On today’s BradCast, guest hosted one last time by yours truly, Angie Coiro of In Deep with Angie Coiro.
Putin, Trump, and Tillerson climbed into the clubhouse today and pulled up the ladder, so no icky observers could get in. Angie reviews the already conflicting reports that emerged, when Donald Trump broke with tradition, bringing only the former CEO of Exxon-Mobile into his G20 convo with Vladimir Putin. Even their accounts of “confrontation” over election tampering conflict.
My guest Richard “RJ” Eskow, host of The Zero Hour, thinks Democrats are putting too many eggs in that latter basket, anyway. And he has very emphatic opinions about that New York Times opinion piece urging the Democratic Party to abandon progressives.
When it comes to Russia – or anything else, for that matter – you might find yourself confused by all those experts out there. That’s probably because we’ve learned to conflate opinionators with actual experts. In an excerpt from In Deep, Tom Nichols, author of The Death of Expertise explains the decay of faith in people who actually know their stuff.
Finally, Kelly Macias, reporter with Daily Kos, parses some stories getting less attention this week: tenant marches on HUD, Texas as a scary barometer for the direction of the country, and how the noose has reemerged as a tool to terrorize African Americans…
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I found it interesting that it was unprecedented that there wasnt even a note take in Trump’s meeting with Putin. It made me curious if his meeting with Xi had a note taker. I couldnt find any info about this in any news accounts I read. Does anyone know or know how to find out?