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Skip to main content Currently Reading Biden team explores Sen. Doug Jones for attorney general nominee as the candidate list narrows to four names Matt Viser, Matt Zapotosky and Amy B Wang, The Washington Post Dec. 9, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Sen. Doug Jones is pictured at a news conference in August 2019.Photo by Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Bidens top advisers have asked at least one outside advocacy group for input about Sen. Doug Jones as a po...

The Finance 202: Stimulus talks set off lobbying frenzy as businesses angle for last-minute relief Tory Newmyer with Brent D. Griffiths Progress toward an economic relief package has stalled out again, as bipartisan talks give way to partisan finger-pointing. But a frenzy of lobbying activity on the measure keeps churning at full tilt, with businesses from beer brewers to airlines scrambling to secure a slice of a potentially trillion-dollar pie. The last must-pass bill of ...

Explain what hes been up to, and i believe that the president urging mayor giuliani to provide that clarity to the congress will be helpful in what seems to be odd having him over there at this time. >> when matt gaetz says its weird, its weird. attorney general william barr has counselled trump in general terms that giulianis become a liability for him and a problem for the administration. in one discussion the attorney general warned the president he will not be -- its not being well served by...

According to the investigators, is at some point, that meeting in the seychelles happens, and then after that meeting, basically the meeting doesnt go well. its an attempt to establish a back channel as far as we can tell that just falls apart because the russian official dmitriev doesnt seem to much like erik prince and doesnt seem to trust him as a good go-between and it all sort of falls apart from there. so the relationship seems to go sour and go south pretty quickly after that. >> devlin b...

Has won" text, he turns around that same morning and thereafter he decides he needs to be connected to the key people in trumps world asap. who does he call to make those connections to introduce him to all the key trump people? he calls a guy named george nader. george nader is the guy who was just arrested today on child pornography charges as he landed at jfk airport. thats one of the threads involving george nader thats described in the mueller report and in open source reporting. his arrest...

Kremlin-backed russian sovereign wealth fund. he gets this message, "putin has won." thats the response to trump winning the election. hes super psyched trump won the election. right after receiving the "putin has won" text he turns around that same morning and thereafter he decides he needs to be connected to the key people in trumps world asap. who does he call to make those connections to introduce him to all the key trump people? he calls a guy named george nader. george nader is the guy who...

Is the investigators are really focused on the seychelles meeting and the russian official, dmit richlt ev, and how that played played into it, but thats probably not naders main focus considering who he works for and where he lives. but i think whats interesting about that whole sequence of events is what seems to happen according to investigators is at some point that tha meeting in the seychelles happens and then after that meeting basically the meeting doesnt go well. its an attempt to estab...

Broidy was offering a contract in which he said that he could get that investigation quashed if the interested parties would pay him and his wife $75 million. now, why del yot broidy believe that he could turn off a major justice department investigation in exchange for tens of millions of dollars? i dont know. but that is one of a number of issues for which elliott broidy has reportedly come under investigation. nice folks from the trump campaign. nice folks from the trump-era republican nation...

Investigation in exchange for tens of millions of dollars? i dont know. but that is one of a number of issues for which elliott broidy has reportedly come under investigation. nice folks from the trump campaign. nice folks from the trump-era republican national committee. now, as for elliott broidys business partner in that qatar thing, well, as of today, he has a new and newly serious additional child pornography charge to contend with. devlin barrett and rachel weiner at "the washington post" ...

Did anyone mess with you? a lot of people understand if he ever answers yes to that question, there could be hell to pay. >> devlin barrett, "the washington post" national security reporter. thanks for being with us tonight. thanks for having me. >> we will have much more to come, including a question that has been -- theres all this reporting all the time no matter who the president is, its just like the president has left the south -- by the south lawn, and he has arrived at such and such a di...