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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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The Jim Acosta Show’s Jim Acosta examines Trump’s escalating authoritarian actions. Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias details how they are pushing back legally against Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Hi, I'm Molly JongFast and this is Fast Politics, where we |
| 0:09.2 | discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds and a Pew Research poll |
| 0:15.7 | has that in the last six months, Donald Trump has lost 23% approval among 18 to 29-year-olds. |
| 0:24.0 | We have such a great show for you today. The Jim Acosta shows Jim Acosta stops by to talk about |
| 0:30.5 | Trump's escalating authoritarian actions. Then we'll talk to Democracy dockets, Mark Elias, |
| 0:36.5 | about how they are pushing back legally against Trump. |
| 0:41.0 | But first, we have the stories the media is missing. |
| 0:44.0 | Molly, I have to tell you, J.B. Pritzker, really, really, really impressive speech yesterday. |
| 0:50.0 | I was shocked to hear earlier that it blew you away as much as me. |
| 0:53.7 | Let's take a listen to it. |
| 0:54.9 | I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, |
| 0:59.9 | not the manufactured one, that we are facing in this city and as a state and as a country. |
| 1:08.6 | If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, |
| 1:15.6 | one that I hope every person listening will heed, |
| 1:19.6 | both here in Illinois and across the country. |
| 1:22.6 | Over the weekend, we learned from the media |
| 1:25.6 | that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now |
| 1:29.3 | to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. |
| 1:35.3 | This is exactly the type of overreach that our country's founders warned against, |
| 1:41.3 | and it's the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of |
| 1:46.5 | powers built on checks and balances. What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. |
| 1:55.8 | It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American. |
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