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We begin with escalating threats from Turkey’s President Erdogan against the Dutch government he accuses of Nazism as he cuts off high level diplomatic contacts and threatens to flood Europe with Syrian refugees in camps in Turkey. Michael Werz, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress’s National Security Team who specializes in Turkey and the Turkish diaspora in Germany and Holland, joins us to discuss the worsening quarrel with Europe that Turkey’s autocratic leader appears to using cynically to fire up Turkish nationalism and anti-European sentiments ahead of a referendum in Turkey on April 16 aimed at giving Erdogan even more power to stifle the press, purge the military, judiciary and academia and create more problems for Turkey and its neighbors which ironically is the exact opposite of Erdogan’s promise when he first came to power.

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Then we examine the Congressional Budget Office’s finding that Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act designed to repeal and replace Obama’s Affordable Care Act, will increase the number of Americans without healthcare coverage by 24 million, making a liar our of President Trump who repeatedly promised that the Republican alternative would provide universal coverage at lower prices. Dr. John Geyman, a professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine whose new book is “Crisis in Healthcare: Corporate Power Versus the Common Good”, joins us to discuss how “Ryancare” could be such a disaster for the American people and the GOP that it might make single payer healthcare a realistic option in the future.

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Then finally we look into the reasons behind Trump’s firing of Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and his rumored replacement Marc Mukasey, who happens to be former Fox News head Roger Ailes’s personal lawyer. Craig Harrington, a researcher at Media Matters who edited the new article at Media Matters, “U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was Investigating Fox News When Trump Fired Him”, joins us to discuss an impending cover-up of an epidemic of sexual harassment at Fox News. 

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We begin with the growing possibility that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia may not produce the smoking gun revelation that some hope could be grounds for the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump. Ali Watkins, a Washington D.C. based journalist who covers national security for BuzzFeed News joins us to discuss her latest article at BuzzFeed News “Inside the Senate’s Russia Investigation”. We look into whether by focusing on the Trump campaign’s Russia-connected bottom-feeders like Paul Manafort and Carter Page, the press and partisan Democrats have lost sight of the original charges of Russian interference that came in a consensus from the Intelligence Community that Russia meddled in our election and that orders to do so came from Putin. And if it turns out that Trump is exonerated, the earlier findings by the U.S. Intelligence Community will be all but forgotten.

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Then we speak with Robert Stavins, a professor and director of the environmental economics program at the Harvard Kennedy School who is a lead author of three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  He joins us to discuss the remarks by the new head of the EPA on CNBC where Scott Pruitt stated that “I would not agree that (human activity) is a primary contributor to the global warming we see”. We examine the likelihood that Pruitt will escalate from global warming denial to global warming cover-up and that he will act on his belief that the U.S. should pull out of the international Paris climate agreement.

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Then finally we look into the Trump administration’s latest travel ban, otherwise known as a Muslim ban, which already the states of Hawaii, Washington, New York and Massachusetts are challenging in court, and speak with Christine Fair, a Professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program who is a specialist in South Asia security issues. She joins us to discuss the reaction to the latest Muslim ban in Muslim countries and how the Republicans are complicit in covering up Trump’s misogyny to the point that the GOP should be called the “Grab Our Pussy” party.