'BradCast' 4/18/2019 (Mueller Time - Guests: Richard Eskow, Jacki Schechner)

Published: April 19, 2019, 12:46 a.m.

b"We shouldn't be surprised that Donald Trump's newly-appointed Attorney General William Barr has gone out of his way to obstruct justice, in his attempt to misdirect from the repeated obstruction of justice painstakingly detailed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report. Even in the redacted version, which Barr finally allowed to be released today, Trump's attempts to shut down the Special Counsel probe are more than clear. Barr delayed the report's release for nearly a month, then offered an astonishing -- if ham-fisted -- sleight-of-hand in his misdirect, an hour before the report on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election was released, detailing President Trump's attempts to frustrate the FBI's investigation of the interference and the Special Counsel's probe launched after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.\\xa0\\xa0Journalists RICHARD ESKOW, columnist and host of The Zero Hour radio and TV program, and JACKI SCHECHNER of the Committee to Investigate Russia, join us to analyze Barr's redacted version of Mueller's report -- a first look at the culmination of the\\xa0\\xa0two-year effort, detailing various coordination efforts, knowingly and otherwise, with Russia's efforts to influence 2016 election, and the President of the United States' repeated attempts to obstruct the probe into his own obstruction of justice after the firing Comey and the naming of Special Counsel Mueller. We also discuss what may -- or should -- happen next, as House Democrats subpoena the Department of Justice for the full, unredacted report and all underlying evidence, and calls for the impeachment of Donald J. Trump grow \\u2013 not surprisingly, given the remarkable revelations of Trump's corruption, detailed by\\xa0\\xa0Mueller. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report'..."