Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes; George Santos's ties to Russian money; plus AG delivers your Good News. Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Have some good news, a confession, a correction? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey: http://surv...
Jan 17, 2023•27 min•Ep. 1034
Monday, January 16, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes; the mysterious mystery of George Santos’ money and what that reminds me of is the latest round of subpoenas from Special Counsel Jack Smith; some clarification on the Biden classified documents, the trump deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case has been released; the wife of an Iowa Republican has been arrested for voter fraud; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow AG an...
Jan 16, 2023•38 min•Ep. 1033
Friday, January 13, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Merrick Garland has appointed a Special Counsel to investigate the classified documents found in Joe Biden’s home and office; the January 6th Committee has withheld some evidence from the public and handed it over to Jack Smith; Bannon refuses to talk to his lawyers in his own case; a huge round of subpoenas are issued in the trump investigations; the Proud Boys trial kicks off and it’s already weird; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Check o...
Jan 13, 2023•26 min•Ep. 1031
Thursday, January 12, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: New York county and state GOP leaders call for George Santos to resign; the Stark differences between the Biden and Trump classified documents; a judge will allow the DOJ to use trump’s stand back and stand by comment in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial; and the trial starts for Richard Barnett who was photographed with his feet up on Pelosi’s desk; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Check out other MSW Media podcasts https:...
Jan 12, 2023•33 min•Ep. 1030
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Allen Weisselberg gets his sweetheart deal during sentencing; the DC circuit court hears arguments as to why DoJ should NOT rep Donald Trump in the E Jean Carroll case; Alex Jones’ lawyer is benched from defending the Proud Boys because of disciplinary proceedings; Dr. Dre’s lawyers shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene; legal experts say the House Republican’s probe into DoJ is a non-starter; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Check out other...
Jan 11, 2023•33 min•Ep. 1029
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: we have breaking news from Hugo Lowell about the independent private investigators the Trump team hired to search his other properties; the Fulton County Special Grand Jury has issued its report and I think it will be made public; George Santos is now facing an FEC complaint; Scott Perry declines to recuse himself from investigating the investigation into him; classified documents were found in Biden’s old office; plus Allison and Dana deliver...
Jan 10, 2023•36 min•Ep. 1028
Monday, January 9th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: McCarthy wins the speakership on the 15th vote as the House prepares to vote on the new rules package; Ashli Babbitt’s mom is arrested in DC on the two year anniversary of 1/6; far-right extremists prompted by Steve Bannon and Ali Alexander storm the Brazilian Congress; a Wells Fargo VP is arrested for allegedly urinating on a woman during a flight from JFK to India; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our Guest: Andrew Hartzler...
Jan 09, 2023•40 min•Ep. 1027
Friday, January 6th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: McCarthy is still losing and there aren’t enough votes to adjourn; Trump resumes his attacks on Ruby Freeman; the DoJ has asked for a 30 day extension to weigh in on whether Trump is immune from January 6th civil suits; Jack Smith is set to make critical charging decisions possibly in a matter of weeks; the South Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the state’s abortion ban; hackers leak email addresses tied to 235M Twitter accounts; a GOP ope...
Jan 06, 2023•26 min•Ep. 1026
Today, in the Hot Notes: Kevin McCarthy loses three more House Speaker votes bringing his loss total to 6; Ukraine offers Russian soldiers a hotline to surrender; the FBI has raised the reward for info leading to the arrest of the 1/6 pipe bomber to half a million dollars; and Fanone visits the Speaker’s Office; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow our guest: Adrian Fontes Arizona Secretary of State https://twitter.co...
Jan 05, 2023•37 min•Ep. 1025
Today, in the Hot Notes: the House adjourns after three Kevin McCarthy Speaker defeats as the vote goes past the first ballot for the first time in a hundred years; George Santos is being prosecuted for fraud in Brazil, the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial is underway; Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin is in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest on the field; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Follow our guest: A...
Jan 04, 2023•56 min•Ep. 1024
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: the clown car that is the house GOP will vote today for Speaker of the House; a January 6th committee report exposes Twitter’s post-insurrection chaos; the 1/6 committee releases a trove of underlying evidence including texts and emails; and panel leaders fear the house GOP will leak names of national security personnel who testified; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: https://apple.co/3XNx7ck Check out o...
