Jen Psaki
speaker
25,618 appearances
121 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Jen Psaki’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 93 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
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That's right, everyone.
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The word scientist is singular there.
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Just an incredible typo.
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But regardless of the name, the money was really coming from Navatek.
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A week after the check was cashed, an employee at the Super PAC emailed a Navatek lobbyist asking for Cao's phone number.
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Senator Collins would like to call to thank him, they said.
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And that year, the Senate then allocated at least $10 million based on Navatek's proposals.
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Which certainly makes it seem like the senator did thank him in a very, very big way.
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Now, I should note that everyone in Susan Collins' orbit denies the allegations in this story.
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Scott Reed is still the chair of the Super PAC that supports her remarkably, as of tonight at least.
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He says he never had any communications with Senator Collins or her staff about Martin Cowell or Navatek.
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Amy Abbott is remarkably still the campaign finance director for Collins' campaign.
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She referred ProPublica's questions to the senator's communications staff, and the senator's communications staff
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vigorously denied all allegations of bribery or pay to play, saying that, quote, these issues were resolved in 2021 and concluded when the Collins campaign disgorged the legal contributions that Martin Kao had made without our knowledge.
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And pointing to the fact that they cooperated with the FBI's investigation and then the investigation went away as proof that the matter was settled.
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We know the timeline there, don't we?
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But according to ProPublica's reporting, that investigation was only dropped once Trump took office and the FBI's anti-corruption unit was purged.
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And that before Trump took over, FBI agents had come to believe that there was enough evidence to warrant making the investigation bigger, not smaller.
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There are less than two weeks until early voting starts in Maine.
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So how is the story going to reshape the race for the state Senate seat?
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