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We begin with the Jewish man who saved a Ku Klux Klansman from being torn apart by an angry mob at a Klan rally in Anaheim, California on Saturday. Brian Levin, a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino who previously served as Associate Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch/Militia Task Force, joins us to describe what took place at the Klan rally where he saved the life of the “Grand Dragon” of the Loyal White Knights of California from angry protesters who attacked a group of Klansman who had defended themselves with knives and the sharpened tip of Confederate flagpole, stabbing some of the protesters before being overwhelmed.

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Then we speak with Josh Putnam, Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia who write the blog Frontloading HQ which specializes in the delegate allocation process. He joins us to discuss tomorrow’s Super Tuesday races and the delegate counts up for grabs as the competition on the Republican side enters a critical stage for Trump’s challengers Cruz and Rubio who are lagging in the delegate count, which on March 15 switches to a winner-take-all mode, making it more likely Trump will then become unbeatable.

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Then finally, we look into the election results in Iran with Abbas Milani, the Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University who previously taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science and is author of the new book “Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran: Challenging the Status Quo”. We discuss the surprising gains by the pro-reform candidates who, in spite of vetting by the hardliners who purged liberal candidates, not only have a substantial bloc of seats in the parliament, but the Moderates also won a 59% majority in the Assembly of Experts who will choose a successor to the Supreme Leader.

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We begin with an assessment of how much the Republican establishment now alarmed at the prospect of Donald Trump being the GOP’s standard bearer, is reaping what they have sown in terms of immigrant bashing, scapegoating minorities and relentless and racists attacks on Barack Obama, all of which Trump has seized on turning coded dog whistle politics into openly expressed bigotry, racism and xenophobia. Timothy McCarthy, a Lecturer on History, Literature and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School joins us to discuss whether Trump is the Republican’s attack dog that has been fed and nurtured by the Party but has now grown strong enough to destroy its master.

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Then we look into charges made by Mitt Romney of all people that Donald Trump’s unreleased tax returns contain a “bombshell” that is likely to reveal Trump has less wealth than he claims. David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who because of his investigations has been called “the de facto tax enforcement officer of the United States”, joins us to discuss why Trump probably pays little to no tax and whether he takes fees for laundering the money of his silent partners, one of whom is rumored to be Vladimir Putin.

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Then finally we get two opinions on tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in Iran that have been heavily rigged by the hardliners running Iran who have purged candidates who might be reform-minded. A former State Department Policy Advisor Suzanne Maloney, a Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking Institution joins us. Then we will hear from Iranian/American historian Dr. Maziar Behrooz, about whether disillusioned young Iranians will boycott the election that serves the interests of the hardliners by having the outward appearance of democracy while guaranteeing the results they want.