'BradCast' 10/5/2017: (Guest: Brendan Fischer of Campaign Legal Center)
As we go to air, staunch anti-choice 'conservative' Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) announces he will resign from the U.S. House following revelation of text messages with his misstress in which he is said to have advised her to have an abortion. Murphy, the only clinical psychiatrist serving in Congress, is the author of the GOP's mental health care reform legislation passed last year in response to a number of mass shootings. Mental health reform is still the GOP's only legislative answer to our gun epidemic in the U.S., although the NRA gave permission to Republicans to "politicize" Sunday's massacre in Las Vegas by, today, calling for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to review its regulations on 'bump stock' devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons, as reportedly used by the shooter in the Vegas bloodbath. It should be noted (as we do), that such a change in regulation would still not necessarily require the NRA-owned Republican members of Congress to vote on any new gun safety legislation.\xa0 Then we're joined by Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center to discuss the tidal wave of corruption issues recently revealed about top Trump Administration officials. Among those issues: Jared Kushner revising financial disclosure forms dozens of times (and submitting them late), giving different numbers on those forms than his own wife Ivanka Trump did regarding joint assets (she was also forced to amend her forms several times); Kushner and 5 other top Admin officials using private email addresses (and lying to Congress about them...lock them up!); the heads of the EPA, Interior and Treasury using tax-payer funded travel on private and military chartered jets, after Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary was finally forced to resign for spending nearly $1 million on same; and claims by the Secret Service that they kept no visitor logs at Mar-a-Lago during Trump's many weekends there over the past eight months. Fischer discusses why all of those issues of "trickle down corruption" matter, as well as Republican U.S. Senate nominee and former Chief Justice of Alabama's state Supreme Court, Roy Moore, failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own income and liabilities on U.S. Senate ethics filings. He also explains why the partisan gerrymandering case, 'Gill v. Whitford', heard earlier this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, is so important to overcoming all of the nightmares discussed on today's show. Plus: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report' with updates on Puerto Rico's ongoing Hurricane Maria disaster, the billions of tax-payer dollars spent due to global warming, and subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. And, finally, a bit of breaking news on Trump's reported plans to\xa0 decertify the 2015 anti-nuclear deal with Iran, despite his own Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and Chairman of his Joint Chiefs of Staff ALL agreeing that is in compliance with the hard-won 7-nation treaty...