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Monday, October 24th, 2022Mar-a-Lago documents contained secrets about Iran and China; Donald Trump is formally subpoenaed by the 1/6 committee; Steve Bannon is sentenced to four months for criminal contempt of Congress; a federal court has cleared the way for the 1/6 committee to get Kelli Ward's phone records; Eric Herschmann warned against Donald signing inaccurate voter fraud numbers in a lawsuit in Georgia; President Biden is reviewing Elon Musk's Twitter deal; Kash Patel has appeared before a grand jury in the documents case; and the DoJ asks for more funding; plus Allison chats with comedian Ariel Elias.Our Guests:Chris Joneshttps://twitter.com/jonesforarhttps://chrisforgovernor.com/Ariel Eliashttps://twitter.com/Ariel_Comedyhttps://twitter.com/Ariel_Comedy/status/1579127426986422272  Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill https://muellershewrote.substack.comhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed his opening salvo since the Supreme Court invented a new doctrine of absolute presidential immunity. Trump complained that the immunity brief is functionally a mini-Special Counsel report, and he's not wrong. But if you don't want your crimes on the public docket, maybe don't try to overthrow democracy! Liz and Andrew break down the latest in Trump's election interference case.    Links:   US v. Trump [Docket via Court Listener] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?order_by=desc   Show Links: https://www.lawandchaospod.com/ BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod Patreon: patreon.com/LawAndChaosPod  

