'BradCast' 10/18/2019: (Guest: Brendan Fischer of Campaign Legal Center)

On today's 'BradCast':   The worm may be turning in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry, following Trump's Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney's admission that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure the former Soviet nation to investigate Democrats and the 2016 election. Leading Republicans, including Ohio's former Republican Governor John Kasich, are expressing increasing concern over what appears to be a clear quid pro quo. Then BRENDAN FISCHER, Associate Counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, discusses his group's 2018 complaint that helped expose the alleged quid pro quo scheme, and details serious campaign finance law violations by two associates of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani who were apprehended last week while trying to flee the country.  Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were charged with using a fake shell corporation to illegally funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republicans, including Trump's SuperPAC, in a successful effort to buy influence with GOP officials and directly affect U.S. policy. But Fischer notes that had the two not used a phony corporation and a secret source of money to do it and then lied about it to the FEC, their actions would have been perfectly legal under U.S. campaign finance laws. Fischer also rings in on the administration's stunning announcement that Trump's own National Doral resort in Miami, Florida will host next year's G-7 Summit of world leaders, despite the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution which strictly bans payments to the President from foreign officials. Even some at Fox 'News' appear to have a problem with that, as well...