Jan 03, 2023•37 min•Ep. 1023
Monday, January 2, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Kevin McCarthy is holding a call with the GOP to try and secure votes for the speaker election this Tuesday; George Santos is under criminal investigation for campaign finance violations; the 1/6 committee has released tens of thousands of pages of testimony transcripts, Kari Lake is hit with more attorney’s fees as she loses yet again in Arizona; Elon Musk faces a margin call; Greta Thunberg takes down Andrew Tate; plus Allison and Dana deliver y...
Jan 02, 2023•42 min•Ep. 1022
Friday, December 23rd, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: more transcripts drop from the 1/6 committee as we await the final report; Doug Ducey has been forced to take down his shipping container border wall by the DoJ; NYAG Tish James is investigating the candidacy of George Santos; the Senate has passed the $1.7T omnibus bill; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: https://apple.co/3XNx7ck Check out other MSW Media podcasts https://mswmedia.com/shows/ Our Guest: ...
Dec 23, 2022•53 min•Ep. 1017
Thursday, December 22, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: Trump’s handpicked IRS Commissioner failed to audit his taxes for years until the House Ways and Means Committee started asking questions; the January 6th Committee has released transcripts of multiple witnesses; Zelenskyy meets with Biden at the White House; the Omnibus Bill will include Electoral Count Act Reform; Elon Musk will step down as Twitter CEO; an informant warned the FBI about violence on 1/6 weeks before it happened; Judge Middle...
Dec 22, 2022•31 min•Ep. 1016
Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: CNN confirms which Trump lawyer instructed which witness to LIE to the 1/6 Committee; the House Ways and Means Committee meets to discuss releasing Trump’s tax returns; most of Kari Lake’s lawsuit is dismissed as the judge reminds the parties about sanctions rules for frivolous lawsuits, the new omnibus bill included massive funding for the DoJ; the 1/6 Committee is cooperating extensively with Special Counsel Jack Smith; plus Allison and D...
Dec 21, 2022•25 min•Ep. 1015
Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the January sixth select committee has made multiple criminal referrals to the DoJ for Donald Trump; the committee says Donald tried to bribe witnesses; Pentagon officials feared Donald would use deployment of the National Guard for his insurrection; the committee’s big reveal hasn’t happened yet; Musk votes himself off Twitter island; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: https://apple.co/3XNx7ck Check ou...
Dec 20, 2022•32 min•Ep. 1014
Monday, December 19th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the Georgia grand jury investigating Donald is preparing its final report; the 1/6 committee is set to vote on criminal referrals for Donald today; a judge has unsealed proceedings showing DoJ got John Eastman’s emails earlier this year; a Capitol riot defendant planned to kill FBI agents who investigated him; Twitter suspended journalists who have been covering Elon Musk; the Donald NFT grift is worse than you think; plus Allison and Dana del...
Dec 19, 2022•46 min•Ep. 1013
Friday, December 16 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the DC bar disciplinary board recommends disbarment for Rudy Giuliani; The Department of Justice sues Doug Ducey for his shipping container border wall; Three men who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer are given lengthy prison terms; the House passes a bill that could pave the way for Puerto Rican statehood; MAGA world is embarrassed by Trump's major announcement; plus Allison delivers your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple...
Dec 16, 2022•26 min•Ep. 1012
Thursday, December 15th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the Trump Organization was held in contempt in a secret trial last year; there's a fight over which party controls the Pennsylvania House; the Department of Justice has arrested a Florida pastor and his son for defrauding taxpayers and an $8 million COVID scam; Rep Jamie Raskin speaks about criminal referrals from the 1/6 at the Department of Justice; Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton demands lists of transgender persons from the Texas ...
Dec 15, 2022•33 min•Ep. 1011
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the 1/6 Committee announced it will vote on criminal referrals in a public hearing scheduled this coming Monday; the Department of Justice is trying to access data in Rep. Scott Perry’s phone; another associate of Joel Greenberg has been arrested and another dies by suicide; FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been indicted and arrested; Rep. Carolyn Maloney asks the National Archives to search a Trump storage unit; plus Allison and Dana deliver ...
