Jim Acosta & Akhil Amar
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Jim Acosta Show’s Jim Acosta stops by to talk about ICE taking over American airports.
Yale’s Akhil Amar joins us to discuss the Supreme Court and birthright citizenship.
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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 discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:12.9 | And a CBSUGov poll says that 92% of Americans want the war with Iran over ASAP. |
| 0:22.7 | We have such a great show for you today that Jim Acosta shows. |
| 0:26.1 | Jim Acosta stops by to talk about ICE taking over America's airports. |
| 0:31.0 | What could go wrong? |
| 0:32.0 | Then we'll talk to Akeel Amar about the Supreme Court and birthright citizenship. |
| 0:38.4 | But first, the news. |
| 0:44.5 | Smaya, Deanna, who edits our lovely podcast, sent me a screenshot of gas prices in her neighborhood out in the West Coast. $6 everywhere. My gas station is $2 up on my corner. We can't stop winning. |
| 0:51.4 | But luckily, Mr. Trump, after criticizing the Obama administration for |
| 0:55.6 | his massive handouts when he freed up money that was owed to Iran, has now allowed a 30-day |
| 1:00.9 | sale of Iran oil at sea in a bid to tame these prices. Can't stop winning. Can't stop winning. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay. So here's what's happening. Donald Trump has done the thing that everyone said you weren't supposed to do. |
| 1:14.6 | Go to war with Iran. |
| 1:16.0 | Why did he go to war with Iran? |
| 1:17.7 | Because he wanted to. |
| 1:19.4 | As far as I can tell. |
| 1:20.5 | What did this do? |
| 1:21.3 | What did Iran do? |
| 1:22.4 | They did the thing that anyone who has read a book knew they would do, which is closed the Straits and |
| 1:28.2 | Fremuse. |
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