November 23 - "Donald Trump's Art of the New Deal"; Will Betsy DeVos Spell the End of Education in America; Will Clinton Challenge the Election Results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan?

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an analysis of whether Donald Trump is already a captive of the Republican establishment he ran against, or will he, as promised, drain the swamp and make America great again. Sam Tanenhaus, a columnist at Prospect Magazine and the former editor of The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review Section, joins us to discuss his latest article at The New York Times, “Donald Trump’s Art of the New Deal?” and whether Trump’s statements to the editors of The New York Times indicate he is abandoning his campaign promises of bringing back torture, denying climate change, jailing Hillary Clinton and deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants. We also look into whether, like Eisenhower Trump will not dismantle Democratic programs such as Social Security and rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.

Part 2

Then we discuss Trump’s selection for Secretary of Education with Diane Ravitch, who served as Assistant Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush and is the author of “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools”. She joins us to assess whether the billionaire champion of charter schools and privatized education, Betsy DeVos will be the nail in the coffin of public schools in America and base the country’s future education on the for-profit college model that is essentially a taxpayer-funded racket that makes scam artists rich while leaving students with a lifetime of debt and a worthless education.

Part 3

Then finally we will look into whether or not the Clinton campaign will act on the urging from prominent computer scientists and voting-rights attornies to challenge the recent election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania before the looming deadlines expire. Investigative journalist Andrew Gumbel, the author of “Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America”, joins us to discuss how in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7% fewer votes in counties with electronic-voting machines compared to counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots, and whether Russian interference could be a factor in the close Electoral College vote.