'BradCast' 8/7/2019 (Guest: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Remember Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's Supreme Court nominee who demonstrably lied during his sworn confirmation hearing last year before Republicans voted to ram him through to a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court? We do, and so does Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who, along with House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), is moving ahead with a demand for records from Justice Kavanaugh's time as a top White House staffer in the George W. Bush Administration during the Iraq War \u2013 documents that then-U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-IA) neither reviewed nor requested.\xa0 Johnson explains why Democrats are now seeking those records, and what they hope to find, on the committee that has jurisdiction to impeach all federal judges, including Supreme Court Justices. Congressman Johnson also weighs in on impeachment, the concept of 'packing the courts,' and his home state of Georgia's decision to buy a costly new unverifiable touchscreen voting system, rather than a cheaper, verifiable hand-marked paper ballot system, before next year's crucial 2020 Presidential election. Also today: NBC News reports, "Trump turns day of grieving for shooting victims into day of grievances," as President Trump broke his own call for Americans to set aside "destructive partisanship" to unleash a barrage of attacks on several Democrats before, during and after his visits to two grieving cities recovering from horrific mass shootings \u2013 El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH. Trump misfired with a long-debunked Twitter snipe at El Paso native and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, after O'Rourke accurately linked the El Paso shooter's white supremacist language to Trump's identical references to an "invasion" at our southern border.\xa0 Trump also attacked Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren...