The Morning Show asks columnist, Robert Scheer "Are the Neo-cons Behind the War between Russia and Georgia?" Then what is the role of age and ageism in the Presidential race? We ask Nan Brasmer, President of the California Alliance for Retired Americans and Margo Smith, convener of the Berkeley – East Bay chapter of the Gray Panthers. In the second hour a conversation with a protester just deported from Beijing. Wrapping up the program a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi, author "Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire".