The Narativ | Know Sooner
Monday, November 9, 2026
👀 THE FRONT PAGE
🏛️ WILES FILE
Dana Bash asked Todd Blanche on CNN Sunday morning whether he would look into Calley Means' charge that Susie Wiles ran health policy for lobbyists. The attorney general: "Something that someone says on a podcast? No, I do not listen to that, absolutely not." In the next segment, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who takes the House Oversight gavel in January, said he already was: "We're looking at this very case." Wiles resigned Thursday night. By Sunday Wiles had two cases on her. Means brought the first, over health money. He quit HHS last month. On Friday he told Joe Rogan that Wiles and her deputy James Blair pressed HHS to approve fruit-flavored vapes, that Wiles arranged Trump's May golf-course lunch with tobacco lobbyists, and that a sugar study died over sugar-industry donations. He told CBS her circle was "taking money from the industries we ran on fighting against."
🎙️ KATIE MILLER
Yesterday, Katie Miller opened X and shut down her podcast: "With @StephenM taking on this new role for President Trump, I've decided to stop recording new podcast episodes." She lobbied to get her husband the job, and nobody has told the public who pays her. She spent weeks telling Trump's circle to call the president for her husband, half a dozen calls after the Nov. 3 rout alone, Politico reported Friday night. Susie Wiles resigned Thursday night and Trump named Miller on Friday.
⚖️ HEGSETH VOTE
On Sept. 15, Thomas Massie stood at the House microphone and read eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth into the record, and the next day Mike Johnson canceled Thursday's votes and called it "a stunt." Massie walks back in today, the first day Congress has sat since the election, and Punchbowl expects him to give notice of his privileged resolution, forcing a vote by Wednesday.
🔥 HEAVEN OR HELL
Ross Douthat had just walked Donald Trump through the Iran war's dead against Vietnam and Korea when he changed the subject. "Death. Let's talk about death." Trump answered the first question with a laugh: "Well, I hope I'm missed." Then Douthat asked where he goes.
🕵️ NVIDIA SPY
Jensen Huang wrote to his employees Sunday. "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." The Times says Trump got the intelligence about a year ago.
🧭 THE BIGGER PICTURE
There really is only one through line here: corruption, corruption, corruption. Whether it's Trump and Nvidia, Susie Wiles and the Balkans, Susie Wiles and the payola, or Stephen Miller and his wife's podcast payola advertising, there is just corruption reeking out of this administration, and this is the stuff we've learned in our first week after the election. Can you imagine how much more?
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