Sam Stein: Can Trump Avoid Humiliation in Iran?
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Trump's madman antics got him into a game of chicken with Iran, but he's up against people who are even crazier than he is. And he is not likely to get a deal with Tehran that is any better than Obama's nuclear agreement—which Trump called the worst deal in the world. Plus, the Virginia win is another reminder that Dems can effectively play hardball, Kevin Warsh is looking like an alarming pick for the Fed, the media coverage of the mass shooting in Shreveport was almost non-existent, MAGA is obsessed with Mamdani, Sam and Tim have new Cabinet rankings, and is there a way to stop Kushner from making deals with Sharia law countries?
Sam Stein joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Catherine on Warsh failing the big test in his confirmation hearing
- Will Saletan on the latest anti-MAMDANI bill
- Jonathan on the national media largely ignoring the mass shooting in Louisiana
- Tim, Sam, and Sommer on Candace vs. Loomer
- Tim on the Nuggets pod, CSG
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Tim Miller. |
| 0:15.8 | A few housekeeping items. |
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| 0:54.9 | YouTube, subscribe right now, tell your friends. All right, today's guest. This is unusual for me. |
| 1:01.7 | I don't usually do this. Okay. I don't usually get bullied into having a guest on the show. I usually |
| 1:06.2 | get to pick. But in this case, our guest today was upset because he had been in poll position, like the most downloaded episode ever was right before I went on vacation last summer. |
| 1:20.1 | Our guest today was the special guest for that episode. |
| 1:22.7 | I think that the reason of the most downloads was mostly because most of you missed me while I was on vacation. |
| 1:27.1 | You kept kind of downloading it to see if I was coming back but it was a point of |
| 1:31.2 | pride for him and um as of a couple days ago that has been passed now the episode of jane |
| 1:39.0 | coastin when we talked about milania not being able to speak English and Catholic school |
| 1:43.0 | has passed it I don't know why you guys |
| 1:44.8 | loved that one so much, but there it is. We all love Jane. And so he's back. He wants first. |
| 1:51.3 | He wants to be first again. He wants pole position. It's the managing editor of the Buller exam's time. |
| 1:55.7 | Just to clear things up for it to start out here. I did not beg to come on. |
| 2:01.5 | You asked me to come on. |
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