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Welcome to 1947, it's the Meet the Press Podcast this week.

My guest is somebody who wrote among the most compelling daily newspaper stories you

could find in the last five years.

It's the story of a high-powered, it's a story, frankly, that happens a lot in Washington,

story of a high-powered, fast-moving, ambitious, operative, turn-lobbious, turn-wealthy, sort

of money-tree maker of sorts, shaken the tree here in Washington, who apparently had

a lifestyle that was more expensive than his salary, and it led him to do a lot of unethical

things.

And then suddenly, he got caught in Brody Mullins of the Wall Street Journal wrote an incredibly

compelling piece that almost read like a novel.

Brody joins me now.

Brody, welcome to Meet the Press Podcast.

Thanks for having me.

So let's talk about, you're the investigative reporter, you're one of the investigative reporters

for the Wall Street Journal, you cover a lot of case street, this sort of intersection

of business, politics, lobbying, things like that.

Tell me the story of Evan Morris.

Well, the story is that he was a young, up-and-coming lobbyist on case street just in his mid-20s

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