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

Background Briefing: November 12, 2020

  The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos Profiles Joe Biden We begin with Evan Osnos, a staff writer with The New Yorker since 2008 who previously reported from China and Iraq for the Chicago Tribune where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He...

Background Briefing: November 11, 2020

  The Purge at The Pentagon and The Coup Underway Against the Transition We begin on this Veterans Day and speak with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell who now teaches at the College of William and Mary and...

Background Briefing: November 10, 2020

   A Self-Pardon Or One By a President Pence? We begin with Attorney General Barr dispatching U.S. Attorneys across the country to look into voter fraud in an effort to lend credibility to Trump’s bogus claims that the election he lost was stolen. Joining...

Background Briefing: November 9, 2020

  Could Trump Form a Permanent Opposition of 71 Million Voters Who Believe he Won? We begin with more evidence that not only will Trump not concede the presidency to Joe Biden, but that in firing his Secretary of Defense today, he is signaling that he’s in...

Background Briefing: November 8, 2020

  The Madman Melts Down With Thousands of Nukes at His Fingertip We begin with Joe Biden’s resounding victory over Donald Trump bringing joy and celebration to the streets of America while an ominous silence remains within the ranks of the 70 million...