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Daily beans, daily beans Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Wednesday, January 17th, 2024.

Today, jury selection and opening statements kicked off day one of the E. Gene Carroll defamation trial in New York.

Trump won the GOP Iowa caucus with embarrassingly low turnout. Capital Police and the FBI have opened an investigation under Roger Stone's comments about assassinating Representative Swalwell and Representative Nadler.

President Biden has invited the top four congressional

leaders to the White House to discuss Ukraine funding. The U.S. will relist Yemen's Houthis as global

terrorists. Trump loses a string of appeals in court and the House Republicans are backing down

on holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. I'm Alison Gill. And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Who boy, what a Wednesday. Yeah, news jam-packed, lots of stuff going on, some good, some bad as

normally is, but we've got a lot of good today too. Yeah, we did. Also, this is kind of cool later in the show. I'm going to be

joined by author and reporter Simon Schuster. He's written a book called The Showman, Inside the

Invasion that shook the world and made a leader of a lot of Mer Zelensky. It's a really great

conversation. I hope you'll enjoy it. We have so much news to get to today, almost a record-breaking newsday.

So that means, as, you know, as per uge, we have to do some quick hits.

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