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

Background Briefing: January 30, 2019

  If Trump Cheated Can We Have an Election Do-Over? We begin with the flashing of the Nixon victory sign by Nixon and Trump’s dirty trickster Roger Stone as Stone leaves federal courthouses which intentionally or not, links President Nixon to Trump and the...

Background Briefing: January 29, 2019

  The High Stakes Between the US and China Over Huawei We begin with escalating tensions between the U.S. and China over the extradition of the CFO of China’s most successful company Huawei from Canada following Monday’s charges by the Justice Department against...

Background Briefing: January 28, 2019

  Billionaires Toying with Presidential Politics We begin with the latest possible entry into the 2020 presidential race with the former CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz indicating he might run as an independent. Ryan Cooper, a national correspondent for The Week...

Background Briefing: January 27, 2019

  Roger Stone’s History With Trump We begin with the arrest and indictment of the dirty trickster and close adviser to Donald Trump Roger Stone and speak with someone who knows him well, Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to...

Background Briefing: January 24, 2019

  Is Mike Pence as Unfit for Office as Trump? We begin with the theater of the absurd in the U.S. Senate with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cravenly doing Trump’s bidding putting forth bills laced with anti-immigrant poison pills inserted by the White House...