'BradCast' 12/2/2020: (Trump's dangerous rhetoric; Former Nat'l Security Council member William Tobey on Iran's nuclear program)

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 2:21 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Everything and everybody is on the edge, and it feels like we're near a breaking point, at home and abroad. In Georgia, Republican election officials call on Donald Trump to stop his unhinged, false allegations that the state's election was 'stolen', warning 'someone is going to get killed' because Trump has inspired his supporters to unleash increasingly violent rhetoric and death threats against election officials and workers. But on Wednesday, Trump escalated his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and undermine democracy, delivering more dangerously incendiary, deluded remarks falsely declaring the election 'rigged'. Trump's recently-pardoned former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn called for sedition, encouraging Trump to declare martial law, suspend the Constitution, and order the U.S. military oversee a national re-vote. In 'lighter' news, we turn to the ongoing fallout from Trump's violation of the landmark Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - which had successfully blocked Iran from developing nuclear weapons until Trump withdrew the U.S. from it - the recent assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, and Trump's assassination of revered Iranian General Qassam Soleimani earlier this year. Harvard University's WILLIAM TOBEY, former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration and an expert in nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism, explains the international repercussions from these assassinations, and the difficult potential options for the incoming Biden Administration to strike a new deal, as Iran has vowed both revenge and to continue increasing its production of nuclear materials after the dissolution of the JCPOA. Tobey soberly warns, 'we are in a more dangerous position today than we were in 2018.'\\xa0 Plus: a bit of fun with the concession speech we all should have heard long ago..."