Co-hosts Michael Smith and Jim Lafferty are joined by prominent professor and author of many books, Professor Henry Giroux who offers an updated perspective on the growing authoritarianism under the Trump administration. Professor Giroux compares President Trump's early actions to those of fascists in the past.
Co-hosts then hear from a journalist and author who describes the biased way corporate media in America is covering the Trump Administration and the Israeli-U.S. war against Gaza. Norman Solomon, author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine, also critiques Trump’s attacks on America’s colleges and universities under the pretext they have failed to adequately address anti-Semitism on their campuses. Norman Solomon the national director of RootsAction, and the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.