But when he apparently denied his daughter access to this bunny, and this happened as recently as this past week.

Yeah.

So Senator Bernie Moreno brought this up the other day at the Capitol building and talked about how recent it was.

And so after that, Congressman Miller posted these screenshots that he says proved that he did not withhold the bunny, that he was working with their parenting coordinator to get the bunny back to the child.

After that, I got some screenshots of emails and messages from a source that showed that Max had on several occasions withheld the bunny or made it difficult to get the bunny.

In one incident, the parenting coordinator said that Max was refusing to give it back.

I believe that was the most recent one.

Abby, have you gone through these? Can you walk us through what they show?

Which ones stood out to you as you dug through them and wrote your piece?

So I first was flipping through a thousand plus pages of their custody proceedings, which I obtained through public records requests.

And then those pointed to other public records that I should reach out about.

So, for example, there was this reference to a Bay Village, Ohio police investigation into possible child abuse case.

So I got that investigative report, and in there, Emily Moreno was seen telling the detectives investigating their child's broken collarbone that she couldn't rule out that Congressman Miller had inflicted the injury upon their daughter because, according to Emily Moreno, Miller had previously thrown hot water at her, shoved her against a wall, leaving bruises.

and held a gun to her head.

And so those allegations were so concerning to me that I continued to flip through 2000 plus documents to see that there were multiple other allegations by Emily that Congressman Miller had a pattern of using drugs and abusing other women.

But what does he say? What is Congressman Miller saying in response to this?

I mean, the, there's a lot of charges that people have not found about him.

Yeah, so I found a lot in going through the investigation into potential child abuse when Max Miller and Emily Merino's daughter had a broken collar bone.

Ultimately, the investigation there was unsubstantiated.

They couldn't prove one way or another, uh, that there was neglect or abuse happening.

But within that investigation, you had Emily Merino telling detectives that Max Miller had held a gun to her head and thrown hot water at her and shoved her against a wall and said things like, uh, "Daddy's house is scary," quoting their two-year-old daughter.

Mm.

So the amount of allegations within that police report alone I think were, were shocking.

And then just looking at the broader picture, this is a congressman who has a history of other allegations against him.

Why is the Speaker holding this up because he can't afford to lose another seat with such a thin majority? And is Senator Bernie Marino in on it to the extent that he's not making a fuss about it, perhaps for the same reasons that the Speaker doesn't want this ethics investigation to happen soon?

Yeah, a couple of points on that.

One, I want to be clear about what we know and what we don't know.

We know that multiple women have accused Congressman Miller of being physical and violent towards them.

That's Emily Moreno, Stephanie Grisham, who used to work in the Trump White House with Miller, and then a woman who Miller allegedly pushed down the stairs in high school.

We know those things.

We also know Miller was investigated when their two-year-old daughter had a broken collarbone and the child protective specialist found concerning things like a bruise resembling a handprint.

And what about holding a gun to a head? What's the evidence on that?

If you can talk about this and then talk about what we know about Stephanie Grisham, who said he violently attacked her.

Right.

So throughout my reporting, it was clear that the allegations weren't just coming from Emily Moreno.

There is an established pattern of multiple women claiming that they were abused by Congressman Max Miller.

You have Stephanie Grisham, who dated Miller when they were both working under the first Trump administration.

When she published a book excerpt about her memoir about working in the Trump administration, she mentioned that she had been in a relationship with somebody that pushed her against a wall, slapped her.

She published a book excerpt in the Washington Post.

And finally, the record, if in one minute, if you can talk about from the allegation of pushing a girl down the stairs in high school and then one interaction with law enforcement after another, also property violence, sort of uncontrollable violence.

If you can talk about this and then talk about what we know about Stephanie Grisham, who said he violently attacked her.

Right.

So throughout my reporting, it was clear that the allegations weren't just coming from Emily Moreno.

There is an established pattern of multiple women claiming that they were abused by Congressman Max Miller.

You have Stephanie Grisham, who dated Miller when they were both working under the first Trump administration.

When she published a book excerpt about her memoir about working in the Trump administration, she mentioned that she had been in a relationship with somebody that pushed her against a wall, slapped her.

She published a book excerpt in the Washington Post.

And finally, the record, if in one minute, if you can talk about from the allegation of pushing a girl down the stairs in high school and then one interaction with law enforcement after another, also property violence, sort of uncontrollable violence.

If you can talk about this, and then talk about what we know about Stephanie Grisham, uh, who said he violently attacked her.

Right.

So throughout my reporting it was clear that the allegations weren't just coming from Emily Moreno.

There is an established pattern of multiple women claiming that they were abused by Congressman Max Miller.

Um, you have Stephanie Grisham, who dated Miller when they were both working under, uh, the first Trump administration.

Um, when she published a, a book excerpt about her, her novel...

Or sorry, her, um, her memoir about working in the Trump administration, she mentioned that she had been in a relationship with somebody that pushed her against a wall, slapped her.

Um, and finally, the record f- in one minute, if you can talk about from the allegation of pushing a girl down the stairs in high school, and then one interaction with law enforcement after another, also property violence, sort of uncontrollable violence.

So are you able to tell us now where the defamation lawsuit against Emily Merino stands?

stands?Right.

So Congressman Miller accused Emily Merino of defamation.

Um, he says that, that she purposefully leaked photos of, um, bruises and, and splotched, um, skin that, that Emily says is related to the alleged incidents of throwing her against a wall and throwing hot water on her.

So Miller is accusing Merino of doing that on purpose to harm his, his re-election campaign for a third term in Congress.

Um, currently, that defamation case is, is ongoing.

It hasn't been thrown out yet.

Why was that particularly interesting to you with that response?

So yes, I was going to acknowledge that.

Karen's email made quite a stir.

Initially, her email access was revoked.

It took several days before she got it back.

We requested an interview with Andrea Lucas twice, but never got a response.

We also sent the EEOC a thorough list of questions about Karen's letter and all the changes happening.

We got a single paragraph back.

In a six-to-three decision, the justices ruled that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution by considering race when deciding whether to admit someone to their school, the latest example of the conservative majority redefining American law.