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We begin with a potential crisis facing a White House in chaos with yet another staff shake-up as Anthony Scaramucci, the newly-appointed Director of Communications, was shown the door today. In response to the latest North Korean missile test and threats coming from the White House, a bi-partisan group of top American officials who have had high-level dealings with North Korea, William Perry, George Schultz, Robert Gallucci, Sig Hecker, Richard Lugar and Bill Richardson, have written to President Trump urging him to open direct talks with Kim Jong-un. Adam Mount, the former project director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ independent task force chaired by Admiral Mullen and Sam Nunn, joins us to discuss how a dysfunctional White House will deal with a clear and present danger that does not lend itself to military force or rhetorical bluster, but rather requires mature and patient diplomacy. 

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Then with Putin kicking out American diplomats in a tit-for-tat Cold War-like reprisal, we examine Putin’s comments today that in their recent G-20 meeting, Trump agreed with Putin’s version of whether Russia meddled in our elections. David Halperin, who served on the National Security Council and was counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, joins us to discuss his article at The Huffington Post “”The Exxon-Treasury Fight and the Roots of Russiagate” which lays out a credible scenario of what the real ties are between Putin and Trump and why it appears that Trump is Putin’s puppet.

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Then finally we speak with Katherine Stewart, the author of “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children” about her article in The New York Times “What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean”. She traces the history of attacks on so-called government schools, meaning public education by religious fundamentalist who now have a champion in the new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who has funded crusades casting public schools as Godless government indoctrination camps.

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We begin with the extraordinary public challenge by the newly-appointed White House Head of Communications, Anthony Scaramucci, who is accusing Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of possibly being a “senior leaker” who should “explain that he’s not a leaker” adding that “He’s gonna need to speak for his own actions”. Following today's expletitive-laden diatribe to The New Yorker in which "The Mooch" promised to fire Priebus and Bannon, we are joined by Paul Waldman, a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect where he has an article “At Last Trump Finds His Mini-Me: Anthony Scaramucci perfectly embodies the Trump administration”. We discuss the open warfare and public humiliation going on in this chaotic White House and what appears to be a parallel effort with Trump trying to force his Attorney General Sessions to quit while Scaramucci tries to force Trump’s Chief of Staff Priebus out.

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Then we examine Trump’s reckless practice of government by Tweet now that it is clear the Commander-in-Chief ignored his chain of command in announcing transgender Americans will no longer be allowed to serve in the U.S. military. A former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Lawrence Korb, a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information and author of “A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction”, joins us to discuss the danger of having a leader who has shown he could just as well order a nuclear attack without consulting his Secretary of Defense or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  

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