Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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Nov 13, 2025 • 1h 2min
November 13, 2025 - Matthew Petti | Louise Shelley | Christopher Prebble
One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email Trove Linking Epstein With Israeli Intelligence | The Damaging Scandal of Zelensky's Former Media Partner on the Lam With $100 Million in Energy Repairs Stolen | Does the U.S. Need Trump's Security Pact With Saudi Arabia?
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Nov 12, 2025 • 60min
November 12, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | Fred Turner | Jonathan Guyer
More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real "Smoking Gun" Remains Epstein's Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley's Migration to Texas with Musk's Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He's Destructive, Erratic or Reckless
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Nov 11, 2025 • 1h
November 11, 2025 - John Sweeney | Michael Mann | Olga Lautman
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Nov 10, 2025 • 60min
November 10, 2025 - Jeet Heer | Joshua Landis | Jennifer Kavanagh
Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms With Empty Promises |
Can Trump Overcome Supporters of Israel in Congress to End US Sanctions and Stabilize Syria? | Hegseth Wants Defense Contractors on a "Wartime Footing" as He Plans to Attack Venezuela
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Nov 8, 2025 • 1h 3min
November 9, 2025 - Jeff Wise | David Graham | J.W. Mason
An Assessment of Air Safety as Air Travel Melts Down | Following Orban's Example, Trump's Announces His Plan to Rig Election So That "We will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election" | A Followup on Mamdani's Victory on How He Will Deal With the Affordability Crisis
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Nov 6, 2025 • 1h 4min
November 6, 2025 - Rick Wilson | Michael McDonald | John Lawrence
Mounting Evidence the MAGA Spell Has Been Broken | As a Blue Wave Looms, What Will Trump Do to Rig the Next Election? | Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Decision to Retire
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Nov 5, 2025 • 1h 2min
November 5, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Alexander Keyssar | Michael Edison Hayden
Having Shunned Mamdani, Will the Democratic Establishment Now Embrace Him? | California Governor Newsom's Warning That Trump Will Do Anything and Everything to Rig the Next Election | The Republicans Are the Real Radicals and They Have a Nazi Problem
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Nov 4, 2025 • 1h 6min
November 4, 2025 - Marion Nestle | Ryan Cooper | Dr. Ashley Koning
After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Struggle Within the Democratic Party
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Nov 3, 2025 • 1h 6min
November 3, 2025 - Javier Corrales | Paul Glastris | Daniel Harawa
Trump Wants to Take Out Maduro Without a War But Replacing Venezuela's Corrupt and Criminal Hierarchy Will Not Be So Easy | Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One | Will SCOTUS Shred Its Last Vestige of Legitimacy and Side With Trump on Tariffs?
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Nov 2, 2025 • 1h 12min
November 1, 2025 - Joseph Cirincione | Will Bunch | Fatemeh Jamalpour
The Man With His Finger on the Button Doesn't Know What He is Talking About When it Comes to Nuclear Weapons | Trump Doesn't Need a Reichstag Fire, Mike Johnson Has Already Shut Down the Legislature | An Iranian Journalist Banned by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on Her Book on the Third Anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom Movement
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