Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the intensifying battle between the FBI and Apple over finding a way to unlock the encryption on an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino terrorist. Ross Schulman, the Senior Policy Counsel at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute joins us to discuss the extent to which the FBI brought this problem on themselves by foolishly resetting the phone’s iCloud password, thus losing the ability to see the phone’s content, and are now browbeating Apple to bail them out of a problem they created. We will also assess where we stand in the battle between security and privacy now that the government is asking for a key to unlock everyone’s private information inside their phone that largely contains a complete roadmap of their life.

Part 2

Then we examine Wall Street’s alarm at the rise of Bernie Sanders and his appeal to young voters and their concern that Sanders is driving Hillary Clinton further to the left so that at the end of the day, if she wins the presidency, she will be committed to a reform agenda and policies unfriendly to the 1%. William K. Black, a Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a founding member of Bank Whistleblowers United, joins us to discuss his article at The Huffington Post “Wall Street’s Message to Young Adults: You are Clueless”.

Part 3

Then finally we speak with David Woodard, a Professor of Political Science at Clemson University and author of “The New Southern Politics”. He is also a political consultant for Republican candidates and we will discuss the latest spat between Rubio and Cruz who today had to fire his communications director for doctoring a video of Rubio walking past Cruz’s father Rafael who was reading the Bible so that the subtitles misquoted Rubio’s remark to have Rubio saying there are not many answers in the Bible. We will also look into next Saturday’s Democratic primary race.  

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the standoff between the FBI and Apple over access to the data on a cell phone belonging one of the San Bernardino terrorists. With most of the country probably siding with the FBI over Apple we speak with Marc Rotenberg, the President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC about the larger constitutional and privacy issues involved in this case that might change the minds of those who see this through the lens of the war on terror and have wrongly concluded that Apple is failing to recognize the clear and present danger that terrorists pose when in fact Apple is making a stand for all of us and what we stand for.

Part 2

Then we speak with Jane Mayer, a staff writer with The New Yorker whose latest book is “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right”. We discuss the enormous success a few billionaires have had in moving America to the right over the past few decades to the point where we are at a critical juncture America as to whether we are still a Democracy or have become more of a Plutocracy were instead of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we have become a government of the money, for the money and by the money.

Part 3

Then finally we go to South Carolina and speak with Danielle Vinson, a Professor of Political Science at Furman University in South Carolina and author of “Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members”. We discuss the latest polls that have Donald Trump (who just picked a fight with the Pope) ahead in the polls for Saturday’s Republican primary by double digits over Cruz and then Rubio, who has been endorsed by the State’s popular governor. We will also assess whether picking a fight with the Pope will hurt Trump or help him.