M-S-W-Media Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, October 13th, 2023.

Today, the U.S. and Qatar have agreed to stop around from tapping the $6 billion fund

after the Hamas attack on Israel. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaks during his trip to the

region. Senator Bob Menendez is hit with a superseding indictment for failing to register as a

foreign agent. The Special Counsel probe into President Biden's handling of classified documents

appears to be near an end. Donald Trump plans to return to New York in his civil trial,

and Judge Eileen Cannon postpones the conflict of interest hearing for Welp Naughta. I'm Allison

Gill, and I'm Dana Goldberg. Hello, happy Friday. It's nice to see you after the fly fiasco.

The fly incident of 2023. That's it. This is going to go down a history. All the listeners loved it.

It definitely will. Yes, I've been sent so many videos and photos and memes. I just want to thank

everybody for all your kind emails about that incident. I appreciate it very much. Also,

later in the show, I'm going to be talking with NBC Justice Correspondent and author of the new book

Sedition Hunters, how January 6th broke the Justice System. That's Ryan Riley. If you're not following

him on social media, he's one of the funnier, if not the funniest, mainstream media people out there.

He's up there with Joy Reid. He's really, really funny. He would love to read his tweets or his

threads or whatever social media platform you're on. A couple of quick hits. First of all,

and I just want to just in general talk to you about this, Dana, because the Republicans still

don't know what the fuck they're doing. Scolese keeps losing votes. I don't think there's a single

Republican in the House that can pull 217 votes. That's how many votes are needed to be elected

speaker. Because remember, there's a whole group of Democrats that get to vote on this shit, too.

Oh, yeah. And our leader today, Hakeem Jeffries, representative Hakeem Jeffries,

kind of sort of put it out there that he'd be willing to work across the aisle to help out

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