August 18 - The GOP's Suicidal Attack on Latinos; The FDA Approves the So-Called "Female Viagra" Pill; Hillary Clinton's Lackluster Presidential Campaign

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the Republican presidential candidates piling on after their front-runner has so brazenly insulted Latino voters, joining Trump in calling for an end to birthright citizenship that would mean repealing the 14^th Amendment to the Constitution. Paul Waldman, a weekly columnist and senior writer for The American Prospect who also writes for the Plum Line blog at The Washington Post where his latest article is “Did Republicans just give away the 2016 election by raising birthright citizenship?” joins us. We will discuss the apparently suicidal tendency the GOP is exhibiting by alienating the fastest growing demographic in the country while threatening to change the constitution which is an empty gesture they can to deliver on.

Part 2

Then we look into Flibanserin, the so-called “female Viagra” pill that the FDA just approved after having rejected it twice before. Dr. Susan Wood, a former FDA Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health joins us to discuss the power of big Pharma in pushing this pill that will not work for the vast majority of women who might take it to improve their sex lives, while exposing them to dangerous side effects like dizziness and nausea and in some cases leading to fainting and blackouts

Part 3

Then finally we get an analysis of what seems to be a lackluster presidential campaign by Hillary Clinton who, while leading in the polls is being seriously challenged by Bernie Sanders on her left while on the right, the Clinton scandal machine keeps pumping out negative headlines that the press dutifully parrots. David Halperin, a senior fellow at Republic Report who was a White House speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs to President Clinton, joins us to discuss what needs to be done to revive and focus Hillary Clinton’s second campaign for the presidency.