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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Charlie Sykes & Josh Turek

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

To The Contrary’s Charlie Sykes stops by to talk about Trump’s self-inflicted wounds to his presidency.
Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek joins us to discuss his very real chances of becoming Iowa’s next senator.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And University of Massachusetts Amherst poll released Monday, said 33% of respondents approve of the president's job performance.

0:22.4

He's on his way.

0:23.9

Worse than Watergate.

0:25.2

We have such a great show for you today.

0:27.8

To the contrary, as Charlie Sykes stops by to talk about Trump's self-inflicted wounds to his presidency.

0:34.0

Ben will talk to Iowa Senate candidate Josh Tururek about his very real chances of becoming

0:40.7

Iowa's next senator. But first, the news. Somalia, you know, I've been doing my due diligence

0:46.7

on this podcast and always checking my gas before station before before, before it. We're now almost

0:52.8

at double the price of gas since the war started.

0:55.8

Yeah. You will be shocked to know that closing the Straits of Hermuz, which blocks, I think,

1:02.1

about a quarter of all, somewhere between a quarter and a third of all, LNG, natural gas,

1:09.8

oil, all of it, will make gas more expensive.

1:13.3

It is amazing.

1:14.6

You make let, you put fungible gas, you make them have less, and then it gets more expensive.

1:21.6

And Donald Trump is learning this lesson.

1:24.0

A 35% increase at the pump since the war began. I will remind you, no one knows

1:30.3

why this war is happening. So it is pretty incredible stuff. 20% of the world's oil and gas

1:38.8

flow through the strait. So that is a fifth. Driving the news, oil prices have surged $100 a barrel since the war began. This is insane. One month ago, gas was under $3. And Donald Trump was bragging about it. A year before that, gas was $3.17. It is $4 a gallon. This is just wild. We have, and, you know, it's five and a half

2:04.8

for diesel. Price are higher on the West Coast because it's further away. And, you know, this is just all,

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