Lawrence O'Donnell & Ben Terris
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
MSNOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell examines the fallout from escalating ICE aggression and the recent high-profile shake-up in federal immigration leadership. New York Magazine’s Ben Terris details his reporting on Donald Trump’s chaotic trip to Davos and the broader implications for global leadership.
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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 discussed the top political |
| 0:10.4 | headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:12.9 | And the U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office. |
| 0:19.5 | 10,000 cures, 10,000 science prizes, 10,000 nobles. I mean, just |
| 0:25.2 | wild. We have such a great show for you today. MS Now's Lawrence O'Donnell shows Lawrence O'Donnell |
| 0:32.0 | stops by to talk about the fallouts from ICE's aggressions and Greg Bovino being pulled from Minnesota. |
| 0:40.3 | Then we'll talk to New York Magazine's Ben Terrace about his article chronicling Donald Trump's |
| 0:45.8 | many health issues. But first, the stories the media is missing. |
| 0:50.0 | Molly, we have a scoop for Maxios that the misleading claim that Alex Prattie wanted to massacre agents came right from the furor in the White House, Stephen Miller. |
| 0:59.7 | So here's what's happening. |
| 1:01.3 | When you're starting getting scoops like this, this is Trump 1.0. |
| 1:04.2 | This is someone is targeting someone else. |
| 1:07.7 | And so they're leaking. |
| 1:09.0 | Again, there are a lot of people in this White House |
| 1:12.5 | who are pretty cooked. And I mean cooked in a sense of like nuts. So is Christy Nome leaking this? |
| 1:21.3 | Is Corey leaking this? Is one of their deputies leaking this? Who knows? But you're going to |
| 1:26.5 | start seeing stories like this, |
| 1:28.5 | trying to obfuscate, trying to lay the blame on someone else's feet. And you know, |
| 1:34.6 | what's good about this is that in order for American democracy to survive, in order to end |
| 1:41.3 | this kind of ice cruelty, you really need Nome and Stephen Miller out. |
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