The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

Olga Brudastova, PhD student in Civil Engineering at Columbia and an organizer with GWC-UAW Local 2110, on the fight to form grad student unions (5:40)

Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties, shares her thoughts on Clinton, Russia, and the CIA (20:15)

David Dayen, author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, on how Obama Failed to Mitigate America's Foreclosure Crisis (4:45)

Robert Fluegge, Senior researcher on the report The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 (20:15)

Celinda Lake, President of Lake Research Partners, on how the 2016 election disaster happened (20:15)

Stephen Miles, advocacy director for Win Without War, on Trump's cabinet full of generals

David Neiwert, senior editor of Crooks and Liars, on why powerful conservatives are promoting "Pizzagate" conspiracy theories - even after they led to violence. 

Sarah Anderson, co-editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies

Jon Bauman, best known as "Bowzer," formerly of Sha Na Na and co-founder of Senior Votes Count, a PAC that focuses on senior issues.

Greg Grey Cloud, enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and one of the leaders of the #NoDAPL protests. 

This hour John Feffer demonstrates that politicians like Donald Trump aren't that uncommon if you just look to Europe. And later, Yannet Lathrop, Researcher and Policy Analyst at National Employment Law Project, discusses her group's new report on the massive impact on worker pay the Fight for 15 has achieved.

This hour we're joined by Sarah Sorscher, an attorney with Public Citizen's Health Research Group, about the 21st Century Cures Act. Later, we speak with Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, about his new book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.  

We break down the news of the week, then talk to Jessica Jackson Sloan, National Director and Co-Founder of #cut50, about the need to slash in half the number of people in prison. 

The Zero Hour is on a holiday break this week so we've compiled "best of" content from our recent shows.