Will the Lawless Trump Regime Have the FBI Arrest the Democratic Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Stop Trump’s Power Grab?
We begin with Republicans in the Texas Legislature and Senator Cornyn calling on Kash Patel’s FBI to arrest the Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to stop the gerrymandering power grab order by Trump. Meanwhile, as the lawless Trump/Bondi team cook up a criminal case against President Obama, making clear the law doesn’t matter to the mob boss and criminal in the Oval Office and his consigliere at the DoJ, we are left to hope that the courts and in particular the Supreme Court will defend the law. Joining us is John Nichols, The Nation magazine’s Washington correspondent. His books include The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics, and most recently, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. We will discuss his article at The Nation, “Representative Democracy Will Live or Die In Texas”
As Trump Tries to Persuade Putin Ahead of Friday’s Deadline, Can Putin End His War on Ukraine?
Then, with Trump’s last minute effort underway to make a deal with Putin before Friday’s deadline of imposing secondary sanctions on Russia unless it agrees to ceasefire talks with Ukraine, we speak with Alexander Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction including Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires and Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective. We will discuss his article at The Hill, “Why did these prominent Americans attend a festival of Russian supremacy.”
An Authoritative Analysis on the Economy and Where Trump is Taking it
Then finally we get an authoritative analysis of the economy and where Trump is taking it and speak with Matthew Klein, the founder and publisher of The Overshoot, a premium subscription research service focused on the global economy, financial markets, and public policy. He was previously the Economics Commentator at Barron’s, and has also written for the Financial Times, Bloomberg View, and the Economist. He is the co-author of Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, and we will discuss his latest articles at The Overshoot, “The U.S. Is Not ‘Winning the Trade War’” and “The Job Market Is Strong, Inflation Is Too Fast, and the Government Is Bananas.”
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