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024Today, Pecker takes the stand again after a gag order contempt hearing for Trump in the Manhattan election interference hush money trial; Governor Gavin Newsom announces a plan for Arizonans to get abortions in California; the FTC votes to ban non-compete agreements; a Florida restaurant owner is forced to fight for migrant workers; a new Biden rule grants overtime pay for 4 million US workers; plus Allison and Dana deliver your good news.  Liz Cheney: The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim (NYT)Gavin Newsom announces plan for Arizonans to get abortions in California (Politico)Biden rule grants overtime pay to 4 million US workers (Reuters)FTC votes to ban noncompete agreements (The Hill)Forced to fire undocumented worker, owner of landmark Florida restaurant seeks change (Miami Herald) Subscribe to Lawyers, Guns, And MoneyAd-free premium feed: https://lawyersgunsandmoney.supercast.comSubscribe for free everywhere else:https://lawyersgunsandmoney.simplecast.com/episodes/1-miami-1985Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Follow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Follow Mueller, She Wrote on Posthttps://post.news/@/MuellerSheWrote?utm_source=TwitterAG&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=muellershewrote&utm_content=FollowMehttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good NewsAdopt Goose (Atlanta, GA) - Search “Goose”https://furkids.org/cat-adoptionsSea.Ya.Later (TikTok)https://www.tiktok.com/@sea.ya.laterhttps://www.tiktok.com/@sea.ya.later/playlist/Hells%20Belles-7223542271319427886c.m.alongi (TikTok)https://www.tiktok.com/@c.m.alongi_authorhttps://www.tiktok.com/@c.m.alongi_author/playlist/CaFae%20Latte-7196692302344014638Curve Power Listhttps://www.curvemag.com/articles/curve-power-list-50-lgbtq-women-and-nonbinary-trailblazersUpcoming Live Show Dateshttps://allisongill.com (for tickets and show dates)Sunday, June 2nd – Chicago IL – Schubas TavernFriday June 14th – Philadelphia PA – City WinerySaturday June 15th – New York NY – City WinerySunday June 16th – Boston MA – City WineryMonday June 17th Boston, MA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-Bos2Wednesday July 10th – Portland OR – Polaris Hall(with Dana!)Thursday July 11th – Seattle WA – The Triple Door(with Dana!)Thursday July 25th Milwaukee, WI https://tinyurl.com/Beans-MKESunday July 28th Nashville, TN - with Phil Williams https://tinyurl.com/Beans-TennWednesday July 31st St. Louis, MO https://tinyurl.com/Beans-STLFriday August 16th Washington, DC - with Andy McCabe, Pete Strzok, Glenn Kirschner https://tinyurl.com/Beans-in-DCSaturday August 24 San Francisco, CA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-SF Live Show Ticket Links:https://allisongill.com (for all tickets and show dates)Sunday, June 2nd – Chicago IL – Schubas TavernFriday June 14th – Philadelphia PA – City WinerySaturday June 15th – New York NY – City WinerySunday June 16th – Boston MA – City WineryMonday June 17th Boston, MA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-Bos2Wednesday July 10th – Portland OR – Polaris Hall(with Dana!)Thursday July 11th – Seattle WA – The Triple Door(with Dana!)Thursday July 25th Milwaukee, WI https://tinyurl.com/Beans-MKESunday July 28th Nashville, TN - with Phil Williams https://tinyurl.com/Beans-TennWednesday July 31st St. Louis, MO https://tinyurl.com/Beans-STLFriday August 16th Washington, DC - with Andy McCabe, Pete Strzok, Glenn Kirschner https://tinyurl.com/Beans-in-DCSaturday August 24 San Francisco, CA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-SF Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/OrPatreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official."How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president.President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, Emily Newman. But they'd come to convince Trump that he had the power to take extreme measures to keep fighting.As Powell and the others entered the Oval Office that evening, Herschmann — a wealthy business executive and former partner at Kasowitz Benson & Torres who'd been pulled out of quasi-retirement to advise Trump — quietly slipped in behind them.The hours to come would pit the insurgent conspiracists against a handful of White House lawyers and advisers determined to keep the president from giving in to temptation to invoke emergency national security powers, seize voting machines and disable the primary levers of American democracy.Herschmann took a seat in a yellow chair close to the doorway. Powell, Flynn, Newman and Byrne sat in a row before the Resolute Desk, facing the president.For weeks now, ever since Rudy Giuliani had commandeered Trump's floundering campaign to overturn the election, outsiders had been coming out of the woodwork to feed the president wild allegations of voter fraud based on highly dubious sources.Trump was no longer focused on any semblance of a governing agenda, instead spending his days taking phone calls and meetings from anyone armed with conspiracy theories about the election. For the White House staff, it was an unending sea of garbage churned up by the bottom feeders.Powell began this meeting with the same baseless claim that now has her facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit: She told the president that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged their machines to flip votes from Trump to Biden and that it was part of an international communist plot to steal the election for the Democrats.