Background Briefing: July 24, 2018
The Republican Push to Gut the Endangered Species Act We begin with the Trump Administration’s proposed revisions of the Endangered Species Act which was passed by Congress in 1973 and signed into law by President Nixon. A world leader in the study of present...
Background Briefing: July 23, 2018
Why is Trump Going After the Top Intel Officials Who Briefed Him? We begin with the latest act of pettiness from a thin-skinned petulant president who today announced that he was considering revoking the security clearances of his critics, naming six former top...
Background Briefing: July 22, 2018
Like Nixon, Could Tape Recordings Bring Down Trump? We begin with an update on the Mueller investigation and explore its various threads along with other cases brought by Mueller handed off to the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Manhattan and Washington and the...
Background Briefing: July 19, 2018
The Man Trump Was Prepared to Hand Over to Putin to Be Silenced Permanently We begin with the person who Vladimir Putin desperately wants to murder, Bill Browder,the chief executive and founder of Hermitage Capital Markets whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was...
Background Briefing: July 18, 2018
Russian Effort to Infiltrate the NRA and the National Prayer Breakfast We begin with the 29-year-old alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, who appeared in federal court in Washington D.C. today on charges of conspiracy and acting as an illegal foreign agent in the...
Background Briefing: July 17, 2018
Allied Countries No Longer Want to Share Intelligence Because They Don’t Trust Trump We begin with the contrast between Putin unleashing his intelligence services to attack the United States while our president attacks our intelligence services, criticizing and...
Background Briefing: July 16, 2018
Trump’s Shameful Display of Craven Fealty Towards Putin We begin with the shameful and craven fealty on display today in Helsinki at the press conference which followed Trump’s meeting with Putin in which our president blamed America and sided with the leader...
Background Briefing: July 15, 2018
Trump Meets with Putin in Spite of His Own Government’s Warnings We begin with growing doubts about why Trump is meeting with Putin in Helsinki and what is the nature of their relationship. Malcom Nance, a career U.S. Intelligence officer and author of “The...
Background Briefing: July 12, 2018
Anxiety Ahead of Trump’s Bromance Meeting with Putin We begin with analysis of the forthcoming summit between Trump and Putin on Monday in Helsinki, Finland which has European allies and even Republican senators concerned about the apparent undue influence...
Background Briefing: July 11, 2018
The Dangers of Trump Labeling Humans as Vermin We begin with the neuroscience behind the success of Trump’s divisive strategy to “Make America Hate Again.” Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and author of Behave: The...