'BradCast' 6/13/2017: (Guest: Journalist David Dayen)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in open session today, and pushed back against what he described as the "secret innuendo" to smear him with the "appalling and detestable lie" that he colluded with Russia in any way. Sessions said he did not violate his recusal from the Trump/Russia investigation when he recommended that the President fire FBI Director James Comey. But he also refused to answer a number of questions concerning his conversations with Trump, despite the fact that Trump has not invoked Executive Privilege on the conversations in question. We cover those hearings today, before turning to a number of matters that have received far less attention in the media, with author and financial journalist David Dayen. Among the otherwise-overlooked topics we discuss: The stunning results of last week's UK elections (what it means for the UK, the US, and a more progressive future for young voters); the CHOICE Act passed by the House last week to gut the modest banking regulations enacted in response to the 2007 global economic collapse (can it possibly pass in the Senate? And does the White House even want it to, given that they are already rolling back those same regulations on their own?); how Trump's new scheme to 'invest' in infrastructure is actually a very thinly-veiled plan to privatize public assets, like the federal Air Traffic Control system. Finally, more infighting among Democrats in Congress, as some members in the caucus move forward with a plan to impeach Donald Trump, while Democratic leadership pushes back to kill (or at least slow down) the process...