August 9 - "London's Burning"; Unspoken Support for the Syrian Regime; Firing up Liberals and Mitt Romney in New Hampshire

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Part 1	First, we go to London to find out whether the four days of riots and looting are about class warfare, criminal opportunism or both. Caroline Frost, who is an editor with the Huffington Post UK and previously was a producer with BBC News, joins us for an update on the riots that appear to have moved from London to the north today, although her neighborhood in Ealing was looted last night.
Part 2	Then, we look into the sacking of Syria’s Minister of Defense and the lecture given to the Assad dictatorship by Turkey’s Foreign Minister to see whether there are cracks in this increasingly isolated regime. James Gelvin, professor of History at UCLA, joins us to discuss the mounting death toll of unarmed Syria citizens trying to free themselves from their murderous government.
Part 3	Then, finally we speak with John Judis, who is a senior editor with The New Republic and has been covering Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. We talk about the leading Republican contender for president and John Judis’ latest essay in the New Republic, Liberals’ Strange Retreat on Government Spending.