Background Briefing: June 8, 2025
More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce We begin with the tabloid presidency creating tabloid headlines as the public spat between two infantile ego-maniacs, the world's...
Background Briefing: June 5, 2025
What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth We begin with an American citizen who has been targeted by the most powerful person in the country and the world for that...
Background Briefing: June 4, 2025
Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest We begin with the Congressional Budget Office's nonpartisan analysis that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4 trillion to annual budget deficits over the next decade while...
Background Briefing: June 1, 2025
President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less We begin with the latest zig-zagging on tariffs by President TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and look into what will happen...
Background Briefing: May 29, 2025
How the Trump Wrecking Crew is Destroying Our Defense and National Security We begin with the weakening of America's defense and national security from the inside by the Trump wrecking crew of Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and Ratcliffe who are destroying our intelligence...
Background Briefing: May 28, 2025
Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He Protects Putin We begin with President Trump saying today that he’ll know in two weeks if President Vladimir Putin is “tapping us along,” warning of a shift if Russia is not serious about peace in Ukraine. We discuss...
Background Briefing: May 27, 2025
The Cruelest Cuts in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill We begin the cruelest cuts in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" just passed by the House now before the Senate and assess the impacts of the record cuts in Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps). Joining us is Mike Konczal,...
Background Briefing: May 25, 2025
Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France and Canada For the Murders of Young Israeli Diplomats in DC We begin with the hideous murders of young Israeli embassy workers which has led Israeli leaders to blame the leaders of the UK, France and Canada for...
Background Briefing: May 22, 2025
What Will the Senate Do With Trump's Robin Hood In Reverse "Big, Beautiful Bill"? We begin with the House passage of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" which has Wall Street and the Fed rattled calling for "fiscal discipline" as Trump's economic madness blows up the debt...
Background Briefing: May 21, 2025
The 10 Richest Americans Made $365 Billion More in 2024 and Trump and the GOP Want to Give Them a Huge Tax Break We begin with Trump formally accepting a $400 million luxury jumbo jet from the Emir of Qatar while pressuring the House to pass his "Big Beautiful Bill"...