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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Rick Wilson & Ben Rhodes

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the latest chaos surrounding the Trump administration.
Pod Save the World’s Ben Rhodes joins us to talk about his new book, All We Say: The Battle for American Identity.

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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 with some of today's best minds.

0:13.4

And a new Gallup poll says that just 16% of Americans think that the economy is excellent.

0:20.6

The Lincoln Project's own, Rick Wilson, joins us to discuss the Iran nuclear deal part two.

0:28.9

And then we'll talk to Pod Save the World's Ben Rhodes about his new book, All We Say,

0:34.1

the Battle for American Identity.

0:36.2

But first, the news.

0:37.2

Somali, 61% of Americans say they had to cut back on groceries.

0:41.6

And I get it because every time I go to the grocery store, my grocery store, the manager,

0:46.2

was standing outside apologizing to people the other day.

0:49.3

Groceries are very expensive.

0:51.2

This started during COVID, like when like $300 of groceries would then be $400.

0:56.4

I mean, it was like amazing to me. You know, I would do like the week of groceries and I was like,

1:01.0

what the fuck is this? But here's what I would say. Things are really expensive. And part of that is

1:06.6

because of all of the many inflationary things that Donald Trump did, like tariffs, like making

1:14.0

things more expensive, like the Straits of Hermousse. So you have gas and fertilizer. And even

1:20.8

if there's fertilizer for this planting, it's tight. And everyone's starting to get anxious and making

1:26.2

things more expensive. And so

1:27.6

everything is getting even more expensive. And Americans are also, again, their income is not

1:33.8

keeping off with the inflation. And so there's this other thing, which if you live in New York

1:38.3

City, you don't necessarily have, but gas prices. So you have gas prices above four and a half

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