'BradCast' 11/10/2016: (Guest: Heather Digby Parton on the election of Donald Trump and torture back on the table)
The transition begins, as Donald Trump meets President Obama at the White House, and the world continues to try to make sense of it all. Joining us to help today is our old friend Heather Digby Parton of Salon, who warned on the day Trump entered the race in June of 2015 that he would be a force to be reckoned with. Today we examine the media's role in helping to normalize Trump while demonizing Hillary Clinton, and begin to process just some of the dangers that the 'President-elect' now presents to not only Obama's eight years of progress, but to the world and the planet. His campaign promises, which many in the media seem to have forgotten, are all now on the table, and there is little, if anything, to stop them from being adopted by the new Administration and a compliant Congress and Supreme Court. Yes, torture is back on the table, along with much more. Then Desi Doyen joins us for a 'Green News Report' look at what the election of Trump will mean for the environment, energy and the UN climate agreement....