Tim Miller

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

It is Monday, January the 12th, and so we have our editor at large, Bill Kristol.

Bill...

something has been in the water the last nine days.

I don't, you know, it kind of felt like the, the beginning of the administration was like this, you know, where, where Trump was doing all kinds of crazy shit, you know, in quick succession.

And it's not as if it was not crazy, you know, towards the end of the year, but it did feel like he was losing a little steam, you know, maybe grandpa was, was losing, you know, the, the, the verb, uh, for some of this, but, um,

man, between what we've seen in Minnesota and in Venezuela and then the big news from last night, which is that the administration is investigating Jerome Powell.

Now, the Department of Justice has been a Jerome Powell.

We've ratcheted things up.

Yeah, I was thinking about that.

Accelerating is a key word.

I got a text this morning from a friend saying the accelerationists are winning within the MAGA side of things.

And that is, yeah, I think that's correct and ominous.

Well, let's start with Powell and then we'll kind of go through all of these things individually.

So what we learned last night is that federal prosecutors are investigating

federal reserve chair over the central bank's multi-billion dollar project to renovate its headquarters.

You might remember that they had that press conference a couple months ago where Trump went there and then Powell was in the hard hat and, and Trump was giving him shit over, over this.

And so this has been kind of in the ether for a while now.

Um,