Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

I'm delighted to be here with the former chair of the Republican National Committee.

He's host of the Michael Steele podcast, distributed right here by the Woolwork.

He's co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC. He was

Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. It's Michael Steele. How you doing, Chairman? I'm good, baby boy.

How you doing, man? Well, I mean, time is a flat circle. It's either on Monday's show or Tuesday

show, I was like, this has been the longest three weeks of my life. And then I was like, wait a minute.

It's only been two weeks, actually.

So, you know, I'm here.

I'm alive.

And that's about all we can ask for right now, right?

How are you doing?

It sucks real hard right now.

I'm at a point where I'm frustrated and angry at the same time with the way storylines have played out with no response.

And it is galling and mind-numbingly stupid to me that we see the arrogance and disregard of this administration, the leveling up of the menagerie of

misfits to be secretaries of fill in the blank and directors of national intelligence.

And there doesn't seem to be a counter narrative, let alone counter efforts to expose this bullshit for what it is.

And it's frustrating because I feel like, you know, folks like you, myself and others are out here.

Clang the bell, the warning bell saying, guys, don't do this. Trust me,

it's not the price of eggs, okay? I hear you, but it's not the price of eggs. That's the least

of your problems. And here we are now, and then seeing people all of a sudden now, do I have a job?

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