1061: Secret Podcast: Did Stephen Miller Just Pull Off a Palace Coup?

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Sarah Longwell discuss the chaotic firing of Kristi Noem after a disastrous hearing, the MAGA infighting that may have taken her down, and what it says about how Trump runs his administration. They also talk about the war with Iran—why the strategy looks confused, how Tehran may be playing the long game, and why the economic fallout is already hitting gas prices, supply chains, and the global economy.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark.
0:06.6	The bulwark.
0:08.4	Hey, Sarah.
0:10.3	What's up my guy?
0:10.9	We got a big show for you guys today.
0:13.7	I am, we're taping Thursday afternoon and I am like exploding with Schadenfreude because
0:20.0	Christian Homme has just gotten fired in one of the most humiliating ways possible.
0:27.9	There's great news about the war, really great war news.
0:31.9	Who doesn't love a good war?
0:33.9	And today, finally, finally, Sarah and I are going to share some news about the top secret project that we've been working on for low these many months.
0:48.3	But I'm going to make you guys wait for that because we're going to do it on the back half because we do just want to share it first
0:55.0	with the members.
0:56.3	So maybe if you want to be part of that big reveal, go hit subscribe.
1:03.2	Yeah.
1:03.6	How you like that?
1:04.4	All right, best friend.
1:05.8	So you and I are sitting down.
1:08.0	I have just taped a 45 minute live shot with Tim and Andrew Egger over Christy Knoam,
1:15.7	who was fired by tweet while she was on stage giving a speech.
1:22.9	So that it is not clear that she had any knowledge that she had been fired?
1:31.7	Ah!
1:33.7	What are your thoughts?
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