'BradCast' 4/19/2018: (Climate denier confirmed as NASA chief and other electoral disasters)
Today's show serves as a trenchant reminder of the importance of elections, particularly with majority control of the U.S. Senate now hanging in the balance in this November's mid-term elections. Among the stories covered today:\xa0 Former prosecutor and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joins Donald Trump's legal defense team hoping to shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Team Trump.\xa0\xa0 After a months-long struggle, the U.S. Senate barely managed to confirm a long-time Republican climate science denier to head NASA, the $20 billion federal agency which, among other things, tracks key climate-related data for the world.\xa0 Vulnerable Democratic U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota announces she will support Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, CIA Director Mike Pompeo (also a climate science denier).\xa0 GOP "voter fraud" fraudster, Kansas Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach is held in contempt of federal court for a second time, receiving a drubbing from a George W. Bush-appointed federal judge for repeatedly and "disingenuously" misleading the court in a major voter suppression case in the state, affecting tens of thousands of voters. The Republican-controlled Arizona state legislature attempts a sneaky maneuver to prevent voters from filling a vacated U.S. Senate seat for as long as two and a half years.\xa0 In Texas, a new poll finds Rep. Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic challenger to Republican Senator Ted Cruz, now within the poll's margin of error to unseat Cruz in what had previously been the very "red" Lone Star State.\xa0 Plus, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' on the blackout across the entire island of Puerto Rico, new climate liability suits filed this week, and Earth Day this weekend, with a focus on fighting the scourge of plastic pollution...