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Though they deny any involvement, the Trump administration and Elon Musk are apparently helping Putin escalate his campaign of terror against Ukraine. Civilian casualties across Ukraine are rising—including women and children—but Trump said Monday that Russia "has been fine on Ukraine." At the same time, Team Trump looks to be lining up business deals with Russian energy companies. And Marco's whitewashing of it all is sickening. Plus: Zelensky is tired of Trump's games, China is playing a curious role on both sides of the war, and JD has another whopper to add to his stack of lies. 
Former Amb. Michael McFaul joins Tim Miller.
show notes:

McFaul’s book, “Autocrats vs Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder”

Tim’s ‘Take’ with Caolan Robertson in Ukraine

The NYT on potential Kushner/Witkoff deal with Russian company Lukoil

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The vice president had the gall to suggest he didn't know anything about what millions of Americans know: that Trump is using his office to enrich himself and that the administration made major mistakes in executing the war in Iran. But the polls strongly suggest a rebuke of Putin's biggest fan is coming because of the conflict in the Middle East. Plus: The obsession at Fox over Abdul El-Sayed is getting embarrassing, Mike Rogers is a POS, Tim and Bill share their new round of long shots (in North Carolina and Mississippi), and the tech oligarchs will be among the last to break with Trump.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
show notes:

The Bulwark LIVE in Charlotte Sunday evening

Monday’s “Morning Shots”

CBS’s town hall with Vance

Mississippi’s Scott Colom’s campaign site

Paul Barringer’s congressional campaign site for NC-13

Kimberly Hardy’s congressional campaign site for NC-7

Judd Legum on Zuckerberg

Abdul El-Sayed confronting a Republican plant at one of his campaign events

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Closing Song: The War on Drugs - “Suffering”

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For more than 10 years, Trump has been showing us how skilled he is at sowing division and riling people up. Alan sees the kind of tribal mentality that Trump has fostered on his own reality show, "The Traitors," where contestants make incredibly stupid decisions because they don't want to deviate from the pack. The actor takes the opportunity to urge people to vote, protest, and stay vigilant in the face of the Republicans' campaigns of hate against immigrants and trans people. (And that includes Vance's dumb, dated gay jokes.) Plus: Rep. Garcia of the House Oversight Committee is preparing to get the gavel in January. He's already teed up new Epstein legislation, and he's planning to end the cover-up of 3 million Epstein documents, many of which have to do with Donald Trump. Also on the target list: the Trump family's business deals and the donors to the ballroom.
Alan Cumming and Rep. Robert Garcia join Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
show notes:

"The Traitors" on NBC

Alan's show, "Tip Toe," on Starz

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Mike Johnson sure sounds afraid of what might come out when the House—under Democratic control—actually does its job and investigates the corruption of this administration. Democrats should start with the families of Trump officialdom who've been making bank since Inauguration Day. And as the Guilfoyle firing shows, everyone in Trumpland is expendable. Plus: Republicans have got nothing to offer voters but bribery and bigotry, Talarico shows the right way to disarm MAGA lies, the Elon-Putin-Trump Axis of Evil is together again, and George—in his first week back with The Bulwark—passed a cognitive test just like our president. 
George Conway joins Tim Miller.
show notes:

Follow George’s new Bulwark pod, “Psycho Politics”

Trump talking to Ken Bone in 2016; evidence of his current mental decline

Ossoff on Chris Hayes’s show

Miss South Carolina at the Miss Teen 2007 pageant

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Closing Song: Orville Peck - “It’s the End of the World”

Elon is now pitching in to help POTUS sabotage Ukraine while Trump makes a payout to Putin and works on his next self-enrichment scheme. A Cooper victory in North Carolina would be key to a potential Democratic Senate majority—a first step to reining in Trump—but the former governor warns Tim that Republicans have historically been undercounted in the polls and his lead should not be taken for granted. Plus: Scheiber in his recent book has the backstory on the radicalization of recent college grads, who tend to support the DSA and think America has too much power. And at a time when even white collar professionals identify with the working class, Trump's economic messaging sounds even more ridiculous. 
Roy Cooper and New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber join Tim Miller.
show notes:

Cooper’s campaign site

Noam’s book, “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class”

JVL on Trump screwing the housing market

This week’s “The Next Level”

Link to send to elected Democrats on behalf of Maryam Tahmasebi and her family

The Jay Kang piece that Tim referenced about Noam’s book

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