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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Donald Trump's Acting Sec. of Defense Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, has withdrawn his formal nomination after reported difficulties obtaining a standard FBI background clearance. Former Raytheon lobbyist and Trump's Sec. of the Army Mark Esper has been named the new Acting SecDef.\\xa0 The massive electric grid failure in Argentina did not, at least, prevent gubernatorial elections from continuing on Sunday in Argentina, because they wisely use HAND-MARKED paper ballots. That's in contrast to the utter havoc and chaos that would result from a similar outage or attack on the U.S. power grid during an election next year in dozens of states that rely on computer voting systems and electronic poll books. What could possibly go wrong? Freshman Democratic U.S. House Rep. Katie Porter has announced she has decided to call for an official impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump \\u2013 significant in that Porter narrowly won election last year in Republican-leaning Orange County, California. Porter is one of only two Democrats from closely divided swing districts to call publicly for beginning the Constitutional process of impeachment. The Trump Administration has been exercising all manner of legal schemes and Presidential tricks to try and obstruct the Congressional investigation of the many criminal obstruction offenses by Trump detailed in Mueller's report. What are the chances that he will ultimately succeed in his attempts to obstruct Congress? LISA GRAVES, DOJ Deputy Asst. Attorney General, former General Counsel in the US Senate, and former Deputy Chief for the US Court system, explains some of the key elements of Trump's crimes and his attempts to invoke multiple measures to block accountability. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', with details on the South American power grid failure, the U.S. offensive against the Russian power grid, and much more..."