On today’s BradCast, I’m in for Brad and Des, dropping by from my own show, In Deep with Angie Coiro.
Today’s Rose Garden press conference was drenched in irony: a faltering, incoherent, angry man declaring a “national emergency”, even as he demonstrated that he’s the crisis. Donald Trump yelled at reporters to sit down, fell into sing-song whimsy, showed off his version of a Chinese accent, repeated phrases when he lost his train of thought, wielding terrifyingly grown-up powers with the gravitas of a toddler in a man’s suit.
Fortunately, enough roadblocks will be thrown down — by Reps AOC and Castro, by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, by the ACLU, and presumably by property owners along the proposed wall sites — that he should be kept busy and irritated for some time. The taxpayer money wasted will be appalling.
Republican former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld appears willing to throw himself atop the bomb: he says he may primary Donald Trump. He minced no words -– I mean, he was stunningly straightforward -– in criticizing his fellow GOPers, who he said exhibit all the signs of Stockholm Syndrome(!). Someone needs to step up, he says. He even hints that he’s willing to act as a spoiler to damage Trump in the general.
Plus the latest on Facebook, Amazon, and what tech campuses have to offer their neighbors.
Finally, my guest JOEL SIMON of the Committee to Protect Journalists. His new book, We Want To Negotiate, makes a compelling case that both the US and Britain need to re-examine their “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” policies. His research puts the lie to a lot of assumptions, for example, that to pay ransoms will encourage more kidnappings. It makes sense on the face of it, but — wrong.
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