June 27 – NRA Orchestrates Congressional Farce; For-Profit Colleges on the GI Bill; Was the Turkish Warplane Provoking Syria?

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Part 1	We begin with the unprecedented vote tomorrow to hold the Attorney General in contempt of Congress based on trumped up false charges pushed by the NRA, who are the main reason why illegal guns flow unfettered into Mexico. Yet the NRA is rounding up votes in Congress to blame Eric Holder for allowing guns to cross the border. Dennis Henigan, the author of “Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy” joins us to discuss this breath-taking exercise of cynicism and hypocrisy underway on Capitol Hill.
Part 2	Then we look further into the disgraceful display of posturing and grandstanding in the House who, instead of voting on making student loans more affordable and available, are engaged in a spurious partisan witch hunt. David Halperin, a Senior Fellow at Republic Report joins us the discuss a real scandal involving student loans, where the biggest beneficiaries of the GI Bill, which is designed to help veterans, turn out to be the largely fraudulent for-profit college racketeers who are raking in billions in taxpayer money while ripping off our vets.
Part 3	Then finally, as Turkey escalates its warnings to Syria following the shooting down of a Turkish warplane, we look into reports that question the plane’s mission which by some accounts might have been a provocation. Asli Bali, who is a professor at the UCLA School of Law, joins us to discuss military escalation on the 550 mile long border that Turkey shares with Syria.
	MUSIC: Bob Marley – I Shot The Sheriff; Stiff Little Fingers – Tin Soldiers; Major Lazer – Get Free; Xavier Rudd – Let Me Be