Daesh No Big Deal Now? Has Obama Turned Against Syria Peace Process?

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, host Brian Becker is joined by political analyst and journalist Hafsa Kara Mustapha to discuss Turkey's direct sabotage of a Syria Peace deal and why the Obama Administration too is focusing on the removal of Assad and denunciation of Russia rather than the defeat of Daesh.

Turkey, NATO's eastern flank, is ramping up a bloody war against the Kurds not Daesh or al-Qaeda in Syria. Although a ceasefire was agreed to by international powers in Munich last week Obama's press conference yesterday focused its verbal attack on Russia and the Syrian government.

He barely mentioned Daesh or the so-called Islamic State and suggested that they would control a large swath of Syria for a long time to come.

In the second segment, civil liberties attorney and constitutional law expert Mara Verheyden-Hilliard joins Becker to talk about what the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia over the weekend means for the future of the highest court in the country.

Scalia took particular aim at women's rights, labor unions, immigrants and affirmative action. What comes next in a deeply polarized washington political establishment?

Finally, Becker is joined by analyst Eric Draitser to assess the final day of the US-ASEAN Summit that took place in California yesterday. Is the United States deliberately stoking tensions in the region by encouraging countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines in their disputes with China? Where does the "Asia Pivot" lead?