January 26 - The Defense Cutting Mirage; Romney and Gingrich Trash Each Other Over the Latino Vote; A Former CIA Officer Speaks Out

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Part 1

We begin with today’s announcement by the Secretary of Defense outlining proposed cuts in the military budget that are in fact not cuts at all. William Hartung, the Director of the Arms and Security Program at the New America Foundation and author of “Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military Industrial Complex” joins us to examine the numbers game and the astronomically expensive and useless weapons programs that are not being cut.

Part 2

Then we do an update on the Florida Republican primary as Gingrich and Romney do battle in a debate tonight to win the Latino vote they are trashing each other’s record over. Joining us is Luis Martinez-Fernandez, a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Central Florida. He was born in Cuba, graduated from a Puerto Rican University and currently teaches in Orlando, Florida. We  discuss the diverse Latino vote in Florida and the Cuban/America vote the candidates are fighting over.

Part 3