'BradCast' 7/12/2017: (Guest: Lisa Gilbert of Public Citizen)
Hackers have been stealing thousands of credit card numbers from Donald Trump's hotels. But, other than that, no need to worry about his ability to oversee our nation's cybersecurity. In related-ish news, Trump is said to be furious in the wake of Donald Trump Jr.'s recently revealed meeting with a Russian attorney who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton during the campaign last year. But he's not mad at Trump Jr. -- he's mad at the media for reporting it, apparently, and at the dozens of 'sources' inside his own White House and otherwise close to him, who keep leaking these damaging stories to the press. In turn, even Congressional Republicans are growing increasingly furious at the Administration, as their legislative agenda continues to be undermined by the ever-growing turmoil of Team Trump. Nonetheless, Senate Republicans are planning to move health care repeal forward next week, and have reportedly removed a few of the huge tax cuts to the wealthy in the bill in hopes of winning enough GOPers for approval in the chamber. That, even as a new study finds that the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare') they hope to dismantle isn't in a 'death spiral'. In fact, it's actually more healthy and profitable than ever, despite the Republican attempts to undermine it. Finally, some more good-ish news as the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created in response to the 2007 global banking crisis, enacts a new rule to curb 'arbitration clauses' that keep customers from being able to sue banks and credit card companies who are ripping them off.\xa0 Public Citizen's Vice President of Legislative Affairs Lisa Gilbert joins us to explain the good-ish news, and the Republicans' plan to undermine it altogether as soon as humanly possible...