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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Today, another bombshell committee hearing is in the books. Twitter has sued Elon Musk for trying to back out of their $44 billion deal. The Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has agreed to meet with the 1-6 Committee.

The 1-6 Committee has started handing over evidence to the Department of Justice and more allegations of witness tampering. I'm your host, Allison Goal.

Who big hearing today with the January 6 Committee? I'm going to go over that. All the little things that I found to be important. I didn't focus too much on the former Oathkeeper and the guy who pled guilty to the attack on the Capitol and their testimony, although some folks said that it was moving or they were relatively impressed by what these fellas had to say. I don't like either of these guys. But that's just me personally.

And also I noticed and it's been reported that at the end of the hearing he errors who was the one who pled guilty to being at the attack on the Capitol went up to and hugged the officers that were in the front row. I was seated next to these guys for the hearings that I that I attended. And I was there a Harry Dunsmutation Harry Dunn was there. Rogers and Gennel and Fennone.

And I noticed a lot of people were putting that out and saying, oh, how nice. That's nice. But you know, Harry Dunn tweeted apology given that dot dot and Fennode told CNN. You know, well, that makes them feel better. That's great.

So I don't necessarily know that that was welcome, but the gesture was made apparently today. So I'm going to talk about the hearing and there was a lot revealed today. A whole lot. It was it was pretty rapid fire in the second half of that hearing. And then after that, I'm going to get into the good news. And so if you have any good news, please send it into me. You can do so at daily means pod dot com and click on contact.

I would love to hear from you. And we've got a lot to get to. So let's hit the hot notes hot notes. So as you know, I was not in the room today for the hearing, but I live tweeted it was following it very closely. I'll share with you the standout moments to me. I know there's a lot of news organizations out there that say the five key takeaways. Here's what we thought. Here's what you should think. I have my own kind of ideas about what was important. First, the entire half of the hearing laid up.

The hearing laid a foundation for the second half of the hearing and all the previous hearings kind of laid a foundation for today's hearing that second half of this hearing is when the fireworks really started to happen.

Now, Cheney opened by saying that the hearing would take us from December 14th, which is the day the election is over.

You know, that's when the folks meet and certify the results and sign their certificate for electors. And so between that day, December 14th leading up to the attack on the Capitol, that chunk of time.

And the attack on the Capitol, be the focus of next week's hearing, by the way, which has been scheduled now from what I understand, though, not officially by the committee, but the committee has said it will be Thursday, July 21st in prime time.

Now, the first half foundation was set by once again showing all the people, including now, Patsy Baloney, Patsy Baloney, who testified that they all told Donald he lost and should concede.

And even meadows had said he should concede. Cheney said Donald's potential defense was that he was only listening to the advice of his advisors and was quote, poorly served by them.

And that would be an attempt to put all the blame on people like Eastman and Clark, who have plenty of blame, but not all the blame, but that's what Donald is probably going to try to do.

She said that defense is nonsense. And went on to say, quote, Trump is a 76 year old man. He's not an impressionable child. He is responsible for his own actions. And that's kind of powerful.

Because she knows Trump, right? We all know Trump. And he's basically, you know, never going to admit that he's an impressionable child. And she said it up that it's going to be one of those two things.

You're either a 76 year old man responsible for your own shit or you're an impressionable child. So that I thought was that was a good strategy. Now early on, the committee brought up the December 19th will be wild tweet, which played a central role in the hearing today. It was, it was the star witness.

And I previously discussed that I said that was going to come up quite a bit today.

And then after that, Raskin brings up the volatile and almost near violent December 18th meeting in the Oval Office, then included Patrick Burn, the overstock CEO, Hirschman, who almost got enough fight with Flynn, I guess,

Chip Bologna, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Flynn, and others, and how they brought a draft executive order to declare martial law and how they brought a draft executive order to maybe declare martial law have the secretary of defense sees voting machines and key swing states and to appoint Sidney Powell as special counsel.

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