'BradCast' 3/12/2019 (Impeachment off the table? Again? Also: The Venezuela scam and more)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to take impeachment 'off the table', just like she did back in 2006 during the George W. Bush regime. It was a mistake then and it's a mistake now -- perhaps not a political one, but a mistake for the nation and its long term well-being. NY State's Attorney General has reportedly subpoenaed financial institutions over their dealings with Donald Trump. In North Carolina, federal prosecutors have finally stepped in to investigate a GOP absentee ballot fraud scheme. The Trump Administration is recalling U.S. diplomats from Venezuela, saying their presence in the country has become a 'constraint' on U.S. policy. Top Trump officials have been threatening the administration of President Nicolas Maduro for several months since opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself to be President of the nation in turmoil. An excellent report by the New York Times reveals that at least some of the claims made by Trump Administration officials and Republicans in Congress (like Sen. Marco Rubio) against President Nicolas Maduro are based on false information \u2013 a NYT video shows allegations that Maduro's forces set fire to aid trucks coming from Colombia are inaccurate. This is just one more reason to be skeptical about Trump's intentions and media reports regarding the troubled South American nation. Sen. Rubio was also hilariously wrong in his false claims about an explosion at the 'German Dam' in Bolivar State!\xa0 Plus, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', with news on the oil, gas and mining lobbyist set to head the U.S. Interior Dept, Wyoming Republicans bailing out their coal industry, and this Friday's global Climate Strike, in which kids in more than 90 countries will walk out of school to rally and demand of action on climate change, thanks to the inspiration of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg...