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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Today, as of this recording,

we are waiting on pins and needles to hear about an indictment from the Fountain County Courthouse

for Donald Trump. Hunter Biden's lawyers say the Department of Justice reneged on their plea

agreement. A Nebraska judge allows abortion limits and restrictions on gender-affirming surgery.

Judge Merchand in the Manhattan DA case has denied to recuse himself. As of today, there are three

military services without leadership for the first time in history. I'm Allison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hey Dana, happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday to you A.G. I know we were waiting patiently for more

indictments to drop. It happened while we were recording. We don't know.

It might. And thanks to the beauty of time travel and something called pre-recording,

as you're listening to this, you might have indictments all over the place.

Like, so many that you don't even know what to do with. But right now, we're still waiting

for that decision to come back. And I will go over a little bit about where we are in the process

when we get to the hot notes. And also, I think I mentioned in the headlines there, Judge

Merchand, who's presiding over the Manhattan DA criminal indictments of Donald Trump for the

hush money stuff, right? The McDougall and the door guy and the and Stormy Daniels. Well, he

denied Trump's motion for him to recuse from the case. Trump's request was made after it was

revealed that the judge had Merchand had made donations plural, totaling $35 to democratic

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