February 4 - Islamic Scholars Confront Violence in the Muslim World; A Flurry of Lawsuits Over the Continuing Methane Leak; The Rise of Rubio

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with President Obama’s visit to a mosque yesterday and speak with Azizah al-Hibri, Professor Emerita of Law and Founder of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights at the University of Richmond School of Law. She shared the stage with President George W. Bush when he visited a mosque shortly after 9/11 and we discuss Marco Rubio’s peculiar criticism of Obama’s visit to the mosque as well as looking into the recent conference in Morocco held by Muslim clerics and scholars to confront violence in the Muslim world which Azizah al-Hibri addressed.

Part 2

Then we speak with Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog and author of “The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell: How to Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws and Get The Change You Voted For – A Direct Democracy Toolkit”.  He joins us to discuss the flurry of lawsuits against the Southern California Gas Company over what is becoming the country’s worst environmental disaster since the BP blowout in the Gulf as an old oil well stuffed full of natural gas continues to spew out methane emissions which so far are the equivalent of burning more than 862 million gallons of gasoline.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the rise of Marco Rubio since his third place showing in the Iowa caucus and speak with Dr. Susan McManus, the Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida. She has followed the career of Marco Rubio for a number of years and we will assess his chances of taking the lead from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz while Rubio’s former mentor Jeb Bush is spending a lot of his considerable campaign war chest on attacking his former protege.