February 29 - The Jewish Man Who Saved the Life of a Ku Klux Klansman; An Expert on the Delegates Up for Grabs on Super Tuesday; The Surprising Victories of Moderates in the Iranian Elections

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the Jewish man who saved a Ku Klux Klansman from being torn apart by an angry mob at a Klan rally in Anaheim, California on Saturday. Brian Levin, a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino who previously served as Associate Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch/Militia Task Force, joins us to describe what took place at the Klan rally where he saved the life of the “Grand Dragon” of the Loyal White Knights of California from angry protesters who attacked a group of Klansman who had defended themselves with knives and the sharpened tip of Confederate flagpole, stabbing some of the protesters before being overwhelmed.

Part 2

Then we speak with Josh Putnam, Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia who write the blog Frontloading HQ which specializes in the delegate allocation process. He joins us to discuss tomorrow’s Super Tuesday races and the delegate counts up for grabs as the competition on the Republican side enters a critical stage for Trump’s challengers Cruz and Rubio who are lagging in the delegate count, which on March 15 switches to a winner-take-all mode, making it more likely Trump will then become unbeatable.

Part 3

Then finally, we look into the election results in Iran with Abbas Milani, the Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University who previously taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science and is author of the new book “Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran: Challenging the Status Quo”. We discuss the surprising gains by the pro-reform candidates who, in spite of vetting by the hardliners who purged liberal candidates, not only have a substantial bloc of seats in the parliament, but the Moderates also won a 59% majority in the Assembly of Experts who will choose a successor to the Supreme Leader.