I'm a liberal and love this show but I got to say that the audience just clapping every time they hear an argument like, "cop bad" is really annoying and brain dead.

This was a horrible setting for a debate. Get rid of the audience immediately.

Coleman Hughes is one of the most brilliant young minds of our time, and neither of these guys let him get a full thought out. Highly recommend his podcast "Conversations with Coleman".

Coleman is just so composed, rational, and empathetic at the same time.

We're all in agreement the Clapping was annoying as hell.

The clapping has to go. Its really distracting and stupid.

Bro I swear I was laughing so hard I fell down each time the audience clapped for absolutely no reason😂😂💀

The audience shouldn't exist. They add almost nothing most of the time in a setting like this.

Hitchens was right that audience will applaud anything.

Coleman Hughes: I just want to see the police improve. Audience: *silence (Literally 5 seconds later) Bakari Sellers: I just want better police. Audience: *Roars

Coleman wipes the floor with this brother. Hughes may not elicit the same response from the peanut gallery but he seemingly appears much more effective and persuasive. The “all cops are bad and racist and are targeting blacks” trope will eventually lose its impact when things like analytics and body cams become even more mainstream.

Coleman Hughes!!! A shining hope for the future of the country. I've learned so much from him in subject matter as well as maintaining composure and humility when exchanging ideas with people with different views.

This show would be so much better without an audience.

What's with that audience? Stop clapping and just listen.

Have Coleman on again. His voice needs to be heard

I'm frustrated when I watch this conversation. It does not feel like a genuine exchange between intelligent men, trying to arrive at solutions. @5:11 Bakari brings up the two pop culture cases of white privilege/soft treatment by police, Dylan Roof and Kyle Rittenhouse. Coleman reminds him that these are flashy headline cases, not sociological arguments. "Those are not representative cases", he says ... Bakari replies "but did they not happen?" ?? ... The crowd cheers. ??? That is not an acceptable answer in a SERIOUS conversation about the complex racial and socio-political factors at play during violent police encounters, in the US. For some reason, Bakari must insist that the problem of policing in America is not just a problem of policing ... it's a problem that is unique and particular and targeted to harm the black community, in a special way. @3:46 Coleman brings up one of the thousands of white victims of police violence. He did so to show the diversity and range of the cruelty of America's policing history. He doesn't negate race as an important factor, but says it's clearly deeper than race. Coleman's point is not only reasonable, it's supported by the data. It also means that we can include brothers and sisters of all races to the table to discuss, and protest and organize a better way of policing and protecting citizens. It also means we can talk broadly about the issues and pathologies that plague communities that are deprived of resources. These communities exist around the country and the beleaguered, neglected populations are not exclusively black. We can admit all of this, and still aim restructure our society in a justice minded, meaningful way. It's stunning that Bakari won't take the opportunity to recognize these truths, agree on their common ground, broaden the discussion, and still be an advocate for all the same ideals.

Coleman Hughes should get more airtime outside of his podcast. His intellect and ability to present facts and ideas need to be heard by many.

The audience so annoying here

coleman hughes is by far the most intelligent one here

Bill's audience are like clapping seals. Worse than the audience on the view. Smh.

The audience is showing their ignorance and tribal nature. Whenever Sellers spoke, automatic applause. When Coleman spoke to the nuance of this issue...crickets. Sheep don't think, let alone in nuanced ways.

An actual healthy conversation and debate on an important issue, more of this please

Shoutsout to Coleman Hughes for always being correct and on point, this other guy is an absolute fool with no understanding of the topic looking only to pull at the emotional strings of the mentally weak

Coleman Hughes was so calm in the way he just shut that other guy down. He be like "Bro, I can use anecdotes too." Bakari is then forced to give his thesis without them, which then makes his thesis sound really weak at least to me, but apparently not to the audience

The crowd clapping really undermines this conversation.

This clapping after every sentence is incredibly annoying lol. Let them talk.

I'm glad to see Coleman Hughes getting more exposure. That man is gonna become a lot more famous in the near future.

Coleman Hughes has more intelligence in his little finger than Bakari Sellers could ever dream of.

Bill needs to fix his audience, seriously. I like what he says, the guests are having great debates, but all those claps are just disturbing the whole thing

The silence of the audience whenever Coleman speaks is hilarious. It’s like a stunned silence...they can’t boo him, not really knowing his political affiliation, and the fact he’s black lol. It’s sad that this is probably the first time ever hearing that perspective.

