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We begin with the apparent turmoil in the Trump campaign following the firing today of Cory Lewandowski Trump’s campaign manager who has been the gatekeeper constantly at Trump’s side controlling access and preventing GOP lobbyist and consultant Paul Manafort, who was brought in to professionalize the campaign, from exercising influence over the erratic candidate. Dan Schnur, the Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute for Politics at USC who worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns and was the National Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain joins us to discuss the Trump campaign’s apparent inability to shift from its primary campaign mode into a general election national campaign and reports that Lewandowski kept insisting that letting “Trump be Trump” was a winning strategy for the White House while Manafort has been arguing that it is time for Trump to be more “presidential”.

Part 2

Then we assess the votes in the U.S. Senate today on gun control measures following the latest shooting massacre in Orlando.Saul Cornell, the author of “A Well Regulated Militia; The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America: Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?” and “The Second Amendment Goes to Court”, joins us to discuss the glimmer of hope dashed today by gutless politicians in the NRA’s pocket who again defied the will of a majority of Americans outraged over the massacre of first graders in Newtown, then the murder of co-workers in San Bernardino and now the killing of 49 at a nightclub in Orlando. We examine if and when the American people will be able to get Congress to do something to stop the serial slaughtering of our citizens, or at least stop terrorism suspects from buying assault rifles and explosives.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the Supreme Court’s 5 to 3 ruling handed down today that Justice Sotomayor slammed in a blistering dissent as a step towards an American Police State. Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who formerly served as Associate Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration and is the author of “American Empire: Before the Fall”, joins us to discuss the latest shredding of the Fourth Amendment that will now allow police to stop you on the street, demand your identification and check if you have outstanding parking tickets – even if you have done nothing wrong.

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We begin with President Obama’s visit today to Orlando, Florida, the site of the recent worst mass shooting in U.S. history and speak with David Schanzer, the Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University who was previously the Democratic Staff Director for the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security. He joins us to discuss the gaps in the post 9/11 intelligence reforms that created the Department of Homeland Security and the office of The Director of National Intelligence. We examine the difficulty in policing the thoughts of potential terrorist before they act on them and cause mayhem and assess what can be done to improve our broken immigration system so that potential terrorists can be screened out without scapegoating and surveilling communities and resorting to racial profiling.

Part 2

Then we get an update on the latest polls in the U.K. for the June 23 vote on the so-called Brexit that indicate the “leave” vote is at 51% while the “remain” vote is at 49%. William Walker, a Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland joins us to discuss the pernicious role of Rupert Murdoch in tipping the scales for the “leave” vote, and how a narrow victory for “leave” could lead to political paralysis and the likely overturning of the vote by a majority of younger voters in the next few years. We will also look into the feckless performance of the new Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is hardly displaying a profile in courage.

Part 3

Then finally we go to Moscow to speak with Nina Khrushcheva, a Professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School and author of “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind”. We discuss Putin’s bromance with Donald Trump, the Russian reaction to the deployment of NATO brigades in Poland and the Baltics, and the unholy trinity ruling Russia today; Putin’s KGB cronies “the siloviki’ in the Kremlin, the reactionary orthodox church hierarchy, and oligarchs currying favor with Putin while exploiting a mafia economy.