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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Jim Acosta & John Bresnahan

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Jim Acosta Show’s Jim Acosta examines Trump’s Nobel Prize claims.
Punchbowl News’ John Bresnahan details the chaos in Speaker Mike Johnson’s Congress.

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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 discuss the top political headlines

0:10.9

with some of today's best minds.

0:13.3

And a CNN poll says 58% of Americans call the first year of Trump's second term a failure.

0:21.3

We have such a great show for you today.

0:23.4

The Jim Acosta shows Jim Acosta stops by to talk about Trump's Nobel Peace Prize and how he got it.

0:30.8

Then we'll talk to Punchball News as John Bresnahan about the chaos in Speaker Mike Johnson's Congress.

0:38.3

But first, the news.

0:39.3

So, Molly, data centers, they are one of the most polarizing issues in our society right now because they drive up electric bills.

0:47.3

The Working Families Party is actively trying to rebuild themselves by recruiting candidates who can talk well about data centers.

0:55.7

So now Trump and a bunch of governors are talking about how the data centers are going to have

1:00.1

to pay for these power prices. Yes. Look, data centers suck and they're making everything more

1:06.8

expensive. Trump is obsessed with energy dominance. So he has an energy dominance council.

1:13.5

A bipartisan group of governors are also planning Friday to unveil a statement of purpose to

1:18.6

address rising prices in the nation's power grid. Here's what would have made prices cheaper.

1:23.7

Can you guess, Jesse? Not making AI slop videos all day of Jake Paul grooming cats or whatever the hell will these kids do?

1:31.9

Or what about maybe just like not canceling solar and wind? Yes, that too. If you are in a country that

1:40.6

needs more energy and you have these, they're not just cheap, they're basically

1:45.1

free sources of energy and you shut them down because they're too woke and decide that a better

1:51.7

way to get energy is to invade Venezuela and this is where we are. So, administration officials

1:58.4

and governors of the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia, that's two Democrats and one Republican, are planning to urge grid operators to hold an auction for tech companies to bid on 15-year contracts for new electricity generation capacity.

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