The Nicole Sandler Show

A bit of what's news for now

Yesterday, primary elections were held in Wyoming and Alaska, and the results are pretty much what we expected. But there were some unusual voting patterns in parts of Wyoming, so this morning I called the one person I know there. My old friend Mark "Fish" Fishman is Program Director and hosts mornings on KMTN 96.9FM in Jackson. I'll play back part of our conversation and, if time permits, my later conversation with his boss and newsman Scott Anderson. Then we'll turn our attention to the crazy religious zealotry I mentioned in the title of the episode. Frederick Clarkson was on with me just over a month ago, after he wrote a piece in Salon about Pennsylvania's Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, who's as out there as they come. Well, now Fred has published an article at ReligionDispatches.org about a rift within the New Apostolic Refomation. We'll check in with Fred again because this is a movement we must not only keep an eye on, but have to counter.

A bit of what's news for now

Welcome to Tuesday, primary day in Wyoming and Alaska. Yes, the magats may get rid of Liz Cheney and bring back Sarah Palin. It's 2022, and I seriously didn't think we'd have to deal with the quitter-Governor of Alaska again. But here we are. The best way to deal with the inconceivable, and that's with laughter. So today, we welcome Roy Zimmerman to the show because nothing is better than music and laughter...

A bit of what's news for now

This is a typical Monday, meaning it came too quickly! There's lots going on, so today, we'll try to get updated on all of it. I've got stories, the phone lines are open for you to chime in with what you're following. And we'll check in with Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng too.

A bit of what's news for now

Today is Friday, and we're wrapping up an epic week. It's a week that brought us an actual reconciliation bill to help with healthcare, climate change and taxing the corporations who've not been paying that we thought was long dead. And it's the week when we learned that the AG and DoJ were indeed investigating the former guy, and the thing that just might bring him down was something we did not previously know about, and it's treasonous. He removed classified and Top Secret documents from the White House, brought them to Florida, and then lied to the authorities about their existence when the government tried to reclaim its very sensitive documents. We'll start the show with the latest news and information.... and then, if time permits, we'll get into the Wayback Machine and go back to May of 1995 for an interview with Kevin Gilbert. You may not know Kevin Gilbert's name, but if you enjoyed Sheryl Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club," then you know Kevin. We'll begin the weekend with some stories and music...

A bit of What's News, for now

Once again we're in uncharted territory. 'Unprecedented' is the word that should win the prize for most-invoked over the last five years, and here we are again. A few firsts, as history has been made this week. Almost everything about Trump is unprecedented, including apparently his actions in taking classified documents from the White House when he finally left. The smear campaign against the FBI, DoJ and the AG -- led by the Former Guy-- is also unprecedented, as was Merrick Garland's decision to go before the microphones today to announce that he's asking for the search warrant and the inventory of documents and items seized by the FBI to be unsealed, after Trump incited anger and worse with false claims about the government's actions. As I do whenever there's a legal question of such magnitude, I invited Lisa Graves to join us today to weigh in on history in the making. Lisa Graves, who runs TrueNorthResearch, served in the DoJ as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General under AG Janet Reno during the Clinton administration, and under Richard Ashcroft in the GW Bush administration.