Background Briefing: February 27, 2023
New Intelligence Has the DOE and the FBI Suggesting the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Have Originated from a Lab Accident in China We begin with new intelligence on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has the Department of Energy stating that they have...
Background Briefing: February 26, 2023
Russia's War on Ukraine One Year Later We begin with the one year anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine and speak with a reporter who has covered the war from the beginning and prior to that was a correspondent in Russia for more than a decade. Joining us is...
Background Briefing: February 23, 2023
The Ohio Derailment as an Example of Wall Street's Priority of Extracting Wealth Not Creating It We begin with the politicization of the derailment in Ohio and the slow response from the Biden administration whose Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigeig just...
Background Briefing: February 22, 2023
The Spy Scandal Rocking the German Government and the Roll-up of Russian Spies Across Europe We begin with the spy scandal rocking the German government and the roll-up of suspected Russian operatives in the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland and Slovenia...
Background Briefing: February 21, 2023
Putin Puts Russia on a Nuclear Hair Trigger While Blaming the U.S. For the War in Ukraine We begin with Putin's state of the nation address in which he announced Russia is pulling out of the only nuclear arms treaty it has with the United States and that...
Background Briefing: February 20, 2023
Biden's Surprise Visit to Kyiv and Hysteria From Putin's Supporters on America's Far Right We begin with the surprise visit of President Biden to Kyiv where he met with President Zelensky and strolled across the main square amid air raid sirens to lay a wreath...
Background Briefing: February 19, 2023
An Update From the Munich Security Conference We begin with a report from the Munich Security Conference in Germany at which VP Kamala Harris spoke along with European leaders and Wang Yi, China's top foreign policy advisor to Xi Jinping who said about the war...
Background Briefing: February 16, 2023
The Partial Release of Findings From the Special Grand Jury Investigation of Trump's Attempt to "Find" 11,780 Votes in Georgia We begin with the partial release today of findings from the special grand jury in Atlanta's Fulton County that for the past 6 months has...
Background Briefing: February 15, 2023
How Was a Mentally Ill Man With a Gun Conviction Who Shot Up His Neighborhood Able to Buy Guns and Kill 3 MSU Students? We begin with questions arising from Monday's gun massacre at Michigan State University in which 3 students were killed and 5 critically...
Background Briefing: February 14, 2023
The Authoritarian Movement Underway to Ban Books, Ideas, Knowledge and History in America We begin with the new authoritarian age in America with a national movement underway to ban books, ideas, knowledge and history in 20 states with 18 states having passed...