Rick Wilson & Rep. Melanie Stansbury
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Tucker Carlson saying the CIA is coming for him.
Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury joins us to talk about the investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
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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. |
| 0:13.3 | And Pete Buttigieg says, this is clearly amateur hour at the Pentagon and in the White House. |
| 0:19.9 | We have such a great show for you today. The |
| 0:22.7 | Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson, joins us to discuss Tucker Carlson saying the CIA is coming for him. |
| 0:30.0 | Then we'll talk to Congresswoman Melanie Stansberry about the investigation into Epstein-Zorro Ranch. |
| 0:39.2 | But first, the news. |
| 0:41.3 | So, Molly, it is unbelievable how much the Trump administration does something. |
| 0:46.3 | They fuck it up. |
| 0:47.3 | They convince his followers that he solved the problem. |
| 0:50.8 | This headline from the New York Times, I literally, you know how when we say I spit out my coffee, I literally spit out my coffee. To address farm labor shortage, |
| 0:58.6 | Trump administration turns to migrant workers. Yes. The great irony of Trump world is that |
| 1:04.9 | Trump, the man who is trying to end migration actually desperately needs migrants. |
| 1:11.6 | By the way, this could have all been seen coming a million miles away for years. |
| 1:16.6 | The agricultural sector has faced a tight labor market, as farm workers age. |
| 1:21.6 | This is like jobs that Americans don't want to do picking strawberries. |
| 1:25.6 | I feel like we've been doing this for so long that we have had this conversation so many times. Americans don't want to do picking strawberries. I feel like we've been doing this for so long |
| 1:28.1 | that we have had this conversation so many times. Americans don't want to pick strawberries. |
| 1:32.9 | It's hard, backbreaking labor. People who are not from this country, somehow we convince them |
| 1:40.2 | to do this. Here's the problem. Now they can't come here and they're scared to come. And because |
| 1:45.8 | Kristy Knoem has spent $220 million making little videos telling them to self-deport and maybe taking |
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