May 5 - In Search of the Benghazi Smoking Gun; The Next Wall Street "Flash Crash"; A Blow to Seperation of Church and State

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the House GOP Leader’s announcement Monday that Representative Trey Gowdy will be heading up the Select Committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack about which Gowdy claims he has “evidence of a systematic intentional decision” by the Obama Administration to withhold untold amounts of documents from Congress. The co-author of “The Benghazi Hoax” Ari Rabin-Havt, host of “The Agenda” on Sirius XM, who has an article at USA Today “Benghazi Investigation a GOP Political Ad”, joins us to discuss how the relentless Republican sideshow designed to sully Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions has turned into a clown car, and whether the Democrats will participate in this farce or boycott the hearings.

Part 2

Then on the forth anniversary of the 2010 “flash crash” of the stock exchange on Wall Street where the market tanked 1,000 points and a trillion dollars evaporated in the blink of an eye, a glitch which to this day no one is sure how and why it happened, we speak with Sarah Anderson, who directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She has an article at The Huffington Post “Derailing the High-Speed Trading Bullet Train Before it Crashes Our Economy” and we discuss how computerized high speed trading dominates the market today and the need for a financial transaction tax on Wall Street that the Europeans are implementing to discourage speculation and short-term trading.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the Supreme Court decision on the separation of Church and State that now allows explicitly Christian prayers to open public meetings, stemming from a case brought by local constituents of the township of Greece, New York, who objected to their Town Council inviting Christian ministers to open meetings with an invocation to Jesus Christ. Best-selling author Frank Schaeffer, who comes from a prominent evangelical family who helped establish the Religious Right as a powerful political force in American politics, joins us to discuss a majority opinion by five conservatives Catholics over the objections of a minority of three Jewish justices and one liberal Catholic.