Two Presidential Candidates Describe Their Uphill Fights; A Look Into the Pentagon’s Top Secret Research Agency

On this week's podcast:

As Democrats and Republicans square off in their primary debates, third-party and independent candidates are struggling to be heard. Among them is Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2012 presidential nominee and a candidate for her party’s nomination in 2016. She joins us to discuss her campaign and a lawsuit aimed at expanding debates to include candidates outside the two major political parties.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is currently standing at less than 1 percent in the polls among Republican presidential candidates, despite receiving favorable reviews for his performance in the recent GOP undercard debate at the Reagan Library. He joins us to discuss his uphill campaign for the Republican nomination.  

Deep inside the enormous Pentagon infrastructure lies a top secret agency that few outsiders have managed to penetrate. It’s called DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – and it’s responsible for everything from drones to research on artificial intelligence. Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen offers a rare look into that shadowy world in her new book, “The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency,” and she joins us to discuss her findings.