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Background Briefing: May 14, 2023

  The First White House Insider to Expose Trump on How Trump Will be Even More Dangerous Next Time  We begin with the frightening prospect that Donald Trump could return to the White House with a recent ABC/Washington Post poll having Biden 6 points behind Trump....

Background Briefing: May 11, 2023

Trump's Unstable Unfitness For Office on Display as Much of the U.S Falls into the Grip of Madness We begin with last night's CNN Town Hall which had Donald Trump spewing out a torrent of lies steamrolling the valiant moderator trying to fact check him before a...

Background Briefing: May 10, 2023

Today's Indictment of Congressman George Santos on 13 Counts and Calls For Him To Resign, But Not From Speaker McCarthy We begin with the indictment today of Republican Congressman George Santos on 13 counts, 7 on wire fraud, 3 counts of money laundering, one count of...

Background Briefing: May 9, 2023

  A Former President Has Been Found Guilty of Sexual Assault But Does the Party of Donald Trump and George Santos Care? We begin with the verdict today in a civil trial in a Manhattan Federal Court that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexual...

Background Briefing: May 8, 2023

  Thursday's Expected Influx of Immigrants at the Southern Border and the Failure to Deal With the Root Causes We begin with the expiration on Thursday of the Covid era Title 42 rule that allows rapid expulsion on non-Mexican migrants at the border that is...

Background Briefing: May 7, 2023

  A Reporter Who Was Banned From Entering the "Woke Free Zone" at CPAC's Conference in Orban's Hungary  We begin and go to Budapest, Hungary where the Conservative Political Action Committee CPAC is holding a conference to which European and American far-right...

Background Briefing: May 4, 2023

Trump's StormTroopers the Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy We begin with the convictions today of 4 prominent Proud Boys and their chairman all of whom were found guilty of seditious conspiracy with a fifth, who was the first to break into the Capitol...

Background Briefing: May 3, 2023

Was the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Staged or a Ukrainian Attempt to Rattle Putin's Cage? We begin with the two drones that exploded over the Kremlin last night aimed at Putin's residence inside the walls and assess whether the attack was the work of Ukrainian...

Background Briefing: May 2, 2023

How the Press Has Framed the Looming Act of Insanity by House Republicans as Dueling Budget Proposals  We begin with the looming date of June the first when, if the debt ceiling is not raised, the United States will default on its debts and suffer untold...

Background Briefing: May 1, 2023

  Growing Concern at the Supreme Court's Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges We begin with tomorrow's hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee to deal with the need for an ethics code of conduct at the Supreme Court after the...

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