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We begin with an analysis of last night’s Democratic presidential debate from Flint, Michigan in which both candidates agreed that Michigan Governor Snyder should resign or be recalled, but mostly they leveled attacks at each other with Bernie Sanders portraying Hillary Clinton as the candidate beholden to Wall Street while she accused him of opposing the auto bailout. Lawrence Jacobs, the director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Political Affairs and the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair of Political Studies at the University of Minnesota joins us to discuss who won the debate and what impact it will have on tomorrow’s Michigan primary.

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Then we look into the emergency summit today in Brussels between the E.U. and Turkey’s Prime Minister who offered to take back all the refugees from Syria who flooded into Europe in exchange for more aid money and a faster track towards E.U. membership for Turkey. A specialist on Turkey and the Kurdish regions, Max Hoffman, a Policy Analyst in National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress joins us to discuss how the migration crisis is being used as a bargaining chip while Turkey’s government brazenly flouts E.U. standards by taking over the country’s largest opposition newspaper.

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Then finally we speak with Paulo Sotero, the Director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center about the recent Federal Police raid on Lula da Silva’s home, sweeping up the popular former President of Brazil who has claimed there is “not a more honest living soul in the country” than him, in “Operation Car Wash”, an investigation into kickbacks and money laundering at the state oil company Petrobras, a widening corruption scandal that has paralyzed Lula’s successor, Brazil’s current President Dilma Rousseff.   

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We begin with Mitt Romney’s verbal broadside against Donald Trump today in which he urged Rubio and Cruz’s supporters to vote for Kasich in Ohio and Kasich and Cruz supporters to vote for Rubio in Florida to stop Trump’s momentum towards the Republican nomination. Patricia Mazzei, a political writer for the Miami Herald who has covered Florida’s congressional and state legislative politics joins us to discuss how Romney’s strategy could be employed in Florida where Trump is ahead of Rubio in the polls but although Kasich is not a factor, if Cruz’s votes went to Rubio, then Rubio might just beat Trump and avoid a campaign-ending humiliation.

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Then with Romney calling Trump a “fraud” and a “conman” whose “promises are as worthless as a diploma from Trump University”, we will look into Romney’s investments in predatory for-profit colleges and Rubio defense of the most fraudulent for-profit college Corinthian that ripped off the taxpayer for over $6 billion. David Halperin, a senior fellow at Republic Report who was a White House Speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs to President Clinton, joins us to discuss Romney and Rubio’s hypocrisy and whether desperate efforts by the Republican “establishment”  to stop Trump are too little too late.    

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Then finally we examine the charges by NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General Breedlove, that Russia is “deliberately weaponising migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve” through indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Syria to get the refugees on the road “and make them a problem for someone else”. A former Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva and Moscow, Anders Aslund, a professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss how Putin is cynically stoking the refugee crisis in Syria to destabilize Europe in the hope of weakening E.U. sanctions against Russia.