'BradCast' 11/15/2019 (Special impeachment coverage with guest: Heather 'Digby' Parton)
On today's 'BradCast': Our special coverage continues today of the ongoing public impeachment hearings of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. Foreign service veteran and anti-corruption stalwart, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, offered riveting testimony about being ousted, without explanation, amid a smear campaign against her that was propagated by Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, corrupt Ukraine officials, and the President of the United States himself. The coordinated campaign against her is at the center of Team Trump's scheme to get her out of the way so they could try to force Ukraine to announce probes into Donald Trump's political rivals in exchange for $391 million in military assistance.\xa0 Even as the hearing on Trump's apparent high crimes and misdemeanors played out, Trump launched a remarkable verbal attack against Yovanovitch on Twitter, which Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff characterized as "witness intimidation," suggesting a potential new Article of Impeachment.\xa0 Award-winning opinion journalist HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Hulaballoo joins us to analyze what happened during Friday's hearing, and what it all means. Also today: Trump ally and dirty trickster Roger Stone was found guilty on all counts, on charges related to the Robert Mueller investigation into Russia, Wikileaks and Team Trump interference in the 2016 election. Stone is the sixth top Trump associate to be found or have pleaded guilty to federal felony charges. At the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, also part of the smear campaign to oust Yovanovitch, is now under federal criminal investigation in relation to a natural gas scheme in Ukraine...