Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

It is Wednesday.

I'm actually taping this Tuesday afternoon because Wednesday morning I'm flying to D.C.

Me and Sarah Longwell are doing a debate against the libertarian reason bros over at the Howard Theater.

So if you're in D.C. I want to come hang out and are listening to this on Wednesday afternoon.

We're doing that tonight around 7 p.m. So in the meantime, I have a wonderful guest.

So I'm excited to welcome back to the bulwark to talk big picture, view of what's happening here and around the world.

He was a retired lieutenant general and a around the world. He was a retired

lieutenant general and a CNN military analyst. He's a former commanding general of the U.S. Army and

Europe in the 7th Army. He's a veteran of both Iraq wars. It's Mark Hartling. How you doing, sir?

Hey, Tim, how are you? It's a pleasure to be on with you today. Let's talk some things. I'm excited to have you back. Hopefully you can

illuminate some things for me. I don't know if I can do that, but we'll see. Much to discuss. And

you've written, I want to get at the end, you've written for us as well, which I really appreciate.

You wrote something beautifully about American values, what you've learned in the Army and what maybe

the citizenry needs to learn wrote that for us after the election. So I want to get to that at the end,

but there's so much happening around the world. And usually I have a little outline of things I

want to talk about. But given your breadth of experience, I actually thought the more interesting

way to start would be, I want a threat assessment from you. You're looking at

the domestic challenges we face with the incoming Trump administration's office as appointees,

looking what's happening with Syria and Iran and the Koreas and Ukraine. If you're getting a phone call,

it's like, General, what do you think the biggest threat is that we face?

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