Jim Acosta & Theodore Schleifer

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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News, Politics

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Jim Acosta Show’s Jim Acosta stops by to talk about the fallout from AG Pam Bondi getting fired.
The New York Times’ Theodore Schleifer joins us to discuss the strange campaign financing trends shaping the midterms.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:04.4	No gloss, no filter.
0:07.4	Just stories.
0:09.1	Spoken without fear.
0:10.9	Person who is not generous can not be an artist.
0:13.8	The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.
0:18.4	Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw show,
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0:24.2	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.6	Come for the honesty.
0:29.2	Stay for the fire.
0:33.5	Hi, I'm Molly Zhang Fast, and this is Fast Politics,
0:41.8	where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.
0:51.1	And President Trump wants to add $7 trillion to the already enormous $39 trillion national debt.
0:53.6	We have such a great show for you today.
0:56.4	The Jim Acosta shows Jim Acosta subscribe to talk about Attorney General Pamela Bondi getting fired. Then we'll talk to the New York
1:05.1	Times, Teddy Schleifer, about all the dark money pouring into our elections.
1:11.9	But first the news.
1:17.5	Molly, do you think it's a good thing that Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff,
1:23.3	thinks that Trump is getting smokebone up his ass about how great the war is going and how popular he is?
1:27.6	So she's like, we have to get him a dose of reality and get these people to stop talking to them.
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