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

Background Briefing: July 23, 2018

  Why is Trump Going After the Top Intel Officials Who Briefed Him? We begin with the latest act of pettiness from a thin-skinned petulant president who today announced that he was considering revoking the security clearances of his critics, naming six former top...

Background Briefing: July 22, 2018

  Like Nixon, Could Tape Recordings Bring Down Trump? We begin with an update on the Mueller investigation and explore its various threads along with other cases brought by Mueller handed off to the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Manhattan and Washington and the...

Background Briefing: July 19, 2018

  The Man Trump Was Prepared to Hand Over to Putin to Be Silenced Permanently We begin with the person who Vladimir Putin desperately wants to murder, Bill Browder,the chief executive and founder of Hermitage Capital Markets whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was...

Background Briefing: July 18, 2018

  Russian Effort to Infiltrate the NRA and the National Prayer Breakfast We begin with the 29-year-old alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, who appeared in federal court in Washington D.C. today on charges of conspiracy and acting as an illegal foreign agent in the...

Background Briefing: July 17, 2018

  Allied Countries No Longer Want to Share Intelligence Because They Don’t Trust Trump We begin with the contrast between Putin unleashing his intelligence services to attack the United States while our president attacks our intelligence services, criticizing and...