The Trump Team Group Chat Reveals Vice President Vance is Running the Presidency, Along With Stephen Miller
We begin with the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today, at which Republican senators took a back seat, while Democrats questioned the incompetent and unqualified heads of the CIA, FBI, and Office of the Directorate of National Intelligence over the Signal group chat involving 18 of the top Trump officials discussing classified information about an impending strike on the Houthis in Yemen, which was inadvertently shared with the editor of The Atlantic. We will discuss how the chat reveals the operational role of VP Vance running the presidency along with Stephen Miller, with all trying to second guess an absentee president as they blustered with childish macho bravado over what they were about to unleash on the Houthis. Joining us is Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. We discuss his article at The Spectator, “The ‘government by groupchat’ scandal should cost Mike Waltz his job.”
Incompetent and Unqualified Heads of U.S. Intelligence on Display Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Today
Then we look into the sad state of American intelligence led by a clown show of deliberately chosen delusional ideologies following their “dear leader’s” dictate to destroy the “deep state” — either at Putin’s behest, or to satisfy Trump’s grievance, or both. Joining us is Gregory Treverton, a senior adviser with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of the practice of international relations at the University of Southern California. He has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, handling Europe for the National Security Council, and was chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 2014 to 2017. His books include Dividing Divided States, Beyond the Great Divide: Relevance and Uncertainty in National Intelligence and Science for Policy.
The Courts Will Not Save Us, Since They Got Us Into This Mess
Then finally, we speak with Samuel Moyn, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history, human rights history and law, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World and Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War. His latest book is Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. We discuss his op-ed at The Washington Post, “Don’t count on the courts to save democracy: Giving courts the last word is part of what got us into this mess. It won’t get us out.”