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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, January 13, 2020. Today, Pelosi

changes course a bombshell about Trump's motives in the Soleimani strike, Pompeo's definition

of imminent and stire abys his way into the democratic debate as we approach the first primary

three weeks from today. I'm your host A.G. and with me today is Jordan Coburn. Hello.

Amanda Reader. Hello. How are you? Great. Did you have a good weekend? Yeah. Yes. It's been good.

She's meet happy Monday to those of you listening on Monday. Yep. Yeah. Hope your week is good. Yes.

Me too, because weeks can be hard. You know what? Monday morning, it can either be a really optimistic

time or really like, oh shit, everything feels bad and I have so much to do this week kind of time.

So hopefully it's the more positive one. Definitely. Hope your commute is going great. Hey,

wave to the person next to you right now. Yeah. Smile at the stranger. Look at the other one now.

Hey. Yeah. Smile at the person next to you at the stoplight. But at the traffic light,

be really creepy about it. Yeah. And then sing songs. Beautiful. Yeah. Sing in your car. Great start.

Happy Monday friends. Really trying to really hype up the Monday.

I you know what though I remember when I was doing a regular work week, two days were worse.

Yeah. Two days were like, you still weren't flying from the weekend. Second Monday.

And it's still so far away from the next weekend. It is the Tuesdays are. I didn't like

Tuesdays. So tomorrow, but today. Yes. Anyway, we do have a lot of news to get to. So let's

hit the hot notes. Hot notes. All right, let's start with what I think is extremely overlooked

news story in recent days. And that's the report out from the Wall Street Journal. And

traditionally, that's a conservative news outlet. And it's called Trump's new national security

team made fast work of a ranstrike. This is a long article. It starts in the situation room

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