Love Coleman Hughes

I'm happy to see Coleman getting some spotlight. I've been following him for a while.

I wanna see the next presidential debates show about the same level of respect, honor, intelligence, wittiness, passion for the topic at hand and just plain common decency as these two folks showed here... would that be to much to ask? 🤔 Great arguments and great convo.

This had the potential of a great discussion if the trained seals weren’t present clopping.

I've been loving me some Coleman Hughes lately.

Coleman was cold 🥶 this whole show and well spoken

Kudos to Maher for having this discussion. But wish Coleman was interviewed alone and got more time to speak. His nuanced perspective is far more interesting to hear than the same simplistic narratives that get all the airtime.

What we need is the lack of a live audience.

This debate was like watching 2 people in a boat headed towards a waterfall. Sellers was complaining about a small leak in the hull, and Coleman Hughes was there saying, "Ya, that's an issue, but we're heading towards a waterfall!"

Coleman Hughes is a national treasure.

Coleman could hardly speak. He had a lot to say here and didn’t get his time.

Coleman Hughes is my new favorite person. Only speaking the truth.

Dead silence whenever Coleman speaks. People don't want thoughtful, complex, accurate worldviews. They want a simple *story.*

I’m a Minority Puerto Rican Bernie Sanders democratic socialist and I also follow Coleman Hughes on KZfaq and find him to be a refreshing young Voice of reason that should be heard that not going to give people Woke talking points and gives real statistics to backup what he says

Please stop clapping from happening in these types of discussion, it really undermines each point when the person speaking gets drowned out.

The ppl clapping for every argument by both guys was kinda annoying

Props to Coleman Hughes for staying calm, composed, sticking to the points and being respectful in that he didn't talk over Bakari.

Coleman Hughes is just way more nuanced and solution based

maybe I just got used to the lack of applause after every single line, but shit that got annoying

I’m so happy to see Coleman getting the recognition he deserves, great nuanced perspective.

They always reveal themselves in the end... they can't help themselves... "we need to tear it down". The only honest words that came out of sellers mouth that entire video.

Coleman Hughes is brilliant! Thanks for having someone this thoughtful and clever, and most importantly rational over emotional on your show! Oh yeah, and I fully support all arguments about not the most clever audience - sounded like a cheap sitcom

Coleman Hughes is sensible and debates with logic. It seems that's what we lack from both sides. Common sense and logic.

Bill stop interrupting Coleman. Killing me just when he's about to make a good point. driving me nuts

Bill, can you please implement a policy of having the audience hold their applause until the end? --From everyone watching.

There is an “Applause” sign that lights up for the audience in that room. My mom went to one of the shows and said they were told when to clap. So if anything, this applause is directed by the producers.

That audience clapping is a problem.

This is why I love Maher. He's not afraid to question everything.

Sellers, 36 (lawyer/politician) sounds like an unhinged rabble-rousing activist Hughes, 26 (student/writer) sounds like a thoughtful balanced unbiased analyst. Time to adjust our idea of role models, people.

Everybody should spend a week with the police so they see what they have to go through. They’ll get the shock of their lives.

the audience is annoying and doesn't sound genuine.

Thank you Bill for having this conversation on your show!!!! I am sooooo proud of you Coleman !!!!!

Bakari Sellers does a fantastic job presenting the twitter argument against police brutality. Coleman Hughes does an even better job presenting stats to counter Sellers' conjecture.

Hilarious that Coleman made a statement about having better policing whatever that means for the budget ( no applause) Bakari literally says the exact same thing worded differently (big applause) 😂🙄😂

I wish Bill would go back home.........the audience literally clapping at everything is ridiculous You don't need to clap everytime you agree

I'm glad that the people in this comment section, for the most part, have more sense then this ridiculous audience

The audience applauds at every emotional appeal to their biases, but when Coleman makes cogent statements that challenge their biases, they don’t applaud. There is only one moment of partial applause when when he mentions that Kenneth Walker thought the cops were intruders. The audience is so willing to believe that cops are evil.

