Andrew Weissmann: It Stinks to High Heaven

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The deputy attorney general of the United States, who took an oath to help Donald Trump no matter what, is conferring with Jeffrey Epstein's literal partner in crime—a woman who lied about the sex trafficking she orchestrated and participated in. And Ghislaine Maxwell has every motive to exculpate Trump now (and incriminate some other high-profile figure) in return for a pardon or a reduction in her 20-year sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing numerous minor girls, some as young as 14. Meanwhile, JD isn't offering a very vigorous defense of Trump's integrity, the administration is making a giant legal mess for themselves in New Jersey over Alina Habba, and Emil Bove's nomination is all about trying to destroy checks and balances.

Andrew Weissmann joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
show notes

Get $35 off your first box of wild-caught, sustainable seafood—delivered right to your door. Go to: https://www.wildalaskan.com/BULWARK

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back, a professor of practice at NYU Law School. He served as the chief of the fraud section at DOJ. I don't think there is a fraud section anymore. So that's an old job. As well as the general counsel at the FBI. He's an MSNBC legal analyst, co-host of the podcast, Maine Justice. And his substack is behind the headlines. It's obviously Andrew Weissman. What's going on, man? You know, things have been so quiet.
0:38.4	So quiet. I don't even know how we're going to fill a full podcast today.
0:41.7	But I have to start, unfortunately, as part of a settlement, we're now required to begin the podcast with this public service announcement.
0:50.4	So before we get to the news by J. Laine Maxwell, I want to play this as I'm obligated to.
0:56.4	I'm Donald J. Trump, and I endorse this message.
1:01.5	Trump, his penis is teeny tank, but his love for us is large.
1:09.8	USA.
1:12.0	Did you get a chance to watch any South Park this week, Andrew?
1:15.3	You know, I didn't,
1:16.7	but it's nice to start on this high note.
1:22.8	I just want to let you know
1:24.1	that if you want to talk about Trump's teeny tiny penis
1:26.5	on this podcast, you're free to. You know. I wanted to start there as a tone setter. Yeah, I wanted to work it into the legal issues that, you know, and I'll lose bouch. Yeah. All right. Well, the FCC approved the merger between Paramount and Skydance or the Shineheart Whig company or whatever, the oversight company is.
1:45.1	So, congrats on firing Stephen Colbert and paying a tribute to the president to the folks at
1:52.4	CBS and Paramount.
1:54.7	But the South Park guys got that in under the belt.
1:57.8	Can we just talk about that for one second, which is that it really
2:01.6	looks like an extortion racket that is going on, whether it's on the business side where you're
2:08.1	talking about Paramount or the CBS settlement or the law firms that have settled, especially when
2:15.8	you have Trump saying, you know, it's amazing. They're giving
2:17.7	all this money, but they haven't done anything wrong. And so even if you thought that the
2:24.9	president was not intentionally doing it that way, which is like, you know, blinking at reality,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 11 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bulwark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Bulwark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.