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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, December 23, 2019.

I'm your host A.G. and today we have our interviews from the Mueller-Pollosa episode of Mueller She Wrote,

which originally aired on December 30, 2018, and includes appearances by Greg Proops, Mimi Roca, Joyce Vance, Seth Abramsen, Andrea Chalupa, Sarah Kenziar, Virginia Heffernan, Renato Marriotti, Scott Dworkin, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Greg Olyar, Jack Bryan, David Priests, and Randall of Honey Badger Don't Give A Shit Fame.

Each guest will tell us what they think is most important to them, the story that they thought had the most impact in 2018.

So I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed making it.

All right guys, and for the interview, what we did this week was we got all of our favorite listeners past guests all together, and we did this last minute.

Everyone was so kind to do this, and we asked them what they thought the most consequential news story, like in our Mueller Madness bracket,

or the weirdest or funniest stories of 2018, to see what they thought, and here is a montage of all of their answers.

So this is Joyce Vance. The most important development in the Mueller investigation in 2018 is something that's been hotly debated at my dinner table over the last few nights.

But where I come down, I think, is a slightly off center place from where most people are.

I think about Mueller's central charge, figuring out whether the Trump campaign worked with Russians to get him elected.

We don't know the answer to that for sure, but Mueller, I think, by now does.

And the answer to that question is the most important thing that happened in the Russia investigation this year.

We don't know where Mueller's going. We don't know if he'll be inditing anyone else or not.

But this idea that he has evidence that's not yet public, that he's compiled so that he can reach these decisions, is I think the most important thing that he's done this year, and the most important thing for all of us.

And it may even be that some of those important pieces have leaked out into the public, but we don't yet know their significance, because we don't see the full picture.

And then I think the final thing is important to say is that.

Bob Mueller has taken on almost mystical significance for some folks in this country, but we have to remember that he's a prosecutor.

He's not a knight in shining armor. He will at the end of the day do a prosecutor's job. His goal is not, cannot be to save all of us.

It's simply to fulfill his responsibilities as a prosecutor.

So he'll use the evidence. He'll do it in a truthful way, but he's shown us that we can have confidence in him, and that this certainly is not a political operation or a witch hunt that this is a cross tutorial effort to seek the truth and to hold accountable those who are responsible.

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