LIVE: Booed at the NBA Finals, Stormed Off NBC—Trump Is DOWN BAD
6/9/20261 hr 22 min
The gang is back together, and the U.S. and Iran are back at war...maybe? Tim, Sarah, and JVL discuss the latest in Iran, Donald Trump storming off of Meet the Press, the 'stolen election' freakout in Los Angeles, Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General, and JVL's Triad about former DHS commander Greg Bovino (kinda sorta maybe) eyeing a presidential run.
Plus: Graham Platner, Lindsey Graham's primary in South Carolina, and the gang reacts to a completely wild AI-generated ad of...James Talarico in a dress? Finally, Tim debriefs on his interview with a Silicon Valley...
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First 90 secondsJVL· Host0:00
Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller- Wow ... of The Bulwark. I will be doing the entirety of this show and all of the rest of the shows for all eternity from behind the glorious spring of triumph.
Tim Miller· Host0:17
Mm.
JVL· Host0:18
[laughs] I'm the people's champion, the people's choice, the winner of the 2020- If we tell you how proud- ... Webby Awards ...
Sarah Longwell· Host0:22
we are of you... Oh, God.
Tim Miller· Host0:24
Will you stop?
Sarah Longwell· Host0:25
If we just heap you with praise, like, one time, like, is it over?
Tim Miller· Host0:28
[laughs] [laughs] It's never over.
Sarah Longwell· Host0:31
Never over.
Tim Miller· Host0:31
Talk to me about the design here. It's a little Obama Library-esque. Um, the spring, um- It's horrible.
JVL· Host0:38
My children are like, "What is that?" They just wanna play with it. They're like, you know- Yeah.
Tim Miller· Host0:42
Well, it's a spring ...
JVL· Host0:42
and I'm like, "Stop, you're gonna break it."
Sarah Longwell· Host0:44
It doesn't slinky- "Don't break it." Right? It doesn't slinky down the stairs.
JVL· Host0:47
It d- but it does go, look, do, do, do, do.
Sarah Longwell· Host0:50
Oh, look at that.
Tim Miller· Host0:51
Okay.
JVL· Host0:52
Yeah.
Tim Miller· Host0:52
That's nice. Who designed that for you?
Sarah Longwell· Host0:54
Congrats, bro.
JVL· Host0:55
No, this was, was, this is an actual official, official Webby award. This was not a- Mm. The championship belt, we can get into that at the end of the show if you like.
Tim Miller· Host1:03
Uh- Friends, we are doing this show live today, and so what that means, I need to remind you, if you are a Bulwark+ subscriber or a YouTube Premium subscriber- We love you- Normally you don't- ... and appreciate you so much We l- we do.
JVL· Host1:18
We love you so much.
Sarah Longwell· Host1:19
So much Uh, normally that means you don't have to listen to ads, with the exception of when we are doing live shows, at which point