March 21 – An Analysis of Trump’s Foreign Policy and His Foreign Policy Team; Where Presidents Obama and Raul Castro Converge and Diverge; Could Protesters Make Trump the Candidate of Chaos?

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with Donald Trump’s foreign policy team and his worldview outlined to the editorial board of The Washington Post, as well as his speech to the AIPAC conference tonight in Washington and speak with Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, a Senior Associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the founding President of the Truman National Security Project who served as a security expert on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board at the U.S. Department of State.

Part 2

Then we get an update on President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba where today in Havana Obama said he believes that “change is going to happen here and I think that Raul Castro understands that”.  A former political analyst with the Cuban government who is now a lecturer at the University of Texas, Arturo Lopez Levy joins us to discuss where Raul Castro’s and Barack Obama’s views converge in private since they appear to diverge in public with Raul Castro, speaking at a joint news conference with Obama, denying that there are any political prisoners in Cuba, challenging the journalists to “give him a list’ and they would be released “tonight”.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the possibility that a growing national protest movement against Donald Trump will dog him all the way to November and create optics that may prove unsettling to most voters as Donald Trump could come to be seen as the candidate of chaos. Marilyn Katz, a writer, consultant and long-time political activist who is a partner with Democracy Partners and a founder and co-chair of Chicago Women Take Action, joins us to discuss whether student protests will hurt Trump or help him, and her article at In These Times “Stopping Trump: The Chicago Model”.