Bill Kristol: The Law Be Damned

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The new administration has been routinely breaking the law, including on Friday when it announced it was cutting funding for universities doing medical research, specifically in violation of legislation passed by Congress last year. And over the weekend, Trump, Musk, and Vance signaled a willingness to ignore court orders—a federal judge on Monday declared that the White House was doing just that in response to his order lifting a freeze on grant spending. Meanwhile, Trump designated himself the Supreme Leader over the Kennedy Center, and also childishly canned the national archivist because she discovered he was hoarding classified documents. Plus, at a time when we could use some decent role models, Jalen Hurts showed what it's like to win without being petty and consumed by grievance.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.
0:09.6	I'm your host, Tim Miller.
0:11.6	That's the fourth week of Trump 2.0.
0:13.7	Somehow only the fourth week.
0:15.2	And it's Monday.
0:16.3	So I'm back with our editor at large, Bill Crystal.
0:19.8	How you doing, Bill?
0:21.8	Is it the fourth week?
0:23.3	It's unbelievable, actually.
0:25.0	Time flies when you're having fun, Tim, you know?
0:25.8	No doubt.
0:28.2	We need to start with the most important item of the weekend.
0:29.7	We're going to get to Super Bowl stuff at the end.
0:33.9	And obviously, we have the constitutional crisis to discuss and many other matters.
0:44.9	It's tariff week again. It's going to be infrastructure week throughout the late 2010s and tariff week through the mid-2020s, I think. But the burning subject on the mind of the shadow president Elon Musk over the weekend was whether or not you are white,
0:50.6	one of his very fine Twitter reply guys replied to Elon saying that Bill Crystal is Jewish, not white, correcting a tweet that Elon had sent.
1:00.9	Elon replied, this idea that Jewish people are not white is ridiculous.
1:05.2	Someone like Crystal is peak white, if anything.
1:07.9	That dude barely has any melatonin.
1:10.9	Quick aside, melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate your sleep wake cycle.
1:15.4	Heavy MDMA usage creates a depletion of melatonin in the body.
1:19.2	So maybe that's why melatonin was on Elon's mind.
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