Background Briefing: October 31, 2019
The Narrow Scope of the Impeachment Case We begin with today’s 232 to 196 party line vote in the House to authorize and set the guidelines for the impeachment of President Trump and speak with David Rothkopf who was a senior official in the Clinton...
Background Briefing: October 30, 2019
Damning Testimony from Someone on Trump's July 25 Call We begin with the despicable attacks in the right wing media against U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who serves on the staff of the National Security Council and testified yesterday to the...
Background Briefing: October 29, 2019
Will Consumers Boycott GM, Chrysler and Toyota? We begin with the decision by General Motors, Fiat-Chrysler and Toyota and a number of other auto-makers to side with the Trump Administration against California in rolling back auto-emission and fuel efficiency...
Background Briefing: October 28, 2019
Trump Trashes the Kurds and the CIA Who Made Him Look like a Hero We begin with after action reports of the Delta Force raid on the compound in which the leader of ISIS Al-Baghdadi was killed, an operation which the president described at length and in detail...
Background Briefing: October 27, 2019
Investigating the Investigators is a Putin Tactic and the Hallmark of a Banana Republic We begin with the unprecedented threat to the rule of law and separation of powers posed by Attorney General Barr’s move to investigate the investigators which has all the...
Background Briefing: October 24, 2019
A Phony Rebellion for the Pleasure of a Leader Demanding Devotion We begin with the phony rebellion of Tea Party Republicans crashing the House Intelligence Committee SCIF with cellphones is hand deliberately committing felonies in the hope they would be...
Background Briefing: October 23, 2019
A Member of the House of Lords on Brexit We begin with the latest twist and turns of Brexit with Boris Johnson appearing to score a victory on Tuesday with his E.U. withdrawal agreement only shortly later to suffer a defeat on the timetable which insists on a...
Background Briefing: October 22, 2019
The Russians Are Using Gabbard, but That Does Not Make Her Their Asset We begin with the increasingly active Russian trolls and propaganda networks who are amplifying Trump’s conspiracy theories, particularly the one that serves both their interests, the...
Background Briefing: October 21, 2019
American Convoys Abandon the Kurds as Putin and Erdogan Meet to Carve up the Spoils We begin with the ignominious withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria in convoys sporting large American flags which local villagers left to the mercy of the invading...
Background Briefing: October 20, 2019
Billions Made on Trades Apparently Based on Trump Insider Knowledge We begin with the bombshell article in Vanity Fair by their Wall Street special correspondent William Cohan, the author of The New York Times bestsellers “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs...