'BradCast' 1/22/2021 (Guest: The Prospect's David Dayen on Biden out of the starting gate)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 It's only Day 3 for the Biden Administration, but it feels like Donald Trump has been gone for months. We catch up with the President Biden's flurry of executive actions since taking office, and the Republicans' attempts to continue Senate dysfunction and obstruction, even though Democrats are now (theoretically) in the majority. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House will send Donald Trump's latest Article of Impeachment for 'Incitement of Insurrection' to the US Senate on Monday, and his unprecedented second Senate impeachment trial will likely begin soon thereafter.\\xa0 Trump's business empire continues to crumble, as more banks and law firms have now dumped the toxic former President following his incitement of the attempted U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6. Financial journalist and author DAVID DAYEN, Executive Editor of The American Prospect, offers his perspective on President Biden's first half-week in office, the corporate media's curious adjustments in covering the new administration, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's ongoing attempts to delay the full turn-over of the Senate to Democrats. Dayen also explains a prescription for speeding up delivery of both new relief checks and vaccine shots to the American people, even as Republicans obstruct Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief proposal and try to handcuff Democrats from eliminating the Senate's democracy-stifling legislative filibuster. Also today: prescient thoughts from Jon Stewart from the first month of the already-exhausting Trump Administration..."