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The Bulwark Podcast

Michael Weiss: Helsinki in Anchorage?

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

At the Alaska summit, Putin will likely be angling for a sequel of the Helsinki meeting, the infamous tête-à-tête in 2018 where Trump got rolled and cajoled. And because Trump refuses to accept that his charisma and imaginary friendship with Vladimir will never be enough to close a ceasefire deal, the best outcome for Ukraine is that Putin makes Trump mad by not helping him land his long-sought peace prize. Meanwhile, Russian intelligence has been busy recruiting assets to commit acts of terror and foment unrest in Western countries. Plus, the role of Europe in standing up to Trump, and a hurled sandwich becomes an act of resistance to the takeover of DC.

Michael Weiss joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

For the rest of time. Yes. Okay, good. Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:43.9

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:45.2

Before we get to the guest today, I just have a couple things.

0:48.0

I just finished popping off a quick take on some pretty alarming PPI numbers

0:53.2

with regards to inflation that came out this morning.

0:55.9

And we also have some stories about the new Commissioner of Labor Statistics,

1:00.2

the weird mortician man having a Nazi ship fetish.

1:04.5

That's a shocker.

1:05.3

And being there on January 6th.

1:06.7

So I talked about that with Bill Crystal over on the bulwark takes feed.

1:10.0

Make sure you go check that out and check out the other stuff that we've been popping out over on bulwark takes when there's rapid response news that we want to get to you.

1:17.9

I also just want to say, I was blown away by the overwhelmingly positive feedback to yesterday's podcast.

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