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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Eglaceus. Here with ProPublica's Darryl Lind, Jane Kostin joining us from Chicago, Illinois.

We wanted to talk about Representative Katie Hill, sort of the other scandal that is in Plutton, Washington.

This is not the most characteristic move the Weeds has ever pulled to say let's pivot away from serious issues of national security law and congressional procedure to talk about what could be described as a sex scandal.

But it has I would say more broad relevance than this Trump Ukraine thing I think will probably not recur.

Whereas Representative Hill's situation raises a lot of questions that I think are dealt with all the time and will be on a continuing basis.

So for those who don't know this story, Katie Hill is a young first year member of Congress.

She beat a Republican in 2018. This was one of these like California suburban seats that had swung kind of hard from Mitt Romney to Hillary Clinton.

The Republican incumbent got reelected in 2016. Then she beat him. She's I think 30, 33 years old, something like that.

One of the youngest members of Congress was like an interesting rising star in that sense.

Had been not just a rising star in the point in the sense that a lot of freshmen members of Congress have gotten a lot of media attention because there are kind of a younger generation and very savvy and things.

But house leadership had actually appointed her to a position in the caucus kind of rising star.

Yes, this is one of the official freshmen delegates. So not not a media star in the sense of the squad people, but the next generation of like mainstream Democrats.

And then it all started to unravel as red state began publishing stories that she had had an affair with a staffer that she and her husband had had a threesome with the staffer.

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