'BradCast' 3/15/2018 (Guest: Bartlett Naylor, former U.S. Senate Banking Comm., Chief Investigator)
Why in the world did 16 U.S. Senate Democrats vote in favor of gutting a central provision of the Dodd-Frank banking reform bill put in place after the 2008 global financial meltdown to avoid another such catastrophe?\xa0 Former Senate Banking Committee's chief investigator, BARTLETT NAYLOR, now with Public Citizen, explains what this bill will do, and how it re-opens the door to the same type of dangerous speculation by big Wall Street banks that led to the Great Recession ten years ago, and why 16 Senate Democrats supported it. Trump hires rightwing TV economist Larry Kudlow as his new top economic adviser \u2013 who wrote "There's no recession coming" just before the beginning of the Great Recession. Also today:\xa0 a deadly pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, and yet another deadly chemical plant explosion in Texas. The White House announced new sanctions against Russia over allegations of interference in the 2016 election, and for a concerted hacking operation targeting critical U.S. infrastructure; Russia has vowed to retaliate. Yet the Dept. of Homeland Security still has not explained why it hasy et to conduct a forensic investigation into any of the nation's extremely vulnerable computerized voting and tabulation systems. Plus Desi Doyen with the latest \u2018Green News Report.'