Jim Acosta & Hugo Lowell
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Jim Acosta Show’s Jim Acosta stops by to talk about Trump’s latest bumbling.
Wired’s Hugo Lowell joins us to discuss what he’s seeing inside Trump’s chaotic White House.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.2 | And Senator Ted Cruz says, I don't think gas prices are going to impact the midterms. |
| 0:19.1 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:21.5 | The Jim Acosta shows Jim Acosta stops by to talk about Trump's latest assaults on justice and the rule of law. |
| 0:31.4 | Ben will talk to WIRED's own Hugo Lowell about what he sees inside this very chaotic Trump White House. |
| 0:38.3 | But first the news. |
| 0:39.8 | Somali big election results last night. |
| 0:42.3 | I think the most exciting news for you and I because we care about what we cover so much |
| 0:47.3 | is that Josh Jurek has really handily won his Senate nomination in Democratic Party. |
| 0:52.9 | And Rob San, who is uncontested, is going to go against a terrible, terrible candidate in Iowa, |
| 0:57.8 | and the election is now a toss-up. |
| 0:59.5 | These are all people we've had on this podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | So let us have a moment of like, yay us. |
| 1:05.6 | Let us celebrate that Josh Turek, who has been on this podcast twice, |
| 1:10.3 | he is really a great candidate, dragged his |
| 1:13.6 | wheelchair up steps, just as an extremely good candidate. By the way, that was a Schumer pick, |
| 1:19.1 | good for Schumer. He is a really good candidate, really going to, I think, flip that seat. |
| 1:25.2 | One by a large margin, 120k to 71K. Zach is probably going to be a |
| 1:33.4 | really great candidate in the future, too. He's actually really smart, but he's young. He's really young, |
| 1:38.7 | and he's just in a different place in his life. There's two Senate seats, one with a 90-year-old in it. Oh, right. That's right. Yes. |
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