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The Al Franken Podcast

Molly Jong Fast, Host of the Fast Politics Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

ASF Productions

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

DESCRIPTION: Molly Jong-Fast, special correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the Fast Politics podcast joins us for a wide ranging conversation covering Congress, abortion, the protests happening around the country and the Presidential election. She also discusses the ongoing Trump hush money scandal happening in NYC. She says the trial is "over-delivering," which could mean a guilty verdict for Trump. 


Read Molly's latest pieces for Vanity Fair! https://www.vanityfair.com/contributor/molly-jong-fast


Al is on tour! Catch him in your city: https://www.alfranken.com/appearances



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0:00.0

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0:18.6

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0:30.0

Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you for a change and this time I really mean it

0:37.0

Because Molly Jong-fast is my guess and Molly's best. She's always great and this's the best, she's always great.

0:42.9

And this is her best one yet.

0:46.0

She's on, she's on fire.

0:48.7

It's tempting to say that we haven't had a great one

0:51.2

since Molly was last time, but it just isn't isn't true.

0:56.4

I can't think of anyone right off hand.

1:00.6

Okay, Anne Applebaum, she's always great.

1:03.4

Frank 4, usually great.

1:06.7

Ben Wickler, the Wisconsin Democratic State Chair, that's a truly great one.

1:11.3

You should check that out if you missed it. But other than those, the rest are pure Drec. Absolute disasters. But this week, Molly Jung-fast, we discuss a broad range of issues, among them the student unrest on college

1:27.7

campuses.

1:29.6

And I believe I say something along the lines of these students have every right to demonstrate or something.

1:35.0

Whatever I said I meant that we shut down my college in the 70s on Vietnam and Cambodia. But there are some jerks and I do have a problem with any kind of hate

1:49.4

speech or harassment of students wearing Yamikas or any anti-Semitic shit.

1:55.0

And if you break into a building and occupy it and barricade yourself in,

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