The Election Cookbook (feat. John Fugelsang)

The Daily Beans

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Friday, February 6th, 2026 Today, Senate Democrats publish their list of demands to fund DHS and the Sanders Amendment isn’t on it; Tulsi Gabbard investigated Maduro for election interference in Puerto Rico last year; a top Minnesota prosecutor says the overwhelming number of ICE cases is causing other matters to slip through the cracks; Congress has received a copy of the whistleblower report about Tulsi Gabbard but it’s heavily redacted; a leader of the Paul Weiss firm has resigned after appearing in the Epstein Files; a judge rules that ICE can’t make warrantless arrests in Oregon; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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0:00.0	M SW Media
0:03.0	Hello and
0:07.0	News
0:09.0	We're swearing
0:11.0	Daily Beans
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0:19.0	Daily Beans, Daily Beans.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, February 6th, 2026.
0:33.7	Today, Senate Democrats have published their list of demands to fund DHS, and the Sanders Amendment isn't on it. Tulsi Gabbard investigated Nicholas Maduro for election
0:38.7	interference in Puerto Rico last year. A top Minnesota prosecutor says the overwhelming
0:43.2	number of ICE cases is causing other matters to slip through the cracks. Congress has received
0:48.7	a copy of the whistleblower report about Tulsi Gabbard, but it's heavily redacted. A leader of the Paul Weiss firm has resigned after appearing in the Epstein files,
0:57.6	and a judge rules that ICE cannot make warrantless arrests in Oregon.
1:01.6	I'm Alison Gill.
1:02.8	And I'm Dana Goldberg.
1:08.0	All right, everybody, it's Friday, which means John Fuglesang is going to join us later in the show for Fuglesang Fridays. How are you doing today, Dana?
1:15.8	I'm doing okay, my friend. I'm tired. You know, Heather Cox Richardson was talking about this. Like, I'm not sleepy. I'm going to fucking exhausted. Yeah. So today's hit me a little bit harder, but I'm hanging in there.
1:28.5	How about you?
1:29.4	Same exhausted.
1:31.0	I just finished writing up a piece about Maduro and Gabbard and voting machines and
1:36.9	election interference over on subsdoc at Mojureote.com.
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