Antonia Hylton & Gina Hinojosa

Molly Jong-Fast (0:00)

Hi, I'm Molly Jong-Fast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines with some of today's best minds, and Representative Steve Cohen filed 26 articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. We have such a great show for you today. MSNOW's Antonia Hylton talks Tucker Carlson trashing Donald Trump's lack of concern about the American people. Then we'll talk to Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa about her run to unseat Greg Abbott. But first, the news.

SPEAKER_2 (0:34)

Smiley, the Supreme Court just always giving Trump what he wants, and now he has control over some interesting levers of our voting.

Molly Jong-Fast (0:43)

So I think it's early to know what this means because it could mean a number of things. The Supreme Court has cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration's expanding system to verify voters' citizenship status. This is one of the Trump world's favorite things to do, solve a problem that doesn't exist. And the question is, will it disqualify normal voters? And also, who will use it? And how will states fight against it?

The High Court's majority said that the federal government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local officials seeking to verify this citizenship of voters. Now, what exactly does that mean? And that is, I think, a real question. Look, the League of Women Voters has called the decision profoundly disappointing, saying it puts millions of Americans at risk of being unlawfully targeted by the administration's unreliable voter purchase, which we have seen that that is sort of their hope. The DC. District Court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws. So they are going to go back. And I think that ultimately that this case may go back up to the Supreme Court. This is a sort of revamped version of the systematic alien verification for entitlement, the SAVE service, an immigration tool that has been long used to verify whether you're eligible for benefits because people were in this country not legally. They do not get benefits. A key part of the effort was expanding SAVE queries using Social Security. I think that we're going to see more in this, but it could also be dangerous. The three liberal justices, Brown, Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan, dissented and they talked about the potential for disenfranchisement. Most states are barred from systematic voting purchase within 90 days of a federal election.

That means that we are 38 days from the end tomorrow, we will be 37 days midterms, which means that it's hard to imagine how they would do that if they're banned from doing it 90 days before a federal election. I think Trump did recently lose this postal, he had wanted to fuck with mail and voting, which as you know, a third of all Americans vote by mail. And so now they gave him a win. But again, I think we will see, I think this fight is certainly not over.

SPEAKER_2 (3:15)

So amazing reporting from the Lever. AI regulation was coming and then Mr. Trump killed it because he's in on it.

Molly Jong-Fast (3:23)

Look, the reason why Donald Trump doesn't want to regulate AI is because he and his sons have invested heavily in AI. We know this from the Washington Post. There's a reporting in the Washington Post that says that the Trump family millions or billions are actually invested in AI. So that makes a lot of sense as to why he doesn't want to regulate. There's also another story here which is that Trump didn't want to regulate AI because he knows that it's kind of a bubble and if he regulates it, it might break the bubble and then the economy won't do as well. So we might be into a recession and that would be bad for him and his presidency. Look, again, we have yet to see Congress regulate technology, period, paragraph from Facebook to Instagram to anything. They don't regulate it. So the idea that they were going to get their shit together and be able to do it, I don't know that that's true. In this story, it talks about Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch talking about how they had a plan for regulation.

Chuck Schumer's daughter works for open AI. In government relation. So I don't know how this is going to work. I mean, doesn't seem good to me.

SPEAKER_2 (4:37)

No. So Mr. Trump met with Xi Jinping, asking him to stop supporting Iran. And Tom Tillis is big mad.

Molly Jong-Fast (4:44)

Yeah. I mean, Tom Tillis is like so late to this. Again, look, we don't know that Donald Trump asked Xi to stop. Do we know this?

SPEAKER_2 (4:55)