Background Briefing: November 30, 2020
Assessing Biden's Economic Team and the Challenges They Face We begin with Biden's economic team to be announced on Tuesday headed by the new Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen with Cecilia Rouse head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors and...
Background Briefing: November 29, 2020
The Pompeo, MbS, Netanyahu Secret Meeting That Led to the Hit on the Iranian Nuclear Scientist We begin with the assassination of Iran's leading nuclear scientist which followed a secret meeting in Saudi Arabia between Secretary of State Pompeo, the Saudi Crown...
Background Briefing: November 26, 2020
A Native American Perspective on Thanksgiving We begin with a native American perspective on this Thanksgiving holiday and speak with Jaynie Parrish, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, Director of the Navajo-Hopi Campaign at the Navajo County Democratic Party and...
Background Briefing: November 25, 2020
The Supreme Court's Radical View of Election Law and Rollback of Voting Rights We begin with the losing streak by Trump's legal team of Giuliani now minus Sidney Powell, who was just fired which in itself is saying something, given how low the bar is to be...
Background Briefing: November 24, 2020
Biden's Signal that Climate Change is a National Security Issue We begin with the choice of former Secretary of State John Kerry to be Biden's special envoy on climate change as well as a member of his National Security Council in a clear signal that the...
Background Briefing: November 23, 2020
As Trump Tears the Country Apart, Republicans Prefer Partisan Warfare to Patriotic Cooperation We begin with the extraordinary attack on American democracy underway, not from some malign foreign power but from within as Trump tears up every notion of the rule...
Background Briefing: November 22, 2020
Trump's Attempted Murder of American Democracy We begin with the continuing machinations of a sulking sore loser who lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College by wide margins yet persists on blocking a transition with the help of craven Republicans...
Background Briefing: November 19, 2020
Trump is Trying to Steal the Election in Plain Sight We begin with Trump's attempted theft of the election now in plain sight as he tries to prevent the certification of election results in Michigan in the hope the Republican legislatures in Michigan,...
Background Briefing: November 18, 2020
Trump's Petty Vengeance Against CISA Head Risks Hospitals Getting Ransomware Attacks We begin with Trump's firing of Chris Krebs, the government's top Cyber Security official in charge of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who instead of...
Background Briefing: November 17, 2020
Senator Graham's Election Meddling and the Democrats Chances in Georgia's Run-off Elections We begin with an effort by the loyal Trump lackey Senator Lindsey Graham to pressure Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's Republican Secretary of State, to throw out mail-in...