Background Briefing: March 19, 2024
Who Will Come up With the Billion Dollars Trump Needs as he Faces the Prospect of His Assets Being Seized? We begin with Trump's appeal to the New York appeals court for extra time to find the billion dollars he will need to appeal his fraud conviction, which...
Background Briefing: March 18, 2024
An Alarming Poll on the Rise of the "Duel Haters" Who Want Neither Trump nor Biden We begin with the findings from a veteran pollster that "duel haters", voters who don't want either Trump or Biden were 18% of the voters in 2016, but are now at 23% of the electorate,...
Background Briefing: March 17, 2024
The Russian Elections and Putin's Plans to Stoke Divisions in an Already-Divided America We begin with the elections in Russia and Sunday's "noon against Putin" protests organized by Navalny as if reaching out from the grave, when citizens in the main cities...
Background Briefing: March 14, 2024
Johnson Won't Hold a Vote to Impeach Biden as Evidence Emerges the Source Who Fed House Republicans Russian Disinformation Was Paid $600,000 by Friends of Trump We begin with House Speaker Johnson telling reporters that he can't commit to holding a Biden impeachment...
Background Briefing: March 13, 2024
As Gazans Starve, Will Netanyahu Cross Biden's "Red Line" and Invade Rafah? We begin with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and assess whether there is a deliberate policy of starvation underway, while the US and others resort to BandAid solutions of air drops and...
Background Briefing: March 12, 2024
Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden's 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else We begin with Biden's $7.266 trillion 2025 budget released Monday of which $1.6 trillion is discretionary spending and a...
Background Briefing: March 11, 2024
Have Israel's Right Wing Supporters and the AIPAC Lobby Lost the Narrative on Israel in Popular Culture? We begin with last night's Academy Awards at which Jonathan Glazer, the winning international film director of The Zone of Interest, a movie about the...
Background Briefing: March 10, 2024
Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump We begin with a turning of the tide as Biden, who has been written off by the press and pollsters as too old and losing badly to Trump, made a...
Background Briefing: March 7, 2024
What Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight's State of the Union Address We begin ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address tonight with an analysis of what might be said, what needs to be said and what we know will be said and speak with a Democratic...
Background Briefing: March 6, 2024
Can Biden Pick up Haley's Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? We begin with Mitch McConnell's craven endorsement of Trump now that he has the nomination all but locked up and whether, after Nikki Haley's withdrawal, can Biden pick up the 20 to 30%...