Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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February 16, 2026 • 61 mins
The Contrast between AOC and Rubio's Reception in Munich and the Possibility They Will be Running Against Each Other For President | How Trump's Top-Down Fascism Could Meld With Bottom Up Authoritarianism From America's Police Forces and Police Unions | An AI Video Has Hollywood Alarmed They Could Be Replaced By AI as Wall Street Pours Billions Into AI and Tech Bros Buy Up the Media
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February 15, 2026 • 60 mins
Trump and Rubio Turn the Screws of Collective Punishment on the Cuban People | Rubio Makes Nice in Munich Without One Word About Ukraine | Trump Issues a Death Sentence on Our Children, Grandchildren and the Planet With His Payoff to the Fossil Fuel Industry
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February 12, 2026 • 61 mins
Today's Senate Hearing Grills a White Supremacist, Racist, Homophobic Antisemite Trump Nominated to Interact With the UN and international Organizations | Will Trump's Yearning For a Nobel Prize Overwhelm Netanyahu's Opposition to Making a Nuclear Deal With Iran? | With a Lawless DoJ Acting as Trump's Crooked Law Firm, How Do We Protect and Preserve the Rule of Law?
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February 11, 2026 • 74 mins
Trump Has Finally Found His Roy Cohn in the Disgraceful and Corrupt AG Pam Bondi | The Trump and Republican Plan to Prevent a Blowout Electoral Loss in November: The SAVE Act | How to Fight the Oligarchy and Reclaim America With Positive Populism
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February 10, 2026 • 60 mins
Trump's Demented Rant Warning Canada that China Will Terminate ALL Ice Hockey and Eliminate the Stanley Cup Suggests We are Nearing the 25th Amendment | The Heads of ICE and CBP in the Hot Seat Today Before the House Homeland Security Committee | Why Are So-Called MAGA Intellectuals With All The Power and Billionaire Money, So Angry?
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February 9, 2026 • 61 mins
America's Cultural/Political Divide on Display at the Super Bowl's Halftime With a Wildly Popular and Joyous Bad Bunny Versus a Washed Up Right Wing MAGA Relic Kid Rock | The History of the Border Patrol's Murderous Impunity | "The Predatory Hegemon: How Trump Wields American Power."
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February 8, 2026 • 64 mins
The DNI Gabbard Covered up an NSA Intercept of Someone Close to Trump Colluding With Foreign Intelligence | How Trump’s Break With the Liberal International Order Was Shaped by Decades of US Policy in the Middle East
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February 5, 2026 • 63 mins
Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Sit on the Most Top Secret Whistleblower Complaint the IC's IG Determined Required "Urgent Concern" For 8 Months? | The Last and Only Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Between the U.S. and Russia Ended Today | Trump's Delusional and Idiotic Call to Resume Nuclear Testing
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February 4, 2026 • 60 mins
Trump Has Brought About the End of Reactionary Centrism in the Democratic Party | The On and Off Again and On Again Talks Between the US and Iran | The US Occupation of Gaza Has Begun With Trump in Charge Into the Future
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February 3, 2026 • 61 mins
Today's House Votes to Fund the Government With Only 2 Weeks of Funding For DHS During Which Democrats Will Work to Reign in ICE | We are Funding the Warehousing of Immigrants in a Form of Torture To Make Them So Miserable They'll Waive Their Rights and be Deported | The Victimhood Behind Trump's Backlash Presidency
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February 2, 2026 • 59 mins
The Latest Release of the Epstein Files Contain 9,629 References to Moscow | Compromised DNI Gabbard Seizes Voter Rolls in Georgia as Trump's Plans to Rig Midterms Escalate | Haitians in Springfield Ohio Already Demonized by VP Vance are About to Lose Their Temporary Protected Status
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February 1, 2026 • 62 mins
How Trump's Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the New President of
Honduras Reveals the Real Agenda Behind Trump and Miller's Immigration
Cruelty | Tulsi Gabbard's Seizure of the 2020 Ballots in Georgia is About
Rigging the 2026 Election | Bondi's Arrest of Don Lemon as a Wakeup Call to All Journalists and
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January 29, 2026 • 60 mins
Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administration is Violating the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth Amendments | Bezos's $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania's Early "Career" as a Naked Model and Friend of Epstein | Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE
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January 28, 2026 • 60 mins
Trump Tanks the Dollar After the World Saw a Demented Fool at Davos Rambling Like a Lunatic | The Fight Over State Preemption As Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund a War Chest to Defeat AI Regulation | The Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror
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January 27, 2026 • 60 mins
The Influence of Nazi Slogans and White Supremacist Anthems Inside Trump's White House, DHS and Department of Labor | AG Bondi's Attempt to Extort Voter Rolls From Minnesota to End ICE Terror | The Government's Killing of an American Citizen With a Concealed Carry Permit Has Rattled NRA and Gun Rights Advocates
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January 26, 2026 • 59 mins
The Trickle Down Effect of Trump's Lawlessness and How Ice is Undermining Professional Policing | Similarities Between Hitler's Brown Shirts and Trump's ICE | The Possibility of a Renewed U.S./Israeli Strike on Iran Now That Trump's "Armada" is in Place
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January 25, 2026 • 58 mins
After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Believe the Trump Administration As Much As Can We Believe Anything Putin Says? | Trump's Brutal Demolition of the World Order
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January 22, 2026 • 59 mins
Republicans Try to Discredit Jack Smith's Testimony While Trump Calls Him "A Deranged Animal" But Smith Made Clear He Will Not Be Intimidated | The Same Conditions That Dragged Down Biden To Defeat Are Now Weighing On Trump | House and Senate Democratic Leaders Appear Unwilling to Go To the Mat to Reform ICE
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January 21, 2026 • 61 mins
After Piling on About Biden's Mental Acuity, the Press is Mostly Silent on Trump's Obvious Madness | The Country's Closest Friend and Neighbor is Making Precautionary Military Plans Against a U.S. Invasion Ordered by Trump | Will the Counterculture Led By Artists Rise Again?
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January 20, 2026 • 60 mins
On the One Year Anniversary of the Return of Trump On How He Has Weaponized Immigration | Trump's Billion Dollar a Head Board of Peace and the Reality on the Ground in Gaza | The Latest Sellout of the Kurds With Trump Backing the New Syrian Government as it Releases ISIS Prisoners
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