'BradCast' 7/29/2022 (Guest: Alissa Jean Schafer on massive dark money scandal engulfing Florida's monopoly power company)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 A massive scandal unspooling in Florida highlights both corrupt media and corrupt power brokers. One American News (OAN), Donald Trump's favorite 'Big Lie' fake news network, is on the brink of going out of business after being dropped by Verizon. Trump threatened to sue CNN, demanding they stop reporting on his 'Big Lie' attempts to steal the 2020 election. In Florida, a massive document leak has revealed shocking corruption by the state's monopoly public utility company, Florida Power and Light (FPL). The documents show that FPL conducted a broad dark money campaign to create a murky web of third parties and shell companies to promote its propaganda and preferred (sometimes fake!) candidates, and attack critics. New reporting this week exposed how FPL contracted with a consulting firm to carry out its dirty work, mount disinformation campaigns, manipulate politics by running 'ghost candidates' to deceive voters, squash competition, dismantle residential rooftop solar, and secretly take control of a right-leaning media outlet to lobby for its interests and smear critics. ALISSA JEAN SCHAFER, Research Manager of the nonprofit utility watchdog group Energy and Policy Institute, offers insight and analysis into FPL's multiple growing scandals and the dark money disinformation playbook used by powerful utilities around the country. Also today: former Daily Show host and veterans' activist Jon Stewart has choice words for Republican senators who blocked legislation ensuring healthcare for sick and dying combat veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service in Iraq and Afghanistan.