'BradCast' 3/22/2018 (Congress funds wrong solution for U.S. election problems)
Bombshell news that Trump's National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is being replaced by hard-right Fox 'News' neo-con wingnut John Bolton. Also today:\xa0 The Dow plunges more than 700 points after Trump announces his trade war with China. Trump's lead defense attorney, John Dowd, quits. U.S. House approves massive $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the government open before Friday's midnight deadline for a government shutdown. But, as Brad explains, the bill includes funding for cybersecurity "upgrades" to our nation's election systems, bolstered by extremely ill-considered new recommendations from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that will actually increase the amount of vulnerable, hackable hardware and software in our elections, and decrease public oversight of elections. Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker is ordered by a judge (who he appointed) to immediately call special elections for two vacant state legislative seats.\xa0 Pennsylvania statehouse Republicans move to impeach four Democratic state Supreme Court Justices who mandated a new U.S. House district map before the 2018 mid-term elections, after ruling the one drawn by Republicans in 2011 was an unlawful partisan gerrymander. Plus Desi Doyen with the latest 'Green News Report', with some good news for the EPA, some disturbing news about bottled water, and some heartbreaking news for mankind...