Day: March 16, 2025

Is the Witting Russian Asset Trump Now Working For Moscow?

We begin with a New York Times best-selling author and intelligence analyst who thought that Trump Was Always Putin’s Witting Asset. Now he believes Trump literally works for Moscow. Joining us is Malcolm Nance, a career counterterrorism and intelligence officer with the U.S. government’s Special Operations, Homeland Security, and Intelligence agencies, who has over 33 years of experience in combating radical extremism. He is the author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It.

An Update on Ukraine’s Withdrawal From Kursk, the Result of Another Trump Gift to Putin

Then we get an update on the Ukrainian withdrawal from the captured Russian territory of Kursk which appears to be another treacherous gift from Trump to Putin since the cutoff of US arms and intel coincided with Ukraine losing the bargaining chip of exchanging Kursk for Ukrainian territory Russia holds. Joining us is Aram Shabanian, the Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at New Lines Institute. He recently taught in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey where his research focused on the Cold War and contemporary histories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Fratricide Among Democrats After Schumer Fell Into Speaker Johnson’s Trap

Then finally we look into the fratrice among Democrats with House Minority Leader Jeffries, Pelosi and AOC and the base furious with Chuck Schumer for falling into the trap set by Speaker Johnson’s House bill which Schumer and 9 Senate Democrats voted for to avoid a filibuster and a government shutdown. Joining us is Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post, Washington editor and staff writer for The New Yorker and his books include the bestsellers The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment and The Permanent Campaign. His latest book is All the Powers on Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, and his latest article at The Guardian is, “Sycophancy and toadying are de rigueur in Trump’s court of self-aggrandizement.”