August 14 - Is Putin Planning Regime Change in Ukraine?; Trump's Taxes and the GOP's Failure to Tame Him; Trump's Claims of Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

Full Program

Part 1

We begin and go to Moscow and speak with a leading defense analyst Dr. Pavel Felgenhauer who is on the staff of Novaya Gazeta, one of the few newspapers and media outlets not controlled by the Kremlin. He joins us to discuss the growing military confrontation between Ukraine and Russia over alleged Ukrainian incursions into Crimea that appear to be pretexts for a massive military build-up that could be aimed at Putin’s broader objective to bring Ukraine to heel while taking Odessa and opening up a corridor to Transnistria in Moldova. With Putin considering Obama a weak lame duck president who is on vacation, while his likely successor Hillary Clinton is much more hawkish, Felgenhauer argues that the time is ripe and there is a 50/50 chance that Putin will launch an overwhelming bold attack to bring Ukraine back into the fraternal Russian embrace which apparently Putin feels is the wish of the Ukrainian people who have been manipulated by mendacious Americans and poisoned by fascist nationalists.

Part 2

Then we speak with the Pulitzer Prize- winning investigative journalist and author David Cay Johnston about his latest book, a New York Times bestseller, “The Making of Donald Trump”. An expert who has uncovered so many tax dodges that he has been called “the de-facto tax enforcement officer of the United States”, we discuss whether efforts by Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine to shame Trump into releasing his tax returns will work, and whether GOP efforts to make Trump more presidential will ever succeed since he regularly goes off script and grabs the headlines with inflammatory remarks and fabricated claims.   

Part 3

Then finally, at a rally in Pennsylvania on Friday, Donald Trump used clear racial overtones in front of a mostly white audience, claiming that the only way he will lose in the key swing state of Pennsylvania is if “in certain areas”… “other people don’t come in and vote five times”. Dr. Terry Madonna, the director of the Franklin and Marshal College Poll who is the pollster for the Philadelphia Daily News and many other newspapers and television stations in Pennsylvania, joins us to discuss Trump’s call to his followers in Pennsylvania to “Help me stop ‘crooked Hillary’ from rigging this election!”