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WATCH: Bill Maher dunks on Trump during first 'Real Time' of the Biden administration
January 22, 2021
HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday continued to joke about former President Donald Trump during his first show during the new administration.
The comedian laid out all the reasons President Joe Biden differs with Donald Trump.
<p>"It's nice to have a president who is hinged," he joked.</p><p>The host went on to fat-shame Garth Brooks, made jokes about the security precautions at the Biden's inauguration, and discussed the failed insurrection.</p><p>"It's okay dear, as you get older it's harder to achieve insurrections," Maher suggested Melania Trump told her husband.</p><p>And Maher joked about confusion among QAnon supporters and described Antifa as "the other side of it" as he complained about Generation Z.</p><p>Watch:</p>
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WATCH: Dr. Fauci opens up to Maddow about Trump administration blocking him from her show
January 22, 2021
America's top infectious disease effort was interviewed by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Friday -- for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Dr. Tony Fauci revealed that Maddow had repeatedly asked him to come on her primetime show, but the interviews were blocked during the Trump administration.
<p>Fauci opened up about the Trump administration's anti-science mindset during the pandemic.</p><p>He revealed, "I don't take any great pleasure in criticizing president leadership or the people around a president, but we had a situation where science was rejected and a lot of pressure was put on individuals and organizations to do things that were not directly related to what their best opinion would be, vis-a-vis the science."<br/></p><p>"I had pressure put on me, but Iresisted it and I had to do something that was not comfortable, but I did it, and I had to be directly contradicting not only the president but some of the people around the president who were saying things that just were not consistent with the science," he explained.</p><p>"So it's just one of those things that is chilling when you see it happen," Fauci said.</p><p>Maddow asked if Fauci would be making more appearances under the Biden administration.</p><p>"I've been wanting to come on your show for months and months," Fauci replied. "You've been asking me to come on your show for months and months, and it's just gotten blocked. Let's call it what it is -- it just got blocked because they didn't like the way you handle things and didn't want me on."</p><p>Watch:</p><p><br/></p>
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Giuliani is sad he is 'portrayed as some kind of money-grubbing ambulance chaser': report
January 22, 2021
The question over payments to Rudy Giuliani while he unsuccessfully pushed Donald Trump's conspiracy theories about election fraud continues to play out in the press.
On his radio show on Friday, the former New York City mayor reportedly claimed it was a "lie" that he requested $20,000 a day to represent Trump in court.
<p>"Rudolph W. Giuliani, former President Donald J. Trump's personal lawyer, conceded on Friday night that an associate had sent an email to campaign officials asking that Mr. Giuliani be paid $20,000 a day for his work after the Nov. 3 election, but he insisted he was unaware of it at the time," the mayor <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/giuliani-concedes-that-an-associate-did-ask-for-20000-a-day-to-help-trump-post-election.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">told</a> New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Friday night.</p><p>"I never had a single expectation of being paid a penny," Giuliani told the newspaper. "I feel extremely bad that I'm portrayed as some kind of money-grubbing ambulance chaser."</p><p>"I represented him out of my sense of commitment," he argued. "I didn't see anything about this that was going to lead to great wealth. I did see a lot about this that was going to lead to great torture."</p>
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