Meredith Shiner & Will Sommer
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The New Republic’s Meredith Shiner examines how everyday citizens are fighting back against ICE.
Then The Bulwark’s Will Sommer details how MAGA infighting is weakening Trump’s administration.
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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 |
| 0:10.9 | with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:12.9 | And a national NPR, PBS, News, Maris poll shows that Democrats have a 14-point lead in the generic ballot if the midterms were held today. |
| 0:27.1 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:29.4 | The new republic's mayor to the Shiner joins us to talk about how everyday citizens are fighting back against ice. |
| 0:36.2 | Then we'll talk to the bulwarks' own Will Somer about how MAGA infighting is weakening the Trump administration. |
| 0:45.0 | But first, the news. |
| 0:46.5 | Somalia, you know what lives rent-free in my head every day is when Trump was on the stump and COVID was surging and he screamed, |
| 0:55.3 | we have to slow it down about the testing. |
| 0:58.6 | Today we got news that the BLS is canceling October jobs reports due to the government shutdown. |
| 1:04.3 | I just feel the same energy somehow. |
| 1:06.9 | Yes. |
| 1:07.4 | Trump has long been a fan of not counting numbers. I think that's fair, right? |
| 1:13.3 | We like to say his nemesis is the count of Sesame Street. That's right. Well, no, he doesn't like |
| 1:18.7 | that Muslim math. This, by the way, Muslim math is a throwback to Veep when Jonah says, |
| 1:27.1 | we don't like Muslim math, okay? I'm not saying |
| 1:29.8 | anything, except that Jonah discovers that math comes from the Islamic countries. I mean, |
| 1:36.5 | abacuses. Right. And so he calls it Islamic math. And this is a follow up to that. Donald Trump |
| 1:43.3 | doesn't like math. Look, I know that everyone |
| 1:46.0 | has forgotten about this, but Donald Trump did fire the head of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics |
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