Sam Seder & Harry Litman

**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 77% of Americans blame Trump for gas prices. We have such a great show for you today. The Majority Report, Sam Seder, stops by to talk President Trump's rapidly deteriorating health. Then we'll talk to Talking Feds, Harry Litman, about his predictions for the retirement of justices Thomas and Alito, but first the news.

**Jesse Cannon** (0:32)
So, Molly, Trump has suffered a huge legal loss when he tried to ban asylum seekers.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (0:40)
This is like exactly what we know about Trump. He loses in the courts. And he's always losing in the courts. And here he is more losing in the courts. So, US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled to one that Trump could not deport immigrants under summary removal procedures of his own making. So, basically, he makes of a reason to get rid of people and then he does it. That's not going to fly here. So, barring foreign individuals who are physically present in the United States from applying to asylum, if they've made the statutory showing that they are eligible for being considered to receive asylum. So, basically, this is all illegal. And this is the larger problem with Trumpism writ large, besides the fact that it's immoral and a lot is that it's also illegal.
And that's where we are today, is that Trump has yet again lost in the courts because none of this is legal. And so, here we are, another day that ends in Y, another loss in the courts for Trump world. Unsurprising, but there'll be more.

**Jesse Cannon** (1:44)
So then, when he's not losing in courts, we have the DOJ being not even able to cook up these charges he tried to trump up on Jerome Powell.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (1:53)
Yeah, cook the books. So, Donald Trump really mad at Jerome Powell because he wouldn't lower interest rates. So, he decided to cook up an investigation into him. Jerome Powell, I mean, the stupidest part of this whole story, and there are many stupid parts, so I don't want you to just focus on one stupid part, but the stupidest part here is that Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump the first time. So, like, this is not some, like, woke leftist. This is a Republican guy.
And Trump has cooked up this idea probably likely with the help of his buddy Bill Pulte, that he mismanaged the renovation of the Fed. There's no evidence to support it. And so what happened here is that Tom Tillis, who was not running again, and so he has become, like all Republican senators who are not running again, brave in the 11th hour. He's the Liz Cheney of the Senate. That guy was like, you know what, you're not going to get Handsome Kevin. Remember Handsome Kevin?

**Jesse Cannon** (2:53)
I don't stop thinking about it, especially after those flattering, flattering remarks during his congressional hearing this week.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (2:59)
This is a call back to a friend of the podcast, Justin Wolfers, who had a, there was Handsome Kevin and Smiling Kevin, Kevin Walsh versus Kevin Hassett. So Kevin Walsh, Trump wants him to be the Fed chair.
And what we had here was that Tom Tillis said, you're not going to get your Fed chair passed until you drop this dumb investigation of Jerome Powell. By the way, I want to point out, my favorite part of this whole thing is that the person involved in the investigation into Jerome Powell, one box of wine, judge, box of wine. You'll remember her from earlier seasons.

**Jesse Cannon** (3:38)
Molly, how could she have botched this? There's no way she's so good at everything she does, meaning drinking.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (3:45)
Yes. Well, again, we have many Fox News hosts in this administration, all of whom are a complete disaster. But judge, box of wine is a perennial favorite for us because she's an alcoholic and we love to make fun of alcoholism.

**Jesse Cannon** (4:01)
We'll be doing it later in the show.

**Molly Jong-Fast** (4:03)
That's right.

**Jesse Cannon** (4:03)
One of the things, though, I think is always so funny is like when the Trump administration is going after these people, they're going, look at the Biden crime family, all these things. And, you know, like a thing I like to remind people is that before Joe Biden was vice president, he was literally the poorest senator and that this whole crime family is doing, you know, barisma, $50,000. Then we have Eric Trump bragging about $24 million Pentagon deal that his company just landed. But no, nothing to see here in this family, never.