Background Briefing: April 30, 2024
As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model for De-escalation We begin with more campuses erupting across the country as protests against Israel's war in Gaza intensify and spread and speak with Wendy Pearlman, a professor of...
Background Briefing: April 29, 2024
The Weaponization of Anti-Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses We begin with escalating tensions on campuses across America as pro-Palestinian demonstrators face off against supporters of Israel with the charge of anti-semitism...
Background Briefing: April 28, 2024
The House and Senate Move to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes We begin with the apparent intention of the Israeli Prime Minister to escalate the war in Gaza by invading Rafah and turning Gaza into a tent city of refugees...
Background Briefing: April 25, 2024
More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court We begin with today's Supreme Court hearing on Trump's immunity claim that is delaying Jack Smith's Washington D.C. case against Trump for the January 6th insurrection, and based on what we heard today, the...
Background Briefing: April 24, 2024
Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care We begin with the Supreme Court's oral arguments over whether an Idaho abortion ban will gut the Reagan era law EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which prevents...
Background Briefing: April 23, 2024
Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women We begin with the role The National Enquirer played in helping to elect Trump in 2016, which emerged from today's testimony from the tabloid's ex-publisher David Pecker who operated a "catch and kill" policy of burying...
Background Briefing: April 22, 2024
Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale We begin with dozens of students protesting the war in Gaza arrested today at Yale University following last week's arrests of over 100 at Columbia University and speak with Alexander Sammon,...
Background Briefing: April 21, 2024
Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive We begin with the long-delayed $61 billion aid package for Ukraine passed by the House on Saturday 311 to 112 with all the Democrats for it and Republicans voting 112 to 101 against it. Joining us...
Background Briefing: April 18, 2024
A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene We begin with Speaker Johnson promising the Ukraine aid bill will be on the House floor on Saturday as the far-right Republican pro-Putin caucus...
Background Briefing: April 17, 2024
The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" We begin with the criminal trial of Donald Trump underway in New York and examine the prologue to the trial going back to the case brought by the...