Rick Wilson & Tim Weiner
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines Trump’s failure to divert attention from his Epstein ties.
Author Tim Weiner details his new book The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political |
| 0:10.5 | headlines with some of today's best minds, and the price of ground beef has hit a new high |
| 0:16.4 | of $6.12. We have a great show for you today. The Lincoln Project Zone Rick Wilson joins us to discuss |
| 0:24.5 | Trump's failing to get the attention off his Epstein ties. Then we'll talk to Tim Weiner about his new book, |
| 0:32.2 | The Mission, the CIA in the 21st century, but first the news. So, Maui, the Democrats are doing one of these autopsies. |
| 0:38.6 | You know, the Republicans famously did this when they lost to Obama. |
| 0:42.8 | But there's a glaring omission happening in what they're looking at here. |
| 0:47.1 | And it's disturbing a lot of people who want the Democrats to step up their game. |
| 0:51.7 | I think that I'm going to read a quote from Jane Clebe, Nebraska Democratic Chairman, |
| 0:59.4 | and she told The New York Times, and I think this quote really does explain why this autopsy must suck. |
| 1:07.3 | We are not interested in second guessing campaign tactics or decisions of campaign operatives. |
| 1:13.3 | That's the whole point of the fucking autopsy. |
| 1:15.7 | The whole point is to second-guess campaign tactics and decisions of campaign operatives. |
| 1:22.6 | Don't do it. |
| 1:23.4 | That is the point of the autopsy. |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.8 | Don't do an autopsy if you're going to let people off the hub for any reason. |
| 1:31.9 | Like, this is this idea that we're the nice guys and we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, |
| 1:37.3 | so we won't second guess the campaign tactics. |
| 1:41.1 | Let me tell you about the campaign tactics. |
| 1:44.1 | Incinerating cash for seemingly no reason. |
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