Overtime: Ann Coulter, Van Jones, Dr. Jean Twenge | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

-(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -Okay, here we are on CNN. She's a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of Generations, Dr. Jean Twenge. -Welcome back. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) He is a CNN political commentator and host of the podcast Uncommon Ground with Van Jones. You all know Van Jones from CNN. And she is a political commentator and author who now writes her own column, Unsafe, on Substack. Ann Coulter is back with us. -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) -Okay.

So, here are the questions. "What are your thoughts--" Oh, this is for you, Van, probably because you were the green czar. Remember when you were the green czar? -I do remember. -BILL MAHER: Okay. "What are your thoughts on the tactics of environmental activists who throw soup at the Mona Lisa and disrupt traffic?" They also glue themselves to things. (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) "And is there a better approach to advocacy?" -No, there isn't. -(ALL LAUGHING) That is the one that works... (CHUCKLES) ...a

nd it's solving the problem -in record time. -(ANN COULTER LAUGHING) No, it's sad because all that crap overshadows the people who are doing the real work. We got a bipartisan bill done under Biden. Young people worked their butts off for that. And they did it the right way, they knocked on doors. They did it the right way. They get overshadowed by nonsense. And I think we need to really lift up, you know, the... You've got this generation that really does care. They're trying to be constructive

. You do have Red states that have, you know, clean energy jobs that are growing alongside the jobs that I like a little bit less. It all gets overshadowed, some idiot blocks traffic and that's all anybody talks about. Why soup? -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -I don't know. (LAUGHS) It's vegan soup. (LAUGHS) It's vegan soup. (ALL LAUGHING) "Okay, what are the panel's thoughts on Alexei Navalny's death and President Biden's statement that Putin is responsible?" Predictable and obvious would be my two answe

rs to that. -I think it's horrible that... -You know. I had a lot of hope, you know. CNN did the Navalny documentary, and so a lot of the people I work with really got a chance to know the guy and they say he's the real deal. Kind of like a Mandela for Russia. Kind of waiting in the wings, and you just kinda hoped that the guy'd live long enough to maybe bring that country back around. And, you know, I actually shed real tears this morning. BILL: What do you think of Tucker? I mean, you used to

be friends with him, right? I mean, going over there and... -and like-- -VAN JONES: Giving a lap dance to Putin? -BILL: Yeah, basically... -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) ...just, I mean, parading himself for all these years as so pro-American and then going over there and basically saying, "This is the really good country. Russia and this guy." And not bringing up any of his crimes. What is his motivation? Where-- Can you get into his head a little for me? Well, no, but I'm not-- No, I'm not a huge fan. I

don't know, I think a lot of what people do... on both sides is motivated by seeking money and fame. But what-- This is the way to do it? This is how-- I mean, couldn't he still be on Fox? Look, I mean, he went over there and said, you know, "Moscow is this amazing city because the trains run on time." -(CHUCKLES) -BILL: Right. Like, isn't that what they said about Hitler? -BILL: And Mussolini, yeah. -And Mu-- Yeah, Mussolini. -Like a fascist, like... -Yeah. ...yeah, okay, so the trains run on

time, but people are being literally, you know, -killed and imprisoned because they have an opinion. -BILL: Yeah. -I think-- -That's not a great country. -It's not a great country. -ANN: I think you can say-- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) I think you can say that people are motivated by money and fame, if they were on Fox News-- The Fox News that then had to pay 700 million -in defamation. -VAN: Mm. I always say you can read it on my Substack first or wait for Fox to pay a 700 million defamation judgeme

nt. BILL: All right. Jean, "What explains the gender divide in politics. Why are young women skewing--" Oh, yes. I've read this. "More liberal--" Like, by 30 points. "Than young--" Young men are getting more conservative. And young women are getting more liberal. What is your generational view on that? Yeah, so I mean, that's from a big national survey of 18-year-olds and young men have become considerably more conservative over time. Young women, a little bit more liberal. So, there's just a gr

owing gender gap when it comes to that. The "why" question is always the hard one to answer in any of this type of research. It could certainly, maybe, have something to do with abortion rights. It may also be on the Right, the existence of Andrew Tate and some of those commentators who try to make masculinity into this... almost game that young men may be responding to, even though that's maybe not the way they should be going. Well, I think it gets back to your thing about technology. Technolo

gy changed so that what used to be brawny stuff that men did, that made them feel like men, that's not what matters in an information society. We're an information society now. The jobs that women do and are better at... Comm-- They're better at communication, they're better at cooperation. That's why they're doing better in the workplace. That's why they're doing better in college, right? So, the men feel lost. VAN: And I-- And then they turn to idiots like Andrew Tate. Right, and they're-- -Yo

u know, military service isn't compulsory anymore. -BILL: Right. -So, instead, it's video games. -BILL: Yeah. I also think that... there's something happening on the Progressive side, that it feels like almost all masculinity -is considered toxic, right? -BILL: Right. And so you're-- I think that young men may not feel welcome. -Like, if you're-- -BILL: It's true. In other words, I don't think it's so much of a pull of an Andrew Tate, though that's playing a role. I think it just may be a push.

