February 18 - The Standoff Between Apple and the FBI; Jane Mayer on "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right"; Trump (Who Just Picked a Fight With the Pope) Ahead in South Carolina

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the standoff between the FBI and Apple over access to the data on a cell phone belonging one of the San Bernardino terrorists. With most of the country probably siding with the FBI over Apple we speak with Marc Rotenberg, the President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC about the larger constitutional and privacy issues involved in this case that might change the minds of those who see this through the lens of the war on terror and have wrongly concluded that Apple is failing to recognize the clear and present danger that terrorists pose when in fact Apple is making a stand for all of us and what we stand for.

Part 2

Then we speak with Jane Mayer, a staff writer with The New Yorker whose latest book is “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right”. We discuss the enormous success a few billionaires have had in moving America to the right over the past few decades to the point where we are at a critical juncture America as to whether we are still a Democracy or have become more of a Plutocracy were instead of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we have become a government of the money, for the money and by the money.

Part 3

Then finally we go to South Carolina and speak with Danielle Vinson, a Professor of Political Science at Furman University in South Carolina and author of “Local Media Coverage of Congress and Its Members”. We discuss the latest polls that have Donald Trump (who just picked a fight with the Pope) ahead in the polls for Saturday’s Republican primary by double digits over Cruz and then Rubio, who has been endorsed by the State’s popular governor. We will also assess whether picking a fight with the Pope will hurt Trump or help him.