March 28 - Why Trump Will Not Clear the Air on Russia; Killing the Clean Power Plan and Censoring Science; The Impact of Trump's Reversal on the EPA

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the warning from former Vice President Dick Cheney that Russian meddling in our election “in some quarters, that would be considered an act of war” and the concern expressed by the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence Committee that White House meddling in Congress’ Russia investigation is not helping to lift the cloud of suspicion hanging over the Trump administration. A veteran investigator and staff attorney with the Senate anti-trust subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jack Blum, joins us to discuss why Trump has not done anything to lift the cloud of suspicion over his legitimacy since it was revealed by all 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies that the Kremlin interfered in the election to help elect him. Instead Trump and his aides have doubled down in denials that later prove to be flimsy if not false.

Part 2

Then, with Trump’s evisceration of Obama’s efforts to deal with climate change in killing the Clean Power Plan, we will speak with Victoria Herrmann, the Managing Director of The Arctic Institute, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, and a National Geographic Explorer. She joins us to discuss her article at The Guardian “I am an Arctic researcher, Donald Trump is deleting my citations” and the dire consequences to the planet that Trump’s reversal of the already too-little-too-late efforts to stop global warming will be.

Part 3

Then finally we examine further the Trump Administration’s attack on the centerpiece of Obama’s environmental legacy and speak with a former Special Assistant to the Director of Civil Enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Peter Fontaine. He joins us to discuss how this reversal of direction of efforts to combat global warming will impact the employees of the EPA and the younger generation who will have to live the consequences.