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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Kurt Andersen & Josh Turek

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Evil Geniuses Author Kurt Andersen explains how the 90s brought us the deranged Republican nightmare we’re in now. Iowa State Rep. Josh Turek about his run for the open Iowa Senate seat. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political

0:10.5

headlines with some of today's best minds and the U.S. economy added 911,000 fewer jobs than

0:20.4

previously reported in the largest ever revision.

0:23.5

We have such a great show for you today.

0:25.6

Evil Genius's author, Kurt Anderson, stops by to talk to us about how the 90s brought us the deranged Republican nightmare we live through today.

0:34.0

Then we'll talk to Josh Turek about his run for the open Iowa Senate seat. But first we

0:39.7

have the stories the media is missing. Molly, oh boy, it's a day. So I thought this was really

0:45.8

interesting. We've talked a lot about this character, Bill Pulte, who we haven't said much about

0:50.3

before until recent weeks. But the house is going to probe him. And I mean, just yesterday,

0:55.2

there was reports that Scott Besson was going to, well, he was going to be the sixth person that

0:59.6

Scott Besson threatened to punch. What do you see in here? This is wild. Yeah. So I think we can all

1:05.5

agree that as much as a lot of us don't agree with Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary, we all respect his ability

1:14.5

to get into physical violence. We certainly saw Scott Besson had an altercation with Elon Musk.

1:22.4

Now he has threatened to punch Bill Pulte in the face.

1:34.5

And Pulte is mostly famous for running this very sleepy branch of government.

1:37.5

The Trump administration, he's a housing official.

1:43.3

But what I think is really interesting about him is that he's basically found all this mortgage stuff, how he's found it. We don't know.

1:47.1

So he uses it against the president's enemies. So he used it against Lisa Cook. He has used it

1:55.0

against New York, AG, Tish James. So he basically trots us out.

2:05.8

Now, we have found that his parents use this using two houses.

2:12.6

So basically, Pulte had accused Cook of listing both a house in Michigan and a condo in Atlanta as a primary residence.

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