<p>Welcome to 2021. In the first episode of season 2, we barely scratch the surface on all  that has happened in the first days of the new year. Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, Lynn Sweet, joins Rick to talk about the insurrection at the US Capitol, the ever-present challenges journalists face in the age of misinformation and the 24-hour news cycle, and even a few thoughts about Illinois politics. </p>

Welcome to 2021. In the first episode of season 2, we barely scratch the surface on all that has happened in the first days of the new year. Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, Lynn Sweet, joins Rick to talk about the insurrection at the US Capitol, the ever-present challenges journalists face in the age of misinformation and the 24-hour news cycle, and even a few thoughts about Illinois politics.

<p>Welcome to 2021. In the first episode of season 2, we barely scratch the surface on all&nbsp; that has happened in the first days of the new year. Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, Lynn Sweet, joins Rick to talk about the insurrection at the US Capitol, the ever-present challenges journalists face in the age of misinformation and the 24-hour news cycle, and even a few thoughts about Illinois politics.&nbsp;</p>

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Rick Jasculca, former White House Advanceman and co-founder of Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications has been living politics for 50 years. From his time attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City as a Young Illinois Democrat to serving as a special consultant to the White House—and Advance Lead—during the Carter and Clinton Administrations to playing a role in nearly every Democratic National Convention since 1968. Join Rick in his new series that features conversations with the men and women who have been behind the scenes of politics for decades helping shape policy and perception.

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