Happy first day of Black History Month
On Friday night's Real Time, after mocking ex-Starbucks CEO and presidential hopeful Howard Schultz ("a giant asshole") and President Trump ("he knows nothing about black people"), Maher welcomed Will Hurd, a Republican congressman representing Texas' 23rd District, onto the program.
Following some back and forth about the border wall, which Rep. Hurd—who represents "more border than any part of Congress"—isn't a fan of, Maher asked Hurd, who is black, why he's a Republican.
"I'm just asking why you're a Republican?" he pressed. "Because they're not good at the debt, that was their big thing. You said limited government, they don't do that. They took over the Congress in 2011 and they raised the debt a trillion dollars a year. They're not good at national defense—the president's a traitor. What's in it for you? What is in the Republican Party for you? You were in the CIA!"
With that, Hurd explained, "I was in the CIA for almost a decade. I was the dude in the back alleys at four o'clock in the morning collecting intelligence on threats to the homeland."
"That's where you'd collect it, huh? Wow," shot back Maher. "By the Popeyes Chicken?"
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