'BradCast' 5/4/2018 (TN's election night cyberattack; Swamp things)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 an election night cyber-attack in Knox County, Tennessee's local primaries on Tuesday should have election officials there -- and everywhere -- far more concerned than they appear to be. The attack echoes similar incidents we've seen previously (including at the end of election night during the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio).\xa0 Such attacks are likely to become more frequent, and election and cybersecurity officials continue to woefully misunderstand the dangers to our elections when they (falsely) tell the public that their voting and tabulation systems are "never connected to the Internet." Missouri's Republican-majority state legislature has overwhelmingly voted to call a special session to consider impeachment of the state's Republican Governor Eric Greitens, who now faces three different felony charges and two separate court trials in both a sexual blackmail scandal and a campaign finance scandal. The Show-Me State's Governor refuses to resign, echoing Donald Trump in calling the well-documented evidence against him the result of a "witch hunt" by prosecutors (and his own party?) \u2013 but so far the extraordinary historical moment is actually an example of how the system is supposed to work. Contrast that to what is going on in D.C. today, where Republicans in the House and Senate, who ought to be demanding accountability from a corrupt President, are looking the other way and undermining prosecutors, and the Justice Department suggests they cannot indict a sitting President.\xa0 Whatever shred of credibility this Administration may have once had has now disintegrated so much amidst Trump's latest flip-flops on a number of scandals, so much so that one top Fox "News" anchor unloaded on the president, with an astonishing smack down.\xa0 Finally, Desi Doyen joins us with an update on the evacuations and eruptions of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, and global warming-related disasters hitting the state, as well as the third refinery explosion and fire in three weeks, this time in Louisiana...