'BradCast' 1/5/2017: (More Evidence-Free Cyberwar-Mongering; Steve Rosenfeld on a 'Hail Mary' to Stop Trump)

Published: Jan. 6, 2017, 1:28 a.m.

b"The cyberwar-mongering against Russia continues today in both the U.S. media and U.S. Congress, despite wildly erroneous reporting by mainstream media outlets and the lack of public evidence to support both the claims and calls from Democrats, and some Republicans, to go on the offensive against the former Soviet nation. Those calls were increased today in a U.S. Senate hearing with outgoing Dir. of National Intelligence James Clapper (who previously lied to Congress about NSA spying on Americans), and despite new revelations that the FBI never examined the computer servers of the DNC, which they allege to have been hacked by Russia in hopes of supporting Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. Then, a new report reveals an attempt by a bi-partisan group of attorneys to block the ratification of Trump's Electoral College victory in Congress on Friday, based on the group's finding that more than 50 of Trump's electors were unlawfully and/or unconstitutionally seated.\\xa0 Journalist Steve Rosenfeld, who broke the story late last night, joins us to explain the basis for the last-ditch effort to stop Trump, its chances for success, and what the Democrats' surprising response to it seems to be. Also today: U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan announces that the GOP plans to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood despite the organization's enormous popularity, and Desi Doyen joins us for the first 'Green News Report' of the new year, with a whole bunch of what we missed over the holiday break, including the inaccurate story late last week by the Washington Post charging that 'Russian hackers penetrated [the] U.S. electricity grid'..."