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We begin with Donald Trump’s much heralded speech on national security which he postponed and instead attacked Hillary Clinton, doubled down on banning Muslims from America and promised to unleash our intelligence services who he claimed were shackled by political correctness. Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, joins us to discuss how Trump’s appeal to nativism after the Orlando massacre is likely to resonate with a lot of Americans fed up with out broken immigration system and how Hillary Clinton’s plan to focus on lone wolf terrorists presents challenges that our intelligence services are ill-equipped to deal with.

Part 2

Then we speak with Junaid Ahmad, Director of the Center for Global Dialogue and a Professor in the Department of Law and Policy at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. He joins us to discuss the role of Saudi Wahhabism in radicalizing Muslim youth and the extent to which the West is experiencing blowback from long-standing U.S. polices to prop up oil rich reactionary monarchies, and the role of Islamic leaders in the U.S. whose ritual condemnations as the distance themselves from terrorist acts by proclaiming Islam as a religion of peace, are starting to ring hollow.

Part 3

Then finally we go to Orlando, Florida and speak with two local experts on disaster response and dealing with terrorist threats. Dr. Naim Kapucu, a Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the School of Public Administration and Dr. Claire Knox, a Professor and the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program Director in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida join us. We discuss the joint law enforcement response to the terrorist hate crime during the long night of terror in the Pulse nightclub that left 50 dead and 53 wounded.

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Part 1

We begin with President Obama’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton shortly after his White House meeting with Bernie Sanders who pledged to work with Clinton to unify the Democratic Party and defeat Donald Trump. Peter Dreier, Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College joins us to discuss his latest article at The Huffington Post “”Let Bernie Be Hillary” which points out that in 2008 it took Hillary Clinton a while to accept defeat and embrace Barack Obama and we also examine “A Five Point Plan for Sanders” that Peter Dreier recently wrote in The American Prospect that urges Sanders’ supporters to help Bernie build a progressive legacy.

Part 2

Then we look into whether or not Donald Trump actually has a presidential campaign and speak with David Graham, a staff writer for The Atlantic about his latest article at The Atlantic, “There Is No Trump Campaign”. We discuss not just the lack of a national Trump campaign and no state-level campaign director in the critical state of Ohio, but no fundraising organization which, with a campaign in chaos, is causing donors to close their checkbooks on a candidate who is tearing the Republican Party apart, doesn’t follow conservative orthodoxy, and seems to have no idea what he is doing on a day-to-day basis.

Part 3

Then finally, we follow on from Bernie Sanders’ remarks today at the White House after his meeting with President Obama where he called for statehood for the District of Columbia, pointing out that there are fewer people in his state of Vermont and in Wyoming than there are in D.C. Anise Jenkins, the Executive Director of the Stand up for Democracy in D.C. Coalition joins us to discuss the outrageous fact that the 700,000 American citizens who live in our nation’s capitol suffer under a regime of “taxation without representation” which was the condition that helped spark the American revolution and led to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.