The Incompetence In This Administration Is STAG-GER-ING!

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein fills in for Sarah to talk the continued fallout of the Trump administration’s signal group chat, with newly released texts detailing the “attack plans.” Plus, Tesla’s brand disintegration continues and Vice President JD Vance gets roped into accompanying his wife, Usha, to Greenland.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to the next level. I'm JVL here with my best friend, Tim Miller.
0:08.8	Hey.
0:09.0	And that other guy, Sam Stein.
0:12.0	Sarah is on vacation? I thought we were doing a no vacation in the first 100 days rule. Is the the publisher gets a pass on that or what's
0:22.4	i don't think that's i don't think that's the way any of this works tim we have to pace ourselves
0:26.9	because we're going to be doing this for forever okay so i encourage people to take breaks i got a vacation
0:32.3	coming in july but you know i'm just not trying i'm trying to grind here during the prime time
0:36.4	unlike you're the grinder.
0:38.7	He'll get you off.
0:40.7	A little extreme there for people.
0:44.2	Good start to the show.
0:45.7	Welcome to the next level, Sam.
0:47.7	This is what happens when Sarah's gone. This is the next level.
0:49.1	Boys level.
0:51.2	Cock and ball jokes come in this hour.
0:58.4	Within the first minute. So we got to talk about the Atlantic and the signal I don't we don't have a story for this please don't call it signal gate
1:03.8	I don't ever want it to be that but um lots of stuff happening Tim you had a great interview with
1:09.8	Jeff Goldberg yesterday.
1:12.2	Jeff Goldberg, one of my heroes.
1:14.2	We didn't, maybe in the back half, have a little magazine boy talk about Jeff Goldberg
1:18.7	and when he's down to the Atlantic because it's so impressive.
1:21.9	But then this morning, Goldberg released a lightly redacted version of the rest of the texts with the quote
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