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Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran?

We begin with President Trump’s threats against Iran that he will bomb them unless they come to the negotiating table and whether reports that there were nuclear weapons aboard the 7 B2 bombers now in Diego Garcia are meant to put additional pressure on the Ayatollahs or is Trump seriously considering using low yield nuclear bombs to destroy Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. Joining us is Paul Pillar, who served for 30 years as an analyst at the CIA, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. Previously, he served as chief of analytic units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has also headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and is currently a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His latest book is Beyond the Water’s Edge How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy.

Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From Pinochet and the Nazis

Then we look into how much Trump and Stephen Miller are borrowing from the disappearance tactics of the Argentine junta, Pinochet and the Nazis as students, researchers and green card-holders are rounded up and sent to remote detention facilities. Joining us is Henry Giroux, a renowned educator, author and cultural critic who holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His recent books include Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle, America at War with Itself and Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy. His latest book is The Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence and we will discuss his article at Counterpunch, “Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror”

A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on How the Democrats Can Up Their Game 

Then finally we will get the perspective of a former Republican opposition research counsel on Republican vulnerabilities and how the Democrats can up their game and take on Musk, Trump and the Republicans who appear to be steamrolling the dazed and confused opposition as aggressive moves to defund the Democrats, rig the elections and intimidate the legal profession and University leaders are underway. Joining us is Lloyd Green, an attorney based in New York who was opposition research counsel to George HW Bush’s 1988 campaign and served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992. He is a contributing writer at The Guardian where his latest article is, “The spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in Trump’s America.”