'BradCast' 1/5/2018 (Guest: Investigative financial journalist David Dayen)
While many in the corporate media are distracted by the salacious news and political food fights between Donald Trump and Steve Bannon (and everyone else) stemming from the publication of Michael Wolff's new book, 'Fire & Fury', the Trump Administration is gutting regulations, undermining the rule of law and endangering the nation and planet. We focus on a number of under-reported policy changes and deregulatory actions taken by the Trump Administration that voters need to know about as we head into the crucial 2018 mid-term elections.\xa0 Among the issues: oddly, most Republican members of Congress don't seem overly concerned about their wildly unpopular GOP tax bill. The GOP leadership in Congress says they believe Americans will come to love the new scheme once they begin to see more money in their paychecks -- but how much will average middle-class Americans actually see? Donald Trump now has a ringer at the IRS, unconfirmed Acting IRS Chief David Kautter, who simultaneously works at the Treasury Department in what appears to be a blatant conflict of interest. Investigative financial journalist DAVID DAYEN of The Nation joins us today to explain how Trump's ringer at the Internal Revenue Service may be able to game the nation's paycheck tax withholding scheme beginning in February, in hopes of trying to turn the tide in favor of the GOP tax scam before the 2018 elections...