It's Monday, January 6th.
Happy New Year.
I'm Jane Coston, and this is what a day.
The show that, unlike former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, did not spend part of its winter break live tweeting its own ethics report release.
Because this show is good at a lot of things, but exceptionally good at not doing unethical things and then telling lots of people about them.
On today's show, President Joe Biden passes out medals and increase Social Security benefits for public sector workers.
And we talked to a former D.C.
metropolitan Police officer who was at the Capitol on January 6th.
Let's get into it.
A lot happened while we were out for the holidays.
Former President Jimmy Carter died.
Fourteen people were killed in New Orleans in a terrorist attack on New Year's Day.
Another five people died in a similar attack at a Christmas market in Germany.
Elon Musk got in a big fight online with a MAGA faithful over immigration visas for high skill workers.
And it all led to him saying to his detractors, quote, fuck yourself in the face.
So that's fun.
A new Congress was sworn in with Republican majorities in both the House and Senate.
And House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to hold onto his job, albeit barely, after a few Republican holdouts decided to vote for him.
That brings us to today, when Congress is set to certify the 2024 election results and incoming President Donald Trump's victory.
It happens to fall on the four year anniversary of January 6, 2021, when a mob of violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol to try to overturn Trump's loss in the 2020 election.