A DAILY PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP ISSUES

Background Briefing: October 1, 2018

Full Briefing   Republican Sabotage of the Latest FBI Investigation We begin with the apparent attempt by the Republican Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee to circumscribe and limit the FBI inquiry into Judge Kavanaugh to only four witnesses while President...

Background Briefing: September 30, 2018

  The Powerful Special Interests Behind Kavanaugh We will begin with the remarks by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse at last week’s dramatic senate hearing when he questioned Judge Kavanaugh, referring to him as the culmination of a long strategy by powerful special...

Background Briefing: September 27, 2018

  A Report from a Prominent Lawyer Who Attended Today’s Hearing We begin with today’s contentious hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee at which Judge Kavanaugh’s first accuser Dr. Blasey Ford testified followed by Trump’s embattled nominee for the...

Background Briefing: September 26, 2018

  Weaponizing Women’s Rage We begin with a third accuser of Judge Kavanaugh who provided a declaration under penalty of perjury which not just supports the evidence so far from the first two accusers, but goes beyond what is inferred in the books by Kavanaugh’s...

Background Briefing: September 25, 2018

  Plowing Kavanaugh Through in Spite of Mounting Evidence Against Him We begin with a posse of angry old white men in the  White House and the Republican Senate determined to “plow through” with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court regardless...