Tim Miller, JVL and Katie Couric on Iran, Airport Lines, CBS and More
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Katie Couric joins Tim Miller and JVL to dig into some of the biggest stories so far this week on a special edition of Bulwark Takes happening live on Wednesday at 6:30 PM ET. With Iran rejecting a cease-fire proposal, what will President Trump do next? And why is Iran requesting that Vice President JD Vance come to the negotiating table? Plus, reactions to new reporting from NBC that for the last few weeks, Trump has been shown by his team highlight reels of destruction in Iran. Plus, a look at whether there will be a breakthrough on Department of Homeland Security funding to finally end the growing chaos and delays at U.S. airports, a report from Status that CBS News is seeing its latest ratings of any first quarter this century and Katie has a very important reminder she hopes you and your loved ones to take seriously.
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. We did it. What's happening? We were just green room chatting and laughing. We were telling some secrets. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the board. We're bringing Katie Couric back. We don't have any professional hosts on this damn YouTube channel. And so we're all trying to learn. And so we're like, let's bring Katie Kirk in to show us. Watch and learn, fellas. Watch and learn. |
| 0:19.0 | We're together for the next hour. And Katie, I'm handing the baton to you. Well, thank you, fellas. Watch and learn. We're together for the next hour. |
| 0:21.1 | And Katie, I'm handing the baton to you. |
| 0:23.3 | Well, thank you, Tim and JBL. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:26.9 | You know, this is my favorite day of the week |
| 0:29.1 | because I get to pick these two big brains next to me |
| 0:33.0 | and talk about kind of what's going on in the world |
| 0:35.7 | and try to make sense of it. |
| 0:37.2 | I saw a CNN segment was like, make sense, please make sense of it or something like that. |
| 0:43.8 | And I thought, make it make sense was the title of it. |
| 0:47.9 | And so we're going to try to make it make sense and talk about sort of a whole bunch of different things that have been going on. |
| 0:55.3 | And one is the way that Donald Trump, you all, is really prosecuting this war in Iran. |
| 1:00.8 | Apparently, he is being given video briefings along the lines of this one. |
| 1:06.9 | Take a look. |
| 1:09.9 | I am Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, here with my fifth update on Operation Epic Fury. |
| 1:15.6 | We're in the fourth week of the campaign and remain on plan or ahead of plan in achieving very clear military objectives for eliminating Iran's ability to project power in meaningful ways outside its borders. |
| 1:28.3 | U.S. forces have struck more than 10,000 military targets. |
| 1:32.3 | In fact, we hit the 10,000th Iranian target just hours ago. |
| 1:36.3 | And if you combine what we've accomplished with the success of our Israeli ally, |
| 1:40.3 | together we have struck thousands more. |
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