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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, July 29, 2022.

Today, the Department of Justice is prepping to go to court to get executive privilege claims thrown out so they can force people close to Trump to testify to the grand jury about him.

An associate of Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman is cooperating with the Department of Justice.

Senate Republicans vote against burn pit benefits for veterans after passing it last month.

Pompeo and Manuchin are in talks about testifying to the January 6th Committee as they focus on the 25th Amendment talks after the insurrection.

Democrats are now favored to win the Senate in the midterms for the first time.

The January 6th Committee has a formal path to share evidence with the Department of Justice and the attack on McMarrow has backfired in spectacular fashion.

I'm your host, Alison Goe.

Hi everybody, welcome. It's Friday. It's just me today. Everybody is out and about doing things, but I wanted to definitely bring you some news.

And I'm going to bring you this incredible interview later in the show with the host of the history is us podcast. His name is Dr. Eddie Glod.

You do not want to miss that. We do have a ton of news to get to as well as that interview and some good news at the end.

So let's kick it off today. Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes.

All right. First up, Justice Department prosecutors are preparing to fight in court to force former White House officials to testify

about then President Donald Trump's conversations and actions around January 6th. That's according to people briefed on the matter.

This is a big deal. This is a very proactive stance that the Department of Justice is taking.

At issue are claims of executive privilege that prosecutors expect from the former president in order to shield some information from the federal grand jury

as the criminal investigation moves deeper into the ranks of the White House.

And all, you know, all the White House officials who directly interacted with Trump. DOJ's preemptive move is the clearest sign yet that federal investigators are homing in on Trump's conduct as he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer.

The lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden. An executive privilege court fight would immediately put the Justice Department's investigation into a more aggressive stance than even the Mueller investigation.

As we know, it says here a major years-long criminal probe into Trump Russia, who was not ultimately charged.

Confronting the privilege issue reflects the care with which the Justice Department is taking as it faces the unusual situation of investigating a former president for actions taken while in office.

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