[Note: In response to a request for comment, Powell said in an emailed statement to Axios: “I will not publicly discuss my private meetings with the President of the United States. I believe those meetings are privileged and confidential under executive privilege and under rules of the legal profession. I would caution the readers to view mainstream media reports of any such conversations with a high degree of discernment and a healthy dose of skepticism.”]Powell waved an affidavit from the pile of papers in her lap, claiming it contained testimony from someone involved in the development of rigged voting machines in Venezuela.She proposed declaring a national security emergency, granting her and her cabal top-secret security clearances and using the U.S. government to seize Dominion's voting machines."Hold on a minute, Sidney," Herschmann interrupted from the back of the Oval. "You're part of the Rudy team, right? Is your theory that the Democrats got together and changed the rules, or is it that there was foreign interference in our election?"Giuliani's legal efforts, while replete with debunked claims about voter fraud, had largely focused on allegations of misconduct by corrupt Democrats and election officials."It's foreign interference," Powell insisted, then added: "Rudy hasn't understood what this case is about until just now."In disbelief, Herschmann yelled out to an aide in the outer Oval Office. "Get Pat down here immediately!" Several minutes later, White House counsel Pat Cipollone walked into the Oval. He looked at Byrne and said, "Who are you?"The meeting was already getting heated.White House staff had spent weeks poring over the evidence underlying hundreds of affidavits and other claims of fraud promoted by Trump allies like Powell. The team had done the due diligence and knew the specific details of what was being alleged better than anybody. Time and time again, they found, Powell's allegations fell apart under basic scrutiny.But Powell, fixing on Trump, continued to elaborate on a fantastical election narrative involving Venezuela, Iran, China and others. She named a county in Georgia where she claimed she could prove that Dominion had illegally flipped the vote.Herschmann interrupted to point out that Trump had actually won the Georgia county in question: "So your theory is that Dominion intentionally flipped the votes so we could win that county?"As for Powell's larger claims, he demanded she provide evidence for what — if true — would amount to the greatest national security breach in American history. They needed to dial in one of the campaign's lawyers, Herschmann said, and Trump campaign lawyer Matt Morgan was patched in via speakerphone.By now, people were yelling and cursing.The room was starting to fill up. Trump's personal assistant summoned White House staff secretary Derek Lyons to join the meeting and asked him to bring a copy of a 2018 executive order that the Powell group kept citing as the key to victory. Lyons agreed with Cipollone and the other officials that Powell's theories were nonsensical.It was now four against four.Flynn went berserk. The former three-star general, whom Trump had fired as his first national security adviser after he was caught lying to the FBI (and later pardoned), stood up and turned from the Resolute Desk to face Herschmann."You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters."Herschmann ignored Flynn at first and continued to probe Powell's pitch with questions about the underlying evidence. "All you do is promise, but never deliver," he said to her sharply.Flynn was ranting, seemingly infuriated about anyone challenging Powell, who had represented him in his recent legal battles.Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the fuck do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down.The meeting had come entirely off the rails.Byrne, backing up Flynn, told Trump the White House lawyers didn't care about him and were being obstructive. "Sir, we're both entrepreneurs, and we both built businesses," the former Overstock CEO told Trump. "We know that there are times you have to be creative and take different steps."This was a remarkable level of personal familiarity, given it was the first time Byrne had met the president. All the stanchions and buffers between the White House and the outside world had crumbled.Byrne kept attacking the senior White House staff in front of Trump. "They've already abandoned you," he told the president aggressively. Periodically during the meeting Flynn or Byrne challenged Trump's top staff — portraying them as disloyal: So do you think the president won or not?At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. "You're a quitter," he said. "You've been interfering with everything. You've been cutting us off.""Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot?" Herschmann snapped back."Yeah, you're Patrick Cipollone," Byrne said."Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!"The staff were now on their feet, standing behind one of the couches and facing the Powell crew at the Resolute Desk. Cipollone stood to Herschmann's left. Lyons, on his last day on the job, stood to Herschmann's right.Trump was behind the desk, watching the show. He briefly left the meeting to wander into his private dining room.The usually mild-mannered Lyons blasted the Powell set: "You've brought 60 cases. And you've lost every case you've had!"Trump came back into the Oval Office from the dining room to rejoin the meeting. Lyons pointed out to Powell that their incompetence went beyond their lawsuits being thrown out for standing. "You somehow managed to misspell the word 'District' three different ways in your suits," he said pointedly.In a Georgia case, the Powell team had misidentified the court on the first page of their filing as "THE UNITED STATES DISTRICCT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRCOICT OF GEORGIA." And they had identified the Michigan court as the "EASTERN DISTRCT OF MICHIGAN."These were sloppy spelling errors. But given that these lawsuits aimed to overturn a presidential election, the court nomenclature should have been pristine.Powell, Flynn and Byrne began attacking Lyons as they renewed their argument to Trump: There they go again, they want to focus on the insignificant details instead of fighting for you.Trump replied, "No, no, he's right. That was very embarrassing. That shouldn't have happened."The Powell team needed to regroup. They shifted to a new grievance to turn the conversation away from their embarrassing errors. Powell insisted that they hadn't "lost" the 60-odd court cases, since the cases were mostly dismissed for lack of standing and they had never had the chance to present their evidence.Every judge is corrupt, she claimed. We can't rely on them. The White House lawyeThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official."How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president.President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, Emily Newman. But they'd come to convince Trump that he had the power to take extreme measures to keep fighting.As Powell and the others entered the Oval Office that evening, Herschmann — a wealthy business executive and former partner at Kasowitz Benson & Torres who'd been pulled out of quasi-retirement to advise Trump — quietly slipped in behind them.The hours to come would pit the