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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Rick Wilson & Michael Waldman

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines the fallout from the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.The Brennan Center’s Michael Waldman details their new report on corruption and strategies for curbing it.

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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 discussed the top political

0:10.4

headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:13.4

And Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to fund another year of

0:20.4

ice madness.

0:22.3

We have such a great show for you today.

0:24.6

The Lincoln Project Zone.

0:25.7

Rick Wilson joins us to talk about ICE's second murder of an American citizen.

0:32.6

Then we'll talk to the Brennan Center's own Michael Waldman about how we can stop this corruption right now.

0:40.8

But first, the news.

0:42.1

Somali, the Democrats are threatening a government shutdown over ICE funding.

0:46.6

We were talking about earlier this week how bad the, it's going to age the Democrats who voted to fund ICE in the House.

0:54.0

And it seems that it's aging very bad the Democrats who voted to fund ICE in the House, and it seems that it's

0:56.0

aging very bad, very, very fast. Okay, so last week Congress passed the CR, which included another

1:03.9

year of funding for ICE. There were seven Democrats who voted to fund ICE last week, including people like Jared Golden who aren't running

1:15.3

for re-election. The worst offender, I think, was Tom Swazi, who occupies the seat now that

1:25.0

used to belong to everyone's favorite, scary criminal, George Santos.

1:30.6

My personal favorite is Henry Quaylor, who Trump furiously pardoned.

1:34.7

So seven Democrats voted with the Republicans to fund ICE.

1:39.3

Well, that appropriation process continues.

1:43.2

The ICE money, CR, is in the Senate this weekend after Border Patrol murdered, a 37-year-old nurse with a legally registered firearm that was not being drawn.

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