Charlie Sykes & Jena Griswold
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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To The Contrary’s Charlie Sykes stops by to talk about Pete Hegseth’s egregious spending spree on floral arrangements and lobster at the Department of War.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold joins us to discuss Governor Polis flirting with pardoning election meddler Tina Peters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.3 | And Donald Trump says, if we get this save act, they probably won't win an election for 50 years. |
| 0:22.2 | Okay, maybe longer. |
| 0:28.5 | We have such a great show for you today. To the contrary's own, Charlie Sykes stops by to talk Pete Hague Seth's egregious spending spree on floral arrangements and lobster at the Department of War. |
| 0:35.7 | Then we'll talk to Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, about Governor Polis, |
| 0:41.2 | flirting with pardoning election meddler Tina Peters. |
| 0:44.9 | But first, the news. |
| 0:46.2 | Somalia, you know when your policies are really popular, or when you see headlines like, |
| 0:51.1 | White House tells House Republicans to stop talking about mass deportations, |
| 0:55.2 | even though they're doing mass deportations, including American citizens being disappeared to black sites. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.3 | So the Republicans have decided that they've been in Doral doing a sort of retreat where they're figuring out what they should run on. |
| 1:15.1 | And it turns out everything Trump has done is wildly unpopular. |
| 1:19.5 | So they are going into the midterms with gas. |
| 1:23.0 | It's going to be a summer of, you know, somewhere between $80 and $100 gallon gasoline because of Donald Trump's war in Iran. |
| 1:32.8 | And then we have these mass deportation now, which you'll remember they were waving signs at the RNC saying mass deportation now. |
| 1:43.1 | Well, it turns out mass deportation now may be popular |
| 1:46.6 | with Trump's base, but it's not popular with anyone else. And nearly 49% of all Americans say |
| 1:54.1 | that Trump's mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, including one in five of the voters |
| 2:00.8 | who backed Trump in 2024. |
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