'BradCast' 1/9/2019: (Guest: Matt Gertz of Media Matters)
b"On today's show:\\xa0 Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Donald Trump of governing "by temper tantrum" in the Democratic response, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to Trump's televised prime-time Oval Office address, used by Trump to gain public support for his demand of $5 billion for a southern border wall or else he'll keep the government shut down. The speech offered no new information and, at times parroted word-for-word, rightwing anti-immigration, pro-wall commentary from Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs' on Fox 'News'.\\xa0 On Wednesday, Trump reportedly stormed out of a White House negotiation meeting with Congressional Democrats, as his partial federal government shutdown drags on into its third week. The costs of that shutdown to some 800,000 federal workers are rapidly intensifying -- paychecks will not be issued this week for many workers already facing extraordinary hardship thanks to the shutdown, which Trump has threatened to continue for "months or even years" unless Democrats agree to his demands. Since nothing new was offered in Trump's Tuesday night prime-time speech, why did the television networks agree to litter our public airwaves with false claims and long-ago debunked propaganda? We're joined by Media Matters' MATT GERTZ, who charges that the "networks got played,\\u201d to examine why the networks allowed it to happen, and whether new efforts to fact check and debunk Trump's false claims are helpful to the public. Also today:\\xa0 the midterm 2018 'blue wave' continues into 2019, as Dems in Virginia win very big in the first Special Election of the year. And Donald Trump threatens, via misspelled tweet, to cut off FEMA wildfire recovery aid to California, following the worst and most deadly fires in state history. Whether he will follow through with that threat is a separate question, of course, and his absurd explanation as to why he claims to be doing it are, of course, nonsense...."