'BradCast' 1/3/2022 (Welcome to 2022. What Now? What Next? Here We Go!)

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 3:15 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The New York State Attorney General has subpoenaed Donald Trump, his son Don Jr., and daughter Ivanka Trump in the investigation into allegations of tax and bank fraud by Trump and his Trump Organization.\\xa0 Colorado officials say nearly 1,000 homes and other structures were destroyed in the Denver suburbs due to a massive December wildfire driven by hurricane-force wind gusts; climate scientists say man-made climate change was a primary factor in the destruction. Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of ultra-far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for violating the social media company's COVID-19 misinformation policies, but Greene can continue to spread lies, fraud and nonsense on her official account. The New York Times' Editorial Board warns the U.S. 'faces an existential threat' from Trump and his allies, who are leading a movement that is 'openly contemptuous of democracy...willing to use violence to achieve its ends.'\\xa0 Polls indicate most of the public does not yet understand the very real threat posed to American democracy by Donald Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election, and that the Republican Party has paid no price among voters for inciting the Jan. 6 attack or for new state voting suppression laws. The bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack says it has first-hand evidence that then-President Trump watched the attack on TV and rejected pleas to quell the insurrection that he incited, with Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney calling Trump 'clearly unfit for future office.'\\xa0 Callers weigh in on all of the above and more..."