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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

Stephanie Ruhle & Alex Burness

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

MSNOW’s Stephanie Ruhle stops by to talk about Trump making up a story about a former president backing his war in the Middle East.
Bolts Magazine’s Alex Burness joins us to discuss the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which could be one of the year’s most important races.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.5

Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds.

0:12.9

And a data for progress poll found that 52% of Americans believe that President Trump was motivated to take military action against Iran

0:21.7

to distract from the Hempstein files.

0:24.5

Wow.

0:25.3

We have such a great show for you today.

0:27.5

MS now, Steph Ruhl, stops by to talk about Trump making up a story about an ex-president

0:32.6

backing his war in the Middle East.

0:34.9

Spoiler.

0:35.9

There is new.

0:36.7

That ex-president is him. Then we'll talk to

0:39.4

Bultz magazines, Alex Bernice, about the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. It could be one of

0:46.5

the years' most important elections. But first, the news.

0:49.5

Bobby, all the time the Trump administration tells on themselves, says the quiet part out loud,

0:55.4

but this one I want to enter it into the grayest hits album of absolute telling on themselves

1:01.3

quotes that truly I was laughing so hard.

1:05.0

But the fact is that the U.S. economy is fundamentally sound and that if it were to be extended, it wouldn't really

1:12.6

disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about

1:17.5

if that continued what we would have to do about that. But that's like really the last of our

1:22.5

concerns right now because we're very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.

1:26.6

Kevin Hassett, Molly.

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