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Hello and welcome to the daily beans for Friday, February 4, 2022.

Today, MMOs obtained by the New York Times show the early roots of the Seven State coup, Jeffrey Clark invoked his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination over 100 times while testifying to the one-six committee yesterday.

ISIS leader is killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid. Rudy Giuliani is too gross for even Robin Thick

and Pence aids claim privilege over questions about discussions between Pence and Trump during the select committee testimony. I'm Allison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg. Hey Dana, how are you today? I am okay. How are you holding up? I'm good. I'm doing good today. Good. You have some news for us about the podcast. Yeah.

Yeah, interesting news. We are leaving Spotify. I've been trying to dig into the legality of it and the ability of it given contracts and all that stuff. And I got all the green lights today.

So we announced it in a fall today. So if you're listening to this on Spotify, please get our podcast for free on Stitcher or Overcast or Apple or Google Play.

There's tons of places to listen to it. And you can listen to it for free still on any other podcast player. And or you can grab a premium ad free feed and help support us on Patreon or Supercast. And look, we're a

smaller indie operation. We don't get 11 million downloads per episode. And so this is financially risky. But risking my income in the interest of the truth is kind of how I got into podcasting in the first place.

Yeah. I lost my job at the VA and all that. I've never regretted it. I've never looked back. I've always ended doing doing the right thing is always more important than the bottom line. And that's a lesson we hope Spotify learns. So everybody.

It's going to take a minute, Dana, to get the customer service to take the show off as Spotify. So you might continue to see it there for a while longer. I don't know how long it's going to take. But we are in the process of removing it.

I'm happy to be part of this family that does the right thing for the right reasons. So awesome. Thank you. And this is also goes from Mola. She wrote the MSW book club and clean up on L 45.

All right. We do have a lot of news to get to. So let's have the hot notes hot notes. All right. So 15 days after the election James trupus, a lawyer from the Trump campaign in Wisconsin received a memo setting out what became the rationale for the audacious strategy to put in place alternate slides of electors and states where Trump was trying to overturn his loss. The seven state coup.

Now this memo from another lawyer named Ken cheese, bro, which is perfect may not have been the first time that lawyers and allies of Trump had weighed the possibility of naming their own electors in the hopes they might eventually succeed in flipping the outcome. Right.

Through recounts and lawsuits, basically asserting widespread fraud. But the November 18th memo and another three weeks later are among the earliest known efforts so far to put out on paper proposals for preparing alternate slides of electors.

They helped to shape the crucial strategy that Trump would embrace with profound consequences for himself and the nation. The memos show how just over two weeks after election day, Mr. Trump's campaign was seeking to buy itself more time to undo the results at the heart of the strategy was the idea that the real deadline was not December 14th when the official electors would be chosen to reflect the outcome in each state.

But actually January 6th when Congress would meet to certify the results and in that focus on January 6th lay the seeds of what became a pressure campaign on former vice president Mike Pence to accept the validity of a challenge to the outcome and block Congress from finalizing Joe Biden's victory.

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