We begin with Obama’s renewed focus on Wall Street reform following a White House meeting on Monday with the nation’s top financial regulators. Dennis Kelleher, the president and Chief Executive Officer of Better Markets Inc, a nonprofit organization that promotes the public interest in U.S. and global financial markets, joins us to discuss why regulators have missed 60% of the rule-making deadlines, as the Dodd-Frank bill, which has been under relentless attack from Wall Street, tries to implement rules to prevent another crash.
Then we examine how the massacre in Egypt could have been avoided and why it was not with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde, a columnist for Reuters who was kidnapped and held captive by the Taliban which he wrote about in a memoir “A Rope and a Prayer”. He joins us to discuss his latest article at Reuters “A Feckless Response to Egypt’s Avoidable Massacre” and the growing alienation amongst the young, who are a majority in the Middle East, towards the United States which he argues is more hated and less secure across the region.
Then finally, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey Richelson, a Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive, who obtained a 322-page declassified history of the CIA’s super-secret Area 51 under the Freedom of Information Act. We discuss what has been revealed about decades of secret activity at a site many believe houses the remains of aliens and an extra-terrestrial spacecraft, and how the CIA’s turf battles with the Air Force over control of spy platforms has led to the cancellation of successful programs.
