Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 6th, 2022.

The well, obviously, it's the January 6th edition of the Gab Fest.

I'm David Plotz of CityCast.

I'm here in Washington, D.C.

I'm joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine

and a lowly instructor at Yale University Law School. She is somewhere sunny. Hello, Emily.

Hello, David. And from Washington, D.C., where he's doing some important journalism today,

because it's the January 6th anniversary, is John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning.

Hello, John.

Hello, David and Emily. It's a little cold here.

This week, the anniversary of January 6th, whether the country is in better or worse shape than it was then.

We will talk with Jamel Bowie of the New York Times about that.

Then Omicron schools, pandemic fatigue,

oh my God. Yeah, what's to say? Well, we will tell, we will say it, whatever there is to say,

we will say it. And then our third topic will be the conviction of Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding

investors and what it tells us about Silicon Valley. Plus, of course, we will have cocktail chatter.

One year ago, today, a mob of Americans, many associated with virulent right-wing groups,

some most, I would say, drawn by a wickedly charismatic president who summoned them there,

all in the thrall of a vicious lie about the election, stormed the Capitol,

overwhelmed and attacked police officers, desecrated the halls of Congress, threatened the vice

president and the House Speaker and many others, shamed America in the eyes of the world in a

temporarily vain effort to stop the Senate and the vice president from certifying the presidential

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