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The Bulwark Podcast

Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Cannon, has been attempting to exercise authority she doesn't have over Jack Smith's required report on his investigations of the Jan 6 case and the hoarding of classified docs—but she'll be a model of loyalty that Trump will expect for all his judicial appointments. Meanwhile, it's a big week of hearings for his nominees, Wray could do more to oppose the politicization of the FBI, and what is up with Fetterman? 

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

show notes
Bob Kagan's Atlantic piece on Ukraine that Bill referenced

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. When I take this with Bill this morning, we were discussing these legal motions from a couple of Trump's underlings, including Walt Nata, that was trying to delay the release of the Jack Smith reports. They'd put in a filing with Judge Eileen Cannon. Since we've recorded, those motions have been denied. And so, as of right now, there are no legal barriers to the release of the Jack Smith report.

0:24.9

So hopefully we'll be seeing that soon and we'll be discussing it later this week.

0:28.9

Up next, Bill Crystal.

0:34.6

Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.

0:40.9

I'm your host Tim Miller.

0:42.4

It is Monday.

0:43.6

So we've got Bill Crystal live from Washington.

0:45.6

A big moment for Washington.

0:47.5

The football team has won a playoff match on the backs of LSU grad jaden Daniels.

0:52.2

First in 20 years, I believe.

0:56.0

The first playoff victory in 20 years.

0:59.2

And they can go to Detroit next Sunday, which next weekend, I was thinking about this,

1:02.4

will be a good distraction from the inauguration that's coming up Monday.

1:04.1

This will have pretty good.

1:08.7

I don't follow football much like I used to, but it seemed like at least on pretty good playoff games next week, right?

1:10.1

We will have some great games next weekend.

1:11.8

That distraction will absolutely be needed.

1:14.8

Our friend Ben Still,

1:16.1

with Severance is coming back.

1:17.7

Maybe on Friday I'll create a list for people of various distractions from the inauguration.

1:22.3

You need Monday 9 a.m. to midnight, you know, 15 hours of, you know, things to watch.

1:29.8

I'll work on that assignment for our listeners. I guess I wasn't going to do this, but since

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