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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday October 3rd 2019. Today the

Trump meltdown continues the State Department briefing on Capitol Hill, forthcoming

White House subpoenas Roger Stone, the NRA, and Giuliani's mystery firm. I'm your host A.G.

and with me today is Amanda Reader. Hello A.G. How are you? I am pretty well today. I am losing my voice today.

I think I got what Jordan has. Jordan's own sick. She was texting me saying she was

door-dashing Robin to her house to soothe her sore throat. Yeah I think I'm gonna do that after this

because that sounds like a fantastic idea. Definitely. This is why self-care is so important.

Excuse me. So I apologize for my voice today but we didn't have some news that we had to get out.

We couldn't not do a show for you. So we do have a lot to get to. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes.

All right, womp, womp. So that big briefing on Capitol Hill from the State Department Inspector General

who got documents from the Legal Council of the Secretary of State, nothing. It's absolutely nothing.

What a letdown. I know. We were hyping this so hard. I thought it was gonna be so big. I thought this was the thing.

All right, it's not. The IG came in basically handed over a stack of about 40 pages of conspiracy theories on Joe Biden,

and Hunter Biden, and the former ambassador to Ukraine, you're out of it, who's supposed to testify today.

But that's been delayed until next week, next Friday.

Was this a package that they got help when bar was in Italy? Is this all like, is this the result of these trips and their research?

I think so. In fact, I have there's there's some information about what it is.

First of all, Representative Raskin says that the Inspector General wouldn't tell Congress how they got the documents or where they came from.

But he says, if you read the packet of information, it's a series of somewhat hallucinatory propagandistic suggestions that is very consistent with the things Rudy Giuliani is saying.

If I had to guess who's behind it, if it didn't come directly from the White House, I would say Giuliani.

Giuliani's name's all over it. There's a series of memos where Giuliani was present.

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