'BradCast' 9/6/2022 (We're back! And ...'What's Happening in Our Country is Not Normal')

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 1:57 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The dangerous, historic heat wave in the U.S. West is breaking new records for duration and intensity. Water services are nearly restored in the weeks-long water crisis in the city of Jackson, MS, but the crisis is the predictable outcome of the state legislature's push to cut taxes rather than fund maintenance for critical infrastructure, which then failed in extreme flooding brought by climate change. Public approval of labor unions is now at its highest level since 1965. A New Mexico court ordered the removal of convicted January 6 insurrectionist Cuoy Griffin, co-founder of Cowboys for Trump, from his post as a county election commissioner under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, the 'Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.' In Georgia, new surveillance video shows rightwing MAGA Trump supporters lied to cover up their scheme to unlawfully breach voting system security. In Massachusetts, GOP primary voters again must choose between a Trump-backed election denier and an otherwise moderate Republican. While we were out, Democrat Mary Peltola became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, defeating embarrassing former Republican Gov. Sarah Palin in a Special Election to fill the state's only U.S. House seat. President Biden delivered a major prime-time address accurately warning of the growing menace to democracy itself posed by Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican supporters. But broadcast networks refused to air the speech, and corporate media focused on 'both sides' false equivalence and 'optics,' not the substance. Plus: An explainer on the disturbing ruling by a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida setting up a Special Master to review highly classified documents that Trump stole from the White House."