Background Briefing: October 8, 2023
After Declaring War on Hamas, Could the Conflict Escalate Against Hezbollah in the North? We begin with an update on the war between Israel and Hamas with the possibility of an escalation on the northern border with Lebanon following an exchange of fire...
Background Briefing: October 5, 2023
Top Biden Officials Meet With Mexico's President AMLO Who Denies Fentanyl is Made in Mexico and Blames the US For Refugees From Cuba and Venezuela We begin with the meeting today in Mexico City between Mexico's President Lopez Obrador, AMLO, and the US Secretary of...
Background Briefing: October 4, 2023
The United States is Without a Functioning House of Representatives We begin with the United States without a functioning House of Representatives as jockeying gets underway to replace Kevin McCarthy as speaker while the temporary speaker Patrick McHenry displays...
Background Briefing: October 3, 2023
Far-Right House Freedom Caucus Rebels Led by the Brat Matt Gaetz Who Hates McCarthy, Topple the Speaker We begin with the historic day in the House of Representatives for all the wrong reasons as for the first time a speaker was dismissed and the chair vacated in a...
Background Briefing: October 2, 2023
Trump's Day in Court Lashing Out Against New York Fraud Charges We begin with Trump's latest day in court before which he made baseless claims that the DOJ was behind the New York fraud case against him. In court he sat a few feet away from New York's AG...
Background Briefing: October 1, 2023
Apart From Helping Putin, Why is Cutting Aid to Ukraine the Top Priority of Trump and a Handful of Republicans in Congress? We begin with Putin telling Trump to cut aid to Ukraine, then Trump telling Marjorie Taylor Greene to cut the aid, then Margorie Taylor...
Background Briefing: September 28, 2023
With the Deck Stacked Against American Workers, the Competition to Win Their Votes We begin with the competition for the vote of American workers with Biden on the picket line with striking UAW workers and Trump at a non-union venue appealing to UAW members past and...
Background Briefing: September 27, 2023
After Losing His Business License in New York, Trump Could Lose All His Businesses Built on Fraud We begin with a judge today dismissing Trump's appeal against the business fraud case brought by the New York Attorney General which goes to trial on October the...
Background Briefing: September 26, 2023
Biden Sides With Workers on the Picket Line We begin with the first American president to join striking workers on the picket line in Detroit today where Biden made an impassioned speech in favor of workers getting a fair deal and a decent wage in an economy in...
Background Briefing: September 25, 2023
Trump’s Latest Full-on Fascist Rant to Shut Down Any Media That’s Critical of Him We begin with Trump's latest full-on fascist rant on Truth Social on Sunday against the media, in particular NBC and MSNBC, vowing, "I say up front, openly, proudly, that when I...