Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller, a couple of announcements.

We have some new merch here. I'm kind of standing up so you can see it a little bit for

the YouTube. And some might say that the new merch is a little more Tim coded standing up so you can see it a little bit for the YouTube.

And some might say that the new merch is a little more Tim coded than the past offerings. You can go to the bulwark.com slash store to see what we got cooking up. I am also having back from a week on the road. And so I had a lot of takes bubbling up that I did last night after Toulouse went to bed. So you can already see my talk with Will Summer on Candice Owens going even insaneer. Can you say insaneer? Whatever. Candice Owens way off the deep end. I saved that for Will Summer. So that's already up. You can check that out in the Bullock takes feet. I also grabbed my guy Pablo Torre, who's been just really on a heater. had the big Riley Gaines story and he does sports politics overlap and that should be up later today also on the board takes feed

and we got a new mailbag segment coming soon for Bullard Plus members to get to the end of the year

we want to encourage more Bullock Plus members Black Friday is coming up so you can sign up either on YouTube or Substack. I'm going to be taking mailbag questions. So are some of my colleagues. Fun and goofy would be great. But we'll also take your politics questions too. You can email us at Bullwark Podcast at thebork.com and sign up for Bullwark Plus now now so you get access to that. For today's show,

there's some big threats to Trump's power out there. There's unrest within the MAGA base.

He's losing control over the party. He's losing the fear factor. And to talk about all that,

it's Monday. So it's the editor at large, Bill Crystal. What's up, Bill?

I'm just pondering that you get all these fun bulwark takes with Will on Candace Owens and on Bradley Gaines. And I'm having sober discussions on Sunday, bullwork on Sunday with Catherine Rampel on economic data. And is the real economy a little better or a little worse and you know it's but everyone

does his own thing everyone does his own thing right i mean you know that was a great bulwark on

sunday and people should check that out i mean if you want to get even more serious shield of

the republic had an excellent guest this week whose name i'm blanking on former general who is

really good so you know we give people on Jonathan Cohn's newsletter is deep diving on health care fraud this week.

It was really good.

Excellent.

No, excellent stuff.

I will say you have had, I mean, you and Will, particularly since this is his beat, the amount of material he's had and that you've been happy to help him develop

in MaguWorld. It's pretty astonishing the last couple of weeks, right?

Just as a teaser, I guess I'll just tell people.

Candice Owens thinks that the French president has issued a hit on her and it's trying to

assassinate her. And there is a female French Huguenots or whatever,

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