Background Briefing: March 24, 2021
An ER Doctor Who Treated the Aurora Victims on What Assault Rifles Do to the Human Body We begin with an Emergency Room physician who was working at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora on the night 12 people were killed and 70 injured at the Colorado...
Background Briefing: March 23, 2021
The Seventh Mass Shooting in Seven Days in Gun-soaked America We begin with the seventh mass shooting in the U.S. in just this last seven days with 10 killed in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado on Monday by a 21 year old with an assault rifle Ahmad Al Aliwi...
Background Briefing: March 22, 2021
Republicans Seize on Border Issues Using Mexican Trolls for Anti-Immigrant Propaganda We begin with the influx of unaccompanied minors at the Southern border with 14,000 children now in U.S. custody as of Thursday and the expectation that the number could climb...
Background Briefing: March 21, 2021
Separating Asian Americans From Worsening U.S.-China Relations We begin with the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska between the Biden administration's top officials and their Chinese counterparts in which Secretary of State Blinken faced a 16 minute tirade of "Wolf...
Background Briefing: March 18, 2021
The Filibuster Wars and the Pros and Cons of Getting Rid of It We begin with the filibuster wars in the U.S. Senate following Senator McConnell's threat of a scorched earth retaliation if the Democrats were to get rid of or modify the filibuster, promising a...
Background Briefing: March 17, 2021
The National Intelligence Council's "Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections" Report We begin with the declassified report from the National Intelligence Council "Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections" that singles out Russia as the main...
Background Briefing: March 16, 2021
How the Television Version of Governor Cuomo Differs From What We Now Read in the Newspaper We begin with how much modern politics are driven by who is telegenic rather than who is competent and look into how New York's Governor Cuomo was seen as a rising star...
Background Briefing: March 15, 2021
As Two are Charged in the Death of a Capitol Police Officer, Will Trump be Held Responsible? We begin with the arrests of two men charged in the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who died during the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters...
Background Briefing: March 14, 2021
The Inside Story of How Trump Bungled the Pandemic and How it Began We begin with Friday's virtual meeting of the Quad in which the leaders of the U.S., India, Japan and Australia discussed getting a billion vaccinations to South East Asia but this potential...
Background Briefing: March 11, 2021
Pandemic Fatigue, States Opening Up Prematurely and the New Brazilian Covid Variant Among the Challenges Biden Might Address We begin with President Biden who just sign the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and is about to deliver his first address to the nation...