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We begin and go to Iowa just as the caucuses get underway and speak with Erica Grieder, a Senior Editor at The Texas Monthly where she has an article “The Field Guide to Ted Cruz: Ten Tips for figuring out the “wacko bird”. She joins us to discuss the increasingly acrimonious competition between the two Republican frontrunners Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, who just called Cruz “a liar”, and although Cruz is on the record calling Trump “terrific”, we will examine this polarizing figure who is either loved or hated, and assess his chances of either becoming the next president of the United States or a laughingstock.

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Then with Adele and other recording artists serving notice to Trump, Huckabee and other Republican presidential hopefuls for copyright infringement, we speak with William Hochberg, an attorney with Greenberg Glusker Law Firm specializing in music and media law whose clients have included award-winning recording artists, songwriters, producers, film composers, record labels and music publishers. We discuss the rules for using recorded music at political rallies and what rights artists have when they feel their image and reputation is being damaged by politicians they do not support and in some cases despise.

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Then finally we look into the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago with 292 people shot and 50 killed in January alone, which is double the number of shootings compared to last year. Craig Futterman, a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School who is the founder of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Projects in Chicago, joins us to examine what is behind these alarming statistics that do not include officer-involved shootings.

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With Donald Trump boycotting tonight’s Republican presidential primary debate and holding his own competing event which he says is aimed at raising money for veterans rather than making Fox News rich, we begin with investigations into the country’s most prominent and self-promoted veterans charity, the Wounded Warrior Project. Tim Mak, a Senior Correspondent for The Daily Beast who covers campaigns, politics, national security and Congress and for years has reported on excessive overhead expenses at the Wounded Warriors Project, joins us. We will discuss how the CEO of this so-called charity that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, as a member of the advisory board of the Charity Defense Council, appears not to be keeping costs down and giving the majority of funds to the needy, but rather is focused on lobbying for higher overhead and more executive compensation for himself and the entire tax-exempt non-profit charitable sector.

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Then we speak to a highly decorated veteran Dr. Philip Butler, a former Navy light-attack carrier pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam and spent eight years as a POW. He joins us to express his disgust at how politicians and groups like the Wounded Warrior Project take advantage of vets to either make money for themselves or get votes while 50,000 vets are sleeping on America’s streets and millions depend on food stamps that these same politicians say they want to cut.

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Then finally we look into how two rackets that live off the fat of the land and suck up taxpayer money, the post 9/11 Intelligence Industrial Complex and the for-profit college industry, have merged in an expose by veteran national security journalist William Arkin at VICE News, “Doctors of Doom: What a PhD Really Means in the National Security Community“. The author of “Top Secret America” and “Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare”. He joins us to discuss how our Intelligence Community has lowered its standards to give top secret clearances to recruits who have worthless diplomas and little knowledge or education.