Hey, everybody. I'm Alison Gill, host of the Daily Beans podcast. Thanks to Midas for hosting this show, The Breakdown, here on their channel. So something really, really massive happened just this past week, right ahead of the White House correspondence rescheduled dinner, by the way, which is odd in and of itself. But the Justice Department, under the

toothletage, the cruel tutelage of Todd Blanche is completely unraveling. And I mean, it has

been for a while, right? You've been listening to Andy McCabe and I over on Unjustified talk

about the loss of the presumption of regularity and how their cases are

unraveling. In fact, all of the assault charges they tried to bring in Chicago after

Operation Midway Blitz against ICE officers right now has a 2% conviction rate, and that's because

one person pled guilty,

and then they've lost the rest of their cases, which is pretty unprecedented,

considering the Justice Department usually enjoys about a 98-99% conviction rate.

But they're completely unraveling because in the past couple of weeks, they decided, I think Kosh Patel was on a plane traveling to Chicago to see his girlfriend on the FBI plane spending our tax dollars.

When he was called back to the White House to sit down with Susie Wiles in a war room to try to find out who leaked the information about the Cutter bribe Force One, which is what I call it, the Air Force One jet, and its deficiencies. It's security deficiencies to the press. Somebody leaked, and they set up a war room to try to find out who this was. So immediately, as soon as you know, Kosh Patel's in charge, things are going to go great.

And so they're trying to figure this out.

And what happened is they ended up issuing subpoenas to journalists, not just subpoenas for documents and grand jury testimony, but subpoenas for their phone records as well, which is, by the way, what the Republicans are super upset with Jack Smith about.

And, you know, they keep questioning him,

and now they're investigating him for perjury about that whole situation.

And then also some of these journalists' family members got tied up in these subpoenas for their phone records as well.

I think Google might be one of the companies.

We're starting to get little bits and pieces and dribs and drabs coming out about what they were actually trying to subpoena, which is super vishy,

super fashy, right, trying to get journalists to come and testify before a grand jury.

DOJ is saying, no, no, no, we were just trying to find out who in the government leaked.

It wasn't, we weren't going after the journalists, but it had a very, very contentious hearing.

And it was so bad for the Department of Justice lawyers, Buckley and Sullivan, I believe were their names.

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