'BradCast' 6/4/2018 (Guest: Fordham Univ. legal historian Jed Shugerman)
Team Trump is once again on the offensive following the disclosure of a 20-page letter from Trump's attorneys to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, wherein they argued that presidents cannot be subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury, cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice (since they have unfettered power over all Dept. of Justice investigations), cannot be indicted while serving, and have absolute power to pardon anyone for any crime, at any time, for any reason. On Monday, Trump took to Twitter to allege that the Mueller probe is \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and asserted that he has "the absolute right to pardon" himself.\xa0 Constitutional law experts disagree on that -- Fordham University School of Law professor and legal historian Jed Shugerman explains several historical and legal points of clarity and precedent on the power of presidential pardons, subpoenas, and indictments and the expansive powers that Trump and his attorneys have claimed in recent days.\xa0 Also today: Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin refuses to respond to questions about Team Trump's admission, contradicting previous denials, that the president "dictated" a false statement regarding Don Jr.'s infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian nationals to obtain "dirt" on Hillary Clinton. Also today: Trump remains wildly popular among Republicans. Corporate CEOs flatly state that despite record profits and the massive GOP tax cuts, they have no intention of raising pay for workers. As voters head to the polls for 2018 mid-term primary elections in eight states on Tuesday, an Election Integrity author reminds us that Russia isn't the only threat to our easily-manipulated computerized election results in the U.S....