Which have been wiped out.

They've been wiped out, exactly.

And so our question was, what were they looking at? What was lost when the Trump administration wiped these things out? And one of the explosive things that we covered was this sprawling pay-to-play investigation.

And so we've been working on this for months.

Um, we're actually, it's, uh, the first of a series.

We're gonna have more stories to come.

And this was first on Susan Collins because Navitek and Martin Cao's biggest benefactor was Susan Collins.

And the agents were fired

Uh, what more do you know about this Umar Kremlev?

Well, he's an absolutely interesting figure.

Um, as you pointed out, he's very close to Putin.

Not only has he been conferred honors by Putin himself, but he's tied to the security services.

Uh, he's close to the security services in Russia.

And, um, and he has been part of ...

He's running, uh, the boxing association that actually is a kind of effort, a Putin effort for diplomacy, soft diplomacy around the world.

So h- what's the deal between Kremlev and Don Jr.?

But I wanted to know what Jesse sees when he looks out now at the current landscape of American tax policy.

We're in a race between the oligarchs and democracy.

So people are very angry about billionaires on the left and the right, and feel like American society is fundamentally not working, and they blame the wealthy for absorbing too many of the resources and profiting unfairly and, you know, having all of these benefits accrue to them, and they're still struggling.

And I sort of think that critique is fundamentally true in American life.

And then there's a lot of ferment about taxing the wealthy now, which r- I think we contributed to that conversation.

Um, you know, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren ran on wealth taxes.

Occupy Wall Street brought this kind of to the fore with the kind of ninety-nine percent and one percent language.

That's what I feel like I pick up when I read what I see.