'BradCast' 9/6/2018 ('Uncharted and unprecedented. The process has broken down.')
b"This is not normal. From an imploding presidency to the GOP's unprecedented withholding of documents for a SCOTUS nominee, to the more 'normal' abnormalities to which we've shamefully become accustomed, like mass shootings, election fraud and voter suppression and, yes, a global climate in crisis. On today's 'BradCast': Four killed, including the shooter, in another mass shooting, this time in downtown Cincinnati. An update from Day 3 of the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the U.S. Senate, Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, in which Senate Democrats released "committee confidential" documents being withheld from the public by Senate Republicans. The Trump White House is reportedly in "total meltdown" and the President "absolutely livid" in the wake of a bombshell anonymous New York Times op-ed written by "a senior official in the Trump administration" claiming the President is unstable and that a group of insiders have been working to contain the worst of his impulses, and a former top intelligence official warns the situation is "dangerous" and "will get worse before [it] gets better." Dirty tricks campaigns are already underway in advance of the crucial November 6th midterm elections: an infiltrator into Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D)'s campaign to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R) used the campaign's mass text messaging system to send fraudulent messages. In Michigan, two white, male, Republican-appointed federal appeals court judges upheld the state GOP-majority legislature's ban on straight-ticket voting that an African-American lower court judge found "a disproportionate burden on African Americans' right to vote."\\xa0 In Virginia, an independent US House candidate was removed from the November election ballot after a judge found forged and fraudulent signatures, allegedly gathered by staffers from the office of first-term incumbent GOP Rep. Scott Taylor, to place her on the ballot in hopes of peeling off votes from Democratic candidate Elaine Luria.\\xa0 Plus: Desi Doyen has our 900th episode of the 'Green News Report'..."