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0:00Hey everybody, it's Friday, April 3rd, 2026. I'm Allison Gill and I'm Dana Goldberg and this is Beanstalk Pam Bondi is out Don't let the door hit you on the way out They don't let the big banner of Donald Trump hit you on the ass on the way out on my favorite so let the door hit you We're the good Lord's but just see you see you out. Oh WT yesterday's news bell bottoms out And you know these as great as like these announcements feel about these terrible people getting fired It's it's kind of tempered by the fact that she wasn't fired because she's a terrible attorney general She was fired because she wasn't a terrible enough attorney general And now Todd Blanche who as you so you know distinctly pointed out on the audio beans podcast was Trump's personal lawyer in many of the cases

1:04Is the acting attorney general until a new attorney general is confirmed and I know that he's considering Lee Zeldin Dana you said he was thinking about somebody else too maybe I think there was one like the attorney general of Missouri or something like that Something obscure, but someone that actually has been an attorney because the name is in the title I don't think Lee Zeldin has any law experience. I think he's a lawyer Is he okay on the EPA EPA? I just made that up. He's the guy who destroyed the environmental protection agency So who better to continue to destroy the Department of Justice then there you go. There you have it. Thank you for the correction Yeah, I'm surprised it wasn't a you know Eastman or Jeffrey Clark or something Yeah, or Gailin Maxwell be like just let her out of prison and I'm going to point KV Max Attorney general But anyway, I you know, you asked a really great question during the the Daily Beans, which was does this does she still have to Tastify on the hill because you'll remember house oversight subpoena her five Republicans voted with all the Democrats to issue a subpoena to Pam Bondy to force her to answer questions in a

2:09Deposition not in a hearing where they each get five minutes and she can do a burn book shit But a deposition by lawyers Staff lawyers on on the oversight committee About her about the Epstein files. It's her complete failure to to follow the law, right? Yeah, and you know a week or two ago we we reported that some of the hardliner Republicans who had signed that subpoena are thinking now about removing it because Pam Bondy did a briefing On capitol like the way she was treated. So Lauren Bober things that she shouldn't have to testify anymore Okay, well, why don't you just give her a hand job in a theater? Just fuck her So yeah, so no her subpoena still stands the only thing that can Quash the subpoena is if Republicans Withdraw their arms and sign it basically which they can do yeah And withdraw at themselves. So we'll see what Jim Comer does in the wake of this hope he might say oh she's not the

3:10The attorney general anymore so we don't need her Testimony in the Epstein matter like fuck you. That's she has seen everything. She's seen everything literally Yeah, so that it there and there could be several reasons Behind this ouster. I've back when he fired No, I said Bondy would be next yep followed by Cosh Patel and I figured that Bondy would be next first of all because of that Second hearing brutal. Yeah, right Second of all because she hasn't really gotten any She can and died a ham sandwich And you know, so like everything that every Case pretty much that they've tried to bring against the Presidents political enemies is completely fallen apart and and Trump had said that You know that the weaponization Workgroup is not going as planned and he wants to amp up, you know his his attacks on his political enemies But also you remember last week she accidentally released

4:12A Jack Smith memo that divulged the president's motives. Yep, right sure did And I was like I think she's especially not long for her job now We don't know Precisely why but he's not moving her Uh To the to the shield of the Americas or whatever, you know to Be in another one of them. Yeah, council for whatever the fuck that is she's out. She's out of the government She'll be working in the private sector. What do you think she's gonna do? What's her job? Uh, it's gonna it's something with hiding something and lying for somebody else um fox news anchor Yeah fox news anchor there you go Maybe she'll be the new seeing new CNN bureau chief since CNN since the merger or man Maybe she's definitely gonna be on fox news You're absolutely right. Oh a nice cushy seat on the board at truth social at Trump media Maybe they got to give her something to keep her mouth shut right and she still wants her pardon though

