it's important . I pray to GOD that every American will read George Washingtons farewell address , its a few pages . around the middle of it he talks about parties and foreign influence . every one should consider what one of our first real patriots advised on these things . it's as relevant as if he wrote it today .

The Dems should have let EVERYONE be on the first debates. After that, they could have weeded them out.

Donnie not only looks like a white James Brown impersonator, he looks like a white James Brown impersonator from Times Square who doesn't sing, or dance... but photobombs tourist selfies, then demands 15$.

Stop dissing Liz..she has some of the best plans I've heard..and she smiles, is articulate and a fighter for the people.

Let’s sit around and agree with each other! 😄

2:05 hold that pose

They should rename this show "explaining Twitter news to grandpa"

I wonder when Bill will invite a real progressive on. Bernie, Tulsi, ....I wonder if he will.

Merit based immigration is the way to go.

How does Bill not know about the new standards for the 3rd Democratic debate?

We need unskilled laborers MORE than those with "specialized" skills.

Merit based is the way to go

Kirsten is right, "merit based" should be interpreted as "white based". My grandparents came here and did the grunt work. It's the ladder that is the American Dream. We can't lose it.

Our education system (or lack there of) has created enough manual labor class (unskilled workers) for this country, the problems are the wages for such jobs are insufficient to sustain even the modest of lifestyles and the other problem is Americans think they are too good to be bothered to do such jobs (cleaning toilets or picking crop).

Weld2020!

John Waters & RuPaul 2020.

Sure, we need merit based immigration. Bring all the undergraduate, and graduate or professional degrees from abroad, so the students graduating in the United States wages are depressed because the foreigners with degree depress wages.

If he's not losing it "losing it", he's going to lose it lose it soon enough.

It was a very bad day for the cause of protecting America’s wilderness and resources some years back when the Sierra Club secretly took $100 MILLION in tainted donations from Wall Street investor David Gelbaum. The enormous contribution came with STRINGS ATTACHED, namely the stipulation that America’s flagship green organization would not mention EXCESSIVE IMMIGRATION as harmful to the environment generally and resource preservation in particular. As a result, the Club management rejected its own previous environmentally proper immigration policy of population stabilization with no explanation. The real cause was a closely guarded secret for years!!

I really love Wilkerson, even though he's a Republican. Dude has his principles and sticks with em. I remember seeing a clip of him on John Oliver's show saying Gitmo should be closed down, and the people who wanna keep it are cowards. Takes some guts to say that as a Republican.

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if we had a president who wasn't funny #wtf

That’s not a reason to go to hell. Lol. First time I heard that and I’m borrowing it.

#GoogleYang 😂

Why arent the news cycles giving Bill Weld free coverage and multiple platforms to let the Republicans know they have a choice too.

I thought the guy on the right was David Lynch

My girlfriend's parents came here with no college degrees. Her dad quit engineering school in Iran to come to the US. He worked shit jobs in fast food restaurants until he could buy a franchise of one. After he sold that he made his own restaurant. With that restaurant he put his daughter through med school and his son through college (now works as a producer at a local news station) and bought them both houses. He didn't have a day off for 18 years. He was at his restaurant everyday working. He was an unskilled laborer that didn't speak English that, in 1 generation, had a successful small business, raised 2 highly productive members of society, not to mention his wife is a teacher. she came over too. I don't think I need to say more about her. she's a fucking teacher. I know this is isolated to a 1 of 1 but there are stories like this with people coming over here looking for something better than what they had in the place they were born.

Merit based is not "PhD and higher education". It's based on what this country needs at a specific point in time. If there is a lack of waiters/waitresses, then so be it, that would be the merit in question.

TULSI 2020 !!

Kirsten is so correct. "....Give me your tired, your poor. your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of you teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my Lamp beside the Golden Door."

