Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Thank you to JVL for sitting in on Friday. How great is David from, made it easy on them.

Congrats also to my brother from another mother, Rory McElroy on the master's win.

Big ups to listeners, Josh and Jason for the little bonus hospitality at Coachella.

And with that, I think there's only bad news left to cover.

So I'm going to bring in Bullwark Editor at Large Bill Crystal, as is our habit on Mondays.

How you doing, Bill?

I'm doing fine.

How were you?

How was Coachella?

It was amazing. It was just so marvelous. Everyone was happy. Gaga was just completely on another level from all the other acts. But, you know, we saw a lot of good ones. Amara, Viagra boys.

I think I would have trouble dealing with all that happiness. But you are a better person than I, and you can turn off the world around us and enjoy the happiness for a weekend.

I completely turned it off.

The only time my happiness bubble was popped was when Sam Stein was texting me about work stuff.

Or one of the artists, Darkside great artists, but did like a three minute you know anti-trump

rant and I'm like you know 30 seconds is sufficient you know once you get into the minute four

a little much for me we're trying to escape our dark reality speaking of our dark reality

I guess we need to start in El Salvador, which David from repeatedly called our only

ally on the Friday pod to my amusement, close, close enough to true. So we've got President

Buckele in D.C. today. I guess we'll be meeting with Trump. The latest in the legal situation

with Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia, that's the father in Maryland who was wrongfully sent to Saccat in El Salvador.

On Sunday, the government stonewalled, the district court judge filing an update saying it had no

updates. And in a separate filing challenge, the Supreme Court's 9-0 order to facilitate Abrago Garcia's

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