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Hey 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

Is 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

Deposition 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

The 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

A 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

Yeah, 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

reported 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

Ground 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

This 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

They 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

Send 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

About 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

See 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

His 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

This 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

Yeah, 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