{"id":12818,"date":"2018-12-07T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:29:25","slug":"trump-appointment-spree-cohen-deserves-prison-time-bradcast-1272018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12818","title":{"rendered":"Trump Appointment Spree; Cohen &#8216;Deserves&#8217; Prison Time: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I&#8217;m your host &#8211; Angie Coiro, host of <a href=\"http:\/\/indeepradio.com\/podcasts\/\"><i>In Deep with Angie Coiro<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s tweet fingers were a&#8217;twitchin&#8217;, as he tried to keep up with the flow of Mueller investigation news while churning out headlines of his own.  For starters, he made three key appointments\/nominations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Army head General Mark Milley will move over to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff;<\/li>\n<li>Former H.W. Bush Attorney General William Barr is up for confirmation as Trump&#8217;s next A.G.;<\/li>\n<li>Former Fox &#8216;News&#8217; talking head Heather Nauert is up to replace Nikki Haley as UN ambassador.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the whys and wherefores on those for you. Also, Trump went into rage mode at word of his former Sec. of State Rex Tillerson&#8217;s very frank discussion on Thursday at a public interview with CBS news veteran Bob Schieffer. Tillerson&#8217;s explanation of Trump&#8217;s incomprehension of basic issues, along with his trademark lack of discipline, provoked high-minded Trump tweets calling Tillerson &#8220;dumb as a rock&#8221; and &#8220;lazy as hell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-46483337\">good basic rundown<\/a> if you&#8217;re trying to catch up with the case of Chinese telecom Huawei&#8217;s alleged spying. I bring you the highlights plus updated news.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Swiss paper has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/dec\/07\/tucker-carlson-fox-news-trump-interview-turns\">a conversation<\/a> with Fox&#8217;s Tucker Carlson who damned the White House occupant as &#8220;incapable&#8221; of fulfilling his promises. And he went further: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s capable of sustained focus. I don&#8217;t think he understands the system. I don&#8217;t think the Congress is on his side. I don&#8217;t think his own agencies support him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, legal expert and journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/larabazelon.com\/\"><b>LARA BAZELON<\/b><\/a> joins me to discuss her work on restorative justice for wrongly-convicted parolees. She&#8217;s covered the topic for years for Slate.com, and has now released a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Rectify-P1390.aspx\"><i>Rectify<\/i><\/a>. The full version of our conversation will be <a href=\"http:\/\/indeepradio.com\/podcasts\">posted here<\/a> over the weekend. Don&#8217;t wait for that, though &#8211; I&#8217;ve brought you a big chunk of it right here on <em>The BradCast<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Plus, so much more! It&#8217;s a bellyful of news today. Check it out!&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_LaraBazelon_120718.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_LaraBazelon_120718.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, I&#8217;m your host &#8211; Angie Coiro, host of In Deep with Angie Coiro. Donald Trump&#8217;s tweet fingers were a&#8217;twitchin&#8217;, as he tried to keep up with the flow of Mueller investigation news while churning out headlines of his own. For starters, he made three key appointments\/nominations: Army head General Mark Milley will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"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":[988,675,405,379,598,469,19,272,479,594,6,701,227,14,1064,695,1143,226,197,951,635,961,427,1016,332,46,1253,958,148,774,536,300,905,126,977,534,222,894,983,34,186,27,628,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angela-merkel","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-cbs","category-china","category-clarence-thomas","category-cnn","category-dept-of-defense","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-irregularities","category-exxon-mobil","category-fbi","category-fox-news","category-george-papadopoulos","category-germany","category-heather-nauert","category-hillary-clinton","category-in-memoriam","category-ivanka-trump","category-james-comey","category-jared-kushner","category-jeff-sessions","category-john-kelly","category-lgbt","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-matthew-whitaker","category-mike-pompeo","category-new-york-times","category-nikki-haley","category-prison-industrial-complex","category-republicans","category-rex-tillerson","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-robert-mueller","category-russia","category-san-francisco","category-social-media","category-switzerland","category-tucker-carlson","category-united-nations","category-usa-today","category-vladamir-putin","category-washington-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}