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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Justin Wolfers & Jacob Soboroff

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Think Like an Economist’s Justin Wolfers examines the bad economic vibes coming from the Trump administration.MSNOW’s Jacob Soboroff details his new book Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.3

And we have such a great show for you today.

0:15.7

Think Like an economist, Justin Wolfer, joins us to talk about the good, bad, and very bad economic vibes

0:24.7

coming from the Trump White House. Then we'll talk to MS Now's own Jacob Soberoff about his

0:32.2

fabulous new book, Firestorm, the great Los Angeles fires, and America's new age of disaster, but first the news.

0:41.2

Somali, we thankfully taped our episode before the horrific shooting in Minneapolis.

0:47.6

The other day, I can't think of how long it's been since I've been that angry.

0:53.1

As we're seeing here is MAGA will never have any shame about what they will turn into a culture war and a message to their base that if you do horrible things, they will stand by you.

1:04.5

So I want to talk about a few things in this story.

1:08.3

One is that the police or ICE or any law enforcement does not have the right

1:15.0

to kill you. Even if you do bad stuff, they do not have the right. We still have due process in this

1:20.9

country. You have bodily autonomy. You cannot kill people, even if you don't like them.

1:26.8

Even if they are a quote unquoteist, as the New York Post said yesterday.

1:32.7

But that said, I think, the worst part of this story. And look, not all victims of police violence are beautiful red-haired Christian women who have six-year-old children who they've just dropped off at school

1:51.7

and a glove compartment filled with stuffed animals.

1:55.9

Most victims of police violence don't necessarily look like that.

2:00.1

But Mago World has stumbled into a

2:03.9

hornet's nest and they are just keep kicking at the hornets. Here is a woman who is every woman in

2:13.0

Minnesota, right? She looks like everyone in Minnesota. She acts like much of Minnesota. You know, a lot of times Trump world will somehow imply that a victim of police violence is a criminal or deserves this because they were maybe a drug addict or maybe, you know, were involved or maybe held a weapon. This is a woman who had just

2:35.5

dropped off her six-year-old at school. So with that, there have been videos that we have seen

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