'BradCast' 1/6/2023 (Guest: Will Bunch on Jan. 6 and GOP House chaos)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 It's January 6 again, our 'weird annual tradition' that underscores the Republican Party's ongoing threat to American democracy two years after the deadly, Donald Trump-incited insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. House Republicans again failed to select a Speaker on the 13th ballot, but major concessions made by GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to hard-right insurrectionists appear on the verge of succeeding in making him the weakest House Speaker in U.S.\xa0 history.\xa0 To commemorate the second anniversary of the violent Capitol insurrection, House Democrats held a memorial honoring law enforcement officers who lost their lives defending the Capitol; we observed no Republicans attending the ceremony. In moving remarks at the White House, President Biden marked the somber anniversary by honoring 14 individuals who stepped up to defend democracy - - law enforcement officers who literally defended the Capitol, and election workers and officials who defended the 2020 election results, at great personal cost - - awarding them the Presidential Citizens Medal. Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist WILL BUNCH discusses the still-unfolding repercussions of the January 6 insurrection and the lack of accountability for its ringleaders. Bunch ties the January 6 violent assault on democracy to this week's spectacle of far-right Republicans again fomenting chaos, and warns of rocky times to come now that far-right Republican 'nihilists' and insurrectionists are in control of the U.S. House of Representatives.