March 3 - An Analysis of How Romney's Strategy for Rubio to Win in Florida Could Work; Romney and Rubio's Hypocritical Involvement with Predatory For-Profit Colleges; Russia's Weaponizing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with Mitt Romney’s verbal broadside against Donald Trump today in which he urged Rubio and Cruz’s supporters to vote for Kasich in Ohio and Kasich and Cruz supporters to vote for Rubio in Florida to stop Trump’s momentum towards the Republican nomination. Patricia Mazzei, a political writer for the Miami Herald who has covered Florida’s congressional and state legislative politics joins us to discuss how Romney’s strategy could be employed in Florida where Trump is ahead of Rubio in the polls but although Kasich is not a factor, if Cruz’s votes went to Rubio, then Rubio might just beat Trump and avoid a campaign-ending humiliation.

Part 2

Then with Romney calling Trump a “fraud” and a “conman” whose “promises are as worthless as a diploma from Trump University”, we will look into Romney’s investments in predatory for-profit colleges and Rubio defense of the most fraudulent for-profit college Corinthian that ripped off the taxpayer for over $6 billion. David Halperin, a senior fellow at Republic Report who was a White House Speechwriter and special assistant for national security affairs to President Clinton, joins us to discuss Romney and Rubio’s hypocrisy and whether desperate efforts by the Republican “establishment”  to stop Trump are too little too late.    

Part 3

Then finally we examine the charges by NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General Breedlove, that Russia is “deliberately weaponising migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve” through indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Syria to get the refugees on the road “and make them a problem for someone else”. A former Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva and Moscow, Anders Aslund, a professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss how Putin is cynically stoking the refugee crisis in Syria to destabilize Europe in the hope of weakening E.U. sanctions against Russia.