Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Matt.

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Okay, here are the questions. With Donald Trump avoiding prosecution in New York and the

sacchar family being shielded from criminal liability over Purdue Farm, is it time to admit that money can buy you

a new community? Well, that was always the case. That's like a long time ago. What time is it?

About the end of that years ago. But the Trump one is astounding. I mean, I think two people in that office now have resigned over the

decision not to prosecute. I remember talking about the family business they were going after in New York.

And one of them, I think, is out in the news this week saying he's guilty that they, he believes that Trump's guilty of multiple

cases. I mean, almost in public he is. This has been going on for a long time now. And look, I get it. We normally don't

prosecute former presidents in this country. This guy was a bad stuff. And why did the DA in New York make that decision?

I don't know. Is that brag? I don't understand. I don't know. Okay, I'd love. Where are good investigative reporters to find out that answer?

We're investigating the question of Soviet ass buzzers. Ever since that came up, I've been devoting all my investigative energy to that question.

Well, speaking of that, how would the US military respond to a nuclear or chemical attack on Ukraine? And unfortunately, we have to consider that possibility, don't we?

Yeah, I think that is the... Well, let's ask you and then ask a senator what, what, what do you think?

Well, you know, we were talking earlier and I joke that Putin is just like me and you obviously he's not because he is considering using chemical weapons and nuclear, and he's put the nuclear weapons use on the table repeatedly.

And I think that is a question for me to put. Well, we're talking. We don't know if he means it.

It's bad enough to do that, but he wouldn't. I don't know if there's, I don't know if there's a difference at a certain point.

The leader of a nuclear power threatens to use it as he's put his forces on alert on like DEF CON, whatever. I think it's...

Happened before. People have raised that level up to... Well, you have to take it seriously.

Yeah, you have to take it seriously, but it could be jokes. Brink'smanship. I don't know what it's in his mind.

And he must, it's why I asked you about like how rational is he? I mean, he always seemed like a rational guy, but nuclear would be taking it even chemical, but especially to a level that...

So... The world would change. So... Mentally.

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