Tim Miller

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

Happy Memorial Day.

We've got an abbreviated edition of our usual Monday podcast for those of you on long road trips with your family and you want to disassociate and just hang out with us instead.

Or people that just want to celebrate the holiday by...

paying attention to our insane news cycle.

And since it's Monday, I'm here with Bill Kristol.

How you doing, Bill?

Fine.

How are you, Tim?

I'm doing well.

I'm doing well, all things considered.

Why don't we just get to it here?

A lot of updates on the state of play with regards to Iran since we were last together on Friday.

On Saturday, Trump announced that we're basically on the cusp of a deal.

A deal is essentially done 95% there, a lot of ballyhoo.

A lot of back padding among Trump himself, but his allies, the pro-war allies, were pretty horrified by the rumors coming out about the deal.

And so since then, things have started to unwind a little bit.

On Sunday, there was a massive spin effort to push that there would be

dust for dollars.