insurgent conspiracists against a handful of White House lawyers and advisers determined to keep the president from giving in to temptation to invoke emergency national security powers, seize voting machines and disable the primary levers of American democracy.Herschmann took a seat in a yellow chair close to the doorway. Powell, Flynn, Newman and Byrne sat in a row before the Resolute Desk, facing the president.For weeks now, ever since Rudy Giuliani had commandeered Trump's floundering campaign to overturn the election, outsiders had been coming out of the woodwork to feed the president wild allegations of voter fraud based on highly dubious sources.Trump was no longer focused on any semblance of a governing agenda, instead spending his days taking phone calls and meetings from anyone armed with conspiracy theories about the election. For the White House staff, it was an unending sea of garbage churned up by the bottom feeders.Powell began this meeting with the same baseless claim that now has her facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit: She told the president that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged their machines to flip votes from Trump to Biden and that it was part of an international communist plot to steal the election for the Democrats.[Note: In response to a request for comment, Powell said in an emailed statement to Axios: “I will not publicly discuss my private meetings with the President of the United States. I believe those meetings are privileged and confidential under executive privilege and under rules of the legal profession. I would caution the readers to view mainstream media reports of any such conversations with a high degree of discernment and a healthy dose of skepticism.”]Powell waved an affidavit from the pile of papers in her lap, claiming it contained testimony from someone involved in the development of rigged voting machines in Venezuela.She proposed declaring a national security emergency, granting her and her cabal top-secret security clearances and using the U.S. government to seize Dominion's voting machines."Hold on a minute, Sidney," Herschmann interrupted from the back of the Oval. "You're part of the Rudy team, right? Is your theory that the Democrats got together and changed the rules, or is it that there was foreign interference in our election?"Giuliani's legal efforts, while replete with debunked claims about voter fraud, had largely focused on allegations of misconduct by corrupt Democrats and election officials."It's foreign interference," Powell insisted, then added: "Rudy hasn't understood what this case is about until just now."In disbelief, Herschmann yelled out to an aide in the outer Oval Office. "Get Pat down here immediately!" Several minutes later, White House counsel Pat Cipollone walked into the Oval. He looked at Byrne and said, "Who are you?"The meeting was already getting heated.White House staff had spent weeks poring over the evidence underlying hundreds of affidavits and other claims of fraud promoted by Trump allies like Powell. The team had done the due diligence and knew the specific details of what was being alleged better than anybody. Time and time again, they found, Powell's allegations fell apart under basic scrutiny.But Powell, fixing on Trump, continued to elaborate on a fantastical election narrative involving Venezuela, Iran, China and others. She named a county in Georgia where she claimed she could prove that Dominion had illegally flipped the vote.Herschmann interrupted to point out that Trump had actually won the Georgia county in question: "So your theory is that Dominion intentionally flipped the votes so we could win that county?"As for Powell's larger claims, he demanded she provide evidence for what — if true — would amount to the greatest national security breach in American history. They needed to dial in one of the campaign's lawyers, Herschmann said, and Trump campaign lawyer Matt Morgan was patched in via speakerphone.By now, people were yelling and cursing.The room was starting to fill up. Trump's personal assistant summoned White House staff secretary Derek Lyons to join the meeting and asked him to bring a copy of a 2018 executive order that the Powell group kept citing as the key to victory. Lyons agreed with Cipollone and the other officials that Powell's theories were nonsensical.It was now four against four.Flynn went berserk. The former three-star general, whom Trump had fired as his first national security adviser after he was caught lying to the FBI (and later pardoned), stood up and turned from the Resolute Desk to face Herschmann."You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters."Herschmann ignored Flynn at first and continued to probe Powell's pitch with questions about the underlying evidence. "All you do is promise, but never deliver," he said to her sharply.Flynn was ranting, seemingly infuriated about anyone challenging Powell, who had represented him in his recent legal battles.Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the fuck do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down.The meeting had come entirely off the rails.Byrne, backing up Flynn, told Trump the White House lawyers didn't care about him and were being obstructive. "Sir, we're both entrepreneurs, and we both built businesses," the former Overstock CEO told Trump. "We know that there are times you have to be creative and take different steps."This was a remarkable level of personal familiarity, given it was the first time Byrne had met the president. All the stanchions and buffers between the White House and the outside world had crumbled.Byrne kept attacking the senior White House staff in front of Trump. "They've already abandoned you," he told the president aggressively. Periodically during the meeting Flynn or Byrne challenged Trump's top staff — portraying them as disloyal: So do you think the president won or not?At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. "You're a quitter," he said. "You've been interfering with everything. You've been cutting us off.""Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot?" Herschmann snapped back."Yeah, you're Patrick Cipollone," Byrne said."Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!"The staff were now on their feet, standing behind one of the couches and facing the Powell crew at the Resolute Desk. Cipollone stood to Herschmann's left. Lyons, on his last day on the job, stood to Herschmann's right.

