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Today's from the silo is an episode of the Secret Life of Cookies, where Marissa is joined by Barbara McQuade to break down the January 6 hearings and Barbara shares how to make a reluctant witness talk. We hope you enjoy.

Welcome to the Secret Life of Cookies. When we tried to solve the world's problems through the miracle of copper hydrates, one recipe at a time, with host Marissa Rothkoff in her dog, Bosco.

Hello and welcome to the Secret Life of Cookies. Today's episode features former US Attorney and MSNBC legal analysis royalty, Barbara McQuade.

We recorded this Friday morning about 10 hours after the end of the primetime January 6 hearing. What a hearing. Am I right?

We both stayed up late watching and then we got up early to talk about it. So I hope you enjoy this in-depth conversation as much as I did.

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Hello, Barbara McQuade and welcome to the Secret Life of Cookies on this. It's Friday. I think it's July 22nd. I really have no idea.

And it's most important thing is it's Joyce Vance birthday today.

It is. I've already sent a gift.

But I thought we'd be baking cookies for her today in case she doesn't get the cake of her dreams before we get into I guess recapping last night's love Island episode.

We will be making a very, very intense. I'm making a very intense chocolate chocolate cookie that has very thick cookie. It's filled with white chocolate peanut butter chips and dark chocolate chips. Wow. That sounds like quite a cookie.

Yeah, it is quite a cookie. And you know what? That Joyce Vance. She's quite a cookie.

Joyce is like, oh my gosh. Joyce does send you a fond greetings and believes in your, she said she believes in your baking capability. No, I've not.

And I have no interest in any, but I do enjoy eating. So I'll take it there. Just no people who can bake then or know where the grocery store is.

Last night, there was these congressional hearings. And I wondered if anything surprising other than Josh Holley's beautiful gazelle like.

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