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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, May 3, 2021.

Today, the crimes behind the raid of Rudy Giuliani's home and office come into focus.

Gates' wingman, Joel Greenberg, wrote a confession letter and tried to pay Roger Stone $250,000

to lobby the former guy for a pardon.

As predicted, prosecutors are seeking a higher sentence for Derek Shovon in the murder of George Floyd.

The Arizona Secretary of State is sending observers to the Cyber Ninja audit of Joe Biden's victory

as a judge orders the private firm to publish its methods.

And an Oregon Republican is criminally charged for letting armed protesters into the state capital.

I'm A.G. and I'm Dana Goldberg.

Welcome back from the week and Dana, how was it?

Did you have a good time with your writing?

Yes, I'm still here. I'm actually recording from Big Bear.

And I'm, as you know, and the listeners are finding out right now, I gave myself a self-imposed

writing retreat because I'm trying to finish a pilot and I had riders block an LA.

So yeah, it's going well.

And I'll get some notes back today and have another about 36 hours to work on it while I'm up here.

So things are good and how is MSNBC, Rockstar?

It was awesome. I got to speak with Yasmin Vesuvian on her show today. She's amazing.

And it was, you know, I was, I was nervous and but I seem to be getting a lot of positive feedback

and it was just one of my first time on MSNBC. So it was awesome.

I'm sure you were great.

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