'BradCast' 2/18/2020 (Trump pardons; Barr/DoJ Crisis; Bloomberg/Sanders Rising; Nevada Concerns)

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 2:34 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Amid an already deepening crisis at the Justice Dept., Trump went on a "clemency spree" on Tuesday, issuing pardons to a long list of crooks, liars, tax frauds and scam artists, many of them personal friends of Trump. The Justice Department is in full crisis after Attorney General Bill Barr's unprecedented interventions in criminal cases involving Trump cronies. Calls for Barr's resignation are growing, in a scathing op-ed from former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer, and now a bipartisan public letter signed by more than 2,000 former DoJ officials, all demanding Barr step down for corrupting the DOJ. The Federal Judges Association has called an immediate emergency meeting to discuss the crisis at the DOJ and Trump's attacks on individual judges. In the Dominican Republic, officials were forced to postpone municipal elections due to failed electronic voting systems. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has succeeded in buying his way onto Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate stage in Las Vegas, even though he will not be on the ballot in the Nevada Caucuses on Saturday. New reports warn that the Nevada Caucuses are shaping up to be a "complete disaster" mirroring Iowa's caucus fiasco, due to under-trained caucus leaders, a very complicated caucus process, lack of communication between the state party and the candidate campaigns, and the state party's first-time use of untested iPad "Caucus Calculators".\\xa0 CA Gov. Newsom signed a new law allowing voters to change their party registration at any time to vote in the primary, including on Election Day. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', including some very big news from CNBC's Jim Cramer declaring fossil fuels "over!"..."