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Donald Trump's Yemen raid last week -- the first special ops mission he signed off on after becoming President -- was an unmitigated disaster during which a U.S. Navy SEAL was killed along with a number civilians, including an 8-year old American girl. The target was reportedly meant to be the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who is still alive and well and mocking Trump. Also mocking Trump this week is the Supreme Leader of Iran, after Trump put their country "on notice" in a Tweet last week. Back at home, the President's wildly controversial and unqualified nominee for Education Secretary, billionaire Betsy DeVos, became the first cabinet nominee in history to to be approved by the U.S. Senate after a tie vote in which the Vice President had to cast the decisive vote.\xa0 In the meantime, while The Netherlands announces they will do away with computer tabulation machines in their upcoming election, due to fear of hacking, Republicans in the U.S. House moved to dismantle the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the only federal agency tasked with setting standards for our nation's oft-failed, easily-hacked electronic voting and tabulation systems. While the EAC has been a disaster on several levels since it's creation following the 2000 Presidential election debacle in Florida -- we report today on a number of BradBlog.com exclusives highlighting those disasters over the years -- the answer to the EAC's problems is not to abolish the agency, but to fund it properly and make it work. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', along with today's late breaking news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has granted the easement needed to complete the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, overturning former President Obama's order to conduct a full environment impact study before construction is completed.