20230106 Nicole Sandler Show - Jan 6 Two Years Later with Marcy Emptywheel Wheeler

What a way to end the first week of the new year. Today marks the second  anniversary of the Trump-led attack on the capitol as insurrectionists  attempted to overturn the results of a fair and free 2020 election. It's  been a long, frustrating couple of years, usually with the public being  kept in the dark about how the insurrectionist's prosecutions are  going... with one major exception.  Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist who deals with this kind of  shit... She covers national security, government malfeasance and so much  more on her own site at emptywheel.net.   She's been joining me  regularly to keep us up to speed on all of the investigations and  everything else happening in this shit show that some on the right are  trying to undermine.  So Marcy joins me for a great discussion on this, the second anniversary  of the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol, and on the fourth day of stalemate  in the House of Representatives, as Kevin McCarthy keeps getting  humiliated in his quest to be speaker.   But as I'm getting ready for today's show, they've just finished  voting... for the 13th time. And for the 13th time, Kevin McCarthy still  couldn't garner enough votes to win. And now they're taking another  vote on adjourning....  Like I said up top, what a way to end the first week of the new year....