Background Briefing: November 16, 2020
Trump's Religious Right Supporters Lost the White House But Plan to Win the War We begin with an analysis of the constituencies inside the 72 million who voted for Trump, 70% of whom cling to the delusion that he won the election which was stolen from him by...
Background Briefing: November 15, 2020
The Much Less Than A Million MAGA March We begin with Saturday's demonstrations in Washington D.C. urged on by Trump who refuses to concede to Joe Biden or allow a transition. About ten thousand of the president’s ardent believers in conspiracies and falsehoods showed...
Background Briefing: November 12, 2020
The New Yorker's Evan Osnos Profiles Joe Biden We begin with Evan Osnos, a staff writer with The New Yorker since 2008 who previously reported from China and Iraq for the Chicago Tribune where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He joins us...
Background Briefing: November 11, 2020
The Purge at The Pentagon and The Coup Underway Against the Transition We begin on this Veterans Day and speak with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell who now teaches at the College of William and Mary and...
Background Briefing: November 10, 2020
A Self-Pardon Or One By a President Pence? We begin with Attorney General Barr dispatching U.S. Attorneys across the country to look into voter fraud in an effort to lend credibility to Trump's bogus claims that the election he lost was stolen. Joining us...
Background Briefing: November 9, 2020
Could Trump Form a Permanent Opposition of 71 Million Voters Who Believe he Won? We begin with more evidence that not only will Trump not concede the presidency to Joe Biden, but that in firing his Secretary of Defense today, he is signaling that he's in charge...
Background Briefing: November 8, 2020
The Madman Melts Down With Thousands of Nukes at His Fingertip We begin with Joe Biden's resounding victory over Donald Trump bringing joy and celebration to the streets of America while an ominous silence remains within the ranks of the 70 million Americans...
Background Briefing: November 5, 2020
Arizona Will Have Biden at 264 With Either Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania Putting Him Over the 270 We will begin with the key state of Arizona which will put Joe Biden at 264 of the 270 electoral college votes needed to win and speak with Jim Small, Editor in...
Background Briefing: November 4, 2020
Biden Has a Path to the Presidency, Trump Has Lawyers and Courts We begin with the narrow path Joe Biden has to the presidency following an election night in which the expected "blue wave" did not materialize, nor did a Democratic victory in the Senate or an...
Background Briefing: November 3, 2020
Election Updates from Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Texas We check in with the states whose polls have closed and are likely to deliver results beginning with Ohio, then Florida, although the panhandle in the north is in a different time zone with results coming...