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We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s
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Everyone, young laura ingraham,r and this is from washington tonight. Nikki haley and war with Newt Gingrich and moments,s ju. First biden judicial sneak is tonights focus of tonights angle. Sunday, the bide N Administration put it left demand for diversiti and activism above confidence and merit. As you know, one of the biggest priorityis of Theri Lypresident s nominating and confirming extraordinarily qualified men and women who are dedicated to the constitution and who represent the diversity of america. Laura from the open borders to the push for transgender isism, the democrats have relied on handpicked judge, to validate these policies regardless of the constitution through law or plain common sense of biology, which takes us to todays Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing topoin considr the nominations of several Biden Appointees to federal judgeships. The democrats were hoping to squeak these nominees through, all of them women, knowing americans dont see much of these hearings. B