Hi, Bill Crystal here, editor at large with the bulwark,

joined about my bulwark colleague. And if I could say even more importantly, my morning shots colleague, Andrew Eger. And we were just talking before the show, Andrew, thank you, first of all, for taking some time Sunday to join me. We were talking before the show that we've been going almost two years with morning shots. Hard to believe, huh? Yeah, the team within the team. Yeah, where does the time go?

Lots of collaboration on morning shots, but I have never even sat down and watched Sunday bulwark because usually it's like I'm at church in the morning and then in the afternoon I'm like, Monday's morning shots, here we go, like let's rock. So this is a hopefully, hopefully will not be a train wreck, will be a pleasant experience for everybody involved. Here we go. This shows the kind of a collaboration we have. Andrew Digginson and I fit right at the beginning of our show here. And in a nice, gentle way, kind of. I just don't quite have time to watch it. NFL football, church. Who's really watching a Sunday? Who's really watching a Sunday?

To be honest, NFL football, yes. I sometimes read morning shots. Not everyone. I think the Monday morning shots will go up in quality a lot when the NFL season is over, actually. I think that will have a real noticeable impact for a lot of people. We'll see. We'll see. It's getting up. So do you have a, I can't remember. you don't have a team of this.

I'm a Chiefs fan.

I like the...

I grew up in St. Louis, so I like... We'll see. We'll see. It's getting it. So do you have a, I can't remember you don't have a team of this.

I'm a chiefs fan. I grew up in St. Louis, so I like the chiefs now, but I still have like sort of residual confusing feelings about the Rams, went to college in Michigan, so I like Matt Stafford a lot. I kind of hope they can go all the way. I like Josh Allen. I was sad to see him get crushed last night. Also sad to see Bo Nick's leave. So yeah, there's a lot of really good games leading to a lot of really lame outcomes so far, as far as I've been concerned, although I was happy that the Eagles lost. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, the Eagles. I remember 40 years ago, I lived in Philadelphia, and the Eagle fans have not approved. That's one of the few constants in life.

Other things change in our life.

Okay, we'd love to talk about.

I thought we could go over a couple of issues that we've written about a lot in Morningshots, honestly, both foreign, I summarized them as Greenland on the one hand and

ice on the other, you know, kind of bullying abroad and authoritarianism at home,

which I think are sort of related. But it would begin with that new CNN poll from Friday that I think came out just that morning. We didn't really discuss. Did we? I don't think in morning shots. No, no. Pretty striking, though, don't you think? I mean, go ahead. I mean, the big thing to me about this one, and it is sort of of a piece with polling we've been seeing, I mean, he's, he is stable and really low. Like, like, we have just, we have hit this kind of new plateau for him where he's in the high 30s or the very low 40s, pretty much across the board in most polls. It's not moving around a lot, but it's also, you know, we're at this moment where he is

losing a lot. I mean, that was the story of the off-year elections in November. Like,

something needs to change for his, for this MAGA project to become like electorally viable again.

But, but all of the sort of flailing around that they're doing in terms of, it's not like they're not trying new things.

They're certainly trying new things.

They're trying never before seeing things in terms of like, oh, what if we just went and got Greenland?

Or what if we, you know, parachuted these paramilitary forces down into, you know, the Twin Cities in Minnesota and see how that works. But the problem is that

none of the things are popular. Everything, like across the board, they have kind of no issue to

turn to. That's like a safe space for them or like, you know, you know, comfy territory where

where if they could just get this to be the thing that's in the news right now, that would really help.

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