It’s a busy BradCast, today! I’m NICOLE SANDLER, guest hosting for Brad and Desi, with a full plate today.
Because this was such a busy news cycle, we begin with the news about the vote that ousted freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) from the two committees Kevin McCarthy put her on. While that was happening in the House, the Senate began a “vote-a-rama” that went on all night. It finally ended at 5:35am, with VP Kamala Harris in her role as Senate President casting the tie-breaking vote to pass a shell of a bill that will eventually contain the $1.9 trillion COVID relief legislation that will require only 50 (+1) votes to pass using the process known as reconciliation.
Because there was so much news breaking on Thursday, something that should have gotten a lot of attention was overlooked by the media. Following the vote in the House to rid the committee of Marjorie Taylor Greene, there was a “special order” hour on the House floor, organized by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Many of us watched her compelling and frightening account of her experience during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, streamed on Instagram Live. It kept me awake most of the night Monday night, as I couldn’t shake the feeling of terror she conveyed over the course of the 90-minute live stream. I’m guessing the response she received was overwhelming, as she put together this “special order” event on the House floor to allow other members to tell their stories of what happened to them that awful day. In the second segment of today’s show, I share some of those stories, each of which should be included in next week’s Impeachment Trial.
Our guest today is author and investigative journalist CRAIG UNGER, whose new book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery who tells us that Trump was absolutely a Russian asset, cultivated decades ago. Fascinating…
Doctor, doctor, Mr. MD, won’t you tell me what’s ailin’ me (Will Elections Cure The Disease? – 5).