'BradCast' 4/3/2019: (Guest: John Nichols of The Nation)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Election results from a number of key races in special elections around the country on Tuesday held good and bad news for Democrats and progressives. In Chicago, former federal prosecutor and progressive reformer Lori Lightfoot will become the city's first black female and first openly gay mayor. In the key swing-state of Pennsylvania (which uses 100 percent unverifiable touchscreen voting systems), Democratic Navy vet Pam Iovino is said to have flipped a long-held Republican state senate seat in a special election, a victory is seen as a potential bellwether for the 2020 Presidential race. Democrats will need to win back PA, MI, and WI \u2013 which went to Trump in 2016 but elected Democratic governors in 2018 -- if they hope to win back the White House. The news out of Wisconsin on Tuesday was not good. According to unofficial results in a special election for the state's Supreme Court, progressive-aligned candidate Judge Lisa Neubauer appears to have fallen short against GOP-aligned Judge Brian Hagedorn, who likened homosexuality to bestiality. Wisconsinite JOHN NICHOLS of 'The Nation' analyzes the surprising results. Did a last minute influx of out-of-state Republican cash make the difference?\xa0 While turnout increased for both parties, why did it increase more for the GOP?\xa0 Does a potential "recount" have any chance of reversing the currently reported results? And what should it tell Democrats headed into the crucial 2020 Presidential election? Also today: House Democrats approved subpoenas to require Trump's Attorney General William Barr to turn over the full, unredacted Mueller Report. GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unilaterally moved to change Senate rules (again) to install Trump appointees to lifetime appointments on the federal bench. The House Ways and Means Committee issued a formal request to the IRS for 6 years of tax returns from Donald Trump and eight of his business entities.