'BradCast' 11/7/2019 (Guest: U. of Kentucky College of Law's Joshua A. Douglas)

On today's 'BradCast':  Paper tiger Donald Trump, who vowed he'd never settle the case against his fraudulent "charitable" Trump Foundation, settled after all. In a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General, a state judge has fined Trump $2 million, ruling he misused the foundation, repeatedly and illegally, to further his own political and business interests. Trump agreed with the finding. House Democrats will kick off the first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry next Wednesday with top State Department officials who will testify to Trump's politically motivated extortion plot against Ukraine -- including a Deputy Asst. Sec. of State who testified in previous closed-door hearings that he believed Trump's attempted quid pro quo was "injurious to the rule of law, both in Ukraine and the U.S."  Potentially disturbing developments in Kentucky: unpopular and very Trumpy GOP Gov. Matt Bevin reportedly lost by just 5,000 votes to Democratic challenger Andy Beshear on Tuesday, but Bevin has refused to concede, alleging -- without evidence -- that there were "irregularities," fraudulent absentee ballot tallies, and machine failures. Bevin has requested a "recanvass" of tallies, but Kentucky state law specifically disallows recounts in gubernatorial races, which are instead settled by a vote of the Kentucky legislature, currently controlled by Republicans. Election law expert and University of Kentucky College of Law professor, JOSHUA A. DOUGLAS, explains what happens next in the Kentucky saga, why Bevin's scheme and any help from the KY Republican state legislature could augur very darkly for our democratic system, what all of this means for Mitch McConnell, who is also on the 2020 ballot, and what a Beshear Administration might accomplish.  Plus Desi Doyen has the 999th edition of our 'Green News Report'... which is at least as disturbing as the previous 998. Next week: GNR1000!