Trump Is An Infection w/Bill Kristol
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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bill Kristol is a longtime Conservative thinker, journalist, commentator and government official. He appears often on CNN and MSNBC. Now he is devoted to keeping Trump from getting another term. He details the plans and the fears of the Never-Trumpers. And what the GOP might be like after Trump is gone from the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.1 | You know, in Washington, there are many people, including me, who have moved through the revolving door between politics and media many times, but nobody's done so with more success or visibility |
| 0:23.6 | than Bill Crystal. A leading neo-conservative, Crystal started out working for New York Democratic |
| 0:30.4 | Senator Patrick Moynihan. He later worked as chief of staff for Vice President Dan Quayle. |
| 0:36.8 | In 1994, he founded the Conservative magazine The Weekly Standard. |
| 0:42.0 | He's been a commentator for both ABC News and Fox News |
| 0:45.2 | and appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN, |
| 0:49.0 | and he was a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. |
| 0:56.9 | However, while a conservative and a hawk, |
| 1:03.6 | big supporter of the war in Iraq, Bill Crystal's no fan of Donald Trump's. He actually opposed his election in 2016 and since then he's become one of Trump's leading critics. In December |
| 1:10.2 | 2019, Crystal and other top Republicans |
| 1:13.4 | formed a new organization, Republicans for the rule of law, to oppose Trump's re-election. |
| 1:20.5 | How did they plan to stop Trump from getting another four years? We caught up with Bill |
| 1:25.8 | Crystal at his home in Northern Virginia. |
| 1:28.8 | Bill Crystal, good to talk to you again. |
| 1:30.9 | Great talking to you, Bill. |
| 1:32.4 | So you and I have been on the road several times together, a little dog and pony show |
| 1:37.9 | where we went out. |
| 1:39.7 | I was, of course, always the liberal Democrat. |
| 1:42.0 | You were the conservative Republican. |
| 1:44.7 | I know you're still a conservative. |
| 1:47.0 | Are you still a Republican? |
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