'BradCast' 12/19/2018 (Guest: Heather 'Digby' Parton)

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 1:59 a.m.

b"On today's show:\\xa0 a federal judge in Washington D.C. (the same judge involved in Tuesday's dramatic sentencing hearing of Donald Trump's disgraced former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn) blocked the Trump Administration's new policy of rejecting asylum claims made on the basis of domestic abuse and gang violence. It's just the latest legal or political blow to Donald Trump's failed policies, all eagerly supported by his Republican Party. In formerly "deep red" Kansas, where voters rejected a number of Republican state lawmakers in the midterm election, things are getting worse for the Kansas GOP after three elected Republicans in the state legislature \\u2013 so far -- flipped to join the Democratic Party in advance of the new state legislative session. Then: HEATHER \\u2018DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo discusses what now feels like a presidency in near free-fall, following this week's dramatic sentencing hearing of Trump's former NSA, Michael Flynn, last week's sentencing of Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, who implicated the President in a felony violation of campaign finance laws, and multiple state and federal investigations into the Trump Campaign's alleged coordination with Russia, and his own obstruction of justice. We analyze the judge's astonishing and curious references to "treason" in the Flynn hearing, the seemingly inexplicable number of lies told by Trump and his associates about their contacts with Russians, how Trump's wingnut fans are (often hilariously) continuing to justify it all, and what Democrats will (or should) do once they take over the House majority next month..."