2025-01-23
27 分钟It's Thursday, January 23rd.
I'm Jane Coaston and this is Water Day, the show wishing a happy snow day to everyone in the American south experiencing once in a lifetime snowfall.
We know you aren't used to it and it's probably scary, but sometimes frozen water falls from the sky.
It's crazy.
On today's show, President Donald Trump issues an executive order blocking the receptacle settlement of refugees in the U.S.
including thousands of Afghans.
And the House passed its first piece of legislation under the new administration.
Let's get into it.
It's been a couple of days since President Donald Trump granted clemency to all of his nearly 1,600 supporters who faced charges for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Most of them received full, complete and unconditional pardons for their actions that day.
The 14 people who didn't get pardons instead had their sentences commuted.
They were all members of far right militia groups, either the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys.
As you'd expect, many of these people were positively giddy about the fact that they were getting out of prison.
And giddy in a way that's terrifying to pretty much anyone who's not steeped in the alternative MAGA universe version of what actually happened that day.
Stuart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Trump commuted his sentence after his release Tuesday.
He thanked Trump and repeated lies about what happened at the Capitol that day.
Most people that went inside, they walked in through doors already opened by somebody else.
They were not told they were trespassing.
They just, in fact, some cops waved them in.