'BradCast' 2/12/2020 (Guest: Former Deputy Asst. U.S. Attorney General Lisa Graves)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The unspeakably important fight to replace the most dangerous, unfit, authoritarian President this nation has ever seen continued to unfold in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, resulting in a narrow win for Sen. Bernie Sanders, followed closely by Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. But the lively exercise in democracy was marred by the growing crisis in the Department of Justice, where four prosecutors abruptly withdrew in protest from the case against Trump's convicted confidante Roger Stone, after top DOJ officials intervened to reduce Stone's sentencing recommendation in response to public complaints from the President. Trump even attacked the federal judge overseeing Stone's case. New reporting reveals that Attorney General William Barr's apparatchiks also appear to have intervened last month to change DOJ prosecutors' sentencing recommendation for Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Trump also pulled the nomination of former U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu \u2013 who had overseen Stone's case and a number of others from the Mueller probe -- right before she was scheduled to testify in her Senate confirmation hearing for a top Treasury Department post. LISA GRAVES, former Deputy Asst. U.S. Attorney General and former Deputy Chief for the U.S. Court system, joins us to explain the impact of these stunning and somewhat terrifying events, and what it ultimately could mean for the rule of\xa0 law. Graves cites the upcoming election as our only way out, and offers insights into actions that can be taken to restore the independence and ethics of the Justice Department, even after Trump is no longer despoiling the White House. ..