'BradCast' 5/1/2017: (Guest: Dave Johnson of People's Action/Campaign for America's Future)
Today: A number of multiple-victim shootings played out across America, from San Diego to Topeka to Dallas, in the past 24 hours, but received little mainstream media coverage, for some reason. At the same time, on Saturday, hundreds of thousands turned out across the country for the People's Climate March, with nearly 200,000 of them in sweltering 90 degree heat (in late April!) in Washington D.C. The latest protest against the Trump Administration's attempts to deny science and cut funding to climate-related programs came just hours after Trump's EPA began deleting climate change-related facts and scientific data from its website. And all of that happened as Donald Trump's presidency hit its first 100 days, a period marked by, among other things, a failure to pass any of the legislative goals announced during his campaign. In hopes of distracting from that failure to date, the Administration released a hastily compiled one-page outline for what they describe as "The Biggest...Tax Cut in American History". Dave Johnson, Senior Fellow at the progressive Campaign for America's Future, joins us to explain how the proposed cuts would hurt poor and middle-class Americans, but would be a huge gift to the rich and blow a massive hole in the federal deficit, which Republicans, for decades, have pretended to oppose. Finally, more firings and fall-out announced today at the Fox 'News' Channel, in response to the myriad and systemic sexual harassment complaints against its now-former creator Roger Ailes and its now-former top star Bill O'Reilly...