'BradCast' 9/19/2017 (Guest: John Judis of TPM)
The President of the United States today threatened to 'totally destroy' North Korea and called its leader names, during his first address to a U.N. General Assembly. Donald Trump went on to call Iran a 'rogue nation', describing the deal struck between between Iran and six other countries (U.S., Russia, China, France, Germany and UK) to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, 'an embarrassment' and 'the worst' agreement the U.S. has ever made. Both North Korea and Iran pushed back at the U.S. President, as did allies such as French President Emmanuel Macron, who said that if Trump renounced the deal with Iran, which he described as 'essential for peace', it would be a 'grave error'.\xa0 Meanwhile, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are attempting again to 'repeal and replace' the Affordable Care Act with a bill that would end ObamaCare's premium subsidies and expansion of Medicaid by handing limited block grants to states who, they say, should decide how health care money is best spent. Yet, a Republican Senator is attempting to add an amendment to the measure that would bar states from using that money in a single-payer type system. All of that, just after Vermont's independent Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a 'Medicare-for-All' bill last week with the support of 16 Senate Democrats. We're joined today by TPM's Editor-at-Large John Judis to discuss the politics behind Sanders' plan, and whether its aspirational goals outweigh its 'political dangers' and may help the Democratic Party to overcome the 'thinktank incrementalism' in which, he charges, the party has been mired. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', as Hurricane Maria devastates the Caribbean in Irma's path, Trump continues to deny the link between climate and extreme weather, his administration prepares to shrink a number of national monuments, and as the UN celebrates 30 years since the wildly successful Montreal Treaty began to curb global CFC emissions that were destroying the earth's ozone layer. Also, late news on the huge 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck central Mexico today, collapsing buildings and, so far, killing more than 100 people...