{"id":12130,"date":"2017-05-03T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:37:49","slug":"really-bad-or-catastrophic-comey-on-choice-to-announce-reopening-of-clinton-probe-last-year-bradcast-532017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12130","title":{"rendered":"‘Really Bad or Catastrophic?’: Comey on Choice to Announce Reopening of Clinton Probe Last Year: ‘BradCast’ 5\/3\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Hillary Clinton and FBI Director James Comey are both still explaining what exactly happened last year, and callers ring in with lots of thoughts on both of them. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

Comey returned to Congress on Wednesday to testify<\/a> before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on his decision to announce the re-opening of the investigation into Clinton’s private email server just over a week before last year’s November 8th election. The testimony, in which Comey describes his two choices as being either “really bad or catastrophic”, comes one day after Clinton cited<\/a> that decision as one of several causes for her loss in the Presidential Election last year. <\/p>\n

Today, we offer some extended clips from Comey’s testimony and Clinton’s commentary, before taking listener calls in response to both, as well as on the New York Times<\/i> controversial decision (as discussed in more detail on yesterday’s show<\/a>) to hire climate science denier Bret Stephens for its op-ed page.<\/p>\n

Also, Desi Doyen explains the Trump Administration pending<\/a> decision on whether to pull out of the landmark U.N. Paris Agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and possibly the entire U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Also, she joins us for latest Green News Report<\/a>‘, as Donald Trump rolls back safety regulations for off-shore drilling, implemented by the Obama Administration following the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Disaster…<\/p>\n

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