'BradCast' 1/9/2017 (Guest: Public Citizen's David Arkush on Sec. of State nominee Rex Tillerson's conflicts of interest)
A blizzard of top Donald Trump cabinet nominees - each with\xa0 huge, corporate conflicts of interests - are set to come up for their confirmation hearings in U.S. Senate committee all at the same time, and before the U.S. Office of Government Ethics has completed background checks on many of them. One of those nominees, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, tapped by Trump for U.S. Secretary of State, filed legal papers with the SEC last week detailing plans to divest from the oil giant. But David Arkush, Managing Director of Public Citizen's Climate Program, says a discrepancy in the filings may keep Tillerson's allegiance to Exxon profits ahead of his interests to the well-being of the U.S. Arkush joins us to discuss the discrepancy and other major concerns about Tillerson's nomination. Also today: apparently it's not 'terrorism' when a mass shooting is carried out by a non-ISIS American, and Hollywood takes a stand against Trump and in favor of press freedom...