Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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June 23, 2022 • 60 min
Trump's Pressure Campaign on the DOJ and Pardons Sought by the GOP's Most Ardent Trumpsters | If Today's Supreme Court Ruling Against Gun Safety Had Been in Effect on Jan. 6, Bullets and Bloodshed Would Have Ensued | With Originalists Imposing Government by Judiciary, Liberals Must Find an Alternative Legal Doctrine
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June 22, 2022 • 61 min
The Hearings Portray Trump as a Mafia Boss With Giuliani His Consigliere | Fight Inflation With An Excess Profits Tax to Rein in U.S. Corporate Markups | Erdogan Washes the Blood From MBS's Hands
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June 21, 2022 • 60 min
More Powerful Testimony From Republican Witnesses Demolish Trump's Election Lies | The Supreme Court Decision to Fund Religious Schools With Taxpayer Money | A Former Guerrilla and Domestic Servant Elected to Lead Colombia
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June 20, 2022 • 63 min
The Face of Trump's GOP on Display at the Texas Republican Convention | Biden Will Get Nothing in Return For Bowing to the Sociopathic Crown Prince | Far Right Gains and Ruling Party Loses in French Elections
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June 19, 2022 • 62 min
The Critical Tipping Point For Democracy and the Rule of Law America and the World Faces | What the Democrats Can Do As a Perfect Storm of Economic Gloom Approaches | How to Fight Back Against Our Courts Stacked With Far-Right ideologues
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June 16, 2022 • 60 min
The Internal White House Battles Between Pence and His Lawyers and Trump and His Legal Charlatan John Eastman | The Fed's Interest Rate Hike and Its Impact on the Markets and Economy | Growing Tensions Over the Taiwan Straits
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June 15, 2022 • 59 min
A History of the Right Wing Grift Machine Now That the "Big Lie" Has Become the "Big Grift" | How the American Majority Can Thwart the Tyranny of the Minority | The Presidential Ambition of Florida's "Grievance Governor"
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June 14, 2022 • 62 min
Republicans Don't Trust Teachers to Teach But Trust Them to Have Loaded Guns Around Children with Little Training | Blaming the Fed Instead of Biden For the Economy As the Era of Easy Money For Wall Street Ends
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June 13, 2022 • 62 min
After Manufacturing the Big Lie, Trump Engineered the Big Ripoff to Fund His Comeback and Intimidate the GOP Into Supporting the Big Lie | Are the Hearings Meant to Educate Americans or Get AG Garland to Indict the Criminal Behind the Coup? | What is In and What is Out of the Senate's Bipartisan Gun Safety Reforms
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June 12, 2022 • 62 min
Coordination Between the Proud Boys and the Mob Trump Sent to the Capitol | Trump's Seven-Point Plan to Undo American Democracy | Now That Putin Wants to "Return and Fortify" Russia's Lost Lands, the Fight is Not Just For Democracy But For Sovereignty
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June 9, 2022 • 62 min
June 8, 2022 • 62 min
Homelessness as a Moral Issue Not A Blight the Privileged Have to be Protected From | Adding More Police Will Criminalize a Problem Rooted in Inequality, Poverty and Unaffordability | Are We Seeing a Rebuke of the Progressive Left And a Warning to the Democratic Party?
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June 7, 2022 • 60 min
The January 6 Hearings Will Not Be Like the Watergate Hearings But It Could Expose Trump as a Criminal and a Fascist | Biden Moves to Stop One Defunct Company From Killing the US Solar Industry | A Report From Mexico on Its President's Boycott of the Summit of the Americas
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June 6, 2022 • 61 min
As More and More Americans Are Killed in Mass Shootings, What Will the Senate Do? | Will This Week's Summit of the Americas Be a Bust? | Will Another Billionaire Real-Estate Developer's $33 Million Buy a Political Office?
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June 5, 2022 • 60 min
An Assassination Attempt on Putin in March and Cancer Treatment in April | How Much Will the American President Have To Bow Before the Entitled Saudi Thug? | Amid Pomp and Ceremony, a Majority of Young Britons Want an Elected Head of State
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June 2, 2022 • 59 min
How People Power Trumped the Murdoch Press and How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Revive Our Democracy | How After Mass Shootings, 3 Nations Radically Reduced Gun Massacres | After Relieving Debts of $5.8 Billion For 560,000 Defrauded Students, $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt Remains
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June 1, 2022 • 61 min
Are We Heading Into a New Cold War With Russia? | Biden's Decision to Deploy U.S. Rocket Systems In Ukraine | After 3 Years the Failure to Prove Barr's Trumpworld Fantasy That Trump Was Spied On
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May 31, 2022 • 62 min
Amid Growing Outrage Over Police Inaction as Kids Were Slaughtered, What Might The Senate Do About Guns? | Biden Decides Not to Send Offensive Weapons Systems to Ukraine | The E.U. Will Block Most Russian Oil Imports by the End of the Year
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May 30, 2022 • 61 min
Although We Arm Police With Military Equipment, 19 Officers Stood By As 19 Kids and 2 Teachers Were Slaughtered | Will Democracies Remain United As Putin Intensifies His Destruction of Ukraine?
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May 29, 2022 • 62 min
Putin Digs in For a Long War While His Security Services Tighten Control of Russia | Russia is Inciting Genocide and Violating the U.N. Genocide Convention | Ukrainians Are Fighting For All Who Believe in Democracy and the Rule of Law
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