'BradCast' 9/5/2017: (Guest: Salon's Heather 'Digby' Parton)
In addition to still-mounting death toll from Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, the holiday weekend brought a bevy of disturbing news, including a major new nuclear test in North Korea, threats by Donald Trump to end a trade deal with our allies in South Korea (for some reason), and record wildfires and heat up and down the Western U.S., including here in Los Angeles. All of that, however, may pale in comparison to what could be in store over the next several days, as Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, threatens Caribbean island nations in the Atlantic, and could grow even more intense over the next several days with a trajectory toward Southern Florida, where record warm waters could place us into uncharted climate territory. That's just some of the news as Congress returns to session this week with a virtually unprecedented calendar of 'must-pass' bills by the end of the month to avoid government shutdown and default. And into that maelstrom, Donald Trump decided on Tuesday to have his Attorney General Jeff Sessions announce the Administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama. The new policy imperils the lives and futures of some 800,000 children of undocumented immigrants, brought to the U.S. by their parents through no fault of their own, many of whom have never known any other country. Salon's award-winning columnist Heather 'Digby' Parton joins us today to discuss what Trump's cruel new policy will mean, and whether our already-dysfunctional Congress may finally be able to pass legislation in the next six months to allow "DREAMERS" -- who came out of the shadows under the previous Administration -- to avoid deportation by this one.\xa0 She also has a controversial thought or two on whether Democrats in Congress ought to make a deal with Republicans in exchange for funding Trump's Mexican Border Wall in order to circumvent the unspeakably inhumane course of events that could transpire, now that the President has decided to overturn DACA...