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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Today, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice has opened

an investigation into any efforts to overturn the election. The House has delivered the article of impeachment against 45 for inciting the insurrection. Supreme Court drops the

emoluments cases. Biden continues to undo many of the last administration's policies. Dominion voting machines is suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation. And Sarah Huckabee Sanders announces her run for

governor of Arkansas. I'm A. G. And I'm Dana Goldberg. Hey, how are you doing on this very windy, blustery cold, wintry rainy day? Love how spoiled we are. There's people in like four feet of snow in like the Midwest in Chicago. And we're like, it's 60 degrees out. And there's fireplaces and things like that. I'm okay. I was a little low energy today. But even hearing your voice and starting to record has shifted me into a different space. So we're going to we're going to do it. We're going to do it.

Thank you. I wanted to talk really quick about the Supreme Court dropping the emoluments cases. A lot of people are upset about this. Add me to the list. Yeah. And apparently it's a process thing. It's just technically he's not the president anymore. And the way that the lawsuit was written.

It's for while he was being president. And since that's not a thing anymore, there's no the whole cases mood. So it's a procedural thing, not a merits thing.

So that's kind of where they are with that. I don't know if it can be refiled. I think we're going to talk about it a little bit on cleanup on L 45 this week. That comes out on Wednesday. But I'm not really sure about the mechanics of that because you know they didn't drop it because they didn't think the president didn't do anything wrong.

They just said, Hey, your specific lawsuit isn't seeking any damages outside of the fact that he's the president of the United States, which he's not anymore. So it's moot.

And that's kind of procedurally. And it legally makes sense. It's just fucking sucks because he needs to be held accountable for this.

Something something's got to happen. We may see additional civil lawsuits filed or you know that that do have jurisdiction or standing or whatever, you know, is needed.

You know, a lawsuit that's not moot anymore that doesn't require him being president to sue him for this. I don't know. We'll see.

So that's going on. And then a little bit later in the show, we're going to talk to the creators of the new vice TV series about Q and on. That's Marley Clements and by on Junom. And Marley Clements also worked on active measures, which I know a lot of listeners have seen.

And we've had the creator of that co creator of that on the show before Jack Brian.

And so it's really it's a three part series on vice news and it starts tonight. And it's going to be really intense and amazing. And there's a lot of really good reasons to watch that series.

So let's stick around for that. But in the meantime, we got some news. So why don't we do that? Let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes.

All right, lead story today is at the inspector general, the Department of Justice Michael Horowitz, as you know, has launched an investigation into any effort to overturn the 2020 election.

As announcement, followed a New York Times article that detailed efforts by a random, the fuck face name Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department civil division.

To push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast out on the electoral college results. That standoff prompted Trump to consider replacing the acting attorney general, Rosen at the time with Jeffrey Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan, right.

And so it's already threatened to resign at being like this massive Saturday night massacre thing that would have happened. And I guess that that got Trump to back off of that plan. But just because you failed at an attempt doesn't mean you didn't commit the crime.

You know, you don't have to actually kill someone to be in trouble for trying to write. And so Andrew Torsen are going to go over that in the weeds, kind of more in detail on that investigation. That's tomorrow's episode of cleanup on Al 45. So tune into that. But that's a very interesting.

I'm very glad because you know those seven, seven senators wrote a letter being like, hey, you got to look into this.

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