'BradCast' 2/25/2019 (Guest: Stephen Schwartz of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)
On today's show: In the GOP absentee ballot election fraud scandal in North Carolina's 9th district, state prosecutors say they intend to investigate whether to file criminal charges will against Republican House candidate Mark Harris and the GOP operative he hired, McCrae Dowless, who carried out the scheme, for election fraud, lying under oath, and campaign finance violations. Donald Trump, after months of silence, was finally forced to comment on the unprecedented NC election fraud scandal -- in word salad remarks, he offered a torrent of false, disproven, and evidence-free claims on the myth of \u201cvoter fraud.\u201d\xa0 Military and atomic experts are expressing concern for what Trump may bargain away during his second nuclear summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam this week. Given the North increasing its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities after their first meeting last June, are experts overly worried that Trump will try to make any kind of "deal" with Kim in order to walk away with something he can pretend to be a "win"? Analyst STEPHEN SCHWARTZ of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- keepers of the so-called Doomsday Clock -- offers insight and perspective on the prospects for the talks with a U.S. President as wildly unbalanced and unqualified as our current one \u2013 and the need, as Brad argues, for "nuclear security triage," given the greater danger that Trump, with his finger on the nuclear button, presents to the world. Plus some thoughts on the Oscars ceremony, including director Spike Lee winning his long-overdue first Oscar \u2013 and even though Lee never mentioned Trump by name during his acceptance speech, our racist President found a way to make it all about him...