'BradCast' 4/12/2019 (Guest: Igor Volsky)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 New Zealand's new ban on military-style assault weapons officially went into effect on Friday, leaving many in the U.S. wondering why action on gun safety here remains seemingly impossible. IGOR VOLKSY, founder of Guns Down America and author of the new book 'Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns', explains what lessons we might learn from New Zealand. Volsky calls for bold new platforms and new political framing from 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates, and explains how Dems can act without flinching against the politically powerful NRA and its rightwing propaganda outlets. Also today:\xa0 Fox News promoted, then retracted, a graphic of a poll that falsely proclaimed Trump's public approval ratings were "soaring" when in fact he has a 55 percent disapproval rating. Republicans and Trump have completed the regulatory capture of virtually every executive branch agency, with corporate executives and lobbyists now overseeing and regulating the same industries for which they previously worked. Do Fox viewers know that Trump has filled the D.C. "swamp"? Do they just not care? Trump doubles down on his impeachable behavior at the southern border. Democrats in Congress can learn a lot from freshman Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA), who absolutely shames JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon for the paltry wages he pays employees, detailing how many of his full-time employees are actually losing money each month, even though the bank recorded $9 billion PROFIT in the first quarter of 2019 alone, and Dimon enjoyed a $31 million salary last year. In a remarkable exchange in a House hearing, former Sec. of State John Kerry smacks down climate-science denying clown, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Suffice to say, if you're bested by John Kerry in a debate, you must be really bad at it, and the laughable Massie certainly was...