'BradCast' 5/21/2018 (Guest: Cliff Schecter of The Daily Beast)

Published: May 22, 2018, 12:34 a.m.

b"First up:\\xa0 a quick preview of Tuesday's primary elections in Arkansas, Kentucky and Georgia, and the primary run-offs in Texas, where the internecine battles between progressives and establishment Democrats continue. Don Blankenship, the coal baron and former federal felon (convicted for his role in safety violations resulting in the 2010 deaths of 29 minors in one of his mines in 2010) says he plans to run on a third party ticket for West Virginia's U.S. Senate this November after losing the GOP primary two weeks ago. A trove of witness statements related to the October 2017 massacre in Las Vegas have been released \\u2013 although officials never declared a motive, the witness statements suggest the shooter was an anti-government fanatic who had cited longtime Fox "News" and Rightwing talk radio tropes such as Waco, Ruby Ridge and FEMA camps. New details on the politically brain-addled man who opened fire inside the Trump National Doral Miami resort on Friday.\\xa0 Author, columnist and longtime gun legislation advocate CLIFF SCHECTER discusses the fallout following Friday's mass shooting at Santa Fe High School outside of Houston, where a 17-year old student killed 10 and wounded at least 10 others.\\xa0 With the US now averaging at least one school shooting per week in 2018, we discuss what can be done about the years-long failure of NRA-backed Republican politicians -- who offer "thoughts and prayers" but no actual action -- to try to curb the nation's ongoing tragic, obscene gun epidemic.\\xa0 Plus: it's become embarrassingly plain that Trump has absolutely no idea what he is doing in the upcoming June summit with North Korea's Kim Jong, as revealed (once again) in the wake of National Security Adviser John Bolton's ill-advised "Libyan model" comments...."