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Media Daily Beans, Daily Beans. Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, April 4th, 2025.

Today, the acting inspector general for the Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Pete Hegset's signal chat messages.

The Senate has voted to rescind some of Trump's tariffs, which

caused the third biggest stock market crash in modern history. Federal prosecutors have dropped

the charges against the guy Nancy Mace says assaulted her. Massive layoffs at the FDA include

scientists working on bird flu and pet food safety. and Judge Bozberg held a hearing in the

contempt proceedings in the Alien Enemies Act case. I'm your host, Alison Gill.

All right, hey, everybody, tons going on. Still relatively light news day on this Thursday,

but a light news day these days means we only have a million

headlines. So we're going to get to all of those. I also am going to talk to John Fuglesang

today because it's Fuglesang Fridays here on the Daily Beans. And I am going to be joined later in the

show by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, former Congresswoman. I'm excited to speak with her about

everything she's doing

for Angelinos, just up to the north of us here in San Diego. Also, Dana is out, but she will be back

on Monday. I promise she's on a cruise, making people laugh, bringing mirth to the masses as she does so well.

So, ooh, Judge Boasberg held a hearing today for the contempt

proceedings. It was a show cause hearing, right? That's a step, you know, on the ladder of contempt.

And this was about his March 15th order that said they have to turn the planes around and bring

the people back to the United States, not to release them, but just to give them due process under law, like the INA or the APA, for example.

And it did not go well for the government today. A guy named Ensign was arguing for the Department of Justice, Trump's Department of Justice.

And, yeah, Bozberg painted him into a corner like 14 times.

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