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The Next Level

The Death of the West Wing Dream? (with Bradley Whitford)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, Transparent) joins the Sunday show to talk The West Wing, criticisms of the show's idealistic politics, and his own evolution into an advocate for liberal causes and much more!

Plus, Tim and JVL breakdown DeSantis' attempts to shake off the "establishment" label after his presidential campaign launch.

Watch Tim and JVL interview Bradley here: https://youtu.be/6hbDyqu8qOo

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the next level Sunday show I'm your host Tim Miller with my best buddy JVL coming

0:14.7

live from North Jersey JVL how you doing? Tim happy Memorial Day weekend

0:20.5

buddy we have got a great Memorial day episode we didn't interview on

0:23.8

Tuesday of this week with Josh Lyman himself Bradley Whitford oh so good it was good

0:30.5

we take it before all the desantis nonsense and so you know it's just a nice little bit of it's a little bit of candy here New Orleans is called a little snowball for your for your Memorial Day weekend. We talked about the West Wing and how politics has changed

0:44.4

and whether his views on the show

0:46.6

have evolved over time, looking back,

0:48.7

given all the craziness that's happened,

0:50.4

talk about his career.

0:51.9

And also acting in

0:53.0

so you will enjoy it but before that I wanted to get into one

0:58.0

substantive item you know I think we've done a lot of

1:00.6

desantis analysis on you know the performance if you want to call

1:04.7

it that in the Twitter space his campaign's positioning a lot of

1:08.1

strategy I want to play a clip that I think betrays a little bit of

1:12.3

information about the substance of what Iran-Bissantis presidency would look like and ruminate on that a little bit before you get your Bradley-Wettford dessert.

1:21.0

Sebastian, can you play that?

1:22.0

What do you tell the folks, the Trump voters who say,

1:25.2

Ron Desantis is lining up with the establishment

1:27.8

wing of the party, the Carl Rose, the,

1:30.2

you know, Paul Ryan's over at Fox,

1:31.9

and, you know, they're very concerned about that

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