Aug 1 - Ransom Paid in Debt Hoax; What White House Strategy?; The Unemployed; Syria is Bleeding

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Part 1	Christopher Jennings, who was senior health care advisor in the Clinton White House and is now director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s health reform project joins us. He assesses what kind of hit healthcare will take in the cuts-only deal that ended the economic hostage crisis, at least in the short term.
Part 2	Michael Tomasky joins us. He is special correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and we talk about strategy, or the lack thereof in the White House, that allowed a minority of Tea Party zealots to shape national policy, stall economic recovery and impoverish millions of Americans.
Part 3	Then we look into the part that was left out of the deal; that is, jobs and unemployment. Judith Conti with the National Employment Law Project joins us to discuss the likelihood of increasing joblessness and unemployment that will result from this deal and what impact that will have on next year’s elections.
Part 4	Then finally we turn to Syria, a country that is bleeding as the Assad regime turns tanks and artillery on its defenseless citizens. Dr Muraf Jouejati, professor of Middle East Studies at the National Defense University joins us to discuss the Obama Administration’s lack of response to the regime’s outrages that will become even more brazen and brutal in the month of Ramadan ahead.