Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. I am punchy. I was up early. I've had a lot of caffeine. We're're taping late and we've got a troublemaker with us he

was a graduate of kenyon college he was the van driver for then senator obama in 2007 and now he's

the co-host of a couple of podcasts called pod save america and pod save the world it's tomie vitar

what's up man buddy great to see you uh you and I were both up early, me because my children were

tripping away in the nanit. You because you were covering an FBI raid. Yeah, we're covering the FBI raid, but it's important to bring that to you, you know, because I wanted you to be prepared for the podcast. I texted you. Let's pull this up. Let's actually get a time stamp on this.

I texted you this morning

with a link to the news that we were breaking at the bulwark about john bolton's house being rated at

632 central 432 pacific you replied within 10 minutes yeah it was not what was happening with that

i was up i was making coffee.

I just sometimes you're awake and you just got to power through.

Your podcast needs a new like a sleep aid sponsor of some kind because that is way too early.

All right.

Well, the news referenced Donald Trump's, what, national security advisor from his first term.

The man with the mustache, John Bolton, his house was raided this morning. First reported right here by the bulwark, our friend Ben Wittis, was on site, later confirmed by the New York Post and others, more regime friendly outlets that it was an FBI raid. In fact, he was being targeted for national security concerns, they say.

It was a national security probe. I believe it was ABC has, and Benny Johnson, another crack reporter,

has that it's related to the classified documents issue from 2020, where he put some classified material on his book,

maybe that hadn't been approved through the process. I don't know if that's the kind of thing that merits a home raid, but I was

wondering what your reactions were bright and early this morning. Yeah, I mean, my first reaction is,

if you're watching this and you're not a subscriber to the bulwark on YouTube, do so because

these guys are on the scene with breaking news. That's why you need to support independent media. They're telling you stories. No one else is. So subscribe to the bulwark on YouTube and also become a Bullwork plus subscriber because you love to get lots of great content. I'm actually dead serious. I'm not kissing your ass. Like, Bullwarks do an awesome work. I love all the journalists you guys have added to the roster.

I'm like literally begging you for contact information for like Will Summer every other day or somebody on the team. So anyway, we're doing our best. Done with that part. You're doing okay too. It makes me uncomfortable because I usually make fun of you when I talk about your outlets. I know. There's like an asymmetry. But on the actual news. I'm feeling up.

It is, first of all,

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