Dec 14, 2022•30 min•Ep. 1010
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenas Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger; some Hunter Biden allies are making plans to sue for defamation; Judge Cannon officially dismisses her own order appointing a special master and the underlying Trump lawsuit; a Libyan operative is charged in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing; Talking Points Memo gets all the Meadows texts and they’re about to make them public; the second Oathkeepers trial is underway...
Dec 13, 2022•28 min•Ep. 1009
Monday, December 12th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the January 6th Committee reveals when they will release their report and make criminal referrals as they huddle Sunday to finalize their work; Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democratic party to become an Independent, Jack Smith files a motion to hold Trump in contempt and Judge Beryl Howell denies it; Senate Democrats plan to use their subpoena power to investigate corporate abuses; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcas...
Dec 12, 2022•31 min•Ep. 1008
Friday, December 9th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes: the DoJ asks Judge Beryl Howell to hold the Trump team in contempt of court in the documents case; Brittney Griner is on her way home from a Russian penal colony; Donald will not appeal the 11th Circuit Special Master ruling to SCOTUS; the same sex marriage bill has passed the House and on it’s way to President Biden’s desk for signature; Congressional Democrats have launched a probe into the Qatari bail out of Jared’s 666 5th avenue building; ...
Dec 09, 2022•50 min•Ep. 1006
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; Senator Rafael Warnock has won another six-year senate term in the Georgia runoff election; more classified documents have been found at a storage facility in West Palm Beach; Rudy Giuliani associate Andrii Derkach has been indicted for money laundering; the gunman in the Colorado Springs mass shooting at an LGBTQ night club is facing 305 charges including hate crimes; Germany arrests dozens of far right Reichsburgers in a plot to overthrow t...
Dec 08, 2022•48 min•Ep. 1005
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; a jury finds the Trump Organization and the Trump Payroll Organization guilty on all 17 counts; a Florida appeals court orders Michael Flynn to testify to the Fulton County grand jury; the January 6th Committee says it will make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, Stephen Miller is spotted heading into the federal grand jury for the second time in a week; the special counsel subpoenas election officials from Arizona Michigan and...
Dec 07, 2022•33 min•Ep. 1004
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; the Manhattan DA has hired a former DoJ official to help lead the investigation into Trump himself; jury deliberations have begun in the Trump organization criminal fraud trial in New York; the Supreme Court is poised to back a web designer opposed to same sex marriage; Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 14 years in prison; it’s election day in Georgia; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podcast on Apple: http://apple...
Dec 06, 2022•32 min•Ep. 1003
Monday, December 5th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; the leader of the Republican Party calls for terminating the Constitution so they can install a dictator; Georgia broke early voting records as we head into election day; the Democrats have voted to change the order of the states primaries; DeSantis faces inevitable issues with his postures about Disney and his anti woke bill; Chris Christie’s niece gets into a brawl with police; a terror attack in North Carolina over a drag show leaves tens of...
Dec 05, 2022•39 min•Ep. 1002
Friday, December 2nd, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; the 11th circuit has vacated Judge Cannon’s ruling appointing a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; Joel Greenberg is sentenced to 11 years in prison; Cochise County Arizona is ordered to certify their results as a judge orders Kari Lake’s lawyers to pay rule 11 sanctions fines; a federal judge has ordered the Pats to provide additional testimony to a federal grand jury; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow the Podc...
Dec 02, 2022•29 min•Ep. 1001
Thursday, December 1st, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; Steven Miller has testified to the special counsel grand jury; Wisconsin house speaker Robin Vos is the last person to testify to the 1/6 committee; a judge says the GOP party leader in Georgia can’t use the same lawyers as the other 10 fraudulent electors; Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are sentenced to 500 hours of community service; Joel Greenberg has his pre-sentencing hearing; Jamie Raskin is scheduled to present the 1/6 subcommittee findin...
Dec 01, 2022•33 min•Ep. 967
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 Today, in the Hot Notes; Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; Mark Meadows is ordered by the South Carolina Supreme Court to testify before the Fulton County special grand jury; a filing in the Joel Greenberg case hints that the Matt Gaetz investigation is still active; the Senate has passed a bill protecting same sex marriage rights; Tony Ornato testifies before the 1/...
Nov 30, 2022•35 min•Ep. 966