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The Bulwark Podcast

Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Trump is threatening members of Congress with jail and Republican senators may be circling the wagons around his nominees, but we still need to protect ourselves from a nihilistic mindset. Plus, cautious optimism and uncertainty after the fall of Syria's brutal dictatorship. And no, Tulsi: You were wrong. Assad was our enemy.

Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss join Tim Miller.
Show notes:
Tim's Triad piece on fighting a nihilistic mindset

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullword podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. The Assad regime has fallen in Syria, and we're going to have an update on that in segment two from Michael Weiss. But first, it's Monday. So we have our editor at large, Bill Crystal. Bill,

0:21.5

we'll also get your thoughts on Syria at the end. But we've got to start with some more pressing

0:25.5

matters, such as the fact that we should be together right now, but we're on opposite sides of

0:29.6

Manhattan. I'm in my comfort zone in Brooklyn, and you are, you're aware? I'm on the Upper

0:34.5

Side. You're in Brooklyn with the young hipsters, and I'm on the up

0:37.8

west side with the people I grew up with, you know, it's appropriate. This is natural.

0:42.8

Natural law is coming back into order in the country. You can already feel it. We need to start

0:47.6

today with the Meet the Press interview that Donald Trump did, lengthy interview. I've got a

0:52.7

bunch of thoughts on it. I want yours,

0:54.4

but I think the most significant, I don't know if you'd call it news, but the most significant exchange

0:59.6

was related to Donald Trump's thoughts on the January 6th committee, and I want to play a little bit

1:04.3

of that for you now. And Cheney was behind it. And so was Benny Thompson and everybody on that

1:10.2

committee for what they did. Honestly, they should. was behind it. And so was Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee.

1:13.3

We're going to, for what they did.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:15.6

Honestly, they should go to jail.

1:18.7

So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?

1:22.7

For what they did. Everyone on the committee you think should go to jail. I think everybody in the, anybody that voted in favor.

1:23.9

Are you going to direct your FBI director and your attorney general to send them to jail? Not at all. I think that they'll have to look at that, but I'm not going to, I'm going to

1:31.6

focus on drill baby drill. There you go, Bill. She's not going to do it, though. He's not directing

1:37.5

them. So is that encouraging there, that slight moment of encouragement? I just, I think that

1:42.1

six sitting members of Congress should be jailed,

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