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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, July 31, 2020. Today, the gross domestic product is

down 9.5% and the second quarter economy takes the biggest hit on record as Trump tries to distract us with a tweet calling for a delay in the 2020 elections.

Gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy.

Gilein Maxwell's final attempt to block her deposition in the Dufree case against her and Epstein is denied, though she is given to Monday to speak to an appeals court.

Intelligence disputes among the gang of eight Democrats against Republicans who refuse to release election interference information.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back in the hospital for a non-invasive procedure. Herman Cain dies of coronavirus after attending Trump's Tulsa rally and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to re-hear Judge Sullivan's efforts to scrutinize Bars' decision to drop its case against Michael Flynn.

I'm your host, A.G.

Everybody, we are drowning in news today, but we will not be dissuaded. We will persist today. I will be talking to Androtorias about the disposition of the case against Michael Flynn.

And I just realized that I referred to Attorney General Barr as it. I use that for his pronoun in the introduction. I apologize. I'm not sure if, you know, I don't think Bill Barr has his pronouns listed on his Twitter bio.

I'm assuming it's not yet. Because originally it said the Department of Justice and I failed to change that, so my apologies.

But I will be talking to Androtorias about that case later on today. And also today we have the Happy Hour livestream meet and greet where we will be joined by celebrity guests, Josh Geltzer to answer all your scotist questions.

And today's guest host will be there who is joining me now for the headlines. Amy Carrero. Amy, how are you?

Hello, I'm the one that's like secretly chuckling in the back. But oh my gosh, there's so much news. Remember when we didn't have this much news back in like God even, I don't even know, yesterday.

Yeah, yeah. When all we had to worry about were tan suits and grape poupons. Exactly.

Uh-huh. Yeah, I can't wait for sleepy Joe Biden to be president because then it's going to be sleepy AG. I'm going to get some sleep.

Yes. And I'm really excited about it. So I don't, I don't think that that nickname is a bad thing.

Maynether, listen, I would kill to get hours of sleep. There was a, there was an earthquake recently in Los Angeles, so I haven't slept since.

I saw that was trending on Twitter. When was it?

Oh, oh, good. I was this Wednesday. No, I guess early, really early Thursday morning at 4.30 in the morning, I woke up with my dog in my, in my arms.

So like meanwhile, I left my husband behind in bed. So like, he could fend for himself, but my dog and I were going to be totally safe.

So yeah, it's just really weird. I'm not a native Californian. So it's always a, you know, I might be getting divorced.

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