All bets are off. The thin veneer of civilization is coming unraveled. How long will it be before Iran retaliates?-, and after that will there be any possibility for anyone to point out the truth that Trump has deliberately created this conflict? Does the evidence of his billion-dollar loan to the Russians coming out this week have anything to do with it? Or further proof of his shakedown of the Ukraine? Or evidence of massive stock market bets tied to Trump, where his friends make bank by knowing what announcements Trump is about to make?

Who are our real allies, and who will act to stop this from becoming World War III? How did Dick Cheney's illegal war and occupation of the nation of Iraq lead to this? Thom speaks with Jamal Abdi, policy director of the National Iranian American Council, as well as with House Progressive leader Mark Pocan on this developing crisis that Trump has created by assassinating a government official of another country.

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