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🗓️ 30 August 2025
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The Nation’s Jeet Heer examines the damage caused by dismantling the U.S. government.
Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill details her run for New Jersey governor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.3 | And Donald Trump has canceled former VP Harris's Secret Service detail. |
| 0:18.8 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:21.1 | The nation's Jeet here stops by to talk about the damage done by disassembling the United States government. |
| 0:29.2 | Then we'll talk to Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill about her run for New Jersey governor. |
| 0:36.7 | But first, we have the news. |
| 0:39.3 | Somali, I know this administration is not so hot on facts, indicators, gauges, other metrics, |
| 0:47.6 | especially when it comes to the economy. |
| 0:49.0 | But the Fed is their inflation gauge. |
| 0:52.6 | It ain't looking good. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, it turns out facts really care about |
| 0:59.1 | Trump world's feelings. No, I'm just kidding. So here's the deal. The head of the Bureau of Labor |
| 1:06.6 | Statistics revised the journalist claim. Trump fired her. The Fed refused to lower interest rates. |
| 1:15.0 | Trump tried to fire Lisa Cook. We'll see what happens. Trump would like to fire anyone who releases |
| 1:22.0 | data that does not say basically North Korean style, Mr. Trump, you are the greatest leader. And again, like that |
| 1:30.6 | cabinet meeting that happened this week where they were all going around like who can make a |
| 1:35.5 | bigger Trump statue, that's a little bit about what's happening here. Trump is working really hard |
| 1:41.5 | to get rid of data which doesn't create the vibes that he wants. The data is woke, Molly. Yeah, the data is woke. Math is woke. But it's also like this has worked for Trump, right? Trump has flooded the zone. He has drowned out all the other noise. This has worked. So why won't it work with this? And here's the problem. The problem is if it works, |
| 2:02.1 | the problem is if people don't understand what's coming. These indicators, we have these indicators |
| 2:07.8 | for a reason to guide us to make better decisions, to help us avoid catastrophe. What's happening |
| 2:15.2 | here is that he's covering up information that will be useful for making |
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