'BradCast' 11/20/2019 ('Bombshell' impeachment hearing coverage with guest Heather Digby Parton)
On today's 'BradCast': It was what many are describing today as a 'John Dean moment' in the public impeachment hearings of Donald J. Trump. Gordon Sondland , Trump's $1 million donor-turned-swamp-dwelling Ambassador to the European Union, dropped some bombshell testimony on Wednesday. Sondland admitted that the President's scheme to withhold a White House meeting and $391 million in military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the announcement of investigations into his political rivals was, in fact, a "quid pro quo." Sondland tossed a several top Trump officials and allies under the bus in the bargain -- including Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Vice President Mike Pence and, especially, the President of the United States himself. "Everyone," he said, "was in the loop. It was no secret."\xa0 Sondland explained that he "followed the directions of the President" when he "worked with Mr. Giuliani" on the Ukraine pressure campaign "because the President directed us to do so."\xa0 Once again, our official 'BradCast' partner-in-impeachable-crimes, the great HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Digby's Hullabaloo, joins us moments after the conclusion of the Sondland hearing for insight and analysis, along with extended explosive excerpts of today's testimony.\xa0 Our special coverage continues with the remarkable events that transpired on Wednesday in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee's ongoing impeachment proceedings, on what may well prove to be an historic day (or the long-awaited beginning of the end?) for the shamefully failed Presidency of Donald J. Trump...