Background Briefing: November 13, 2018
How to Run Free and Fair Elections We begin with the growing use of mail-in or absentee ballots in elections across the country and how in spite of late-into–the-election night media coverage which feeds the need for instant gratification, the volume coming in...
Background Briefing: November 12, 2018
Demagoguery and Florida’s Incomplete Vote Count We begin with the contested electoral results in Florida amid increasingly nasty charges by Governor Scott who is clinging on to a narrow lead in the race for the U.S. Senate calling Senator Nelson “a sore loser”...
Background Briefing: November 11, 2018
Background Briefing: November 11, 2018 A Subject of an FBI Investigation Now in Charge of the FBI? We will begin with the president distancing himself from his own appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the acting Attorney General by going out of his way to...
Background Briefing: November 8, 2018
An Acting AG with Neither the Legal, Ethical, Moral or Judicial Qualifications We begin with Trump’s new Attorney General now in charge of the Mueller investigation who appears to have neither the legal, ethical, moral or judicial qualifications to be the...
Background Briefing: November 7, 2018
Trump Moves to Muzzle Mueller We begin with the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his replacement with a Trump loyalist and assess the growing possibility that the Mueller probe will be shut down or have its scope and independence...
Background Briefing: November 6, 2018
The Role of Women in Over 100 House Races We begin on this critical midterm election day as polls are closing in the East, and discuss the role of women both in terms of the record number of women running for congress and in state and local races, and what is...
Background Briefing: November 5, 2018
Heavily Armed and Untrained Militias Head for the Border We begin with armed militia groups heading for the Southern border which is already militarized with active-duty and National Guard troops along with Border Patrol and speak with Michelle Garcia, a...
Background Briefing: November 4, 2018
A Frantic Trump Campaigns to Hold the Senate But Not the House We begin in the closing days before a watershed election with Kevin O’Leary, a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine and a former reporter...
Background Briefing: November 1, 2018
US Troops and Being Used as Props for Trump’s Propaganda We begin with President Trump’s plan to deploy as many as 15,000 troops on the Southern border before the midterm elections even though what he calls an “invasion” of a dwindling number of destitute...
Background Briefing: October 31, 2018
The Person Who Revealed an Attempt to Smear Robert Mueller We begin with Special Counsel Robert Mueller referring evidence to the FBI that pro-Trump political operatives are offering to pay women to make false claims against Mueller accusing him of sexually...