June 25 - Trump Now Blames Obama For Russia's Election Meddling; Intel From Inside Putin's Office Reveals Putin Was Hands-On With Election Hack; Rampant Rumors Suggest Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is About to Retire

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an update on the Trump/Russia story that continues to haunt a president who vents into the wee hours of the morning calling his friends who wake up to a diatribe of complaints from the beleaguered leader of the free world. Scott Horton, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harpers in legal affairs and national security, joins us to discuss the latest twists and turns in a story that won’t go away although now that The Washington Post has released an exhaustive investigate article “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault”, Trump is now blaming the whole Russian election meddling saga on Obama. We look into the irony that now at least Trump is acknowledging what he has long denied, that the Russian meddling took place, and the reasons why the White House is lawyering up with both Trump and Pence hiring defense lawyers, and whether General Flynn is cooperating with the FBI and spilling the beans on who colluded with the Russians and in terms of a cover-up, what did they know and when did they know.

Part 2

Then we look further into the intelligence angle on perhaps the most extraordinary revelation in The Washington Post article, that Putin personally ordered the U.S. election active measures operation and oversaw it, evidence apparently obtained by U.S. intelligence from inside Putin’s inner circle. Malcolm Nance, a globally recognized counterintelligence expert and Intelligence Community member joins us. He is the author of “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and Wikileaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election” and we discuss where the various investigations are heading.

Part 3

Then finally we assess the frenzied rumors and rampant speculation that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is about to retire and speak first with Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law who frequently argues before the Supreme Court. Then Eric Segall, a Professor of Law at Georgia State College of Law joins us to analyze the impact on the country of a shift to the hard right with Trump appointing another arch conservative to the Supreme Court, given that Trump’s new lawyer Jay Sekulow in the former lawyer for the anti-abortion evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.