In the defendant profile, will revisit Shane Jenkins, who was convicted on all counts on March 29, 2023, and faces a lengthy stint in the federal prison system. Also covering the news that a Manhattan grand jury has issued an indictment for 34 charges, which may be the first of several indictments to be issued in the many potential cases in which Trump would stand as a defendant. The majority of the episode consists of a close reading of the transcript of Senior Advisor to the President Eric Herschmann, who, despite offering useful testimony with regard to the now-infamous White House meeting with "team crazy," nonetheless has some odd memory issues, and seems oddly protective of Rudy Giuliani. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-man-found-guilty-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach-1 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3923044-pence-on-ruling-that-he-must-testify-in-jan-6-probe-i-have-nothing-to-hide/ https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-grand-jury-hush-money-playboy-model-b2311288.html https://apnews.com/article/amazoncom-inc-donald-trump-jeff-bezos-business-ad911dcfadb4441fc3e7d9e0018c1dec https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/allen-weisselberg-attorney-trump-organization/index.html https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3917300-squeezed-by-investigations-trump-escalates-violent-rhetoric/ https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000062567/

After January 6th, John Eastman reached out to Eric Herschmann, a lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office, to talk about litigation in Georgia on behalf of the Trump Campaign. Herschmann used the opportunity to berate Eastman and to recommend that he find a criminal defense lawyer. Eastman later reach out to Rudy Giuliani about being on a list for presidential pardons. These episodes are created based on the value-for-value model - if you find value in the effort to provide an open and available reading of this document, please support the podcast at governmentunfiltered.com or patreon.com/timberlanemedia. If you'd like to provide an anonymous donation, you can go to glow.fm/insider. Follow the show on Twitter @GovUnfiltered or on Facebook at facebook.com/governmentunfiltered.

After January 6th, John Eastman reached out to Eric Herschmann, a lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office, to talk about litigation in Georgia on behalf of the Trump Campaign. Herschmann used the opportunity to berate Eastman and to recommend that he find a criminal defense lawyer. Eastman later reach out to Rudy Giuliani about being on a list for presidential pardons. These episodes are created based on the value-for-value model - if you find value in the effort to provide an open and available reading of this document, please support the podcast at governmentunfiltered.com or patreon.com/timberlanemedia. If you'd like to provide an anonymous donation, you can go to glow.fm/insider. Follow the show on Twitter @GovUnfiltered or on Facebook at facebook.com/governmentunfiltered.

Texas Tech suspends head basketball coach Mark Adams; we'll break down the winners and losers from this year's NFL combine; and Brett Favre's attorney Eric Herschmann joins us.

In a “Fearless” exclusive, Brett Favre's attorney takes us through the defamation lawsuits filed against Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee. For the first time ever, Eric Herschmann shares details that have never been reported by the media about the Mississippi welfare scandal that Favre was caught up in. Plus, he reveals how much money Favre personally contributed to the proposed volleyball facility at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi. “Fearless” contributors T.J. Moe and Bryson Gray join the conversation surrounding Rihanna's Super Bowl LVII halftime performance, Damar Hamlin's blasphemous jacket, and what Hamlin is actually hiding about what led to his cardiac event on the football field. Plus, Delano Squires joins the show to share his thoughts on what Deion Sanders and Denzel Washington have in common, why the commonality is a positive for the black community, and to debate Jason, Bryson, and T.J. over the meaning of the so-called black national anthem and its place at sporting events and elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday, October 24th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes:  Mar-a-Lago documents contained secrets about Iran and China; Donald Trump is formally subpoenaed by the 1/6 committee; Steve Bannon is sentenced to four months for criminal contempt of Congress; a federal court has cleared the way for the 1/6 committee to get Kelli Ward's phone records; Eric Herschmann warned against Donald signing inaccurate voter fraud numbers in a lawsuit in Georgia; President Biden is reviewing Elon Musk's Twitter deal; Kash Patel has appeared before a grand jury in the documents case; and the DoJ asks for more funding; plus Allison chats with comedian Ariel Elias. Follow the Podcast on Apple: http://apple.co/beans Our Guests: Chris Jones https://twitter.com/jonesforar https://chrisforgovernor.com/ Ariel Elias https://twitter.com/Ariel_Comedy https://twitter.com/Ariel_Comedy/status/1579127426986422272 Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Follow Aimee on Instagram: Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) How We Win Fund swingleft.org/fundraise/howwewin Crimes & Crimes & Crimes t-shirt: https://www.dailybeanspod.com/shop/ Have some good news, a confession, a correction, or a case for Beans Court? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans Promo Code Thanks to Thuma for supporting The Daily Beans. Go to thuma.co/beans and use code BEANS to receive a twenty-five dollar credit towards your purchase of The Bed plus free shipping in the continental U.S. 

Darren is back to discuss these topics:President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he's going to pardon thousands of people federally convicted for marijuana possession. He's also asking the states to do the same.Former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase, Jr., who is caught up in the Mississippi welfare scandal, claimed that he witnessed then Republican Governor Phil Bryant cut funding to a non-profit because its director supported the Democratic candidate for governor in 2019 over Bryant's Lt. Gov.Brett Favre, who is being investigated for his role in the Mississippi welfare scandal, hired former Trump attorney Eric Herschmann to defend him against possible charges.Video showed attendees at Donald Trump's rally in Warren, Michigan leaving the facility 15 minutes into his speech.Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, testified in front of the Jan. 6 Committee.Parody website "The Onion" filed a brief at the Supreme Court in support of a man suing the Parma, Ohio police department for violating his First Amendment rights after he was arrested and tried for mocking them on Facebook.And libraries across Michigan and the U.S. are seeing a rise in complaints about books. They're also seeing a rise in the rhetoric being used in those complaints.Hammer Time: Macomb County, Michigan commissioner Michelle Nard was at the Trump rally supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon. Nard is supposedly a Democrat.Hammer Time: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stooped to a new low to hold his seat against Democratic challenger Charles Booker.Off The Cuff: A man accused of smuggling Burmese pythons into the country in his pants four years ago was just arraigned on charges stemming from that incident.

