February 5 – Nunes Has Injected Poisonous Partisanship Into the US Non-Partisan Intelligence Community; Mulvaney is Busy Destroying the CFPB From Within; The US and Russia Move Closer to Nuclear War

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Part 1	With Trump insulting the 6 foot-tall Minority Chair of the House Intelligence Committee today as “little Adam Schiff”, we will begin with the injection of poisonous politics into America’s non-partisan intelligence community by the Nunes memo and efforts by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee to get their rebuttal out to the public following the release of the absurd conspiratorial fiction which Nunes and Trump concocted. Mark Fenster, a Professor at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida and author of “Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture” joins us to discuss how the political landscape has been turned on its head now that liberals are defending agencies they have traditionally been more critical of as Trump attacks the integrity of U.S. law enforcement agencies to stop their investigations into his possible criminal activities, in a cover-up which Republicans have not just enabled, but have joined in.
Part 2	Then we look into the brazen example of the fox guarding the hen-house with the Director of the OMB Mick Mulvaney, who Trump has moonlighting as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, destroying the agency from within by giving a get-out-of-jail-free pass to Equifax who allowed the personal date of 143 million Americans to get into the hands of criminal hackers. Amanda Werner, the arbitration campaign manager with Americans for Financial Reform and Public Citizen who is now the campaign strategist for Public Justice, joins us to discuss how Mulvaney is also giving a free pass to predatory payday lenders who will be holding their annual trade association gathering at one of Trump’s resorts.
Part 3	Then finally with the START treaty between Russia and the U.S. set to go into effect on Monday, we examine the new Nuclear Posture Review with Jonathan Granoff, the President of the Global Security Institute and discuss the trillions that Trump will waste from his promise in the State of the Union to “modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal”. We assess the dangerous folly of mirroring the reckless Russian doctrine of deploying more low-yield nuclear weapons that increases the potential for their use.