Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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June 9, 2026 • 59 mins
In Spite of Hit Jobs From the Liberal Media, a Progressive Populist is Poised to Win in Maine | A Report From Albania on Protests Against Jared and Ivanka's Luxury Resort in a Nature Reserve | Trump Has His Roy Cohn But Will the Mafia Boss Get His Consigliere Confirmed?
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June 8, 2026 • 60 mins
Trump to Netanyahu: "I Call The Shots" and You Have To Accept Any Peace Deal I Make with Iran | Amid Heightened Tensions Between the US and Israel, Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries | Scott Pelley Tells the NYT How Bari Weiss Ordered Changes to a 60 Minutes Report to Support Trump's Lies
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June 7, 2026 • 59 mins
The US and Iran Exchange Fire Jeopardizing a Tenuous Ceasefire As Iran Insists on Trump Handing Over $24 Billion of Its Money Before Finalizing a Deal | Republican Senators Give Stephen Miller $70 Billion On Top Of $100 Billion Unspent to Pursue Cruelty a Majority of Taxpayers Oppose |The DoJ Under Todd Blanche is the Department of Trump Family Crime and Pedophile Protection
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June 4, 2026 • 59 mins
Now That Trump Has His Roy Cohn, Will the Senate Confirm Todd Blanche to be the Nation's Attorney General? | The Impact of the Latest Scandal Swirling Around Graham Platner on the Democrat's Chances to Win Back the Senate | Having Turned Russia Into a Police State, Who is Left to Topple Putin?
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June 3, 2026 • 61 mins
Election Results From Yesterday's Primaries With a Focus on California | Trump's Roy Cohn Does a Bait and Switch Ending the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund While Shielding Trump and His Family From IRS Audits | Trump Publicly Displays Anger at Netanyahu While Quietly the Pentagon Takes Over Oversight of Aid to Israel
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June 2, 2026 • 61 mins
After Being Cursed Out, Netanyahu Defies Trump, Declaring "Iran's Days Are Numbered" As He Continues Bombing Lebanon | How Larry and David Ellison's Lackeys are "Murdering" CBS to Please Trump | Does Owning 5 Rundown Trailer Parks in Florida Qualify You to Head Up U.S. Intelligence?
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June 1, 2026 • 61 mins
Iran Suspends Peace Talks With Trump as Netanyahu Pounds Lebanon | How ICE Contactors Profit From Misery as Stephen Miller's Cruelty is the Strategy | The Continuing Cover Up Of Trump's Ties to Epstein By the MAGA Toadies Blanche, Patel and Comer
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May 31, 2026 • 64 mins
Trump's Silence as Iran Holds the Cards, in Particular the Strait of Hormuz, a Prize Our Idiot Gave Them | As Trump Monetizes His Presidency, His Administration Rewards the Tech Bros By Criminalizing Opposition to AI | Could Trump Just Admit That He Screwed Up?
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May 28, 2026 • 63 mins
Trump Threatens to Blow Up Oman as Qatar and Bahrain Secretly Pay Bribes to Iran Not to Bomb Them | Trump Sells Out NATO to Putin Just as Ukraine Turns the Battlefield Against Russia | How a Democratic Socialist Beat Machine Politics and Even Won Over Donald Trump
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May 27, 2026 • 61 mins
In Spite of the "Art of the Deal," Trump Keeps Getting Rolled in Negotiations | Paxton and the Moral Decay and Collapse of Decency and Discourse in the Trump Era | How and Why Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy
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May 26, 2026 • 59 mins
Another US Senator Assaulted by Trump and Stephen Miller's ICE and DHS Thugs | The California Crackup That Could Have Republican Reality TV Gadflys Elected in the Bluest State | The Rise of Progressive Populism in the Heartland as the Con of Trump's Authoritarian Populism Sinks In
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May 25, 2026 • 61 mins
On Memorial Day a Pentagon Run by a Racist Incompetent Whose Number Two is a Defense Contractor Entrenching the Military Industrial Complex | Trump Will Try to Spin a Defeat as a Victory Over Iran Then Maybe Invade Cuba as a Distraction | Asymmetrical Warfare Goes Back to the American Revolution As Nowadays, Cheap Defense Favors Smaller Powers, While Expensive Offense Does Not Secure Victory for Major Powers
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May 24, 2026 • 60 mins
With Comedians Leading the Resistance, Colbert is Taken Off the Air by a President Who Can't Take a Joke | Trump's Conspiracy Theorist in Charge of US Intelligence Resigns | The Fate and Future of the Iranian Opposition
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May 21, 2026 • 62 mins
With Trump's War Stalemated, More Sticker Shock Coming For Working Americans Being Punished at the Gas Pump | The Flimsy DNC Autopsy on the 2024 Loss Fails to Mention Gaza | The Trump Family Are So Good at Being Bad as the Democrats and the Press Get Distracted by the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund When the Real Scam is Barring the IRS From Investigating the Family's Monetization of the Presidency
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May 20, 2026 • 61 mins
Trump's Grip Over the GOP Tightens as His Poll Numbers Tank | Trump's Capture of the DoJ Gives Him a $1.77 Slush Fund and IRS Immunity From Tax Fraud | Hondurasgate Look Worse Than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined But the US Media Is Ignoring It
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May 19, 2026 • 65 mins
A Scandal Worse Than Watergate and Iran Contra Combined Which Is Not Being Covered by the American Press | Trump Endorses a "Christian Crook" in Good News For James Talarico's Texas Senate Race | The Political Clout That Allows Police to Protect and Serve Themselves
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May 18, 2026 • 59 mins
The Different Versions on What Trump Had To Say And What Xi Said Happened at the Trump - Xi Summit | The Darkening Embrace of Evil as Trump's Mafia-Like Control of the GOP Strengthens | The Trickle Down Impact of the Gulf Oil Cutoff on Transportation, Food Supplies, Plastics, Chips and the Global Financial System
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May 17, 2026 • 60 mins
How Xi Handled the Barbarian Who Went Home Emptyhanded Ready to Sell Out Taiwan | The US Offers $100 Million in Aid to Cubans Suffering Collective Punishment As They Run Out of Oil From a Total US Blockade | Republicans Fight Against Imaginary Problems Like Cultural Marxism Because They Have Nothing Real to Offer
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May 14, 2026 • 61 mins
The Republican Electoral Coup Underway to Offset a Wipeout in November by Gerrymandering to Hold the House and Senate Before One Vote is Cast | An Update on the Trump - Xi Summit | How a Generation of Over-Qualified Young Americans With Degrees Working in the Gig Economy Will Impact Our Politics in the Future
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May 13, 2026 • 60 mins
Growing Medical Concern About the President of the United States | The US and Israel Have Destabilized Global Oil and Gas Supplies For the Foreseeable Future | The Meaning of Fascism as Authoritarian Populism is on the Rise
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