'BradCast' 6/8/2018 (Guest: Former HUD official Diane Yentel of the National Low Income Housing Coalition)
b"On today's show:\\xa0 The Department of Justice appears to have ignored its own guidelines for dealing with journalists and their Constitutional First Amendment protections when it secretly seizing phone and email records from a NYT journalist without her knowledge -- meaning confidential sources and whistleblowers have presumably now all been exposed to the DoJ. In a related story, a longtime former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer has been charged with lying to federal investigators \\u2013 not charged with actually leaking classified information, just of lying to investigators (so far). Both developments have, justifiably, gravely alarmed journalists and First Amendment advocates. In another alarming break with precedent and tradition, Trump's DoJ announced it will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") against a lawsuit filed by 20 Republican state Attorneys General, which, according to experts, is an otherwise very weak case against the healthcare law that has allowed tens of millions of Americans to access affordable healthcare. We explain the basis of the suit, and how, if successful, it would gut two of the most popular provisions of the ACA by eliminating restrictions barring insurance companies from charging the elderly more for health insurance and denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. Meanwhile, a new bill introduced in Congress and supported by the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson would increase rent for low-income tenants in HUD-subsidized housing by 26% per year, every year \\u2013 which could force families into homelessness, but absurdly billed as an \\u201cattempt to give poor people a way out of poverty."\\xa0 Guest Diane Yentel, former HUD administrator under Barack Obama and now President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, explains the extraordinarily cruel measure, noting that "by design, the greatest burden falls on seniors, people with disabilities, and families with young kids,\\u201d and debunks the many false claims made by the Administration."