October 8 - How the Russians See Putin's Intervention in Syria; Why Trump, Carson and Fiorina Make Headlines While Hillary is Ignored

Full Program

Part 1

We  begin with an analysis of how Russians see Putin’s recent intervention into Syria and speak with Matthew Rojansky, an expert on Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union who is the director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He just returned from Moscow and we look into whether President Obama’s annoyance on display at a recent press conference where he castigated the Press for seeing Putin’s actions as bold and Obama’s by inference as timid, in fact reveals a presidential petulance that exposes the lack of an American strategy in Syria.

Part 2

Then we speak with George Lakoff, a Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of “The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic” and “The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant”. We discuss why the scientific community has failed to counter the propaganda of global warming deniers with their overwhelming scientific evidence on the reality of global warming, and why at a time when Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson are dominating media coverage by uttering outrageous and ignorant remarks that make headlines, Hillary Clinton can’t get any attention paid to her policy prescriptions and plans.