{"id":11992,"date":"2017-01-11T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2017-01-11T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T01:59:30","slug":"news-shower-obama-farewell-tillerson-hearing-day-1-sessions-hearing-day-2-trump-presser-bradcast-1112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11992","title":{"rendered":"News Shower: Obama Farewell; Tillerson Hearing Day 1; Sessions Hearing Day 2; Trump Presser: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Tillerson_Obama_Trump_Lewis_011117.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I&#8217;ve seen a lot in my life, but today may be the most insane news day I&#8217;ve ever seen, or certainly attempted to cover in a single episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>. Among the stories we cover today, all from with the past 18 hours or so [<i>audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Obama&#8217;s moving farewell <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/313684-obama-touts-presidency-in-final-speech-to-nation\">address<\/a> in Chicago last night;<\/li>\n<li>ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson&#8217;s troubling first day of confirmation hearings as Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of State;<\/li>\n<li>Testimony from members of the Congressional Black Caucus &#8212; including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBookerOffice\/status\/819287995975139328\/video\/1\">from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/1\/11\/14241870\/john-lewis-jeff-sessions-trump-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing\">from civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)<\/a> &#8212; against the disturbing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/jeff-sessions-could-return-criminal-justice-to-the-jim-crow-era\/\">civil rights<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/jeff-sessions-has-spent-his-whole-career-opposing-voting-rights\/\">voting rights<\/a> record of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Trump&#8217;s nominee for Attorney General on the second day of his confirmation hearings;<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/01\/11\/509137239\/watch-live-trump-holds-first-press-conference-as-president-elect\">press conference<\/a> since last July, among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/01\/10\/this-new-poll-has-all-kinds-of-bad-news-for-donald-trump\/?utm_term=.8c9033a9684b\">record<\/a> low approval ratings, a shower of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/01\/10\/this-new-poll-has-all-kinds-of-bad-news-for-donald-trump\/?utm_term=.8c9033a9684b\">bizarre<\/a>, if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&#038;smid=nytcore-iphone-share\">unsubstantiated<\/a> allegations against him concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/10\/politics\/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia\/index.html\">claims<\/a> that he has been compromised both personally and financially by Russia, and his announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-conflict-of-interest_us_587660f3e4b05b7a465cdf13\">he will not divest<\/a> his business holdings before becoming President, despite unprecedented conflicts of interest;<\/li>\n<li>Plus: Listener calls on all of the above <i>and<\/i> Desi Doyen with the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, yes, you may need to rinse off after today&#8217;s show. I know I do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaFarewell_TillersonSessionsHearings_TrumpPresser_Calls_011117.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaFarewell_TillersonSessionsHearings_TrumpPresser_Calls_011117.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot in my life, but today may be the most insane news day I&#8217;ve ever seen, or certainly attempted to cover in a single episode of The BradCast. Among the stories we cover today, all from with the past 18 hours or so [audio link to show follows below.]&#8230; President Obama&#8217;s moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,89,675,598,857,223,479,594,28,701,427,83,653,477,188,540,300,905,126,534,349,856,233,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-china","category-cory-booker","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-reform","category-exxon-mobil","category-jeff-sessions","category-john-kerry","category-john-lewis","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-oil","category-republicans","category-rex-tillerson","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-russia","category-state-department","category-tim-kaine","category-us-senate","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}