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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Dec 18, 2023 • 1h 1min
December 18, 2023 - Dov Waxman | Joshua McElwee | Aaron Reichlin Melnick
The White House Tells Israel That "Protecting Palestinian Civilians in Gaza is Both a Moral Duty and Strategic Imperative" | Pope Francis Approves Blessing For Same-Sex Couples | Republicans Hold Biden Hostage With An Immigration Deal That Will Anger the Democratic Base
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Dec 17, 2023 • 60min
December 17, 2023 - Gregory Treverton | Scott Horton | Sebastiaan Faber
The Top Secret 10 Inch 2,700 Page Binder of Russian Influence and Collusion That Went Missing When Trump Left Office | How Trump and His Minions Tried to Doctor the Evidence in the Missing Binder | The American Right's Embrace of Franco and the Hungarian Kleptocratic Despot Orban
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Dec 14, 2023 • 60min
December 14, 2023 - David Redlawsk | R. Daniel Kelemen | Elizabeth Goitein
The House Republicans Unanimous Evidence-Free Vote For Biden's Impeachment | How Hungary's Crooked Despot Viktor Orban is Blackmailing the EU | Efforts To Reform FISA as Section 702 is Tucked Into the $886 Billion NDAA
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Dec 13, 2023 • 57min
December 13, 2023 - Allan Lichtman | Grant Stern | Michael Mann
Hunter Biden Defies the House Witch-Hunters Ahead of the Vote To Impeach His Father | Hypocrisy Hardly Begins to Describe What is Going on With Florida Republicans | The COP28 Pledge to "Transition Away" From Fossil Fuels That Leaves a Lot of Wiggle Room
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Dec 12, 2023 • 1h
December 12, 2023 - Michael Kimmaga | Olga Lautman | Mike Rothschild
Zelensky Tries to Break the Deadlock as Republicans Hold up Aid to Ukraine | How Putin is Determined to Win His War On Ukraine | Musk Offers a Preview of the Media Landscape Ahead If Trump Were to Win
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Dec 11, 2023 • 1h 1min
December 11, 2023 - George Beebe | Juan Cole | Frances Kissling
As Russia Emphasizes its Maximalist Demands and Zelensky Heads to the White House to Try to Salvage the Aid Deal, What Kind of Peace is Possible? | How University Presidents Fell Into Congresswoman Stefanik's Trap | After a Death Sentence From the Texas AG and Supreme Court, a Pregnant Woman Escapes the State For an Abortion
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Dec 10, 2023 • 1h 7min
December 10, 2023 - Jane Cohen | Thomas Nichols | Michael Kazin
Recently Impeached Texas AG Issues a Life-Threatening Delay to an Abortion | The Emerging Campaign Issue of Dictatorship and What a Second Trump Term Could Look Like | Biden Vetoes a Ceasefire Sticking With Netanyahu Like VP Humphrey Stuck With LBJ in 1968
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Dec 7, 2023 • 1h
December 7, 2023 - Aaron Rupar | Haggai Matar | Phil Gunson
A Meaningless Debate in a Democratic Ritual That Avoided Discussing Our Endangered Democracy | How Anti-War Left Wing Activists in Israel Are Being Threatened and Silenced | Growing Tensions as Venezuela Threatens to Annex an Oil-Rich Region of Guyana
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Dec 6, 2023 • 1h 4min
December 6, 2023 - Samuel Moyn | William Arkin | Stephanie Muravchik
How the Laws of War, International Law and the Right of Self-Defense Apply to the War in Gaza | Aid to Ukraine is Now Stalled in the House and the Senate | As Liz Cheney Campaigns to Stop Trump, "We Are Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship"
Host: Ian Masters
Producer: Graham FitzGibbon
Assistant Producer: Evan Green
Dec 5, 2023 • 1h 5min
December 5, 2023 - John Nichols | Rashid Khalidi | Susan Joy Hassol
The Target of a Lunatic Conspiracy Theory Who Trump Claims Encouraged Jan. 6 Violence on Behalf of the Deep State | Did Blinken Lean on Jordanian and Egyptian Leaders to Allow Palestinians to be Expelled Into Their Territories? | At COP28 Oil and Gas Delegates Vastly Outnumber Climate Scientists, Activist and Indigenous People
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