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The Lincoln Project

The Architecture of Dark Money with Heidi Przybyla

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.78.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Heidi Przybyla, an award-winning National Investigative Correspondent for Politico. They get into her latest reporting on how the likes of Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo gamed Citizens’ United and what dark money means for the MAGA movement as 2024 approaches…but first, what’s going on with Kevin McCarthy, his caucus, and the latest series of events in the GOP clown show. Be sure to check out Heidi’s article for Politico that was discussed in the show and keep up with her latest reporting. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, this month the Lincoln project is going to be

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And now on with the show.

0:45.6

Welcome back to the Lincoln project. I'm your host, Reid Gail. Today, I'm joined by Heidi Prisbola,

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an award-winning national investigative correspondent for Politico. She's a veteran

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Washington journalist who regularly breaks exclusive reporting on the White House, Congress,

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presidential and congressional elections, and most recently, the Supreme Court and the State

1:04.4

of Democracy here at home. Her reporting has spanned leading newspaper, digital, radio and

1:09.6

television outlets. Today, she's coming to us from Washington, D.C., Heidi. Welcome to the show.

1:14.2

Thanks for having me, Reid. Okay, well, you have been in the middle of it this week, and I want

1:19.5

to get to what's put you in the middle of it, vis-a-vis your reporting on Leonard Leo,

1:24.5

Jenny Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. But before we do that, give us a little bit of

1:29.5

your insight on this sort of havesy impeachment deal that Kevin McCarthy says he wants to do, but

1:36.0

really isn't doing. And says he has the votes for, but doesn't really have the votes for. So tell

1:40.3

us what's going on with McCarthy and the crazy caucus. Yeah, it seems that he was going to do what

1:46.7

you call a havesy impeachment, which means, hey, I'm going to start this inquiry. But it's just an

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inquiry. We're just checking, just checking, you know, to see if there's anything wrong here. If

1:56.2

he did anything corrupt, we don't have the receipts yet. And so we're just going to open this inquiry.

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