'BradCast' 5/31/2019 (Guest: MIT nuclear proliferation expert Vipin Narang)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Flooding is getting worse in the Midwest, triggering mandatory evacuations in Arkansas and Missouri, with more severe weather predicted in the days ahead. Republicans and business groups are criticizing Donald Trump's surprise new tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico, intended to pressure them to somehow stop Central American migrants from crossing the southern U.S. border. The new tariffs are likely to cost billions, and are paid by American importers and consumers, and threaten hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs, particularly in the auto and agriculture sectors. Calls grow for House Democrats to launch official impeachment proceedings against the President, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's statement this week clarified the need to continue informing the public about his findings. A group of former high-level GOP attorneys, called Republicans for the Rule of Law, released a new video detailing several of Trump's obstruction crimes highlighted by Mueller. Also today: after several months of relative calm during negotiations with Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un began testing missiles again in early May, but Trump has continued to downplay -- or completely deny -- Kim's actions. Trump seems more obsessed with Iran, which does not have nuclear weapons, but may be ramping up its nuclear program again in the wake of Trump pulling out of the anti-nuclear agreement struck during the Obama Administration. Vipin Narang of MIT's Security Studies Program explains what may be underway on the Korean peninsula, how the Trump Administration is responding to both North Korea and Iran, and what may happen next..."