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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 Plott's 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. 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,

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