I heard Elizabeth Warren Talk on John Stewart's Daily Show twice or three times and so I wonder, "Do you listen to her? I learnt so much from her, she is so good at explaining why our economy has gone wrong or how to better it. She and Michel Lewis are the two who taught me nearly all I know on economy, at least the economy of the last forty years. She taught me about the, boom bang economy of before the 28 crash as well as more recent bits of economy. You should listen to her. You would get lots of ideas from her. I like Bermie Sanders a lot, I also like Elizabeth Warren a lot and I am a person who usually finds candidates to elections pretty uninteresting. I also think that Biden would be fine but the other two would be brilliante. He is a sort of reliable guy, and kind, not too, too anything, to do anything dramatically wrong.

politics isnt supposed to be about party msical chairs..

Balls indeed! Stumpy will be done his presiduncey before the proceedings can come together. Just say no to stump in 2020!

Wait, so when I write in Vince McMahon, that's bullshit?

I wrote in Howard Stern.

I came here because of the thumbnail

I love the show, and Tulsi Gabbard or Bust in 2020... Bill Maher will you consider doing a show that includes what is actually happening on our southern border... From May 27, through June 2, 2019, Just this week here in El Paso over 6000 thousand undocumented immigrants entered the USA through my city El Paso. As of the end of the 5th month, May 2019, 116,000 plus thousand undocumented immigrants have entered the USA through El Paso. On just one day May 12, 2019, in groups of 250, 195, 218 and 302, according to a news release from the Border Patrol. By the end of the day May 12, 2019, there were more than 1,700 migrants who illegally crossed into the country through El Paso. At the Kelly memorial food pantry where I volunteer 8 weeks ago we ran out of money to buy meat, every week now we run out of fresh veggies because we are being overwhelmed...Hell not even the fake Mexican beto o'jerk has done a damn thing for his home town..WTH democrat's... We have been over run, WTH is the GOVERNMENT WAITING FOR, For gods sake they are coming out of the actual sewers, and street crime like car jacking s are increasing all over the city...The sum total from 2017 through 2018 of undocumented immigrants who entered the USA was a TOTAL of 30,000 thousand...WTH!!! Do not take my word for it, come see for yourself.

Bill please let your guests finish their sentences please please I beg of you

Hi. Canadian here. Merit based immigration has priced out most Canadians from our own major housing markets. Maybe that ship has sailed in most of the US already, but it is not a good option.

1:00 OMG! The polkadotted one just said Trump's mansions were decorated "without any knowledge of art history"!!!! Good Lord! I'm voting Democrat this time around!

A James Brown joke, home decor stereotyping, and implying U.S. allies are not responsible. So the guy with the purple polka dot lapel is going to class shame? Bill, Bill, Bill

White James Brown impersonater! 😂😂😂

Ask Kirsten a question and then mansplain over her as she tries to answer. Good job guys. When she finally spoke, it was the one thing that made sense. A waste of 30 seconds with an annoying British accent... Then continue to talk over her and discount her view on merit based immigration. Seriously.

William Weld seems like a light weight.

Many original colonists were from prisons of other countries, maybe we want to go back to that?

Good question: What is merit? I'm disappointed that instead of answering this question directly, Kirsten segued into the platitude of "We need unskilled laborers just as much as engineers." This is NOT applause-worthy, nor does it offer anything to solve the immigration issue. I wish more people would realize that merit-based whatever is meaningless in a society where all policies are essentially decided by those with the all the capital, namely big corps and banks with only profit, self-preservation, and self-interest in mind.

Long ago, American government allowed frontiersmen to put up fences anywhere in the wilderness and just claim that land as theirs--because there was too much empty land, and not enough people to populate it and build towns. But once the wild west was more or less populated, the government stopped this program, for obvious reasons. Same thing goes for immigration. Once, the U.S. desperately needed immigrants, so it accepted anybody that walked in through Ellis Island. Today the need for immigrants is considerably less. Therefore it is sensible to be more picky about accepting immigrants. That's the concept of merit-based immigration. Why do Democrats refuse to see this obvious truth? "America accepted immigrants without qualifications before, so it should keep doing that"--well, that's like saying America should keep giving out free land even though the frontier was closed a long time ago.