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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Jul 15, 2024 • 1h 1min

July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele

Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 3min

July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton

Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 2min

July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi

A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 1min

July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve

Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 3min

July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk

As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 4min

July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru

Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 7, 2024 • 1h

July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz

Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 4, 2024 • 59min

July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas

A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 3, 2024 • 1h

July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry

A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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Jul 2, 2024 • 1h 2min

July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene

The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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