'BradCast' 4/11/2017: (Guest: VOA White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman)
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says something incredibly stupid. Hardly a news flash, but Steve Herman, Voice of America's White House Bureau Chief was there and explains what happened. More importantly, the veteran 26-year journalist who, until recently, had been based in Asia, joins us to offer key background and perspective on the Trump Administration's provocative, aggressive and cryptic new position on nuclear-armed North Korea, and with a U.S. strike force carrier group now said to be heading towards the Korean Peninsula for a 'show of force'. The remarkably level-headed Herman offers important insight on what could be another new American military action on the heels of last week's attack on Syria.\xa0 Also today: Voting is underway in a special election for what is being seen by both Republicans and Democrats to be a surprisingly tight race to fill an open Republican U.S. House seat in a deeply Republican district in Kansas. Today's results could be a bellwether for not only 2018, but for another special election next Tuesday for the U.S. House in another GOP district, in Georgia, which is now being regarded by political analysts, incredibly enough, as a 'toss-up'. Can democracy really save U.S. democracy? Finally today, some extraordinarily ironic news about the Kentucky Coal Museum in a nearly forgotten tiny coal town...