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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, August 5, 2022. Today, Trump's legal team is in talks with the Department of Justice. The verdict is in for Alex Jones.

The Department of Justice in the January 6 committee have requested the materials from Alex Jones's phone. John Eastman was involved in the Georgia Pressure campaign. Donald faces an uphill battle on executive privilege claims with the Department of Justice.

The Washington County DA, Fannie Willis, responds to Lindsey Graham. Senator Dick Durbin is asking the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate their missing text messages. While the White House press secretary declares Biden has no plans to fire the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.

And the Department of Justice files charges against four officers in the death of Brianna Taylor. I'm your host, Alison Gil.

Hello, everyone. Happy Friday. I am very excited. It's Friday because here's something that's very cool. Later today at 4 p.m. Pacific time, we're going to have our mulchyroat and daily beans and book club happy hour. That's four Pacific time. And then right after that, we have the cleanup on aisle 45 happy hour for patrons.

So if you're patron, join us then you can ask us anything. I would say within reason, but no, you don't have to even be within reason. You just whatever ask us whatever Andrew Torres and I'll be there for the happy hour for cleanup on aisle 45 again. That's 5 p.m. Pacific time today.

And I will be there answering your questions at the happy hour for the daily beans, patrons. And that's at 4 p.m. Pacific later, later this afternoon.

Also, later in the show today, I'm going to be talking with Lee High County recorder running for state Senate in Pennsylvania. Mr. Mark Pinsley. We're going to talk about scotists and his campaign and other things. And there is a verdict in mostly in the Alex Jones case.

And the actual damages have been decided and he has to pay 4.1 million dollars. Now the jury has yet to decide punitive damages. They're going to figure that out tomorrow. That's more subjective. Actual damages is like Dr. Bills and things with monetary value that you know have an absolute value.

And the punitive damages is tomorrow. And that's more subjective. The plaintiffs are asking for 150 million. And there are now reports of the Department of Justice and the January 6th committee have asked the Sandy Hook lawyers for Alex Jones's phone.

And that's the, you know, all the information on his phone text messages and communications that were, I guess, accidentally put in the discovery portal.

And have now been handed over completely free and clear to the lawyers for the Sandy Hook plaintiffs. And the Department of Justice and the January 6th committee have asked the lawyers for the contents of Alex Jones's phone. And the lawyer says we're going to hand it over.

And we're going to see if an actual friendly subpoena goes out or however that works legally. I would put a subpoena out there, but you know, I guess you probably don't need one, but maybe just for due diligence. We'll see what happens. My beans are on a subpoena, but it would be a friendly one.

All right, we do have a lot of news to get to. So let's hit the hot notes. Hot notes.

All right, the former guy and his legal team, well, his legal team at least are in direct communication with the justice department and top officials at the Department of Justice.

This is the first sign of talks between the two sides is the criminal probe into January 6th accelerates.

And that's according to sources familiar with the matter talking to Caitlin Pollitz of CNN.

The talks revolve around whether Trump would be able to shield conversations he had while he was president from federal investigators.

Now, in recent weeks, investigators have moved aggressively into Trump's orbit, subpoenaing former top White House officials focusing on efforts to overturn the election and executing searches of lawyers who sought to aid those efforts.

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