5:13Yeah, she knows where the bodies are buried Yeah, so she's not gonna be a dick because she still needs that pardon Yeah, and he's gonna dangle that over her head like a sort of damacles But probably yeah the most the single most important angle about this ouster comes from saint Helena Look at this quote not only is Jonathan the tortoise alive and well on saint Helena But during his time on the planet. He has now seen off 76 US attorneys general From the 11th attorney general roger brook taney in 1832 to the outgoing 87th attorney general Pambondi in 2026 Jonathan is the great survivor Sure is i'm glad he said was Jonathan I thought that was Mitch McConnell next to her for just a second in that photo But I wouldn't in one insult a tortoise and Jonathan like that Yeah, I also think that this whole thing with pambondi the timing is really interesting There's a lot of stories coming out and if you watch under the desk news about how they are Misrepresenting the deaths in the Iran more that way more people have died in Iran than they are saying as well as they have

6:19reported any deaths of US Military since march 14th and so they're telling us with all the bombing and all of the things that have happened No one else's died or been injured since march 14th hard to believe so they also think that maybe this is a distraction for that Well, we did have the story that I think 10 or 12 US service members were injured in that attack on the Saudi airbase Yep, but to seriously And like I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was a upward of a dozen that were injured But that's it. You're right. That's all we've heard We'll see anyway, Donald Trump was an asshole again and he interrupted survivor this time pissing off a lot of people Really just to say absolutely nothing except how amazing he is and There was nothing he said that was a value in the adjusted the nation to interrupt a prime time television show of any kind to be honest with you He still has absolutely no plan to end this war

7:19Ground troops are still possible the war is winding down, but the destruction is about to ramp up This guy has no idea what's happening He slurred his and speech the entire as I slur mine. He slurred his speech entire time everybody Made no sense, which is part for the course these days and he created more questions than he had answers In addition the commentary it it was really It was bad. I can't believe this is the president of the United States Yeah, no it is Yeah, just to meant it, you know, I think the design mom this is really I don't know if everyone follows design mom Had a pretty good solution for all of this. This is what she posted. Has anyone tried just calling the White House and saying hello I'm in charge of Iran and I'm ready to negotiate connect me with the Donald with the president Donald Trump immediately I feel like if you have a deep voice and sound like you're tall you can easily convince him to pull back the troops I love this idea

8:20This reminds me of like taking it back to a Truman show thing where we just kind of but like Wait till he goes sleepy is and then like wheel him into a a whole set oval office and let him play president with a phone That doesn't work and uh, you know Whatever and get him to sign executive orders that don't really say much and that's right here. You go Donald Here is your notebook. Here's your sharpie In meanwhile we have like a regular government going on But we all watch the Trump show on TV. I think that's still a while. I also feel like that's pretty much what's happening Because I'm not sure his phone works anyway because we know Stephen Miller run this shit So there is a possibility that his phone only dials into like Stephen Miller's apartment Could be could be all those some Somebody reported last week. I can't remember who it was uh, that he that he just answers his private cell phone like It'll just he he answers it if you call him like according to tiger woods That's who he's talking to. Did you see that video on his arrest? Oh, yeah

9:23They had a video of his arrest. They trying to get tiger to walk over to take his breath and you know His his test his drunk test and they're like sir Can you join us over here and get off the phone and of course tiger hangs up and he was like sir I was talking to the president So we know who Donald Trump. Yeah, we know who Donald Trump is talking to trying to tiger woods is like I'm in a lot of fucking trouble dude. Can you get me out of this? Okay, all right now. I didn't see that holy shit, but I do love that sign Trump uh, what is it tiger woods for Trump chauffeur? Yeah, I think that well now it'll be in your algorithm You're welcome everyone check your phone. You're gonna start seeing the videos of tiger woods as a rest and Palm Beach or whatever it was right because they're all listening And this is a really cool story and I just thought we would end on this because it's a nice little bit of shot And Freud a nice moment of Zen as we send you off into the weekend Tuesday Three days ago is when Trump signed that illegal executive order curtailing vote by mail and requiring a federal list of citizens or whatever, you know

