Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Elliott Mincberg a senior fellow with People for the American Way explains why his group is campaigning to defeat President Trump' nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy left on the U.S. Supreme Court after the February 2016 death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

2) Mongi Dhaouadi, Executive Director of the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR) discusses his organization's response to President Trump's executive order restricting immigration to the U.S. from seven (7) majority Muslim nations in the Middle East and Africa.

3) William Hartung, Director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International Policy discusses his views on the Trump administration's recent threats made against the government of Iran in response to that nation's Jan. 29th ballistic missile test. He'll also address the prospect that President Trump could follow through on his campaign pledge to undermine or abrogate the international nuclear agreement with Iran -- as well as reviewing some of the points raised in his recent article, "Don’t Let Flynn’s Dangerous Fantasies Drive Us To War With Iran."

4) Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for Public Education shares her views of President Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, and the movement to privatize public education she represents.

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