Background Briefing: July 10, 2018
Did Trump Choose Kavanaugh as Insurance Against Mueller? We begin with Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh and whether he was chosen by the president as insurance in Trump’s fight for self-preservation. Caroline Fredrickson, President of the...
Background Briefing: July 9, 2018
The British Government’s Impending Collapse Over Brexit We begin with disarray in the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet following the resignation of her chief negotiator on Brexit David Davis who is joined today by Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris...
Background Briefing: July 8, 2018
Alternative Investigations If Trump Shuts Down Mueller We begin with the efforts underway by House Tea Party Republicans to scuttle the Mueller investigation by pressuring the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein into handing over Mueller’s secret evidence or...
Background Briefing: July 5, 2018
A Woman Will Likely Overturn Roe V. Wade We begin with the Republican crusade to appoint a Supreme Court Justice committed to the anti-abortion movement. Jessica Mason Pieklo, the vice president of law and the courts at Rewire.News and the 2018 recipient of the...
Background Briefing: July 4, 2018
The Unravelling of the American Left and the Revival of Social Democracy On this July 4th, we begin with how we are heading for autocratic rule in America with a Republican Party who place power over principle and a president infatuated with dictators and...
Background Briefing: July 3, 2018
Is Trump Putin’s Manchurian Candidate? We begin with the upcoming summit in Helsinki, Finland on July 16 between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in which an ignorant, insecure and possibly compromised American president will be sitting down with an extremely...
Background Briefing: July 2, 2018
Hope and Joy in Mexico We begin with the blowout victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, affectionately known as AMLO, in the Mexican elections where he won the presidency with twice as many votes as his nearest rival while his party Morena captured 260 of the...
Background Briefing: July 1, 2018
How to Stop Trump From Appointing a Supreme Court Justice Who Could Exonerate Him We begin with the battle shaping up over Trump’s selection for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Kennedy to be announced on July 9. Paul Schiff Berman, a professor at...
Background Briefing: June 28, 2018
The Co-Director of Justice Democrats Who Recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez We begin with the surprise upset victory in Tuesday’s New York primary election by 28 year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who defeated the fourth most powerful Democrat in the House and will be...
Background Briefing: June 27, 2018
The Retirement of Justice Kennedy and What it Means We begin with the announcement today by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy that he is retiring, giving President Trump another opportunity to nominate a far-right replacement like Neil Gorsuch, increasing...