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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Rick Wilson, Jacob Rubashkin & Michael Waldman

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Markwayne Mullin’s disastrous confirmation hearing.
Inside Elections Jacob Rubashkin joins us to break down the nuances of last night’s primary races.
Plus, as a bonus, The Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman joins us to talk about how to oppose the SAVE Act.

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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 discuss the top political headlines

0:10.9

with some of today's best minds.

0:13.3

And U.S. officials say more than a dozen $16 million reaper drones have been destroyed

0:19.8

in Iran operations.

0:22.1

We have such a great show for you today.

0:24.0

The Link of Project Zone, Rick Wilson, joins us to discuss Mark Wayne Mullen's disastrous confirmation

0:30.6

hearing, and we'll talk to inside elections, Jacob Rabashkin, about the nuances of last night's primary race.

0:39.9

Plus, as a bonus, we have the Brennan Center's own Michael Waldman to talk about how

0:46.8

Democrats can oppose the Save Act.

0:49.5

But first, the news.

0:50.3

Molly, yesterday we played Kevin Hassett's ridiculous quote about the economy. I have really bad news. Molly, yesterday we played Kevin Hassett's ridiculous quote about the economy. I have really bad news

0:58.3

for Mr. Trump in his economy. It's going even worse today. We have inflation. Let's watch this

1:04.5

clip. What does that tell you? I mean, I understand the short term we're taking the Fed activity

1:08.9

out from the two-year, and that's why you

1:11.5

see those spreads kind of get compressed. The long end, does that tell you anything about

1:16.2

how people are seeing the health of the economy down the road, or is it something else?

1:21.7

I do think that there is part of that reflected in this as well. It's almost the worst of both worlds. I guess

1:28.8

stagflation would come close to describing the situation. We're probably not going to see

1:33.8

Fed easing and the long end. Well, part of it is weakness. We've had a spat of some fairly

1:40.2

weak numbers, and then you put in the fact that we are on the PCE, you know, 3%

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