Hello and welcome to the Bullock podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. I'm delighted to

welcome to the podcast the New York Times Ross

doubt that Ross thanks for doing this you've taken some hits here at the

Bullwork and so I just I genuinely appreciate you coming here a shocking

number of you of folks from the

conservative world just don't want to do it. Don't want to hash things out with me for

whatever reason. I don't know. I guess I could speculate but I'm glad that you were willing to do it.

It's really a pleasure to be here and I don't know I don't know what you mean.

I wasn't I the bulwarks man of the year last year for my...

You did not win bulwark man of the year well maybe that all right you know you might be thinking about the Washington free beacon

I've received so many major awards over the course of my career honestly that it may make sense that you know sort of one one blurs into

another yeah we didn't honor you no it's a pleasure to be with you nonetheless

thank you Ross well I want to spend most of our time hashing out maybe some of the big picture

disagreements or the ways we see things differently with regards to the current GOP and

Trump, but we got to do a little news first.

I want to talk about a couple of your recent columns.

The big news of this morning, Tuesday,

is we have the House Foreign Aid Package.

Mike Johnson announced that he is planning to try to pass four bills this week that are linked in some parliamentary manner that we don't need to get into.

Aid to Israel, aid to Ukraine, aid to Taiwan, and then a fourth bill, bill just like a grab bag of some cool stuff and some weird stuff

of being on Tik-Tok we're seizing some Russian stuff we're doing a new land lease act some

convertible loans you know who the hell knows, was in that

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