'BradCast' 1/22/2019: (Guest: NatSec journalist Marcy Wheeler)
b"On today's show:\\xa0 Legal and national security journalist MARCY WHEELER details precisely what is -- and what is not -- known about BuzzFeed News' blockbuster report charging that Donald Trump had suborned perjury by directing his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to federal investigators about Trump Tower Moscow project negotiations during the 2016 Presidential election. The explosive allegations led to a carefully worded response from the Special Counsel's office. Wheeler, who has long been covering all things related to the Trump/Russia probe, offers much insight into the confusion following the report, Mueller's unusual statement, conflicting remarks from Trump's TV lawyer Rudy Giuliani, why Mueller's office chose to speak out, and whether he was pressured to do so by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein. Also today:\\xa0 In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Trump's ban on transgender people in the military to move forward, but at least one legal obstacle remains. In slightly more encouraging -- and certainly less cruel -- news from SCOTUS today, the Court made no announcement of plans to hear argument on any of the many ongoing lower court cases challenging Trump's reversal of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Trump is attempting to use temporary restoration of the program as a bargaining chip, as part of an offer to Democrats in exchange for the $5.7 billion he has demanded for a border wall, which has led to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', on toxic coal ash groundwater contamination in 22 states, a tragic pipeline explosion in Mexico, and Trump's government shutdown halting wildfire prevention even as it is temporarily protecting marine wildlife from seismic testing during offshore oil exploration in the Atlantic..."