December 5 - Vetoing a Bill That Will Raise Gas Prices in an Election Year; Bickering Among Iran's Rulers; "Huntsman is the Only Electable Republican"

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Part 1	We begin with an analysis of the $662 billion Defense Authorization Bill the President threatens to veto. Lawrence Korb, who was Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration and is now a Senior Fellow at the Center For American Progress, will look into provisions the White House opposes that would deny terrorist suspects, including American citizens, the right to a trial and subject them to indefinite detention, as well the bill’s imposition of harsh sanctions on Iran that could drive oil prices way up in an election year.
Part 2	Then we examine internal bickering among Iran’s ruling elite that has paralyzed statecraft as radical elements in the regime take excessive risks to score petty victories over their domestic rivals. Dr Trita Parsi, the author of “A Single Role of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy With Iran” joins us to discuss this dangerous brinksmanship as outside pressure on Iran’s nuclear ambitions intensifies.
Part 3	Then finally businessman Stanley Weiss joins us. The founding chairman of B.E.N.S., Business Executives For National Security, a non-profit group dedicated to a more rational business-like approach to excessive defense spending, he has an article at the Huffington Post, “Huntsman is the Only Electable Republican” which argues against conventional political punditry that John Huntsman could eventually be the last man standing in the Republican presidential race.
	MUSIC: The Clash - Know Your Rights; Miras Jame Eshgh; Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral; Frank Sinatra - Send in the Clowns