The Bulwark Daily Podcast Transcripts
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Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community.
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Michael McFaul: Trump Is Just 'Fine' with Mass Murder
October 20, 2026
Tim Miller (0:12)
Hello, and welcome to The Bulwark Daily. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome to the show a former US. Ambassador to Russia, a member of the National Security Council during the Obama administration.
He's now political science professor at Stanford. He's written 10 books. His last one, he told me in the green room, Autocrats vs Democrats, China, Russia, America and the New Global Disorder. It's Michael McFaul. How are you doing, sir?
Michael McFaul (0:34)
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
Tim Miller (0:35)
Well, shit. Much to talk about in your area of expertise this week. So I appreciate you giving us the time.
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- Bill Kristol: You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes, JD
- Alan Cumming and Robert Garcia: The Traitors Running Our Government
- George Conway: Subpoenas Are Coming
- Roy Cooper and Noam Scheiber: We Gotta Rein Trump In
- Susan Rice: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It
- Derek Thompson and Adam Carlson: The Republicans' Strength Is Now Their Weakness
- Susan Glasser: Trump Has a Man Problem
- Angie Nixon: People Power
- Michael Lewis: Don't Bet Against the Country
- Bill Kristol: Throw the Bums Out
- Maria Comella and The Trio: Holy Schmitt, That Was Bad
- Amanda Carpenter and Evan Gershkovich: Trump's and Putin's Authoritarian Projects
- Bill Kristol: They're F*cking Thieves
- Alex Wagner: An Unlawful Administration
- Sam Stein and Mary Peltola: Cozying Up to Commies and Corporate Elites
- Sarah Matthews and Jason Horowitz: Trump Propaganda and Italian Fascism
- Stuart Stevens: Republicans Are Desperate
- Andrew Egger: Donald, You’re Rattled
- Anne Applebaum: Globalized MAGA Kleptocracy
- Wright Thompson and Jesse Lehrich: Hopium and Hate
- Catherine Rampell and Stephen Witt: Can We Avert Economic Disaster and the Robot Apocalypse?
- Jonathan Swan: We Only Know 5%
- Bill Kristol: It Always Comes Back to Trump/Russia
- Mehdi Hasan: 9/11's Fallout 25 Years Later
- Sarah Longwell and Pedro Gonzalez: Meet the Young MAGA Edgelords—and the One Who Got Away
- Jessica Tarlov: POTUS Needs Some Moral Support
- Adam Jentleson and Pablo Torre: This Country Is Being Scammed
- Bill Kristol: A Blue Wave vs. the Toxic Red Tide
- David French: MAGA Is Making America Less Free
- Jonathan V. Last: How Much Stupid Can We Possibly Take?
- Michael Weiss: The Clown Car at the Pentagon
- Ruby Cramer: The Power of MAHA
- Bill Kristol: Keep Up the Pressure, Dems
- Ben Rhodes: Is Trump Stumbling into a Wider War?
- Sam Stein Used to Be a Thief
- Neera Tanden: How to Win
- Tracy Alloway and Will Sommer: A Cabinetful of Clueless Grifters
- Bill Kristol: The Weak Bully Keeps Flailing
- George Conway: For Trump, Harp Strikes a Chord
- Andrew Egger: Trump’s Travels with Natalie
- Sarah Longwell: Dems, Go on Offense FFS
- Adam Kinzinger: The United States of Dystopia
- Dave Weigel: Polls Wrong, Hong Gone
- Amanda Carpenter: Audit the White House
- Bill Kristol: Republicans Are a Mess
- Susan Glasser: The Irredeemable Republicans
- Sam Stein and Adam Hamilton: Trump’s Fabricated World Is Crashing
- Jane Coaston: Pod Save Michigan
- Charlie Warzel: The Tech Overlords’ Anti-Humanity Is Catching Up to Them
- Bill Kristol: Stop the Stupid Infighting, Dems
- Jonathan V. Last and Robert Kagan: Marco and Miller Go Full Fascist
- Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng: The Groypers Have Taken over Trumpland
- Bill Kristol and John Heilemann: Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Military
- No One Has Seen McConnell in Weeks—and His Office Just Recycled an Old Statement
- Sarah Longwell and Alex Seitz-Wald: The Maine Thing
- David Frum and JVL: Iran Is Going to Make Trump Eat It
- Joe Scarborough and Sam Stein: MAGA Doesn't Get America
- Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol: We're Governed by Broken Men
- Nicolle Wallace: The Sore Loser Is Trying to Ruin Our Elections
- Michael Steele: Tripped up by Their Own Lies
- Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps
- Pete Buttigieg: Time for Radical Change
- Bill Kristol and Ro Khanna: Two Governments Acting with Impunity
- Stuart Stevens: We've Got Death Squads on Our Streets
- Ben Wittes: Talk About America in Decline
- Alex Wagner: ICE Is Still Killing People
- Piers Morgan: Polishing Trump's Turds
- Bill Kristol: Trump Wants All-out Kleptocracy
- Clint Smith: Make America What It Set Out to Be
- Susan Glasser: Our Money-Grubbing President
- Maggie Haberman: A Gross and Messy White House
- David French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0
- John Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality
- Jane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win
- Tom Nichols: Trump's Trashy 250 Celebration
- Peter Hamby: How Far Can the DSA Go?
- John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved
- Bill Kristol: Call the Pool Police
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Obama's Legacy in a Trump World
- Adam Kinzinger: Trump Is a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey
- Krystal Ball: The MAGA Neocon Tears Are So Sad
- Michael Weiss: The Vice President Is Looking Pretty Stupid
- Bill Kristol: Trump’s Weak, Sad, and Embarrassing Weekend
- Jon Favreau: Why Aren't More People Talking about Nipple-Gate?
- Anne Applebaum: Trump's Firehose of Lies
- Raphael Warnock: Fight for Your Democracy
- Jason Calacanis: The Silicon Valley Vibes Are Still Pro-Trump
- Bill Kristol: Make It the Summer of Epstein
- Stephanie Ruhle: The Trump Family’s Massive Side Hustle
- Jonathan V. Last: We Got a Billionaire Problem
- Luke Russert and Josh Turek: There Is a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy
- Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing
- Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz: The Dangers Posed by Sam Altman
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