Ask a Pol asks:
I want to know about these honey pots (ie, honey traps) with spies while you were US Ambassador to Switzerland & Liechtenstein.

Key Beyer:
“He had a wife and 3 daughters. And he found this wonderful girlfriend, not realizing that she was Russian,” Rep. Don Beyer exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “He was persona non grata.”

And he was married?

“Not anymore.”

Because you dealt with Russian spies, how shocking is it to have President Donald Trump just be fine with this Chinese spy infiltrating NVIDIA — America’s leading AI company?

“It’s crazy. This is a President who’s cheated on a variety of wives a bunch of times. So it’s like, ‘Hey, boys will be boys. You can grab them by the pussy and whatever,’” Beyer tells us.

“I mean, he’s suffered no consequences other than having to pay the $5 million or whatever it was to E. Jean Carroll. Things you and I could never get away with. I asked my wife if I could have a Lotus, she said, ‘Absolutely not!’”

Full (unpaywalled) transcript at Ask a Pol Politics on Substack.

Thomas Massie's impeachment on the Secretary of Defense today was referred to the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 211-208.

https://clerk.house.gov/votes/2026317

Historically does anyone know of typical timelines for these types of investigations? I see people saying that the impeachment resolution was actually voted down, but that doesn't seem to be true. I guess it's up to the committee now until the 120th congress.

Excited to see Senator Warren take corporate America to the mat for the American people 💪🏼

Even before the new Congress is sworn in, oil companies, airlines, tech companies, banks, grocery stores and others have gotten "target letters" asking about their practices that have made life more difficult or expensive for the American consumers.
Democrats hope to tie corruption to affordability. They're mostly not public but there's some clues out there: Maryland’s Jamie Raskin last weekasked the White House to provide details about tariff carveouts for Apple and other companies that gave Trump lavish gifts, for example.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/09/democrats-midterms-economy-healthcare

Reuters reports the incoming House majority will file bills on data-center power bills, independent testing of frontier models and AI liability. Those bills will likely die in the Senate or at Trump's desk, but a gavel in January means hearings, document requests and testimony from the companies. The post maps which committees would run them and what an AI company executive should expect to be asked.

Mike Johnson has led the Republicans in the house into a historical disaster. Should they remove him just to make a point?

So far, here's where things stand:

• Explicit Call to Replace:

  • El-Sayed

  • Flanagan

  • Hamilton

  • Jackson

  • Stratton

• Signaled Need for Change:

  • Andrews

  • Markey

  • Pappas

  • Slotkin

  • Talerico

  • Van Hollen

  • Welch

• Declined to Commit Vote to Schumer:

  • Booker

  • Brown

  • Murphy

  • Warren

  • Sanders

  • Turek

And if not Chuck, then who?