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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s loyalty purges continue. Prosecutors are fired from the U.S. attorney’s office in Eastern Virginia, including people who had nothing to do with the Comey case. And Kash Patel pushes out an FBI agent in training for displaying a rainbow flag in his workspace. Meanwhile, reports surface that Marco Rubio is leading a push among Trump’s top aides to topple Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller to discuss.

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1:35.0

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

1:36.6

It is Friday.

1:37.5

He is back.

1:38.3

He's a staff fighter at the Atlantic.

1:40.0

He used to be a professor of the Naval War College.

1:42.4

He's grumpy.

1:43.8

It's Tom Nichols. What's up? Hey, Tim. Grumpier than usual, but that's just my natural condition. All right. Well, much to be grumpy about. I don't know. I maybe have a couple of unusual silver linings at the end of the show. We'll see if we get to them.

2:05.1

And there's some actual breaking news on we get to about things that are happening with ice and things are happening with the militarization of our cities. But I would, I feel remiss if I

2:10.6

would not start by asking you, you know, with a few days to marinate on it, your impressions

2:16.3

of our Secretary of War, Pete Hegsuff,

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