'BradCast' 1/6/2017: (Dem Senators fail to challenge Electoral College Certification; Steve Horn on GOP passage of REINS Act)
While the corporate media was covering another mass shooting, the U.S. Congress was meeting in a Joint Session to certify the Electoral College vote count. Despite multiple challenges by House Democrats, not one U.S. Senator would join the challenge. And so Donald J. Trump officially became the President-Elect today. In another display of Democrats not understanding what they are up against, Republicans in the U.S. House passed the REINS Act on Day 2 of the new Congressional session. The bill, which the Koch Brothers and their many political organizations have been pushing for years, would upend more than a century of governmental functioning by requiring every major regulation adopted by a federal agency be approved by both houses of Congress within 70 days. Investigative journalist Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog joins us to discuss the disturbing and far-reaching ramifications. Finally, as the GOP drastically limits the number of days and witnesses for upcoming confirmation hearings of Trump's top cabinet appointments, a number of longtime Dept. of Justice Civil Rights attorneys have called out AL Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump's controversial nominee for U.S. Attorney General, for lying about his litigation record on civil rights when he served as US Attorney...