'BradCast' 6/20/2017 (Guest: Seth Abramson of Univ. of NH)

Published: June 20, 2017, 11:45 p.m.

b"Senate Republicans indicated today that they will call for a vote on their secret Obamacare replacement bill before the July 4th recess next week, and announced they will get the votes needed for passage. If they are right, the results will likely be devastating for millions of Americans, and not only the poor. One of out three elderly Americans in nursing homes, for example, rely on Medicaid to cover the costs, and the GOP is about to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the program in exchange for massive tax cuts for the wealthy. We discuss that, and the unbelievably stupid explanation for climate change just offered by Energy Secretary Rick Perry. We also offer a very quick preview of the U.S. House Special Elections being held today on 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting machines in BOTH Georgia and South Carolina.\\xa0 (We'll have results, whatever they are reported to be, on tomorrow's show). Then we're joined by attorney, author, columnist and University of New Hampshire professor Seth Abramson to step through his recent 50 tweet(!) tweetstorm detailing the 'bedlam' that is likely to ensue when and if Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is forced to recuse himself from overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Team Trump and, reportedly, obstruction of justice by the President himself in his firing of FBI Director James Comey.\\xa0 The chain of events that could come about as the result of Rosenstein's recusal are amazing, and could lead to a real Constitutional Crisis and even completely separate obstruction of justice charges against Trump, based on an entirely different investigation related to his February mass firing of all of the US Attorneys. Lots of jaw-dropping 'bedlam' unpacked and explained in detail by Abramson on today's show. Finally, another heartbreaking story of yet another immigrant victim of Trump's, now facing deportation despite spending months in the clean-up efforts at Ground Zero after 9/11..."