Submit Your 'Overtime' Questions for October 16, 2015

Bill and his roundtable guests - Sen. Bernie Sanders, Johann Hari, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Feehery and Lawrence Lessig - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show. 

Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.

Guest List: October 9, 2015

Guest List: October 9, 2015

The Interview:

Ernest Moniz is the United States Secretary of Energy, appointed in 2013. He is a Professor of Physics, Emeritus at MIT, where he served as the founding Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. The White House recently posted this video of Dr. Moniz explaining the physics behind the Iran deal.

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Holy Water

Holy Water

After Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress last week, Philadelphia-area US Representative Bob Brady went up to the lectern and took the water glass the Pope had been drinking from. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, he carried the Pope’s remaining water back to his office where he, his wife and some staffers sipped some of it and then he called US Senator Bob Casey into his office and he and his wife and mother all dipped their fingers into the water.

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Submit Your 'Overtime' Questions for October 9, 2015

Bill and his roundtable guests - Ernest Moniz, Patrick J. Kennedy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Andrew Sullivan and Rob Thomas - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show. 

Submit your questions in the Comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time YouTube channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.

More Than 1 Percent

More Than 1 Percent

It’s very easy to scapegoat the top 1 percent politically, because there aren’t that many people in the top 1 percent. The harder thing to do is acknowledge the reality that the problem is the top 20 percent. There’s been a huge separation in recent years of the upper middle class from the rest of society, and the first step is getting people to admit they’re in the upper middle class. 

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