'BradCast' 7/24/2019 (Special Coverage: Mueller Testimony)
On today's 'BradCast': Special coverage of the long-awaited testimony of former FBI Director and Republican former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the U.S. House on Wednesday. During nearly 7 hours of hearings before the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Mueller confirmed key details of his 448-page report on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election, the Trump Campaign's coordination with that effort and, in most detail, multiple instances of both indictable and impeachable criminal corruption of justice laid out by the report. We air extended excerpts of today's hearings, in which Mueller's responses made clear that both Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr -- and the bulk of the Republican Party and their rightwing media outlets -- have been intentionally and completely misleading the American people with their false claims that Mueller's report "exonerated" the President. It did not. In fact, as Mueller's testimony made clear to those who watched, any other American who committed the crimes detailed in the Special Counsel's report would have been indicted with multiple felony crimes.\xa0 But for the Dept. of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (unsupportable) opinion that a sitting President cannot be indicted, Trump would most likely have been charged long ago for his repeated unlawful attempts to quash the Special Counsel's investigation. Mueller also offered chilling warnings about ongoing efforts by Russia and other foreign powers to interfere with and manipulate upcoming U.S. elections...