'BradCast' 2/23/2018 ('Washington' isn't broken. The Republican Party is.)

Published: Feb. 24, 2018, 1:32 a.m.

b"Among the many stories covered on today's program: Donald Trump's horrendous idea to arm teachers with guns in schools appears to have come straight from 1970s sit-com character Archie Bunker, and it won't work out well -- especially for black teachers. NRA favorite Florida Gov. Rick Scott proposes a package of tepid gun reforms in the wake of the Parkland, FL massacre, including barring those under 21 from buying a semi-automatic rifle. A handful of Congressional Republicans also consider raising the federal age for gun purchases, but don't hold your breath that any meaningful gun safety will come to pass. The problem isn't 'Washington' or 'Congress' -- it's Republicans, and it's time to remove them from office at the federal, state and local level. Former Trump aide Rick Gates cops a guilty plea, vows to cooperate with Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe. Trump may be about to fire his second National Security Advisor, Gen. H.R. McMaster. Did Melania Trump's parents receive permanent U.S. residency thanks to the "chain migration" (family reunification) program that Donald Trump and the GOP are attempting to kill in exchange for protection for DACA kids?\\xa0 Defense Secretary James Mattis has quietly decided to allow transgender troops to serve in the military, despite Trump's attempts to block them from serving "in any capacity". Democrats and gun reform advocates launch new effort to register high school students to vote in advance of the 2018 mid-term elections. Plus some closing thoughts on the heroic students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, including the\\xa0 moving performance of an original song they wrote just days after a former student, with a legally purchased semi-automatic weapon, killed 17 of their fellow students and teachers, and wounded more than a dozen others..."