'BradCast' 6/4/2019 (Gun Safety, 'Live Hand Grenades' and Beyond the 'Middle Ground' to Fight Our Climate Crisis)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Virgina's Democratic Governor Ralph Northam will convene a special session of the state legislature for "votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers," in response to last Friday's mass shooting in Virginia Beach in which twelve people were killed. Republicans have controlled both chambers of the VA state legislature through gerrymandering, blocking all gun safety measures, but the entire General Assembly will be on the ballot in VA's off-year elections in November 2019. Congressional Republicans appear to be pushing back against Donald Trump's promised new tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico. Our constitutional crisis continues:\xa0 the White House has directed former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and former White House Counsel Chief of Staff Annie Donaldson to defy lawful Congressional subpoenas. As the persistent drumbeat to launch an impeachment inquiry grows louder each day against the scofflaw president, Democrats are preparing a number of contempt of Congress votes against current and former Administration members. In 2020 Presidential election news, former Vice President Joe Biden released a $5 trillion climate plan that includes $1.7 trillion in federal spending over the next ten years, to be paid for by reversing the GOP's 2017 $1.5 trillion tax cuts and ending subsidies for fossil fuel companies. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released her own $2 trillion 'Green Manufacturing' plan to take on the climate crisis. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', with passage of the $19 billion disaster relief package in Congress despite Republican obstruction, the Trump Administration's newest scam to suppress climate science, Colorado's new plan to go big on renewable energy, and -- this is true -- the Administration's promise of "freedom gas" for the world!...