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Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

As we are taping this right now,

Donald Trump is about to give a press conference announcing some sort of federal takeover of Washington, D.C., more troops in D.C. as a response to big balls as a 20-year-old staffer or whatever for

Doge getting beat up by street tufts. So we will have some thoughts on that. I'm going to save it to the end of the pod because I want to see if there's anything particularly outlandish that comes out of the White House today as we're talking about it. So in the meantime, it's Monday. So I'm here with the editor at large of the Bullwark, Bill Crystal. We're getting to the other material. How you doing, Bill? Fine, Tim.

How are you?

I'm doing okay, all things considered. I know, it's always a mistake to say, how are you? Some of the Monday's hit a little harder. I'm okay, but the country's not great. Did I say this right as you once? That's my standard answer. like everyone says well i'm fine family's fine you know luckily and thank god and all that but

someone chastised me kind of earnest progressive type what that's my standard answers. Like everyone says, well, I'm fine. Family's fine, luckily, and thank God and all that.

But someone chastised me kind of earnest, progressive type when I said, I'm fine, things are fine.

You can't be fine, Bill.

I mean, when the country's in this kind of shape, really, you can't, even you can't personally be fine.

You can't make that distinction anymore.

But I think we should try to make the distinction, don't you think? We had the red dress run in New Orleans this weekend. So I put on a red dress and pranced around the French quarter. How can you not be fine as a man in a dress in the French quarter, the 88 degrees outside working on a suntan? It was okay. I think if you want to discuss that for five, ten minutes, people would be very interested in more of a detailed account of that. We don't have that in McLean, I don't think,

you know. You don't have a red dress runner McLean. You probably should think about the types of

folks you get out there, Dick Cheney in a dress. You know, you get a lot of, whatever,

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