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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday, May 20, 2021.

Today, the New York Attorney General has confirmed that her civil investigation into the Trump

Organization now has a criminal flavor. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reversed course and is now

against the Insurrection Commission. Experts say DeSantis cannot stop an extradition of Trump to New

York. Merrick Garland's Justice Department is withdrawn a subpoena against the Twitter parody account

Devon Nunez's mom, three Republican lawmakers are fined for defying the House mask rules,

and a Michigan judge dismissed a recount lawsuit. I'm Allison Gell, and I'm Dana Goldberg.

Oh my gosh, this is the best biggest bass news I've had in months.

I almost don't want to discuss anything. I don't want to talk about anything. I just want to

get right into this. Like, let's cut through the bullshit. Let's go. Yeah, later on, I'm going to have

White House reporter, congressional reporter, Andrew Feinberg, on been trying to get him on the show

forever. He used to be in the press pool that had to do the press conferences with the former guy.

Oh, bless him. So we're going to talk a little bit about this. What we're going to, this is

such a huge story. Let's do it. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes.

All right. So big, big, big lead story of the day. Tish James, you know, Attorney General in

New York has expanded her civil investigation into the Trump Organization to include criminal

elements. And she's teaming up with Sy Vance, which means she's teaming up with Palmerance,

who is a former US attorney that Sy Vance has hired in the Manhattan DA's office. He was

expected and has been expected to decide whether or not to file charges in this case before he leaves

office, which is the end of this year. There's an election for a new DA and he will be retiring,

which also kind of says a lot about this particular case. But, you know, because that kind of

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