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The Bulwark Podcast

S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Senior members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons, while also wishing Godspeed to our soldiers—and now they'll say anything to get out of the jam they put themselves in. Also, JD Vance openly questioned the judgement of the president in front of those very senior Cabinet members. Meanwhile, vengeance has long been a defining feature of Trump, but the habits of his heart have also infected his supporters. And they've become a moral freak show cheering on deportations of families and starving Africans. Jeff Goldberg and Pete Wehner join Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:08.9

I'm your host Tim Miller.

0:10.2

We've got an Atlantic double bill today.

0:12.4

First stuff, the head boss, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, host of Washington Week on PBS,

0:16.9

and author of The Biggest Story in quite a while.

0:20.7

The Trump team accidentally texted me it's war plans.

0:23.4

It's Jeffrey Goldberg.

0:24.6

How you doing, Jeff?

0:25.8

I'm good.

0:27.0

Thanks for having me.

0:28.2

I guess my first note here on the outline is, holy fuck.

0:31.7

I want to know, just talk us through.

0:34.3

You do this a little bit in the story,

0:35.6

but where were you when the signal

0:37.8

message from Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, came through and walk me through how you

0:43.3

kind of process what was happening as he invited the entire national security team onto the

0:47.4

group checks with you. Yeah. Quite randomly, I was in Salzburg, Austria. Let's put that aside.

0:53.5

60th anniversary of the sound of music. That's all I'll say. But I was in Salzburg, Austria. Let's put that aside. 60th anniversary of the sound of music. That's all I'll say. But I was in Salzburg. He invited

0:58.6

me in to chat with him. I've met him like I think twice in my life, not recently, probably like a

1:06.2

couple of years ago, but didn't strike me as a crazy thing. He's the national security

1:10.1

advisor and the editor of

1:11.1

magazine. I write about national security. We probably agree on a lot of stuff, too. At least all, Mike.

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