Who is on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight, October 7th?

Bill Maher will interview a U.S. senator and a rapper, while welcoming a Shark Tank entrepreneur, a political strategist and a British journalist to the Real Time panel.

Bill Maher will continue to give his thoughts on the presidential election ahead of the second debate on Sunday with a group of guests who will surely give their unfiltered thoughts on the latest stories involving Donald Trump. Unlike last week’s combative episode featuring Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore, who was repeatedly admonished by Maher for interrupting and not allowing others to speak, this week’s panel will be solely comprised of adversaries of the Republican businessman, including billionaire investor Mark Cuban.

Following his opening monologue, Maher will welcome Minn. Sen. Al Franken as the top-of-the-show interview guest. The former SNL star was a regular on Politically Incorrect, but has not been on Real Time since he became a senator. The comedian-turned-politician had previously been very cautious about his media appearances after winning his seat in 2008 by a slim margin, but he was easily reelected in 2014, and he’s since appeared on The Late Show and Conan.

On the panel will be Cuban, Democratic political strategist James Carville and journalist Johann Hari. Cuban, best known for starring in Shark Tank, was once a Trump supporter who called him “the best thing to happen to politics in a long time,” but he’s since switched sides, endorsing and later campaigning for Hillary Clinton in recent months. The Mavericks owners has said that it was Trump’s ignorance on issues involving NATO and nuclear weapons that prompted him to drop his support for the candidate once he became the Republican nominee.

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Carville, who’s married to fellow Real Time regular Mary Matalin, is a long-time Clinton adviser, having worked on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, and Hillary’s primary contest against Barack Obama. He’s currently a professor at Tulane University in his home state of Louisiana, and continues to regularly appear on cable news networks as a political commentator.

Also on the panel will be Johann Hari, who’s previously been on Real Time to discuss addiction and the War on Drugs, following the publishing of his critically acclaimed book tackling the subject, titled, Chasing the Scream. He’s written for the Huffington Post and The Independent, which suspended him in 2009 following accusations of plagiarism. He later publicly apologized for also editing the Wikipedia pages of several of his critics under a pseudonym. A quick look at his Twitter feed shows that he’s no fan of Trump, recently tweeting that the former Apprentice host is “running for dictator,” and labeling him a “Heinrich Himmler Republican.”

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Lastly, Pitbull will be the mid-show interview guest. The Miami-born rapper has previously gotten political when blasting Trump at an awards show last July, warning him to “watch out for El Chapo” and stating that he can’t be president. He also endorsed President Obama in 2012, but has not yet lent his support to Clinton in the all-important swing state of Florida.

Real Time with Bill Maher airs Friday at 10 p.m. on HBO.

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