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'BradCast' 9/12/2025 (Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump's 'Cook'ed-up mortgage fraud claims)

'BradCast' 9/12/2025 (Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump's 'Cook'ed-up mortgage fraud claims)

Update: 2025-09-12
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Encore: original airdate 9-3-2025. On today's 'BradCast':  Authoritarianism has descended upon America, but the pushback against it continues.  A federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully blocked $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University. Voters are rejecting Republicans in ever-greater numbers in new special state legislative elections. Denver news anchor Kyle Clark calls out Republicans' open authoritarianism. House Republicans voted to create a new January 6 Committee to revisit the Trump-incited insurrection. L.A. Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik explains how the very MAGA head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is using bogus 'investigations' and allegations of mortgage fraud for political retribution against Trump's perceived political enemies, including an attempt to oust the first Black female Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, and much more.
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'BradCast' 9/12/2025 (Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump's 'Cook'ed-up mortgage fraud claims)

'BradCast' 9/12/2025 (Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik on Trump's 'Cook'ed-up mortgage fraud claims)

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