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b"Among the messes covered on today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Trump can't find anyone to be his new Chief of Staff except maybe his own son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Trump finally responds to the sentencing of his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, denying responsibility and claiming that Cohen only pleaded guilty as a favor to the prosecutors in order to "embarrass" Trump. Republicans in Congress currently have no plan to avoid a government shutdown next week, after Trump declared he would happily take the blame for such a shutdown during a televised Oval Office tantrum over funding for his border wall in a meeting with Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Kentucky's Tea Party Republican Governor Matt Bevin posts a bizarre video attacking the Louisville Courier-Journal and non-profit investigative reporting outlet ProPublica, after a recent investigation into his ethics. In North Carolina's GOP election fraud scandal, state Republican lawmakers have passed a bill allowing state elections officials to order not just a new general election for the U.S. House, but a new primary as election, as well. In Michigan, GOP lawmakers are scrambling to pass a measure in the lame duck session to make it much harder for voters to place statewide initiatives on the ballot -- just one of several efforts by Republicans in the state to strip power from voters and the Executive Branch before Democrats can be sworn in as Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report,' with bad news for the Arctic, new Trump EPA rollbacks of clean water standards, and Washington State's broad new push for climate action..."