Both Sellers and Hughes make good and valid points. But what seems to be missing from both talking points is the power of police unions and their relationships w/ the cities and towns they "protect and serve". Much of police conduct (and in some cases a lack thereof) is usually approved by a mutual agreement between city councils and police unions. In order for there to be any real reform qualified immunity must end, and city council members need to re-negotiate the terms/conditions of the agreement they enter in w/ their police forces. Additionally, we must end the militarization of police forces all around the country, end the disastrous "war on drugs", and take away some of the funding from police forces (or re-allocate them for better training programs), and ALL major cities need to have some form of watchdog/police accountability groups.

Notice that Coleman actually wanted to talk about solutions and discuss policy. Very levelheaded and calm. Any time he brought up a point it was ignored. Never expanded upon or even critiqued. Yet he would address any point brought up by Bakari but could barely get a word in. Bakari was full of emotion and anecdotal evidence, which says a lot considering he works for CNN. The fact that he disagrees with the goal of colorblindness, even disagreeing with Bill, is telling. He believes the most important thing about someone is the color of their skin. Bill needs to STFU when he has guests on with opposing views and go into moderator mode. He spoke way more than Coleman. What’s the point of having a guest on if you speak more than them? His segments when it’s just him are fine and should be the place to get out all his talking points for the night. When it’s him and a guest, I say keep it 50/50 at the very least. The more he can let his guests talk, with sprinkles of him, the better. The audience is just terrible. When there is a back and forth between opposing guests, and the producers know this will happen, there needs to be a signal to keep the audience quiet.

Nothing is more exhausting than someone who sees racism in everything.

Coleman is such an amazing intellect who sticks to principle not ideology - Sellers just ignored his point about the high number of black murders left unsolved as an 'inconvenient truth'.

5:38 Hughes: “You’re cherry-picking examples.” Sellers: “Did they not happen?” There’s only one of two explanations here for Seller’s response. Either he doesn’t understand the difference between relying on anecdotes versus data when analyzing a social phenomenon, which makes him uneducated enough to not qualify for an opinion on that table, or he knows better but he’s willing to lie, which also disqualified him from a seat at the table. Which is it?

Why was his response to “cherry picking” is “didn’t it happen”? He knows he is smarter than that. Such an irresponsible response

the audience does not applaud at all when tragedies are put into perspective but when woke slogans are presented

Wow .. Coleman Hughes was impressive

People who don't understand why you might "empty" a clip on a suspect have no business commenting how to improve policing.

I don't think Mr. Sellers has the facts correct on the cases he is talking about.

The audience was clapping for themselves. Very strange behavior.

Coleman we need you man

Coleman Hughes for the win!!

Coleman Hughes with the look on his face "I can't belive this idiot"

All police need body cams n they must b turned ON at all times! PERIOD

Coleman Hughes is a great up and coming Star! Let this guy talk. He is Genius

It wasn’t a no knock, she wasn’t asleep, they didn’t fire first and the list goes on

bakari just says what people like to hear he is like a politician

“You’re cherry-picking examples” “Are you saying those things didn’t happen?!” *audience applauds 🤦🏼‍♂️

There’s like 3 people in the audience and HBO paid them to clap every time the black guy on the left speaks. For all we know they were trained seals!

Wow this aged well. Coleman’s logic will Win in the long run

I like MR. Hughes, he is tough and smart.

The phrase “defunding the police” is provocative and leads to misunderstanding. Call it what it is: a balancing of funding and priorities.

"I dont want less police. I want better police." You think removing most of their funds will make them MORE trained? If anything, we need to spend MORE on the educational/academical parts of trying to become a police officer.

Coleman Hughes is King.

Coleman Hughes is a rare, brave and valuable voice in America.

Need to get rid of the audience for good. Does this show have a “clap at every sentence” sign?

"More riots and unrest in the streets over something that might not be true." Hmm...maybe instead of knee jerk reactions we all wait for facts?

I am glad I am not the only black person who does not jump to racism in everything that happens

Coleman hughes is amazing! Love listening to him on his podcast! He does this on in long form. The amount of facts and logic that he can pack into each second is unreal!

Coleman Hughes sounding like the black Sam Harris almost. And i mean that in a good way lol

He said it, lack of accountability toward the criminals also adds to the problem.

Drowning out Coleman at every turn. Sellers should listen to him. Coleman is a lot smarter and more honest.