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Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bill Kristol is joined by Managing Editor Sam Stein to discuss the latest news, and a variety of Bulwarkian developments including Andrew Egger’s scoop causing chaos with the RNC chair, Adrian Carrasquillo making The White House’s “naughty list”, and Sam updates on the efforts on the pediatric cancer funding.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Bill Crystal here. Welcome to Sunday Bullwork. Very pleased to be joined by my colleague, managing editor and general big shot at the Bullwork, Sam Stein.

0:09.6

Thank you, Bill.

0:10.8

And we sort of planned a kind of upbeat end of season show, some amusing things that were happening with the Bullwork.

0:19.7

And then this last 24 hours have been pretty grim.

0:23.6

I mean, geez.

0:25.6

Yeah, as I was, I was, you know, talking to my wife about this and sort of observing it.

0:31.6

I went to bed trying to get research and data and reporting on one terrible mass shooting and then woke up to an even more horrific mass shooting across the globe.

0:42.1

And it's just, it's endless. It's horrible. I will say with the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia, the thing that's really like like, shook me is just how ubiquitous the footage

0:55.6

of it is.

0:56.0

I don't know if you've been online, but if you scroll through Twitter right now, there's

1:01.7

10-minute-long videos basically documenting the dead and then the police showing up and taking

1:08.9

out the perpetrators.

1:09.9

And you're just watching it as if it's almost a video game.

1:12.3

It's very, I don't know, it's unsettling, obviously.

1:16.1

And that one very brave person who seems to have charged the armed terrorist, I mean, that was impressive.

1:22.4

Yeah, the lone bright spot, I suppose, is this one man who comes in and just takes the gun from

1:28.4

this guy and points it on. Apparently, this man didn't know how to operate a gun. So when he

1:35.1

pointed out of him, I guess he didn't know how to shoot. But the idea, the bravery to do something

1:40.5

like that is, yeah, that makes me, that makes me proud for humanity in one respect

1:47.8

and amid incredible sorrow for humanity in every other respect.

1:52.3

Well, we obviously, I mean, it sounds so insufficient even to say it,

1:56.7

but condolences to all those affected and terrible, affected and, uh, terrible events in both places.

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