Background Briefing: November 14, 2019
Democrats Lay the Groundwork for Impeachment We begin with an assessment of yesterday’s first public impeachment hearing from Frank Bowman, a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law and a former federal prosecutor whose latest book, just...
Background Briefing: November 13, 2019
Today's Fact Witnesses and the Republican's Alternative Reality We begin with the first day of public impeachment hearings with testimony from the acting ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state, who were fact...
Background Briefing: November 12, 2019
Boris Johnson Suppresses a Report on Russian Meddling in the UK We begin with the refusal by the U.K’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make public an explosive report from the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee on Russian meddling in U.K....
Background Briefing: November 11, 2019
Why Haven't Trump's Generals, The "Adults," Spoken Out? We begin on this Veteran’s Day with an Army and a Navy veteran, both of whom are concerned about a dangerous anomaly which no veteran or serving member in the military has ever had to contemplate, and that...
Background Briefing: November 10, 2019
NSC Officials Fight Trump to Defend Ukraine We begin with the public testimony coming up on Wednesday from three senior U.S. diplomats in the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s attempt to bribe Ukraine’s leader into digging up dirt on his political opponent Joe...
Background Briefing: November 7, 2019
Going Bold on Healthcare Reform with Elizabeth Warren We begin with Hillary Clinton’s criticism of the Sanders and Warren “Medicare for All” proposals which she said without naming the authors, that their healthcare reform and a tax on the assets of the very...
Background Briefing: November 6, 2019
Next Week's Impeachment Hearings Will Be Damning for Trump We begin with the announcement by Adam Schiff the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee that next week public impeachment hearings will begin with many of the witnesses the Republicans complained...
Background Briefing; November 5, 2019
Mexico's Murderous Drug Cartels Are Winning We begin with the horrendous massacre of three Mormon women and six children on a highway in the north of Mexico by suspected members of a drug gang who might have mistaken the convoy of vehicles for a rival cartel....
Background Briefing: November 4, 2019
"The Silence of the Republican Lambs" We begin with the transcripts released today by the House Intelligence Committee of the recent depositions by the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and the former top advisor to the Secretary of State,...
Background Briefing: November 3, 2019
Why Trump is Moving to Florida We begin on this November 3, exactly one year away from the 2020 election, and discuss the presidential campaign ahead which promises to be vicious, venomous, vituperative and fact-free as Trump and the Republicans outspend the...