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The Bulwark Podcast

S2 Ep1001: Bill Kristol: Give Back the Statue of Liberty

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding immigrants—including people with legitimate asylum claims, people here on proper visas, and people with minor errors in their paperwork. And it's all being done with intentional cruelty to convey the message: Don't even think of coming to Fortress America. Meanwhile, his tone-deaf billionaire treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is mocking Americans for wanting cheap TVs. Plus, Schumer postpones his book tour as Democrats look elsewhere for a fighter, and Trump throws a late-night tantrum about Biden's pardons.

show notes:

White House sizzle reel of immigrants being sent to penal colony in El Salvador
Bill's 'Bulwark on Sunday' conversation with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.

0:09.7

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:11.1

If it's Monday, it's Bill Crystal.

0:13.1

He's back.

0:14.5

How you doing, Bill?

0:16.0

What's the right answer to that these days?

0:17.4

Have we discussed this already?

0:18.4

If you say you're doing fine, then it seems like you're not

0:21.2

sufficiently cognizant that everything is falling apart in our great country. And if you dwell on that,

0:27.0

you seem not grateful enough that, you know, what is fine and what's family is fine and so forth.

0:31.3

I've settled on, I'm living. I'm living. I'm here. That's what I've been telling people.

0:35.8

I need that. I need something. I need an all-purpose answer. I'm living. I'm here. That's what I've been telling people. I need that. I need an all-purpose

0:38.2

answer. That's right. I'm living. I'm here. We're here. And there's that. I'd rather be living than

0:43.9

dying. We got to start with the pardons that were voided, I guess, allegedly. Can you void via

0:50.4

bleat? I guess that will be a question for Amy Coney Barrett to determine at some point.

0:55.5

I think just after midnight in the east, Trump bleated that Biden's preemptive pardons of his

1:01.5

political foes, particularly the members of the House January 6th committee, are all caps,

1:07.3

void, vacant, and of no further force or effect because they were signed with an auto pen.

1:13.3

This is now a emerging conspiracy theory on the right that Joe Biden was weakened at Bernice at the White House

1:20.0

and that there were like random staffers that were signing pardons that he didn't even know about

1:24.8

and they're using an auto pen to do it.

1:27.4

There's some pretty

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