'BradCast' 8/23/2018 ('Tripped up By His Own Pecker' and More News of the Day)
b"Among the many stories covered today: Some Democratic Senators are refusing to meet with Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, citing the convictions of Trump's campaign chair Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of his personal lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen implicating the President in a conspiracy to commit serious criminal campaign finance felonies. After years of lying, Trump has now admitted that he did, in fact, pay hush-money before the 2016 election. Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis offers more details on what his client may know regarding Trump's early knowledge of hacked DNC emails. David Pecker, Trump's long time friend who runs the National Enquirer and helped kill stories about Trump's mistresses, has been granted immunity from prosecution and is reportedly cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. A new Reuters poll today finds that more than 70% of Americans now support a 'Medicare for All' styled universal healthcare program, including a majority of Republicans. A new Fox News poll offers an avalanche of bad news for Trump and Republicans in advance of the 2018 midterm elections. After a public backlash, election officials in predominately African-American Randolph County, Georgia, admit they have no evidence to support their effort to close 7 of 9 polling places before the November election, due to non-compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' on the Trump EPA's deadly new proposed rule to replace Obama's landmark "Clean Power Plan," the court system pushing back against the administration's attempts to overturn environmental protections, and the latest news on Hurricane Lane, bearing down on Hawaii and threatening record rainfall and flooding..."