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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Today, the Department of Justice has broadened its investigation again by putting Pence's chief of staff Mark Short and legal counsel Greg Jacob in front of a federal grand jury.

The committee releases new evidence about what Trump didn't want to say during his January 7th address.

Fulton County DA Fonney Willis is disqualified from investigating one Georgia State Senator because of conflicts of interest. Jamie Raskin answers questions about coordination between the Department of Justice and the 16 committee.

And the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against some of the biggest poultry producers in the US over long standing deceptive and abusive practices against workers. I'm your host Alison Gil.

Woo, that was a heck of a intro. We have a lot of news today. Big, big breaking news and I'm proud to announce Maryland eighths rep Jamie Raskin will join me today to discuss the committee, the Department of Justice and his book, unthinkable trauma truth and the trials of American democracy.

Very much looking forward to that conversation. But first we have a ton of news to get to. So let's hit the hot notes hot notes.

All right, everybody, the Justice Department has pressed top advisors to Mike Pence in recent weeks about efforts to subvert the election by several lawyers and Donald Trump himself.

And that's according to people familiar with the matter as prosecutors escalate their 18 month capital right probe to senior advisors to the former vice president.

That's Mr. Pence's chief of staff Mark Short and legal counsel Greg Jacob appeared before a federal grand jury under subpoena in Washington DC in connection with the investigation.

One area of interest to prosecutors was the January 4th oval office meeting where conservative lawyer John Eastman pushed Pence in Trump's presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and ask several state legislatures to reexamine the results.

Something else Mark Short knows by the way is that meadows seem to acknowledge that this plot and this to you know to pressure Mike Pence and to throw electors out was illegal last month Jacob testified at length before the January 6th congressional committee about that meeting which included Trump Pence short Eastman and Jacob during the meeting.

And he's been admitted his proposals would violate the law but wanted to go with it anyway. That's according to Greg Jacob who just last week sat before a federal grand jury.

Suppended by the Department of Justice this is like Bay, I just keep repeating it because it's big. I tweeted it out and so many people thought that I was saying that the committee talk to him. No, no, no federal grand jury.

Quote during that meeting on the 4th, I think I raised the problem that both of Mr. Eastman's proposals would violate several provisions of the electoral count act. Mr. Eastman acknowledged that was the case that even when he viewed as a more politically palatable option would violate several provisions.

A lawyer for Eastman didn't respond to request for comment from the Wall Street Journal, a federal judge last year found that Eastman and Trump more likely than not committed a felony in their efforts to block the 2020 elections to felonies. In fact, 1512 C2 and 371 we've talked about him forever.

Prosecutors also apparently asked the two about Rudy Giuliani who forwarded letters from individual state legislators to Pence's office urging him to accept false slates of electors claiming Trump won from states he actually lost.

A lawyer for Giuliani did not respond to request for comment either. Mr. Short appeared under subpoena before a federal grand jury in Washington last week, according to people familiar with the matter television cameras captured him leaving the courthouse alongside his attorney Emmett flood.

Kind of makes you wonder who else they missed coming in and going out the only reason they were there was because of ban and ABC news first reported the grand jury appearance.

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