Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates blasts Obama, Biden in new memoir

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates blasts Obama, Biden in new memoir

In his new memoir, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," former secretary of defense Robert Gates shares behind-the-scenes information about the White House. 

Guests:

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt (Ret.)
Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy. 

Lawrence Korb @LarryKorb 
Former assistant secretary of defense from 1981 to 1985. Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (@amprog).   

Kevin Baron @DefenseBaron 
Executive editor of Defense One (@DefenseOne).   

Read Bob Woodward's account of Gates' memoir, via The Washington Post.   

Officials concerned about sex trafficking near upcoming Super Bowl 

Guests: 

Tracy Thompson 
New Jersey assistant attorney general and chair of the New Jersey Human Trafficking Task Force. 

John-Keith Wasson
Documentary filmmaker, co-director of "Tricked" (@TrickedFilm). 

Danielle Douglas
Human trafficking survivor, activist, and a subject of "Tricked." 

Read more about how New Jersey law enforcement agents are fighting sex trafficking near the site of next month’s Super Bowl, via The Associated Press. 

Faces of the long-term unemployed

The Senate voted today to begin debate on extending emergency unemployment benefits by three months. These benefits expired in late December for about 1.3 million Americans who have been actively looking for work without success for 27 weeks or longer. The benefits extension bill has to be considered next by the House of Representatives.

Guests: 

Theresa Connelly-Devard
Resident of Queens, N.Y. who has been unemployed since October 2012. 

Brandi Wall
Resident of Chicago who has been unemployed since April 2013. 

Cars that talk to each other and more highlights of the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show

Guest:

Tim Stevens @Tim_Stevens 
Al Jazeera tech contributor and CNET editor-at-large.

Read more about #CES2014, via The Washington Post.  

Astronomers find planet with roughly the same mass as Earth but larger and gassier 

Guest:

Derrick Pitts @coolastronomer 
Chief astronomer at The Franklin Institute Science Museum.

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