Several documents were then confirmed missing by the National Archives. And Trump's legal team asks the court to delay a special master ruling. Meanwhile, opening statements in the founder of the Oath Keepers' January 6 sedition trial began today. Plus, Axios is reporting Brett Favre hired former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, as new texts show the University of Southern Mississippi was concerned about the grant funded volleyball facility he proposed.  Tali Farhadian Weinstein, Sam Stein, Katie Benner, Juanita Tolliver, Matthew Dowd, Anna Wolfe, and Jeff Mason join.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial begins today with opening statements and the first witness called; the $3M benchwarmer is back in the game in a filing to delay oral arguments in the 11th circuit case about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents; Lula and Bolsonaro are headed to a runoff in Brazil; former Trump lawyer and 1/6 witness Eric Herschmann is representing Brett Favre; Donald is suing CNN for … something; the court has unsealed a document outlining the DoJ's taint team processes; and the Archives releases emails about the 15 boxes of materials it recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: http://apple.co/beans Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Follow Aimee on Instagram: Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) How We Win Fund swingleft.org/fundraise/howwewin Crimes & Crimes & Crimes t-shirt: https://www.dailybeanspod.com/shop/ Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Have some good news, a confession, a correction, or a case for Beans Court? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans Promo Codes Thanks to Athletic Greens for supporting The Daily Beans. Go to athleticgreens.com/dailybeans and get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Thanks to Helix for supporting The Daily Beans.  Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners at helixsleep.com/dailybeans. 

Sources exclusively tell CNN that former President Trump's attorneys are fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from gathering information about his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Former White House adviser and lawyer Eric Herschmann was subpoenaed by the grand jury but his testimony was postponed after Trump's lawyers asked a judge to recognize the former President's privilege claims and the right to confidentiality. CNN Senior Legal Analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper why he thinks the Trump team would want to block Herschmann's testimony. Plus, CNN Meteorologist Jennifer Gray joins AC360 to give the latest update on Tropical Depression 9, a storm that's forecasted to be a category 3 hurricane and is heading straight toward Florida. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: former Trump lawyer Eric Herschmann warned Donald last year about the illegality of stealing government documents; Trump lawyers respond to the special master Judge Dearie's demands ahead of their Tuesday hearing; another associate of Matt Gaetz's co-conspirator Joel Greenberg, Michael Shirley has been indicted on federal bribery charges; Donald's lawyers respond to the DoJ's appeal to the 11th circuit; the asylum seekers flown to Martha's Vineyard have filed suit against governor Ron DeSantis and his Transportation Secretary; Judge Dearie takes Trump's lawyers to school during their first hearing in Brooklyn; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Norman Eisen https://twitter.com/NormEisen https://www.normaneisen.com/ Follow the Podcast on Apple: http://apple.co/beans Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Follow Aimee on Instagram: Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) How We Win Fund swingleft.org/fundraise/howwewin Crimes & Crimes & Crimes t-shirt: https://www.dailybeanspod.com/shop/ Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Have some good news, a confession, a correction, or a case for Beans Court? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans Promo Codes Thanks to MedCline for supporting The Daily Beans. Get 20% off and a better night's sleep today at medcline.com/dailybeans

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HERSCHMANN SINKS TRUMP A BLOCK (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Eric Herschmann may be today's John Dean. In 2021 he warned Trump to return all the classified documents he took with him. Because Trump ignored his advice that gives prosecutors a smoking gun (3:35) Because the Espionage Act requires the perp to have "WILLFULLY" concealed the stolen secrets (3:50) And 18 US Code 2071 also says any convicted "SHALL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING ANY OFFICE UNDER THE UNITED STATES." (4:32) Herschmann has already testified against Trump at the House 1/6 Committee and is to testify to a Federal Grand Jury. (5:31) And Trump's handpicked 'Special Master" Raymond Dearie demands they tell him what Trump claims to have declassified and when, sending Trump's lawyers into a panic (7:53) While Trump is only worried about where Biden sat at Queen Elizabeth's funeral service and even in that, he inadvertently admits Biden is president, and he isn't (9:12) Meanwhile: Told you so: The DeSantis Migrant Kidnapping disaster is being investigated as a crime in Texas. B BLOCK (14:00) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Colson (15:22) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Sad sack New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc steps in it; GOP threatening to investigate its beloved U.S. Chamber of Commerce?; And what does TV news do, now that Elizabeth has finally been buried? (18:43) IN SPORTS: Now the Saudi Blood Money Golf Tour sends Greg Norman to DC to lobby on its heinous behalf. (20:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The GOP Congressman who confesses that unpaid student debt is the greatest recruiting tool for the US military, vies with a NYPD Lieutenant with 52 disciplinary allegations, and the Funeral Spider, for the honors. C BLOCK (25:24) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: It's 40 years since CNN let me spend well into three figures to take the three key figures from the Players Union to dinner during the 1982 NFL Strike. I'll even reveal the day a players' negotiator tried to strangle an owners' negotiator.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What a couple of weeks it's been! The FBI has searched Trump, and investigations in Georgia and New York have really felt like they have ramped up this week. Join Kaleb and Terrell as they dive deep into these developing situations. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol | (house.gov). Here's how you can help the people of Ukraine: NPR Weekly episodes every Thursday. Have any questions or comments? Email us at dangerouslylikely@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram (@Dangerously_Likely) and on Twitter (@DngerouslyLikly). Please leave a review if you enjoy the show! Music produced by Rebbel. News articles sourced by: US South, Midwest Will Reach Temps of 125 F by 2050s - Bloomberg Takeaways From the Unsealed Warrant for the Search of Trump's Home - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Presidential Power to Declassify Information, Explained - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Giuliani Is a Target in Georgia's Trump Election Inquiry, Lawyer Says - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Trump Executive Nears Plea Deal With Manhattan Prosecutors - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Eric Herschmann, Lawyer in Trump White House, Is Subpoenaed - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Top Democrats Accuse Homeland Security Watchdog of Blocking Testimony in Jan. 6 Inquiry - The New York Times (nytimes.com) Plaintiffs in Long Fight Over Endangered Salmon Hope a Resolution Is Near - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes:  Rudy Giuliani gets a target letter from the Fulton County DA in her investigation into 2020 election interference; Eric Herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in the DoJ investigation into Clark; DoJ has filed a motion to keep the Trump warrant affidavit under seal; a judge rules that Lindsey Graham must testify in the Fulton County DA probe; Weisselberg appears to have reached a non-cooperation plea deal with the Manhattan DA: Trump's Truth Social must hand over employment information on Devin Nunes as part of HIS defamation suit against the media; a team of Trump lawyers copied sensitive data from Georgia election systems; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: http://apple.co/beans Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Follow Aimee on Instagram: Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) How We Win Live! http://secure.actblue.com/donate/howwewinlive How We Win Fund swingleft.org/fundraise/howwewin Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Have some good news, a confession, a correction, or a case for Beans Court? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans Promo Code Thanks to Helix for supporting The Daily Beans.  Helix is offering up to 200 dollars off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners at helixsleep.com/dailybeans. 

