Trump’s War of Choice Rattles Allies While Rewarding Russia
We begin with the pain at the pump with gas at $6 a gallon in California as oil prices continue to rise impacting India, Asia and Europe in particular with Russia the only winner so far. We will discuss how Trump’s war of choice is rattling allies in Europe and infuriating allies in the Gulf who are getting pounded by Iran. Joining us is Emma Ashford, a senior fellow at The Stimson Center, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. With expertise in the politics of the Middle East, Russia, Europe, her work focuses on questions of grand strategy, international security, and the future of US foreign policy. She is author of First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World and Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates, and she has an article at the Financial Times we discuss, “America has become an agent of chaos in world energy markets.”
Our Commander-in-Chief is a Senile Old Man Who is Losing His Mind
Then, following a classified briefing on Thursday at which senators were told that the Trump White House had not considered the possibility of Iran closing the straits of Hormuz, Senator Murphy expressed sympathy for the US military because, “they are being given orders by a senile old man who is losing his mind.” Joining us to assess Trump mental acuity is Dr. Allen Frances, a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University. He is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Saving Normal and the reference work Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis and his latest book is Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, now out in an updated paperback version.
Trump’s Cynical SAVE America Act Will Not Save Republicans in November
Then finally we look into whether Trump will be able to rig the next election by pushing through the SAVE America Act which is designed to disenfranchise half of the electorate who don’t have passports and 9% who don’t have the paperwork to prove they are American citizens as well as married women whose name on their birth certificate is different from their married name. Joining us to assess whether the Republicans in the senate will hold the line against pressure from their own party who expect an electoral wipe out in November is Justin Levitt, Professor of Law at Loyola Marymount University and a nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy. He recently served as the White House’s first Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights where he assisted President Biden to restore trust in a democracy. He previously served in the federal government as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and has been invited to testify before committees of the U.S. House and Senate, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, several state legislative bodies, and both federal and state courts.