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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for January 6th, 2022. The well, obviously,

it's the January 6th edition of the Gap Fest. I am David Plotz of CityCast. I am 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' Sunday Morning. Hello, John. Hello, David and Emily. It's a little cold

here. This week, the anniversary of January 6th, whether the country isn't better or worse

shaped than it was then. We will talk with Jamel Buie 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 of many others, shamed America

in the eyes of the world in a temporarily vain effort to stop the Senate and the vice president

...