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The Daily Beans

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News, Comedy, Daily News, Politics

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 Today, Zelensky meets with Trump and other world leaders in DC as Trump calls for an end to mail in voting; the fifth IRS commissioner Bessent has ousted three top IRS executives so he can consolidate power; a federal judge blocks Trump’s FTC retaliation against Media Matters; the Republican governor of Vermont has rejected Trump’s request to send National Guard troops to DC; Newsmax settles with Dominion Voting for $67M for the lies it told about the 2020 election; Texas Democrats have ended their two week walkout to prevent a quorum; Sherrod Brown has officially launched his 2026 Senate campaign; a federal judge has granted a request by USAID workers to certify a class action lawsuit against Musk and DOGE; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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0:00.0	M SW Media
0:03.0	Hello and
0:07.0	News
0:09.0	We're swearing
0:11.0	Daily Beans
0:15.0	Daily Beans
0:17.0	Daily Beans
0:19.0	Daily Beans Hello and welcome Daily beans, daily beans, daily beans.
0:23.4	Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, August 19th, 2025.
0:28.4	Today, Volodymers Zelensky meets with Trump and other world leaders in D.C.
0:32.1	As Trump calls for an end to mail-in voting, the fifth IRS commissioner, Besant, has ousted three top IRS executives so he can
0:40.1	consolidate power. A federal judge has blocked Trump's FTC retaliation against media matters.
0:46.0	The Republican governor of Vermont has rejected Trump's request to send National Guard troops to D.C.
0:51.0	Newsmax has settled with Dominion voting for $67 million for the lies it told about the
0:56.0	2020 election. Texas Democrats have ended their two-week walkout to prevent a quorum. Sherrod Brown
1:02.2	has officially launched his 2026 Senate campaign, and a federal judge has granted a request by
1:07.4	U.S. aid workers to certify a class action lawsuit against Musk and Doge.
1:12.2	I'm Alison Gill.
1:13.2	And I'm Dana Goldberg.
1:17.9	And I should say so-called doge.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:21.4	That's all right.
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