'BradCast' 7/18/2017: (GOP Senate health care repeal collapses. Again. Twice.)

Published: July 19, 2017, 12:39 a.m.

b"After new defections by two more GOP Senators late Monday night led to the collapse of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's latest attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, his subsequent plan -- to repeal ObamaCare immediately and replace it later -- also collapsed when the number of Republican Senators needed to kill the measure almost immediately vowed to vote against it. Cue Donald Trump's blame game, avoidance of responsibility and lies about the entire matter. So what's next on the Republican agenda? A budget must be passed to avoid a Government shutdown by the end of the September and a major tax cut effort has long been promised. Both items may run into a similar inability of Congressional Republicans to even agree amongst themselves. Such is the danger of illegitimate political enterprises. They work for winning elections, but not so much when it comes to actually governing. Also today: New revelations of attempts to hack South Carolina's general election last November offer a dark omen for elections in the rest of the country. Thousands of legitimate Colorado voters un-register in response to the massive data request for private information by Trump's 'Election Integrity' Commission headed up by 'voter fraud' fraudster Kris Kobach. And new details about the hack last year of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission -- the federal agency tasked with overseeing electronic voting systems in the U.S. -- highlight, yet again, why it's so disturbing that the GOP is attempting to shut down the agency entirely. Finally: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', with huge wildfires in Canada, Trump giving away tax payer dollars to fossil fuel companies and much more -- including, some heroic nuns and a Tropical Storm named Don..."