Like, if you show up and you wanna be just like a regular, you know, guy's guy, you just may not be eating enough kale and doing enough yoga to fit in on the Left. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -BILL: It's true. Just being a man is a little suspect. Yeah. No, and I think this winds up being not good for women either. 'Cause I don't think women like that. -Well, I mean-- -ANN: Right. I mean, the rhetoric may be one thing but at the end of the day, a lot of-- I know we're all gay and we're all

fluid now... -(GUESTS LAUGHING) -...and we're all trans. And we're-- Nobody's-- But a lot of people are still the old school. -You know, there was a-- -The old school from 12 years ago. (LAUGHS) Yeah, I mean, there was a default setting. And a lot of women, I think, still want a man to be a man. Not an abusive man, but just a man. -Yes. (CHUCKLES) -Yes, and I remember-- Hey. -VAN: You're cancelled. -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) -How dare you? -(CHUCKLES) Yeah. I remember when my mother was a widow, the

last 15 years of her life, and how she was always, you know, just unhappy, and then she said, "I just miss male energy." -"I need male energy." -ANN: Mm-hmm. You know, so, plenty-- We got-- Good thing we got plenty of it right here on the panel. -(GUESTS LAUGHING) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) Does-- (CHUCKLES) Van, "Does AOC supporting Biden mean the rest of the Squad will help Progressives line up behind him?" -Well, I mean, that's-- -I just really don't know. And I think that this idea th

at there's a squad is a little dated. You know, the reason I say that is because, you know, when they first got there, they were-- it was like a-- Like, these were the new kids on the block. BILL: Right. They're not the new kids on the block anymore. And AOC is a rising star in our party. She's almost seen by some of the younger people as more of an establishment figure, as hard as that is for people in my age group to imagine. And they're gonna go their own ways. They have different-- They repr

esent different districts. And so, I'm glad that AOC is supporting Biden, but I don't think she's gonna be able to snap her fingers and get the rest of the Progressives to do anything they don't wanna do. BILL: Hmm. "What do you think, panel, of the report that Trump told his advisors that he wants a 16-week abortion ban with an exception for rape?" For him. -(GUESTS LAUGHING) -(AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) We make little jokes. We make little jokes. But that-- Now, this-- -What I-- (LAUGHS) -

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) Gentle chiding and good kidding. It's all in good fun. But apparently, this is his way to-- I mean, 'cause this to me, I thought, maybe not still true, but I think still true, is going to be the Achilles' heel for the Republican party in the next election. I mean, they caught the car. They finally did what they wanted to do -for all those 50 years... -ANN: Yes. ...and they overturned Roe vs. Wade. -And people don't like it. -VAN: At all. Women don't like it, men don't like it

. Everybody hates kids, I say it all the time. (ALL LAUGHING) It's true, everybody hates kids. -Nobody wants kids. -DR. JEAN TWENGE: Speak for yourself. -(CHUCKLES) -(ANN LAUGHS) No, people don't want kids, they certainly don't want ones they don't plan for. -And... -(LAUGHS) So, what do you think, is this a good compromise? Sixteen weeks, he said... (MIMICS TRUMP) "I picked it 'cause it's--" -(LAUGHS) Now, I'm-- We-- -(VAN LAUGHING) This is only a secondhand thing, he told his advisors, so-- Bu

t he's apparently picked it because he's-- (CHUCKLES) It's even, it's four months exactly. Like, that should even come-- -(ANN LAUGHING) -Why would he-- Thank God we all hate him, right? -(ANN LAUGHING) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) -I think you're clearly right. -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) This-- Abortion is really hurting Republicans. I don't think you can blame all Republicans for this. I'm glad it was overturned by the Supreme Court, I think. I'm a pro-life zealot. I think it was disgusting to

call that a constitutional right. But it has been sent back to the states, that's all we ever wanted. And guess what, fellow pro-lifers? We're getting slaughtered. There have been seven direct to the people votes. -And the tiniest restriction... -BILL: Right. ...on abortion loses overwhelmingly. In Montana, in Kentucky. -States that Trump won by-- -BILL: Kansas. Kansas, 20 points, and it isn't Republicans per se, I think, pushing this. It is these pro-life zealots who just-- They don't care. "I

'm going to be pure, and did you see my write-up -in the Catholic Insight magazine?" -(CHUCKLES) And you know, you guys, you're like the corporate Republicans who will not give up on their cheap labor. We have to tell them, "We can give you some things, but we can't give you everything or we're just gonna lose." Well, what a great way to end this segment because I got five seconds. Perfect timing. Thank you, CNN. Thank you, panel. -We'll see you next week. -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING, CHEERING)