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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday, October 17, 2019.

Today, Trump's letter to Erdogan McKinley testifies,

11 Igor, Arainment is pushed, Bill Taylor testifies,

New Evidence Trump committed fraud, Rudy's counterintelligence investigation,

No vote on impeachment, and Pence obstructs justice.

I'm your host A.G. and it's just me today.

It's travel day. We're on the road in New York, so I'm going to do a little mini-beans for you.

I know we said that there might not be a show, but I just wanted to put some headlines together for you.

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Let's just jump in real quick here. First of all, the House passed a resolution today condemning

the withdrawal of Syrian troops by Trump. They passed it 354 to 60 of those 60 people who voted

against it. There were all Republicans, and of course there was Matt Gates and Jim Jordan and

Louis Gomerot and all of these either compromised, you know, congressmen or Trump's sick of

ants basically. And today, the US military bombed its own ammunition base in Syria to prevent it

from falling into enemy hands. Trump today talked shit about the Kurds calling them no angels.

That seems to be the thing that he does. He'll say like, well, America is not innocent or

we have a lot of killers or we interfere in people's elections. He says now the Kurds are no angels.

And we now know that Trump made this decision without consulting the national security team,

his national security advisors, his generals, joint chiefs of staff, the Pentagon,

the state department, the guys in charge of St. Com. No one. He didn't consult anyone. So that's where

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