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Katie Couric LIVE on Trump's AWFUL Polls, GOP's Gerrymander Faceplant, WHCD Drama

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Katie Couric is joining JVL and Bill Kristol to talk about Trump's dismal approval polling, the GOP's failed attempt to gain an edge in the House via gerrymandering, and the upcoming White House Correspondents Dinner.

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0:00.0

I think we're live. Are we live?

0:02.0

As Bill or running.

0:03.0

We're doing it live.

0:05.0

Hi, everyone.

0:07.0

Well, happy hump day.

0:10.0

This is one of my favorite things to do because I love to talk to really smart people about what's going on in the world.

0:18.0

And today my two smarty pants friends, Bill Crystal and JVL, are going to talk about

0:23.7

so many things that are happening in the news. But the headline, I guess you guys, well,

0:28.1

there are many headlines. That's part of the problem. But we're going to be talking about the

0:32.5

sentence we never thought we'd hear from Tucker Carlson's mouth, or at least at this point,

0:38.6

Trump's poll numbers,

0:44.5

the news coming out of the Strait of Hormuz with our Strait of Hormuz expert, JBL, and the Virginia redistricting vote that's going to change everything for Democrats, including voters. I'm not going to say

0:50.8

you're Democrat, but voters like Bill Crystal, who lives in the Old Dominion. Anyway, you guys, so I just have to ask you both about Tucker Carlson and this

1:00.2

midstream conversion where he went on a podcast with his brother Buckley. And of course,

1:08.5

his brother's name is Buckley, Buckley and Tucker.

1:11.9

And I guess Tucker has a son named Buckley as well after his brother.

1:15.8

Meanwhile, I think his brother is definitely using RFK Jr.'s tanning bed, but that's beside the

1:21.5

point.

1:22.0

Let's listen to what Tucker said.

1:24.5

That is really kind of creating huge waves all around the media ecosystem anyway.

1:31.5

So let's listen.

1:32.4

Looking back being because, I mean, you and I and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaign for him.

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