Vance Tells Allies Russia is Not the Enemy, Europe’s Enemy is Within, and It’s … Wokeness!
We begin with an assessment of Trump’s foreign policy wrecking crew’s attack on our closest allies at the Security Conference in Munich, where Fox TV amateur Hegseth gave away any leverage Ukraine has to Putin, followed by Vance, who told the alliance leaders that Russia, which invaded its neighbor and is destroying Ukraine while murdering its people, is not the enemy. Vance claims the enemy is within, and Europe’s enemy is … wokeness! Joining us from Munich, Germany is Charles Kupchan, who was director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He is now a professor of International Affairs in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and spent the last 3 years of the Obama administration as Special Assistant to President Obama for National Security. He is the author of Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order and How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace. His latest book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World.
A Global Alliance of Autocrats and Kleptocrats Emerges, as Trump Follows Orban’s Playbook
Then we examine how Trump and the Republicans are following Hungary’s dictator Orban’s playbook to the letter, via their joint creation Project 2025, and speak with Kim Lane Scheppele, a Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. She lived in Budapest, doing research at the Constitutional Court of Hungary and teaching at both the University of Budapest and at Central European University. She studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. The author of 9/11: The Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law, she is featured in the Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick podcast “Trump’s American Takeover.” We discuss the emerging global alliance of autocrats and kleptocrats.
Our Top Law Enforcer Pam Bondi Embraces Lawlessness and Corruption
Then finally, we look into our Department of Justice’s embrace of lawlessness and corruption, which Pam Bondi has signaled is now okay, as she welcomes malign foreign influence and foreign intelligence services into the U.S. for a free for all. Joining us is James D. Zirin, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and the host of the critically acclaimed television talk show Conversations with Jim Zirin, which airs on PBS. He is the author of Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court and Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits. He is a contributing editor at The Washington Monthly and regular contributor to The Hill, where his latest article we discuss is, “Trump DOJ forces a bloody Thursday to save Eric Adam’s bacon.“