Rick WIlson & Jonathan Blitzer
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s attempt to cover up the murder of Renée Good. The New Yorker’s Jonathan Blitzer about how the Trump administration is weaponizing the legal saga of Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver.
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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 with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:12.9 | And more than 30 Republican congressmen have announced their leaving conference. |
| 0:17.8 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:20.0 | The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson, |
| 0:21.9 | joins us to discuss the Trump administration's attempt to cover up the murder of Renee Good. |
| 0:28.1 | And we'll talk to the New Yorkers, Jonathan Blitzer, about how the Trump administration is making |
| 0:34.1 | Democratic Congresswoman Lomonica McGuiver's life hell. But first, we have the stories the |
| 0:41.3 | media is missing. Somali, we are known haters of AI, and it wiped out $400 billion from the stock |
| 0:48.2 | market this week. And one of the funniest things is this week is as this is happening, we find out |
| 0:53.6 | that a bunch of tech |
| 0:54.8 | pros tried to create a hyperstition for those who don't know hyperstitions where you say something |
| 0:59.2 | and try to make it real, even though it's not real, then you know it, that these clawed bots |
| 1:03.9 | were all talking to each other, that AI is sentient, it's well and more advanced than it actually |
| 1:09.8 | is. And because of all this mythologizing, we are seeing |
| 1:14.1 | a massive restructuring of our economy. I'm going to make this clear. AI is not doing what they |
| 1:21.5 | told us it was going to do. It is not this sentient super being. It is just better computing, but it is not changing the world. |
| 1:30.9 | We are not going to all lose our jobs because of AI. |
| 1:34.1 | This is good news. |
| 1:35.6 | This should be good news. |
| 1:36.8 | The problem is our entire economy is puffed up on the fantasy that AI is supercomputers. |
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