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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Jeet Heer & Joanna Stern

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Nation’s Jeet Heer stops by to talk about Trump’s Vietnam problem in the Middle East.
NBC News’ Joanna Stern joins us to discuss her new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do Everything.

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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 discussed the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And Donald Trump's approval rating is now lower than it was after January 6th in the

0:19.4

real clear politics average. Clocking a 58.3% disapproval rating.

0:26.5

We have such a great show for you today. The nation's jeet here stops by to talk about Trump's

0:32.7

endless wars in the Middle East. Then we'll talk to NBC News's own Joanna Stern about her new book,

0:39.2

I Am Not a Robot, my year that I used AI to do everything. But first, the news.

0:44.6

So, Molly, we saw the Supreme Court actually toss out one of these bogus Republican laws that was

0:51.7

cooked up to mess with immigration.

0:54.3

Yeah.

1:02.9

So this is a politically tinged lawsuit, and it's about a high-profile crash in Florida last year, which involved a commercial truck driver from India, and three people died.

1:07.1

And basically the Supreme Court on Tuesday, they threw out a long-shot lawsuit where Florida

1:12.2

sought to sue California and Washington for allegedly allowing people who enter the country illegally

1:18.5

to obtain commercial truck driver's licenses.

1:21.0

This is this Stephen Miller stuff where you want to make it so that people who came into

1:27.2

this country illegally cannot get jobs and cannot support their families.

1:31.3

And basically it was thrown out by the court.

1:34.9

The people who dissented are Fox News brain, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who have never found a partisan issue, they do not want to be partisan in.

1:48.4

And the lawsuit alleges that Democratic-led states' defiance of federal immigration laws led them to flout federal safety regulations.

1:57.6

The Washington Attorney General said this was a political stunt and not a real

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