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

Background Briefing: February 10, 2021

  History Will Condemn Senators Who Turn a Blind Eye to Trump's Monstrous Crimes We begin with the impeachment case the House Managers are making to the senate that makes it clear Trump set up his followers before the election claiming that if he lost it was...

Background Briefing: February 9, 2021

  Will Witnesses Who Could Seal Trump's Fate Testify? We begin with the impeachment trial in the Senate that began today with House Managers showing a video compilation of the storming of the Capitol which made clear Trump's explicit acts of insurrection as well...

Background Briefing: February 8, 2021

  Will Mike Pence Confront the Man He Slavishly Served Who Tried to Have Him Killed? We begin with Senate leaders reaching an agreement today which gives the impeachment managers and Trump's lawyers up to 16 hours each to present their cases with the option for a...

Background Briefing: February 7, 2021

  Biden Cuts Off Trump's Intelligence Briefings as it Becomes Clear Trump Was Behind the Storming of the Capitol We begin with President Biden's decision not to provide Trump the courtesy of continuing intelligence briefings because of his "erratic behavior" and...

Background Briefing: February 4, 2021

  Biden Outlines His Foreign Policy at a Decimated State Department We begin with President Biden's speech at the State Department today in which he announced "America is back" and declared that "diplomacy is back at the center of U.S. foreign policy." He also...

Background Briefing: February 3, 2021

  The Democratic House Managers' Impeachment Brief We begin with deliberations in the House GOP over whether to demote the third highest ranking House Republican Liz Cheney or QAnon's Marjorie Taylor Greene, the outcome of which will make it clear whether or not...

Background Briefing: February 2, 2021

  Trump Exposed as a Traitor and His Pal Epstein as a Blackmailer We begin with The New York Times report that makes it clear Trump orchestrated the campaign of lies that the election was stolen by corrupt and evil forces, lies that live on in a divided America...

Background Briefing: February 1, 2021

  Fixing American Democracy as the Democrats' First Order of Business We begin with the priority the Democrats in the House and Senate are trying to make their first order of business with H.R.1, the "For the People Act" and its Senate counterpart S.1. But in...

Background Briefing: January 31, 2021

  The Enemy Within the House of Representatives We begin with the degradation of our political discourse to the point Democratic lawmakers are now wearing body armour to work as some Republicans who supported the assault on the Capitol by a mob wanting to lynch...

Background Briefing: January 28, 2021

  Censuring or Removing the QAnon Congresswoman the Republicans Placed on the Education Committee We begin with efforts underway in the House to censure or remove the QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who the Republicans have appointed to the Education...

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