Alex Wagner: ICE Is Still Killing People
7/8/20261 hr 9 min
Roughly 2,000 people a day are being swept up by ICE and put in subhuman conditions. And Stephen Miller's quotas likely contributed to the recent tragic deaths of two immigrants. Meanwhile, Graham Platner is still holding the Democratic Party hostage. What lessons can be learned for Democrats who went along with this walking red flag? Also, the Republicans' McConnell story is not convincing, man baby POTUS had some ridiculous demands at NATO, and Susan Collins helped fund the gulags. And on a more silly note: Was Taylor's wedding tacky? And should Tim and Alex do a sex podcast?
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First 90 secondsTim Miller· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back to the show host of the podcast Runaway Country from Crooked Media. She also writes the Substack, How the Hell with Alex Wagner. It's my buddy, Alex Wagner.
Alex Wagner· Guest0:25
Hi, friend. It's great to see you.
Tim Miller· Host0:26
What's up? It's good to see you, too. You're fresh. You're off of vacation- I am ... I read on your Substack.
Alex Wagner· Guest0:31
Yeah.
Tim Miller· Host0:32
I- I'm dragging. I'm heading into vacation.
Alex Wagner· Guest0:35
Well- Vacation- The drag hits fast- [laughs] ... even after you get back from vacation.
Tim Miller· Host0:39
Vaca- vacation is on the horizon for me, and, you know, the Graham Platner agonistes this week [laughs] has been the thing that's about ready to send me over the edge. So, um- Understandably ... I'm, I'm looking for you to carry me today. Um- [laughs] Let's start with Platner. Uh, well, there's a ton of news. Trump is, I mean, doing insanity right now- Mm-hmm ... um, in Europe as we're talking.
Alex Wagner· Guest1:00
Even more so than usual. I guess it's more public. It's like when your crazy old, um, uncle starts running around naked outside. You're like- Yeah ... "Ooh, this is another level of embarrassing."
Tim Miller· Host1:09
Yeah. That's what's happening, so we're gonna get to that towards the end in case he literally does get naked. [laughs] We don't want to miss that. Um- We have no dignity left as a country.
Alex Wagner· Guest1:17
That would be the end of it.
Tim Miller· Host1:17
Uh, so we'll do politics first. Um, the latest in the Platner story, um, is that he hasn't dropped yet.
Alex Wagner· Guest1:24
Mm-hmm.
Tim Miller· Host1:24
Literally everyone has called for him to drop out, uh, including Bernie Sanders and Zoran