Tom Nichols: Jack Smith Is Not Screwing Around

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Going after a former president for an attempted coup had seemed like 'mission impossible,' but the special counsel is going big. Meanwhile, Republicans defending him don't seem to care about their country or the Constitution, and the only job Trump could get now is POTUS. Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes. show notes: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/rock-me-on-the-water-ronald-brownstein?variant=39387579023394 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, I picked a hell of a day to come back from vacation.
0:10.8	Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast.
0:12.1	I'm Charlie Sykes.
0:13.1	I have been gone for about two weeks and thanks for all the folks who are sitting in for
0:17.3	me.
0:18.3	And I've been making notes, believe it or not, even though I've been on vacation.
0:20.8	All the things that I wanted to talk about, I mean, I wanted to talk about the Supreme
0:23.9	Court.
0:24.9	I wanted to talk about no labels.
0:26.4	I want to talk about Ukraine.
0:28.3	There were so many other issues that I wanted to talk about this morning with our guest
0:31.7	Tom Nichols.
0:32.7	By the way, good morning, Tom.
0:34.3	Good morning, Charlie.
0:35.3	Welcome back.
0:36.3	And then the news gods dropped this bomb on us this morning.
0:41.2	This is from the New York Times.
0:43.0	Donald Trump says he has a target in special counsel's investigation into January 6th.
0:47.6	It would be the second time.
0:49.3	The special counsel has notified the former president that he is likely to face indictment
0:53.9	this time in connection with the criminal investigation into the events leading up to
0:59.5	the capital attack.
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