'BradCast' 11/20/2018 (Guest: Slate legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern)

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 2:28 a.m.

b"On today's show,\\xa0 a tidal wave of incoming breaking news in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Multiple mass shootings in three different states over 24 hours. Now that the midterm elections are finished, the Trump Administration is withdrawing US troops despite Trump's claims of an \\u201cinvasion\\u201d by a migrant caravan at the southern U.S. border.\\xa0 White House advisor and presidential daughter Ivanka Trump caught using a private email server for official government business in 2017, right after her farther called for his opponent, Hillary Clinton, to be "locked up" for doing the same thing. With just a few races still undecided, Democrats pick up new House seats in Texas, and appear on track to pick up an extraordinary 39 seats in their \\u201cblue wave.\\u201d In Wisconsin, Democrats swept every single statewide race in the midterms, but thanks to the WI GOP's extreme partisan gerrymandering, Democrats will hold only 36 per cent of seats in the State Assembly while Republicans hold 63 seats, even with voters favoring Democrats over Republicans by 54 per cent. MARK JOSEPH STERN, legal journalist at Slate, analyses how voters fought back against GOP gerrymandering this year by approving fair redistricting ballot initiatives in several states. He also covers Ivanka's and Hillary's email issues, Trump's \\u201cunlawful\\u201d appointment of GOP operative Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General, the federal court ruling blocking the Trump Administration's new policy denying asylum claims by immigrants, and the court ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge ordering press credentials be restored to CNN's Jim Acosta. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' with more on the catastrophic wildfires in California, Trump's ridiculous false claims, and how rain in the forecast spells both good news and bad news for firefighters and recovery workers amid the historic disaster..."