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b"Encore: original air-date 12/5/2022. On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Today we are joined by the great STEVE HERMAN, veteran foreign correspondent at Voice of America, who spent 26 years covering Asia and serving as VOA Bureau Chief in India, Korea and Thailand. Herman returned to the United States to serve as VOA's Chief White House correspondent during the turbulent Trump Administration, and is now Chief National Correspondent covering the 2024 campaign.\\xa0 In an insightful and broad conversation, Herman discusses his experiences as a reporter/bureau chief in Asia, the state of news media, the rise of propaganda and disinformation around the world, and how VOA differs from state-funded propaganda outlets in Russia, China, Iran and elsewhere with its mandate, by law, to maintain a 'firewall' of independence from all government influence. Herman also shares his thoughts on Donald Trump's bonkers call over the weekend to terminate the Constitution, the so-called 'Twitter files' that have been misreported by MAGA Republicans, and much more. Also today:\\xa0 Flu, COVID and other respiratory illnesses are 'off the charts' in California and rising around the country. Russia launched another missile assault on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, even as a new report documents 600 cases of apparent Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Violent, coordinated attacks on the electric grid in North Carolina caused widespread blackouts. Georgia voters head to the polls again to decide the US Senate runoff between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed sociopathic liar Hershel Walker."