'BradCast' 5/29/2019 (Guest: Heather Digby Parton)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke publicly for the first time about his two-year probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, and Donald Trump's obstruction of that investigation. Mueller made clear that because Dept. of Justice guidelines prevent the indictment of a sitting President, he and his team of investigators would have cleared the President of wrong-doing if they could have: "If we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so...We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime." Mueller's statement, once again, clearly places the matter of impeachment on Congress' doorstep. House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler offered his strongest condemnation of Trump to date, charging that "the Special Counsel has clearly demonstrated that President Trump is lying about the Special Counsel's findings, lying about the testimony of key witnesses in the Special Counsel's report and, above all, lying in saying that the Special Counsel found no obstruction and no collusion." Nadler did not answer whether his Committee would begin a formal impeachment inquiry or subpoena Mueller to testify. Award-winning opinion journalist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Digby's Hulaballoo offers analysis and insight into today's events \u2013 charging that Mueller's statements highlight how Trump's Attorney General William Barr blatantly misrepresented the Special Counsel's findings, and "Democrats are dithering" in the face of clear and convincing evidence of criminal obstruction by the President of the United States. Also today: Libertarian Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan -- alone among Congressional Republicans -- has offered summary condemnations of what he describes as Trump's "impeachable" behavior. The National Weather Service predicts that the relentless weeks of severe weather, that has left a trail of destruction across multiple Midwestern states, should begin calming somewhat...