Nicole's back from a mini vacation. Today on the show, she shared the ugly details, railed against the people who say "I don't believe you/it" just because... And we welcomed Harvey J. Kaye back to the show.

It's the first edition of Nicole Sandler's What's News? for the New Year... and it's not looking pretty...

Nicole speaks with author/activist Jane McAlevy about her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, and with Antonia Juhasz, energy analyst and journalist who focuses on oil on Pres Obama's parting shot of making much of the Atlantic and Arctic immune from offshore drilling.

Nicole Sandler speaks with former CIA agent Jack Rice about the hacking allegations, Russia, the CIA and, of course, D'ump.