Background Briefing: June 22, 2021
The Debate About Having a Debate in Our Broken Senate We begin with the debate in the senate today on the For the People Act which was not a debate because in order to have a debate in the U.S. Senate you have to have a supermajority of sixty votes and that is...
Background Briefing: June 21, 2021
Will We Get a Small Useless Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal or One That Meets Our Future Needs? We begin with the bipartisan infrastructure package that Senators Sinema and Portman were expected to present today which the Biden administration might well take up...
Background Briefing: June 20, 2021
The Layered Republican Electoral Strategy to Cheat Rather Than Compete We begin with an overview of the electoral landscape ahead as the Republicans launch a multi-layered strategy to first gerrymander and suppress the vote to the extent they could win the next...
Background Briefing: June 17, 2021
Senator Manchin's Changes to the For the People Act That Stacey Abrams "Absolutely" Supports We begin with the two big bills Biden is trying to get passed, infrastructure and the For the People Act, both of which have Senator Joe Manchin as a key player in...
Background Briefing: June 16, 2021
The Biden-Putin Summit and the Press Conferences That Followed We begin with the summit meeting today in Geneva between President Biden and President Putin which both leaders characterized as constructive since they got a lot done then cut it short after a...
Background Briefing: June 15, 2021
A Plan to End the Standoff Between Ukraine and Russia to Avoid a Wider War We begin with President Biden's summit meeting tomorrow in Geneva with Vladimir Putin who Biden characterized today as a "worthy adversary" and explore the possibility of the two leaders...
Background Briefing: June 14, 2021
The G7 and NATO Issue Warnings About China's Rise We begin with President Biden's meeting at the NATO summit in Brussels at which Nato leaders warned that China poses a military threat representing a "systemic challenge'' even though the alliance does not want...
Background Briefing: June 13, 2021
Abuses by Trump's DOJ Under Sessions Then Barr Now Come to Light We begin with revelations in The New York Times that the Trump Justice Department under Sessions then Barr secretly subpoenaed iPhone records of Trump critics Congressmen Schiff and Swalwell,...
Background Briefing: June 10, 2021
The Contrast Between Biden's Progressive Domestic Policies and Conservative Foreign Policies We begin with President Biden's first foreign trip which is already being praised as "America is back" and discuss the contrast between Biden's progressive domestic...
Background Briefing: June 9, 2021
The Super-Rich are Making More Money Than Ever and Paying Less Taxes Than Ever We begin with the explosive report from ProPublica based on a leak of IRS data which reveals how the richest 25 Americans pay little to no taxes and on an average pay 15.8 % in taxes...