It's Tuesday! Uncork a fine PA Niagara, warsh down a fistful of crudité, and kick back and tune in to David Waldman and Joan McCarter. Merrick Garland thought long and hard about searching Mar-a-Lago and he's not about to throw it all away because of a whiney, lying perp. Republicans remind us, "When the president thinks it, that means it is not illegal" Trump's lucky they only took three of his passports. Cambridge Analytica made billions selling passports and citizenships throughout the Caribbean. Dominicans now wonder “Where De Money Gone”. Voter-fraud disciples waited on their hilltop for their saucer to take them home, but they were passed by again. If they only asked Lee Zeldin, he'd show them plenty. Georgia fights for their democracy, reeling in Lindsey Graham.  Like Lindsey, Rudy Giuliani knows he's been a bad, bad, boy, and is sweating a lot of whatever he sweats. Cattle baron Devin Nunes can't avoid giving the DOJ the whole truth anymore. Yet another Trump White House lawyer, Eric Herschmann, has been called to the principal's office. In Wisconsin they are two elections away from sealing off the state from the GQP's arch enemy, democracy. (Ohio eradicated that a generation ago.) Trump lawyers and tech firm SullivanStrickler copied voting machine data, ruining voting systems in key swing states. Joan went on vacation and returned to find her in-box overflowing with good news. Democrats are winning and President Joe Biden and they plan to share that good news with voters heading to the election. Republicans promise this will end as soon as they are back in power.

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, August 15, and reports on Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani reportedly being named a criminal target in the Georgia election probe. Plus, former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is subpoenaed by the Justice Department. Former acting solicitor General Neal Katyal, WSJ reporter Sadie Gurman and NYU law professor Melissa Murray join.

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official. "How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president. President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, Emily Newman. But they'd come to convince Trump that he had the power to take extreme measures to keep fighting. As Powell and the others entered the Oval Office that evening, Herschmann — a wealthy business executive and former partner at Kasowitz Benson & Torres who'd been pulled out of quasi-retirement to advise Trump — quietly slipped in behind them. The hours to come would pit the insurgent conspiracists against a handful of White House lawyers and advisers determined to keep the president from giving in to temptation to invoke emergency national security powers, seize voting machines and disable the primary levers of American democracy. Herschmann took a seat in a yellow chair close to the doorway. Powell, Flynn, Newman and Byrne sat in a row before the Resolute Desk, facing the president. For weeks now, ever since Rudy Giuliani had commandeered Trump's floundering campaign to overturn the election, outsiders had been coming out of the woodwork to feed the president wild allegations of voter fraud based on highly dubious sources. Trump was no longer focused on any semblance of a governing agenda, instead spending his days taking phone calls and meetings from anyone armed with conspiracy theories about the election. For the White House staff, it was an unending sea of garbage churned up by the bottom feeders. Powell began this meeting with the same baseless claim that now has her facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit: She told the president that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged their machines to flip votes from Trump to Biden and that it was part of an international communist plot to steal the election for the Democrats. [Note: In response to a request for comment, Powell said in an emailed statement to Axios: “I will not publicly discuss my private meetings with the President of the United States. I believe those meetings are privileged and confidential under executive privilege and under rules of the legal profession. I would caution the readers to view mainstream media reports of any such conversations with a high degree of discernment and a healthy dose of skepticism.”] Powell waved an affidavit from the pile of papers in her lap, claiming it contained testimony from someone involved in the development of rigged voting machines in Venezuela. She proposed declaring a national security emergency, granting her and her cabal top-secret security clearances and using the U.S. government to seize Dominion's voting machines. "Hold on a minute, Sidney," Herschmann interrupted from the back of the Oval. "You're part of the Rudy team, right? Is your theory that the Democrats got together and changed the rules, or is it that there was foreign interference in our election?" Giuliani's legal efforts, while replete with debunked claims about voter fraud, had largely focused on allegations of misconduct by corrupt Democrats and election officials. "It's foreign interference," Powell insisted, then added: "Rudy hasn't understood what this case is about until just now." In disbelief, Herschmann yelled out to an aide in the outer Oval Office. "Get Pat down here immediately!" Several minutes later, White House counsel Pat Cipollone walked into the Oval. He looked at Byrne and said, "Who are you?" The meeting was already getting heated. White House staff had spent weeks poring over the evidence underlying hundreds of affidavits and other claims of fraud promoted by Trump allies like Powell. The team had done the due diligence and knew the specific details of what was being alleged better than anybody. Time and time again, they found, Powell's allegations fell apart under basic scrutiny. But Powell, fixing on Trump, continued to elaborate on a fantastical election narrative involving Venezuela, Iran, China and others. She named a county in Georgia where she claimed she could prove that Dominion had illegally flipped the vote. Herschmann interrupted to point out that Trump had actually won the Georgia county in question: "So your theory is that Dominion intentionally flipped the votes so we could win that county?" As for Powell's larger claims, he demanded she provide evidence for what — if true — would amount to the greatest national security breach in American history. They needed to dial in one of the campaign's lawyers, Herschmann said, and Trump campaign lawyer Matt Morgan was patched in via speakerphone. By now, people were yelling and cursing. The room was starting to fill up. Trump's personal assistant summoned White House staff secretary Derek Lyons to join the meeting and asked him to bring a copy of a 2018 executive order that the Powell group kept citing as the key to victory. Lyons agreed with Cipollone and the other officials that Powell's theories were nonsensical. It was now four against four. Flynn went berserk. The former three-star general, whom Trump had fired as his first national security adviser after he was caught lying to the FBI (and later pardoned), stood up and turned from the Resolute Desk to face Herschmann. "You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters." Herschmann ignored Flynn at first and continued to probe Powell's pitch with questions about the underlying evidence. "All you do is promise, but never deliver," he said to her sharply. Flynn was ranting, seemingly infuriated about anyone challenging Powell, who had represented him in his recent legal battles. Finally Herschmann had enough. "Why the fuck do you keep standing up and screaming at me?" he shot back at Flynn. "If you want to come over here, come over here. If not, sit your ass down." Flynn sat back down. The meeting had come entirely off the rails. Byrne, backing up Flynn, told Trump the White House lawyers didn't care about him and were being obstructive. "Sir, we're both entrepreneurs, and we both built businesses," the former Overstock CEO told Trump. "We know that there are times you have to be creative and take different steps." This was a remarkable level of personal familiarity, given it was the first time Byrne had met the president. All the stanchions and buffers between the White House and the outside world had crumbled. Byrne kept attacking the senior White House staff in front of Trump. "They've already abandoned you," he told the president aggressively. Periodically during the meeting Flynn or Byrne challenged Trump's top staff — portraying them as disloyal: So do you think the president won or not? At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. "You're a quitter," he said. "You've been interfering with everything. You've been cutting us off." "Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot?" Herschmann snapped back. "Yeah, you're Patrick Cipollone," Byrne said. "Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!" The staff were now on their feet, standing behind one of the couches and facing the Powell crew at the Resolute Desk. Cipollone stood to Herschmann's left. Lyons, on his last day on the job, stood to Herschmann's right. Trump was behind the desk, watching the show. He briefly left the meeting to wander into his private dining room. The usually mild-mannered Lyons blasted the Powell set: "You've brought 60 cases. And you've lost every case you've had!" Trump came back into the Oval Office from the dining room to rejoin the meeting. Lyons pointed out to Powell that their incompetence went beyond their lawsuits being thrown out for standing. "You somehow managed to misspell the word 'District' three different ways in your suits," he said pointedly. In a Georgia case, the Powell team had misidentified the court on the first page of their filing as "THE UNITED STATES DISTRICCT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRCOICT OF GEORGIA." And they had identified the Michigan court as the "EASTERN DISTRCT OF MICHIGAN." These were sloppy spelling errors. But given that these lawsuits aimed to overturn a presidential election, the court nomenclature should have been pristine. Powell, Flynn and Byrne began attacking Lyons as they renewed their argument to Trump: There they go again, they want to focus on the insignificant details instead of fighting for you. Trump replied, "No, no, he's right. That was very embarrassing. That shouldn't have happened." The Powell team needed to regroup. They shifted to a new grievance to turn the conversation away from their embarrassing errors. Powell insisted that they hadn't "lost" the 60-odd court cases, since the cases were mostly dismissed for lack of standing and they had never had the chance to present their evidence. Every judge is corrupt, she claimed. We can't rely on them. The White House lawyers couldn't believe what they were hearing. "That's your argument?" a stunned Herschmann said. "Even the judges we appointed? Are you out of your fucking mind?"

