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

Background Briefing: July 22, 2021

  McCarthy and the “Political Terrorist” Jim Jordan’s Trolling of the January 6 Select Committee We begin with Republican attempts to troll the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and storming of the Capitol by Trump...

Background Briefing: July 21, 2021

  Fixing the Senate McConnell Has Made a Graveyard of Legislation We begin with the Republicans in the Senate blocking a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, delaying it until next week, and speak with Eli Zupnick, the spokesperson for Fix Our Senate, a...

Background Briefing: July 20, 2021

  Joe Manchin’s Deep Ties to the Fossil Fuel Industries We begin with an analysis of the most powerful man in Washington who is not the president, Senator Joe Manchin, and speak with Alex Kotch, an investigative reporter and editor with the Center for Media...

Background Briefing: July 19, 2021

  The First to Reveal Trump’s Oval Office Insanity Now that the Generals are Speaking Out Years Later We begin with an early witness to Trump’s Oval Office insanity who, in contrast to the generals and others now leaking to journalists and...

Background Briefing: July 18, 2021

  How the Generals Saved us From a Wannabe Dictator We begin as more and more information comes out in books about what went on in the Oval Office during Trump’s ruinous four years in office, with how the generals saved America from a dangerous, divisive...