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

Background Briefing: January 9, 2019

  Trump’s Two Main Claims Demolished in Manafort Document We begin with the accidental release of evidence that Robert Mueller has which many see as a bombshell in as much as it establishes that, contrary to Trump persistent claims that Paul Manafort’s...

Background Briefing: January 8, 2019

  Trump Gratuitous and Childish Insult to the EU We begin with President Trump’s latest insult to allies with the Administration downgrading the diplomatic status of the E.U. without notifying the European Union as heightened trade tensions between the E.U. and...

Background Briefing: January 7, 2019

  Trump Escalates His Reality TV Phony Border Crisis We begin with the White House’s escalating effort to gin up a crisis on the Southern border in order to justify Trump keeping the government shut down until he gets his border wall. John Stoehr, a fellow at the...

Background Briefing: January 6, 2019

  The Alarming Powers Trump Will Assume in Declaring a National Emergency We begin with the president again threatening to declare a national emergency in order to get his border wall, a threat he said on Sunday he was nearing a decision on invoking after having...

Background Briefing: January 3, 2019

  Trump Is Dangerous Because He Is Weak As the Democrats take over the House of Representatives, we will explore the difficulty they will have trying to find someone capable and competent to negotiate with. Since Trump is so unstable and totally out of his depth,...