'BradCast' 10/31/2017: (Guest: Marcy Wheeler of The Intercept)

What this episode covers

The Trump Administration and its supporters have been busy downplaying the Monday indictments unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against three Trump campaign officials - two pleaded not guilty, but a third who pleaded guilty, George Papadopoulos, has been quietly cooperating with prosecutors for months. We're joined today by investigative journalist MARCY WHEELER of The Intercept and Emptywheel.net to help separate partisan hope from partisan hype regarding Mueller's investigation. We focus on the Papadopoulos case specifically, whether it reveals "collusion" with Russia, and why she believes that, more than anything, the specific charges in that case may signal very bad news for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Also on today's show: the shocking arrest of reporter Mike Stark of ShareBlue, who has been reporting on Virginia's Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie's lobbying past in advance of the state's November 7 election, while covering the campaign over the weekend. Stark appeared on 'The BradCast' just last week. A new poll finds Americans very pessimistic about the current state of American democracy and politics (including the vast majority of those who lived through the Vietnam era). Desi Doyen with a new 'Green News Report', and what suffices as ‘good news' out of Puerto Rico and more. Finally, late-breaking news today of what New York officials are describing as a "terror" attack in lower Manhattan, after a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists, leaving 8 dead and 11 injured as of airtime...

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