Meredith Shiner, Andrew Weissmann & Theo Baker
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The New Republic’s Meredith Shiner stops by to talk about our ungovernable Congress not governing.
MSNOW’s Andrew Weissmann joins us to discuss his new book, Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America.
Plus, as a bonus, Theo Baker joins us to talk about his new book, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University.
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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 discussed the top political |
| 0:10.4 | headlines with some of today's best minds and 6,000 refugees have entered the United |
| 0:15.5 | States since October, but all but three of them are white South Africans. |
| 0:22.2 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:24.9 | The New Republic's Meredith Shiner stops by to talk about our ungovernable Congress, not governing. |
| 0:33.4 | Then we'll talk to MS now as Andrew Weissman about his new book, which is already a huge |
| 0:39.4 | bestseller, Liar's Kingdom, How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America. |
| 0:45.9 | Plus, as a bonus, we have Theo Baker on his new book, How to Rule the World in Education |
| 0:51.1 | and Power at Stanford University, But first, the news. |
| 0:55.6 | Smalley, we're back to the voting machines are why Mr. Trump lost in 2020. |
| 1:02.4 | Kleda Mitchell is seen making plans. |
| 1:04.9 | Howard Lutnik is going on with this. |
| 1:07.3 | Dominion voting loves to sue. |
| 1:09.3 | What do we think is going to happen here? |
| 1:10.8 | I think the really important tension here if if you're looking at this, is that Trump knows |
| 1:15.5 | everything he's doing is unpopular. Trump knows he's going to lose. Trump doesn't want to lose. |
| 1:22.0 | And so Trump has decided to do anything he can to not lose. And that means elevating Clita Mitchell to take a whack at voting machines. |
| 1:34.0 | The Trump administration floated banning voting machines in over 50% of the country |
| 1:40.0 | by deeming dominion voting machines. |
| 1:43.4 | By the way, the very litigious Dominion voting machines, |
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