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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Charlie Sykes, Tom Steyer, Gabi Finlayson & Jackie Morgan

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

To The Contrary’s Charlie Sykes stops by to talk about Trump using the Iran war to enrich himself with stock tips.
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer joins us to discuss his plan to make California a better place to live.
Plus, as a bonus, Elevate Utah’s Gabi Finlayson and Jackie Morgan stop by to talk about Mr. Wonderful accusing them of being Chinese agents and their work against data centers in Utah.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.3

And Treasury buyers get 5% long bonds for the first time since 2007.

0:19.6

Remind me what was happening in 2007.

0:23.5

We have such a great show for you today.

0:26.1

To the contrary zone, Charlie Sykes comes by to talk about Trump using the Iran War

0:31.2

to enrich himself with stock tips.

0:34.5

Then we'll talk to California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer about his plan to

0:39.9

make California a better place to live. Plus, as a bonus, we have such a fun conversation with

0:45.5

Elevate Utah's Gabby Finlayson and Jackie Morgan, who stopped by to talk about Mr. Wonderful,

0:51.7

accusing them of being Chinese agents and their work against data centers

0:55.6

in Utah, and you don't want to miss this, which is why you're hearing me announce the show

1:00.0

right now.

1:00.7

But first, the news.

1:02.7

Somali, one of the things everybody was worried about is, you know, Trump seems to be saying

1:08.2

crazier shit at a much faster clip than usual lately.

1:11.7

And in addition to that, this China trip could be very fragile and everyone was worried what he's saying.

1:17.1

Of course, we got this new gem where he says that the Iranian war is mostly for public relations.

1:23.4

Yes. I want to go back to how this story started. You may remember a Democratic president, Barack Obama. He made a deal with the Iranians to keep them from building a bomb. Donald Trump spent his entire presidency saying that this was a terrible deal. And, you know, his maga people were like

1:49.4

there were pallets of cash and it was illegal and it was a bad deal. Okay, fast forward,

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