'BradCast' 3/13/2018 (Guest: National Security reporter Marcy Wheeler)
Trump's unending White House chaos appears to have morphed into a Trump White House purge of not-insane top officials, beginning with his firing via tweet of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday. Trump has nominated former rightwing congressman and Fox News flunky-turned-CIA Director Mike Pompeo to take over the role of the nation's top diplomat, and Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel (who oversaw torture at so-called "black site" prisons during the George W. Bush presidency) to take over as CIA chief. National security and civil rights journalist MARCY WHEELER of Empywheel.net explains today's alarming developments, and whether Pompeo and Haspel will make it through the Senate confirmation process, and how all of this underscores the failure by Congressional Democrats and former President Barack Obama to demand accountability for the criminals at the center of Bush's torture regime. Finally, Desi Doyen has joins us with some thoughts on the removal of Tillerson (not a climate science denier, even when he was former CEO of ExxonMobil) and for the latest 'Green News Report', in which the nation and planet continue to suffer from the perfidy of dishonest Republican climate change denialism...