'BradCast' 1/18/2019 (Guest: Analiese Eicher of One Wisconsin Now)
On today's show: the White House is desperately scrambling for new distractions from Donald Trump's unpopular federal government shutdown, and an explosive report published Thursday night by BuzzFeed News. The otherwise uncorroborated article alleges that the President instructed his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to federal investigators about the Trump Organization's proposed deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. If the story proves true that Trump instructed Cohen to lie about the project, it would, according to Democrats today, amount to evidence of the subornation of perjury as well as obstruction of justice, both impeachable offenses. Neither Trump nor the White denied the report initially. [In a rare statement issued late Friday evening after the show, Mueller's office disputed BuzzFeed's "description of specific statements...and characterization of documents and testimony obtained" by the Special Counsel.] Also today: a federal judge in Wisconsin rejected new limits on early voting and polling place IDs rammed through by Republican lawmakers and failed GOP Gov. Scott Walker during an extraordinary lame-duck session. ANALIESE EICHER, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by non-profit One Wisconsin Now challenging the WI GOP's last-minute voting changes, discusses the lawsuit and ruling, in which the judge said it was "not a close question" that the GOP's new voting restrictions were an unconstitutional violation of voting rights -- just as he had rejected nearly identical measures passed by GOP lawmakers in 2016.\xa0 Michigan's new Democratic Sec. of State announced she is seeking to settle a lawsuit challenging the extreme and unconstitutional partisan gerrymander in state legislative and Congressional districts drawn by Republican state lawmakers. A settlement could mean new maps for MI before the 2020 election. Finally, satirist Randy Rainbow offers a pretty hilarious song on Donald Trump's wall...