'BradCast' 8/15/2017: (Pathway to Peace with North Korea?; New CBO healthcare report; Trump keeps digging)
On today's show: A faint glimmer of hope for peace -- or at least diplomacy -- breaks out in the U.S./North Korea nuclear standoff. Trump digs deeper by using a press conference on Tuesday to equate the 'alt-left' (his words) with White Nationalists and neo-Nazis in\xa0Charlottesville over the weekend, but claims (over and over again) his previously criticized statements were due to wanting to make sure he had his facts straight. New reporting reveals the FBI and DHS warned the Trump Administration in May about the threat of violent Rightwing domestic terrorism far\xa0out-pacing\xa0that of Islamic (or any other form of) terrorism in the U.S., at the same time the Administration was deciding to block a previously announced grant to a group that helps people escape the grip of White Nationalism. More CEO's remove themselves and their companies from the President's Manufacturing Council in protest of his response to the tragic violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issues a report finding that Trump's threats of withholding funding to insurance companies, meant to cover costs for low-income consumers under the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare'), could spike all individual premium rates by 20 percent in 2018, force companies to stop selling insurance at all in certain regions, and raise the federal deficit by nearly $200 billion over the next decade. All of that may explain why Trump's approval ratings hit new, all-time lows this week...