Discussion and analysis of the latest news related to January sixth, including the Dobbs decision, the death of former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, and the seizure of Jeff Rosen's phone. The main theme is the fifth public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack held on June 23rd, featuring testimony from Jeff Rosen, Eric Herschmann and Seth Engel on the subject of Jeff Clark's campaign in the waning days of the Trump administration to fire his own boss and have himself appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States, and his plan to send notices from the Justice Department to state legislatures in states where the Trump campaign sought to overturn the lawful slates of electors and replace them with unlawfully self-selected slates of fraudulent electors. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1106700800/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

Roe, Trumpkin, Lindseys Boosh, Trump worried SCOTUS decision might hurt thr GOP, Dicks and BJs, Leave it to me and the Republican Congress, Eric Herschmann, Pardon me, Rudy, Ivanka and the Documentary filled our plates. Also, a surprise at the end

An excerpt from the video taped testimony of Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann revealed this past Thursday described a phone call he got from John Eastman the day after Jan 6th in which the supposed constitutional scholar was unrepentant. Still clinging to the idea somehow some way, the results of the 2020 election could still be overturned. It was a remarkable moment that. was too much for Heerschmann, telling Eastman that he was out of "f'ing mind." And he needed a great criminal defense lawyer because he was going to need it. Words that Eastman, as we learned during Thursday's January 6th hearing, apparently took to heart, reaching out just days later to Rudy Giuliani in search of a presidential pardon. The testimony at the Thursday hearing was powerful as the committee laid out in excruciating detail a relentless pressure campaign by Trump himself, aided every step of the way, by John Eastman to get Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject the certified election results. An authority he demonstrably did not have. In some ways it may have been the most significant presentation yet. Laying out elements that Eastman well knew that what he was doing was potentially illegal and unconstitutional. Has the committee finally made its case that Trump and Eastman had made prosecutable crimes? And what more does the panel have in store? Hugo Lowell of The Guardian, who's been all over the January 6th story from the start, joins to discuss. GUESTS:Hugo Lowell, (@hugolowell), Congressional reporter for @GuardianHOSTS:Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo NewsDaniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo NewsRESOURCES:Key Takeaways from Day 3 of Jan 6th Congressional Hearings - Here.The outline of Trump's pressure campaign on Pence - Here.Follow us on Twitter: @SkullduggeryPodListen and subscribe to "Skullduggery" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.Email us with feedback, questions or tips: SkullduggeryPod@yahoo.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat came into ever-clearer focus Thursday, with testimony describing his pressuring Vice President Mike Pence in vulgar private taunts and public entreaties to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the run-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.Trump's closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to halt congressional certification of his loss as “nuts,” “crazy” and even likely to incite riots if Pence followed through, witnesses revealed in stark testimony Thursday.The panel revealed how Trump put his vice president in danger as Pence was presiding over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, when the defeated president sent his supporters to the Capitol to “fight like hell” over his false claims of a fraudulent election.Rioters came within 40 feet of the place at the Capitol where Pence and others had been evacuated. Never-before-shown photos showed Pence and his team sheltering.“He deserves to be burned with the rest of them,” one rioter is heard saying on video as the mob prepares to storm the iconic building.“Pence betrayed us,” says another rioter, wearing a Make America Great Again hat in a selfie video inside the Capitol.Pence's counsel Greg Jacob testified that he could “hear the din” of the rioters nearby. Asked if Trump ever checked on Pence during the siege, Jacob said, “He did not.”With live testimony and other evidence from its yearlong investigation, the panel held its third hearing this month aiming to demonstrate that Trump's repeated false claims and desperate attempt to stay in power led directly to the Capitol insurrection.All told, the committee is pulling together a dark portrait of the end of Trump's presidency as the defeated Republican was left grasping for alternatives as courts turned back dozens of lawsuits challenging the vote.Trump latched onto conservative law professor John Eastman's obscure plan to defy historical precedent of the Electoral Count Act and reverse Joe Biden's victory.Trump aides and allies warned bluntly in private about his efforts, even as some publicly continued to stand by the president's false election claims. Nine people died in the insurrection and its aftermath.“Are you out of your effing mind?” Eric Herschmann, a lawyer advising Trump, told Eastman in recorded testimony shown at the hearing.“You're going to turn around and tell 78-plus million people in this country that your theory is, this is how you're going to invalidate their votes?” Herschmann said. He warned, “You're going to cause riots in the streets.”A text message from Fox News' Sean Hannity to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows about the plan in the run-up to Jan. 6 read, "I'm very worried about the next 48 hours."Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said those around Trump called the plan “crazy.”The committee has said the plan was illegal, and a federal judge has said “more likely than not” Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification.Eastman later sought to be “on the pardon list,” according to an email he sent to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, shared by the committee.In a social media post Thursday, Trump decried the hearings anew as a “witch hunt," lambasted coverage by “the Fake News Networks” and exclaimed, “I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!”On Capitol Hill, panel Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., cited Pence's own words that there was “almost no idea more un-American” than the one he was being asked to follow — reject Americans' votes.By refusing Trump's demands, Pence “did his duty,” said the panel's vice-chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.The panel heard from Jacob, the vice president's counsel who fended off Eastman's ideas for Pence, and retired federal judge Michael Luttig, who called the plan from Eastman, his former law clerk, "incorrect at every turn.”Jacob said it became clear to Pence from the start that the founding fathers did not intend to empower any one pers...

Hi! This is Lexie of Read by AI. I read human-curated content for you to listen to while working, exercising, commuting, or any other time. Without further ado: The 1/6 Committee's Biggest Challenge: Assessing Whether Trump Is Bonkers by David Corn from Mother Jones. One key mission for the House committee investigating the January 6 riot is affirming reality and highlighting the obvious: The 2020 election was not rigged to steal victory from Donald Trump. The committee's hearings that began last week and continue until next week are unlikely to persuade Trump cultists that Trump's Big Lie is a big lie. But there is great value in showing reality-based Americans a full and coherent picture of Trump's efforts to overturn the election, which led to the insurrectionist riot at the Capitol. Even though Trump's sham crusade—which has been embraced by the Republican Party, the conservative movement, and right-wing media—is predicated on bogus and disproven claims, it deserves an official pushback, and the January 6 committee focused on that task during its hearing on Monday. In doing so, the committee raised a significant question: Is Trump bonkers? The opening night of the hearings and Monday's session presented clear and compelling evidence that Trump's inner circle knew there was nothing fraudulent or fishy about the election and that this was repeatedly conveyed to Trump. Before Election Day, Trump had been told by his advisers that mail-in ballots, which likely favored Democrat Joe Biden, would be counted later in the day and could shift the results in swing states—that is, this would not be fraud. On election night, Bill Stepien, the longtime GOP operative who managed Trump's campaign, and other campaign aides concluded that the final count would likely require several days of tabulation. They urged Trump to not declare victory or allege the election was being stolen from him. But an allegedly inebriated Rudy Giuliani, who was at the White House that evening, counseled Trump to do both. Whether or not Trump needed to be egged on by Giuliani—he had for months been claiming that he could only lose through fraud—he followed his lubricated lawyer's advice. He asserted massive fraud had robbed him of victory, and millions of his cultists believed him. A dangerous disinformation campaign was launched.  In subsequent weeks, Trump aides and advisers repeatedly concluded that there was no evidence of electoral theft. The committee played several clips of onetime Attorney General Bill Barr calling Trump's allegations “bullshit” and “nonsense.” Yet in this time period, the Trump camp divided into what Stepien called “Team Normal” (the Trumpers who adhered to reality) and the squad led by Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell that spread convoluted conspiracy theories involving Venezuela, supposed German vote-harvesting farms, rigged voting machines, and other craziness. The normies included Matt Morgan, the campaign's top lawyer, whose team of attorneys searched and found no significant fraud. Referring to the Giuliani and Powell, Eric Herschmann, a Trump White House lawyer, told the committee, “What they were proposing…was nuts.” The committee outlined numerous instances in which Trump was informed a specific allegation of fraud was bunk. Barr noted his own frustration with Trump repeatedly citing one spurious charge after another. He described to the committee a meeting he had at the White House on November 23, 2020. Trump insisted that there had been major fraud and that as soon as this would be revealed, the results of the election would be reversed. Barr told him that the fraud allegations were “not panning out.” As Barr left the meeting, he asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Jared Kushner how long Trump was going to “carry on with this stolen election stuff.” Meadows said that Trump was becoming “more realistic” and recognized the limits of how far he could push these claims. Kushner told Barr,