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The Bulwark Podcast

James Comey and Ben Wittes: A Demagogue Our Founders Feared

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI Director James Comey joins Tim Miller to discuss the choices he made in 2016, the DOJ's self-sabotaging avoidance of the media, and how to maintain your integrity and principles in the face of a lying, lawless bastard. Plus, Ben Wittes in New York updates the status of the Trump trial, and praises the fairness of Judge Merchan.

show notes:


Comey's new crime novel
Ben on Judge Merchan

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm

0:08.0

welcome to the Buller Podcasts, I'm your host Tim Miller.

0:11.0

I'm excited to bring in a first-time Bullard

0:13.2

podcast guest and maybe a listener. Former director of the FBI, you might have heard

0:17.3

of him. Jim Komi, director, how you doing?

0:20.3

I'm doing great, time listener first time guest.

0:23.0

Okay I apologize for all the cursing you know when grandparents come on and sometimes I don't think

0:28.8

about grandparents in my mind's eye when I'm cursing but you know sometimes the

0:32.4

news calls for it for those who don't know Jim Comi has a new crime novel out called Westport. It's his second novel. He also wrote Central Park West then he wrote his first book, a memoir about the craziness that is his life, called

0:46.8

a higher loyalty, truth lies, and leadership. So we have to start with this, I just have

0:50.9

to get it out of the way, okay? You know what I'm going to ask you about yeah why in the

0:55.7

fuck did you come from Martha Stewart Jim all right that woman has given us so much of all

1:01.0

of the criminals out there why did you have to come for Martha?

1:04.4

I know and it's made Macy's, I think it is, a no-go zone for me. It's really tortured my life.

1:09.1

I don't think of it as us coming for Martha, she came to us and we had no choice.

1:14.0

Well, we might have to go a little deeper into that because

1:19.0

Martha and Snoop bring people so much joy and you know you took that from them but we're

1:24.5

to get to Hillary which I was obviously referencing in a little bit but I've got

1:28.0

some other topics we need to talk about are you following the news these days are

1:31.3

you just kind of writing novels I'm following just

1:34.8

so I can understand what's going on in the bullwark okay well there were some

1:39.2

Maralago raid documents unsealed last night. They included a line that talked about how the agents

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