Charlie Sykes & Jon Meacham
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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To The Contrary’s Charlie Sykes stops by to talk about CBS cowering to the FCC by refusing to air an interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham about his latest book, American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology.
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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 discuss the top political headlines |
| 0:10.9 | with some of today's best minds and civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died at 84 years old. |
| 0:17.4 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:20.0 | To the contrary as Charlie Sykes stops |
| 0:22.0 | by to talk about CBS cowering to Trump's FCC and not airing an interview with Texas Senate |
| 0:29.1 | candidate James Teller Rico. Then we'll talk to Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Meacham |
| 0:35.2 | about his latest book, American struggleuggle, Democracy, Dissent, |
| 0:39.2 | and the pursuit of a more perfect union in anthology. But first, the news. |
| 0:45.6 | Smiley, one of the things we've heard is now the Epstein files have 50% released, |
| 0:51.1 | and then we hear it's 3%. While the latest report now says it's 2%. And a thing I noticed this |
| 0:57.7 | weekend is I was talking to normal people. And I could not believe how fucking angry they were, |
| 1:04.2 | even when I was talking to Cynarous. I was talking to people, you know, a little conservative. |
| 1:08.2 | They are so pissed about this. Yeah. Why do you think the American people are mad about its government protecting the largest |
| 1:16.6 | sex trafficking ring in history? I wonder, it's a mystery. Look, if the government can't |
| 1:22.3 | prosecute people who sex traffic children, then what the fuck are they even doing? Okay, so this is a report from |
| 1:28.9 | News Channel 4 British news outlet that says that only 2% of the Epstein files have been released. |
| 1:36.5 | Now, again, American news outlets have not run with this. And does that mean it's not true? |
| 1:42.4 | I think it's not verified yet. So this is what this |
| 1:46.0 | investigator wrote in an email dated June 2020. We expect the data to be somewhere between 20 and 40 |
| 1:52.3 | terabytes because there were so many videos from so many houses and Epstein had videos. I mean, |
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