10:24Send us a list of your citizen voters. Yeah, it's creepy and fascist. Yeah That was Tuesday. That's is a second Voting rights suppression executive order by the way. He had another one a year ago. Remember uh Now that was Tuesday within 24 hours The Democratic Party meaning the DNC the D triple C the DSCC the Democratic Governors Association congressional party leaders they all sued to block this particular executive order and they're all being represented By the founder of democracy docket marco lias who promised bad ass he would sue if this happened. Yeah That was so that was Wednesday now first day We learned that this case has been randomly assigned to judge colar cotelli Now she is the same judge that permanently blocked Trump's first voter suppression executive order Zing right she she uh blocked it immediately

11:28About a year ago when he right after he wrote it and signed it uh and then she issued this past January a permanent injunction against most of that Old voter suppression executive order. She has the new case. She's the one Who wrote this a year ago in the first one? Okay, here's what she wrote quote These consolidated cases are about the limits to the president's power to dictate the rules of federal elections The framers of our constitution recognize that power over election rules Could be abused either to destroy the national government or to disempower the people from acting as a check on their elected representatives See for example the federalist number 59 Alexander Hamilton federal for a federal farmer number three Accordingly they entrusted this power to the parts of our government that they believed would be most responsive to the will of the people First to the states and then in some instances to congress

12:31See also US Constitution article one section two clause one US Constitution article one section four clause one They assigned no role at all to the president Put simply our constitution does not allow the president to impose unilateral changes to federal election process That's lovely absolutely the lovely That is this what she wrote last year the first time she got a case like this and she was just assigned this one That is the judge that got this case purely by coincidence Damn That is just something looking over the shit show of a of democratic republic we have right now This to me feels like a intervention from above or below or whoever you believe in Now that ruling I just read about last year's voting suppressants executive order Trump is still appealing that permanent injection But there is no way on earth that this new executive order survives judge colar cotelli. Yeah, and and if The it's he's just now getting around to appealing

13:34His year old executive order There's no way that this can happen between now and november I love to hear that that makes me feel a lot better because they're going to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks So it's nice to know that this one's not going to just going to slide down like a weird noodle Like a weird noodle. I mean, we'll say he might he might run straight to the supreme court who he tried to mad dog the other day out of birthright citizenship I mean robert shot him to cotelli brown jackson I heard he left right after cotelli brown jackson basically like put the hammer down and he got embarrassed and he was like our item out Yeah, and about 10 minutes into the ACLU lawyers presentation. Yeah, he pieced out Uh, nap time, I guess getting ready for anything on TV later That would be embarrassing if the sketch artist was like and this is the president asleep at the supreme court Yeah So I don't know he might run to the supreme court and be like hey you guys please Emergency docket. Could you shadow docket this for me, you know, yeah, he might I don't know, but we'll see

14:40This is the same judge And if this same judge, I imagine she'll issue a temporary restraining order Uh, but again, he could run directly to the supreme court and try to see if he could get us to you know the stay lifted because she'll She'll stay this temporarily while she makes decides on a more permanent injunction Um, but he's successfully gone to the supreme court before to stay Temporary restraining orders which are usually not even appealable But I don't know the supreme court likes to Kind of use the shadow docket to get around that shit with an eight one ruling in conversion therapy I don't know what the fuck they're gonna do about anything anymore because I never thought it would be eight to one six to three Maybe but that's it yeah, that was also very surprising to me um for Kagan and so to my order to be to concur with that While also simultaneously saying that you can write a law a better law

15:40Yeah, to to ban conversion therapy without I don't know if if it was with or without considering the ramifications of the concurrence I mean right still would have lost six three Yeah, but it would have been nice to have those votes Absolutely, absolutely We did we talked a lot about that Thank you all so much Thank you so much for watching are you good at I don't know are you are we gonna be together on We are gonna be together Monday. Yes. I know I can't keep I'm so yeah, we are together Monday All right, great. Well, then we'll both see all of you on Monday So any final thoughts I have none. I think we should just leave All right, yeah, we should definitely leave have a good weekend everybody. Yeah, I'm Alison kill I'm Dana Goldberg and that was beans talk