{"id":12257,"date":"2017-08-15T18:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12257"},"modified":"2017-08-15T19:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:15:49","slug":"pathway-to-peace-with-north-korea-also-new-cbo-health-care-report-undercuts-trump-threat-bradcast-8152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12257","title":{"rendered":"Pathway to Peace with North Korea? Also: New CBO Health Care Report Undercuts Trump Threat: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpPresser_TrumpTower_081517.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Digging deeper and\/or trying to catch up with the runaway news on North Korea, Charlottesville and Trump&#8217;s continuing threats to radically undermine the Affordable Care Act. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the (many) stories covered on today&#8217;s show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A faint glimmer of hope for peace &#8212; or <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a3010eae0a1c4666ac0a6cc5419747b6\/N.-Korea-leader-briefed-on-plans-for-missile-tests-near-Guam\">at least diplomacy<\/a> &#8212; breaks out in the U.S.\/North Korea nuclear standoff, as all sides (including South Korea) suggest options that could help to avert disaster;<\/li>\n<li>Trump digs himself deeper by using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/15\/politics\/donald-trump-charlottesville-lines\/index.html\">somewhat<\/a> insane <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/15\/politics\/read-president-trumps-q-and-a-at-trump-tower\/index.html\">press conference<\/a> on Tuesday at Trump Tower to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-lashes-alt-left-charlottesville-fine-people-sides\/story?id=49235032\">equate<\/a> the &#8220;alt-left&#8221; (his words) with White Nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, even while claiming (over and over again) that his previously criticized remarks were only due to the fact that he insists on getting his facts straight before speaking. &#8220;Unlike you,&#8221; he said to the assembled press, over and over, without irony, &#8220;before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.&#8221; (Insert your own joke here);<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/08\/14\/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago\/amp\/\">reporting<\/a> reveals an FBI and DHS intelligence report warned the Trump Administration in May about the threat of violent Rightwing domestic terrorism far out-pacing that of Islamic (or any other form of) terrorism in the U.S., at the same time the Administration was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/katharine-gorka-life-after-hate_us_59921356e4b09096429943b6\">deciding to block<\/a> a previously announced grant to a group that helps people escape the grip of White Nationalist groups. (Following up our conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12255\">yesterday&#8217;s show<\/a> with former neo-Nazi Tony McAleer of <a href=\"http:\/\/LifeAfterHate.org\">Life After Hate<\/a>, the group whose grant was withdrawn);<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/15\/news\/trump-charlottesville-ceos\/index.html\">More CEO&#8217;s<\/a> remove themselves and their companies from the President&#8217;s Manufacturing Council in protest of his response to the tragic violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. (By the end of the show today, the number went from four <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/15\/news\/richard-trumka-afl-cio-trump-charlottesville\/index.html\">to six<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issues a <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Docs\/CBO_CostSharingReductionReport_081517.pdf\">report [PDF]<\/a> today finding that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/cbo-obamacare-cost-sharing-reduction-trump.html?_r=0\">Trump&#8217;s threats<\/a> of withholding funding to insurance companies meant to cover <a href=\"https:\/\/m.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/15\/us\/100000005325654.mobile.html?_r=0\">costs for low-income consumers<\/a> under the Affordable Care Act (&#8216;ObamaCare&#8217;), could spike <i>all<\/i> individual premium rates by 20 percent in 2018, force companies to stop selling insurance at all in certain regions, and raise the federal deficit by nearly $200 billion over the next decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that (and more) may explain why Trump&#8217;s approval ratings hit new, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/gallup-trump-rating-all-time-low-charlottesville\">all-time lows<\/a> this week. Enjoy!&#8230;<\/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_USNKDiplomacy_TrumpCharlottesville_DomesticTerrorReport_CBOCostSharing_081517.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_USNKDiplomacy_TrumpCharlottesville_DomesticTerrorReport_CBOCostSharing_081517.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>On today&#8217;s BradCast: Digging deeper and\/or trying to catch up with the runaway news on North Korea, Charlottesville and Trump&#8217;s continuing threats to radically undermine the Affordable Care Act. [Audio link to show follows below.] Among the (many) stories covered on today&#8217;s show: A faint glimmer of hope for peace &#8212; or at least diplomacy [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,89,675,945,513,479,227,288,916,1016,176,477,157,572,1022,959,105,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-cbo","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-fbi","category-health-care","category-james-mattis","category-john-kelly","category-journalist-intimidation","category-kpfk","category-north-korea","category-oklahoma","category-sebastian-gorka","category-south-korea","category-virginia","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257","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=12257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}